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Be ready for emergencies with a local contact data tool

MINNEAPOLIS — How do you contact students in case of emergency? Who has access to your emergency contact list? Do you have accurate and current data on students' local contact information, in case you can't locate them on campus? At the annual conference for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Jeff Armstrong, assistant registrar and administrative program specialist; Jeremy Traska, assistant registrar; and Keri Allard, assistant registrar, all from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, shared their experiences and best practices in putting together their student local and emergency contact information and the Emergency Response Data Tool, in conjunction with their campus security office.

International Ice Services’ Planning for an Arctic Oil Spill Response

ABSTRACT 2017-382 Formed in 1999, the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) is a consortium of the ice services from all over the world. The operational ice services representing nations from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, including all eight Arctic Council nations, come together with a common goal of promoting cooperation between the world’s ice centers on all matters concerning sea ice and icebergs. In 2013, the IICWG began to focus on how the ice services can support an emergency response in ice-laden waters. This focus was on providing current and forecasted information on sea ice and iceberg conditions in the area of the incident as well as for the shipping routes approaching the area. With rapidly changing sea ice, ice information would be critical to planning an effective response. The IICWG formed a partnership with the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited (ITOPF) and Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL) in 2015 to expand the awareness of the ice services and their capabilities to the oil companies and oil spill removal organizations. In 2016, the IICWG conducted an unannounced emergency notification exercise to validate the contact information for each of the ice services. In an effort to ensure responders would be able to access the most accurate contact information, IICWG published this ice services’ contact list worldwide in classification society periodicals. The preparations of these nations culminated in a Tabletop Exercise at the group’s annual meeting in October 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The exercise scenario involved a major oil spill response in ice-infested waters with participants from the ice services, maritime users, satellite data providers, and OSRL. The lessons learned from this exercise will prepare all of the ice services for a coordinated oil spill response. The IICWG also collaborated with the Arctic Council Emergency Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Working Group for future exercises and planning.

SPFM: Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Friend Matching in Mobile Cloud

Profile (e.g., contact list, interest, and mobility) matching is more than important for fostering the wide use of mobile social networks. The social networks such as Facebook, Line, or WeChat recommend the friends for the users based on users personal data such as common contact list or mobility traces. However, outsourcing users’ personal information to the cloud for friend matching will raise a serious privacy concern due to the potential risk of data abusing. In this paper, we propose a novel scalable and privacy-preserving friend matching (SPFM) protocol, which aims to provide a scalable friend matching and recommendation solutions without revealing the users personal data to the cloud. Different from the previous works which involves multiple rounds of protocols, SPFM presents a scalable solution which can prevent honest-but-curious mobile cloud from obtaining the original data and support the friend matching of multiple users simultaneously. We give detailed feasibility and security analysis on SPFM and its accuracy and security have been well demonstrated via extensive simulations. The result show that our scheme works even better when original data is large.

The Relationship between the Use of Green Spaces and Public Gardens in the Work Place on Mental Well-being, Quality of Life, and Job Satisfaction for Employees and Volunteers

Research investigating the relationship between physical environments and various aspects of quality of life have found that people who live or work near natural areas have improved health and increased levels of satisfaction at home, work, and with life in general. Research has also shown that workers who performed their job function in offices with windows or interior plants had higher job satisfaction. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship between the use of green spaces and public gardens in the work place on mental well-being, overall quality of life, and job satisfaction. The sample for this study was drawn from participants who were on the contact list of public garden employees and volunteers for a winter in-service training hosted by the Smithsonian Gardens (Washington, DC). Participants were e-mailed asking for their participation in the survey. An incentive of winning a greenhouse tour was used to improve the response rate. A total of 105 usable surveys were received out of 423 invitations that were sent for a response rate of 24.8%. Participants were asked to respond to questions regarding their work environment, mental well-being, overall quality of life, and job satisfaction. Differences were identified based on whether the participant was a paid employee or unpaid worker. Based on time spent outdoors during the workday, the only difference within the overall group existed with regard to how frequently the participant ate outdoors and their reported mental well-being. On the quality of life questions, differences for the overall sample, the paid group, and the unpaid group were found for having window views of plants or nature. On the job satisfaction question, differences were identified in the overall sample and the paid group for having a window in their immediate office or workplace. Several variables did not identify any statistically significant difference, which might result from this sample being already largely connected to nature due to their employment or volunteer work within a public garden.

They do! How the explicit motive-structure predicts user behavior in (business-) social network sites like Xing or LinkedIn

Despite the massive influence of business related social network sites (SBNSs) like Xing or LinkedIn regarding our professional networking-behavior, little is known about how motivational components (especially considering the `Big Three Motives' affiliation, achievement and power motive) affect user behavior in SNSs. The study's findings indicate that the explicit conscious affiliation, achievement and power motive were related to different networking outcomes. While the explicit affiliation motive predicted the percentage of colleagues in the contact list, the total amount of SBNS contacts was predicted by the explicit power motive. Also, people with high explicit achievement motivation networked significantly more often with persons of lower hierarchical status unlike people with less achievement motivated characteristics. This presents us with new research results and closes an empirical gap in motive research.

Evaluation of contact tracing activities during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea, 2015.

The objective of the study was to present the findings of an audit tool aimed at assessing contact tracing activities during an Ebola outbreak. The tool was based on Ebola guidelines and observations in the field. It was composed of 38 indicators covering contact tracing preparatives, resources, procedures and results. All contact tracing teams were assessed in Boké and Conakry prefectures (24 supervisors, 22 community workers, 442 contacts) between 1 July and 10 August 2015. Contact lists had less than a 40% accomplishment rate. 7% of the contacts were not seen by community workers or supervisors. 'No touch policy' was fully respected. Audit checklist helped to systematically identify critical issues related to contact tracing.

A fast direct search algorithm for contact detection of convex polygonal or polyhedral particles

A fast direct search (FDS) algorithm is presented to increase the efficiency of contact detection for convex polygonal and polyhedral particles. All contact types are detected using only a small subset of these contact types: vertex-to-edge for polygons while vertex-to-face and edge-to-edge for polyhedra. First, an initial contact list is generated. Then in subsequent steps the contact list is updated by checking only local boundaries of the blocks and their separation. An exclusion algorithm is applied to avoid unnecessary examination for particles that are near but not-in-contact. The benchmark tests show that the FDS produces significant speed-up in various cases.

Alltagssekretäre

Facebook's business model consists in channeling and discretizing social networking services and take advantage of the emergence of sociality and subjectivity. It has often been observed how the back end archiving of information leads to a problematic control over private data. What has been noticed less frequently is how this logic of the archive produces front end effects and triggers a "secretary culture" (see Siegert and Vogl 2003) as an incidental side effect. In this article, we analyze specific practices of handling the like button on the social networking service Facebook. Complementing prevalent critical views that analyze these practices as instances of a culture of insubstantial communication and subjugation, we discover a media ecology of the network that is characterized by secretary work. While users are busy registering, taking stock, filing, administering, and organizing contact lists, commentaries, photos, and likes, a contemporary technique of self-management and self-accounting comes into view.

Research data services in veterinary medicine libraries

Objective: The study investigated veterinary medicine librarians’ experience with and perceptions of research data services. Many academic libraries have begun to offer research data services in response to researchers’ increased need for data management support. To date, such services have typically been generic, rather than discipline-specific, to appeal to a wide variety of researchers.Methods: An online survey was deployed to identify trends regarding research data services in veterinary medicine libraries. Participants were identified from a list of contacts from the MLA Veterinary Medical Libraries Section.Results: Although many respondents indicated that they have a professional interest in research data services, the majority of veterinary medicine librarians only rarely or occasionally provide data management support as part of their regular job responsibilities. There was little consensus as to whether research data services should be core to a library’s mission despite their perceived importance to the advancement of veterinary research. Furthermore, most respondents stated that research data services are just as or somewhat less important than the other services that they provide and feel only slightly or somewhat prepared to offer such services.Conclusions: Lacking a standard definition of ‘‘research data’’ and a common understanding of precisely what research data services encompass, it is difficult for veterinary medicine librarians and libraries to define and understand their roles in research data services. Nonetheless, they appear to have an interest in learning more about and providing research data services.

Evaluating Convolutional Neural Network for Effective Mobile Malware Detection

In last years smartphone and tablet devices have been handling an increasing variety of sensitive resources. As a matter of fact, these devices store a plethora of information related to our every-day life, from the contact list, the received email, and also our position during the day (using not only the GPS chipset that can be disabled but only the Wi-Fi/mobile connection it is possible to discover the device geolocalization).This is the reason why mobile attackers are producing a large number of malicious applications targeting Android (that is the most diffused mobile operating system), often by modifying existing applications, which results in malware being organized in families, where each application belonging to the same family exhibit the same malicious behaviour. These behaviours are typically information gathering related, for instance a very widespread malicious behaviour in mobile is represented by sending personal information (as examples: the contact list, the received and send SMSs, the browser history) to a remote server managed by the attackers.In this paper, we investigate whether deep learning algorithms are able to discriminate between malicious and legitimate Android samples. To this end, we designed a method based on convolutional neural network applied to syscalls occurrences through dynamic analysis. We experimentally evaluated the built deep learning classifiers on a recent dataset composed of 7100 real-world applications, more than 3000 of which are widespread malware belonging to several different families in order to test the effectiveness of the proposed method, obtaining encouraging results.

Psychosocial Influences on Disaster Preparedness in San Francisco Recipients of Home Care

Disasters disproportionately impact certain segments of the population, including children, pregnant women, people living with disabilities and chronic conditions and those who are underserved and under-resourced. One of the most vulnerable groups includes the community-dwelling elderly. Post-disaster analyses indicate that these individuals have higher risk of disaster-related morbidity and mortality. They also have suboptimal levels of disaster preparedness in terms of their ability to shelter-in-place or evacuate to a shelter. The reasons for this have not been well characterized, although impaired health, financial limitations, and social isolation are believed to act as barriers to preparedness as well as to adaptability to changes in the environment both during and in the immediate aftermath of disasters. In order to identify strategies that address barriers to preparedness, we recently conducted a qualitative study of 50 elderly home care recipients living in San Francisco. Data were collected during in-home, in-person interviews using a semi-structured interview guide that included psychosocial constructs based on the social cognitive preparedness model and a new 13-item preparedness checklist. The mean preparedness score was 4.74 (max 13, range 1-11, SD. 2.11). Over 60% of the participants reported that they had not made back-up plans for caregiver assistance during times of crisis, 74% had not made plans for transportation to a shelter, 56% lacked a back-up plan for electrical equipment in case of power outages, and 44% had not prepared an emergency contacts list-the most basic element of preparedness. Impairments, disabilities, and resource limitations served as barriers to preparedness. Cognitive processes that underlie motivation and intentions for preparedness behaviors were lacking. There were limitations with respect to critical awareness of hazards (saliency), self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, and perceived responsibility. There was also a lack of trust in response agencies and authorities and a limited sense of community. Participants wanted to be prepared and welcomed training, but physical limitations kept many of them home bound. Training of home care aides, the provision of needed resources, and improved community outreach may be helpful in improving disaster outcomes in this vulnerable segment of the population.

Enhancing interdisciplinary climate change work through comprehensive evaluation

This paper shares the details of an evaluation plan from an interdisciplinary climate change project that developed decision support tools (DSTs)2DST = Decision Support Tool.2 for agricultural advisors and farmers. It showcases how evaluation enhanced the project work by providing opportunities for the team to reflect on and use data to improve performance. The plan included both formative and summative approaches, team member interviews to assess team functioning, usability testing of DSTs, outreach and marketing campaign evaluation. Outreach evaluation included surveying those reached, monitoring project website traffic, and tracking and mapping outreach details. Marketing evaluation included pre-testing campaign materials, assessing open and click rates of email campaign, and monitoring associated traffic to website. The Useful to Usable (U2U) team was generally high functioning, but team interviews allowed the evaluators and leaders to discern factors that were influencing intended outcomes, respond to needs, assign resources, and catalyze activities that were crucial in shaping the outcomes. Usability testing surfaced issues related to default values and search and help features that were addressed by the team and resulted in improved usability. Outreach evaluation found geographic and methodological gaps that were filled, resulting in more target audiences reached and more effective methods used (e.g., hands-on events). Marketing evaluation allowed for improving contact lists over time and improving campaign messaging before deployment. Evaluators and project leaders working on similar projects may adapt or utilize methods detailed in this paper, along with the recommendations, while designing and implementing improvement-oriented evaluation plans.

Improving Communication Between Patients and Providers Surrounding the Legal Basis for Admission

Improving Communication Between Patients and Providers Surrounding the Legal Basis for Admission

PHP85 - Integration Of Basic Attention To The Specialized Attention Network In Brazil’s Health System

In universal health systems, integral care management is considered the structural axis in overcoming health care fragmentation of services. This research intends to propose a classification for the integration level between basic and specialized attention and to apply this classification in the analysis of the integration between the care complexity levels on Brazil's health system. Transversal study with data from 17.202 family health teams that answered the external evaluation questionnaire of the National Program to Access and Quality Improvement of Basic Attention (PMAQ), 2012. In order to estimate the team’s integration level, the answers of 19 selected questions from PMAQ were fitted with the Gradual Response Model of the Item Response Theory (IRT). Based on the results, the usual IRT scale was categorized in three levels of integration: low, medium and high. The assumption of unidimensionality was considered valid. Cronbach’s alpha indicated high internal consistency (0.85). Southeast region has got the lowest percentages of teams with low integration and the highest percentages in the high integration, similarly to the South region. From the selected questions, twelve carried a greater amount of information about team’s integration to the network. Of these, we highlight matricial support actions (medical appointment; case discussions; shared clinical actions; joined construction of therapeutic projects; permanent education activities; discussion of work processes; interventions on territory and visits with a basic attention professional). In high integration level was recorded frequency of positive answers referred to communication (institutional flow, communication channel and contact list). Nine questions presented negative answers frequency around 50%. According to the proposed integration levels, matricial support actions improved the team’s performance. Communication devices between them reinforce this understanding. However, in order to consolidate integral care, a need to qualify the integration between the actions of basic and specialized attention was observed.

Safety Planning for Suicide Prevention

The Safety Plan was developed to help individuals at risk of suicide to prevent and/or manage suicidal crises. The risk of suicide is elevated for people with serious mental illness, that is, a mental illness that interferes with the ability to carry out one or more major life activities. Serious mental illness makes it difficult to think clearly, make decisions, and take positive action. In other words, it impairs executive functioning. A wide variety of diagnoses, including depression (unipolar or bipolar), borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia, are associated with this kind of impairment. A Safety Plan in easy reach reduces the burden of problem-solving when a crisis is looming and the ability to think clearly is impaired. There is no need to figure out what to do to interrupt a darkening mood, because strategies that may help are already written out. There is no need to look up emergency contact information, because it has already been compiled. Essential as this information can be, a well-constructed Safety Plan is more than just a list of strategies and contacts. When the items are individualized and described in detail, they can be potent reminders of cherished memories, simple pleasures that give comfort, and people who care who are in reach and can be counted on to respond when needed. In other words, a well-constructed Safety Plan can reassure its owner that s/he is neither helpless nor alone. Since 2008, the construction of a Safety Plan has been mandated for every patient at risk of suicide at every facility under the auspices of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Today, 8 years since the issuance of this mandate, VA clinicians have not only become accustomed to developing and reviewing Safety Plans in the medical record but also, as this review will suggest, begun to discover for themselves how helpful a Safety Plan can be. As it is not yet known which patients (e.g., with respect to age, sex, or diagnosis) are likeliest to benefit, or whether the impact varies with the timing of its construction (e.g., at time of discharge, or the day before), setting, (e.g., in the emergency department or the inpatient unit), and/or mode of delivery (e.g., in group or individual sessions), these and other questions that aim to optimize Safety Plan effectiveness merit further investigation.

Research data services in veterinary medicine libraries.

The study investigated veterinary medicine librarians' experience with and perceptions of research data services. Many academic libraries have begun to offer research data services in response to researchers' increased need for data management support. To date, such services have typically been generic, rather than discipline-specific, to appeal to a wide variety of researchers. An online survey was deployed to identify trends regarding research data services in veterinary medicine libraries. Participants were identified from a list of contacts from the MLA Veterinary Medical Libraries Section. Although many respondents indicated that they have a professional interest in research data services, the majority of veterinary medicine librarians only rarely or occasionally provide data management support as part of their regular job responsibilities. There was little consensus as to whether research data services should be core to a library's mission despite their perceived importance to the advancement of veterinary research. Furthermore, most respondents stated that research data services are just as or somewhat less important than the other services that they provide and feel only slightly or somewhat prepared to offer such services. Lacking a standard definition of "research data" and a common understanding of precisely what research data services encompass, it is difficult for veterinary medicine librarians and libraries to define and understand their roles in research data services. Nonetheless, they appear to have an interest in learning more about and providing research data services.

Power Lines: Unobtrusive Assessment of E-mail Subject Line Impact on Organization Website Use

Scholars have generally found e-mail–based effects to be limited, despite suggestions from marketing consultants that techniques such as message personalization and emotion-based content make e-mail campaigns more successful. Key in e-mail personalization is the subject line. To my knowledge, however, no one has examined the direct effects of e-mail subject lines using a field experiment with unobtrusive behavioral measures (i.e., tracking e-mail open rates). To address this gap, I leverage a field experiment using 82,000 e-mail addresses from a state-based Planned Parenthood contact list to determine whether randomly assigned subject line content impacts e-mail open rates. My results show that subject line personalization has a limited effect on open rates, but that personalization—when combined with subject line reference to emotion—may affect downstream behavior among a small percentage of e-mail recipients.

An Android Communication App Forensic Taxonomy.

Due to the popularity of Android devices and applications (apps), Android forensics is one of the most studied topics within mobile forensics. Communication apps, such as instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP), are one popular app category used by mobile device users, including criminals. Therefore, a taxonomy outlining artifacts of forensic interest involving the use of Android communication apps will facilitate the timely collection and analysis of evidentiary materials from such apps. In this paper, 30 popular Android communication apps were examined, where a logical extraction of the Android phone images was collected using XRY, a widely used mobile forensic tool. Various information of forensic interest, such as contact lists and chronology of messages, was recovered. Based on the findings, a two-dimensional taxonomy of the forensic artifacts of the communication apps is proposed, with the app categories in one dimension and the classes of artifacts in the other dimension. Finally, the artifacts identified in the study of the 30 communication apps are summarized using the taxonomy. It is expected that the proposed taxonomy and the forensic findings in this paper will assist forensic investigations involving Android communication apps.

Putting mobile application privacy in context: An empirical study of user privacy expectations for mobile devices

ABSTRACTUsers increasingly use mobile devices to engage in social activity and commerce, enabling new forms of data collection by firms and marketers. User privacy expectations for these new forms of data collection remain unclear. A particularly difficult challenge is meeting expectations for contextual integrity, as user privacy expectations vary depending upon data type collected and context of use. This article illustrates how fine-grained, contextual privacy expectations can be measured. It presents findings from a factorial vignette survey that measured the impact of diverse real-world contexts (e.g., medical, navigation, music), data types, and data uses on user privacy expectations. Results demonstrate that individuals’ general privacy preferences are of limited significance for predicting their privacy judgments in specific scenarios. Instead, the results present a nuanced portrait of the relative importance of particular contextual factors and information uses, and demonstrate how those contextual factors can be found and measured. The results also suggest that current common activities of mobile application companies, such as harvesting and reusing location data, images, and contact lists, do not meet users’ privacy expectations. Understanding how user privacy expectations vary according to context, data types, and data uses highlights areas requiring stricter privacy protections by governments and industry.

Windows Instant Messaging App Forensics: Facebook and Skype as Case Studies.

Instant messaging (IM) has changed the way people communicate with each other. However, the interactive and instant nature of these applications (apps) made them an attractive choice for malicious cyber activities such as phishing. The forensic examination of IM apps for modern Windows 8.1 (or later) has been largely unexplored, as the platform is relatively new. In this paper, we seek to determine the data remnants from the use of two popular Windows Store application software for instant messaging, namely Facebook and Skype on a Windows 8.1 client machine. This research contributes to an in-depth understanding of the types of terrestrial artefacts that are likely to remain after the use of instant messaging services and application software on a contemporary Windows operating system. Potential artefacts detected during the research include data relating to the installation or uninstallation of the instant messaging application software, log-in and log-off information, contact lists, conversations, and transferred files.