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Networks. Idle rise in popularity and use of Internet has dramatically changed the way information is disseminated, internet is a worldwide link of thousands of separately administered computer networks of many sizes and types. Each of these networks is connected lo as many as lens of thousands of computers the total number of individual Internet users is in the millions. 

The WHOIS service searches a database of domain names and provides email addresses, mailing addresses and telephone numbers of people responsible for a particular domain [5]. This information is provided by the Internet Registration service (InterNic). The WHOIS service is accessible by Internet users using telnet, via e-mail, and by the whois command. A limitation of this service is that it only contains information about the top-level domains, but no information about subdomains and individual computers. Moreover there is no cooperation between the distributed WHOIS databases [4],... 

With the advent of the Internet, a number of databases containing data useful to fusion energy research have become available to the world-wide-web. However, in order to find data in these databases a user must first become familiar with the interface to each database to be searched. This is often a time-consuming activity. 

Estimates of the growth in the number and proportion of the adult U.S. population who are Internet users are presented in Fig. 3-8. In only 7 years, the percentage of the adult U.S. population who use the Internet grew from 9 to 66 percent. 

Webnucleo s Solar Abundances Online Tool allows an internet user to interactively study the abundance of the chemical elements and their isotopes, that is, the Solar Abundance Distribution (SAD). Users can use default by Anders and Grevesse (2) or upload their own. The tool then allows the user to view, sort, and plot the abundances in various ways. Common plots or tables generated show how the abundance, fractional abundance, or mass fractions of the species vary with atomic number or mass number. Figure 1 is a plot of abundance as a function of the species mass number, A. From a plot like this we can easily see how the abundances fall off for the more massive species. 

Webnucleo s Nuclear Data Tool allows an internet user to explore some of the key properties of nuclei that govern how the species behave in nuclear reactions. These are the atomic number Z, the neutron number N, the mass number A, the mass excess, the ground-state spin, and the nuclear partition function. Students can use the Nuclear Data Tool to explore these quantities and then to study questions such as what reactions among nuclei are energetically possible or even to simply look up needed quantities for their homework. 

Fig. 2.2 Growth in the Number of Internet Users in the United Kingdom left-hand scale) and Slovakia righl-hand scale) during the period 1998-2008. (Data taken from the BBC News website[4])...

The Internet. According to the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the number of Internet users across the world met the two billion mark in January 2011. Much like standard telephone service, the capacity, ease, and speed to the Internet has been greatly increased by the replacement of phone-based modem systems, cable modems, and digital subscriber line (DSL) by fiber-optics wired systems. Although fiber-optic connections directly to homes in the United States are not available in all areas, some companies use fiber-optic systems down major networking lines and then split to traditional copper wiring for houses. 

Country Annual energy consumption (2007) (toe pc) Daily food consumption (2005) (kcal pc) Annual paper consumption (2005) (kg pc) Level of science technology (2003) Share of Internet users (2008) (%) Life expectancy (2010) in years Road traffic (2005) Number of Annual fuel cars (per consumption 100 people) (liters pc) ... 

Although the domain name system (DNS) is technically not part of the TCP/ IP protocol, it is nearly essential for Internet operation. For example, one could connect to http //207.171.181.16/, but nearly all Internet users prefer http // www.amazon.com. DNS translates from name to number using a database distributed throughout the Internet. The translation starts at the root DNS servers, which know where to find. go,. eddo,. czar, etc. Servers databases contain long lists of subdomains—there are tens of millions in the. com database—that point to the name servers for individual domains. For example, DNS tells us that one of the servers that knows about the hosts in amazon.com is at IP address 207.171.167.7. 

Wireless Internet It took 30 years of exponential growth for the number of fixed Internet users, sitting at their PCs, to grow to two hundred million. We are likely to double that number with mobile Internet users who use cell phones or portable computers in the next three years. Consider that today there are probably a few hundred million automobiles in the United States, each having a few dozen microprocessors and several dozen sensors and actuators. When the processors on these cars get on the net they will vastly dominate the number of people in this country on the net. So, if you thought you had seen an explosion on the Internet, you really haven t seen anything yet. 

Table 8.7. The number of internet users, by region (based on Internet World Stats, 2005).

In the telephone voice-based systems SCs call the PCC and follow the system voice prompt to enter the required information. Typical required information must include subject ID and randomization number. Based on that information, the system assignes the correct drug supply kit or device to the subject. With Internet web-based systems, the processes are similar, but the user interaction is with a computer. 

When can a set of data be regarded as a database Guidelines such as the number of records or the publication medium may not be useful. CODATA values, for example, which are the recommended starting point for any database (or any thermochemical calculation, for that matter), involve only about 150 species. Also, the CODATA reports have been printed in regular scientific journals before the final set was released as a book and later posted on the Internet. Second, we could have distinguished between databases and data compilations. The former involve recalculation of quantities such as standard enthalpies of formation to ensure a consistent set of values (see section 2.5). Databases may also include data assessment, leading to recommended values. Data compilations, on the other hand, are just collections of literature values. Although this distinction is important (see table Bl), a data compilation can be rather useful for the expert user and save many hours of literature search. 

Ephedra has been the subject of a number of lawsuits in the United States. As users report adverse events, lawyers have started to champion their causes and sue product manufacturers. Some lawyers advertise on the Internet and seek clients who believe that they have been harmed by ephedra. An ephedra lawsuit can gamer a lot of money for a lawyer and a client. 

Another area of concern for the FDA relates to records sent over public networks, dial-up connections, or public phone lines, accessed through extemal/intemal web servers or by database servers. A number of security issues need to be considered in order to keep these records trustworthy. Intranets may face similar security issues if remote users connect to the central network resources through a local link to an Internet, even when password-protected access for the users is provided to just a small portion of a private network. These systems are considered by the agency as Open Systems (Part 11.30)4. For example, the Internet provides a convenient medium to connect to other networks, but it does not provide reliable security features, such as entity authentication, or protection from hostile users or software. 

Late 1990s User-friendly software to calculate large numbers of molecular descriptors from 2D structure becomes widely available both commercially and from the Internet (e.g. DRAGON)... 

In January 2001, approximately 168 million people, or 60% of the U.S. population, had access to the Internet at home or work, and 86% of adult users of the Internet accessed health-related information. The number of health-related Web sites available is unknoxvn, but it is believed that the more than 19,000 health sites indexed in May 2001 on Yahoo , Inc. represent only a small fraction of the xmiverse of eHealth sites. Internet use has been lower in populations that are underserved, but the profile of the Internet... 

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