Mail Communication Research Articles

Net-Force for Email Tracing

Phone: +233244087207 ABSTRACT Email is a widely used communication channel between businesses and individuals. Its importance has increased a lot nowadays, and the majority of the businesses prefer email as their primary communication medium to contact other businesses. Billions of emails are exchanged between businesses on a daily basis, and it is essential to note that most of them also contain spam or viruses. It is estimated that in Africa over 1 billion people use mail for their various communications. Malicious actors have also observed the lucrative advantages associated with mail communications on unsuspecting victims. They are able to reach masses and this has played a major role in the recent trend of romance scammers syndicate. The egregious impact of these cyber offenses offered the need to introduce tools to help investigate the mail communications and reveal actions of malicious actors in cyber space, this will also assist Africa in decreasing its cybercrime rate especially among home users with no or limited cyber safety knowledge. The legal implications of using NET-Force for email tracing to reveal actions of malicious actors will be assessed in this document. Keywords: Cyber Offenses, Cybeyspace, Net-Force Suite, E-mails, legal implications, Africa BOOK Chapter ǀ Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Open Access. Distributed Free Citation: Nana Kwame Kwakye (2022): Net-Force for Email Tracing Book Chapter Series on Research Nexus in IT, Law, Cyber Security & Forensics. Pp 273-278 www.isteams.net/ITlawbookchapter2022. dx.doi.org/10.22624/AIMS/CRP-BK3-P44

‘Hey lovely! Don’t miss this opportunity!’ Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance

For the wellness industry, email communication, albeit mundane, remains an essential practice even as wellness entrepreneurs embrace newer digital technologies. Drawing on ongoing insights from a larger Australian digital ethnographic project, I explore how these ‘wellness emails’ – electronic mail communication (outside of social media) that typically circulate wellness-related content through automated email list subscriptions – promise an always-ready, abundant space for transforming bodies and optimising health. These emails teach alternative bodily temporalities, distinct from the inhospitable biomedical time of mainstream healthcare, yet also employ time-critical marketing tactics and stories to drive attention, where recipients are encouraged both to not miss out on opportunities but also to respect their own ‘divine timing’. Such temporal flexibility of wellness culture, and its promise of abundance, contributes to its global expansion, where email offers personal and marketised engagement and, critically, a potential escape from social media censorship and public health scrutiny.

Development of a Critical Appraisal Tool (AIMRDA) for the Peer-Review of Studies Assessing the Anticancer Activity of Natural Products: A Step towards Reproducibility.

The journal of APJCP (Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention) focuses to gather relevant and up-to-date novel information’s related to cancer sciences. The research methodologies and approaches adopted by the researcher are prone to variation which may be desirable in the context of novel scientific findings however, the reproducibility for these studies needs to be unified and assured. The reproducibility issues are highly concerned when preclinical studies are reported in cancer, for natural products in particular. The natural products and medicinal plants are prone to a wide variation in terms of phytochemistry and phyto-pharmacology, ultimately affecting the end results for cancer studies. Hence the need for specific guidelines to adopt a best-practice in cancer research are utmost essential. The current AIMRDA guidelines aims to develop a consensus-based tool in order to enhance the quality and assure the reproducibility of studies reporting natural products in cancer prevention. A core working committee of the experts developed an initial draft for the guidelines where more focus was kept for the inclusion of specific items not covered in previous published tools. The initial draft was peer-reviewed, experts-views provided, and improved by a scientific committee comprising of field research experts, editorial experts of different journals, and academics working in different organization worldwide. The feedback from continuous online meetings, mail communications, and webinars resulted a final draft in the shape of a checklist tool, covering the best practices related to the field of natural products research in cancer prevention and treatment. It is mandatory for the authors to read and follow the AIMRDA tool, and be aware of the good-practices to be followed in cancer research prior to any submission to APJCP. Though the tool is developed based on experts in the field, it needs to be further updated and validated in practice via implementation in the field.

Mail Communications and Survey Response: A Test of Social Exchange Versus Pre-Suasion Theory for Improving Response Rates and Data Quality

Abstract Mail communications remain a prominent aspect of survey research, especially due to the increasing adoption of web-push surveys throughout the world. However, there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of comprehensive communication strategies for increasing response rates. This paper tests the influence of two communication theories—social exchange theory and pre-suasion theory—on response rates in a survey of residents of southern West Virginia. Social exchange theory has long been used as a strategy for encouraging response, but the theory of pre-suasion offers a new approach of tailoring and sequencing written and visual communications. We operationalized pre-suasion and social exchange communications techniques in the cover letter and questionnaire, then conducted a 2-by-2 experimental design to identify differences in response and data quality. The results show significant differences in response based on the communications in the letter, but no differences based on the questionnaire. The versions with social exchange letters received a response rate 5.5 percent higher than pre-suasion letters. Further, communication differences had no statistically significant effect on measures of data quality. These findings suggest future avenues for research on broad communication strategies in mail survey materials.

A comparative study on efficient cloud security, services, simulators, load balancing, resource scheduling and storage mechanisms

There are applications in software that can process the user or customer records in hospitals, education sector, government sector, social media and mail communication, etc., which require accessing a single or set of records in a database consisting of millions of records. A basic requirement of those applications is that, the need to access a few data required in a secured manner from the data sets which are very large but simple in structure. Cloud computing provides the computing requirements for these kinds of the new generation of applications involving very large data sets that cannot possibly be handled efficiently without understanding the available cloud computing infrastructures. The objective is to find the cloud security, services, simulators, load balancing, resource scheduling and storage mechanisms which can best suite the need of the cloud environment chosen in an efficient way. This survey would act as a catalyst for the design of cloud environment over the very large data set in the future.

Mid-term lifetime survivals of octogenarians following primary and revision total knee arthroplasties were satisfactory: a retrospective single center study in contemporary period

BackgroundAs life expectancy increases, the number of octogenarians requiring primary and revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is increasing. Recently, primary TKA has become a common treatment option in octogenarians. However, surgeons may still be hesitant about performing revision TKA on octogenarians because of concern about risk and cost benefit. The purpose of this study was to investigate clinical outcomes, postoperative complications, and mid-term lifetime survival in octogenarians after primary and revision TKA.Materials and methodsWe retrospectively reviewed 231 primary TKAs and 41 revision TKAs performed on octogenarians between 2000 and 2016. The mean age of patients undergoing primary TKA was 81.9 years and that of patients undergoing revision TKA was 82.3 years (p = 0.310). The age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity index was higher in revision TKA (4.4 vs. 4.8, p = 0.003). The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and range of motion (ROM) were evaluated. The incidence of postoperative complications (TKA-related, specific or systemic) and lifetime survival rate (endpoint death determined by telephone or mail communication with patient or family) were investigated.ResultsThe WOMAC and ROM improved significantly after primary and revision TKA, although postoperative results were worse in the revision group (33.1 vs. 47.2; 128.9° vs. 113.6°; p < 0.001, respectively). There were no cases of aseptic or septic component failure in either group. One case of periprosthetic fracture was observed in the revision group (0% vs. 2.4%, p = 0.151), and three cases of deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) (one case of DVT and two cases of PTE) were observed in the primary group (1.3% vs. 0%, p = 1.000). The most common systemic complication in both groups was delirium (7.4% vs. 14.6%, p = 0.131). There were no differences between the two groups in the other systemic complication rates. The 5-year and 10-year lifetime survival rates were 87.2% and 62.9%, respectively, in primary TKA and 82.1% and 42.2%, respectively, in revision TKA (p = 0.017).ConclusionsBoth primary and revision TKA are viable options for octogenarians, based on the satisfactory clinical outcomes, TKA-related complication rates, and mid-term lifetime survival. Delirium needs to be managed appropriately as the most common systemic complication in both primary and revision TKA in octogenarians.Level of evidenceIV

Support to responsive parenting through communication tools

Abstract Issue Counselling unit for positive parenting “Halobeba” has been established at Institute of Public Health of Belgrade with support of UNICEF in order to enable continuum of mother and child health care. Availability of information on child care and development was noticed as significant factor for parental confidence and practice. Description of the problem Trained nurses provide responses to parental questions through 24/7 phone and e mail communication to assist in problem solving and offer emotional support. Nurses are skilled in active listening, proper questioning, counselling and effective encouragement. Free mob app on breastfeeding was developed as knowledge base for parents. New interactive mob app was recently launched as parenting tool for child health and development monitoring. Results Since 2002, more than 1,700,000 responses were provided through phone communication and over 20,000 via email and number of beneficiaries has increased over the years. Most common topics were about breastfeeding, introducing solid food, treatment of fever and respiratory infections, gastrointestinal problems, injuries, immunization, and developmental milestones. Less than 15% of cases were referred to pediatric clinic. Level of parental overall satisfaction was very high and availability and effectiveness of service were especially valued as well as nurses communication skills. Lessons Family centered service that corresponds to caregivers needs is effective approach to support nurturing care for young children. Personalized M-health tools make child care more accessible and build capacities of caregivers. Key messages Sending consistent and trusted messages through different communication channels contribute to enhancing users' knowledge and skills. Knowledgeable and responsive caregivers properly interpret child’s needs, respond appropriately, facilitate the child’s social and emotional development, and provide proper care.

ПОШУК ОПТИМАЛЬНИХ ШЛЯХІВ У ВЕЛИКИХ МЕРЕЖАХ ПОШТОВОГО ЗВ'ЯЗКУ

Currently, small postal networks, characterized by the presence of unique links between their structures and communication matrices, are mainly used to meet the needs of the postal service. These networks are constantly being developed and improved, in particular, new regional automated sorting centers are being created that use robotic complexes, machines and devices, mail transportation and processing schemes are complicated, and alternative options for such schemes arise, including alternative options for quantity, location and throughput specified sorting centers, securing postal service objects, sequences and time schedules for their passage, etc. As a result, small mail communication networks are gradually turning into large mail communication networks, a characteristic feature of which is the lack of unambiguous connections between their structures and connectivity matrices, which greatly complicates the search for optimal paths in these networks. In this work, as the prototypes of large postal networks, the lines of the largest undergrounds in the world are used. Although the subways are not intended for transportation and processing of mail, they provide an opportunity to get a real idea of the difficulty of finding optimal paths in large postal networks, to compare and evaluate the effectiveness of search algorithms for such paths in these networks

СУБ`ЄКТИВНЕ НАЧАЛО ЯК ОРГАНІЗУЮЧИЙ ЦЕНТР ЛИСТУВАННЯ РОМАНТИКІВ

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E- Mail Communication Applications in Patient Physician Communication: A Systematized Review

Introduction: Email is a beneficial way in order to increase interaction between patients and physicians. Since using this technology, patients and different physicians are able to increase patients’ health level and the amount of physicians’ duties. This study was done to identify the applications of email in communications between patients and physicians.Materials and Methods: The current study is a systematized review conducted in 2019. The literature search done by the relevant keywords to the subject in databases: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct and Cochran. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria 34 articles were included. Based on the study’s aim, results were summarized and reported by Content Analysis Technique.Results: The results showed that 15 articles (44%) using email technology to investigate laboratory’s resources. Utilizing email in 9 articles (26%) showed that it caused an improvement in healthcare quality. Conclusion: Results showed that use of email’s capabilities has a key role in improving healthcare quality as well as time saving. So, we suggest that the authorities deploy certain and codified mechanism in order to utilizing email communication between patients and physicians.

Matched unrelated donor hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation: A report based on a single registry in India

IntroductionCurrently, more than 10,000 matched unrelated donor transplants (MUDT) are performed annually worldwide. India has recorded a significant increase in the number of hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (HPCT) centers reporting transplants. The number of HPCTs increases by approximately 10% every year, with 1878 transplants reported by Indian stem cell transplant registries in 2016. However, published outcome data of MUDT in India are scant, with reports limited to autologous and allogenic matched unrelated transplants, which motivated us to present our MUDT data. Aims and objectiveTo review the operations, and more importantly, the patient outcome data of a new registry in India. Materials and methodsWe accessed an Indian HLA donor database with high-resolution HLA typing results of 7682 (until 31st July 2018) volunteer HLA donors. The typing results were uploaded to proprietary software. The search result was considered a “match” when a 10/10 potential HLA match was found. Patients who were found to be alive through mail communication and did not exhibit signs and symptoms of disease were considered to have disease-free survival (DFS). ResultsDuring the six years of operations of the database, 1165 searches resulted in 68 10/10 matches from the registry. Of these, 11 were MUD HPCT records. At a minimum follow-up of almost 11 months, seven recipients continue to exhibit DFS. ConclusionsThe patient DFS data prove that even a small registry with slightly more than 7000 donors can yield reasonably good patient outcomes.

Email Confidentiality or Waiver of Privilege?

Electronic mail communications are a fact of life in 2017. There is no getting around this benefit and burden. Yet careless use of email devices and networks can risk loss of confidentiality and other privileges. This is especially the case when clients communicate with their lawyers using their employer-established email accounts on office computers or computers they share with others, including in some cases family members. That client may also store personal emails and information on a business or shared laptop, smartphone, or tablet. In each case, these involve risks to confidentiality and any attendant privilege that may be claimed for the electronic communications. The principal of client-lawyer confidentiality found in Rule 1.6 of the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct is given effect by related bodies of law: the attorney-client privilege, the work-product doctrine and the rule of confidentiality established in professional ethics. The lawyer’s duty of confidentiality in Rule 1.6 is much broader than either the attorney-client privilege or the work-product doctrine. The confidentiality rule, for example, applies not only to matters communicated in confidence by the client but also to all information relating to the representation, whatever its source. A lawyer may not disclose such information except as authorized or required by the Rules of Professional Conduct or other law. Careless use of email communication by the lawyer or the client can result in the loss of attorney-privilege or work product protection relating to the information contained in those emails, such as when clients are using an employer's email to conduction the conversation, or is using the employer's equipment.. The rules require that the lawyer take reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of confidential communications, including obtaining informed consent from the client to forego certain security measures - meaning that the lawyer must explain the issues to the client and obtain the client's informed consent.

Critical Perspective to Genre Analysis: Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Electronic Mail Communication

This study examined intertextuality and interdiscursivity in email exchanges in an Institute in Malaysia. Intertextuality observed how and why the discourse community repeatedly used certain forms to respond to reoccurring rhetorical situations and how they used their professional knowledge to identify the authority of certain texts on other text. Interdiscursivity examined how and why the employees of the Institute appropriated the generic resources of a genre to create another. This study found that the discourse community skillfully used three types of intertextuality to achieve similar and contradicting communicative purposes. They also appropriated generic resources of a genre to create another.

Electronic mail communication between physicians and patients: a review of challenges and opportunities.

Although promising benefits hold for email communication between physicians and patients in terms of lowering the costs of health care while maintaining or improving the quality of disease management and health promotion, physician use of email with patients is still low and lags behind the willingness of patients to communicate with their physicians through email. There is also a discrepancy between physicians' willingness and actual practice of email communication. Several factors may explain these discrepancies. They include physicians differ in their experience and attitude towards information technology; some may not be convinced that patients appreciate, need and can communicate by email with their doctors; others are still waiting for robust evidence on service performance and efficiency in addition to patient satisfaction and outcome that support such practice; and many are reluctant to do so because of perceived barriers. This report is a review of the literature on the readiness for and adoption of physician-patient email communication, and how can challenges be or have been addressed. The need for Governmental support and directives for email communication to move forward is iterated, and opportunities for future research are pointed out.

Cost-effectiveness of a nurse-led internet-based vascular risk factor management programme: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled clinical trial

ObjectiveTo assess the cost-effectiveness of an internet-based, nurse-led vascular risk factor management programme in addition to usual care compared with usual care alone in patients with a clinical manifestation of...

The Effect of eCRM Practices on eWOM on Banks’ SNSs: The Mediating Role of Customer Satisfaction

The main objective of this research is to examine the effect of electronic customer relationship management (eCRM) practices provided by banks operating in Jordan on electronic word of mouth (eWOM) on these banks social networking sites (SNSs) namely Facobook, Twitter and Instagram. Throughout a comprehensive reviewing of literatures in this growing area; the researcher built up a research model to describe the relationships between the research independent, dependent and mediating variables. Moreover, well structured questionnaire has been used to gather data from the research sample which consisted of 507 customers, who have had an e-transaction with their banks, and have active accounts on one or more of the previous SNSs. Accordingly, multiple regression test was used to analyze gathered data; the results showed that electronic direct mail, perceived rewards and interpersonal communication are respectively affect eWOM of banks SNSs. What is more, the mediating role of customer satisfaction was supported. Hence, conclusions, managerial implications and suggestions for upcoming researches are also provided.

Exploring Education Students’ Reflexivity through the Arts and Sharing My “Bricolage” Dilemmas

As part of course requirements, 16 education students in a master’s cohort tutored groups of elementary children (the same groups throughout the semester) in an after - school writing program that emphasized an ethos of care. The education students had never taught children and consequently had difficulties reflecting about their lessons through weekly e - mail communication. As the course instructor I had a hunch innovative artistic processes might unleash and heighten the education students’ abilities as reflective practitioners . Therefore, I asked them to explore their pedagogy through the arts. Concurrently, I engaged in arts - based educational research (ABER) to ascertain in what ways arts constructions might prompt the education students’ motivation and abilities to thoughtfully consider their work. Using constant comparative methods and a “bricolage” approach, I discovered arts - based techniques, particularly poetry, fostered and illuminated their introspections. The education students also had distinct preferences among the three modes of reflective inquiry I requested they employ (e - mail communication, self - portraits with dialogue, and poetry). As suggested by respected ABER scholars, I monitored and documented my dilemmas throughout the inquiry process in an attempt to achieve verisimilitude and to inform new arts - based researchers. I share these dilemmas and oversights, and discuss puzzling, unanswered questions in this paper.

Efficacious Spam Filtering and Detection in Social Networks

In Online Social Networks, the internet mail server spam delivery is the most common issue. Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a subset of electronic spam involving nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. In the Receiver Side, only most of the modern spam-filtering techniques are deployed. They may be effective in selection junk mail for clients, but junk mail communications however preserve losing World-wide-web bandwidth along with the storage space of email hosting space. In existing system, the Bayesian spam filters are easily poisoned by clever spammers who avoid spam keywords and add many harmless words in their emails. The detection system was proposed to monitor the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) sessions and email addresses in the outgoing mail messages from each individual internal host as the features for detecting spamming messages. Due to the huge number of email addresses observed in the SMTP sessions, Bloom filters are used to detect the spam messages and to increase efficiency.

Efficacious Spam Filtering and Detection in Social Networks

In Online Social Networks, the internet mail server spam delivery is the most common issue. Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is a subset of electronic spam involving nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. In the Receiver Side, only most of the modern spam-filtering techniques are deployed. They may be effective in selection junk mail for clients, but junk mail communications however preserve losing World-wide-web bandwidth along with the storage space of email hosting space. In existing system, the Bayesian spam filters are easily poisoned by clever spammers who avoid spam keywords and add many harmless words in their emails. The detection system was proposed to monitor the simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) sessions and email addresses in the outgoing mail messages from each individual internal host as the features for detecting spamming messages. Due to the huge number of email addresses observed in the SMTP sessions, Bloom filters are used to detect the spam messages and to increase efficiency. Keywords: Bloom Filter, Spam Filtering, Social Networks

Task context-aware e-mail platform for collaborative tasks

AbstractE-mail communication has become an essential part of collaborative tasks in enterprises. However, when conventional e-mail applications are used for collaborative tasks, problems with task-related resources management arise. In this paper, we present a task context-aware e-mail platform that helps users to send e-mails quickly and efficiently. This platform also automatically extracts data from reply e-mail messages. It enables users to automatically classify task-related information and user support services using a task context model. The task context model is built based on ontology as a semantic representation of the associations between task and task-related e-mail processes. This paper describes the design and implementation of this system on the basis of the task context model. To verify the efficacy of the prototype system, we conducted experiments that demonstrate the systems effective task awareness and user support services.