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Regeneração urbana através da cultura e das artes : o caso do Barreiro
Authors: Carmo André , Matos Filipe , Pereira Sónia
Published: December 2019

Adoptando uma perspectiva eminentemente hermenêutico-interpretativa, centrada na análise do discurso e das representações, este artigo pretende contribuir para a compreensão do actual processo de regeneração urbana do Barreiro. Se, por um lado, coloca a tónica no papel que nele desempenham a cultura e as artes, por outro, procura também descrever e interpretar as relações que se estabelecem com a memória e a identidade, enquanto traços constitutivos e definidores de um território profundamente marcado pelo seu passado. A partir da leitura crítica de um conjunto de 15 entrevistas realizadas a actores-chave que possuem um conhecimento aprofundado da realidade local, presente e passada, procura-se reconstituir uma narrativa inteligível que nos ajude a interrogar, a problematizar e a dar sentido ao processo investigado, designadamente ao nível das inter-relações e dinâmicas socioterritoriais existentes e dos discursos subjacentes.
Festivales de luz y eventos de luz en Portugal. Entre cultura y promoción turística del territorio.
Authors: Garcia-Ruiz Manuel
Published: December 2019

Los festivales de luz han sido adoptados a nivel internacional como herramientas para la democratización de las artes, para estimular las economías nocturnas, fomentar la citybrandificación y para superar la estacionalidad turística. Pero aún siguen siendo desconocidos en Portugal. El presente trabajo presenta los resultados exploratorios de un mapeo realizado a los centros de información turística con el objetivo de identificar la presencia de este tipo de eventos a nivel nacional. Nuestro análisis indica que los festivales de luz son confundidos de forma constante con otros tipos de eventos. Referimos aquí las confusiones más habituales, así como presentamos una tipificación de los eventos luminosos y sus características. Concluimos que el desarrollo e implantación de los festivales de luz en Portugal se ve comprometido por la saturación de eventos ya existentes, y por el desconocimiento de las potencialidades de este tipo de programas.
Une numérisation des services d’intérêt général qui peine à inclure et à émanciper tous les usagers
Authors: Brotcorne Périne , Bonnetier Carole , Vendramin Patricia
Published: December 2019

Les recherches sur les inégalités numériques ont dans l’ensemble porté leur attention sur les usages et les usagers des technologies numériques, en particulier de l’informatique connectée. En revanche, peu d’entre elles ont appréhendé ce phénomène par le prisme des fournisseurs de services en interrogeant l’influence des politiques de numérisation sur le façonnage de dispositifs numériques plus ou moins inclusifs et capacitants. Cet article vise dès lors à analyser le processus de « mise en technologie » de choix institutionnels relatifs à la dématérialisation des services dans deux organismes d’intérêt général en Belgique. En prenant appui sur les travaux menés au Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (Akrich, Callon et Latour, 2006) et à travers une méthodologie d’étude de cas, il se focalise sur un aspect particulier du travail de conception, celui qui a trait aux modalités d’implication du « point de vue » usager au cours du développement. Les résultats révèlent globalement des biais qui tendent à exclure une partie des usagers et qui ne favorisent pas l’empowerment de ceux qui sont pris en compte.
Do It Yourself : la fabrication numérique comme empowerment des corps handicapés ?
Authors: Tehel Amélie
Published: December 2019

Cet article explore la notion d’empowerment et ses conditions de mise en œuvre au sein de FabLabs spécialisés dans le handicap. En offrant l’opportunité à des personnes en situation de handicap de venir réaliser elles-mêmes des aides techniques, ces espaces construisent un discours qui valorise un empowerment non seulement individuel et collectif, mais aussi porteur d’une volonté de transformation sociale. Nous présenterons ici les premiers résultats de notre enquête de terrain menée auprès de bénévoles et salarié·e·s de ces espaces, de personnes amputées engagées dans ces projets et de professionnel·le·s de santé. Nous explorerons ainsi la manière dont l’empowerment individuel et collectif est encouragé par le système de valeurs de ces espaces, et comment les personnes concernées s’emparent de cette opportunité. Entre possibilités de personnalisation, mécanismes d’appropriation, dynamiques collectives et légitimation de savoirs profanes, cet article présentera la manière dont cet empowerment peut se concrétiser. Nous apporterons néanmoins un contrepoint critique à cette dynamique, en confrontant celle-ci à d’autres visions de la technique et du handicap, entre tentation solutionniste et perpétuation de normes valido-centrées.
Victimization, Cultural Imperatives, and Empowerment of People of Color in the United States
Authors: Shah Tamanna M.
Published: December 2019

The high incidence of violent crimes in the United States of America, which include mass shootings, hate crimes, Islam bashing, murders, extortion, crimes against women and children, and white supremacist crimes, witnessed in last few years is a cause for great concern. The land of liberty is lately seeing increasing victimization of deprived or socially unempowered groups. This chapter looks at such victimization and the cultural supremacy that is giving rise to ethnic strife among people. It is argued that robust and well-evolved policies will reduce crime and empower marginalized groups, a majority of whom are women and children. The empowerment—social, cultural, economic, and political—and recognition of the challenge of victimization is the only solution. There is a need to recognize the egalitarian impulses for a better policy formulation devoid of prejudice to craft a secure future for the victims.
Underground Cyber Economy and the Implication for Africa's Development
Authors: Olu Okhuevbie James
Published: December 2019

Cybercrime and the activities of the underground cyber economy has detrimental consequences for the growth, development, and wellbeing of individuals, groups, organizations, and nations of the world. Criminal activities such as hacking, identity theft, scams, fraud, and cloning on individuals, corporate bodies, and nations are attempts by cyber criminals to illegally scoop funds out of these various treasuries for personal use, all of which have tremendous consequences for personal, corporate, national, and hence, continental development. The underground cyber economy is a key factor that has enhanced the continued perpetration of cybercrime activities. Leaning on the space transition , innovation diffusion, and the gang theories, as well as resources gathered from past studies, the current study examines the underground cyber-economy and its implications for the development of Africa.
Innovative Thinking Skills for 21st Century Librarians
Authors: Ogunjimi Afusat Olaroju
Published: December 2019

Librarians in the 21st centuries need knowledge of innovative thinking to able to be relevant in their profession. Can they compete, survive, and thrive successfully in the midst of 21st century technological advances? All over the world, libraries are facing challenges. Already, there are reports of closures of public libraries. Many libraries are becoming underutilized while quite a number have to deal with stagnant or dwindling budgets. In order to adequately formulate workable solutions to these challenges, librarians need to consider new perspectives of offering services to their user communities. Also, libraries as living agencies are not to be stagnant but change and grow with the trends and their user communities. Innovations need to be introduced in the design and service delivery of libraries.
Semantic Similarity Using Register Linear Question Classification (RLQC) for Question Classification
Authors: Palaniappan Shanthi , U. K. Sridevi , S. Pathur Nisha
Published: December 2019

Question Classification(QC) mainly deals with syntactic parsing for finding the similarity. To improve the accuracy of classification, a semantic similarity approach of a question along with the question dataset is calculated. The semantic similarity of the question is initially achieved by syntactic parsing to extract the noun, verb, adverb, and adjective. However, adjectives and adverbs do give sentences an exact meaning that should also be considered for computing the semantic similarity. The proposed RLQC (Register Linear and Question Classification) model for semantic similarity of questions uses HSO (Hirst and St. Onge) measure with Gloss based measure to enhance the semantic similarity relatedness by considering the Noun, Verb, Adverb and Adjective. The semantic similarity of the question pairs for RLQC is 0.2% higher compared to HSO model. The highest semantic similarity of the proposed model achieves a better accuracy.
Neural Network Applications in Hate Speech Detection
Authors: Khieu Brian Tuan , Moh Melody
Published: December 2019

This chapter presents a literature survey of the current state of hate speech detection models with a focus on neural network applications in the area. The growth and freedom of social media has facilitated the dissemination of positive and negative ideas. Proponents of hate speech are one of the key abusers of the privileges allotted by social media, and the companies behind these networks have a vested interest in identifying such speech. Manual moderation is too cumbersome and slow to deal with the torrent of content generation on these social media sites, which is why many have turned to machine learning. Neural network applications in this area have been very promising and yielded positive results. However, there are newly discovered and unaddressed problems with the current state of hate speech detection. Authors' survey identifies the key techniques and methods used in identifying hate speech, and they discuss promising new directions for the field as well as newly identified issues.
Education's “Talented Tenth”
Authors: Jones Patrice W. Glenn
Published: December 2019

Retired educators are a valuable resource, and their experiences contribute richly to the narrative of education. Retired educators whose own K-12 schooling experiences occurred during segregation offer a historic perspective of a time often viewed negatively. This chapter, however, diverges from traditional deficit narratives regarding the segregated South and amplifies positive lived experiences of retired Black American teachers who attended schools during segregation. Four themes and related concepts are identified, and narrative data extractions are included.
Waqf, Social Responsibility, and Real Economy
Authors: Abdullah Mohammad
Published: December 2019

The function of waqf institution is to contribute towards provision of a social security net to those falling within its vicinities. The value proposition of waqf lies in effectively cascading wealth and benefits of resources to the neglected or comparatively disadvantaged sectors of an economy. Waqf is equally envisaged to support informal economy by responding to, and patronising the un-organized sectors. It is critical to identify the existing gaps in the areas of public and private sectors' spending for waqf to effectively fulfill its socio-economic objectives. By targeting the resource-deficient pockets of the economy on priority basis, the utility of waqf-resources can be maximized, which, in turn, reinforces the building blocks of the real economy. The chapter critically analyses the moral philosophy, the value proposition, and functional mechanism of an ideal waqf followed by pinpointing some recommendations to enhance the role of waqf. The chapter is an outcome of a library-based research, and it adopts socio-legal research paradigm for the analysis of literature.
Designing a Robot for Manufacturing Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) Molded Grating
Authors: Carnevale Marcos Vinícius Ramos , Filho Armando Carlos de Pina
Published: December 2019

The use of robotics in the industrial environment has, in general, very similar goals. Because of productivity requirements, or due to reliability, industries have been constantly equipping their floor with robots. In that sense, the chapter observed—in a fiberglass company—the chance of using a robot to execute a boring and repetitive task. The task mentioned is, actually, the manufacturing of fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) molded grating. To confirm the possibility of using a robot to this job, a cost and time analysis was made about the whole molded gratings manufacturing process. Afterward, research about robotics was taken in parallel with the conception of the robot (named “roving-robot”). Calculations were made to the mechanical project of the robot. Applying computer-aided design (CAD), technical drawing and bill of materials were generated to permit the robot assembling. All of these project steps are presented in this chapter.
Tourism and Hospitality's Young Workforce
Authors: Şchiopu Andreea Fortuna
Published: December 2019

This chapter aims to study the perspectives on the foreign language skills based on the Romanian tourism and hospitality young workforce views. Qualitative and quantitative methods help collect data to identify the main barriers to foreign language learning, the fluency in English and a second language and the willingness to learn a second language when necessary, and the young workforce's openness and readiness for exotic foreign languages. The results show that English is a requirement within the labor market in the tourism and hospitality sector that the young workforce knows about and that knowing a second foreign language may act as a differentiator within the labor market. China is gaining ground as a tourism market with many Chinese tourists traveling the world. This brings about a new challenge for the tourism staff: that of acquiring new exotic foreign languages. It is well understood that tourists prefer to use their native tongue or a world language such as English.
Mountain Tourism at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Authors: Tanase Mihail Ovidiu , Nicodim Liliana
Published: December 2019

The 1990s represent the starting point for a lot of changes not only in tourism but in the whole economy of any EEC. Before that, Eastern European countries had similar tourism developments with some differences between the types of mountain development due to some specificities according to the national policies of the sector. A short overview of the mountain tourism current situation is presented in the beginning. The tourism market is a very challenging one with rapid changes due to shifts in customers' preferences, new technologies, seasonality. The authors also presented the latest trends in mountain tourism in terms of supply and demand. The possibilities for future mountain tourism development in Romania are presented at the end of the chapter starting from the results of the previous analyses. Some of them are specific for Romania, but others can be applied to all mountain destinations (with or without minor adjustments).
Changes in Rural Tourism
Authors: Avram Daniel
Published: December 2019

This chapter addresses the main trends of rural tourism and focuses on the development of this niche in Romania, one of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe that has a real potential to become a reference destination internationally. The analysis is based on the breakdown of statistical indicators and changes in the demand structure to assess the evolution of rural tourism activity objectively. Thus, elements such as the evolution of accommodation structures in rural areas, the number of overnight stays by agro-tourists, as well as changes in the profile of tourists that can influence the activity of rural tourism have been included. Also, there are examples of rural destinations that have made their mark on Romania as providers of rural tourism services that have echoes at the international level.
Romanian Newly-Nominated WHS and Current Tourism Development in the Associated Rural Localities
Authors: Pop Cornelia , Balint Cristina
Published: December 2019

The aim of the chapter is to investigate the current status of tourism development within the rural localities adjacent to the newly nominated natural world heritage sites (WHS) in Romania. The general methodology will be that of a case study, combining deductive and inductive approaches and the critical interpretation based on the available data. The results show a modest to non-existent tourist infrastructure and shallow tourist activity in the rural area adjacent to the 12 locations of the new natural WHS. The findings also show a low level of awareness regarding the WHS designation among the local authorities and the absence of real cooperation between the custodians of the related protected areas and the local communities. The new WHS locations have a long way ahead to become attractive and sustainable tourist destination by applying adequate destination management which should include the special status of these rural destinations.
Typical Aspects of the Traditional Food Behavior Within the Romanian Rural Environment
Authors: Nistoreanu Puiu , Nistoreanu Bogdan Gabriel , Nicodim Liliana
Published: December 2019

The Romanians' food behavior has certain peculiarities specific to the various geographical areas in which the Romanian society has developed. An analysis of the traditional diet is—up to this date—modest. But taking into account the very varied geographic conditions, the existing resources, sometimes abundant, sometimes modest, of the troubled history of the Romanian people, it is easy to understand how the way of life and the culinary habits in Romania were shaped throughout history. This chapter explores typical aspects of traditional food behavior in rural Romania.
Learning Models, Collaborative Work, and Project Pedagogy
Authors: Fauzi El Moudden , Khaldi Mohamed
Published: December 2019

The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of learning models, starting with the transmissive and behavioral model and going through the constructivist and socio-constructivist models to explore their possibilities and limitations in relation to computer-assisted teaching. In the second part of this chapter, the work addresses the topic of active pedagogies that are derived from the pedagogical models presented earlier by trying to give them a precise definition from other existing ones, and at the end, this work studies the possibilities of the use as a basis in online learning situations.
Contribution of Ontologies and Utilities of Interoperability Standardization in E-Learning
Authors: Ettaib Khalid , Khaldi Mohamed
Published: December 2019

In this chapter, the authors divide their work into three parts. The first part deals with the contributions of ontologies in e-learning systems and at the same time identifies the important role played by interoperability to make different systems work together based on norms and standards. The second part concerns the proposal of examples of practices of standards and standards in e-learning in institutions of higher education. Indeed, four broad categories of needs justify the use of standards and standards of e-learning based on the six fundamental characteristics sought by different actors in terms of standardization in e-learning. In the third part, they build the importance of interoperability in the development of e-learning from standards and standards especially in higher education. Thus, they deal with the planning of the enhancement of an ILE, the writing and presentation of teaching materials, the management of identity and access to resources, the sharing and archiving of teaching materials, and in the end, the addition of new technopedagogical tools to EIAH.
Evaluating the Quality of Serious Games as Modern E-Learning Environments
Authors: El Borji Yassine , Khaldi Mohamed
Published: December 2019

This chapter focuses on aspects of the integration of serious games in the field of education by examining the quality of serious games intended to be integrated into education. This review process must take into account the coherence between all the aspects constituting the serious games as they are characterized by their diversity in terms of content and quality. By conducting a comparative study based on the various studies of evaluation and classification of serious games already carried out, the authors have focused their research effort in this chapter on the design of a tool for the evaluation of serious games quality intended to be used in the field of education. A tool that determines if the learning methods related to games are correlated with pedagogical aspects and contributes to the knowledge of serious games and promote their use in the educational sphere. The study offers two levels of evaluation, global and specific; the overall level allows a global judgment unlike the specific evaluation that ensures that there is always a balance between different aspects of serious games.
Digital Mechanisms of Management System Optimization in the Forest Industry
Authors: Vertakova Yulia , Agamagomedova Saniyat , Sergeeva Irina , Tarasov Andrey , Morkovina Svetlana , Seedine Enric , Irina Potapova
Published: December 2019

This chapter discusses digital mechanisms for optimizing the management system in the forest industry, which includes organizational, legal, socio-economic, and environmental aspects. Efficient forest management is considered as an integral part of efficient nature management and includes the use of forest resources, their protection, and reproduction of forests. Digital management mechanisms in forest management in general and in the forest industry in particular are based on platform solutions. Platform solutions are based on the formation and processing of data on the basis of a single automated information system, which acts as the foundation for the development of digitalization in forestry. Such a digital platform is designed to provide informational, analytical, consulting, and other support to the activities of all subjects of relations in the field of use, conservation, protection, and reproduction of forest resources.
Realization of a New Robust and Secure Watermarking Technique Using DC Coefficient Modification in Pixel Domain and Chaotic Encryption
Authors: Parah Shabir A. , Sheikh Javaid A. , Dey Nilanjan , Bhat G.M.
Published: December 2019

The proliferation of information and communication technology has made exchange of information easier than ever. Security, Duplication and manipulation of information in such a scenario has become a major challenge to the research community round the globe. Digital watermarking has been found to be a potent tool to deal with such issues. A secure and robust image watermarking scheme based on DC coefficient modification in pixel domain and chaotic encryption has been presented in this paper. The cover image has been divided into 8×8 sub-blocks and instead of computing DC coefficient using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCTI, the authors compute DC coefficient of each block in spatial domain. Watermark bits are embedded by modifying DC coefficients of various blocks in spatial domain. The quantum of change to be brought in various pixels of a block for embedding watermark bit depends upon DC coefficient of respective blocks, nature of watermark bit (0 or 1) to be embedded and the adjustment factor. The security of embedded watermark has been taken care of by using chaotic encryption. Experimental investigations show that besides being highly secure the proposed technique is robust to both signal processing and geometric attacks. Further, the proposed scheme is computationally efficient as DC coefficient which holds the watermark information has been computed in pixel domain instead of using DCT on an image block.
Cryptographic Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks Security
Authors: Suryavanshi Vishnu , Manna G. C.
Published: December 2019

At present a majority of computer and telecommunication systems requires data security when data is transmitted the over next generation network. Data that is transient over an unsecured Next Generation wireless network is always susceptible to being intercepted by anyone within the range of the wireless signal. Hence providing secure communication to keep the user's information and devices safe when connected wirelessly has become one of the major concerns. Quantum cryptography algorithm provides a solution towards absolute communication security over the next generation network by encoding information as polarized photons, which can be sent through the air security issues and services using cryptographic algorithm explained in this chapter.
A Secure Cloud Storage using ECC-Based Homomorphic Encryption
Authors: Gupta Daya Sagar , Biswas G. P.
Published: December 2019

This paper presents a new homomorphic public-key encryption scheme based on the elliptic curve cryptography (HPKE-ECC). This HPKE-ECC scheme allows public computation on encrypted data stored on a cloud in such a manner that the output of this computation gives a valid encryption of some operations (addition/multiplication) on original data. The cloud system (server) has only access to the encrypted files of an authenticated end-user stored in it and can only do computation on these stored files according to the request of an end-user (client). The implementation of proposed HPKE-ECC protocol uses the properties of elliptic curve operations as well as bilinear pairing property on groups and the implementation is done by Weil and Tate pairing. The security of proposed encryption technique depends on the hardness of ECDLP and BDHP.
Improved Secure Data Transfer Using Video Steganographic Technique
Authors: Reddy V. Lokeswara
Published: December 2019

Information security using data hiding in video provides high embedding capacity and security. Steganography is one of the oldest data protecting methodologies deals with the embedding of data. Video Steganography hides secret information file within a video. Present day communications are treated to be “un-trusted” in terms of security, i.e. they are relatively easy to be hacked. The proposed technique is invented to hide secret information into a video file keeping two considerations in mind which are size and security of the cover video file. At the sender side, the secret information which is to be hidden is encoded into cover video file. Double layered security for the secret data can be achieved by encrypting confidential information and by embedding confidential information into cover video file frames using encrypted embedding technique.
Exploiting the Homomorphic Property of Visual Cryptography
Authors: Yan Xuehu , Lu Yuliang , Liu Lintao , Wan Song , Ding Wanmeng , Liu Hanlin
Published: December 2019

In this paper, homomorphic visual cryptographic scheme (HVCS) is proposed. The proposed HVCS inherits the good features of traditional VCS, such as, loss-tolerant (e.g., (k, n) threshold) and simply reconstructed method, where simply reconstructed method means that the decryption of the secret image is based on human visual system (HVS) without any cryptographic computation. In addition, the proposed HVCS can support signal processing in the encrypted domain (SPED), e.g., homomorphic operations and authentication, which can protect the user's privacy as well as improve the security in some applications, such as, cloud computing and so on. Both the theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and security of the proposed HVCS.
Basic Visual Cryptography Using Braille
Authors: Wang Guangyu , Liu Feng , Yan Wei Qi
Published: December 2019

As a significant part of information security, Visual Cryptography (VC) is a secret sharing approach which has the advantage of effectively obscuring hints of original secret. In VC, a secret image is separated into partitions which are also known as VC shares. The secret is only able to be revealed by superimposing certain shares. Since Basic VC is in a structure which is similar to that of Braille where white and black dots are arranged in certain orders, it is feasible to utilize the feature of Braille for the authentication of VC. In this paper, the authors will conduct an experiment embedding Braille into grayscale and halftone images as well as VC shares. The result indicates that the embedding of Braille has little impact on VC secret revealing and enhances the security of VC shares.
A Methodological Evaluation of Crypto-Watermarking System for Medical Images
Authors: Babu Anna , Ayyappan Sonal
Published: December 2019

Health care institution demands exchange of medical images of number of patients to sought opinions from different experts. In order to reduce storage and for secure transmission of the medical images, Crypto-Watermarking techniques are adopted. The system is considered to be combinations of encryption technique with watermarking or steganography means adopted for safe transfer of medical images along with embedding of optional medical information. The Digital Watermarking is the process of embedding data to multimedia content. This can be done in spatial as well as frequency domain of the cover image to be transmitted. The robustness against attacks is ensured while embedding the encrypted data into transform domain, the encrypted data can be any secret key for the content recovery or patient record or the image itself. This chapter presents basic aspects of crypto-watermarking technique, as an application. It gives a detailed assessment on different approaches of crypto-watermarking for secure transmission of medical images and elaborates a case study on it.
Video Saliency Detection for Visual Cryptography-Based Watermarking
Authors: Barari Adrita , Dhavale Sunita V.
Published: December 2019

The aim of this chapter is to review the application of the technique of Visual cryptography in non-intrusive video watermarking. The power of saliency feature extraction is also highlighted in the context of Visual Cryptography based watermarking systems for videos. All schemes in literature related to Visual cryptography based video watermarking, have been brought together with special attention on the role of saliency feature extraction in each of these schemes. Further a novel approach for VC based video watermarking using motion vectors (MVP Algorithm) as a salient feature is suggested. Experimental results show the robustness of proposed MVP Algorithm against various video processing attacks. Also, compression scale invariance is achieved.
Analysis of the Approach to Online Advertising of Leading Sportswear Brands
Authors: Jiménez Sánchez Álvaro , Vayas Ruiz Eliza Carolina , Guachimbosa Villalba Víctor Hugo , Frontera Sánchez María Rosa
Published: December 2019

Brands like Nike or Adidas are predominant in almost every country. One of the keys of their success is due to the investment in advertisement and to their different strategies of promotion. This research analyzed 117 ads of five important sports brands (Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok, and Converse) with the higher number of views in YouTube. Within the numerous variables, the study of the main important characters, the duration of the advertising, the year or decade of creation, the presence of violence, the context or environment where they were developed, the gender that is predominant (masculine or feminine), or the character's age stand out. The results showed that women still have a secondary role in sport advertisement and that younger and celebrities have the leading role, especially in the football scope, in the majority of the observed videos. It is concluded that brands are increasingly stand up for the feminine public and gradually are spreading out in the search of new market niches in order to keep innovation in promoting youth trends with this sport brands as promoters.
Audiovisual Storytelling Approaches in the Marketing of Luxury Clothing Brands
Authors: Jiménez Sánchez Álvaro , Frontera Sánchez María Rosa
Published: December 2019

Since ancient times, clothes have served to distinguish between different social classes. The marketing of luxury brands has been characterized by changing and full of multiple strategies. One of them is the use of storytelling, called the art of storytelling. This chapter delves into the use of audiovisual storytelling within the main brands of haute couture worldwide: Chanel, D&G, Versace, Dior, Prada, Burberry, Armani, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci. The objective of the investigation is to analyze elements such as the narrative, the characters, the plot, or the aesthetics used. The sample consists of more than 50 ads, of which 24 were taken as storytelling. The results show different styles in the use of the narrative, as well as different archetypes in the characters and various aesthetic, formal and content patterns according to the brand under investigation.
Social Media Plan for the Textile Industry
Authors: Lavin Jose M. , de la Mora - San Miguel Alfonso
Published: December 2019

Throughout this chapter, the authors analyse the steps that must be taken when drawing up a social media plan for a company in the textile sector. In the first place, the designation of the target public and the social platforms in which the bulk of the company's public is located will be the first step. Subsequently, the objectives will be elaborated following the SMART formulation strategy. Having defined the objectives, the next step will be to design concrete actions to promote the company in particular, as well as the designation of specific actions that help create a powerful brand in social media, as well as the content of the messages and the tone in which they should be written.
A Concept of Eurasia
Authors: Lagutina Maria
Published: December 2019

This chapter analyzes the process of the Eurasian idea's evolution in historical retrospective, as well as the identification of the general and special in the basics of classical Eurasianism and neo-Eurasianism, on one hand, and modern pragmatic Eurasianism, which underlies the implementation of the Eurasian strategy of Russia and other EAEU countries and the “Greater Eurasia”, on the other. The author identifies the basic principles of the ideology of modern Eurasian integration, explains the motives and reasons for the beginning of the integration process, and defines its features.
Roles and Strategies of 20th and 21st Century Women Environmentalists
Authors: Justin Mercia Selvia Malar , Aquino, Jr Perfecto Gatbonton , Le Doan Hong
Published: December 2019

The chapter presents the roles and strategies of 25 women environmentalists from across the globe in the 20th and 21st centuries. They were chosen based on the various awards and recognitions they received in recent years. The role of the women environmentalists before becoming environmentalists was found to be diversified, from politicians to researchers to a high school student. Their roles after they committed to environmental protection and nurturing again varied from advocacy, activism, policy initiatives, research supporting environmental protection, etc.
Research on Dynamic Mechanism of Developing Green Logistics in Agricultural Products Logistics Enterprises
Authors: Yu Zhang
Published: December 2019

With the improvements of people's living standards, the demand for low-carbon, fresh-quality, and safe agricultural products is rising. Consumers are not only concerned about green production and processing of agricultural products, but also the logistics. The chapter relies on logistics enterprises of agricultural products, takes the enterprise green logistics as the research object, and uses game theory as a tool to study the dynamic mechanism of agricultural logistics enterprises to promote green logistics.
Construction of New Circulation Model for Green Supply Chain of Agricultural Products in China
Authors: Khan Syed Shahid , Khan Syed Abdul Rehman
Published: December 2019

With the continuous development of China's agricultural economy, the concept of green production has begun to penetrate into the hearts of the people. Exploring a new circulation mode adapted to China's green supply chain of agricultural products is an important way to promote green production in China, and also an important condition to promote the successful transformation and development of China's rural economy. But in the process of building a green supply chain of agricultural products and exploring circulation mode, there are many problems that hinder the development of green industry economy. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to play a guiding role and actively guide farmers to explore green development ways and new circulation mode to meet their own development needs, which provides reference for better optimizing the new circulation mode of agricultural products supply chain in China.
A Re-Examination and Re-Specification of the Jennex Olfman Knowledge Management Success Model
Authors: Jennex Murray Eugene
Published: December 2019

The Jennex and Olfman KM success model was first published at HICSS in 2004 and in the International Journal of Knowledge Management in 2006. Additionally, it was independently verified by Kundapur and Rodrigues, Srivastava and Joshi, and Wang and Yang. Since then there has been many technology changes and innovations as well as further research on KM success. This chapter re-examines the Jennex Olfman model and suggests a newer model that incorporates the past 10 years of research, innovation in organizational structure, and technology innovation.
Knowledge Sharing Motivation
Authors: Todorova Nelly , Mills Annette M.
Published: December 2019

Organisations invest heavily in knowledge management technologies and initiatives which are entirely dependent on the willingness of employees to share their knowledge. Educational and reward programs need to be informed by an understanding of what motivates people to share their knowledge at work. Prior research based on motivational theories suggests the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to encourage voluntary pro-social behaviours such as knowledge sharing. However, the literature on motivation in the context of knowledge sharing is still emerging and fragmented. This chapter therefore proposes an integrated model that brings together theoretical insights from motivational research to explain the influence of key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators on knowledge sharing. The chapter reports the results of the assessment of the model based on data collected across 10 organisations. The discussion of results contributes to the understanding of motivational factors influencing attitude and intention to share knowledge and their relative importance.
Technology Transfer Projects at the University-Industry Interface
Authors: Wynn Martin George
Published: December 2019

This chapter examines how technology transfer has operated in university-company projects in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) via the UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme. A qualitative case study approach is used, focusing on three companies drawn from an initial review of 14 technology transfer projects. This provides the foundation for the development of a model of 12 key factors that underpinned successful outcomes in these projects. The 14 cases are then reviewed overall, in terms of their impact on either process change, service improvement, or product development. The analysis draws upon both the post-project assessments of the funding body and the developed model and concludes that using new technology to innovate in internal processes and services is likely to prove more successful than projects focusing on new product development. The model provides an analytical framework that will be of interest and value to academics and business practitioners looking to develop university-industry partnerships involving technology change and innovation.
Usage of Electronic Resources, Internet, and Choices of Resources in College Libraries of India
Authors: Kishor Kumar S.  , Naik Lokesha
Published: December 2019

In this chapter, the author investigates the user choices of e-resources among users of college libraries in Karnataka, India. The scholar identifies purpose of using internet by staff and students as well as assessing their information. Findings shows that majority of users are using internet to their career development 99.60%. 99.42% of respondents are using internet for communicate purpose. Majority of staff do not choose e-books and e-reports. Students are also not choosing e-theses and dissertations. Regarding journals, the majority of students' choices are print versions.
Use of N-List Resources Among the Faculty Members of Affiliated Colleges of Bharathiar University, India
Authors: Suresh M. , Kannan P.
Published: December 2019

Library consortium is an umbrella term that covers the concept. With cooperation it was possible for sharing of union catalog, document delivery services, storage facilities, collection development, and human resources at local, national, and regional levels. It is the single solution of these concepts. Consortium gives the freedom for a library having less collection as they can access any product at the nominal price. Out of 335 respondents, 232 (69.3%) respondents were aware of N-LIST resources, whereas 103 (30.7%) of them somewhat aware of N-LIST resources. This study shows that majority of the respondents were aware of N-LIST resources. All the respondents, 335 (100%), were utilizing the N-LIST resources. 177 (52.8%) respondents were spending ‘1-2 hours' for accessing N-LIST resources, 101 (30.1%) respondents were spending ‘3-4 hours', 30 (9%) of them spent ‘below 1 hour', and 27 (8.1%) of them spent ‘more than 5 years'. This analysis shows that nearly 53% of the respondents were spending ‘1-2 hours' to access N-LIST Resources in a day. 111 (60.3%) assistant professors and 66 (45.7%) associate professors were spending ‘1-2 hours' in a day to access N-LIST resources. The authors were made to aware about N-LIST resources the respondents have given ‘guide by the librarian' as first priority, followed by ‘orientation programme', ‘trial and error method', ‘through YouTube tutorial', ‘online user guide', and ‘guide by friends and colleagues' is the least priority.
Implementing Information Literacy Skills and Soft Skills for Better Use of Library Resources and Services
Authors: Surendran B. , Kumar Kishore
Published: December 2019

Information literacy (IL) is a set of skills that allows us to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the information that we need. IL skills are essential tools that help us successfully plan for the present and future scenario of information. Soft skills are a set of abilities that influence how we interact with each other. Soft skills and IL skills affect every person in every possible situation work, education, entertainment, etc. This chapter highlights the importance of soft skills in library profession, different types of soft skills, why soft skills are important, relevance of information literacy in the ICT era, concepts of information literacy, IL and school libraries, and various types of IL models and standards. Both soft skills and IL skills are essential for library professionals as well as the users, particularly while using the 21st century resources, so that the users will be energized in using the library resources effectively and efficiently.
Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters Due to Buried Technical Networks
Authors: Grangeat Amélie , Raclot Stéphane , Brill Floriane , Lapebie Emmanuel
Published: December 2019

Vehicles or freight cars on fire below a bridge or inside a tunnel are exceptional events and imply difficult intervention conditions for firefighters. A buried technical network like high voltage electricity line, gas or steam pipeline around such a fire causes additional specifics risks. Vulnerability areas for firefighters are zones where both factors exist: a difficult incident area together with a specific risk like buried networks. They require intervention teams with specific emergency response capabilities. The paper proposes a method developed for the Paris Fire Brigade for vulnerability mapping. Results aim at improving the mobilization in allocating directly the specific responses capabilities intervention teams. Results are debated from an operational point of view. Cutting off several network lines during firefighters' interventions may strongly affect the society. In case of simultaneous incidents in vulnerable areas, firefighters could be an early warning system and inform authorities of the risk of services disruption.
Introducing Predictive Policing Technologies (PPT)
Authors: Watt Peter , Boak George , Krlic Marija , Wilkinson Dawn Heather , Gold Jeff
Published: December 2019

This reflective case-history presents the findings of a 12-week pilot study of a collaborative organizational change project which oversaw the implementation of predictive policing technology (PPT) into a territorial police force in the North of England. Based on the first year of a two-year initiative, the reflections consider the impact on the future of the project and their potential future application and cultural embeddedness, beyond the organizational and time-bound specifics of this case.
PRISM
Authors: Kagawa Takuhiro , Saiki Sachio , Nakamura Masahide
Published: December 2019

This article describes how local governments in Japan recently provide security information services for residents, which deliver regional incident information using Email or Web. However, since the conventional services usually provide “one-for-all” information. users tend to miss important incidents within the flood of information. This article proposes a new security information service, called PRISM (Personalized Real-time Information with Security Map). For given incident information and user's living area, PRISM first computes severity of the incident, based on distance, time, and type of the incident. It then visualizes the incidents with the severity on a heat map. Thus, PRISM provides real-time personalized information adapted to individual situation of users. To illustrate the feasibility, we implement PRISM as a Web application using Hyogo Bouhan Net, and Kobe city facility open data.
Detecting Individual-Level Deception in the Digital Age
Authors: de Silva Eugenie
Published: December 2019

This chapter presents a discussion of a new model titled, “DETECT (Determining and Evaluating Truthfulness through Explicit Cue Testing) which relies upon the assessment of verbal and non-verbal cues. The author presents the argument that the digital age has posed novel challenges to law enforcement and intelligence personnel; hence, the author further explains the ways in which the DETECT model (©, Eugenie de Silva, 2014) can be used to determine deceptive activities at the individual-level even in a technologically advanced society. The chapter touches upon Denial and Deception (D&D), and how the detection of deception must be carried out in the twenty-first century, especially through rigorous monitoring within the established legal framework.
Transferability of Voice Communication in Games to Virtual Teams Training for Crisis Management
Authors: Rudinsky Jan , Hvannberg Ebba Thora
Published: December 2019

A crisis is an emergency event that can lead to multiple injuries and damage to property or environment. Proper training of crisis management personnel is vital for reducing the impact of a major incident. In search for knowledge on how best to implement communication for virtual environments for training, communication in online games was studied. Findings on voice communication in online games were researched and formulated as a set of statements. By asking participants in an empirical study of crisis management, the statements were either confirmed or refuted. Results show that multiplayer games are highly similar to the requirements for crisis management training in virtual environments. Approximately two-thirds of the statements proved coherent in both domains. The practical significance of this work lies in the provision of design implications for a virtual environment for crisis management training. Thus, this paper contributes to demonstrating the transferability between these domains. Finally, the paper reflects the results in theories of communication and engagement.