Situational awareness is essential for effective decision making in both military and civilian domains. In order to achieve good situational awareness a decision maker must be able to access information from a number of sources and combine this with his/her current knowledge. The retrieved information must be appropriate to the task and role of the user, and be presented to him/her in an approp...

Management by Objectives (MbO) – invented by Peter Drucker in the 1950s – is a leadership approach in which superior managers and subordinate employees jointly define objectives, constantly review achievement-progress and assess final achievements. IT-support for MbO is given within Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) or Employee Performance Management Systems (EPMS). Functions to constan...

Several studies exist that have reached the conclusion that there are significant correlations between learning style and learning outcome. Therefore, it becomes apparent that since a successful instructor is one who achieves the best “learning outcome” from most of his/her students, then he/she should be able to cater for his/her students’ different learning styles. When the instructor’s role ...

High school and college graduates seemingly are often battling for the courses they should major in order to achieve their target career. In this paper, we worked on suggesting a career path to a graduate to reach his/her dream career given the current educational status. Firstly, we collected the career data of professionals and academicians from various career fields and compiled the data set...

In order to realize effective and efficient training for diagnosis of NPP anomalies, a training support system has been developed. The feature of the system is realtime measurement of trainee’s attending plant parameters and his/her think aloud while he/she is diagnosing a primary cause of plant anomaly. An evaluation experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the system and to e...

Background/Objective: Cultural awareness refers to when someone is aware of his/her own and other people’s cultural values. Academic nursing education should promote students’ ability to analyze, understand, and respect people’s cultural backgrounds and their values to be able provide equitable care in a multicultural society. This essential competence for nursing students can be obtained throu...

The kidneys regulate the body’s fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances while removing toxic substances from the blood and excreting them in urine. The kidneys also play a significant role in erythropoietin and prostaglandin synthesis, in insulin degradation, and in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. Many common disease processes and injuries can interfere with normal renal function. ...

In web-based business processes the disclosure of personal data by the user is an essential part and mandatory for the processes. Privacy policies help to inform the user about his/her rights and to protect the user’s privacy. In this paper we present a test to empirically measure how the user’s privacy awareness changes by presenting specific elements of the privacy policy in close proximity t...

Vision, mission, goals, and objectives (VMGOs) function as the foundation of an educational institution. The Accrediting Agency for Chartered Colleges Universities in Philippines (AACCUP) underscored that institution is assessed according to degree how its VMGOs are achieved, but not comparison with others. This descriptive research utilized survey method determine levels awareness acceptabilit...

We present two experiments on the use of non-speech audio at an interactive multi-touch, multiuser tabletop display. We first investigate the use of two categories of reactive auditory feedback: affirmative sounds that confirm user actions and negative sounds that indicate errors. Our results show that affirmative auditory feedback may improve oneś awareness of group activity at the expense of ...