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Media, Social Media, and the Securitization of Mental Health Problems in Nepal
Authors: Uprety Sudeep , Ghimire Rajesh
Published: April 2018

This chapter attempts to unfold the trend and nature of mainstream and social media coverage on mental health issues in Nepal through suicide case of Yama Buddha, a popular musician. Using the securitization theory and concepts of threat construction and threat neutralization, major findings through content analysis and key informant interviews reveal reputed mainstream media following cautious route towards threat neutralization and therefore, maintaining a level of journalistic professionalism. However, especially in the other online media, blogs, and other social media, there were sensationalist words and tone used to attract the audience, triggering various sorts of emotional responses, thereby fulfilling the act of securitization. Major recommendations from this chapter include more awareness and understanding about the nature and type of mental health problems; capacity building of journalists and media professionals to better understand and report on mental health problems; development and proper implementation of media guidelines on reporting mental health issues.
Understanding and Addressing the Stigma in Mental Health Within the Asian and Asian-American Culture
Authors: Tran Ben
Published: April 2018

Mental health stigma can be defined as the display of negative attitudes, based on prejudice and misinformation, in response to a marker of illness. Stigma creates mental distress for individuals, which furthers stigmatizing attitudes, thereby making it a relentless force and as incompetent in achieving life goals such as living independently or having a good job. Over the years, researchers have consistently highlighted the problem of mental health service underutilization within the Asians and Asian-Americans communities. As such, understanding the cultural contexts that facilitate good outcomes may offer a lever or stigma reduction. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to understand and address the sociocultural and psychological paradigms of the stigma in mental health within Asians and Asian-Americans. This chapter will cover the history of stigma within the Asian culture, Asian's mental health, mental health services utilization within the Asian culture, and methods of addressing the stigma within the Asian culture to promote the utilization of mental health services.
Special Issue
Authors: Bender Sara , Hill Karlie
Published: April 2018

Misconceptions regarding the cause(s) of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has led to a number of prejudices against those with such diagnoses. A fear of being the object of prejudicial attitudes and behaviors leaves many individuals concerned about the social stigma of a STI diagnosis. This, in turn, may leave people unwilling to get tested or hesitant to disclose their diagnosis to others, which may fuel the spread of such infections. In addition to the numerous medical concerns associated with STIs, the psychological consequences of STIs are notable as well. Understanding the stigma related to STIs is an important step towards improving the mental health of people with such diagnoses. This chapter provides the reader with an overview of STI diagnoses, and an explanation of their physical and mental health consequences. The chapter continues by examining the three types of stigma as well as their components. Finally, the chapter offers a number of suggestions regarding how to combat STI stigma, which may be extrapolated to combat other forms of stigma affecting mental health.
Stamped Life
Authors: Gök Fulya Akgül , Çifci Elif Gökçearslan
Published: April 2018

This research was conducted with a view to ascertaining the perceptions, feelings, and thoughts of the women who care for patients with schizophrenia regarding the challenges they face and stigma. This research was conducted by using qualitative research method. To this end, in-depth interviews were made with 10 women who care for schizophrenia patients. As a result of the research, it was found out that the women who care for patients often care of the patient on their own, and thus, they have some psychosocial challenges. The disease negatively affects family relationships, but some families, on the contrary, have positive changes in their relationships. The parents accuse themselves as they are the cause of the disease and they are accused by the social circles. The women who care for patients are exposed to stigma during almost the all processes of the disease and some women internalize being stigmatized and they mostly tend to hide the disease in order to cope with the stigma.
Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments
Authors: Cubbage Jayne
Published: April 2018

In this introductory chapter, the author seeks to establish an easy-to-follow narrative of media literacy implementation in higher education, which would potentially encourage personal experiences and student needs to be considered when individual faculty members seek to enhance existing curricula and courses. This introduction also provides a brief outline of each chapter within the volume and the various ways in which contributing authors illustrate their own incorporation of media literacy principles into existing curriculum at their respective colleges and universities. The author also details her personal journey and experiences with media literacy as a student, professional journalist, and an academician ultimately detailing the pathway to enhancing the curriculum in her current department while highlighting some of her own experiences teaching media literacy in higher education. This chapter also provides key takeaways and tips for adding media literacy to existing courses and department curricula.
Media and Information Literacy in a Higher Education Environment
Authors: Casey Natasha , Brayton Spencer
Published: April 2018

The fields of media literacy and information literacy have different histories and developed through different traditions. Despite these differences, each field has come to a convergence over the last decade, which is important to the development of both. The authors advocate for a combined media and information literacy approach and share the commonalities in support of this interdisciplinary model. This includes a discussion of a collaborative approach in the form of the authors' media and information literacy course, including analysis of student survey responses and feedback included in course reflection papers. The chapter concludes with explanations for the lack of similar models in the United States and the reasons for the lack of alliances between the two fields of study in general.
Stability of Linear Systems With Multitask Right-Hand Member
Authors: Alferov G. V. , Ivanov G. G. , Efimova P. A. , Sharlay A. S.
Published: April 2018

To study the dynamics of mechanical systems and to define the construction parameters and control laws, it is necessary to have computational models accurately describing properties of real mechanisms. From a mathematical point of view, the computational models of mechanical systems are actually the systems of differential equations. These models can contain equations that also describe non-mechanical phenomena. In this chapter, the problems of stability and asymptotic stability conditions for the motion of mechanical systems with holonomic and non-holonomic constraints are under consideration. Stability analysis for the systems of differential equations is given in term of the second Lyapunov's method. With the use of the set-theoretic approach, the necessary and sufficient conditions for stability and asymptotic stability of zero solution of the considered system are formulated. The proposed approaches can be used to study the stability of the motion for robot manipulators, transport, space, and socio-economic systems.
Stochastic Methods Applied to Structural Mechanics
Authors: Ouhimmou Siham
Published: April 2018

Uncertainty modelling with random variables motivates the adoption of advanced PTM for reliability analysis to solve problems of mechanical systems. Probabilistic transformation method (PTM) is readily applicable when the function between the input and the output of the system is explicit. When these functions are implicit, a technique is proposed that combines finite element analysis (FEA) and probabilistic transformation method (PTM) that is based on the numerical simulations of the finite element analysis (FEA) and the probabilistic transformation method (PTM) using an interface between finite element software and Matlab. Structure problems are treated with the proposed technique, and the obtained results are compared to those obtained by the reference Monte Carlo method. A second aim of this work is to develop an algorithm of global optimization using the local method SQP. The proposed approach MSQP is tested on test functions comparing with other methods, and it is used to resolve a structural problem under reliability constraints.
The Cloud of Musical Knowledge
Authors: Smith Paul
Published: April 2018

This chapter positions the teaching of music theory in the online sphere as a powerful and unlikely site for critical pedagogy. Teaching music theory in the online platform should not ask questions of how best to digitally recast music theory classes, but to consider how teaching online can change the way students approach, explore, and respond to theory content. This happens in what the author labels “the cloud of musical knowledge,” which is mutable, accessible, and democratic. Music theory suffers from being largely considered separate from political and cultural discussion, and as a result is a hidden bullet of neoliberalism and conservativism that reminds students from minorities that their opinions do not matter and similarly it does not remind other students to consider their own privileged perspective. By exploring the intersections of critical pedagogy and music theory and detailing the structure of online music theory lessons, the author argues for an open and inviting space in which students do not think of music theory as being other than themselves and their experience.
Teaching Reflections on Two Decades of Online Music Courses
Authors: Keast Dan A.
Published: April 2018

Online music courses can be as diverse as the musical styles taught; however, the basic premise still includes content delivery, discussion, and assessment. The work of creating the course is imperative to the success of the future students. Through 20 years of online teaching and over 5,000 students, the learning has been two-ways. This chapter shares a number of takeaways from this history: personalizing the learning; using grading rubrics for authentic assessments; scaffolding the learning; formative assessments, interactions are essential to engagement and motivation, ADA compliance (in the United States), respecting copyrights, and how the grade is not the end of the learning. A number of rubrics are provided illustrating authentic assessments for music courses. The use of virtual learning through a series of immersive activities is also discussed with a Second Life series of jazz styles. Finally, a mobile app is shown as a method of helping students to compose and perform a Blues song using 12-bar Blues and AAB lyrics.
Creating Authentic Assessments for Online Music Courses
Authors: Johnson Carol , Lamothe Virginia Christy
Published: April 2018

The need for identifying authentic assessments, or learning tasks, in online music courses is becoming integral as the rate of online music course offerings has been exponentially increasing. Supportive research also suggests that instructors teaching in higher education may require a paradigm shift in their pedagogical approach as they develop social-constructivist based authentic assessments for music subjects taught in an online environment. To assist with the understanding of both why and how to generate authentic assessment for a Bachelor's-level online music course, the chapter explores the nature of authentic assessment for music and Koh's Criteria for Authenticity in Authentic Assessment. Finally, to provide a practical exemplar of how online discussions can be used as an authentic learning tool in the online music class, an online discussion task for a songwriting class is identified and examined through the lens of Koh's characteristics.
Learning and Teaching in Early Education
Authors: Romera Eva M. , Gómez-Ortiz Olga , Viejo Carmen , Ortega-Ruiz Rosario
Published: April 2018

This chapter presents how interaction with the social world stimulates the learning ability in the early years. There are two types of social relationships that affect the development of the individual in childhood: adult-child relationships and peers. Both social systems give rise to different vital experiences that will influence their social development. During the first years of age, the adults who surround, care for, and provide support help acquire a fundamental role in the social development of the child. Attachment between the child and family, parental educational styles, and family discipline become basic elements of analysis. Peer relationships are transformed with the entrance to preschool. The school environment is the second stage of life in common. This chapter analyzes the learning process of children and the influence of the most important developmental contexts such as family, peers, and teachers in this process.
Translanguaging Practices in a Hungarian-English Early Childhood Classroom
Authors: Golubeva Irina , Csillik Éva
Published: April 2018

After a brief overview of translanguaging research carried out in the past, this chapter introduces how Hungarian-English emergent bilingual children used translanguaging practices during play time in a Hungarian-English early childhood education classroom in the AraNY János Hungarian School in New York City (USA). The authors developed the concept of student-led translanguaging and observed it separately from teacher-led translanguaging practices. This chapter presents the data collected through classroom observations over a period of 6 months. The overarching aim of this research is to reveal how translanguaging is used by the students and by the teachers in a superdiverse community of Hungarian descendants living around New York City.
Gender Stereotypical Toy Preferences in Children 3-5
Authors: Molu Esra Fethiye , Taylor Laura M. , Yaman Kamile Gamze , Basman Munevver , Tezel Merve
Published: April 2018

Gender socialisation is the process through which society teaches children what it means to be male or female. While gender socialisation itself is a cross-cultural phenomenon, there are differences in the way that the process manifests itself cross-culturally. This is, in part, due to differences in the perceived roles of males and females across societies. Once the sex of a child is known, be that before or after birth, the process of gender socialisation begins. Parents generally prefer that their children adhere to traditional gender-roles, and are concerned when they do not. Rigid adherence to stereotypical gender roles can have negative consequences in childhood and beyond, as these stereotypes can limit children's educational and occupational aspirations, perceived academic competency, emotional expression, and social development. The impact of culture and parental influence in adherence to stereotypical gender roles is discussed via toy preferences and play.
Laccase-Mediated Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastes
Authors: Forootanfar Hamid , Arjmand Shokouh , Behzadi Mina , Faramarzi Mohammad Ali
Published: April 2018

Laccases are versatile multi-copper enzymes belonging to the superfamily of oxidase enzymes, which have been known since the nineteenth century. Recent discoveries have refined investigators' views of the potential of laccase as a magic tool for remarkable biotechnological purposes. A literature review of the capabilities of laccases, their assorted substrates, and their molecular mechanism of action now indicates the emergence of a new direction for laccase application as part of an arsenal in the fight against the contamination of water supplies by a number of frequently prescribed medications. This chapter provides a critical review of the literature and reveals the pivotal role of laccases in the elimination and detoxification of pharmaceutical contaminants in aquatic environments and wastewaters.
Enzyme Use and Production in Industrial Biotechnology
Authors: Nandy Subir Kumar
Published: April 2018

This chapter demonstrates the bioprocess strategies involved in the application and production of enzymes from an industrial view point. Moreover, bottlenecks in enzyme production and novel strategies to overcome the barriers are demonstrated here. Enzymes are produced from different sources of microorganisms and mostly all biological reactions happen due to the help of enzymes within a very short time. The different uses of enzymes are discussed in this chapter.
Role of Enzymes From Microbes in the Treatment of Recalcitrant From Industries
Authors: Krishnaswamy Veena Gayathri
Published: April 2018

The limited availability of fresh water is a global crisis. The growing consumption of fresh water due to anthropogenic activities has taken its toll on available water resources. Unfortunately, water bodies are still used as sinks for waste water from domestic and industrial sources. Azo dyes account for the majority of all dye stuffs, produced because they are extensively used in the textile, paper, food, leather, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Bacterial degradation of azo dyes under certain environmental conditions has gained momentum as a method of treatment, as these are inexpensive, eco-friendly, and can be applied to wide range of such complex dyes. The enzymatic approach has attracted much interest with regard to degradation of azo dyes from wastewater. The oxido-reductive enzymes are responsible for generating highly reactive free radicals that undergo complex series of spontaneous cleavage reactions, due to the susceptibility of enzymes to inactivation in the presence of the other chemicals. The oxidoreductive enzymes, such as lignin peroxidase, laccases, tyrosinase, azoreductase, riboflavin reductive, polyphenol oxidase, and aminopyrine n-demethylase, have been mainly utilized in the bacterial degradation of azo dye. Along with the reductive enzymes, some investigators have demonstrated the involvement in some other enzymes, such as Lignin peroxides and other enzymes. This chapter reviews the importance of enzymes in dye degradation.
Open Educational Resources and Prior Learning Assessment
Authors: McCarthy Peter , Harris Karleah , Sithole Alec
Published: April 2018

High unemployment rates discourage workers from quitting their jobs and return to the classroom as students. On account of that, many students prefer to enroll in online programs while they are still on their jobs. But the lack of a comprehensive knowledge on how to successfully enhance education through open degree programs and prior learning assessment remains a real challenge to educational institutions. This chapter discusses some aspects and use of open educational resources and prior learning assessments as they relate to online educational programs.
New Degrees of Opportunity at OC@KU
Authors: Daniels Elizabeth (Betsy) , Houchens Kerrie , Whipple Don , Stevenson Carolyn N.
Published: April 2018

Today's learners need flexible, cost-efficient ways to increase knowledge, enhance skills, or complete a college degree. The rising cost of college tuition coupled with the demands of work/life balance challenge many individuals seeking advanced education. As such, higher education administrators need to identify new approaches to learning and higher education that address these barriers. This chapter addresses the question: How do institutions of higher education address the needs of flexible, cost-efficient education for today's adult learners?
Open by Degrees
Authors: Cooke Helen , Lane Andy , Taylor Peter
Published: April 2018

This chapter focuses on the history, development, and perceived value of The Open University UK's BA/BSc (Hons) Open degree (hereafter referred to as “OUUK Open degree”) over the past half-century in the context of changing external pressures and addressing debates around the coherence and acceptance of such a personalized program of study. It touches on the changing views of “openness” over time, from the origins of The Open University's “open entry” policy, through to ideas around flexibility of study, open education, and personalized learning. The chapter concludes with recommendations for other higher education institutions wishing to introduce a multidisciplinary open degree into their portfolio of curriculum.
Designing Interaction in Online Courses
Authors: Ray Kecia , Metros Susan E. , Powell Allison
Published: April 2018

Online learning is an ever-growing opportunity for colleges and universities with 9 out of 10 deans identifying the need to increase online offerings over the next 10 years. Enrolling students into online programs is only half of a successful program as students must complete the program in order for it to be considered a success. Students report their successful completion is related to establishing community within the course and designing interactive activities is one way to address this need. This chapter builds a case for interaction within online courses and provides tools and strategies faculty may adopt to improve overall quality and successful completion of online courses.
Utilizing Question and Answer Discussion Forums to Enhance Learning in University Health Courses
Authors: Awofeso Niyi
Published: April 2018

This chapter examines the contributions of Moodle's Q&A discussion forum platforms to optimizing cooperative and collaborative learning, validity of assessment of discussion forum posts, and achievement of course outcomes. The author studied: (1) How appropriate is the Q&A variant of online discussion forums in facilitating individual and collaborative learning? (2) How may course facilitators equitably grade online learning individual and collaborative learning activities using Q&A discussion forums? (3) Do learners' performance in Q&A category of online discussion forums predict performance in other assignments in online courses? (4) How well do learning activities in Q&A forums achieve courses' learning outcomes compared with other learning approaches? Survey and data analysis conducted by the author at HBMSU, UAE revealed that Moodle's Q&A discussion forum compares favorably with other teaching approaches in facilitating cooperative and collaborative learning, predicting overall learning achievement as well as improving validity of assessments.
Resilience and Its Importance to Online Students
Authors: Dereshiwsky Mary I.
Published: April 2018

Resilience is a key life success trait that can spell the distinction in success or failure of learning experiences for students. The online classroom is characterized by some unique challenges regarding student resilience. These challenges, as well as prospective strategies to overcome them, will be specifically discussed in the areas of technology, communication, and student assessment. Understanding the factors that facilitate development of online student resilience will enable instructors to create maximally effective learning experiences for their students.
The Role and Impact of Social Media in E-Government
Authors: Alguliyev Rasim M. , Yusifov Farhad F.
Published: April 2018

The rapid development of ICT has a significant impact on the lifestyle of and communication among people. Such impact tendencies alter the human activity as well as government functions and the ways these are implemented. The studies related to Web 2.0, social media, social networks, and their use in the government sector show that the issues such as the formation of social media and important role of the latter in public administration have become a broad research topic. Despite the presence of various approaches of states to social media and social media analytics in international practice, the large impact of social media on public administration is of no doubt. The chapter reviews such issues in the presence of the goal of building mutual communication between government bodies and citizens, the role of social media in building feedback between e-government and citizens, the use of social media in e-government, and the transformation of administrative mechanisms.
Emergent Technologies Shaping Instructional Design
Authors: Roubides Pascal
Published: April 2018

This chapter discusses emergent technologies that are currently shaping or expected to shape the field of instructional design in the near future. The discussion begins with a brief overview of instructional design as a professional field over the past century, then focuses on current and promising trends for the field based on advances in technologies supporting instructional development. This chapter intends to provide a centralized literature review of multiple pathways currently being carved in the field, encompassing several parallel trending areas, such as adaptive learning, digital storytelling, gamification, simulation technologies, augmented and virtual reality, cybernetics, the xAPI standard, mobile and ubiquitous learning, and offer a glimpse of how they are shaping or expected to shape the future of all those involved in designing and delivering learning or effecting human behavior and performance change.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Engage Content, Promote Self-Efficacy, and Implications for Intentional Student Learning
Authors: Parkison Paul , Thomas Jeff A.
Published: April 2018

This chapter defines Web 2.0 tools, their use in student learning, results from a study with university undergraduate students, and their implications for intentional student learning. Treatment subjects used a discussion board style site called TitanPad® to respond to a journal prompt after reading an article and before attending a subsequent class to discuss the journal article. Results are discussed for likelihood to read the assignment, amount of time spent reading, perception about being ready to discuss the material, perceived contribution to in-class work, and comprehension of the material. One inference was that with no additional time investment, instructors might increase student in-class participation using a Web 2.0 tool and students' self-efficacy with material in their profession. This has important implications for the manner in which students interact with text and content as significant intersubjective actors in the learning process.
Tutors' Perspectives on Online Facilitation of ESL Courses in Distance Education
Authors: Ooi Li Hsien , Goh Lay Huah , Eak Arathai Din , Ong Cheng Teik
Published: April 2018

Online facilitation in distance education presents many challenges that involve both the learners and instructors. Through these challenges, the roles tutors' play and their best practices used in online facilitation should be looked into to improve the distance-learning experience. In view of this, this chapter attempted to examine the perspectives of experienced tutors engaged in the university's virtual learning environment, WawasanLearn. Based on the interview findings of eight tutors, several emergent findings highlighted the roles and challenges of effective online facilitation. As this research is based on the guidelines of the prominent Salmon's model, the findings also highlighted antecedents that substantiate best practices of online facilitation. Findings indicated that understanding the dynamics of online facilitation among relevant stakeholders is critical to improve the teaching and learning experience in distance education.
Understanding Primary School Students' Motivations in Using Blogs
Authors: Ong Gina May Yuen , Cheung Wing Sum
Published: April 2018

Blogs have been widely used in education for the numerous benefits the tool offers. Previous research has examined the use of blogs in various educational settings, but very few studies have been carried out at the primary level. This chapter provided an understanding of students' motivations to use blogs in a primary school context. A case study approach was adopted and data were collected through online reflections, supported by and triangulated with data from face-to-face interviews. Findings surfaced several reasons that motivated students to blog, and students' motivations to blog seemed to suggest that the students were subconsciously meeting one or more psychological needs, namely belonging, competence, freedom, and fun, and the need for competence was the most prevalent amongst students in this study. This study also provides teachers in the school some insights into what motivated their students to use blogs when they design instructional activities in the future.
Trust Management Issues for Sensors Security and Privacy in the Smart Grid
Authors: Aali Nawal Ait , Baina Amine , Echabbi Loubna
Published: April 2018

Currently, smart grids have changed the world, given the great benefits of these critical infrastructures regarding the customers' satisfaction by offering them the electrical energy that they need for their business. Also, the smart grid aims to solve all the problems encountered in the current electrical grid (outage, lack of renewable energy, an excess in the produced power, etc.) by transmitting and sharing the information in real time between the different entities through the installation of the sensors. This chapter therefore presents the architecture of the smart grid by describing its objectives and advantages. In addition, the microgrids are presented as small electric networks. Then, focusing on the security aspects, an analysis of the different attacks and risks faced in the smart grids and more particularly in the microgrids is presented. After, different techniques and suitable security solutions are detailed to protect and secure the various elements of the smart grids and microgrids.
Trust Management in the Internet of Things
Authors: Djedjig Nabil , Tandjaoui Djamel , Romdhani Imed , Medjek Faiza
Published: April 2018

The internet of things (IoT) is a new paradigm where users, objects, and any things are interconnected using wired and wireless technology such as RFID, ZigBee, WSN, NFC, Bluetooth, GPRS, and LTE. In this last decade, the IoT concept has attracted significant attention from both industrial and research communities. Many application domains may have significant benefits with IoT systems. These domains range from home automation, environmental monitoring, healthcare, to logistic and smart grid. Nevertheless, the IoT is facing many security issues such as authentication, key management, identification, availability, privacy, and trust management. Indeed, establishing trust relationships between nodes in IoT represents a primary security milestone to have reliable systems that exclude malicious nodes. However, trust management in an IoT constrained and ubiquitous environment represents a real challenge. This chapter presents an overview of trust management in IoT. This overview explains and demonstrates the usefulness of trust management and how it should be exploited in IoT.
Security Threats in the Internet of Things
Authors: Medjek Faiza , Tandjaoui Djamel , Romdhani Imed , Djedjig Nabil
Published: April 2018

In the internet of things (IoT) vision, people, systems, and objects with sensing and/or actuating capabilities communicate to monitor and control the physical world. Nowadays, the IoT concept has attracted significant attention from different application domain such as healthcare and smart homes. Indeed, self-organization and self-configuration are key characteristics of IoT given that IoT represents a pervasive environment where objects are resource-constrained and communication technologies are very ubiquitous. These characteristics in addition to the vulnerability of objects themselves and of the communication channels make IoT more susceptible to malicious attacks. In this context, a deep analysis of IoT security breach and vulnerabilities is necessary. This chapter presents IoT requirements and existing threats as well as security protocols and mechanisms. It specifically analyzes existing and new threats against the IoT's routing protocol (the routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks: RPL) and presents intrusion detection solutions (IDS) to counter RPL attacks.
A Review of Intrusion Detection Systems in Cloud Computing
Authors: Zouhair Chiba , Abghour Noreddine , Moussaid Khalid , El Omri Amina , Rida Mohamed
Published: April 2018

Security is a major challenge faced by cloud computing (CC) due to its open and distributed architecture. Hence, it is vulnerable and prone to intrusions that affect confidentiality, availability, and integrity of cloud resources and offered services. Intrusion detection system (IDS) has become the most commonly used component of computer system security and compliance practices that defends cloud environment from various kinds of threats and attacks. This chapter presents the cloud architecture, an overview of different intrusions in the cloud, the challenges and essential characteristics of cloud-based IDS (CIDS), and detection techniques used by CIDS and their types. Then, the authors analyze 24 pertinent CIDS with respect to their various types, positioning, detection time, and data source. The analysis also gives the strength of each system and limitations in order to evaluate whether they carry out the security requirements of CC environment or not.
Budgeting as a Tool for Sustainable Development
Authors: Yılmaz Fatih
Published: April 2018

Corporations are profit-oriented organizations. If they do not have enough profit, they cannot survive. The expectations and forecasts have a key role in decision making. Thorough those expectations and forecasts, a scenario is developed. If a scenario contains financials, it means that a budget is prepared. Budget is a kind of financial simulator of a business. Budgeting is a vital tool in financial management for sustainable development. Budgeting also maintains the effectiveness of capital and resource of the company. There is diversity in the budgets of each sector or each industry. Manufacturing, logistics, airlines, construction, hospitality, and others have sectoral differences in budgeting. In this chapter, objectives of budgeting, budgeting methods, steps in budgeting, sectoral differences, relationship between budgets, and strategic planning are discussed.
Effects of Sustainable Supply Chain Management on Responsible Investment Through ESG Indicators
Authors: Ata U. Zeynep , Ünal Gözde
Published: April 2018

Besides financial indicators, investors started to utilize sustainability performances of companies in their decision making. With this awareness and trend, the number of ESG data providers increased in the last decade after the global recession. This chapter compares mainstream ESG providers with an emphasis on how they cover, provide, analyze, and disseminate these ratings that are invaluable for investors. The impact of sustainable supply chain practices on the ESG indicators and its consequent effect on the investor is also discussed. This study compares the issues and indicators covered by major ESG providers, and link them to sustainable supply chain measures. The synergetic and symbiotic relationship between responsible investment and sustainable supply chain management is called to attention.
Excess Inventories and Stock Out Events Through Advanced Demand Analysis and Emergency Deliveries
Authors: Tegou Rania
Published: April 2018

Companies have to deter many remarkable problems on a daily basis. The existence of excess inventories and stock out events as well the usage of emergency deliveries are three indicative prominent subjects for discussion. Firms try to comprehend the consumer's desires in order to enhance costumer experience. In the current chapter, sales data of one tangible product from a well-known Greek retailing company are used. These data are analyzed in order to forecast the behavior of the demand. The author adapts an alternative approach for managing inventory during cycles with different levels of demand in order to develop a system that minimizes both excessive inventories and stock out events. Additional experiments take place regarding the parameterization of emergency deliveries in order to configure whether their usage is beneficial. Both an error analysis model and a simulation model are developed so as to determine the results of the aforementioned action.
Reverse Logistics in E-Retaling
Authors: Ergan Senem , Akyol Ayşe
Published: April 2018

Consumers mostly prefer internet for reasons such as accessing product immediately, convenience, time saving. However buying products without observing physically causes some troubles. This situation results in return of the purchased product. The return process that is going to be experienced by the customer who wants to return or change his/her product is important for the companies. Managing return process without troubles is going to affect loyalty, satisfaction, revisiting, repurchasing, consumers messages, which are going to be get across to his/her environment. Because of these reasons, it is imperative for the companies to pay attention to the reverse logistic activities that they will undertake for the end consumers. The aim of this chapter is to indicate the importance of reverse logistics in e-retailing.
Cultural Probes as a People-Oriented Method
Authors: Graham Connor , Rouncefield Mark
Published: April 2018

This chapter reflects on some of the methodological aspects of the use of cultural probes (or probes) and the extent to which they constitute a people-oriented method. The authors review different kinds of probes, documenting and analyzing two separate deployments—technology probes and informational probes—in a care setting. They suggest that probes, when deployed in this fashion, reflect a “post-disciplinary” era of “messy” data and a shift of attention beyond “the social” to greater concern with individual variation, personal aggregated datasets in technology design, materiality, and the visual. The authors also suggest that in an era of big data, through considering everyday development in terms of personhood, everyday technology and practice, probes can play an important role in providing insights concerning the product of people-oriented programming and, potentially, its process.
Risk Management Metrics
Authors: Dua Rimsy , Sharma Samiksha , Kumar Rohit
Published: April 2018

This chapter describes how risk management deals with the detection, the evaluation and the precedence of the risks in the process of project management. There is always an uncertainty factor related to the decisions of an investment while managing a project. Risk management is a proactive approach to deal with such future events that can lead to slow performance of the software project management. For successful risk management; there are different metrics that have been used in the past and are being getting used in the present for inspecting the progress of a project at specific points in a timeline that help in reducing the amount of risk. For the adoption of effective metrics for risk management, data is required. All of the metrics can be applied to the different domains of project, process and product. The chapter also covers strategies to advance, distinguish, estimate, and forecast the risk management process. A review of the key point indicators (KPIs) are also integrated along with the project metrics to signify the future and the present renderings.
Problems, Threats in Software Development Life Cycle and Their Analysis
Authors: Rana Deepika , Malhotra Manisha
Published: April 2018

Managerial and commercialization approach that operate software systems continue to look for assurance that software they acquire should have security attributes they hope for. Methods used to assess the security of software development are software design, coding, testing, and support and consideration of security as well. Researchers of software development face many issues which remain constant and very frequent as there was no development in earlier phase of software development to avoid threats and loopholes in the software. Researchers analyze existing methods and their efficiency for software development within an open-source software supply chain. These efforts yielded valuable insights for an automated tool and knowledge base that has the potential for overcoming some of the major and in practice limitations of secure development on a wider scale. As a summarized development of software services along with authenticated approach is mandatory to make its usage on wider expands.
O BLENDED LEARNING NOS REPOSITÓRIOS BRASILEIROS
Authors: Furletti Saulo , Costa José Wilson da
Published: April 2018

Este artigo apresenta pesquisa exploratória em repositórios e bibliotecas virtuais de instituições públicas e privadas do Brasil com a finalidade de identificar nas pesquisas registradas em teses e dissertações a temática blended learning (ensino híbrido). A primeira parte da pesquisa foi realizada de forma ampla e sem distinção de área, as análises iniciais permitiram apontar uma tendência de crescimento na produção científica em blended learning com concentração de trabalhos em instituições públicas. Em seguida, realizou-se análise dos trabalhos produzidos exclusivamente nos programas de pós-graduação das áreas de Educação e de Ensino. Esse novo recorte apontou a existência de trabalhos predominantemente com abordagem metodológica qualitativa, na forma descritiva, a utilização do método de estudo de caso e uso frequente de publicações de origem estrangeira.
Apropriações da pedagogia moderna no grupo escolar Balduíno Cardoso (Porto União - SC)
Authors: Campos Névio De , Schena Valéria Aparecida
Published: April 2018

Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir o processo de apropriação da Pedagogia Moderna no Grupo Escolar Balduíno Cardoso, no período circunscrito entre a década de 1910 e os anos de 1950. Apoia-se em Roger Chartier e Michel de Certeau e nos regulamentos oficiais, nas atas de autoridades escolares, nos relatórios de inspetores e diretores enviados ao Estado de Santa Catarina. Os relatórios dos inspetores indicam mais elementos de incorporação da Pedagogia Moderna na cultura escolar do Grupo Professor Balduíno Cardoso, pois suas narrativas funcionam como a própria memória educacional oficial do Estado catarinense. Já os relatórios da direção da escola criam um efeito de sentido de controle permanente. Ao observar os relatórios da direção escolar é possível identificar um grande esforço para fazer cumprir as determinações do Estado, seja ao descrever os processos de controle e repreensão ou a orientação destinada aos professores. Porém, ao serem cruzadas as narrativas da direção da escola com as observações da inspeção escolar, nota-se que a cultura escolar do Grupo Balduíno Cardoso estava atravessada por resistências, sejam intencionais ou por dificuldade na execução do ensino de acordo com as proposições da Pedagogia Moderna.
Effect of wafer-level silicon cap packaging on BiCMOS embedded RF-MEMS switch performance
Authors: Wipf Selin Tolunay , Göritz Alexander , Wietstruck Matthias , Cirillo Maurizio , Wipf Christian , Zoschke Kai , Kaynak Mehmet
Published: April 2018

In this paper, the effect of silicon (Si) cap packaging on the BiCMOS embedded RF-MEMS switch performance is studied. The RF-MEMS switches are designed and fabricated in a 0.25μm SiGe BiCMOS technology for K-band (18 – 27 GHz) applications. The packaging is done based on a wafer-to-wafer bonding technique and the RF-MEMS switches are electrically characterized before and after the Si cap packaging. The experimental data shows the effect of the wafer-level Si cap package on the C-V and S-parameter measurements. The performed 3D FEM simulations prove that the low resistive Si cap, specifically 1 Ω·cm, results in a significant RF performance degradation of the RF-MEMS switch in terms of insertion loss.
Tibial plateau fractures: Fracture patterns and computed tomography evaluation of tibial plateau fractures in winter sports
Authors: Gebel Philipp Jan , Tryzna Malte , Beck Thomas , Wilhelm Bernd
Published: April 2018

The purpose was to analyze tibial plateau fractures (TPF) by computed tomography (CT) by creating a frequency map (FM). We hypothesized that a FM shows clinically important aspects of involvement that are not expressed in classic classifications. 185 TPF were retrospectively evaluated in this single center study. We created a FM onto an axial template of an intact subarticular tibial plateau and separated the joint surface in 9 areas, counted the frequency of involvement. The FM gives information of location and grade of damage and expressed three major fracture areas in 76%. 5 specific fracture types add up to 51%. The dorsal parts of the tibial plateau are involved in a higher percentage (+8%). True lateral fractures are less often than plane radiographs suggest. An impression was found in 50%. The complexity of TPFs is high, but 5 specific types could be identified in >50%. The complexity is not sufficiently covered in common classifications, especially the dorsal involvement. The FM is a simple and useful tool that complements common classifications and can be used as guideline for surgical treatment.
Factors impacting arthroscopic rotator cuff repair operational throughput time at an ambulatory care center
Authors: Curry Emily J. , Logan Catherine , Suslavich Kaytelin , Whitlock Kaitlyn , Berkson Eric , Matzkin Elizabeth
Published: April 2018

Identifying patient factors influencing operational throughput time is becoming more imperative due to an increasing focus on value and cost savings in healthcare. The primary objective of this study was to determine patient factors influencing throughput time for primary rotator cuff repairs. Demographic information, medical history and operative reports of 318 patients from one ambulatory care center were retrospectively reviewed. Operating room set up, incision to closure and recovery room time were collected from anesthesia records. Univariate analysis was performed for both continuous and categorical variables. A stepwise, multivariable regression analysis was performed to determine factors associated with operating room time (incision to closure) and recovery room time. Of the 318 patients, the mean age was 54.4±10.0 and 197 (61%) were male. Male patients had a significantly longer OR time than females (115.5 vs. 100.8 minutes; P<0.001). Furthermore, patients set up in the beach chair position had a significantly longer OR time than patients positioned lateral decubitus (115.8 vs. 89.6 mins, P<0.0001). Number of tendons involved, and inclusion of distal clavicle excision, biceps tenodesis and labral debridement also added significant OR time. Type and number of support staff present also significantly affected OR time. Recovery room time was significantly longer patients who had surgery in the beach chair position (+9.61 minutes) and for those who had a cardiac-related medical comorbidity (+11.7 minutes). Our study found that patients positioned in a beach chair spent significantly more time in the operating and recovery rooms. While ease of set up has been a stated advantage ofbeach chair position, we found the perceived ease of set up does not result in more efficient OR throughput.
Uniqueness of the von Neumann Continuous Factor
Authors: Ara Pere , Claramunt Joan
Published: April 2018

For a division ring D, denote by 𝓜D the D-ring obtained as the completion of the direct limit with respect to themetric induced by its unique rank function. We prove that, for any ultramatricial D-ring 𝓑 and any non-discrete extremal pseudo-rank function N on 𝓑, there is an isomorphism of D-rings , where stands for the completion of 𝓑 with respect to the pseudo-metric induced by N. This generalizes a result of von Neumann. We also show a corresponding uniqueness result for *-algebras over fields F with positive definite involution, where the algebra МF is endowed with its natural involution coming from the *-transpose involution on each of the factors .