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background: ergonomics standards play an important role in product and system design as it can improve their usability; provide comfort and safety for the users. the number of musculoskeletal diseases has increased in recent years in malaysia. however, the awareness and importance of ergonomics in malaysia is still very low among the industries. many ergonomics standards have been adopted by si...

Information Security awareness initiatives are seen as critical to any information security programme. But, how do we determine the effectiveness of these awareness initiatives? We could get our employees to write a test afterwards to determine how well they understand the policies, but this does not show how it affects the employee’s on the job behaviour. Does awareness training have a direct ...

Saussurean and Chomskyan “conduit” views of meaning in communication, dominant in much of expert and lay linguistic semantics, presuppose a simple, closed and linear system in which outcomes can be predicted and explained in terms of finite sets of rules. Summarizing critical traditions of scholarship, notably those driven by Bateson’s view of systems infused with more recent linguistic-anthrop...

On 02.06.2020, the social media team of Deutsche Bahn, German railway company, announced on Twitter that for a three-month launching phase, they would use singular T-form du to address their customers. basis corpus public tweets analyzed as metapragmatic comments, I examine which stances users adopt and what these tell us about how German-speaking Twittersphere metapragmatically assesses approp...

This paper discusses the relationship between information security awareness and behavior by analyzing data collected from a Web-based survey on information security measures in Japan. First, it is found that individuals would not have problematic behavior from the viewpoint of information security measures if the individual’s awareness is higher. Next, it is found that the awareness of individ...

It is now some decades since the study of “linguistic ideology” was first proposed (Silverstein 1979), and time ripe for taking stock. This article considers developments in this field as it has emerged and, respects, become normalized. Yet, normalized can mean backgrounded, taken granted—perhaps obscuring important theoretical issues methodological challenges. I revisit what entailed by “ideol...

There has been much activity over the past two decades in developing conceptual models under the titles of data fusion and situation awareness. In this paper we will explore the two most popular models and show how they complement each other in developing an overall framework for situation awareness. We will also demonstrate how this framework has been applied to a sample “monitoring” problem.

Infinite hierarchies of awareness and beliefs arise in games with unawareness, similarly to belief hierarchies in standard games. A natural question is whether each hierarchy describes the player’s awareness of the hierarchies of other players and beliefs over these, or whether the reasoning can continue indefinitely. This paper constructs the universal type structure with unawareness where eac...