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Open Science Support as a Portfolio of Services and Projects: From Awareness to Engagement
Authors: Schmidt Birgit , Bertino Andrea , Beucke Daniel , Brinken Helene , Jahn Najko , Matthias Lisa , Mimkes Julika , Müller Katharina , Orth Astrid , Bargheer Margo
Published: June 2018

Together with many other universities worldwide, the University of Göttingen has aimed to unlock the full potential of networked digital scientific communication by strengthening open access as early as the late 1990s. Open science policies at the institutional level consequently followed and have been with us for over a decade. However, for several reasons, their adoption often is still far from complete when it comes to the practices of researchers or research groups. To improve this situation at our university, there is dedicated support at the infrastructural level: the university library collaborates with several campus units in developing and running services, activities and projects in support of open access and open science. This article outlines our main activity areas and aligns them with the overall rationale to reach higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the university. The mentioned examples of our activities highlight how we seek to advance open science along the needs and perspectives of diverse audiences and by running it as a multi-stakeholder endeavor. Therefore, our activities involve library colleagues with diverse backgrounds, faculty and early career researchers, research managers, as well as project and infrastructure staff. We conclude with a summary of achievements and challenges to be faced.
Return to the Sacred: The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and Contemporary Christianity
Authors: Dunn-Hensley Susan
Published: June 2018

Once one of the most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites in England, The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, now under the care of the Anglican Church, operates as a site of devotion, but it also operates as a site of memory. In this essay, I will argue that, in this place of memory, where pre-Reformation worship meets contemporary devotion and tourism, we find insights for the contemporary church. The Protestant Reformation contributed to the desacralization of the world. Later events such as the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution of the past two centuries have shifted Western attitudes about the natural world even further away from the sacred. However, every year, thousands of visitors come to Walsingham. What draws them? What are they seeking? To consider what a shrine such as Walsingham might mean to a pilgrim, I will examine Philip earl of Arundel’s poetic lament at the destruction of the shrine, William Shakespeare’s nostalgia for the sacred feminine in The Winter’s Tale, and Robert Lowell’s 1947 poetic treatment of Walsingham. I will argue that focusing on sacred spaces, particularly those associated with the sacred feminine can benefit contemporary Catholics and Protestants.
A Hybrid Analytic Network Process and Artificial Neural Network (ANP-ANN) Model for Urban Earthquake Vulnerability Assessment
Authors: Alizadeh Mohsen , Ngah Ibrahim , Hashim Mazlan , Pradhan Biswajeet , Pour Amin Beiranvand
Published: June 2018

Vulnerability assessment is one of the prerequisites for risk analysis in disaster management. Vulnerability to earthquakes, especially in urban areas, has increased over the years due to the presence of complex urban structures and rapid development. Urban vulnerability is a result of human behavior which describes the extent of susceptibility or resilience of social, economic, and physical assets to natural disasters. The main aim of this paper is to develop a new hybrid framework using Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models for constructing a composite social, economic, environmental, and physical vulnerability index. This index was then applied to Tabriz City, which is a seismic-prone province in the northwestern part of Iran with recurring devastating earthquakes and consequent heavy casualties and damages. A Geographical Information Systems (GIS) analysis was used to identify and evaluate quantitative vulnerability indicators for generating an earthquake vulnerability map. The classified and standardized indicators were subsequently weighed and ranked using an ANP model to construct the training database. Then, standardized maps coupled with the training site maps were presented as input to a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) neural network for producing an Earthquake Vulnerability Map (EVM). Finally, an EVM was produced for Tabriz City and the level of vulnerability in various zones was obtained. South and southeast regions of Tabriz City indicate low to moderate vulnerability, while some zones of the northeastern tract are under critical vulnerability conditions. Furthermore, the impact of the vulnerability of Tabriz City on population during an earthquake was included in this analysis for risk estimation. A comparison of the result produced by EVM and the Population Vulnerability (PV) of Tabriz City corroborated the validity of the results obtained by ANP-ANN. The findings of this paper are useful for decision-makers and government authorities to obtain a better knowledge of a city’s vulnerability dimensions, and to adopt preparedness strategies in the future for Tabriz City. The developed hybrid framework of ANP and ANN Models can easily be replicated and applied to other urban regions around the world for sustainability and environmental management.
UCMAC: A Cooperative MAC Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
Authors: Kim Hee-won , Im Tae Ho , Cho Ho-Shin
Published: June 2018

This paper proposes a cooperative medium access control (MAC) protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) named UCMAC, which fundamentally benefits from cooperative communication. In UCMAC, a source identifies cooperators and provides its destination with a list of the cooperators while also delineating their proximity to the destination. For erroneous reception of data packets, the destination then requests retransmission to the cooperators in a closest-one-first manner. A designated cooperator transmits the buffered data packet it has successfully overheard from the source or other cooperators. A signaling procedure and the various waiting times of the nodes are carefully designed to address the overheads that stem from cooperation. Through computer simulation, this paper evaluates UCMAC in terms of system throughput, latency, single-hop packet delivery ratio (PDR), and energy efficiency. The results show that UCMAC performs better than existing schemes, including MACA-U and CD-MACA.
Heading Estimation for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Based on Robust Adaptive Kalman Filtering
Authors: Wu Dongjin , Xia Linyuan , Geng Jijun
Published: June 2018

Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) using smart phone-embedded micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensors plays a key role in ubiquitous localization indoors and outdoors. However, as a relative localization method, it suffers from the problem of error accumulation which prevents it from long term independent running. Heading estimation error is one of the main location error sources, and therefore, in order to improve the location tracking performance of the PDR method in complex environments, an approach based on robust adaptive Kalman filtering (RAKF) for estimating accurate headings is proposed. In our approach, outputs from gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer sensors are fused using the solution of Kalman filtering (KF) that the heading measurements derived from accelerations and magnetic field data are used to correct the states integrated from angular rates. In order to identify and control measurement outliers, a maximum likelihood-type estimator (M-estimator)-based model is used. Moreover, an adaptive factor is applied to resist the negative effects of state model disturbances. Extensive experiments under static and dynamic conditions were conducted in indoor environments. The experimental results demonstrate the proposed approach provides more accurate heading estimates and supports more robust and dynamic adaptive location tracking, compared with methods based on conventional KF.
Improved Dynamic Mode Decomposition and Its Application to Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing
Authors: Dang Zhang , Lv Yong , Li Yourong , Wei Guoqian
Published: June 2018

To solve the intractable problems of optimal rank truncation threshold and dominant modes selection strategy of the standard dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), an improved DMD algorithm is introduced in this paper. Distinct from the conventional methods, a convex optimization framework is introduced by applying a parameterized non-convex penalty function to obtain the optimal rank truncation number. This method is inspirited by the performance that it is more perfectible than other rank truncation methods in inhibiting noise disturbance. A hierarchical and multiresolution application similar to the process of wavelet packet decomposition in modes selection is presented so as to improve the algorithm’s performance. With the modes selection strategy, the frequency spectrum of the reconstruction signal is more readable and interference-free. The improved DMD algorithm successfully extracts the fault characteristics of rolling bearing fault signals when it is utilized for mechanical signal feature extraction. Results demonstrated that the proposed method has good application prospects in denoising and fault feature extraction for mechanical signals.
On the Coverage of Bus-Based Mobile Sensing
Authors: Cruz Caminha Pedro Henrique , De Souza Couto Rodrigo , Maciel Kosmalski Costa Luís Henrique , Fladenmuller Anne , Dias de Amorim Marcelo
Published: June 2018

A cost-effective approach to gather information in a smart city is to embed sensors in vehicles such as buses. To understand the limitations and opportunities of this model, it is fundamental to investigate the spatial coverage of such a network, especially in the case where only a subset of the buses have a sensing device embedded. In this paper, we propose a model to select the right subset of buses that maximizes the coverage of the city. We evaluate the model in a real scenario based on a large-scale dataset of more than 5700 buses in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Among other findings, we observe that the fleet of buses covers approximately 5655 km of streets (approximately 47% of the streets) and show that it is possible to cover 94% of the same streets if only 18% of buses have sensing capabilities embedded.
Welcome to SIGNALS: A New Open-Access Scientific Journal on Signal Analysis, Retrieval and Processing
Authors: Cichocki Andrzej
Published: June 2018

The sheer exposure to vast amounts of signals created in our modern society and an ever increasing need to make sense of such data calls for continuing advances in signal processing as an enabling technology for a huge number of applications, ranging from wireless communication and medicine, through to bioengineering, the economy and entertainment.[...]
Expectations of Bank Employees on the Influence of Key Performance Indicators and the Relationship with Job Satisfaction and Work Engagement
Authors: Lepold Angelika , Tanzer Norbert , Jiménez Paulino
Published: June 2018

Feedback systems of key performance indicators (KPIs) are crucial for companies to monitor their goals. To stay successful and to improve performance, the employees of a company are a potential resource as they build the link between resources and outcome. A hidden assumption in goal-setting is that the employees feel to have full influence on KPIs. Hence, employees’ self-efficacy about believing in one’s own capabilities and expectations about being able to influence KPIs are needed for organizational performance as well as high job satisfaction and work engagement. The present study examined whether influence expectations on KPIs can predict job satisfaction and work engagement above and beyond professional self-efficacy. Results from 136 bank employees in Austria showed that job satisfaction can be predicted by professional self-efficacy and influence expectations on bank-specific KPIs. Furthermore, professional self-efficacy, influence expectations on economic KPIs, and the influence expectations of the branch manager predicted work engagement. This study contributes to the importance of employees’ belief in their own skills and in their influence on KPIs to be satisfied and engaged at work. Furthermore, it offers innovative and useful insights into the measurement of influence expectations.
Association of SME and Government Policy Factors with the Creation of New Employment: Manufacturing Industry in Korea
Authors: Jang Hoon
Published: June 2018

The rise in unemployment is an important and urgent task to be tackled for the growth of economy in Korea. Although prior studies have revealed some factors leading to the creation of employment, studies simultaneously considering various factors, such as small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs’) basic factors, technology innovation activities, innovation capabilities, and the government policies, have been limited. This study seeks to design an integrated model that focuses on both SME and government policy factors associated with the creation of new employment. For this, we use the Korea Innovation Survey (KIS) data on 2828 firms in the manufacturing industry in Korea for 2013–2015. Using the multivariate regression model, we identified the association of SME and the government policy factors on the creation of employment. We show that sales, product innovation, organization innovation, and the support program by the government contributed to the job creation, whereas a firm’s age had a negative correlation with the creation of employment. The statistical results and discussion of our findings facilitate a better understanding of the association between various SMEs’ factors and the creation of employment, and therefore, should help in designing better policies and strategies for employment growth.
Knowledge Management, Innovation and Big Data: Implications for Sustainability, Policy Making and Competitiveness
Authors: Ordóñez de Pablos Patricia , Lytras Miltiadis
Published: June 2018

This Special Issue of Sustainability devoted to the topic of “Knowledge Management, Innovation and Big Data: Implications for Sustainability, Policy Making and Competitiveness” attracted exponential attention of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. Locating themselves at the expanding cross-section of the uses of sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) and insights from social science and engineering, all papers included in this Special Issue contribute to the opening of new avenues of research in the field of innovation, knowledge management, and big data. By triggering a lively debate on diverse challenges that companies are exposed to today, this Special Issue offers an in-depth, informative, well-structured, comparative insight into the most salient developments shaping the corresponding fields of research and policymaking.
The Influence of Collaboration Initiatives on the Sustainability of the Cashew Supply Chain
Authors: Azevedo Susana G. , Silva Minelle E. , Matias João C. O. , Dias Gustavo P.
Published: June 2018

Collaboration is emerging as a requirement for strengthening relationships among supply chain members and sustainability is rising as a real-world solution for different environmental issues. There are numerous studies that approach both perspectives, but there are still many questions about their relationship, mostly in the agri-food industry. Hence, this paper aims to address the influence of collaboration initiatives on the sustainability indicators of the cashew supply chain (SC). To reach this objective, a case study was performed among farmers belonging to the Cooperative of Cashews in the Piauí state (COCAJUPI), a local cooperative in Northern Brazil. Attending to the results, it is possible to state that the collaboration initiatives that have higher levels of implementation among research companies are the “trust among supply chain members” and the “sharing of standards information”. Moreover, the size of companies in the cashew SC does not influence the level of implementation of collaboration initiatives. The findings of this study demonstrate that the farms’ area of the companies from the cashew SC does not have a significant influence on their sustainability indicators. Furthermore, a weak relationship exists between the collaboration initiatives and the indicators associated to the three dimensions of sustainability.
Research on the Enhancement Effects of Using Ecological Principles in Managing the Lifecycle of Industrial Land
Authors: Guo Libin , Han Lina , Hong Huikun , Zhou Tao
Published: June 2018

This paper introduces a performance level concept for industrial land use. The performance level concept uses ecological principles to evaluate index systems for industrial land. We used this concept to integrate local economics, land use, development potential, environmental health and ecosystem management with innovation, harmony, floral preservation, and shared land use. The concept helps promote the efficient use of industrial land and the sustainable use of land resources. We used the chemical medicine manufacturing industry in Chongqing Changshou Economic and Technological Development Zone as a case study. We selected eight companies for analysis and calculated an industrial land performance level for each company. We created three industrial land performance levels: growth potential type, positive development type, and inefficient recession type. To determine economic development and land sustainability, we applied administrative, economic, legal and technical measures to evaluate the entire lifecycle of industrial land. This lifecycle included preliminary project audit access, mid-period dynamic supervision and post land exit management. We conclude by proposing measures to mitigate environmental harm occurring from the intensive use of land for industrial use.
Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement
Authors: Lieberherr Eva , Green Olivia Odom
Published: June 2018

As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent advancements in stormwater best management practices aim to push urban water social-ecological systems into a more sustainable regime that reconnects the hydrologic cycle and utilizes ecosystem services, such as infiltration and evapotranspiration, to improve the quality of urban and suburban water bodies. Collectively, these approaches are termed green infrastructure. As a decentralized approach, green infrastructure requires implementation on, as well as access to, property throughout a watershed, which poses particular governance challenges for watersheds where most land is held privately. We argue that green infrastructure on private property has a strong potential for creating a more sustainable regime through Citizen Stormwater Management, a participatory form of governance with strong citizen influence and engagement. We develop a classification scheme to assess policy instruments’ degree of government intervention, citizen participation, and engagement. The paper explores how various policy instruments encourage Citizen Stormwater Management across the United States on both public and private property. We then conduct a textual analysis of ten years of publicly available data from Onondaga County, New York (USA) to assess the implementation of applicable policy instruments. Findings indicate that incentive-based (carrots) along with outreach (sermon) policies can play an important role when regulatory instruments (sticks) are lacking.
Metal-free formal synthesis of phenoxazine
Authors: Kervefors Gabriella , Becker Antonia , Dey Chandan , Olofsson Berit
Published: June 2018

A transition metal-free formal synthesis of phenoxazine is presented. The key step of the sequence is a high-yielding O-arylation of a phenol with an unsymmetrical diaryliodonium salt to provide an ortho-disubstituted diaryl ether. This species was cyclized to acetylphenoxazine in moderate yield. The overall yield in the three-step sequence is 72% based on recovered diaryl ether. An interesting, unusually stable iodine(III) intermediate in the O-arylation was observed by NMR and could be converted to the product upon longer reaction time.
Morphology of the Ovaries in Condition of Inhalation Intoxication with Dust-Saline Aerosols of the Aral Sea in Female White Rats
Authors: Turdybekova Yasminur G. , Kopobayeva Irina L. , Kultanov Berikbay Zh. , Yesimova Roza Zh. , Fedotovskikh Galina V.
Published: June 2018

BACKGROUND: After some clinical studies of the reproductive health of the female population of the Aral Sea region, we concluded that it is necessary to confirm by experiment the theory of the direct influence of dust-saline aerosols of the Aral Sea on the reproductive system of female individuals.AIM: The purpose of this work is to study the effect of dust-saline aerosols of the Aral Sea on the folliculogenesis process in rats at inhalation intoxication.METHODS: Inhalation in rats was carried out for 30 days for 4 hours a day for 5 days a week in special inoculating cylindrical chambers with the extra-chamber placement of animals in individual boxes and dynamic aerosol delivery. Morphological changes were assessed using electron microscopy.RESULTS: Ultrastructural changes in the ovaries of the experimental study group were characterised by the pathology of all structures of the cortical substance of the organ. The accumulation of lutein pigment, the utilisation of lipid inclusions and the destruction of the complete cell reflected the pathology of estrogen production-an important factor in the postovulatory phase of the ovarian cycle.CONCLUSIONS: Taking into account the proven effect of dust-saline aerosols on the production of estrogen, the violation of the postovulatory phase of the ovarian cycle, we trace the mechanism of folliculogenesis disturbance. This confirms the data of our previous studies on primary and secondary infertility in women living in the Aral Sea region and the necessity of creation and development of preventive measures for the inhabitants of the region.
New insights into the taxonomy of tribe Euclidieae (Brassicaceae), evidence from nrITS sequence data
Authors: Chen Hongliang , Al-Shehbaz Ihsan A. , Yue Jipei , Sun Hang
Published: June 2018

As currently delimitated, the species-rich mustard tribe Euclidieae DC. (Brassicaceae) comprises 28 genera and 152 species distributed primarily in Asia. To date, no tribe-wide comprehensive phylogenetic analysis has been conducted. In this study, sequence data from the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nrITS) region of 82 species in all 28 genera of Euclidieae were used to test its monophyly and infer inter- and intra-generic relationships within. Phylogenetic analyses revealed thatRhammatophyllumandSisymbriopsisare embedded withinSolms-laubachias.l., andSolms-laubachialanuginosa(Eurycarpuslanuginosus) fell outside the tribe. Therefore,Solms-laubachias.l. as currently recognized is not monophyletic and its generic delimitation needed further study. Besides, our results suggest that the generaLepidostemon,Neotorularia, andTetracmeare polyphyletic.
Three new genera of acidocerine water scavenger beetles from tropical South America (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae, Acidocerinae)
Authors: Girón Jennifer C. , Short Andrew Edward Z.
Published: June 2018

Recent collecting efforts in the Neotropics have led to the discovery of numerous new species and lineages of aquatic beetles. Here, three new genera are described to accommodate fifteen new species of water scavenger beetles of the subfamily Acidocerinae from northern South America:Crucisternumgen. n.forC.escalerasp. n.(Venezuela),C.ouboterisp. n.(Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela),C.queneyisp. n.(French Guiana),C.sinuatussp. n.(Brazil),C.toboganensissp. n.(Venezuela),C.vanessaesp. n.(Suriname), andC.xingusp. n.(Brazil);Katasophistesgen. n. forK.charynaesp. n.(Peru),K.cuzcosp. n.(Peru),K.meridasp. n.(Venezuela) andK.superficialissp. n.(Ecuador); andNanosaphesgen. n.forN.castaneussp. n.(Brazil),N.hesperussp. n.(Suriname),N.punctatussp. n.(Guyana), andN.tricolorsp. n.(Guyana, Suriname). It was also found that the monotypic Neotropical endemic genusDieroxenusSpangler, 1979,syn. n.is congeneric withChasmogenusSharp, 1882 resulting in the single new combinationChasmogenuscremnobates(Spangler, 1979),comb. n..Katasophistesmeridasp. n.is known exclusively from seepage habitats, while the remaining taxa described herein are primarily associated with the margins of densely forested streams. Diagnoses, illustrations, distribution maps, and habitat summaries are provided for all new genera and species. A key to the genera of Acidocerinae of the New World is provided.
Editorial: 25 años de evaluación por pares en Trabajos de Prehistoria
Authors: Gilman Antonio
Published: June 2018

El editorial cierra el cuatrienio del actual equipo. Presenta el contenido del volumen 75, dedicado a Martin Almagro Basch, fundador de Trabajos de Prehistoria, cuando se conmemoran los 25 años de la evaluación por pares en la revista. Cada número semestral combina artículos resultantes de la gestión habitual de la revista con otros invitados. Estos abordan el estado actual de la investigación prehistórica en la Península Ibérica, visto desde el extranjero, y proyectos importantes llevados a cabo por los prehistoriadores del Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Se valora el grado de profesionalidad e internacionalización que han adquirido los estudios enmarcados en las líneas editoriales de Trabajos de Prehistoria.
La población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla): una aproximación demográfica, contextual y sociológica
Authors: Cintas-Peña Marta , García Sanjuán Leonardo , Díaz-Zorita Bonilla Marta , Herrero Corral Ana Mercedes , Robles Carrasco Sonia
Published: June 2018

A partir de la revisión de estudios previos y de la aportación de datos inéditos se realiza un análisis de la población no adulta del asentamiento de la Edad del Cobre de Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla). En total se examinan 39 sujetos no adultos inhumados en contenedores funerarios de distinto tipo y repartidos a lo largo de la amplia cronología de este asentamiento. Como resultado se constata la alta variabilidad de la proporción de este segmento de la población en las estructuras funerarias de Valencina así como la existencia de indicios de un tratamiento diferenciado para el mismo. Como parte de la discusión se examina la asociación de estos individuos con tipos de contenedores funerarios, individuos adultos y ajuares, valorándose su significación demográfica y social.
Urban Education Technological Disparities
Authors: Swinton Angelia K. , Williams Lauren Ashley
Published: June 2018

Technological advancements of the twenty-first century have yielded a greater need for systematic aptitude and preparedness for the current U.S. and global workforce. To meet the needs of the twenty-first century workforce requires teachers to alter the manner in which they teach because student needs call for a new type of learning. The twenty-first century teacher has to assist students develop their technological identities for a new culture of learning shaped by technological advances and globalization. This new culture of learning is less teacher focused and more student centered. As more employers demand graduates who have the requisite twenty-first century skills, higher education must also continue to develop students who are problem solvers, effective communicators, critical thinkers, and effective collaborators. This chapter focuses upon the existing digital divide in historically marginalized communities.
Plugged In
Authors: Sossi Dino
Published: June 2018

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter movements, protest has become the default response to social problems. As students and youth become more involved in political upheaval, they turn to the technology that surrounds them. This chapter focuses on computer-mediated youth civic action and interaction. It examines past trends in youth activism and how social media skills acquired through activism could help these same youth activists transition to the workforce.
TLC for MOOCS
Authors: Mentor Dominic
Published: June 2018

This chapter reports on efforts to create a sustainable model to increase engagement, success, and retention in a MOOC for learning computer programming, for a U.S.-based national vocational program. In 2014, the training organization was one a few national and regional organizations who were awarded scholarships by a telecommunication's company to participate in a MOOC whose curriculum was informed and designed by multinational corporations to try and address the dearth of young computer programming talent. The vocational training program aimed to convert MOOC registrations into active and supported participation, with a view to increase completion. Theoretical frameworks were employed to ramp up knowledge of an unknown subject area and skill. Social connectedness methods were used to create teaching and learning communities (TLC) of support. Key results allowed the organization's trainees to outperform all other participating organizations. Resulting in the organization being awarded 500 more scholarships for computer programming that could be used over a three-year period.
The Impact of Personal Response Systems on Students' Learning Performance
Authors: Chan Simon C. H. , Ko Stephen
Published: June 2018

Personal response systems (PRSs) are prevalent across a range of educational settings, and this increasing importance has prompted many researchers to examine their various aspects. Their effects on students' learning performance have three main categories of antecedents: the learners' characteristics, the instructors' characteristics, and other contextual factors. A theoretical model is developed on the effects of PRSs on students' learning performance. This chapter describes the characteristics of PRSs, reviews their advantages and disadvantages, and proposes a theoretical model of their antecedents on students' learning performance. It concludes by exploring research implications and directions for future PRS research.
Conceptualizing Experiential Learning for Computer-Mediated Engagement
Authors: Joshi Himanshu , Mentor Dominic
Published: June 2018

This chapter aims to equip readers with a conceptual understanding to help them leverage experience-based learning in electronic (e) and mobile (m) learning environments. We are in times where learning goals needs to cater to increasingly complex scenarios that require non-didactic methods. Experiential learning emerges as a promising way to deliver such outcomes. David Kolb's experiential learning model emerges as a popular model to conceptualize such learning. E-learning and m-learning cater to the needs of an increasingly mobile learner who seeks situated and personalized learning. There is a need to incorporate experiential features in e/m-learning in a workplace informed manner. The authors weave the learnings from a pilot research and from real world examples to conceptualize a model of experiential learning for e/m-learning environments. The purpose of the models is to help learners critically evaluate other learning applications in digital environments or even design their own.
Ghostly (Re-)Semblances and Specular (Con-)Figurations
Authors: Younis Raymond Aaron
Published: June 2018

Many thinkers conceptualize authentic communication in terms of an interpersonal encounter, for example between an “I” and a “you,” a living subject and a living subject, unmediated by objects, electronic gadgets, or ICTs (informatics and communication technologies), or through an authentic human dialogue involving openness, choice, freedom, courage, and almost always, some risk and uncertainty. In the elevated language of Buber and Maritain one might say an existentially charged encounter between two (or more) beings involves opening up to each other, calling each to the other, face to face, thus allowing living truth to emerge.
Electronic Health Records
Authors: Glennie Henry R.
Published: June 2018

The physician often spends far more time gazing at the screen than at the person who has made the appointment. The patient has booked with the expectation their illness or accident will receive undivided attention. Immediately there is a problem, both for the doctor and the patient. Careful medical record-keeping is one of the most important duties of a clinician. How else can a patient's history be documented, the clinical findings recorded, the provisional diagnosis entered, and the chosen treatment pathway defined? But how does the doctor maintain confidence-giving eye contact whilst doing all this? The 19th century physician, as exemplified by the famous painting of “The Doctor” by Luke Fildes in 1891, typifies the devotion to care exhibited by the committed physician. The actuality is that today's physicians display equal amounts of dedication to their work; the difference in 1891 was that there was very little available to treat the great majority of illnesses. EHR, if used to its potential, is the means of pulling all this data together and getting it right every time!
Understanding Historical Background of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Realizing Social Media as a New Horizon in CSR Communication
Authors: Yiğit Melis Kaytaz , Kirezli Özge
Published: June 2018

With globalizing world, formal and the dimensional structure of market competition has been changing dramatically. In such a rapidly changing environment, companies should not just meet unlimited consumer needs, but also adopt a certain social responsibility philiosophy towards the society. In that sense, corporate social responsibility is one of the important concepts that play a role in formation of positive perceptions of the target groups. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the changing nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) over years, and also find the effect of social media on communicating corporate social responsibility. In that sense, firstly the need for CSR is to be discussed in different perspectives. Alternative definitions are provided over years to sense the evolving nature of the concept. Then in the last part, new media and social media's impact on CSR, as of benefits/challenges provided and alternative social media tools to be used in communication, are discussed.
Sustainability Strategies for Software Development Firms
Authors: Sambhanthan Arunasalam
Published: June 2018

Business sustainability is critical for any industry. In the software sector, this is often well practiced by organizations according to their sustainability reports. The work documented in this chapter aims to analyze the sustainability reports of software development firms from India to document the best practices in business sustainability. Ten large-scale software development firms were selected, and the themes such as efficiency enhancement, health and safety, opportunity maximization, productivity enhancement, risk management, value creation, and waste management were explored in the reports. The results are presented in this chapter that integrates the knowledge on the practical implications that software organizations in the rest of the world could adapt for better management of sustainability initiatives.
Integrating IS Security With Knowledge Management
Authors: Jennex Murray Eugene , Durcikova Alexandra
Published: June 2018

Knowledge management focuses on capturing and sharing knowledge. Because of this, KM researchers tend to focus on issues related to knowledge capture, storage, and sharing. However, because knowledge is valuable, it is a target needing to be protected. This chapter posits that KM researchers and practitioners also need to think about security and explores how important security skills are to KM practitioners and researchers. A literature review was performed to determine how much attention is paid by KM researchers to knowledge security. Additionally, KM job postings were examined to determine if security skills are considered important by those hiring KM practitioners. Next, a survey was prepared for exploring security attitudes of KM practitioners as an area of future research. Finally, future research areas for IS security are proposed that can greatly benefit from lessons learned in the areas of both knowledge sharing and knowledge sourcing.
Enhancing Instructor Capacity Through the Redesign of Online Practicum Course Environments Using Universal Design for Learning
Authors: Lock Jennifer V. , Johnson Carol , Altowairiki Noha , Burns Amy , Hill Laurie , Ostrowski Christopher P.
Published: June 2018

A current trend in practicum or field experience programs is online and blended learning approaches being implemented alongside traditional classroom experiences. Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) should be integrated in the design of these online environments in order to better support learning needs of all students. Instructors must also have confidence and competence in designing and facilitating learning within technology-enabled environments. This chapter reports on research conducted using design-based research to support instructor capacity development within field experience in a Bachelor of Education program. Three strategies are identified and discussed to enhance instructor's capacity: scaffolded support, modeling UDL practice in the online environment, and coaching to foster developing capacity using UDL. The chapter concludes by reporting on a new study that emerged as a result of this work, along with recommendations for practice.
Calculus 1 Course Comparison
Authors: Ziliak Ellen M
Published: June 2018

The chapter examines three approaches to teaching a Calculus 1 course at a private Mid-Western university. These approaches include an inquiry-based lecture/discussion environment, a flipped classroom, and an online/blended environment. The author examines the approach to each of these environments, reflects on how well they worked, and includes student feedback and course performance.
Unconventional Delivery
Authors: Hendrix T. J.
Published: June 2018

As university programs compete to retain and increase enrollment, online courses are being created to meet the demands of a rising population of students with preferences for self-paced learning. The 2015 Babson Survey Research Group report tracking online education in the United States shows 70.7% of active degree-granting institutions open to the public have some distance-learning options. In the same report, two- and four-year public institutions offering distance learning course were reported to have “very high” rates of offerings for distance learning, with both showing over 90% of enrolled students taking at least one online course. This chapter examines the need to gap between content and application in online learning through service-learning and outlines a process for implementing service-learning projects with emphasis on e-service-learning. As distance learning continues to grow, the need for innovative pedagogical methods will also grow, which makes service-learning an attractive strategy.
Local Forum as a Knowledge Source
Authors: Makagonov Pavel P. , Espinoza Celia Bertha Reyes , Dzikun Oleg M
Published: June 2018

An internet forum can be used as a crowdsourcing tool for searching for new knowledge and the latest non-standard ideas being a result of forum members' joint creative work. On the basis of these regularities, criteria of the forum maturity in processes of its formation and advance are elaborated. Basing on these results on a 2015 analysis of the forum, formed on the ground of the Universidad Tecnologica de la Mixteca (UTM), the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, a moment when the forum reaches its maturity was revealed. These conceptions are suitable for forming a thesaurus and taxonomy prototype of socio-cultural, environmental, and economic problems in Mixteca region. In its turn, a forum thesaurus gives opportunities for the regional community to understand a degree of its involvement into revealing and discussing the most actual regional problems on the internet.
Role of Tablets as Mood Elevators in the Perception Towards Green Schools
Authors: Verma Rekha , Razdan Atul
Published: June 2018

A green school basically integrates nature into school (mainly through academics, operations, and student/teacher and community engagement) with incorporated natural substance to school educational module. The sole purpose of green schools is to inculcate healthy and nature friendly initiatives with integrated environmental course content in school curriculum. Research shows that environmental training and education might enhance a normal learner's classroom execution and diversified impact on individual's personality as environmental knowledge can make ordinary learners extraordinary. Green schools aim at decreasing the drop-out rate in schools by introducing environmental education as an interesting subject with aspects of learning by doing. Students of Class 6th, 7th, and 8th standard use tabs/tablets for submitting their assignments, tests, and quiz/assessment exams enabling them to be tech-savvy generation. This research will address this issue through a qualitative research and in-depth interviews of students of different green schools of Gujarat.
The Impact of Indian Consumer's Mood on Their Perception for the Jewelry Brand Tanishq
Authors: Nair Amla , D'Souza Sahar Joel
Published: June 2018

India's fascination with jewelry goes way back to 5000 years with gold being the widely preferred choice for ornamental and investment purposes. Seventy-five percent of the Indian gold market is currently dominated by non-branded players. The existence of age-old loyalty towards family jewelers made it difficult for branded jewelers to break through the market. Hence, this research paper attempts to examine the consumer's perception towards one of the biggest brands in Indian jeweler Tanishq. Being a TATA brand, it is immediately associated with the respect that the brand brings with it, creating great brand salience. Tanishq penetrates varied cultures and life stages to deliver efficient customer service, garnering loyalty. However, Tanishq has positioned itself as a premium brand, commanding high making charges for its designs, which tends to alienate certain classes of society, and its sub-brands are overshadowed by the parent brand. With exemplary designs and customer service, Tanishq does make a mark on the Indian population, making it an aspirational brand.
A Study on Consumer Satisfaction Towards Apple Smartwatches
Authors: Kabade Manasi Prasad , Beria Nandita
Published: June 2018

The focus of the present study is to gain knowledge about the different types of smartwatches with the help detailed mind and mood analysis of the consumers based on the factors influencing the consumers to prefer the Apple brand including the social and cultural factors and the problems faced by them on using other brands. Mind and mood analysis of the consumers included the understanding of social and cultural complexities during the process of buying the product and the post-purchase behavior. The process of buying a smartwatch started form exposure to a stimulus depending on the need and wants of the consumers and the attention was drawn. The learning process of the consumers about the brand or the product which later creating a perception in their minds, developing positive or negative attitude, resulting in a conative behavior, eventually resulting in the purchase of the product and may also result in the repeat purchase, leading to a habit formation, which later reinforce in brand preference, resulting in brand loyalty.
Preparation and Application of Biochars for Organic and Microbial Control in Wastewater Treatment Regimes
Authors: Shikuku Victor Odhiambo , Nyairo Wilfrida N. , Kowenje Chrispin O.
Published: June 2018

Biochars have been extensively applied in soil remediation, carbon sequestration, and in climate change mitigation. However, in recent years, there has been a significant increase in biochar research in water treatment due to their stupendous adsorptive properties for various contaminants. This is attributed to their large surface areas, pore structures, chemical compositions, and low capital costs involved making them suitable candidates for replacing activated carbons. This chapter discusses the preparation methods and properties of biochars and their removal efficacy for organic contaminants and microbial control. Factors affecting adsorption and the mechanisms of adsorption of organic pollutants on biochars are also concisely discussed. Biochars present environmentally benign and low-cost adsorbents for removal of both organic pollutants and microbial control for wastewater purification systems.
An Overview on IoT and Its Impact on Marketing
Authors: Simões Dora , Filipe Sandra , Barbosa Belem
Published: June 2018

The internet of things (IoT) is attracting increased attention from researchers, practitioners, consumers, and the media, and it is expected to change dramatically the production and consumption of goods and services, as well as the interaction between organizations and their customers. This chapter explores the challenges of IoT for marketing management. The authors present the main concepts associated to the theme based on the extant literature, considering information management, technological and ethical aspects of its adoption by corporations and consumers, and they discuss the expected impacts on different marketing application domains such as product placement, purchasing behavior, storytelling and communication, customer experience and consumer' brand perception, real-time persona development, and product and content development, among others.
Advantages of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, QR Code, Near Field Communication, Geo-Tagging, Geo-Fencing, and Geo-Targeting for Marketing Tourism
Authors: Çeltek Evrim
Published: June 2018

The developing number of applications available through smart devices provides an increasing diversity of tourism marketing, destination and city marketing, tourism business marketing, and advertising. In the last decade, marketers have developed more creative practices to attract consumers. These new marketing tools are augmented reality, virtual reality, QR code, near field communication (NFC), geo-tagging, geo-fencing, and geo-targeting applications with the smart technologies, which are considered as a new marketing communication instruments these increase awareness and help get information about tourist and give information to the tourist. This chapter presents the profile of smart marketing applications and their marketing benefits in tourism industry. More specifically, this chapter aimed to achieve the following research objectives: to determine the potentials of the augmented reality, virtual reality, QR code, near field communication (NFC), geo-tagging, geo-fencing, and geo-targeting applications in the tourism industry.