bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Un gruppo di culle-tintinnabula del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.
Authors: Berriola Riccardo
Published: March 2018

Le culle-tintinnabula, i cui primi rinvenimenti provengono da corredi di sepolture infantili di Rodi, hanno un’origine databile ai primi decenni del V sec. a.C. Prodotti fittili di piccole dimensioni presentano sulla parte superiore a rilievo una figura di bambino in posizione supina con le gambe raccolte. In seguito questi oggetti trovano larga diffusione e diverse varianti iconografiche sempre in ambito greco1, e solo successivamente, in età ellenistica, nelle regioni dell’Italia centro-meridionale, probabilmente attraverso la mediazione di alcuni dei più rinomati centri apuli per la produzione coroplastica come Egnazia e Taranto, nei cui contesti tombali risultano presenti già dal IV sec. a.C. Vengono ora aggiunti maggiori dettagli al rilievo, quali il lenzuolo, il cappuccio o le fasce del bambino, mentre, talvolta, la figura non rappresenta più semplicemente un qualsiasi mortale fanciullo, ma prende le sembianze di un erote alato.
Les terres cuites grecques : Pour qui ? Pourquoi ? Comment ?
Authors: Hugot Christophe , Huysecom-Haxhi Stéphanie , Muller Arthur
Published: March 2018

Les recherches menées à l’université de Lille depuis une trentaine d’années sur la coroplathie ont donné lieu à une exposition tenue en mars 2016. Trois sections répondant aux questions Pour qui ? Pourquoi ? Comment ? ont présenté les deux problématiques successives des recherches lilloises : l’étude d’un artisanat et de ses procédés de fabrication de masse ; l’archéologie de la religion, avec la définition de la fonction des figurines, dans le sanctuaire et la tombe.
Le pas suspendu du dessin
Authors: Matton François
Published: March 2018

François Matton, auteur de livres publiés par les éditions P.O.L, expose, dans un texte aux allures d’enquête autobiographique, la génétique de ses ouvrages où textes et dessins tissent des rapports très singuliers et constamment renouvelés, jusqu’à constituer une œuvre aux innombrables expérimentations formelles ouvrant sur des pistes narratives relevant tout à la fois du journal intime, de la philosophie et du haïku néo-Beat. Le dessin se présente alors comme une occasion d’étendre à l’écriture les signes de la main en vue de pointer vers un singulier rapport au monde embrassé dans toutes ses dimensions.
Démêler les lignes : carnets et croquis préparatoires
Authors: Teyssonneyre Sabine
Published: March 2018

Sabine Teyssonneyre explore, au cœur de ses propres carnets d’esquisses et d’études, les degrés successifs d’un dégagement intérieur du trait à l’égard de tout ce qui pourrait trop fortement le conditionner et le rendre prévisible. La prégnance du support et des outils du tracé, choisis au terme d’un processus lié aux sensations du dessin, laisse progressivement la place à une disponibilité intellectuelle et sensuelle qui fait feu de toute rencontre, en l’occurrence philosophique. Se voit ainsi examiné, via la pensée du pli chez Deleuze, le « dépli » inattendu d’un concept qui se réalise en traits nouveaux et en figures de drapés fantastiques où naît un langage graphique.
Pour une approche génétique de la BD
Authors: Biasi Pierre-Marc de
Published: March 2018

Avec la bande dessinée, la critique génétique aborde un secteur particulièrement actif et significatif de la créativité contemporaine qui se trouve déjà doté d’une richesse archivistique de premier plan. Envisager dans quelles conditions et avec quelle méthode la création d’une bande dessinée peut devenir interprétable constitue donc aujourd’hui une nouvelle priorité pour les études de genèse. En termes de processus créatifs, la bande dessinée emprunte ses moyens et son vocabulaire à plusieurs arts visuels et particulièrement au cinéma, mais en restant avant tout un art du récit qui partage avec les textes littéraires la même finalité éditoriale : aboutir à une publication imprimée. Cette prévalence du modèle éditorial permet de montrer que les grandes phases de la genèse, les fonctions opératoires du travail de création et les principaux processus d’élaboration de l’œuvre s’ordonnent, pour la bande dessinée, autour d’un axe, assez similaire à celui de la genèse littéraire, allant de la préfiguration d’un projet scénaristique à sa réalisation écrite et dessinée, puis de sa finalisation prééditoriale à son édition (en périodique et/ou en album).
La fabrique de la bande dessinée
Authors: Groensteen Thierry
Published: March 2018

Au confluent de la littérature et des arts visuels, la bande dessinée est tantôt l’œuvre d’un auteur unique, tantôt le résultat d’une collaboration entre un spécialiste du texte et un spécialiste de l’image. De l’écriture du scénario à sa mise en dessin, le processus de réalisation d’une œuvre suit un protocole qui connaît de nombreuses variantes et peut s’incarner dans des documents d’étape de formes multiples. Il est difficile d’en trouver un qui corresponde à la définition du manuscrit autographe de l’écrivain. La planche originale est l’objet le plus emblématique de ce processus, et celui qui a acquis, depuis une vingtaine d’années, une valeur marchande sur le marché de l’art. Mais une génétique de la bande dessinée doit s’intéresser à tout ce qui se déroule en amont de l’exécution de la planche, aussi bien qu’à ce qui peut se produire en aval : ajouts, repentirs, modifications au gré des changements de support ou des rééditions.
La règle et l’élan
Authors: Abramovici Jean-Christophe
Published: March 2018

Le retour en France du fameux rouleau des Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome est sans doute un événement médiatique, peut-être une bonne nouvelle (si tant est que les chercheurs puissent un jour s’y pencher). Mais le rouleau ne doit pas être l’arbre qui cache la forêt des manuscrits sadiens. Une forêt, à vrai dire, clairsemée sinon dévastée tant est grand le nombre de pièces qui furent détruites, perdues, revendues et sont, peut-être, jalousement conservées par quelques collectionneurs. Les manuscrits qui nous restent nous renseignent toutefois sur la manière dont Sade travaillait, sur la tension entre formalisme et amplification qui traverse l’ensemble de son œuvre, informe autant son imaginaire érotique que sa poétique et son rapport à la mémoire littéraire.
Strategic Plan of “Made in China 2025” and Its Implementation
Authors: Huimin Ma , Wu Xiang , Yan Li , Huang Han , Wu Han , Xiong Jie , Zhang Jinlong
Published: March 2018

The US has introduced a package of policies and specialized plans to reinvigorate its manufacturing industry by revolving around “reindustrialization.” It has put forward a national strategic plan for advanced manufacturing, aiming at strengthening advantages of its technology-intensive advanced manufacturing industry. Japan has a different focus. By releasing “New Robot Strategy,” Japan attempts to accelerate development of cooperative robots and unmanned plants to revolutionize the robot industry, cope with aggravation of Japanese social and economic issues, and enhance international competitiveness of Japan's manufacturing industry. As to France, with “New Industrial France” promoted, layout optimization of the manufacturing industry is more important. Britain, however, is invigorating its manufacturing industry through the “High-Value Manufacturing” strategy, and the strategy has so far entered Phase II. China is no exception. This chapter explores “Made in China 2025.”
Industry 4.0 as the Last Industrial Revolution and Its Opportunities for Developing Countries
Authors: Hopali Egemen , Vayvay Özalp
Published: March 2018

In this chapter, better understanding of Industry 4.0 is presented by investigating the role of different technologies and business partners on success of Industry 4.0. Enablers for smart factory are discussed in detail, and how to match these enablers with value chain partners of Industry 4.0 are identified as a new perspective on Industry 4.0. Furthermore, the aim of this chapter is to present actions to be taken from the point of the emerging economies to sustain and increase competitive advantage by catching and implementing Industry 4.0. Consequently, Industry 4.0 can enable developing countries to get a bigger slice of the world manufacturing value chain.
Programming and Computing Lattice Boltzmann Method
Authors: Valero-Lara Pedro
Published: March 2018

The use of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been extended to numerous fields of scientific and industrial interest due to its inherent characteristics, which make this methodology a very efficient and fast method for fluid simulations. In this chapter, the numerical formulation behind LBM is presented in detail. However, the main motivation of this chapter is the introduction to those aspects regarding the programmability of this method. The authors present different implementations, data layout, and strategies to efficiently implement LBM. The performance achieved by each of the techniques is analyzed in detail, over some of the currently used computer platforms. They pay particular attention to those techniques that attempt to reduce the memory requirement of their method, which is one of the most important weak-points when implementing and computing LBM.
Design and Optimizations of Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Massively Parallel GPU-Based Clusters
Authors: Calore Enrico , Gabbana Alessandro , Schifano Sebastiano Fabio , Tripiccione Raffaele
Published: March 2018

GPUs deliver higher performance than traditional processors, offering remarkable energy efficiency, and are quickly becoming very popular processors for HPC applications. Still, writing efficient and scalable programs for GPUs is not an easy task as codes must adapt to increasingly parallel architecture features. In this chapter, the authors describe in full detail design and implementation strategies for lattice Boltzmann (LB) codes able to meet these goals. Most of the discussion uses a state-of-the art thermal lattice Boltzmann method in 2D, but all lessons learned in this particular case can be immediately extended to most LB and other scientific applications. The authors describe the structure of the code, discussing in detail several key design choices that were guided by theoretical models of performance and experimental benchmarks, having in mind both single-GPU codes and massively parallel implementations on commodity clusters of GPUs. The authors then present and analyze performances on several recent GPU architectures, including data on energy optimization.
Wavelet and Curvelet Transforms for Biomedical Image Processing
Authors: Saha Manas , Naskar Mrinal Kanti , Chatterji B. N.
Published: March 2018

This chapter introduces two mathematical transforms—wavelet and curvelet—in the field of biomedical imaging. Presenting the theoretical background with relevant properties, the applications of the two transforms are presented. The biomedical applications include heart sound analysis, electrocardiography (ECG) characterization, positron emission tomography (PET) image analysis, medical image compression, mammogram enhancement, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer tomography (CT) image denoising, diabetic retinopathy detection. The applications emphasize the development of algorithms to diagnose human diseases, thereby rendering fast and reliable support to the medical personnel. The transforms—one classical (wavelet) and another contemporary (curvelet)—are selected to focus the difference in architecture, limitation, evolution, and application of individual transform. Two joint applications are addressed to compare their performance. This survey is also supplemented by a case study: mammogram denoising using wavelet and curvelet transforms with the underlying algorithms.
Open Microvascular Decompression
Authors: Pan James , Kim Lily H. , Ho Allen , Sussman Eric S. , Pendharkar Arjun V. , Burns Terry C.
Published: March 2018

Microvascular decompression (MVD) is a neurosurgical procedure used to treat various neuralgias of the cranial nerves. The clinical presentation, natural history, pathophysiology, and medical management of trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, and nervus intermedius neuralgia is reviewed. A thorough discussion on the retrosigmoid approach for decompression of cranial nerves is presented, along with newer techniques and controversies on adjuvant therapies and neuromonitoring. The surgical outcomes of MVD are discussed, along with alternative techniques to open MVD.
A Personalized Approach for Web Service Discovery in Distributed Environments
Authors: Ben Seghir Nadia , Kazar Okba , Rezeg Khaled
Published: March 2018

Web services are meaningful only if potential users may find and execute them. Universal description discovery and integration (UDDI) help businesses, organizations, and other web services providers to discover and reach to the service(s) by providing the URI of the WSDL file. However, it does not offer a mechanism to choose a web service based on its quality. The standard also lacks sufficient semantic description in the content of web services. This lack makes it difficult to find and compose suitable web services during analysis, search, and matching processes. In addition, a central UDDI suffers from one centralized point problem and the high cost of maintenance. To get around these problems, the authors propose in this chapter a novel framework based on mobile agent and metadata catalogue for web services discovery. Their approach is based on user profile in order to discover appropriate web services, meeting customer requirements in less time and taking into account the QoS properties.
Social Network Analysis
Authors: Mekouar Soufiana
Published: March 2018

The study of social network analysis has grown in popularity in the past decades and has been used in many areas. It is an interesting and useful field that gained an increasing popularity due to the explosion of social media that has emerged with advances in communication systems, which play a critical role in forming human activities and interactions in social systems. The authors present some techniques from a data mining perspective and statistical graph measure that can be used in various applications such as to perform community detection, clustering in a social network, identify spurious and anomalous users, predict links between vertices in a social network, model and improve the information diffusion, design trust models, and improve other applications. Then, the authors provide a recent literature review of such applications and thus outline challenges of social network applications.
Introduction to Teachers' Knowledge-of-Practice for Teaching With Digital Technologies
Authors: Niess Margaret L.
Published: March 2018

Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) is a dynamic theoretical description of teachers' knowledge for designing, implementing, and evaluating curriculum and instruction with digital technologies. TPACK portrays the complex interaction among content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and technological knowledge for guiding teachers in the strategic thinking of when, where, and how to direct students' learning with technologies. Teacher educators' and educational researchers' acceptance of the TPACK construct mirrors the acceptance of its parent construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The importance of teachers' continued practice in integrating technologies is essential for extending and enhancing their TPACK. Connections with the knowledge-of-practice (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999) construct suggests calling TPACK as TPACK-of-practice to more accurately describe the process of the knowledge development efforts for guiding inservice and preservice teachers in gaining, developing, and transforming their knowledge for teaching as new and more powerful technologies emerge for integration in education.
Dynamic Approach to Teaching Geometry
Authors: McBroom Ewelina Suchacka , Jiang Zhonghong , Sorto M. Alejandra , White Alexander , Dickey Edwin
Published: March 2018

Secondary geometry teachers from several urban school districts participated in a two-year professional development focused on integrating dynamic geometry into teaching. The chapter documents the positive impact of the professional development for teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) development and their students' achievement in geometry through the use of the dynamic geometry approach. Instruments used to develop and assess teachers' TPACK included a Conjecturing-Proving Test, interviews and observation protocols. Participants' TPACK levels were identified using a TPACK Development Levels Assessment Rubric. Findings show that teachers' TPACK tended to remain within the three middle TPACK levels (accepting, adapting, and exploring). Recommendations and suggestions for future research are offered to those who implement school-based, mixed methods research studies involving technology.
Publish or Perish
Authors: Decker Emy Nelson , Odom Rosaline Y.
Published: March 2018

This chapter describes a new and emerging type of research and writing support for junior faculty members. The Academic Writing Institute was born of a collaboration between academic librarians and tenured faculty at the campuses the library supports. Grant funded, the purpose of the academic writing institute was to: 1) provide junior faculty with an overview of the services offered by the library that can help to facilitate their research processes; 2) introduce methods for documenting research findings in the 21st century publishing environment; and 3) provide a forum, led by tenured faculty, to enhance participant knowledge about the publishing processes associated with their specific disciplines. This new paradigm allows for other academic librarians to explore new methods by which the campus library can support faculty members with the research and publishing components of their promotion and tenure requirements.
We Drank the Cola in Collaboration
Authors: Coupet Sarah Q. , Nicolas Guerda
Published: March 2018

Developing high quality teachers is at the center of education reform and previous research has highlighted, high quality in-service teacher professional development leads to improved instruction, student learning, and ultimately promotes social equity. Using an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) theoretical framework, the voices and experiences of educators in Haiti were captured. This study reveals the following themes: 1) an opportunity for self-improvement, 2) an avenue for improving students learning, and 3) an approach to contributing to colleagues' development. An understanding of these themes from a cross-cultural perspective is provided with the objective that school personnel, receiving this population of students will develop an understanding of Haitian student's educational experiences.
Promoting Effective Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Authors: Manzoor Amir
Published: March 2018

Cultural diversity in society, the workplace and classrooms is more or less is a global phenomenon. The multi-cultural classroom provides an opportunity for students from different cultures to bring their enormous range of experiences, knowledge, perspectives and insights to the learning – if the process is enabled. Many firms around the globe are expanding their businesses beyond domestic markets. These trends indicate that many individuals are likely to study or work in multicultural environments domestically and abroad. Research suggests that faculty and trainers adapt their teaching style and classroom policies to accommodate multicultural learners. Disconnections may arise, however, regarding the willingness to include these accommodations. This chapter explores various issues which faculty and students face regarding adjustments in teaching style, content, and policies to adapt to multicultural learners. Specific recommendations to meet the challenges of multicultural learning are also provided.
Integrating ICT in Secondary Teacher Education
Authors: Gondwe Foster
Published: March 2018

This chapter presents an analysis of education technology policy for integrating education technology in Malawi's secondary teacher education since 1994. The status of education technology research in Malawi, often in form of pilot studies evoked the study's questions: What policies are guiding the use of ICT in teacher education? How has education technology policy for secondary teacher education evolved? What have been the influencing factors for the education technology policies on secondary teacher education? What are the assumptions and rationale underlying such policies? Using Ball's contexts of policy making framework, the analysis shows that the evolution of education technology policy for secondary teacher education can be attributed to the aftermath of Free Primary Education in 1994. However, the reviewed policies show inconsistence, and suggest to have been formulated on speculations other than research conducted in the context within which such policies are intended to drive the desired changes.
Mathematics Teacher Educators' TPACK and MKT Knowledge Domains
Authors: Marshall Anne Marie S. , Callahan Kadian M.
Published: March 2018

In this chapter, two Mathematics Teacher Educators (MTEs) describe a study that examined the ways that they drew upon their knowledge domains, grounded in the TPACK framework and the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) framework, to design and utilize online discussion blogs as instructional tools to enhance preservice elementary teachers' learning of geometry and measurement. The findings indicate that more attention is warranted on the interrelationships between TPACK and MKT knowledge domains, specifically when MTEs engage in collaborative planning. This work is significant because it illuminates the need for further coding granularity consideration driven by the complexities resident in the construct of Pedagogical Content Knowledge, when analyzing MTEs' engagement with mathematics activities that use technology.
Using Mobile Technologies to Co-Construct TPACK in Teacher Education
Authors: de Groot Cornelis , Fogleman Jay , Kern Diane
Published: March 2018

How student teachers might benefit from using their mobile technologies during teaching experiences is a timely question for teacher educators. This chapter describes efforts to use the TPACK framework (Mishra & Koehler, 2006) to investigate how students use iPad computers during their student teaching and design appropriate supports. A design-based approach (Sandoval & Bell, 2004) was used over two years with two cohorts of student teachers (N=60). Descriptions of the use of the TPACK framework in this endeavor and findings from surveys and field notes about how and to what degree mobile technology can facilitate activities and interactions in planning, teaching, reflecting, and sharing are included. The case is made for co-learning and co-constructing by student teachers and teacher educators of the various TPACK domains of teacher knowledge in the context of mobile technology. Implications for developing supportive learning environments for 21st century student teachers are also discussed.
Tone and Attitude in E-Mail Communications and the Online Classroom
Authors: Miller Melissa A.
Published: March 2018

In the online classroom, e-mail has emerged as a predominant communication method between students and faculty. As such, despite many benefits of e-mail, including ease of use, familiarity of the technology, and rapid response times, there are numerous challenges faculty face when sending and receiving e-mail correspondence with students. This chapter addresses several of the challenges presented to faculty, including lack of cues such as body language, inflection, and other sensory stimuli. The author of the chapter discusses ways to overcome these challenges including appropriate tone and attitude in the faculty member's e-mails, which help mitigate the challenges the medium presents. The chapter concludes with discussion supporting use of electronic communication for students and faculty, especially when written effectively and purposefully.
Instructional Videos as ICT for Teacher Professional Development
Authors: Semich George W. , Copper Jenna
Published: March 2018

Information Communication Technologies have had a major impact in education today. Various ICT tools have been used to produce very favorable outcomes in terms of student learning. One such tool is YouTube which has had a dynamic influence on teaching and learning and is widely used by teachers in the classroom. The focus of this study is to examine how teachers would respond to the use of ICT tools, namely YouTube, as a form of delivery for their own staff development training. In this study, we surveyed teachers to assess their feelings on this form of training. Our findings showed a favorable response to this form of training using YouTube and demonstrated a rationale supported by a list of themes related to their rationale for favoring this choice.
Ready-to-Teach Online Courses
Authors: Quinn Pamela K. , Mason Diane , Shelton Kaye
Published: March 2018

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the roles and attitudes of experienced full-time and part-time community college faculty members teaching online courses, pre-produced by a subject matter expert, an advisory committee, and a development team. Interviews conducted with five full-time and five part-time professors were analyzed for textual and structural descriptions to understand the essence of faculty attitudes and roles toward using a ready-to-teach master course with online students. Data revealed that faculty members associated personal teaching experience with the quality of the course and that instructors were not resistant to teaching with master courses, provided the courses afforded flexibility for modifications. In addition, faculty research participants were highly satisfied in present roles because the ready-to-teach courses worked well for instructors and students while meeting the faculty members' personal and professional needs.
Teacher Training in 3D Virtual Worlds
Authors: Wang Yi Fei
Published: March 2018

This chapter explores the process of preparing BC teachers in the use of 3D virtual world technologies to design personalized learning and flexible learning environments. It aims to prepare teachers to effectively use 3D virtual worlds as a pedagogical and professional tool to achieve greater educational outcomes. Numerous studies have explored technology and teacher education. But few of them have examined preparing teachers for challenging technologies such as 3D virtual worlds. This chapter provides a practical framework related to technology and teacher education. Looking across the process, we discern teachers' external and internal barriers that may influence teachers' willingness of the use of 3D virtual worlds in education. We argue that both teachers' external barriers and internal barriers are critical to successful technology integration.
Taking Advantage of a Changing Market
Authors: Wallace Bryan Kent , Davidson Adenike Marie
Published: March 2018

HBCUs can utilize new technology with the purpose of appealing to the growing market of nontraditional students. This chapter also expounds on the concept that simply introducing technology does not necessarily translate into higher student achievement. Improper implementation of technology can result in a lowering of academic productivity. HBCUs must invest heavily in development for its faculty and staff in best practices in online instruction such that their students can have the most rewarding academic experience possible. University administration must engage in their own leadership and technology development such that they can instill the necessary level of buy-in from all levels of University personnel to ensure the highest possibility of success in attracting, educating, and graduating the growing numbers nontraditional students. This chapter's significance to student engagement and retention is that HBCU's must explore ways of attracting students of the technology age, while providing them with challenging curricula that are conducive to the nontraditional student's life style.
Elementary Teachers' Math Instructional Practices, Receptivity to Change, Instructional Leadership, and Academic Optimism
Authors: Sullivan Dennis D.
Published: March 2018

This study sought to identify the relationships among elementary teachers' instructional practices in mathematics pre- and post-Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) implementation in relation to technological and pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), formative assessment, reflective practice, receptivity to change, academic optimism, and instructional leadership across age, years of experience, grade level taught, and college math credits taken in high and low needs schools. Teacher responses from low and high need schools across age, years of teaching experience, grade level taught, and college math credits taken were examined with the dimensions of mathematics instructional practices to see if any relationships exist among the variables. The implementation of CCLS mathematics had an influence on elementary-school teachers' instructional practices and attitudes in both high and low needs schools. Teacher academic optimism was reported as overall higher in high needs districts, whereas teachers in low needs districts reported an increase in instructional motivation practices after the implementation of CCLS mathematics.
Investigation About Participatory Teachers' Training Based on MOOC
Authors: Zhou Qing-Guo , Guo Shou-Chao , Zhou Rui
Published: March 2018

In consideration of shortcomings of general teachers' training module, such as less chance, inefficiency, theory-practice gap and short duration, we expounds the concept and process of teachers' training module based on MOOC, discusses how MOOC platform promote collaborative teachers' training development and improve teachers' training methods and other issues in this paper. This paper proposes collaborative teachers' training model with analysis and argumentation on theory, performance and learning support both inside and outside the classroom, aiming for a reference for every education trainers.
The Rewards and Challenges of an Ongoing In-Service Teacher Training Programme
Authors: Campanha Ana Maria Pereira , Carvalho Adriana Cruz
Published: March 2018

Designing and conducting an effective scheme of in service teacher training is a challenge that supervisors face nowadays. Although this kind of training has grown in importance, its quality varies significantly according to their designer's ability to organize a programme which is mainly focused on ongoing professional development. This chapter aims at describing a model of in-service, which has been implemented at a language institution for some time now. The authors will explain the rationale for the approach, and offer a detailed account of the scheme they have devised and which has been carried out with a considerable degree of success. To conclude, they will report on the implications of their findings and specifically address the need to maintain a programme which may shape the future of academic institutions by focusing on teachers' individual growth.
Moving Your College Toward Online Programs Including a Quality Matters Implementation Plan
Authors: Allen Deborah A.
Published: March 2018

Moving faculty in a direction toward having online programs/courses at their college can be a daunting task, but another college's example may assist in preparing for online programs with quality online courses that include a Quality Matters Implementation Plan that will help define how the college will expand faculty knowledge of online education instructional design. In a college's transition to online education, it is particularly important to “sell” this idea to faculty members. Faculty members at many institutions may be fearful that they will not meet QM standards when going through a course review. Further, faculty members may be fearful of losing the “boundaries” that they currently have teaching in a face-to face setting. Other concerns revolve around budget constraints, preparing the college for online education, keeping consistency in faculty work duties, training faculty, faculty staying current with technology, keeping the same rigor in the online course as a face-to-face course, including an appropriate level of contact with students, and accreditation needs in order to have online education offered at the college. Management and organizational needs include having an administration team that supports faculty in making the change from a face-to-face class to an online class.
Findings Identifying How Administrative Leaders Might Recruit, Select, Train, Motivate, and Support Online Faculty
Authors: Portugal Lisa Marie
Published: March 2018

This study is a phenomenological study exploring faculty experiences teaching online coursework in master's programs in education. The study sought to understand and categorize learning factors that might produce stress and job burnout in the online instructional environment. In addition, the demands, expectations, and associated stress-producing factors in the online instructional environment were examined to distinguish best practices for online faculty. Moreover, attributes required by faculty best suited for the expectations and demands in distance learning were classified. Online faculty perspectives with teaching experience in the modality for three or more years generated the study's findings and insights. Stakeholders such as administrators, faculty trainers, faculty mentors, and faculty interested in employment in distance learning may find these insights useful to identify realistic criteria to base future decisions about teaching online, employment practices, hiring standards, and training opportunities. Insights about best practices, standards, and procedures have been articulated to assist in the development of administrative decisions, initial training programs, faculty mentor supports, and on-going faculty training.
Using Blended Learning and Emerging Technologies to Transform the Adult Learning Experience
Authors: Cordie Leslie , Witte Maria Martinez , Witte James E.
Published: March 2018

Faculty are increasing the use of emerging technologies in their classrooms and are recognizing the value of blending face-to-face and online learning to meet educational needs. Blended learning is defined as combining face-to-face and online learning formats. This chapter discusses the definition of blended learning and how it is affecting adult learning experiences and classroom settings. This chapter also addresses faculty and instructional design practices that can be used for blended learning and to continue promoting a positive teaching and learning environment for both face-to-face and online learners. Future research efforts can be focused on faculty development and academic support to continue fostering blended learning and meeting the needs of today's learners.
A Comprehensive Study of Security in Cloud Computing
Authors: Manohari Prasanta K. , Ray Niranjan K.
Published: March 2018

Cloud computing is one of the emerging technology in the recent times which has varieties of applications at different fields. It is an Internet dependent technology and it store and maintain the data in a cloud data center. Cloud center usually supports more numbers of user, applications and data. In the same time, it also suffered with numerous challenges. Security is a key requirement for cloud data center. Different security mechanisms are proposed for cloud computing environment. In this chapter, we address the background of cloud computing, security risk, requirements, issues, and some of the security techniques are discussed. We discuss different security issues and focus on some existing solutions.
Security Aspects in Cloud Computing
Authors: Mujawar Tabassum N. , Sutagundar Ashok V. , Ragha Lata L.
Published: March 2018

Cloud computing is recently emerging technology, which provides a way to access computing resources over Internet on demand and pay per use basis. Cloud computing is a paradigm that enable access to shared pool of resources efficiently, which are managed by third party cloud service providers. Despite of various advantages of cloud computing security is the biggest threat. This chapter describes various security concerns in cloud computing. The clouds are subject to traditional data confidentiality, integrity, availability and various privacy issues. This chapter comprises various security issues at different levels in environment that includes infrastructure level security, data level and storage security. It also deals with the concept of Identity and Access Control mechanism.
Cloud Security Engineering Concept and Vision
Authors: Aljawarneh Shadi
Published: March 2018

The research community found that a software system should be evolved once every few months to ensure it is adapted to the real-world environment. The system evolution requires regularly amendments that append, delete, or alter features. It also migrates or converts the software system from one operating platform to another. These amendments may result in requirements/ specifications that were satisfied in a previous release of a software system not being satisfied in the subsequent versions. As a result, software evolutionary changes violate security requirements, and then a system may become vulnerable to different kinds of attacks. In this paper, concepts and visions are presented to avoid/minimize the Cloud security issues.
Economics of Cyber Security and the Way Forward
Authors: Al Balushi Taiseera , Ali Saqib , Rehman Osama
Published: March 2018

Initiatives carried by companies, institutes and governments to flourish and embellish the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among the public have led to its penetration into every walk of life. ICT enhances the efficiency of various systems, such as the organisation and transfer of data. However, with the digital and remote access features of ICT comes the motivation towards financial, political and military gains by rivals. Security threats and vulnerabilities in existing ICT systems have resulted in cyber-attacks that are usually followed by substantial financial losses. This study discusses the security in ICT from a business, economic and government perspective. The study makes an attempt to understand the seriousness of the security issues and highlights the consequences of security breech from an economic perspective. Based on the performed analysis, the factors behind these attacks are provided along with recommendations for better preparations against them.
A Need for Cyber Security Creativity
Authors: Patrick Harold , Fields Ziska
Published: March 2018

Information technology is rapidly increasing and evolving all the time in pursuit for better solutions and products for the digitized world. Technology advancement and greater connectivity has moved organizations to better economic markets for sustainability. Together with better technology and greater connectivity, cybercrime is swiftly growing on par with these developments. This chapter focuses on the cyber security landscape and threats faced by organizations. The growth and sophistication of cybercrime is stressed. Cyber security creative approaches security risk assessment, cloud collaboration and data analytics are provided. This chapter ends with propositions that security creative approaches should be used as a method of managing cybercrime and ensuring that the organization's sustainability and governance are improved.
Security Issues in Distributed Computing System Models
Authors: Elkabbany Ghada Farouk , Rasslan Mohamed
Published: March 2018

Distributed computing systems allow homogenous/heterogeneous computers and workstations to act as a computing environment. In this environment, users can uniformly access local and remote resources in order to run processes. Users are not aware of which computers their processes are running on. This might pose some complicated security problems. This chapter provides a security review of distributed systems. It begins with a survey about different and diverse definitions of distributed computing systems in the literature. Different systems are discussed with emphasize on the most recent. Finally, different aspects of distributed systems security and prominent research directions are explored.
Controlled Intelligent Agents' Security Model for Multi-Tenant Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Authors: Hamilton Howard , Alasti Hadi
Published: March 2018

Data security in the cloud continues to be a huge concern. The adoption of cloud services continues to increase with more businesses transitioning from on premise technology infrastructures to outsourcing cloud-based infrastructures. As the cloud becomes more popular, users are increasingly demanding control over critical security elements of the data and technology assets that are in the cloud. In addition, there are still cries for greater data and security in the cloud. The goal of this paper is to provide cloud service users with greater control over data security in the cloud while at the same time optimizing overall security in the multi-tenant cloud computing environment. This paper introduces cloud-based intelligent agents that are configurable by the users and are expected to give greater compliance for data security in any of the cloud service models.
Navigating Through Choppy Waters of PCI DSS Compliance
Authors: Nanda Amrita , Popat Priyal , Vimalkumar Deepak
Published: March 2018

PCI Data Security Standard is increasingly becoming one of the major compliance requirements all organizations are concerned about. This chapter taking a holistic approach, provides an overview of various components of PCI DSS. We discuss various versions of PCI DSS and the industries affected by this standard, the scope and requirements to comply and hesitation on part of most companies to imbibe it. We also look at the high-profile credit card breaches which have occurred recently and their impact on concerned industries. Additionally, we focus on the challenges faced by financial institutions to effectively meet PCI DSS requirements. Based on our analysis of different requirements of PCI DSS, challenges faced by organizations and recent security breaches of companies which were PCI DSS complaint at the time of breach, we propose recommendations to help organizations secure their cardholder data beyond the achieved compliance in place.
Cyber Threats in Civil Aviation
Authors: Nobles Calvin
Published: March 2018

Civil aviation faces increased cybersecurity threats due to hyperconnectivity and the lack of standardized frameworks and cybersecurity defenses. Educating the civil aviation workforce is one method to enhance cyber defense against cyber-attacks. Educating the workforce will lead to initiatives and strategies to combat cyber-attacks. Private and public entities need to remain aggressive in developing cyber defense strategies to keep pace with the increasing vulnerabilities of hyperconnectivity. Areas that require immediate attention to safeguard against cybersecurity threats in civil aviation are: 1) Eliminating supply risks, 2) Upgrading legacy systems, 3) Mitigating technological aftereffects, 4) Increasing cybersecurity awareness, 5) Developing cybersecurity workforce, 6) Managing hyperconnectivity, and 7) Leveraging international entities. To safeguard civil aviation infrastructure from cybersecurity threats require assertive, coordinated, and effective strategies and capabilities to defend the network.
Cyber Security and Business Growth
Authors: Sharma Akanksha , Tandekar Prashant
Published: March 2018

Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), particular the Internet, have been an increasingly important aspect of global social, political and economic life, and are the backbone of the global information society today. Their evolution and development has brought many benefits along with the threat of serious cyber-attacks that had been demonstrated over the past few years. Due to cybercrime business world drains huge money each year and incurs a large amount in resolving a single attack. It also damages organization's reputation and brand image, loss of intellectual property and sensitive data, loss of customer trust etc. Addressing major threats and challenges begins with setting up information security policy to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability of company information and communication. Since telecom Sector is on its boom, a technological solution can solve the immediate challenges of identifying, investigating, and prosecuting computer- related crimes and changes required for long-term problem solving.
Cloud Storage Privacy and Security User Awareness
Authors: Mijuskovic Adriana , Ferati Mexhid
Published: March 2018

There are many factors influencing the user awareness level of privacy and security concerns when storing data on the cloud. One such factor is the users' cultural background, which has been an inspiration to many studies comparing various cultures. Along those lines, this paper compares the user awareness level between Dutch and Macedonian users, which has not been investigated before. An online study was conducted to measure users' attitude towards privacy and security of data in the cloud-based systems. The research process was conducted by delivering an online survey to Computer Science students and employees working in different software companies in the Netherlands and Macedonia. The comparative analysis indicates that there are differences in user's attitude towards storing private data in the cloud. The results of this paper demonstrate that Dutch compared to Macedonian users in general have higher level of awareness regarding the privacy and security of cloud storage.
Analysis of Cyber-Attacks Against the Transportation Sector
Authors: van Niekerk Brett
Published: March 2018

For many countries the physical transport infrastructure is critical to the economy, with ports forming a gateway for the majority of trade, and rail and road used to distribute goods. Airlines are crucial to the tourism industry. Whilst the focus of cyber-defense is on financial networks and the power grid, recent incidents illustrate that the transport infrastructure is also susceptible to cyber-attacks. The chapter provides an overview of cyber-security incidents related to the transportation sector, and analyses the reports of the incidents to illustrate the prevalence of threat types and impact. The chapter then discusses some efforts to mitigate the threats in terms of regulations, threat intelligence and information sharing, and awareness training.
Can Total Quality Management Exist in Cyber Security
Authors: Raisinghani Mahesh S.
Published: March 2018

This chapter examines the threats in cyber security. It identifies the risk of cyber attacks and argues the inability to defend against those threats in a cyber security program. The introduction provides a brief history of cyber security and how the information highway arrived at this point in cyber security. The first analysis examines the threats in cyber security in personal, private, and government computer systems. The second analysis examines the approaches to attacking those systems. The third analysis examines threats against private companies and government agencies. The final analysis examines major threats to cyber security.
Analysis of Possible Future Global Scenarios in the Field of Cyber Warfare
Authors: Leccisotti Flavia Zappa , Chiesa Raoul , De Nicolo Daniele
Published: March 2018

At a global level, various risks have increased due to the intensification of globalization, and in this scenario Cybercrime is becoming a more important and dangerous threat. When discussing about Cyber Space threats, it is not an issue if critical national infrastructures, private companies and private citizens will be violated, but rather when it will take place, when it is realized that this has happened, and which is the extent of the attack. Through the collection and analysis of open source documents, institutional organizations, think tanks, academic and experts' papers, the goal of this chapter is to highlight and understand what and how it is changing, if new scenarios will take place on the international cyber chessboard, and which dynamics will regulate the new threats that we must prepare to fight or, at least, mitigate.