bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Değer Eğitimde Özdeşim Kurma: Hz. Muhammed (sav) Örneği
Authors: COŞKUN KESKİN Sevgi , ERTÜRK İklima Betül , KOCAMAZ Zehra Betül
Published: May 2019

14-15 yaş grubu, kimlik
gelişiminin önemli olduğu dönemlerden biridir. Bireyler bu dönemde kendini
gösterebilmek için kitle iletişim araçlarının etkisiyle popüler olarak
nitelendirilen kişiler ya da fikirlerle kendilerini özdeşleştirirler.
Değerlerine sahip çıkabilen bir nesil yetişmesi ve kimlik gelişiminin doğru bir
şekilde tamamlanabilmesi için onlara özdeşleşebilecekleri, rol model olacak
güçlü karakterlerin anlatılması önem arz etmektedir. Bu bağlamdan hareketle araştırmada,
ergenlik döneminin başında olan çocukların değerler açısından rol model olan
şahsiyetlerin hayatlarını öğrenmeleri ve kendilerini bu şahsiyetlerle
özdeşleştirmelerinin mümkün olup olmadığı Hz. Muhammed (sav) örneği ile
araştırılmıştır. Bu nedenle değer eğitiminde örnek bir kişilik olarak Hz. Muhammed’in
 (sav) karşılaştığı problemler karşısında
nasıl davranışlar sergilediğine ilişkin ortaokul 8. sınıf öğrencilerinin
düzeyine uygun, 8 etkinlik geliştirilmiştir. Çalışma 3 hafta boyunca, 8. sınıfa
geçen, 23 öğrenciyle yürütülmüştür. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden eylem
araştırması deseniyle yürütülen çalışmada veriler; görüşme, doküman ve araştırmacının
katılımcı gözlemleriyle elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler içerik analizi ile
incelenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda çocukların yaşadıkları sorunlar karşında
sergiledikleri barışçıl olmayan çözümlerin, Hz. Muhammed’in (sav) şahsiyeti
bağlamında değerlendirildiğinde barışçıl çözümlere dönüştüğü tespit edilmiştir.
Ayrıca etkinliklerden sonra Hz. Muhammed (sav) için söylenen Allah’ın kulu,
Müslümanlığı öğreten, Kuranı Kerim, peygamber gibi çağrışımlar; hoşgörü,
cesaret, saygı, güvenilir olma, barışsever (uzlaşmacı) gibi pek çok değeri
içeren söylemlere dönüşmüştür.
PENGARUH KECERDASAN INTELEKTUAL, KECERDASAN EMOSIONAL, DAN KECERDASAN SPIRITUAL TERHADAP KINERJA WIRAUSAHA MUSLIM DI KABUPATEN PURWAKARTA
Authors: Ludin Ismail , Saleh H. Suherman , Amruloh Dedeng Abdul Gani
Published: May 2019

Islam is a comprehensive religion. Islam is not only discussing about the dimension of ukhrowi (hereafter) but also world. One of that dimension is practicing of entrepreneur. Practicing of entrepreneur is one of the way to get a performance’s successful. In Islamic perspective, the success of muslimpreneur performance is associated in word of Al falah. Al falah is a success concept for muslimpreneur in the world and hereafter. There are many factors that affect the success of muslimpreneur performance. Human intelligent as the main factor surrounding of that.

According to the phenomenon, this research aims to examine the effect of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual quotient toward the muslimpreneur performance. This research used descriptive analityc method. The population of this research is the Islamic small entreprise in Purwakarta regent with 86 number of samples. Double-linier-regression is used as analysis instrument. Library and field research as the dimension of research through questionnaire.

The result of this research indicates first, partially, the muslimpreneur performance is insignificantly affected by intellectual and emotional quotient variable. Only the spiritual quotient that significantly affects toward the muslimpreneur perfomance. Second, simultanously, the muslimpreneur performance is significantly affected by the variable of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual quotient. This research is limited in independend variable. Exploring the most essential independen variable should be done in order to get better result.

Keywords : Intelellectul quotient, emotional quotient, spiritual quotient, muslimpreneur performance, and Al falah.
ANALISIS KELAYAKAN USAHA PETERNAKAN AYAM PROBIOTIK PADA PT. GUNUNG MAS
Authors: Ratnasari Ina , Suhono Suhono , Selvi Evi
Published: May 2019

The business opportunity of probiotic chicken business is very large because currently there are still few breeders who do breeding probiotic chicken while the demand for chicken probiotics along with awareness of people who are increasing in choosing healthy and low cholesterol food products. PT. Gunung Mas plans to expand its business by increasing the probiotic chicken breeding business sector. Before running the plan, PT. Gunung Mas conducted a business feasibility study to be able to decide whether the probiotic chicken breeding business plan is feasible or not to be implemented.

Based on the results of research on non-financial aspects of market aspects, marketing aspects, technical aspects and technology, aspects of management and human resources and environmental aspects, probiotic chicken breeding business feasible to be implemented. While the financial aspects of the payback period, net present value, profitability index and internal rate of return, probiotic chicken breeding business feasible to be implemented

 

Keywords : Feasibility studies, probiotic chicken breeding, non financial aspect, financial aspect
ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR FUNDAMENTAL YANG BERPENGARUH TERHADAP RETURN SAHAM SYARIAH PADA PERUSAHAAN YANG TERGABUNG DALAM JAKARTA ISLAMIC INDEX (JII)
Authors: . Fitri
Published: May 2019

The development of the sharia capital market in Indonesia until 2016 shows that Islamic stock shares do not yet have optimal and consistent performance in terms of the returns given. Fundamental analysis is a study that studies matters relating to the finances of a business with a view to better understanding the basic nature and operational characteristics of public companies that issue shares. Accounting information or company financial statements can be used as a factor of fundamental analysis based on real data that is useful for evaluating and projecting the value of a stock. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of return on assets (ROA), Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Current Ratio (CR), Earning per share (EPS), Total asset turn over (TATO) on Islamic stock returns. The research method used is descriptive verification. The unit of analysis in this study is Islamic stocks that are members of the Jakarta Islamic Index (JII). Statistical test analysis in this study using multiple linear regression analysis, t test and F test. The results showed that the variables ROA, CR, EPS and TATO have a positive and significant effect on Islamic stock returns, but the DER variable does not have a significant effect on stock returns. sharia.

 

Keywords: return on asset (ROA), Debt to Equity Ratio (DER), Current  Ratio (CR), Earning per share (EPS), Total assets turn over (TATO),
PEMBENTUKAN KOPERASI WUJUD KEPEDULIAN PENINGKATAN TARAF KEHIDUPAN PARA PETANI DI DESA LENGANSARI KECAMATAN SUKARAJA KABUPATEN SUKABUMI
Authors: Riswanto Ari
Published: May 2019

The increasing of women capacity to survive is something that must always be fought. Lengansari village of Sukaraja District of Sukabumi is the representative of the struggling people who are always be the farm laborers on their own dwelling place. This phenomenon triggered the idea of the community service activities which is be an annual program of STKIP PGRI Sukabumi. Group III that is located in Lengansari village initiated to establish a cooperative as a form of education to increase the public standard of living of rural communities. In order to gain the villagers’ expectation, the training was done conductively and systematically by a team under the lecturer guidance. This project was successfully gained because of the hard work of the students of group III totaling 25 students who were directed by the lecturer and in collaboration both with the related apparatus in the region and the department of cooperatives.
The effects of fertilization on the green tea elements
Authors: Bursalıoğlu Ertugrul
Published: May 2019

Camellia sinensis, which is widely used as a beverage in our country
and in the world, has various beneficial effects on human health due to its
various components. Farmers use chemical fertilizers to get more products.
However, the use of more chemical manure may cause some problems in terms of
environmental pollution and human health. Due to the lack of some nutritious
minerals in the soil, various manure ingredients are used for better
cultivation and growth. In this study, in order to investigate the effect of
use of manurate on tea plant on 5 different soils in Rize, the concentrations
of 18 elements in the leaves were analyzed using the ICP-MS device.  When manure was used in tea, the
concentration of Li, Mg, K, Al, Ca, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Cd, Pb elements
increased and Na, Co, Ni, Hg values decreased.
The Symbolic Efficiency and the Symbolization
Authors: Garcia-Peñafiel Mauricio Manuel
Published: May 2019

The article treats the question of judiciary ritualization in relation to the concepts of symbolization and symbolic efficiency specific to the psychoanalytic field and anthropology. It is therefore a theoretical contribution that sustains that ritualization in the juridical field would benefit from thinking pragmatically and not semantically to grasp its effectiveness. Rather than interpreting the setting of juridical ritual or the signs of justice with a hermeneutic approach, the article proposes the interest of grasping what is done through signs and words, the act that is accomplished. This act would be in the foundation of the efficiency of judiciary ritualization. The argument suggests that in a juridical process it is possible to say things with sentences, but also it is possible to make sentences with words.
Compulsory External Work Experience Internship from the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the UPV/EHU
Authors: Pérez Machío Ana Isabel , Goizueta Juana , González Ana Rosa
Published: May 2019

The setting-up of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice within the Faculty of Law of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU) in the academic year 2016/2017 has brought along a new teaching methodology in Law and Criminology, as well as a new way of learning that will enable the students to become agents for social change, critical and committed with the improvement of the society in which they live. In the face of the above, this paper aims to look at this new teaching-and-learning methodology as applied to the mandatory external internships at the Legal Clinic. After doing this, the goal is to define the specific competences that should be acquired within this new understanding of Mandatory External Internships, which is a core subject of both the Law degree and the Criminology degree at the Faculty of Law of the Basque Country University.
The Curricular Integration of Clinical Teachings
Authors: Alkorta Idiakez Itziar , Lamarche Marie , Deramat Marie
Published: May 2019

Continental law faculties currently face the challenge of integrating the clinical teaching in the curricula. With this horizon as a goal, the legal clinic Forum Montesquieu of the University of Bordeaux (UB) and the newly created legal clinic for Social Justice/Justizia Sozialaren Aldeko Klinika Juridikoa, of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), in order to propose the appropriate integration of the clinical legal education in both undergraduate and graduate learning, developed a joint project that identified areas of cooperation based on complementary experiences on three key aspects of the curricula: the management of the legal clinic, pedagogical innovation in terms of learning skills, and legal clinic as a social organization that works together with the social partners. The project has counted with the support of the call EBIS (UB/UPV-EHU) which promotes training experiences in the framework of the Euroregion Euskadi-Aquitaine-Navarre.
Blackfish: A Crisis of Legitimacy at Seaworld
Authors: Massey Joseph Eric , Randriamarohaja Riana Harintsoa
Published: May 2019

A case study of a crisis in the hospitality and tourism industry was conducted and is reported on in this article. Specifically, the crisis of legitimacy at SeaWorld that resulted from the Blackfish documentary is presented and analyzed. The conceptual framework that guides the investigation
is developed by reviewing and synthesizing theories of organizational legitimacy, crisis management, and crisis communication. SeaWorld's crisis response is described and its crisis communication analyzed. The results of the study indicate that SeaWorld managed crisis management and crisis
communication poorly, resulting in major damage to SeaWorld's organizational legitimacy. This case provides implications for hospitality and tourism scholar-practitioners to consider. First, hospitality and tourism organizations must be proactive in their crisis management endeavors, identifying
threats to the organization. Second, hospitality and tourism organizations must monitor social media actively and respond immediately and appropriately. Third, crisis communication must be consistent, or else organizational crisis may be exacerbated.
Diet of the Rufous Frog Leptodactylus fuscus (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from two contrasting environments
Authors: Santana Diego José , Ferreira Vanessa Gonçalves , Crestani Gabriel Nassif , Neves Matheus Oliveira
Published: May 2019

The impact of urbanization on amphibians has received some attention in the conservation literature. Despite the various impacts on animal life, some species can persist along the cities structures by adjusting their natural histories. Leptodactylusfuscus is a common anuran species occurring in South America, which can commonly be found in urban environments. Herein, we compare the diet of L.fuscus between an urban and a wild environment. We collected 57 individuals of L.fuscus and analysed their diet, which differed significantly between the two sites. In the urban environment, Coleoptera were the prevalent prey items, whereas specimens from the wild site had a more diverse diet.
COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF BIFURCATION ANGLE ON HAEMODYNAMICS AND OXYGEN TRANSPORT IN THE CAROTID BIFURCATION
Authors: Tada Shigeru
Published: May 2019

In this study, blood flow associated with oxygen transport in the human carotid bifurcation was investigated numerically to assess the effects of bifurcation geometry on distribution and magnitude of the wall shear stress (WSS) and Sherwood number (Sh: dimensionless oxygen wall flux) at the favourable site of atherosclerotic lesion. Three-dimensional average models of the rigid-walled carotid bifurcation were constructed to perform simulations of steady blood flow under the wall boundary condition of a constant oxygen tension. The results demonstrated that changes in the bifurcation angle significantly altered the distribution of both the WSS and the Sh, even though the pattern of the axial flow was not very sensitive to the change in bifurcation angle. Flow with large inertia bifurcated at the flow divider and created a flow recirculation zone with low WSS and Sh on the outer wall of the internal carotid artery (ICA) sinus, where atherosclerotic lesions tend to develop. A wider bifurcation angle made the area of low Sh in the ICA sinus smaller, but the level of Sh along the outer wall of the ICA sinus extremely low. Another finding was that low Sh was associated with high WSS at the region distal to the ICA sinus. The Sh distribution did not readjust as fast as the WSS in this region, as reflected by the different rates of recovery of the WSS and Sh, thus uncoupling the transport process of oxygen transport from WSS.
Refugee Education in Greece
Authors: Palaiologou Nektaria , Fountoulaki Georgia , Liontou Maria
Published: May 2019

This chapter is an original study in a new sector in education in Greece, refugee education, which probes into the challenges, needs, and priorities of teachers (N=12) who are engaged with refugee students' educational support and social integration into the Greek context. The research is grounded on fieldwork and content analysis of semi-structured interviews among teachers who work in refugee camps and non-formal educational settings. It depicts the challenges and needs in refugee education today, showing that provisions through non-formal education settings could offer significant activities and teaching services to refugee students. It highlights the importance of intercultural education in times of constant population movement, since the intercultural notion respects all students no matter nationality, religion, and socio-economic background. It raises the need for intercultural educational policies as a high priority because they can provide assistance and guidance to educators, enable social interaction amongst all diverse students, and empower social stability as well.
Searching for a Positive Intercultural Transition Between Syrian Refugees and Turkish Society
Authors: Ün Marella Bodur , Balkan-Şahin Sevgi
Published: May 2019

Existing studies on Syrian refugees in Turkey focused either on the difficulties refugees have been experiencing or on how refugee identities have been unilaterally transformed during their interaction with the host culture. Drawing on the literature on identity and politics of recognition, this chapter argues that intercultural encounters transform the identities, values, and norms of both host communities and refugees. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with non-camp Syrian refugees and local citizens in the cities of Mersin and Adana to uncover the interactions of refugees and the host society, focusing on intercultural encounters at diverse settings, including classrooms, schools, campuses, hospitals, and neighborhoods. The chapter reveals that recognition of diverse cultures, respect, empathy, and social support influence intercultural interactions in a positive way. It also shows that reflexivity and the willingness to interact on the part of both refugees and the host culture facilitate interactions and negotiations between them.
Cyber Attacks, Contributing Factors, and Tackling Strategies
Authors: Bordoff Samantha , Chen Quan , Yan Zheng
Published: May 2019

This article describes how as access to the Internet has increased, cybersecurity has become important, with businesses and the government spending much time and resources to combat cyber attacks. The purpose of this article was to review the existing literature related to cybersecurity. Specifically, the review synthesizes the empirical research in (1) various types of cyber attacks, (2) contributing factors related to cybersecurity behavior, and (3) strategy to improve cybersecurity behavior. The most developed line of research in this area has been focusing on the strategies to improve cybersecurity behavior, showing a questionable trend of quickly creating solutions before fully conceptualizing the problem.
Adaptation of the JDL Model for Multi-Sensor National Cyber Security Data Fusion
Authors: Swart Ignatius , Irwin Barry V. W. , Grobler Marthie M.
Published: May 2019

The potential attack surface of a nation is large and no single source of cyber security data provides all the required information to accurately describe the cyber security readiness of a nation. There are a variety of specialised data sources available to assess the state of a nation in key areas such as botnets, spam servers and incorrectly configured hosts. By applying data fusion principles, the potential exists to provide a representative view of all combined data sources. This research will examine a variety of currently available Internet data sources and apply it to an adapted Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) data fusion model in order to illustrate the potential gains and current limitations. The JDL model has been adapted to suit national level cyber sensor data fusion with the aim to formally define and reduce data ambiguity and enhance fusion capability in a real world system. A case study highlights the results of applying available open source security information against the model to relate to the current South African cyber landscape.
Accurate Classification Models for Distributed Mining of Privately Preserved Data
Authors: M. Sumana , S. Hareesha K.
Published: May 2019

Data maintained at various sectors, needs to be mined to derive useful inferences. Larger part of the data is sensitive and not to be revealed while mining. Current methods perform privacy preservation classification either by randomizing, perturbing or anonymizing the data during mining. These forms of privacy preserving mining work well for data centralized at a single site. Moreover the amount of information hidden during mining is not sufficient. When perturbation approaches are used, data reconstruction is a major challenge. This paper aims at modeling classifiers for data distributed across various sites with respect to the same instances. The homomorphic and probabilistic property of Paillier is used to perform secure product, mean and variance calculations. The secure computations are performed without any intermediate data or the sensitive data at multiple sites being revealed. It is observed that the accuracy of the classifiers modeled is almost equivalent to the non-privacy preserving classifiers. Secure protocols require reduced computation time and communication cost.
Privacy Compliance Requirements in Workflow Environments
Authors: Koukovini Maria N. , Papagiannakopoulou Eugenia I. , Lioudakis Georgios V. , Dellas Nikolaos L. , Kaklamani Dimitra I. , Venieris Iakovos S.
Published: May 2019

Workflow management systems are used to run day-to-day applications in numerous domains, often including exchange and processing of sensitive data. Their native “leakage-proneness,” being the consequence of their distributed and collaborative nature, calls for sophisticated mechanisms able to guarantee proper enforcement of the necessary privacy protection measures. Motivated by the principles of Privacy by Design and its potential for workflow environments, this chapter investigates the associated issues, challenges, and requirements. With the legal and regulatory provisions regarding privacy in information systems as a baseline, the chapter elaborates on the challenges and derived requirements in the context of workflow environments, taking into account the particular needs and implications of the latter. Further, it highlights important aspects that need to be considered regarding, on the one hand, the incorporation of privacy-enhancing features in the workflow models themselves and, on the other, the evaluation of the latter against privacy provisions.
Cloud Storage Privacy and Security User Awareness
Authors: Mijuskovic Adriana , Ferati Mexhid
Published: May 2019

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.
Generation Y and Internet Privacy
Authors: Smutny Zdenek , Janoscik Vaclav , Cermak Radim
Published: May 2019

This chapter addresses the issue of privacy settings with a focus on Generation Y from a technological, social, generational, cultural and philosophical point of view. After introducing the issue of Internet privacy and other relevant areas—generational and cultural differences, the philosophical framework, the postinternet condition, the possibilities of processing and (mis)using personal data, and privacy policy—the authors present their perspective on the issue, drawing implications for individuals and organizations based on their own research and other relevant studies. The authors discuss the possible implications in terms of a prospective use of personal data by companies (e.g. for marketing and management) and possibility of processing user data. Such perspective will allow them to formulate a critical basis for further assessment of social networking and Generation Y's attitudes to privacy. The chapter concludes by outlining several recommendations concerning the commercialization of social networking services with respect to the constantly changing conception of privacy.
The Effect of Privacy Concerns on the Purchasing Behavior Among Malaysian Smartphone Users
Authors: Belkhamza Zakariya , Niasin Mohd Adzwin Faris , Idris Sidah
Published: May 2019

The rise of e-commerce and m-commerce has brought the intention to the privacy concerns among mobile buyers, and studies showed that it is an important factor that affect attitude and intention to buy products or services through smartphones. The objective of this paper is to investigate the issue of privacy concerns on the attitude and purchasing intention among Malaysian smartphone users. This was performed by investigating the relationships between privacy concerns and attitude towards purchase, as well as between the privacy concerns and the intention to purchase using smartphone apps. The paper provides significant insights on the issue of privacy concerns in the usage of smartphones which can help developers such as Google and Apple to improve their apps stores to provide better protection for users' privacy and security in Malaysia.
Trust in an Enterprise World
Authors: Gogoulos Fotios I. , Antonakopoulou Anna , Lioudakis Georgios V. , Kaklamani Dimitra I. , Venieris Iakovos S.
Published: May 2019

Web 2.0 technologies have fundamentally reshaped everyday users' perceptions regarding online services by strengthening the importance of individual participation. This profound change is expanding to substantially affect modern enterprise operations and especially corporate information management practices. Well-established business models are upgraded to capture value from the establishment of dynamic coalitions and virtual organizations among remote stakeholders. However, these collaboration formulations dictate the concentration, use, and circulation of corporate information and sensitive personal data, and thus ignite severe security and privacy concerns. Enterprises against this background are more than willing to invest in terms cost and time in order to enforce the necessary countermeasures and thus build and maintain the trustworthiness of involved operations. This chapter studies how legislation and inherent characteristics of this new collaboration paradigm affect the qualities of trust and highlights prominent features of security and privacy protection measures that can deal with emerging trust issues.
Cyber Security Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Authors: Kariuki Paul
Published: May 2019

It is critical that cyber education curriculum considers the growing cyber technologies and which aspects of these technologies need to be aligned with the fourth industrial revolution. This chapter seeks to present a comprehensive analysis of the current level of cyber security education in South Africa. It will also track the current trends of cyber security education in the country as well as examining any challenges being experienced including any knowledge gaps. In the end, the chapter proposes recommendations for consideration in strengthening cybersecurity education in the country in to achieve advanced cyber security responses, capable of mitigating any cyber security threats. Offering quality cyber security education is important in preparing the next generation cyber security practitioners, who are highly competent and capable of developing innovative solutions in response to the growing global demand of cyber technologies. The chapter ends by proposing specific strategies that can guide towards this ideal in the context of the fourth industrial revolution.
Privacy Perceptions of Older Adults When Using Social Media Technologies
Authors: Dumbrell Dan , Steele Robert
Published: May 2019

Social media technologies represent an emerging means by which older adults can access health and community information, engage in peer-to-peer information sharing, and also potentially decrease social isolation. Privacy concerns, however, have been consistently identified as a barrier for older adults' use of the Web and social media technologies. The authors conduct a preliminary study involving 150 older adult participants, investigating their use and perceptions of social media technologies. The trial involved first providing the participants with brief training in three common social media technologies: Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. The authors carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the participant's use and privacy perceptions of these technologies. Overall, the results are promising as to the potential to address privacy concerns to enable older adults to further utilize these technologies for improved mental, physical, and social health. Implications for future research and usage within the older adult community are also discussed.
Achieving Balance Between Corporate Dataveillance and Employee Privacy Concerns
Authors: Rosette Ordor Ngowari , Kazemeyni Fatemeh , Aghili Shaun , Butakov Sergey , Ruhl Ron
Published: May 2019

Big data, like most technological innovations, brings noticeable benefits as well potential risks. Dataveillance using big data is becoming another dimension in the increasing privacy concerns of the workforce. Such concerns emanate from the tension between the correct use of employee personal data and information privacy in big data within and outside the work environment. It has evolved as employees are becoming increasingly cognizant of the ways in which employers can use technologies to monitor social media activities, internet interactions, emails and other online activities outside the work environment. The objective of this research paper is to recommend a set of guidelines which will be mapped to COBIT 5 framework to help medium and large organizations balance the tension between the increasing potential of big data and employee dataveillance privacy concerns in workplaces.
Exploring the Relationship Between Sport Fan Identification and Addiction to Digital Sports Media
Authors: Clark John S. , Maher Jill K.
Published: May 2019

Social media has proved to be a constant source of information and entertainment for sport fans. These social media sites allow sport organizations to provide news about the organizations and the athletes that play for them, as well as serving as a means of communication between the organization and fans, or between the fans themselves. Smartphones have enabled this communication to be nearly constant, allowing sport fans to access information around the clock. Anecdotal evidence suggests this on-demand access to information about a fan's favorite team will increase the avidity by which the fan consumes the sport product. In a parallel development, researchers have investigated the detrimental effects devoting too much time to social media has on consumers. This research bridges these lines of inquiry and examines the relationship between social media addiction and highly identified and committed sport fans. Data were collected from college students, and a multiple regression analysis was performed which resulted in no statistically significant relationship between addiction to social media and high levels of sport identification and commitment. The results suggest that for sport organizations, social media is not a one-size-fits-all approach to reaching a segmented (based on identification and commitment) market.
Are Adolescents Addicted to Smartphones?
Authors: Park Geunyong , Lim Jisun
Published: May 2019

This empirical study shows how people use their smartphones by employing the rational addiction model of Becker and Murphy. The analysis uses micro-level panel data on the monthly usage of smartphone applications (so-called “apps”) derived from 10,337 users in South Korea, from 2012 to 2016. The authors find that smartphone users are “addicted” to mobile phone apps, in the sense that their prior usage has significantly influenced their current use. Nonetheless, people in the sample seem to use their smartphones in a forward-looking manner, adjusting consumption over time to maximize their utility. On the other hand, the study's result rejects the conventional belief that younger individuals behave more myopically than older ones. Furthermore, only the mother's smartphone use was found to generate a positive externality for her children.
Impact of Online Dating, Cyber Stalking, Cybersex, and Pornography on Mental Health
Authors: Gopalan Rejani Thudalikunnil
Published: May 2019

Online behavior varies according to the purpose and situations and many get involved in intimate relations, like in online dating, which have an impact on the person and his mental health. The chapter focused on the impact of online dating, cyber stalking, cybersex, and pornography on mental health. Though many studied the online dating among adolescents and adults, that of old age group is not yet fully explored especially about their sexual needs. It is worth exploring factors related to risky sexual behaviors among gay and bisexual individuals. Online dating for mentally ill people is an under-researched area. Cyberstalking is an important issue, especially among adolescents and young adults, and cybersex and cyber pornography threatens the safety and mental health in addition to the problems of addiction and child trafficking, and it is linked with high sexual risk behaviors and sex crimes. It is necessary to develop tailored psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions by taking into account the complexity and heterogeneity of the problems.
Gratification, Loneliness, Leisure Boredom, and Self-Esteem as Predictors of SNS-Game Addiction and Usage Pattern Among Chinese College Students
Authors: Zhou Selina Xingyuan , Leung Louis
Published: May 2019

This study investigated the relationships between perceived social network sites (SNS)-game addiction and gratifications, loneliness, leisure boredom, self-esteem, and usage of SNS-games. Data were gathered from a sample of 342 college students aged 18 to 22 in mainland China. Factor analysis yielded a three-factor gratifications structure (achievement, inclusion, and entertainment) based on the 11 motives for playing an SNS game obtained in a focus group. As hypothesized, loneliness and leisure boredom were found to be significant predictors of the level of SNS-game use and likelihood of addiction. SNS-game addicts tended to be male, lonely, often leisurely bored, and motivated by winning virtual money and gaining a sense of achievement. However, self-esteem was not a significant predictor. Implications for university administrators and suggestions for future research were discussed.
Application of Uncertainty Models in Bioinformatics
Authors: Tripathy B.K. , Mohanty R.K. , R. Sooraj T.
Published: May 2019

This chapter provides the information related to the researches enhanced using uncertainty models in life sciences and biomedical Informatics. The main emphasis of this chapter is to present the general ideas for the time line of different uncertainty models to handle uncertain information and their applications in the various fields of biology. There are many mathematical models to handle vague data and uncertain information such as theory of probability, fuzzy set theory, rough set theory, soft set theory. Literatures from the life sciences and bioinformatics have been reviewed and provided the different experimental & theoretical results to understand the applications of uncertain models in the field of bioinformatics.
Bioinformatics as Applied to Medicine
Authors: Papadopoulou Paraskevi , Lytras Miltiadis , Marouli Christina
Published: May 2019

The emerging advances of Bioinformatics have already contributed toward the establishment of better next generation medicine and medical systems by putting emphasis on improvement of prognosis, diagnosis and therapy of diseases including better management of medical systems. The purpose of this chapter is to explore ways by which the use of Bioinformatics and Smart Data Analysis will provide an overview and solutions to challenges in the fields of genomics, medicine and Health Informatics. The focus of this chapter would be on Smart Data Analysis and ways needed to filter out the noise. The chapter addresses challenges researchers and data analysts are facing in terms of the developed computational methods used to extract insights from NGS and high-throughput screening data. In this chapter the concept “Wise Data” is proposed reflecting the distinction between individual health and wellness on the one hand, and social improvement, cohesion and sustainability on the other, leading to more effective medical systems, healthier individuals and more socially cohesive societies.
Hybrid Wrapper/Filter Gene Selection Using an Ensemble of Classifiers and PSO Algorithm
Authors: Boucheham Anouar , Batouche Mohamed
Published: May 2019

Bioinformatics has grown very quickly for the last 20 years, and it will grow even faster in the future. One of the long-standing open challenges in bioinformatics is biomarker identification and cancer diagnosis from gene expression. In this paper, the authors propose a novel hybrid wrapper/filter feature selection approach to identify the most informative genes for cancer diagnosis, named HWF-GS. It handles selection through two steps. The first one is an iterative filter-based mechanism to generate potential subsets of genes. The second step is the aggregation of the best-selected subsets by means of a wrapper-based consensus process that relies on a particle swarm optimization adapted to feature selection. An ensemble of classifiers (SVM and KNN) is employed to evaluate the selected genes. Experiments on nine publicly available cancer DNA microarray datasets have shown that HWF-GS selects robust signatures with high classification accuracy and competes with and even outperforms other methods in the literature.
Paratexts and Documentary Practices
Authors: Weber Nicholas M. , Thomer Andrea K.
Published: May 2019

The formal literature of science has traditionally acted as a “ledger” where debts are acknowledged, previous works are cited, and advances in knowledge are claimed. Recent innovation in electronic publishing, as well as open access requirements from funding agencies in the life sciences, is making it possible to examine this ledger more closely: we can now more definitively ask who is acknowledged, where do citations appear, and what knowledge is claimed within an entire discipline, journal or archive of publications. In this chapter, the authors explore the ledger of bioinformatics, asking how two paratexts—acknowledgment and authorship statements—can be used to understand credit and collaboration within this unique field.
Library Services for Bioinformatics
Authors: Ram Shri
Published: May 2019

Bioinformatics is an emerging data intensive discipline. The community and information resources and sources are heterogeneous. It is the role of library to provide a comprehensive platform to deliver effective information services to the community. The paper discusses the status of various bioinformatics information resources available for the community. It is essential to search, consolidate and made information resources available to the community. The paper also discusses the methodology for integration of information resources at a single platform. The integration platform is proposed shall highlight the role of the library in understanding the current best practices to deliver effective information to bioinformatics community. It will discuss the close relationship between data and information playing an extensive role in generation of bioinformatics knowledge. Further, a model has been proposed for the resource integration in the area of bioinformatics in order to provide a comprehensive platform for knowledge dissemination.
Appropriate and Sustainable Plant Biotechnology Applications for Food Security in Developing Economies
Authors: de Gannes Vidya , Borroto Carlos G.
Published: May 2019

Appropriate plant biotechnology applications could be a major tool in the fight against hunger and poverty, especially in developing economies. Some promising results have already been reported through a range of biotechnology applications, for example the mass propagation of plants through in vitro clonal propagation, use of molecular markers and marker assisted breeding to improve plant breeding, use of bio-products and the application of molecular techniques for quick and accurate diagnosis of plant diseases. Thus, biotechnology may have the potential to deliver solutions to some of the shortcomings of the green revolution such as the limitations of conventional breeding, poor quality and insufficient quantity of planting materials available to farmers and the negative environmental consequences of high usage of inorganic pesticides and fertilizers. This chapter will elaborate the successful application of these technologies for sustainable agriculture and food security in developing economies. It is envisaged that through partnership between developing and developed economies, and assistance from international organizations and governments, capacity can be developed for developing economies to achieve the full potential of biotechnology and sustainability.
Hydrocarbon Biodegradation Using Agro-Industrial Wastes as Co-Substrates
Authors: El Mahdi Abdullah Mohammed , Aziz Hamidi Abdul
Published: May 2019

The diversity of agro industrial wastes makes them an attractive group of organic wastes for potential use in a wide variety of industrial and biotechnological applications. The new stimulating development in this current area of research approaches in combination with the technologies of large-scale production and biotechnology engineering, agro industrial wastes will be economically successful materials of the future. Increased public awareness of issues related to hydrocarbon pollution strongly influences the development of technologies that speed up cleaning hazardous contaminants. The cost of biodegradation technology and the low bioavailability including mass transfer limitations of hydrocarbons, especially those recalcitrant components, from various mediums into the aqueous phase for effective enzyme-based microbial biodegradation still constitute major challenges. Sustainable replacement of traditional microbiological media with agroindustrial wastes as substrates for biosurfactant production holds great potential; thereby decrease numerous management problems of handling industrial waste. These organic nitrogen-rich nutrients (biostimulation) are an effective means to enhance the bioremediation process and widely available as wastes in the environment; hence, they can serve as “natural waste-to-environmental clean-up.” However, current chapter have focused on the combined use of biosurfactants and enzymes produced from renewable resources such as agro-industrial waste, through assisted biostimulation and bioaugmentation, for hydrocarbon biodegradation.
What Influences the Growth of Canadian Biotechnology Firms?
Authors: Beaudry Catherine , Levasseur Joël
Published: May 2019

This chapter examines the influence of firm characteristics on the growth of all Canadian biotechnology firms. Data collected by Statistics Canada from four Biotechnology Uses and Development Surveys (1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005) characterise the size, origin, contracts, IP, collaboration, financing, product development stage, tax credits of Canadian biotechnology firms, while employment data from the Business Register of the organisation provides the size of firms beyond 2005. Results show the importance of collaboration for exploration (knowledge) purposes, the importance of alliances for exploitation (commercialization) purposes for firms with rapid growth. Furthermore, a good product development process that brings products through regulation towards commercialization has a positive impact on firm growth and so does R&D expenses.
Effectiveness and efficiency of a dedicated bimodal fitting formula
Authors: Cuda Domenico , Murri Alessandra , Mainardi Anna , Chalupper Josef
Published: May 2019

The population of unilateral cochlear implant (CI) users with aidable residual hearing in the contralateral ear is continuously growing. Aiding the contralateral ear with a hearing aid has been shown to provide substantial benefit regarding speech intelligibility in quiet and in noise, sound quality, localization ability and listening effort. In this study, a dedicated hearing aid with the accompanying fitting prescription, tailored to the needs of bimodal listeners was evaluated in nine bimodal CI users. Speech intelligibility scores in noise revealed on-par performance of the dedicated bimodal fitting compared to the clinical standard prescription. 78% of the bimodal CI users preferred the dedicated bimodal fitting over the clinical standard. The minimal subject-specific finetuning effort required during the dedicated bimodal fitting process emphasizes the clinical efficiency.
An obstacle problem for elastic curves: Existence results
Authors: Müller Marius
Published: May 2019

We consider an obstacle problem for elastic curves with fixed ends. We attempt to extend the graph approach provided in [8]. More precisely, we investigate nonexistence of graph solutions for special obstacles and extend the class of admissible curves in a way that an existence result can be obtained by a penalization argument.
Polynomial bounds for automorphisms groups of foliations
Authors: Corrêa Maurício , Muniz Alan
Published: May 2019

Let

(X, \mathcal{F})

be a foliated surface and

G

a finite group of automorphisms of

X

that preserves

\mathcal{F}

. We investigate invariant loci for

G

and obtain upper bounds for its order that depends polynomially on the Chern numbers of

X

and

\mathcal{F}

. As a consequence, we estimate the order of the automorphism group of some foliations under mild restrictions. We obtain an optimal bound for foliations on the projective plane which is attained by the automorphism groups of the Jouanolou's foliations.
Faculty and Resident Perspectives on Using Entrustment Anchors for Workplace-Based Assessment
Authors: Dudek Nancy , Gofton Wade , Rekman Janelle , McDougall Allan
Published: May 2019

Background

Research suggests that workplace-based assessment (WBA) tools using entrustment anchors provide more reliable assessments than those using traditional anchors. There is a lack of evidence describing how and why entrustment anchors work.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to better understand the experience of residents and faculty with respect to traditional and entrustment anchors.

Methods

We used constructivist grounded theory to guide data collection and analysis (March–December 2017) and semistructured interviews to gather reflections on anchors. Phase 1 involved residents and faculty (n = 12) who had only used assessment tools with traditional anchors. Phase 2 involved participants who had used tools with entrustment anchors (n = 10). Data were analyzed iteratively.

Results

Participants expressed that the pragmatic language of entrustment anchors made WBA (1) concrete and justifiable; (2) transparent as they explicitly link clinical assessment and learning progress; and (3) align with training outcomes, enabling better feedback. Participants with no prior experience using entrustment anchors outlined contextual concerns regarding their use. Participants with experience described how they addressed these concerns. Participants expressed that entrustment anchors leave a gap in assessment information because they do not provide normative data.

Conclusions

Insights from this analysis contribute to a theoretical framework of benefits and challenges related to the adoption of entrustment anchors. This richer understanding of faculty and resident perspectives of entrustment anchors may assist WBA developers in creating more acceptable tools and inform the necessary faculty development initiatives that must accompany the use of these new WBA tools.