Researcher: Yoko Kunii Title: Student Pilot Situational Awareness: The Effects of Trust in Technology Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Degree: Master of Science in Aeronautics Year: 2006 The purpose of this research was to evaluate the general level of trust in technology in student pilots and then to determine the relationship between pilots’ trust and their situational awaren...

ICT resources are important assets of any organization and the protection of these resources are equally important. To be able to protect themselves and their profitability, many organizations have established information security awareness programs. In order for a security awareness program to add value to an organization and at the same time make a contribution to the field of information sec...

This article examines the level of diffusion of social software (SS) in Italian local administrations and the effectiveness of these technologies in supporting public engagement, focusing on the specific case of Facebook in Italian municipalities. Public engagement refers to the involvement of citizens in public decisions and public life. This activity is h...

We examine a logic that combines knowledge, awareness, and change of awareness. An agent can become aware of factual propositions but also of other agents or of herself. The dual operation to becoming aware, forgetting, can also be modelled. We show that the logic is decidable, and we present a complete axiomatization.

This paper suggests that in dispersed settings presence and awareness are continuously produced and reproduced by human agents through communication genres. Specifically, the paper argues that presence and awareness are two interrelated concepts. More specifically, it proposes four communication genres people intentionally or unintentionally draw upon in dispersed settings in order to create aw...

the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...

awareness of the perception of farmers toward cooperation is an important step for developing the role of cooperatives in rural economy. the purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to investigate perception of farmers toward cooperation. the statistical population for the study consisted of farmer heads of families in the rural society of kermanshah township (n=24391). three hundred...

Situation awareness for ground combat vehicles is being actively developed by the U.S. Army to enable soldiers and commanders to have a better understanding of their environments and hence allow them to fight smarter. The control of hit avoidance assets (sensors and countermeasures) by the Commander‟s Decision Aid (CDA) can also benefit from situation awareness data, either from offboard report...

In this paper, the authors discuss employees’ beliefs about their abilities to competently use computer information security tools in the determination of effective information security practices within organizations. In the first section the authors present a background about information security practices at work. Then, the authors present a research approach based on social cognitive theory ...