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Analysing Open Data in Virtual Research Environments
Anneke Zuiderwijk
Oct 01, 2017
This article describes how virtual research environments (VREs) offer new opportunities for researchers to analyse open data and to obtain new insights for policy making. Although various VRE-related initiatives are under...
Published by: IGI Global
Combined Assessment of Software Safety and Security Requirements
Safety is a fundamental concern in modern society, and security is a precondition for safety. Ensuring safety and security of complex integrated systems requires a coordinated approach that involve different stakeholder groups...
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Expertise in Professional Overwatch Play
Joey Fanfarelli
Jan 01, 2018
eSports is a rapidly growing phenomenon in competitive gaming. Expertise is an interesting topic to study in relation to eSports, as eSports athletes are considered among the most highly-skilled players of their particular...
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Geographic Analysis of Domestic Violence Incident Locations and Neighborhood Level Influences
Domestic violence is an important public health issue, and there is limited research to date that examines community-level influences on this serious form of violence. This article investigates the neighborhood characteristics...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Will Facebook Encourage Citizen Participation?
Facebook, the most popular social media in the world, has changed the ways of citizen involvement in governance. Politicians and (elected) public administrators worldwide have adopted Facebook as an important approach to connect...
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Overview of Big Data-Intensive Storage and its Technologies for Cloud and Fog Computing
Computing systems are becoming increasingly data-intensive because of the explosion of data and the needs for processing the data, and subsequently storage management is critical to application performance in such data-intensive...
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Collaboration Network Analysis Based on Normalized Citation Count and Eigenvector Centrality
In the research community, the estimation of the scholarly impact of an individual is based on either citation-based indicators or network centrality measures. The network-based centrality measures like degree, closeness...
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Optimization Methods in Continuous Improvement Models
Brian Galli
Jan 01, 2019
There are numerous processes used to implement quality, such as TQM, 6 Sigma, and Lean. For these quality processes to remain effective, a continuous improvement model is required and implemented from time to time. Some of these...
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Reversible Data Hiding with Multiple Data for Multiple Users in an Encrypted Image
This article presents a new method which embeds multiple data from multiple users in an encrypted image. Here, the data from several users is embedded into an encrypted image. Initially, the image is encrypted by the owner...
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Image Steganalysis in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces with Proximal Support Vector Machine
This article presents the linear Proximal Support Vector Machine (PSVM) to the image steganalysis, and further generates a very efficient method called PSVM-LSMR through implementing PSVM by the state-of-the-art optimization...
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Breaking Steganography
This article describes how to overcome the shortage of steganalysis for small capacity-based embedding. A slight modification method is proposed to break steganography. For a given image, traditional steganalysis methods are...
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Wearable Devices Data for Activity Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Wearable devices are contributing heavily towards the proliferation of data and creating a rich minefield for data analytics. Recent trends in the design of wearable devices include several embedded sensors which also provide...
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Is Ubiquitous Technology for Needs Data Management a Game Changer in Humanitarian Arena?
One in every 70 people around the world is caught up in a crisis (natural disasters, conflict, climate change, etc.) and urgently needs humanitarian assistance and protection according to the OCHA. The humanitarian community...
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Benefits and Challenges of Collaborative Learning in Online Teacher Education
Vassiliki Zygouris-Coe
Jan 11, 2019
Demand for online learning is increasing in US colleges and universities. Learning does not occur in a vacuum; students learn independently and collaboratively. But, is there room for collaborative learning in online courses?...
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Moving K-12 Coursework Online
Online learning is part of the future of K-12 education. However, few online K-12 instructors have been formally trained in online pedagogy. This chapter describes best practices in creating online courses for K-12 students....
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Supporting Teacher Candidates' Development of Critical Thinking Skills Through Dialogue and Reflection
Trevor Stewart
Jan 25, 2019
This chapter employs a dialogic, sociocultural perspective to describe ways teacher educators can support teacher candidates as they develop the critical thinking skills needed to make the transition from student to teacher in...
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The Direction of Causality Between Supply Chain Excellence and Firm Performance
Min Shi
Apr 01, 2019
A widely-accepted measure of supply chain excellence is the Supply Chain Top 25 List published annually by Gartner Research. It evaluates firms from five quality dimensions: return on assets, inventory turns, revenue growth...
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Exploiting Routing Strategy of DTN for Message Forwarding in Information Hiding Applications
Delay tolerant networks (DTNs) represent a class of intermittently connected networks. In such networks, messages are hard to track since they are transmitted by opportunistic encounters between mobile nodes. This feature makes...
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Why People are Involved in and Committed to Online Knowledge-Sharing Communities
One challenge to the success of online knowledge-sharing communities relates to the participants' longtime participation. Literature has explored the determinants of initial participation rather than longtime participation...
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Political Risk and Foreign Direct Investment in Tunisia
Marwa BenGhoul
Jul 01, 2019
Political risk factors have been considered as important factors which impact the foreign direct investment (FDI). But, the relationship between the political risk and FDI still not highly covered as expected. In this context...
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The Key Research and Application in Grid Planning Using Improved Genetic Algorithm
In order to guarantee the power grid operation under the premise of reliability and stability, acquire relative economic investment and operating cost, and adaptable to all kinds of change flexibly, this article improves the...
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Motivating Language and Intent to Stay in a Backsourced Information Technology Environment
Information technology (IT) backsourcing is a recent phenomenon that is gaining momentum because effective sourcing strategy can have major implications for organizations regarding financial investments, IT infrastructure, and...
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Parallel and Distributed Pattern Mining
The treatment of large data is difficult and it looks like the arrival of the framework MapReduce is a solution of this problem. This framework can be used to analyze and process vast amounts of data. This happens by...
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Strategic Information Technology Compensation
Chingning Wang
Oct 01, 2019
The 2008 financial crisis has made many high-tech firms vulnerable. Some non-American firms (e.g. in Taiwan) have even granted their IT professionals a “no-pay break” to reduce firms' financial uncertainty. The crisis leads to a...
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The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success
Software process improvement (SPI) is critical to information system development. In the context of successful SPI, this research focuses on a firm's dynamic learning ability to see how it facilitates an effective means of...
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