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“Unreal” Gender Messages in Late 90s Women-Centered Action Dramas
Authors: Currier Sweet Anne
Published: July 2016

The rise of women-centered action drama series such as Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (1995-2002), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001), and Charmed (1998-2002), in the late 90s was seen as feminist progress by some thanks to the shows’ powerful lead female hero characters, yet the issue of women’s emerging power is still at play in contemporary fiction series such as these. A critique can be made of these programs that the heroines are not “real” because the shows often contain some fantastical or science-fiction elements, which potentially limits the power of their “real” feminist messages.The lead female characters of Buffy and Charmed women have supernatural powers; Xena takes place in an ancient Greece where the heroine has regular contact with Gods, monsters and other mythical creatures. Furthermore, beyond this unreal “reality”, some of the strongest messages about femininity and masculinity come from episodes in which there is a second degree of fantasy. These are episodes in which the characters are not living their real, everyday lives, but when the characters literally, through various plot devices, are someone else or live a different reality, such as when they are shown in a parallel universes, in a dream state, in an alternative future or past reality, in a fairytale, or when they are under a spell.While alternate realities and identities of Buffy, XWP and Charmed involve change of appearance, there is often also an element of fantasy or magic involved that transforms more than the characters’ outfit. Some of the strongest messages about femininity and masculinity are produced through the character’s “other” identities as well. This paper will thus explore some of devices used to create these identities, and some of the messages contained within the episodes in which this other reality/identity of the characters is found. What “real” messages are proposed in this alternate version of “reality,” which is twice distanced from actual reality — first by the fantasy premise of the series, and second by a fantasy version of that “reality”? Do they fulfill a role of liberation or of containment?
Du Mexique à l’Île de La Réunion : Études de réception de deux telenovelas « créolisées »
Authors: Wolff Éliane
Published: July 2016

Les responsables du Réseau France Outre-mer ont choisi de promouvoir la diffusion de telenovelas de type « romance », persuadés que ces programmes produits en Amérique Latine sont « plus adaptés aux publics d’Outre-mer que les fictions françaises et européennes voire américaines ». De fait, ces produits recueillent, depuis de nombreuses années, de très bonnes audiences auprès du public ultramarin. Pour répondre au plus près aux attentes de son public, le réseau a fait une succession de paris, parmi lesquels la traduction des dialogues de Rosalinda en créole réunionnais et la production de La Baie des Flamboyants (une adaptation d’une telenovela mexicaine, Código postal), dans les décors tropicaux de la Guadeloupe, avec des comédiens originaires des DOM. Ce choix des diffuseurs devenus co-producteurs n’a pas reçu l’accueil espéré. Dans cet article nous nous interrogerons dans un premier temps sur les raisons du succès des séries telenovelas à l’Île de La Réunion. Puis nous proposerons quelques pistes pour comprendre la réception des adaptations « créolisées » des deux telenovelas mexicaines Rosalinda et Código postal produites par Televisa. Comment saisir les publics et faire entendre leurs voix sans tomber dans le travers de la « ventriloquie » ? Une question que l’on tentera de traiter dans ce texte situé résolument dans une sociologie des médias et de la réception.
Les Invincibles en France : Temps et espace d’une adaptation
Authors: Huet Justine , Rao Sathya
Published: July 2016

Après avoir situé la série Les Invincibles dans le contexte du renouveau des séries québécoises et des échanges télévisuels entre la France et le Québec, cet article s’attache à la comparer à l’adaptation française qui en a été faite en 2010 par Arte et la société de production Making Prod. Deux axes génériques de comparaison seront privilégiés, à savoir la représentation du temps et de l’espace. Ces axes nous permettront de rendre compte de plusieurs différences de style entre l’original et l’adaptation par-delà le simple constat des écarts culturels entre la France et le Québec.
La localisation à l’étranger dans les séries télévisuelles contemporaines et l’affirmation internationale de la Corée du Sud
Authors: Thévenet Stéphane
Published: July 2016

Très présents dans les intrigues des trendy dramas des années 90 mais peu représentés à l’écran jusqu’alors, les pays étrangers deviennent progressivement les lieux privilégiés de la rencontre amoureuse dans les miniséries à succès sud-coréennes du début des années 2000. Parfois espace de subversion, la terre étrangère devient aussi le lieu où est mise en scène, à travers les pérégrinations de ses citoyens, une Corée moderne et dynamique enfin reconnue internationalement, à l’image de ses grandes firmes internationales. La mégalopole de Séoul, avec son aéroport, point de départ et d’arrivée, en est le symbole. La localisation à l’étranger est cependant temporaire. À l’échelle du feuilleton, elle ne dure rarement plus de quelques épisodes. A partir des années 2005-2006, elle perd aussi de son importance diégétique. Les destinations touristiques de courte durée sont privilégiées.
Jean-Paul Boher, ou le détournement du héros de 24 Heures chrono par Plus belle la vie
Authors: Tréfousse Marie
Published: July 2016

Jack Bauer, héros du feuilleton 24 Heures chrono (Fox, 2001-10), agent du gouvernement américain, est réputé pour sa violence. En 2007, le feuilleton français Plus belle la vie (France 3, 2004-) a eu besoin d’un policier raciste et violent ; en clin d’œil à 24 Heures chrono, les scénaristes lui ont donné le nom de Jean-Paul Boher (toujours appelé « Boher », jamais « Jean-Paul ») et une apparence similaire à celle de Jack. Comme Plus belle la vie et 24 Heures chrono ne partagent pas les mêmes spectateurs, le défi a été de plaire à la fois à ceux qui ne connaissent pas 24 Heures chrono (probablement majoritaires) et à ceux qui le connaissent. Parce que Jean-Paul Boher est à la fois un personnage à part entière et un détournement idéologique de Jack, cet article abordera, dans un premier temps, les fonctions diégétiques et idéologiques du personnage et, dans un deuxième temps, les références, explicites et implicites, c’est-à-dire l’intertexte construit entre Plus belle la vie et 24 Heures chrono, intertexte unique entre un feuilleton français et une série américaine.
Canon Trouble: Intertextuality and Subversion in Queer as Folk
Authors: Ludot-Vlasak Ronan
Published: July 2016

Drawing on gender and queer theory, but also on cultural materialism, this article explores some intertextual references – mainly to Shakespeare and John Keats – at work in the American TV series Queer as Folk. The show recycles canonical works or figures, but considerably reconfigures them. Not only are these references pervaded with overt sexual innuendoes, but they also challenge the literary canon “from within,” regenerate it and invite us to revisit these works – to re-read them against the grain – and to explore their potential queerness.
Figures de la mobilité dans la série télévisée Dr. House et dans le service d’urgence médicale ERIC : Étude comparative de phénoménologie appliquée
Authors: Depraz Natalie , Mauriac Frédéric
Published: July 2016

La démarche claudicante de House liée à la paralysie de sa jambe rend ses déplacements à l’hôpital ou à l’extérieur toujours difficiles voire improbables. La mobilité du personnage passe à d’autres niveaux, dans l’expressivité de ses yeux et des traits de son visage, dans les accélérations soudaines de son activité mentale pour découvrir la cause d’une maladie, dans sa capacité d’implication relationnelle à distance. Toujours en éveil, surtout lorsqu’il reste immobile, allongé par terre dans son bureau ou assis à jouer avec sa balle, House est un personnage emblématique de l’interrogation en mouvement. Dans Dr. House, chaque épisode peut être vu en grande partie de façon autonome, à l’image de l’unicité du personnage lui-même, ce qui permet de mettre en évidence un mode de relation du spectateur au genre « série télévisée » qui n’implique pas nécessairement une attitude addictive. Pour mettre en relief de façon plus précise les facettes singulières de la mobilité de House, il nous a paru intéressant de proposer une comparaison avec une équipe mobile d’urgence psychiatrique à propos de laquelle nous avons déjà eu l’occasion de dégager trois figures de mobilité : déplacement, mobilisation, créativité. Ce détour nous permettra, au fil de ces figures, de mettre mieux en lumière l’inventivité déplacée de House et sa contribution à un format de série télévisée caractérisé par la validité de chaque épisode, jusqu’à faire émerger depuis la série télévisée, en retour, un mode de mobilité non-identifié dans notre élaboration théorique, à savoir la sortie vertueuse du cadre comme espace d’invention thérapeutique.
« Reality is out there » : le néo-réalisme fantastique dans quelques épisodes de The X-Files
Authors: Delanoë-Brun Emmanuelle
Published: July 2016

De la série X-Files, on retient fréquemment l’armature paranoïaque autour de laquelle s’organise la continuité du récit principal, la théorie du complot qui structure, ou en tous cas donne leur unité, à la suite des saisons, par delà l’évolution des relations entre les personnages. C’est dans l’inflexion délibérément postmoderne d’un univers ancré dans le doute, l’interrogation des certitudes, la quête d’un ailleurs, que la série trouve sa tonalité propre, mélange d’anxiété épistémologique et de légèreté potache. L’univers fantastique du complot politico-scientifico-martien cristallise l’expression d’une suspicion généralisée à la fois de l’univers référentiel et des structures censées l’organiser, où seule une échappée au-delà d’une « réalité » trompeuse laisse entrevoir la possibilité d’une vérité élusive. Mais si la vérité est peut être ailleurs, comme le réaffirme chaque épisode ou presque en fin de générique, la réalité est-elle pour autant si faussée, d’épisode en épisode ? Laissant de côté les fondements philosophico-politiques qui sous-tendent très visiblement le récit principal, cet article considère comment, dans certains épisodes, l’archi-structure aliénante de la société postmoderne s’efface et la série explore des enjeux politiques et sociaux beaucoup plus immédiats tels que l’immigration clandestine, le communautarisme, le rapport à l’étranger, les rythmes de travail, l’exploitation sociale, renouant ainsi avec la tradition du « réalisme social » des grands récits de la fiction populaire du 19ème siècle, dans lesquels on peut considérer que les séries télévisées, après le cinéma, continuent de puiser leur source.
De Babylon à Galactica : la nouvelle science-fiction télévisuelle et l’effet-réalité
Authors: Achouche Mehdi
Published: July 2016

Si la science-fiction et les séries télévisées sont toutes les deux souvent pensées en termes d’évasion et de rêverie, les séries de science-fiction, plus particulièrement celles relevant du genre escapist par excellence qu’est le space opera, entretiennent depuis les années 1990 et la « renaissance » des séries télévisées une relation plus complexe et riche avec le « réel ». Les séries Babylon 5 et Battlestar Galactica surtout sont des cas d’école d’une science-fiction thématiquement, esthétiquement et narrativement plus sophistiquée et ambitieuse, mais aussi plus sombre, que ses prédécesseurs, au sujet de laquelle la notion même de « réalisme », si elle reste ambiguë, ne paraît plus aussi incongrue que par le passé. Tirant profit des spécificités offertes par le média télévisuel, la nouvelle science-fiction entretient des rapports pluriels et dynamiques avec le(s) réel(s).
“Why Are We as a People Worth Saving?” Battlestar Galactica and the Global War on Terror
Authors: Maguire Lori
Published: July 2016

Battlestar Galactica represents a deliberately fantasized world but this, of course, does not mean that it is divorced from reality. Science fiction, as a genre, frequently uses an imaginary world to illustrate and comment upon some aspect of our own society. American science fiction films from the 1950s, for example, often dealt with the effects of atomic power while the first Star Trek television series (and some of the films that followed) provided a commentary on the Cold War. The original Battlestar Galactica began in the late 1970s and was clearly designed to capitalize on the popularity of Star Wars. It was not an immense success and was soon cancelled. In the years that followed, a number of people toyed with the idea of reviving it since it had developed a cult following. In the end, the new version kept the basic plot but otherwise totally reimagined the story. It is the contention of this paper that many of these differences relate to changes in American society and history.The new Battlestar Galactica began as a project in 2000, was delayed because of the 11 September terrorist attacks and aired on television from 2003 until 2009. Its existence thus runs parallel to much of the global war on terror and, in particular, to the Iraq War. Furthermore, the subject matter of the series – it begins with a devastating terrorist attack and continues with a horrible war that includes suicide bombings, religious conflicts and torture – clearly resemble events of this time.The purpose of this paper is to examine the series not from the perspective of art but from that of history. How does Battlestar Galactica reflect the tensions of its time? What comment does it make on America and on America’s actions in the world? As current events changed, did the series evolve in different directions and reflect these changes? The highly fictionalized genre of science fiction can be a profound source of commentary on the real world.
La perspective narrative dans les séries « Cop and Lab ». Quelles contributions aux représentations du monde scientifique et technique ?
Authors: Nguyen Céline , Chouteau Marianne , Triquet Eric , Bruguière Catherine
Published: July 2016

Les séries américaines comme Les Experts et Bones connaissent aujourd’hui un succès populaire incontestable. Tout en divertissant les spectateurs, ces séries placent la science et la technique au cœur même de leur propos : l’action se déroule dans un environnement scientifique, les personnages incarnent des scientifiques, l’intrigue même est portée par la science et la technique. Si elles ne prétendent pas être vraies ou réelles, elles jouent malgré tout sur le registre du vraisemblable. Quelles représentations de la science et de la technique ces séries américaines contemporaines véhiculent-elles ? Comment le récit délivré dans chaque épisode embarque-t-il la science et la technique pour en faire une fiction cohérente et attractive ? Notre propos est de montrer sur quels mécanismes sont fondés les liens entre science, technique et récit.Pour y répondre, nous suivons deux pistes complémentaires. La première vise à mieux comprendre l’articulation entre l’enquête policière au cœur de ces « Cop and doc shows » et l’investigation scientifique. La seconde étudie les représentations de la science et de la technique qui circulent et font le récit. L’analyse comparée de plusieurs épisodes fait ressortir les points communs ou distinctifs entre ces deux séries et met en évidence différentes formes d’interaction entre science, technique et récit. Elle souligne également les potentialités narratives de la science et de la technique dans ce type de productions télévisées associées au divertissement.
The Treatment of the Law: Between Reality and Imagination in Television Legal Series
Authors: Villez Barbara
Published: July 2016

For over sixty years American television series dealing with law and justice have helped the public to construct a legal culture, acquiring criteria on the professions, procedure and their rights as citizens. As the series became more complex, the details pertaining to courtroom set up and what lawyers could or could not do became increasingly precise. Yet, many elements were played with, reality stretched in order to engender curiosity, open eyes and ears and get people to think.
From Oz to Lockup: Bringing Prison Life (Back) Home
Authors: Schippert Claudia
Published: July 2016

This paper examines HBO’s prison drama Oz. I connect the 1990s depictions of prison life in Oz to the more recent prevalence of prison shows like Lockup, currently shown weekly on MSNBC. While the two series belong to different genres (fictional drama vs. documentary/docudrama) they give us a window into the story lines about and perceptions of prisoners, crime, and security that American audiences found, and continue to find, believable and compelling.
Voir son propre corps : gros plans et CSI shot dans Les Experts et Dr House, quel réalisme dans la représentation des corps ?
Authors: Desmet Maud
Published: July 2016

Récemment l’engouement pour les séries scientifiques et policières a vu naître une permissivité visuelle, en apparence décomplexée, vis-à-vis du corps humain, malade ou mort, dont les parties sont exposées à la vue de tous, et l’intérieur extériorisé, ce qui a amené de nouveaux procédés formels tels que le « CSI shot », très gros plan de l’intérieur du corps humain simulé par des images de synthèse, popularisé par la série populaire d’Anthony Zuiker Les Experts (C.S.I : Crime Scene Investigation). Permettant une plongée intra cutanée façon « grand huit » à l’intérieur de l’organisme humain, le « CSI shot » est une intrusion visuelle dans le corps, remettant en cause notre habituelle vision limitée de celui-ci. Si des fictions télévisées telles que Les Experts, et Dr House semblent vouloir faire de leur très gros plan sur l’intérieur du corps, une caution réaliste, c’est l’aspect « plus réel que le réel » de ses images qui attire notre attention, s’inscrivant pleinement dans une démarche hyperréaliste, selon les caractéristiques du terme renvoyant au mouvement artistique franco-américain du 20ème siècle. Ces fictions dans leur représentation crue du corps humain empruntent, et à l’esthétique du film pornographique et à l’imagerie médicale, induisant un rapport problématique au réalisme. Dans la proximité avec la chair et avec l’intérieur du corps, au-delà du réalisme, c’est l’abstraction qui semble s’imposer à la vision du spectateur.
Student Perceptions of Value and the Impact on Curriculum Design
Authors: de Burgh-Woodman Hélène
Published: July 2016

This research adopts a case study approach to interrogate key questions regarding how curriculum design, assessment and delivery impacts on student perceptions of overall value relative to their job readiness. The initial research question to be answered in this study is how can shifts in curriculum design and assessment affect student perceptions of value? The method uses a case study and adapts Brookfield's multiple source approach, which enables the examination of the case study from multiple perspectives. The objective of the case study is to draw out the implications for understandings of student perceptions of value and how curriculum design can enhance this sense of value.
Language Skills Training through Mobile Apps
Authors: Viswanathan Revathi
Published: July 2016

With the advancement in technological tools and devices, language teachers can foster learning of communication skills through mobile devices. There is a growing interest among students to use the latest gadgets for getting connected with their peers. It must be admitted that the usage of these devices would bring in a real revolution in the teaching and learning process. It has been widely accepted that mobile learning promotes students' active participation. Teachers also now understand that one of their responsibilities is to create more opportunities to make their students practice language skills. Although numerous researches has been done in the field of English Language Teaching in India, research on mobile assisted language learning is still in an infancy stage. In this chapter, the author discusses the possibility of offering training through mobile apps, based on research she conducted recently.
Encouraging Continuing Professional Development and Teacher Professional Development in Global Education
Authors: Kasemsap Kijpokin
Published: July 2016

This chapter aims to encourage the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and Teacher Professional Development (TPD) in global education, thus explaining the overviews of professional development, CPD and TPD; TPD and teacher education; technologies for TPD; TPD, classroom dialogue and higher-order learning; the significance of CPD in global education, and the significance of TPD in global education. The attainment of CPD and TPD is required in the educational institutions in order to serve school administrators and students, increase educational performance, sustain competitiveness, and fulfill expected accomplishment in global education. Therefore, it is urgent for educational institutions to encourage their CPD and TPD and develop a strategic plan to regularly check their practical advancements in the educational institutions. The chapter argues that encouraging CPD and TPD has the potential to improve educational performance and reach strategic goals in global education.
Social Media in Crisis Communication
Authors: Hopwood Maria , McLean Hamish
Published: July 2016

Social media engagement is changing the relational dynamic between organizations - and individuals - and their publics. This is particularly evident in the world of elite sport where the market value of an elite athlete is measured by their public reputation which is pinned on healthy relationships with stakeholders, such as fellow athletes, team managers, coaches and, importantly, fans (Hopwood 2007). In fact, social media analysts have attributed much of Twitter's growth to early adopters in the sports world. As a continually expanding global business, sport has to grapple with the challenges of how to harness this uncontrolled medium to best advantage, particularly in times of crisis. This chapter examines the bond between fans and sport in the context of social media in order to examine how this relationship could foster forgiveness for elite athletes who confess to transgressions, thus having enduring implications for the athlete's sport and sport business generally.
Social Media for Growing Collective Intelligence in Online Communities
Authors: Aelita Skaržauskienė , Tamošiūnaitė Rūta
Published: July 2016

Scientific society argues that human group demonstrates higher capabilities of information processing and problem solving than an individual does (Luo et al., 2009). Collective Intelligence (CI) is the general ability of a group to perform a wide variety of tasks (Woolley et al., 2010). With the growth and expansion of the Internet and social media technologies, “the way in which CI is utilized and leveraged has been fundamentally altered” (Wise, 2012). The new channels of social media enable new possibilities to be involved in collaborative activities for broader groups of people without limitations of time or geographical zones. The scientific problem in this chapter is defined is relationship between social media technologies and collective intelligence in networked society. The subject of the research are online community projects (collective intelligence ecosystems) which include social media tools allowing and encouraging individual and team creativity, collective decision making, on-line collaboration, entrepreneurship, etc.
Social Media in Micro SME Documentary Production
Authors: Kohle Friedrich H.
Published: July 2016

Micro SME documentary producers are challenged to understand, adapt and apply social media technology in the creative economies. This paper examines the technological premise of social media, applications and limitations in documentary filmmaking. Drawing from other fields such as psychology, the author proposes a Real- and Virtual World Networking Model (RVNM), theorizing on how documentary producers can connect via social media networking to generate strong system support for their documentary project. RVNM helps documentary filmmaker make sense of the complexity of social media from development to distribution in order to further stimulate significant growth within the creative industries.
Desperately Seeking Customer Engagement
Authors: Piven Inna P , Breazeale Michael
Published: July 2016

Since 2004 when Myspace was converted from a file storage service to a social networking site, social media has become an integral part of people's everyday experiences. Social media has also come to play an influential role in business. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the Five-Sources Model of Brand Value that illustrates the importance of functional, emotional, self-oriented, social, and relational brand consumption experiences helping different organisations get a clear sense of where they can add value to their marketing communication strategies on social media. The model is consumer-centered and is grounded in consumers' experiences collected through interviews and Facebook focus group. This chapter is based on an on-going project that first started as a Masters research in 2011. It has continued with conferences and academic papers, in conjunction with consulting and lecturing on social media applications in New Zealand business and education context.
Getting New Business Contacts in Foreign Markets through Social Networking Sites
Authors: Nunez-Zabaleta Aitziber , Olabarri Elena , Monge-Benito Sergio
Published: July 2016

Being able to find information, people and expertise helps business to grow and remain competitive. Professional networking using the web 2.0 is providing entry opportunities into international markets, allowing professional workers to interact with both workers and companies in markets worldwide. For that reason our research seeks identify the Social Networking Sites (SNSs) used with business purposes by professional workers, as well as to test the importance given by workers of the Basque Country region in Spain, to the use of social networks, particularly SNSs, to find new professionals around the world and help the workers network. Business Networking is a valuable way to expand knowledge, learn from the success of others, attain new clients and tell others about the business.
A Novel Method for Evaluation of the Flow Field Effects on Mean Drop Size in a Multiphase CFB
Authors: Jamali Ali Akbar , Shahhosseini Shahrokh , Behjat Yaghoub
Published: July 2016

Prompt evaporation of injected liquid drops near the injectors locating in the FCC unit riser reactor has considerable impacts on the gas–solid mixing phenomena. To investigate influencing various parameters on the injected liquid species in the riser, conservation equations are primarily needed. A novel model to predict droplet mean diameter (DMD) due to computing penetration depth of the jet flowing through the riser was proposed. The proposed model is able to indirect predict DMD based on direct computation of spray tip penetration (STP). The model has been validated by some empirical correlations. In this study, influencing gas superficial velocity, liquid injection velocity, jet angle and nozzle diameter on DMD were investigated. The results for both concurrent and counter-current flows showed that the decrease of jet angle and injection velocity improves DMD. In addition, increasing orifice diameter (as a structural parameter) arising mean drop size can decline performance of atomizing. It also displayed close agreement between the model predictions and experimental data. In this work, the measurement error associated with STP was determined up to 2.7 mm, and the mean relative error with respect to detecting STP is 4.3%.
Theoretical Study of Lamivudine Derivatives Invoking DFT based Descriptors
Authors: Chakraborty Tanmoy , Dhail Seema
Published: July 2016

Recently Maria S. Gualdesi et al., have reported about bioactive lamivudine and its carbonate derivatives with proved activity against human immunodeficiency disease (anti-HIV) and hepatitis B viruses (anti-HBV) respectively in simulated gastric and intestinal fluids samples. This is one of the simplest, sensitive, accurate and precise assays for determining all the compounds which are readily adaptable for routine use in clinical laboratories. Employing simple chromatographic technique, they have lucidly explained the kinetic and stability features of lamivudine and its carbonate derivatives. But a theoretical quantum mechanical study of aforesaid compounds is yet to explore. In this report, the authors have made a correlation between experimental properties of lamivudine derivatives with their theoretical counterparts. They have invoked DFT based global and local descriptors to explore the effect of substituents on activity and mechanistic pathway of instant compounds respectively. Their computed data reveals a hand to hand relationship between experimental and theoretical parameters. Finally, a QSAR model has been proposed in terms of DFT based global descriptors.
The Story Retold Visiting the Role and Mission of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Decision Making and Policy Formulation Process
Authors: Matiatou Maria
Published: July 2016

The mission of the present study is to establish a robust and reliable reference framework on the ecosystem of Non-Governmental Organizations and the Third Sector for literature review in scholarly contributions and publications. Two goals are set: first, to re-establish the importance of Nongovernmental Organizations as integral key players on the arena of social welfare in an era that is largely defined by globalized economies, debt-ridden states, limited resources, increased competition for donations and volunteers, and enhanced needs related to poverty and acceptable standards of living. Second, to position NGOs on the sphere of political influence where they negotiate agendas, form coalitions with local and international partners, mobilize constituencies for policy change, and ultimately engage in all stages of the policy process. Finally, the absence of a concrete evaluation system is pointed out: an accountability framework is fundamental to the assessment of NGO performance and impact on their intended beneficiaries.
Identifying Critical Changes in Adoption of Personalized Medicine (PM) in Healthcare Management
Authors: Misra Subhas C. , Bisui Sandip , Fantazy Kamel
Published: July 2016

Among the emerging areas in health-care system, the implementation of Electronic Medical Record system and the discovery of Personalized Medicine are occupying top positions. While some of the personalized drugs have already been discovered, implementing this new medicare system requires a lot of changes in the traditional health-care system. This paper aims at identifying these critical changes required in the adoption of the Personalized Medicine system. A systemic attempt has been made to prepare a list of possible changes required for the adoption based on available literature. This research study shows that changes from reactive to efficient medical care, from trial and error to right treatment for right person at right time, from narrow mind-set to open mindedness, from open information of patients to secure information, from less emphasis on IT infrastructure to more emphasis on IT infrastructure are some of the significant changes that are necessary for implementing the revolutionary medicare system of personalized Medicine.
Human-Factor-Based Risk Management in the Healthcare to Improve Patient Safety
Authors: Streimelweger Barbara , Wac Katarzyna , Seiringer Wolfgang
Published: July 2016

‘Patient Safety' tries to increase safety and transparency within healthcare systems for both patients and professionals. Within the healthcare sector, workflows become more and more complex, while time and money become scarce. As a consequence, the risk awareness, fault management and quality aspects become more important. One of the most well established risk assessment method is Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) – a reliability analysis and risk assessment tool widely used in various industries. The traditional FMEA is using a Risk Priority Number (RPN) ranking system to evaluate and identify the risk level of failures, and to prioritize actions. However, there are several shortcomings in obtaining a quality estimate of the failure ratings with FMEA, especially when human factors play an important role. Thus, a new risk assessment method called HFdFMEA (Human Factor dependent FMEA) based on the dependency of used parameters and the observation of human factors, is proposed to address the drawbacks. The opportunity to improve patient safety is discussed as result of HFdFMEA.
Social Networking Sites
Authors: Kyei-Blankson Lydia , Iyer Kamakshi S. , Subramanian Lavanya
Published: July 2016

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are web-based facilities that allow for social interaction, sharing, communication and collaboration in today's world. In the current study, patterns of use of social media among students at a public Midwestern university are examined. In addition, students were surveyed regarding concerns for privacy and trust and whether concerns differed by gender, ethnicity, employment and relationship status. The survey data gathered from students suggest that students mostly used SNSs from less than one hour to about 3 hours a day and for communication and maintaining relationships. Students also had academic uses for SNSs. Even though concerns for privacy and trust exist, they did not differ by gender, employment and relationship status and students are still willing to use SNSs. The findings from this research have implications for various stakeholders especially instructors who may be considering the use of SNS for academic purposes.
Fuzzy Opinion
Authors: Boudia Mohamed Amine , Hamou Reda Mohamed , Amine Abdelmalek
Published: July 2016

In this paper, the authors propose a new approach to detect opinion by SentiWorNet with the introduction of the concept of fuzzy logic. In this vein, the authors will build detection system fuzzy opinion “Fuzzy Opinion.” To give flexibility to their system, they will use a threshold of opinion. The texts are represented by a vector of word (bag of words) which will be reduced to vector the word bearer opinion by filtering with SentiWordNet. Consequently, the heart of their approach is to associate each text into two scores (bi- scoring): Sp represents the positivity of text and Sn represents the negativity of text; this is the stage of Fuzzification. To identify opinion of a text and to ensure flexibility, the authors have used a threshold of opinion. Further, they have adapted the defuzzification step for identifying opinion. Finally, they compared the results of this approach with the results of the same approach without fuzzy logic in using the same corpus.
A New Approach Based on the Detection of Opinion by SentiWordNet for Automatic Text Summaries by Extraction
Authors: Boudia Mohamed Amine , Hamou Reda Mohamed , Amine Abdelmalek
Published: July 2016

In this paper, the authors propose a new approach based on the detection of opinion by the SentiWordNet for the production of text summarization by using the scoring extraction technique adapted to detecting of opinion. The texts are decomposed into sentences then represented by a vector of scores of opinion (sentences). The summary will be done by elimination of sentences whose opinion is different from the original text. This difference is expressed by a threshold opinion. The following hypothesis: “textual units that do not share the same opinion of the text are ideas used for the development or comparison and their absences have no vocation to reach the semantics of the abstract” Has been verified by the statistical measure of Chi_2. Finally, the authors found an opinion threshold interval which generate the optimal assessments.
Security Impact on e-ATM Windows Communication Foundation Services using Certificate based Authentication and Protection
Authors: Medhi Subhash , Bora Abhijit , Bezboruah Tulshi
Published: July 2016

The authors proposed to design and implement a prototype research electronic automated teller machine service using Windows Communication Foundation to study the performance and scalability of implementing Web Service Security policy. The software chosen for building the service are C# programming language, Internet Information Service web server, Microsoft Structured Query Language database server and Visual Studio.NET Integrated Design Environment as development toolkits. To evaluate the different performance metrics, the Windows Communication Foundation Service has been tested by using testing tool Mercury LoadRunner, version 8.1. In this paper, the authors will present the architecture of the service, its testing procedures, and statistical analysis of the system performance.
Efficient Materialized View Selection for Multi-Dimensional Data Cube Models
Authors: Dahiya Naveen , Bhatnagar Vishal , Singh Manjeet
Published: July 2016

Decision Support Systems help managers to make intelligent decisions by throwing complex queries on large databases. The response time to queries is a very crucial factor in governing the quality of decision support systems. The response time can be greatly improved by using query optimization techniques. A powerful query optimization technique selects only some of the views and not all views for materialization. The authors in this paper present a refined greedy selection approach using forward references to give better materialized view selection. The approach works on lattice framework of data that is capable enough to show inter dependencies of data. The choice of materialized views using the proposed approach gives a better trade off in terms of space/benefits, which is proved from the experimental results. The refined greedy selection approach is independent of space constraint and depends on number of passes entered by the user. The view selection is further enhanced by including space constraints to the results of greedy and refined greedy approach using knapsack implementation.
Word-Of-Mouth, Trust, and Perceived Risk in Online Shopping
Authors: Zeba Farrah , Ganguli Shirshendu
Published: July 2016

This paper aims to understand the role of word-of-mouth, trust and perceived risk in extended technology acceptance model on online purchase intention. Firstly, EFA was used to test the dimensionality of these constructs. Next the reliability and validity of these constructs have been established using CFA in AMOS 16.0. Then the hypotheses were tested using SEM in AMOS 16.0. It was found that word-of-mouth has a positive and significant impact on online purchase intention whereas perceived risk has a negative and significant impact on online purchase intention. It was also found that word-of-mouth has a positive and significant impact on trust and trust has negative and significant impact perceived risk. Word-of-mouth, trust and perceived risk should be viewed as the levers in the adoption process of online shopping in the extended technology acceptance model. Examining the role of these three constructs on online purchase intention explicated the dual process of perceived risk acting as an inhibitor whereas word-of-mouth acting as an enabler.
Political Opinion Mining from Twitter
Authors: Sharma Yashvardhan , Mittal Ekansh , Garg Mayank
Published: July 2016

Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging platform for people to express their political views in and around the elections. Hence during pre-elections twitter becomes a rich resource of data to understand the changing tenor of political leaders with time. During this time, when views, opinions and judgments are shared so prolifically through online media, tools which can provide the crux of this content are paramount. In this paper the authors have developed one such sentiment analysis tool to analyze the changing political views of persons with time. Using the tool they classify the tweets as positive, negative or neutral and studying it over time the authors successfully estimate the mood of the person. The authors have also developed a specialized phonetic dictionary to provide better approximation for most commonly used slangs and abbreviations.
An NHPP SRGM with Change Point and Multiple Releases
Authors: Tandon Abhishek , Aggarwal Anu G. , Nijhawan Nidhi
Published: July 2016

In an environment of intense competition, software upgrades have become the necessity for the survival in software industry. In this paper, the authors propose a discrete Software Reliability Growth Model (SRGM) for the software with successive releases by taking into consideration the realistic assumption that Fault Removal Rate (FRR) may not remain constant during the testing process, it changes due to severity of faults detected and due to change in strategies adapted by testing team and the time point where FRR changes is called the Change Point. Many researchers have developed SRGMs incorporating the concept of Change Point for single release software. The proposed model aims to present multi release software reliability modeling with change point. Discrete logistic distribution function has been used to model relationship between features enhancement and fault removal. It is helpul in developing a flexible SRGM, which is S-shaped in nature. In order to evaluate the proposed SRGM, parameter estimation is done using the real life data set for software with four releases and the goodness-of-fit of this model is analyzed.
Cellular IoT for Mobile Autonomous Reporting in the Smart Grid
Authors: Goulart Ana E. , Sahu Abhijeet
Published: July 2016

Wireless access technologies are being embedded in utility meters, health devices, public safety systems, among others. These devices have low processing power and communicate at low data rates. New communication standards are being developed to support these machine-type communications (MTC), such as Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT), which is being developed by the third generation partnership project (3GPP). CIoT introduces cooperative ultra-narrow band (C-UNB) communications. It supports ad-hoc uplink transmissions, delay-tolerant downlink transmissions, and a simple authentication scheme. The C-UNB approach is proposed for Mobile Autonomous Reporting (MAR) applications, but it is not clear if it can be used for smart grid systems, such as sensors and smart meters in the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). In this paper, the authors review the C-UNB approach, study its performance in terms of collision rate and throughput, and discuss its potential for smart grid reporting applications.
How can Mobile Accounting Reporting Benefit from the ‘Imagined Communities'?
Authors: Kavoura Androniki
Published: July 2016

Are there theoretical foundations that may substantiate communication in an online environment in regard to accounting reporting and implementation of information via mobile accounting technologies that brings together communication, numbers and computing? This conceptual paper explores the creation of an imagined community that has all the characteristics to connect accountants together with the implementation of mobile devices based on Anderson's theory of imagined communities. It describes a wide range of trends in relation to current and emerging technologies used and maps processes of financial reporting into this milieu via the notion of imagined communities. It argues that a sense of coherence exists between its members who feel a sense of belonging to the same group, even if they have never met. The paper examines for the first time in this conceptual multidisciplinary study whether the characteristics of the imagined communities that construct identity are related to accounting community formation and this is the theoretical contribution of the paper.
Research on Soft Computing Techniques for Cognitive Radio
Authors: Mishra Subhashree , Singh Sudhansu Sekhar , Mishra Bhabani Shankar Prasad , Panigrahi Prabin Kumar
Published: July 2016

Presently, the world of wireless communication is going under some crucial challenges, which attracts the attention of several researchers. Cognitive radio is defined as a multidimensional aware, autonomous radio system that learns from its experiences to reason, plan & decide future actions to meet user needs. Such a highly varied radio environment calls on intelligent management, allocation & usage of scarce resources. Issues like spectrum sensing & allocation, environmental learning i.e., adaptability & capability to learn attracts the attention of several soft computing learning & optimization techniques like neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithm & swarm intelligence. The cognitive engine behind the radio combines the sensing, learning, switching, and optimization algorithms to control & adapt the radio system from the physical layer to the top of the communication stack. This paper presents a critical review on different soft computing approaches applied over the cognitive radio issues & also points out different research directions over it.
User and Firm Generated Content on Online Social Media
Authors: Daiya Abhinita , Roy Subhadip
Published: July 2016

Social media communication content has gained a lot of interest in e-commerce literature. The present research note explores the scope of social media communication content across content source and levels of analysis. Based on a comprehensive review of 36 empirical papers spanning a decade (2004-2016), the research in social media content source is divided as user generated and firm generated. The levels of analysis are divided into three groups: users and society, platforms and intermediaries and firms and industries. Subsequently, a grid with six cells is created that has the content source (user/firm) on one axis and level of analysis on the other. The findings reveal communication content across users and society to be the most researched area, whereas, platforms and intermediaries being the least researched. Further, a set of future research questions are proposed for content in social media across various levels of analysis.
The Influence of Government Capacity on E-Services Diffusion at Municipal Level in New Jersey
Authors: Zheng Yueping , Manoharan Aroon P
Published: July 2016

The development of ICTs brings opportunities for governments to improve their services provision. Since early 2000, governments at all levels have increasingly enabled citizens to get e-services, or services online, which was the primary function of e-government. Although great progress has been made, studies indicate that e-services levels are still low and great variances exist. Previous research, that has explored the determinants of government performance on e-services, was often lacking an emphasis on government capacity. This study aims at examining the influence of government capacity (technical capacity, financial capacity, and administrative capacity) on e-services. With data from 146 municipalities in New Jersey, the research finds that government capacity, specifically administrative capacity, positively affects government performance in e-services.