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Evaluation of Blackboard Use by Faculty Members at Umm Al-Qura University During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Deena Alghamdi
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2023
  • Blackboard provides a collaborative environment for teaching in terms of assessment and communication and can improve learning outcomes. To evaluate the Blackboard use of faculty members at Umm Al-Qura University, data were collected from two channels: statistical reports issued by the university and an online questionnaire. The questionnaire survey respondents were 187 faculty members from all colleges in the university. The findings show that most faculty members did not use Blackboard before the pandemic; therefore, the sudden conversion to the use of Blackboard required intensive training courses. In addition, accompanying Blackboard use with other applications such as WebEx is preferable, especially for administrative tasks such as departmental board meetings and seminars.

FRRmalloc : Efficient Use-After-Free prevention based on One-time-allocation and batch remapping (FRRmalloc:일회성 할당 및 리매핑 기반의 효율적인 Use-After-Free 방지)

  • Jeong-Hoon Kim;Yeong-Pil Cho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2024.05a
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    • pp.386-388
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    • 2024
  • UAF(Use-After-Free)는 heap 영역에서 메모리 오염을 발생시킬 수 있는 취약점이다. UAF를 방지하기 위해 다양한 방법으로 관련 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있지만, 아직까지 여러 오버헤드 측면에서 모두 좋은 성능을 발휘한 결과는 나오지 않고 있다. 할당자 수준에서의 수정을 통하여, UAF 취약점 방어를 보장하는 동시에 높은 성능과 낮은 오버헤드를 발생시킬 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 본 논문에서는 UAF 취약점 및 관련 연구를 소개하고, 이를 기반으로 UAF 취약점에 대처할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다.

Analyze trends in Use-After-Free bug detection and blocking research (Use-After-Free 버그 탐지 및 예방 연구 동향 분석)

  • Jin-Hwan Kim;Yeong-Pil Cho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2024.05a
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    • pp.222-225
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    • 2024
  • 전통적 프로그래밍 언어인 C/C++는 시스템 프로그래밍 언어로 널리 사용되고 있으며, 이는 저수준 메모리 제어와 하드웨어 상호작용 등의 특성 때문이다. 하지만 C/C++가 가지고 있는 특성중 하나인 저수준 메모리 제어는 프로그래머가 직접 메모리를 관리해야한다. 다양한 메모리 버그들중에서 특히 Use-after-free버그는 오래전부터 현재까지 해결되지 않은 버그로써 존재하고 있으며, 이는 프로그래머가 수동으로 메모리를 관리함으로써 발생한다. 이 버그를 예방 및 감지하기 위한 연구가 현재까지도 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 이 버그를 차단 및 감지하는 연구들의 동향을 분석하여 앞으로의 관련 연구의 지속적인 필요성을 제시한다.

Assessing the Green Total Factor Productivity of Water Use in Mainland China

  • Ning, Meng;Wu, Zheru;Zhou, Zhitian;Yang, Duogui
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.201-206
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    • 2021
  • The significance of high-quality development and green total factor productivity has attracted widespread attention and research, while few studies on green total factor productivity that considers the use of water resources have been conducted in the context of water shortages and water stress. In this study, the green total factor productivity of water use from 2005 to 2015 in mainland China is evaluated based on the global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index. Results show that: (1) China's green total factor productivity of water use has been improving since 2005 with an annual global Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index of 1.0104. (2) At the regional level, the eastern zone in mainland China owns the highest green total factor productivity of water use, while that in the intermediate zone ranks last. (3) The green total factor productivity of water use in the southern region (1.0113) significantly higher than that in the northern region (1.0095), and also higher than the national average level in the same period. BPC index has been the most important incluencing factor of green total factor productivity of water use at both national level and regional level since 2011.

What happens after IT adoption?: Role of habits, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy formed by the experiences of use (정보기술 수용 후 주관적 지각 형성: 사용 경험에서 형성된 습관, 기대일치, 자기효능감의 역할)

  • Kim, Yong-Young;Oh, Sang-Jo;Ahn, Joong-Ho;Jahng, Jung-Joo
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.25-51
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    • 2008
  • Researchers have been continuously interested in the adoption of information technology (IT) since it is of great importance to the information systems success and it is also an important stage to the success. Adoption alone, however, does not ensure information systems success because it does not necessarily lead to achieving organizational or individual objectives. When an organization or an individual decide to adopt certain information technologies, they have objectives to accomplish by using those technologies. Adoption itself is not the ultimate goal. The period after adoption is when users continue to use IT and intended objectives can be accomplished. Therefore, continued IT use in the post-adoption period accounts more for the accomplishment of the objectives and thus information systems success. Previous studies also suggest that continued IT use in the post-adoption period is one of the important factors to improve long-term productivity. Despite the importance there are few empirical studies focusing on the user behavior of continued IT use in the post-adoption period. User behavior in the post-adoption period is different from that in the pre-adoption period. According to the technology acceptance model, which explains well about the IT adoption, users decide to adopt IT assessing the usefulness and the ease of use. After adoption, users are exposed to new experiences and they shape new beliefs different from the thoughts they had before. Users come to make decisions based on their experiences of IT use whether they will continue to use it or not. Most theories about the user behaviors in the pre-adoption period are limited in describing them after adoption since they do not consider user's experiences of using the adopted IT and the beliefs formed by those experiences. Therefore, in this study, we explore user's experiences and beliefs in the post-adoption period and examine how they affect user's intention to continue to use IT. Through deep literature reviews on the construction of subjective beliefs by experiences, we draw three meaningful constructs which theoretically have great impacts on the continued use of IT: perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy. Then, we examine the role of the subjective beliefs on the cognitive/affective attitudes and intention to continue to use that IT. We set up a research model and conducted survey research. Since IT use implies interactions among a user, IT, and a task, we carefully selected the sample of users using same/similar IT to perform same/similar tasks, to exclude unwanted influences of other factors than subjective beliefs on the IT use. We also considered that the sample of users were able to make decisions to continue to use IT volitionally or at least quasi-volitionally. For each construct, we used measurement items recognized for reliability and widely used in the previous research. We slightly modified some items proper to the research context and a pilot test was carried out for forty users of a portal service in a university. We performed a full-scale survey after verifying the reliability of the measurement. The results show that the intention to continue to use IT is strongly influenced by cognitive/affective attitudes, perceived habits, and computer self-efficacy. Confirmation affects the intention to continue indirectly through cognitive/affective attitudes. All the constructs representing the subjective beliefs built by the experiences of IT use have direct and/or indirect impacts on the intention of users. The results also show that the attitudes in the post-adoption period are formed, at least partly, by the experiences of IT use and newly shaped beliefs after adoption. The findings suggest that subjective beliefs built by the experiences have deep impacts on the continued use. The results of the study signify that while experiencing IT in the post-adoption period users form new beliefs, attitudes, and intentions which may be different from those of the pre-adoption period. The results of this study partly demonstrate that the beliefs shaped by the behaviors, those are the experiences of IT use, influence users' attitudes and intention. The results also suggest that behaviors (experiences) also change attitudes while attitudes shape behaviors. If we combine the findings of this study with the results of the previous research on IT adoption, we can propose a cycle of IT adoption and use where behavior shapes attitude, the attitude forms new behavior, and that behavior shapes new attitude. Different from the previous research, the study focused on the user experience after IT adoption and empirically demonstrated the strong influence of the subjective beliefs formed in the post-adoption period on the continued use. This partly confirms the differences between attitudes in the pre-adoption and in the post-adoption period. Users continuously change their attitudes and intentions while experiencing (using) IT. Therefore, to make users adopt IT and to make them use IT after adoption is a different problem. To encourage users to use IT after adoption, experiential variables such as perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy should be managed properly.

Improving Utilization of GPS Data for Urban Traffic Applications

  • Nguyen, Duc Hai;Nguyen, Tan Phuc;Doan, Khue;Ta, Ho Thai Hai;Pham, Tran Vu;Huynh, Nam;Le, Thanh Van
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.6-9
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    • 2015
  • The use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is promising to bring better solutions for managing and handling the city traffic. This system combines many fields in advanced technology such as Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and so on. The basement of applications in ITS is the effective collections and data integration tools. The purpose of our research is to propose solutions which involve the use of GPS time series data collected from GPS devices in order to improve the quality of output traffic data. In this study, GPS data is collected from devices attached to vehicles travelling on routes in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Then, GPS data is stored in database system to serve in many transportation applications. The proposed method combines the data usage level and data coverage to improve the quality of traffic data.

Relationship between the prevalence of temporomandibular joint disorders in some male high school students and computer utilization (일부 남자 고등학생의 측두하악장애 관련 증상의 유병률과 구강악습관 및 컴퓨터 이용시간과의 관계 연구)

  • Park, Eui Jung;Yoon, Young-Ju
    • Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.651-657
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    • 2013
  • Objectives : The purpose of the study is to verify the correlation between teenagers' use of internet and temporomandibular joint disorders(TMJD) because TMJD patients gradually increase in high school students. Methods : Subjects were 221 male high school students attending liberal arts and commercial schools from 9 to 21 of April, 2012. Students completed self-reported questionnaire. Results : TMJD symptoms included crackling joint (32.1%), headache (18.6%), malocclusion (8.1%), and jaw fatigue and muscular aching (7.2%). Students having at least one symptom accounted for 49.8%. Students having at least one poor habit accounted for 83.7% and 34.0% of the students used internet for 3 hours.. Score of students experiencing shoulders and chest pain was $5.13{\pm}1.10$ (p<0.05). Score of TMD afflicting area revealed $4.67{\pm}2.73$ (p<0.05) in mastication pain ($4.13{\pm}2.73$ (p<0.05)) due to long hours of internet use. Score of jaw fatigue related to muscular pain was $4.31{\pm}1.96$ (p<0.01). Duration of computer use was related to perceived TMJD symptoms (r=.153). Long duration of computer use was related to poor oral cavity habits (r=.157). Conclusions : Male high school students can perceive slight TMD which needs self management and regular check-ups and try to prevent TMD by utilizing measurement tools on TMD. Also, this study helps to prevent from worsening TMD by shortening hours of computer utilization.

Computer Literacy Skills as a Determinant of Electronic Reference Sources Utilization among Selected Secondary School Students in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government, Ogun State, Nigeria

  • Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef;Opene Sunday Ozonuwe;Adesanmi Mathew Farukuoye
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.81-97
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    • 2024
  • The study investigated computer literacy skills as a determinant of electronic reference sources utilization among selected secondary school students in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government, Ogun State, Nigeria. Four specific objectives with conforming research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises of SSS3 students of the three selected Community Secondary Schools in Ado Odo Ota. A sample size of 150 was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a self-developed structured questionnaire. Data collected was analyzed using frequency and percentages. Findings of the study revealed that majority of secondary school students were not aware of the availability of electronic reference sources. It also revealed that the level of their computer literacy skills was below average. Majority of them have never used computer before and the few of them that have used computer before used it in their homes, their friend's homes or in the cyber café. It was found that lack of formal training on the use of electronic reference sources, lack of access to computer, lack of awareness of availability of electronic reference sources, lack of funds for internet subscriptions, over dependency on printed reference sources and lack of motivation to use electronic reference sources were the major hindrances to the use of electronic reference sources among secondary school students. It was recommended that the school librarians and teachers should play a role in creating awareness among secondary school students about the availability of online/ electronic reference sources among others.

The Use of Innovative Technologies in Education

  • Stratan-Artyshkova, Tetiana;Bilyk, Ruslana;Vitsukaieva, Kateryna;Drozich, Iryna;Kalimanova, Olha;Vasiutynska, Yelena;Bida, Olena
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2022
  • The use of innovative technologies is one of the promising areas of education development, so the article clarifies the content of the terms "innovation" "pedagogical technology". Our goal is to justify the need to use innovative technologies in education. Innovative technologies are divided into four groups, depending on the appropriate form of educational activity for their use. The development of innovative pedagogical technologies at the present stage of education development should be carried out in accordance with the criteria of technological efficiency, which are presented in the article: scientific; systematic; guaranteed; manageable; mass. Based on the analysis of the process of formation of pedagogical education, the main trends in the information support of teachers in the system of pedagogical education were revealed. Its theoretical and methodological foundations were determined, promising directions and main ways of improving the information support of teachers' education as an organic component of continuous pedagogical education in Ukraine were justified. The conducted study of the state of information support for teachers allowed us to establish that the main functions of scientific and pedagogical information - analytical and predictive, integrative, operational and purposeful informing of various categories of specialists - teachers-are not being implemented enough. This is due to the versatility and complexity of the pedagogical process, the low level and limited range of development of systems of operational differentiated scientific and methodological services for various categories of teachers. Ways to improve the information function of teacher education are determined.

Design of Computer Using-Time Control System for Prevention of Game Toxication (게임중독 예방을 위한 컴퓨터 사용시간 제어시스템)

  • Cho, Sang-Hyun;Choi, Min-Kyu
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, we refer to positive effect and negative effect of game. And we inquire the recent trend of edutainment that emphasizes charm of game and educational effect at the same time. Because the simulation game and the role-playing game have strong toxication, the limitation of computer use is essential. Therefore, we present dynamic computer using-time control system for prevention of game toxicaton and for activity of educational contents. The method considered in this paper increases computer using-time n proportion to using of educational contents. So it lead user of computer to use educational contents voluntarily.

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