International and niulticultural riuture of World Wide Web positions the issues of recognizing and observing cultural dlferences at the ,fijrefiont of considerations in the design of' web pages. This paper addresses sonie of these issues. Research has u l r e d y identified sottie web p g e design elenients that mqv he culturally or genre specific. that niay also be generalised us 'uiltural niurkers'. and that consequenl1,i influence web puge design and usability. These cultural niarker.~ t'epresent a significant aspect of' todqi's electronic environnients in t e r m of inflLreticing people 's behaviour, changing their practices and attitudes, and utrecting their le~tt.tiitig and pecfbrniance abilities. I n this paper M V idetiti[ii general issues of' cross-cultural web puge design by dcfitiitig N check-list of design eleiiients relevtint ,fbr developing a web-site arid investigate cultiirullv specific design elenients. on e.vaiiiples of' South Korerrn and UK web eti\~ir-otirnents.

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We propose an automated and personalized remote patient monitoring (RPM) system, which is applied to care homes and is dependent on the manipulation of semantics describing situations during patient monitoring in ontological models. Decision making in RPM is based on reasoning performed upon ontologies, which secures the delivery of appropriate e-health services in care homes. Our working experiment shows an example of preventive e-healthcare, but it can be extended to any situation that requires either urgent action from healthcare professionals or a simple recommendation during RPM. We use Semantic Web technology and OWL/SWRL-enabled ontologies to illustrate the proposal and feasibility of implementing this RPM system as a software solution in pervasive healthcare. It will be of interest to healthcare professionals, who can directly shape and populate the proposed ontological model, and software engineers, who would consider using OWL/SWRL when creating e-health services in general.

The paper proposes a software architecture for applications which use the reasoning upon SWRL enabled OWL ontologies and SQL like retrievals as core computational models. The application assists patients affected by diabetes 2, to personalize the reversibility of the condition through the diet and life style changes. The novelty is in (a) the deployment of SWRL enabled OWL ontologies in the management of data related to the personalisation of reversibility of diabetes 2 and in (b) the proposed software architecture, which contains and manipulates the SWRL enabled OWL ontology and SQL databases at the same time and transparently. The application, which has been implemented within the Java environment and NetBeans, is reusable in any other problem domain when the personalization of healthcare delivery is required. The proposed architecture also generates applications within Android environments without changing its style and the computational models.

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This paper gives an insight into the readiness of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) for accepting e-government services in the UK. We conducted a survey of 128 SMEs, which revealed that there is a moderate demand for e-government services, but they were not rated as efficient and essential for SMEs' businesses as conventional services. The proliferation of the UK government's websites, which requires coordination between several organisations/multiple sites, and inadequate awareness of such services, do not comply with the common concepts of e-governance and, consequently, have an impact on the SMEs acceptance of e-government services in the UK.