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Continuance Of Mhealth Services At The Bottom Of The Pyramid: The Roles Of Service Quality And Trust, Shahriar Akter, Pradeep Ray, John D'Ambra

Shahriar Akter

Continued usage of information systems (or, IS continuance) has proven to be a critical success parameter for ICT implementation at the top of the global economic pyramid. However, there are few studies which have explored continued IS usage at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) though it represents the majority of the world’s population. To fill this knowledge gap, this study develops an mHealth continuance model at the BOP framing the impact of two post adoption expectation beliefs (i.e., perceived service quality and perceived trust). This study extends ECM (expectation confirmation model) perspective synthesizing the extant literature on continued …

The Impact Of Domestic Violence In The Workplace, Helen Lavan, Yvette Lopez, Marsha Katz, Marty Martin

William Marty Martin

No abstract provided.

Resurrecting Gods, Ahissa Branson

sbranson@oglethorpe.edu

No abstract provided.

The Final Cut: End-Of-Life Empowerment Through Autobiographical Video Documentary, Broderick Fox

Broderick Fox

No abstract provided.

Sex Ratio In Mumbai, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

Gender equity has been a prominent aspect of equity concerns in public policy. The gender dimension has led to widespread advocacy and focused attention on equity in other than economic areas, such as education, health, decision-making, violence against women and political participation. The human development approach offers a capability-based approach to gender equity in development that is a departure from traditions focused on income and growth. Gender concerns have given the approach the power and flexibility to encompass aspects of inequality that would otherwise go unremarked. Its sensitivity to gender in turn has made it sensitive to a range of …

Data Security And Information Privacy For Pda Accessible Clinical-Log For Medical Education In Problem-Based Learning (Pbl) Approach, Rattiporn Luanrattana, Khin Than Win, John A. Fulcher

Dr Khin Win

Data security and information privacy are the important aspects to consider for the use of mobile technology for recording clinical experience and encounter in medical education. Objective: This study aims to address the qualitative findings of the appropriate data security and information privacy for PDA accessible clinical-log in problem-based learning (PBL) approach in medical education. Method: The semi-structured interviews were conducted with the medical faculty members, honorary clinical academics and medical education technology specialists. Results: Data security and information access plan were determined for managing clinical-log data. The results directed the guideline for the future development and implementation of clinical-log …

Evaluating The Implementation Of Emr Systems From The Perspective Of Health Professionals, Yung-Yu Su, John A. Fulcher, Khin Than Win, Herng-Chia Chiu, Gui-Fen Chiu

Dr Khin Win

In health informatics, the "updated DeLone and McLean IS success model" is reviewed as a mature model in measuring health information system (HIS) success. This research provided an evaluation model to estimate the implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) systems from a health professional perspective by combined the updated DeLone and McLean IS success model, data quality management model, and EMR systems safety attributes. Based on evidence-based management (EBM), this research could be regarded as an empirical example for further EMR systems research since it not only provided a model to measure the Taiwanese EMR systems in two hospitals by …

Implementing Patient Accessible Health Information Site For Diabetes Management, Khin Than Win

Dr Khin Win

The focus of health care has changed from health care provider paternalistic approach to consumer focused approach. The aim of this study is to implement an online health information site for patient education of Diabetes. To achieve this, design criteria for effective patient education were considered and diabetes patients information site was implemented which includes patient information access, diabetes challenge, administrator module and the scheduler module. Implementing patients access for their health information with providing patients tailored health information according to their needs to enhance patient education is important. This project contributes vastly in consumer health informatics as it develops …

A Gender Recognition System Using Shunting Inhibitory Convolutional Neural Networks, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

In this paper, we employ shunting inhibitory convolutional neural networks to develop an automatic gender recognition system. The system comprises two modules: a face detector and a gender classifier. The human faces are first detected and localized in the input image. Each detected face is then passed to the gender classifier to determine whether it is a male or female. Both the face detection and gender classification modules employ the same neural network architecture; however, the two modules are trained separately to extract different features for face detection and gender classification. Tested on two different databases, Web and BioID database, …

A Brain-Inspired Visual Pattern Recognition Architecture And Its Applications, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

With the ever-increasing utilization of imagery in scientific, industrial, civilian, and military applications, visual pattern recognition has been thriving as a research field and has become an essential enabling technology for many applications. In this chapter, we present a brain-inspired pattern recognition architecture that can easily be adapted to solve various real-world visual pattern recognition tasks. The architecture has the ability to extract visual features from images and classify them within the same network structure; in other words, it integrates the feature extraction stage with the classification stage, and both stages are optimized with respect to one another. The main …

A Gender Recognition System Using Shunting Inhibitory Convolutional Neural Networks, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

In this paper, we employ shunting inhibitory convolutional neural networks to develop an automatic gender recognition system. The system comprises two modules: a face detector and a gender classifier. The human faces are first detected and localized in the input image. Each detected face is then passed to the gender classifier to determine whether it is a male or female. Both the face detection and gender classification modules employ the same neural network architecture; however, the two modules are trained separately to extract different features for face detection and gender classification. Tested on two different databases, Web and BioID database, …

Adaptive Hierarchical Architecture For Visual Recognition, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Son Lam Phung, Khan M. Iftekharuddin

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

We propose a new hierarchical architecture for visual pattern classification. The new architecture consists of a set of fixed, directional filters and a set of adaptive filters arranged in a cascade structure. The fixed filters are used to extract primitive features such as orientations and edges that are present in a wide range of objects, whereas the adaptive filters can be trained to find complex features that are specific to a given object. Both types of filters are based on the biological mechanism of shunting inhibition. The proposed architecture is applied to two problems: pedestrian detection and car detection. Evaluation …

A Car Detection System Based On Hierarchical Visual Features, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

In this paper, we address the problem of detecting and localizing cars in still images. The proposed car detection system is based on a hierarchical feature detector in which the processing units are shunting inhibitory neurons. To reduce the training time and complexity of the network, the shunting inhibitory neurons in the first layer are implemented as directional nonlinear filters, whereas the neurons in the second layer have trainable parameters. A multi-resolution processing scheme is implemented so as to detect cars of different sizes, and to reduce the number of false positives during the detection stage, an adaptive thresholding strategy …

A Shunting Inhibitory Convolutional Neural Network For Gender Classification, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

Demographic features, such as gender, are very important for human recognition and can be used to enhance social and biometric applications. In this paper, we propose to use a class of convolutional neural networks for gender classification. These networks are built upon the concepts of local receptive field processing and weight sharing, which makes them more tolerant to distortions and variations in two dimensional shapes. Tested on two separate data sets, the proposed networks achieve better classification accuracy than the conventional feedforward multilayer perceptron networks. On the Feret benchmark dataset, the proposed convolutional neural networks achieve a classification rate of …

A Human Gait Classification Method Based On Radar Doppler Spectrograms, Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum, Moeness G. Amin

Dr Fok Hing Chi Tivive

An image classification technique, which has recently been introduced for visual pattern recognition, is successfully applied for human gait classification based on radar Doppler signatures depicted in the time-frequency domain. The proposed method has three processing stages. The first two stages are designed to extract Doppler features that can effectively characterize humanmotion based on the nature of arm swings, and the third stage performs classification. Three types of arm motion are considered: free-arm swings, one-arm confined swings, and no-arm swings. The last two arm motions can be indicative of a human carrying objects or a person in stressed situations. The …

Towards Greater Systemisation In Ci Research: An Exploration Of Social Development As A Framework For Comparison And Understanding, William Tibben

Dr William Tibben

The theme of complexity alludes to the difficulties community informatics (CI) researchers face when analysing use of ICTs by communities. In response, de Moor (2009a, 2009b) and Stillman (2010) identify the need for greater systemisation of CI research that enables complex socio-technical processes to be analysed over multiple cases. The principle by which such systemisation should occur is open to debate. It seems improbable that a single theoretical approach, at least in the short term, is going to satisfy everyone as greater systemisation is pursued. The paper suggests that, as a first step, efforts should be devoted to better appreciation …

What Does The Future Hold For Biometric Technology? A Study Into Changing User Perceptions, Amanda Toshack, William Tibben

Dr William Tibben

Biometric technologies have been developed for authentication and verification of individuals. However, expectations of substantial growth in biometric technologies have not been realised. User-acceptance of biometric technologies represents a significant stumbling block to growth. While it is understood that there are different user concerns creating barriers for the industry, the prioritisation of these concerns and how they have changed over time is unclear. This research investigates the changes in attitudes in both the general user and professional user categories that have occurred over the period 1998-2002. Data was generated from both survey and focus group discussion.

What Prevent B2b Ecommerce Adoption In Developing Countries?: A Socio-Cultural Perspective, Joan Cooper, William Tibben, Savanid Vatanasakdakul

Dr William Tibben

No abstract provided.

Community Technology Centres In Regional New South Wales: A Knowledge Based Analysis Of Ict Enabled Development, W. J. Tibben

Dr William Tibben

Community Technology Centres (CTCs) represent a popular approach in addressing disparities that arise from the digital divide. This research uses a major government CTC program in the Australian state of New South Wales, called the NSW CTC Program, to address questions that relate to the effectiveness of CTCs in addressing social needs and in the generation of sufficient income to support their ongoing operations. The desire by program planners for CTCs to become fully-fledged businesses by the time government funding had ceased in June 2005 provides an opportunity to analyse an underlying philosophy that relied on community autonomy and private …

Women Of African Descent: Persistence In Completing A Doctorate, Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu

Vannetta L. Bailey-Iddrisu

This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003, p. 337).This study used Ellis’s (1997) Three Stages for Graduate Student Development as the conceptual framework to examine the persistent strategies used by these women to persist to the completion of their studies.

Symbolic Modelling Of Dynamic Human Motions, David A. Stirling, Amir S. Hesami, Christian H. Ritz, Kevin Adistambha, Fazel Naghdy

Dr David Stirling

Numerous psychological studies have shown that humans develop various stylistic patterns of motion behaviour, or dynamic signatures, which can be in general, or in some cases uniquely, associated with an individual. In a broad sense, such motion features provide a basis for non-verbal communication, or body language, and in more specific circumstances they combine to form a Dynamic Finger Print (DFP) of an individual, such as their gait, or walking pattern. A new modelling and classification approach for spatiotemporal human motions is proposed, and in particular the walking gait. The movements are obtained through a full body inertial motion capture …

Perception Of Human Gestures Through Observing Body Movements, Amir S. Hesami, Fazel Naghdy, David A. Stirling, Harold C. Hill

Dr David Stirling

A new approach to modelling and classification of human gait is proposed. Body movements are obtained using a sensor suit that records inertial signals that are subsequently modelled on a humanoid frame with 23 degrees of freedom (DOF). Measured signals include position, velocity, acceleration, orientation, angular velocity and angular acceleration. Using a range of concurrent features extracted from the sensor signals, a system using induced symbolic classification models, such as decision trees or rule sets, has been used for classification of identity. It is anticipated that this approach will also enable the identification of a variety of gestures. The feasibility …

Optimal Error Of Query Sets Under The Differentially-Private Matrix Mechanism, Chao Li, Gerome Miklau

Gerome Miklau

A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable accuracy, a synthetic data set must be tuned to support a specified set of queries accurately, sacrificing fidelity for other queries.

This work considers methods for producing synthetic data under differential privacy and investigates what makes a set of queries "easy" or "hard" to answer. We consider answering sets of linear counting queries using the matrix mechanism, a recent differentially-private mechanism that can reduce error by adding …

Understanding Women's Issues-A Feminist Standpoint [Paperback]: Shahida Murtaza (Editor), Lambert Academic Publications, Germany, Isbn-10: 3659227722, Isbn-13: 978-3659227721, Pages-304, Price: $99.75, Professor Vibhuti Patel

Professor Vibhuti Patel

The book by Dr. Shahida is a faculty in the department of women education at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India provides the ‘epistemology of the oppressed’ as it gives a different view on hegemonic reality. CONTENTS UNDERSTANDING WOMEN’S ISSUES-A FEMINIST III-XXVI STANDPOINT-SHAHIDA III-XXVI WOMEN’S STRUGGLES AND WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA 1-21 VIBHUTI PATEL GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER BUDGETING IN INDIA 22-48 SAYED AFZAL PEERZADE AND SUSHMA ANGADI NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS 49-66 TALMEEZ FATMA NAQVI WOMEN’S ROLE IN RRELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF ANGAMI NAGA SOCIETY 67-95 VITSO YANO AND REKHA PANDE THE POLITICS OF TRAFFICKING AMONGST …

Lack Of Correlation Of Wais Digit Span With Clox 1 And The Dementia Rating Scale In Mci, Jevin Jay Lortie, Ruth Remington, Heather Hoffman, Thomas B. Shea

Ruth Remington

No abstract provided.

Are You My Mother? Determining "Parentage" In Gestational Surrogacy Cases, Ashton Botts

Ashton Botts

ABSTRACT This casenote examines the 2012 Maine Supreme Court gestational surrogacy case Nolan v. Labree. This case was uncontested and the Court reached a logical and satisfying conclusion that the intended parents should be named the legal parents of the child in question. In more complex situations, though, the decisions are not so simple. This note examines the legal background of gestational surrogacy cases and state courts’ call to legislatures for guidance in deciding this legal question that becomes more prevalent every day. Courts are sending a clear message that they will not be the ones to decide issues of …

Are You My Mother? Determining "Parentage" In Gestational Surrogacy Cases, Ashton Botts

Ashton Botts

ABSTRACT This casenote examines the 2012 Maine Supreme Court gestational surrogacy case Nolan v. Labree. This case was uncontested and the Court reached a logical and satisfying conclusion that the intended parents should be named the legal parents of the child in question. In more complex situations, though, the decisions are not so simple. This note examines the legal background of gestational surrogacy cases and state courts’ call to legislatures for guidance in deciding this legal question that becomes more prevalent every day. Courts are sending a clear message that they will not be the ones to decide issues of …

Symbolic Modelling Of Dynamic Human Motions, David A. Stirling, Amir S. Hesami, Christian H. Ritz, Kevin Adistambha, Fazel Naghdy

Dr Christian Ritz

Numerous psychological studies have shown that humans develop various stylistic patterns of motion behaviour, or dynamic signatures, which can be in general, or in some cases uniquely, associated with an individual. In a broad sense, such motion features provide a basis for non-verbal communication, or body language, and in more specific circumstances they combine to form a Dynamic Finger Print (DFP) of an individual, such as their gait, or walking pattern. A new modelling and classification approach for spatiotemporal human motions is proposed, and in particular the walking gait. The movements are obtained through a full body inertial motion capture …

The Role Of Motivation In The L2 Acquisition Of English By Saudi Students : A Dynamic Perspective, Ali Alzayid

Ali Alzayid

Since the work of Gardener and his associates in the 1950s, the role of motivation in learning a second language has continued to interest researchers. Previous studies on L2 motivation, were largely based on product oriented models of motivation, which tends to view motivation as a static phenomenon. Recently, however, there has been a shift in emphasis from a study of L2 motivation as a product to its study as a process. The methodological framework of this study was based on Dörnyei and Otto's (1998) Process Model of L2 Motivation. This model proposed that the construct of motivation is not …

Dementia And Dementia Care: The Contributions Of A Psychosocial Perspective, Phyllis Braudy Harris

Phyllis Braudy Harris

The social sciences have and continue to play a unique role in the study of dementia and dementia care. For central to the social sciences, particularly the discipline of sociology is a history of critical inquiry that challenges long held societal assumptions, a concern for issues of social justice, social exclusion and the treatment of marginalized populations. All significant areas to consider when caring for a person with dementia. This chapter will trace the development of the study of dementia and dementia care starting with its biomedical roots, examine the contributions of the social sciences in furthering the conceptual development …