In this paper, the authors discuss employees’ beliefs about their abilities to competently use computer information security tools in the determination of effective information security practices within organizations. In the first section the authors present a background about information security practices at work. Then, the authors present a research approach based on social cognitive theory ...

SCEL (Service Component Ensemble Language) is a new language specifically designed to rigorously model and program autonomic components and their interaction, while supporting formal reasoning on their behaviors. SCEL brings together various programming abstractions that allow one to directly represent aggregations, behaviors and knowledge according to specific policies. It also naturally suppo...

This meta-analysis aims to quantitatively synthesize the relation between essential components of reading and comprehension in children whose first language is Spanish who are learning read a monolingual setting. Searches were conducted WOS, Scopus, ERIC from 2000 2021. We used random effects model Fisher’s z as an index effect size. found 33 studies involving 146 sizes comprehension. The inclu...

Compliance and systems misuse has been the focus of researchers in the last couple of years. However, given that voids in this area is still significant and systems abuse is a pressing issue likely to persist in the future, more investigation is needed in this area. Toward this end, we conducted a research study to help understand factors motivating compliance behavior intentions. Drawing on Th...

IS managers are being put under increasing pressure to justify the value of corporate IT/IS expenditure. Their constant quest for the ‘holy grail’ continues, as existing methods and approaches of justifying IT/IS expenditure are still failing to deliver. The decision making process is not as objective and transparent as it is claimed or intended to be. This paper discusses seven commonly used t...

Previous behavioral studies have suggested that morphological awareness is impaired in Chinese children with reading disability (RD), but how this is reflected in brain alterations is not known. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the current study compared morphological processing in a RD group (11-13 years old) to an age-matched typically developing (TD) group. Participants ma...

Objectives: This study investigated receptive vocabulary and morphosyntactic skills of children with dyslexia, poor comprehension, typically developing in grade 3 to 6. Methods: A total 45 participated. In order qualify for each group, dyslexia scored below 85 on the word decoding test, comprehenders reading but above 90 test. Typically a standard score both comprehension. All were administered...

Determining the physical location of the users of a multi-agent system is essential if we want it to provide them with context-awareness services. A context-aware system can answer to the requests of its users in a more effective way, being able of consider the conditioners that affect them. Here we present SMAUG, a multiagent context-aware system aimed at managing the university tasks of tutor...

The primary goal of this study is to examine the relationship between managerial information security awareness and managerial actions toward information security for the purpose of putting stress on the significant roles of managerial information security awareness in an organization’s total information security performance. Under the assumption that managerial actions toward information secur...