M-Learning is a new learning paradigm of the new social structure with mobile and wireless technologies. Smart school is one of the four flagship applications for Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) under Malaysian government initiative to improve education standard in the country. With the advances of mobile devices technologies, mobile learning could help the government in realizing the initiativ...

Chunyu Chen 1, Kaifeng Zhang 1,*, Kun Yuan 1 and Xianliang Teng 2 1 Key Laboratory of Measurement and Control of Complex Systems of Engineering, Ministry of Education, School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China; [email protected] (C.C.); [email protected] (K.Y.) 2 State Key Laboratory of Smart Grid Protection and Control, NARI Group Corporation, State Grid Electric Powe...

Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti1, Julie Willoughby2 and Pramod Agrawal3,4 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Bern 2Fiber and Polymer Science Program, Department of Textiles Engineering, Chemistry and Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, 3Engineering of Fibrous Smart Materials, Department of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, 4Knowledg...

In this paper we introduce a first design approach for security warnings on smart phones for children, based on recommendations of a paediatrician expert. To ease the understanding of malware threats and facilitate a adequate handling, children friendly design principles and simple descriptions are used. Amongst visual information, acoustical and haptic information are used to raise children’s ...

In this paper we describe how technology can be combined with face-to-face method to facilitate teaching and learning various subjects in Tanzanian secondary schools. A smart school model is proposed. The model consists of students, teacher/facilitator/digital content expert and digital content delivery vehicles that can be implemented in a learning environment in which technology plays a subor...

Hiroyuki Iseki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor* Email: [email protected] National Center for Smart Growth, Research and Education Urban Studies and Planning Program, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 1112U Preinkert Field House (Building 054) University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 405-6788; FAX: (301) 314-5639. with Qing Li, Ph.D. Candidate Email: [email protected] ...

Weaknesses of a dynamic ID-based remote user authentication scheme He Debiao*, Chen Jianhua, Hu Jin School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China Abstract: The security of a password authentication scheme using smart cards proposed by Khan et al. is analyzed. Four kinds of attacks are presented in different scenarios. The analyses show that the scheme is ins...

He Debiao*, Chen Jianhua, Hu Jin School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430072, China Abstract: The security of a password authentication scheme using smart cards proposed by Rhee et al. is analyzed. A kind of impersonation attack is presented. The analyses show that the scheme is insecure for practical application. In order to eliminate the security vulnerability,...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present analysis was to examine secular trends in school performance indicators in relationship to the implementation of a programme targeting the school food and physical activity environment. DESIGN Data on available school performance indicators were obtained; retrospective analyses were conducted to assess trends in indicators in association with programme imp...

Wellness and wellbeing are terms found in a broad range of literature such as economics, social science, food marketing and general social commentary. These terms are often used in contexts which encompass mental, physical and emotional health as well as broader more esoteric aspects of life satisfaction such as happiness. The terms wellness and wellbeing are also used ubiquitously and variably...