The negative impact of Internet use on adolescents has received much popular attention and has also become a popular research topic. How to induce adolescent players to change their attitudes toward online gaming is one of the most important issues in online gaming addiction. The present study is based on the less-leads-to-more effect of dissonance theory. Experimental research was conducted to...

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) provides an opportunity to improve the quality of patient life. The availability of sustainable telecardiology system in Malaysia is essential to overcome shortage of cardiology services in rural area. This paper elaborates the framework including requirements of telecardiology technology to meet the current condition of te...

A firm’s announcement that it intends to restructure based on tracking stock is usually associated with a positive stock price reaction, at least in the short run. Typically, this reaction is attributed to expected reductions in a diversification discount, through reduced agency costs or information asymmetries. We reinvestigate this latter hypothesis by focusing on the liquidity provided by ma...

Software development’s organizational design is often characterized by geographical dispersion and virtual team work. In this setup, communication is an essential task. We study this task by analyzing the association between communication structure and efficiency of the issue tracking process. This key process within software development is primarily carried out digitally and thus provides a su...

People often use social media to discuss opinions, including political ones. We refer to relevant topics in these discussions as political issues, and the alternate stands towards these topics as political positions. We present a Political Issue Extraction (PIE) model that is capable of discovering political issues and positions from an unlabeled dataset of tweets. A strength of this model is t...

We address the problem of constructing an assurance case and propose an approach to extract information from an issue tracking system that can be used to construct an assurance case. This approach takes advantage of information searching and data mining techniques to identify relevant information, which can also be used as materials for constructing an assurance case. This paper gives an overvi...

This paper presents a new scheme to implement an event-driven traffic ticketing system. The system consists of two modules, namely, (1) event detection module, (2) database management module to execute information retrieval and deliver traffic tickets. In this paper, the notable contribution is an automatic detection of traffic ticketing events from video footages and immediate notification of ...

This work evaluates value predictor access filtering and its effects on performance and dynamic energy consumption in a wide-issue, high-frequency processor. New and previously proposed filtering strategies are analyzed with realistic predictor constraints, such as port restrictions and table access latency. Filters restrict access to the value predictor for instructions with unconsumed predict...

We study two issues which could affect the performance of value prediction on wide-issue ILP processors. One is the large number of accesses to the value prediction tables needed in each machine cycle, and the other is the delay required to update stale values in the value prediction tables. We introduce a prediction value cache (PVC) which augments the instruction cache to hold the prediction ...

One of the most important issue that a project manager must address in construction project management is risk management. Risk management includes identifying risks, assessing risks either quantitatively or qualitatively, choosing the appropriate method for handling risks, and then monitoring and documenting risks. By identifying risks in an early stage of planning and assessing their relative...