Cybersecurity is the study of protecting information and systems. One of the most secure ways of protecting information online is through cloud services when used appropriately. In St. Mary’s university, cloud computing adaption has rapidly grown and evolved over the years. However, the protection and safety of students and staff’s information is still unsteady, which prompted the evaluation and survey of this research. In this paper, a risk analysis is performed on one of the university’s cloud...

Information Management  Technology  Online social network computing  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust  Cloud Computing 

Gamification techniques can be used in the classroom to motivate and engage students significantly. “Web Page Production and Practical Training” is a compulsory course for secondary computer majors with solid practicality. In the context of education, this study shows how gamification has the potential to increase engagement and promote higher-order learning. However, according to the actual survey results so far, the teaching effect of this course could be more satisfactory because it has not s...

Computer Vision  Self-Stabilization, Autonomic Computing  Technology  Information and communication theory and algorithms 

The rising popularity of mobile payments can be attributed to the widespread use of smartphones and their applications. Despite its potential to simplify our lives, its adoption in African countries has been limited. This paper aims to enhance our understanding of the critical factors that influence the acceptance of mobile payments in Nigeria by exploring the impact of “network externalities” in addition to conventional technology acceptance factors. It posits that performance expectancy, effor...

Electric Engineering  Culture  Information Management  Applications of Communication Systems  Information Science  Economics  Technology  Demography  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust 

Research on the topic of summative assessments has attracted a large audience. The latest trend of a “process-oriented view of learning” has given rise to a heated discussion about assessment as a facilitative instrument to scaffold learning rather than being regarded solely as a “high-stake” measurement tool. Black and Wiliam contributed heavily to theorizing about the pedagogical use of assessment in the classroom with their widely read papers “Assessment and classroom learning (1998)” and “Cl...

Language Education  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Technology  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Reform  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

Increasing measurable student achievement is a primary goal for K-12 institutions worldwide. To this end, Instructional Leaders must be knowledgeable concerning instructional best practices, technology, and current research in education. This paper examines professional development for Instructional Leaders utilizing an accomplished teaching model that employs National Board for Professional Teaching Standards resources as the basis for instruction. Within the context of this paper, Instructiona...

Education Administration  Information Science  E-Learning and Knowledge Management  Teacher Education  Technology  Distance and Open Education  Teaching and Learning Technologies  Educational Technology  Higher Education 

In the global environment of COVID-19 outbreak, contactless biometric identification technology improves the security of services. As an important biometric recognition method, one of the important aspects of palmprint recognition is feature extraction. In order to perform palmprint image feature extraction and recognition accurately and efficiently, this paper proposes a wavelet transform palmprint image retrieval system. The palmprint image is extracted from the region of interest, and the wav...

Technology 

A smart home refers to a habitation furnished with a communication network, sensors, household devices, and appliances that can be remotely identified, accessed, monitored, and controlled. The objective of this paper is to assess the perception of users of smart homes on the enablers and challenges they face in the deployment of smart homes and seeks to identify opportunities that could be adopted by vendors and manufacturers in meeting a selling point to users. The methodology adopted in this p...

Technology 

The study is aimed at investigating the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use on library service delivery in two universities namely, University of Ghana library (Ghana) and Jiangsu university library (China). The paper adopted quantitative method and used a structured questionnaire to gather the research data. A sample size of 62 staff from Jiangsu University Library and 80 staff from the University of Ghana Library were selected. In all, a sample size of 142 respondents ...

Information Management  Information Science  Information retrieval  Technology  Library, Intelligence and Philology  Information and communication theory and algorithms 

With the urbanization and economic development, the urban population is increasing. In this way, a growing population leads to an increasing demand for travel. The city has been improving its public transportation system to reduce the pressure of urban traffic. Taking Hangzhou metro as an example, this paper analyzes the current planning status of Hangzhou metro, the existing problems, and the corresponding suggestions. It also proposes that intelligent transportation is one of the ways to achie...

Urban Planning  Technology 

Linear Programming optimization is used in this paper to find minimum cost and quantity of food items for selection of proper diet containing sufficient nutrition elements over a week for three different age groups. For this purpose, first a linear programming optimization model is selected and then three data files defining the various food items with their corresponding cost and nutrition elements appropriate to three distinct age groups are constructed. Finally, the model files and the data f...

Technology