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Kids Online: Opportunities and Risks for Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 135-146

  Wold, Thomas ^a   Aristodemou, Elena ^b   Dunkels, Elza ^c   Laouris, Yiannis ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Cyprus Neurosci and Technol Inst   (Cyprus)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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