Shadow IT is relatively new and emerging phenomenon which is bringing number of concerns and risks to the organizational security. Past literature has mostly explored the “negative” effects of the Shadow IT phenomenon, including, for example, the security aspect where Shadow systems are said to undermine the official systems and endanger organizational data flows. But, they are also said to inc...

There are many respects in which the conventional content of an utterance reflects speaker assumptions about the context of utterance and the relation between that context and the intended interpretation of the utterance. Taken together, these constitute what Vallduví (1992,1993) called the Information Packaging of the utterance, aka its Information Structure. Two central aspects of this Inform...

One of the key challenges in 3D StackedICs (3D-SIC) is to guarantee high product quality at minimal cost. Quality is mostly determined by the applied tests and cost trade-offs. Testing 3D-SICs is very challenging due to several additional test moments for the mid-bond stacks, i.e., partially created stacks. The key question that this paper answers is what is the best test flow to be used in ord...

The authors of this qualitative study analyze Israeli hospital social workers' emotional responses to working with civilian casualties in the wake of an unprecedented surge of terrorist violence. Data are based on four focus groups conducted with 38 hospital social workers in relation to their experience with clients in the emergency room. Three themes were identified: (a) Restoring a lost sens...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the use of wiki for the development of critical thinking skills of students in higher education. This study seeks to explore the learning experiences of students in utilizing wiki to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills. Wiki was introduced to 19 postgraduate students taking the “Studying at Masters Level and Research Methods” m...

In these years, with the expansion of network-based communication tools, consumer based marketing strategies using on-line discussions have received much attention. To get the benefit from on-line discussions, methodologies for analyzing on various discussion elements are demanded. In this paper, we propose a message feature map, which is a visualization method for plotting discussion messages ...

Narrative-centered learning environments hold much promise for education and training. Much of the appeal of narrative-centered learning lies in the belief that narrative context provides a meaningful structure integrating pedagogical objectives into a unifying, coherent form that serves as a powerful motivating force for students. This paper explores the relationship between narrative-centered...