Hacking into bank networks was spatial, intellectual and it was I alone who made the internet an instrument of freedom rather than oppression.
The contractor designed the internet survey instrument, undertook recruitment, performed data collection and was responsible for quality assurance.
Personal electronics, the Internet, scientific instruments (notably in genomics), and e-business are spitting out troves of data that are crying out for analysis, spawning a "big data" revolution.
There are, however, several limitations to an Internet-based instrument.
Internet survey instruments were effectively used to collect epidemiologic data, as in the initial high school student outbreak (9 ).
As a validation study, this study did not assess patient preferences for survey version nor the impact of the Internet-based instrument on practice patterns.
In countries affected by a natural disaster, where the infrastructure - namely IT networks, distribution of electricity, etc. - remained largely functional or were reestablished within a month after the disaster, using an Internet-based instrument can facilitate the screening process.
In this reliability and validity study of the L-PAQ, an Internet-based instrument measuring 3 domains of lifetime physical activity, reliability was acceptable overall and tended to be higher for sports/recreational and occupational activity than for household activity.
In the current study, we established an Internet-based instrument as a standard evaluation tool in youth welfare institutions (day care and residential care) that incorporates social and individual goal attainment scales.
An Internet-based instrument developed in cooperation with youth welfare professionals (CJD Christian Association of Youth Villagess [ 45]) and a software company (arielgrafik [ 46]) was introduced as a standard evaluation tool in 25 day care and residential care institutions of a large youth welfare organization in Germany.
