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The behaviour of the employee has the potential to either strengthen or weaken security, and it is therefore vital to foster a culture of security within organizations. The hope is that such a culture will ensure that behaviour becomes more secure over time, essentially reducing security incidents. Organizations attempt to nurture such a culture, mostly by means of educating their employees and having...
Competitive organizations have implemented systems of business intelligence in order to help employees in the process of evidence-based decision-making. Using these systems in university will provide a set of analytical tools that support decision-making of academics focused to the improvement of their research and teaching activities. In the case of teachers, for example, it may help to better understand...
One of the most important factors that influence firms to improve competitiveness and achieve competitive advantage is the utilization of technological innovation capabilities (TICs). In this paper, the impacts of the various aspects of these capabilities are evaluated and prioritized. After reviewing the literature, the capabilities have been categorized into six dimensions and different aspects...
This paper provides an exploration of the challenges faced by higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United Kingdom in the context of reductions in the level of public funding along with increased competition both on a national and international level. This competitive landscape has been reviewed through analysis of supporting data and information in order to identify the underlying trends impacting...
This paper deals with our positive experience about project-based pedagogy with the help of industrial partners to teach signal and image processing. During one semester, students are working in small groups of 6 to 8 students, supervised by two teachers or engineers working in a small or a big com pany. Various topics are proposed each year such as radar pro cessing, mobile communication system or...
In the European and American advanced, it's being common sense to develop software offshore at a developing country in Asia. Since putting it in our country, but English operational capability is being short, is developing it dilatorily offshore and isn't advancing. The foreigner student studying abroad who will learn at a university in our country later is the session of information processing when...
In recent years, the increasing demand of electricity and the new technology applied in the electrical engineering (EE) bring many challenges to the research and education of China's industry and university. In order to adapt to such changes, the industry, university and government put much efforts on the industry-academic and education cooperation. This paper describes the background, status and...
Living in the knowledge age, we acknowledge that new ideas and innovative products are the new sources of economic growth. Technologies play a critical role in knowledge-based economy in several ways For example, internet is one of the main conduits for learning new skills and information that are necessary in a knowledge-based economy. Technologies, at the same time, also drive changes in education...
The article presents the results of the research on the effectiveness of the "First Steps at FIM" project (FSAF). The research involved the participation of more than six thousands first-year students in the years of 2012 -- 2014. The aim of the survey was to prove that the FSAF project is useful and students are satisfied with it. The methods of a quantitative questionnaire survey and qualitative...
This paper selects the data of listed companies in Shanghai stock exchange and Shenzhen stock exchange between 2010 and 2013, studying the moderating effect of management team characteristics on the relationship between equity incentive and internal control quality. The result shows that there is a significant positive correlation between equity incentive and internal control quality. Also, education...
This paper examines the overall development of professional identity of two English teachers in the same Chinese college employing the narrative analysis approach. The process of sharing two participants' teaching experiences is proved to be instrumental in combing and understanding their change in professional identity, to which four factors are found to be instrumental, namely teachers' personality,...
Over the past several years, the trend has been that academics and industry develop a relationship that expands the engineering education. With focus on German industry, there a need of high level educated PLM Professionals at industry. This paper describes how university and industry solved together the challenge to develop a PLM Professional education at university in industry context to educate...
Development of Cloud Computing it is essential to develop the awareness of usage. Crowd of people use any day, on any device, from anywhere. It is necessary to handle those wide scale of users who want to keep their data in safe, and preserve their identity in the cyberspace. Cloud Computing Service Providers have to evolve their platforms as simply as it can be — but it should be given more responsibility...
In this paper, the charge and discharge strategies were conducted for a future battery energy storage system (BESS) at the National Penghu University of Science and Technology. OpenDSS software was used to establish the power distribution system. A probabilistic neural network model was used to predict the daily load and photovoltaic (PV) generation curve for controlling the charge-discharge of the...
KS tools are tools that allow knowledge workers to share and reuse knowledge both in organizations and leisure environments. However the adoption of KS tools in most organizational ecosystem is slow and worrying, as many researchers have pointed out. This study looks into several factors such as nationality, experience, position and education that influence the usage on a list of KS tools. The study...
This paper describes the structure and development of a multidisciplinary, cross-campus educational program at our institution that integrates nanotechnology to the undergraduate curricula of all majors in science and engineering. With nanoscience and nanotechnology crossing the limits of research labs and finding more and more commercial applications [1], it is in our best interest as a society to...
The PROMIS Project is an ongoing EU Tempus Project for setting up ISC (Informatics as a Second Competence) Master's degrees in Central Asia. We are more specifically concerned with ensuring the vocational aspect of studies and tightening the relationships between companies and universities in this project. To meet these goals we mainly propose to base the curricula organization on both reverse teaching...
The paper presents results achieved through knowledge and experience exchange in the field of professionalization of computer science studies. The results were obtained during Leonardo da Vinci Mobility project titled “Professionalization of bachelor's degree studies in computer science in Lublin University of Technology (UIKI)”. The main aim of the project was to share ideas and to develop methods...
The indent of this study is in the Continuum-focused Methodology of Information Systems Research and utilization of outcomes of research and development as continuums of subjects: understanding; innovating; demonstrating; building; testing; improving; transforming; experiencing; evaluating; implementing; and disseminating. The main research finding of this study is that continuums and path dependency...
The goal of the 24 hours of innovation challenge is to encourage student teams from French and Spanish universities around the Pyrenees to find creative solutions to challenges put forward by participating companies. The initiative is presented and analyzed in this paper as an efficient way to promote creativity and innovation in the new engineering students.
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