THE IMPORTANCE OF EQUATING PARENT’S PERCEPTIONS WITH CHILDREN’S HOBBY IN USING ANDROID-BASED APPLICATIONS AS A LEARNING MEDIA

The advancement of technology makes the emergence of various Android-based applications ranging from games to learning media. These applications have become part of the daily lives of children, which cannot be prevented, and it goes naturally. Therefore, children aged 7-8 years need special attention and assistance by parents so that type of children’s favorite application will be known. This research used qualitative method.To collect data, samples were selected using random sampling. This research aims to (1) review the learning media, namely Android-based applications, which are favored by children; and (2) know parents’ perception of the learning media favored by children. The results showed that the importance of equating parent’s perception with children’s hobby, due to the children’s interest to the application as a new media in learning, can provide learning motivation for children. The importance of equating perceptions between parents and children, due to the children’s interest to the application as a new media in learning, can provide motivation and self-development for children.This research is expected to be developed to the stage of researching the education administrator policy toward the correlation with the government policy and the ongoing curriculum.&nbsp

Scholarly digital libraries as a platform for malware distribution

Researchers from academic institutions and the corporate sector rely heavily on scholarly digital libraries for accessing journal articles and conference proceedings. Primarily downloaded in the form of PDF files, there is a risk that these documents may be compromised by attackers. PDF files have many capabilities that have been widely used for malicious operations. Attackers increasingly take advantage of innocent users who open PDF files with little or no concern, mistakenly considering these files safe and relatively non-threatening. Researchers also consider scholarly digital libraries reliable and home to a trusted corpus of papers and untainted by malicious files. For these reasons, scholarly digital libraries are an attractive target for cyber-attacks launched via PDF files. In this study, we present several vulnerabilities and practical distribution attack approaches tailored for scholarly digital libraries. To support our claim regarding the attractiveness of scholarly digital libraries as an attack platform, we evaluated more than two million scholarly papers in the CiteSeerX library that were collected over 8 years and found it to be contaminated with a surprisingly large number (0.3%-2%) of malicious scholarly PDF documents, the origin of which is 46 different countries spread worldwide. More than 55% of the malicious papers in CiteSeerX were crawled from IP's belonging to USA universities, followed by those belonging to Europe (33.6%). We show how existing scholarly digital libraries can be easily leveraged as a distribution platform both for a targeted attack and in a worldwide manner. On average, a certain malicious paper caused high impact damage as it was downloaded 167 times in 5 years by researchers from different countries worldwide. In general, the USA and Asia downloaded the most malicious scholarly papers, 40.15% and 27.9%, respectively. The top malicious scholarly document downloaded is a malicious version of a popular paper in the computer forensics domain, with 2213 downloads in a worldwide coverage of 108 different countries. Finally, we suggest several concrete solutions for mitigating such attacks, including simple deterministic solutions and also advanced machine learning-based frameworks

Sistematização da análise de conformidade dos processos na área de saúde : Sariah Ester Torno Mourão

Orientadores : Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mendes Junior, Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Pécora Junior, Profª Drª Adriana de Paula Lacerda SantosCoorientador : Prof. Dr. Eduardo Alves Portela SantosDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Tecnologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção. Defesa: Curitiba, 24/02/2017Inclui referências : f. 155-164Resumo: Os processos de tratamento médico são universalmente realizados de acordo com as orientações clínicas. No entanto, existe uma lacuna entre estas orientações e a prática clínica real, ou seja, há diferenças entre as atividades executadas e as atividades recomendadas nos procedimentos. Portanto, um desafio para o setor de gestão da saúde é abordar essa lacuna. Existindo assim uma necessidade de métodos que possam medir a adesão do comportamento real do processo no que diz respeito ao comportamento esperado; identificar onde os desvios acontecem com mais frequência e; produzir resultados que possam ser facilmente compreendidos por médicos para destacar as causas mais comuns dos desvios identificados. Este é um dos objetivos da mineração de processos. A mineração de processos fornece uma imagem real do que está acontecendo, explicitando diversas perspectivas acerca das atividades, recursos e informações dos processos. Esta área de estudo está preocupada com a descoberta, monitoramento e melhoria dos processos operacionais por meio da extração de conhecimento a partir de registros gerados pelos sistemas de informação. O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é sistematizar a análise de conformidade dos processos na área da saúde tendo como estudo empírico quantitativo os processos de tratamento de pacientes com Acidente Vascular Cerebral Isquêmico (AVCI), elegíveis para trombólise endovenosa, intraarterial e mecânica, do Hospital Municipal São José, localizado na cidade de Joinville - Santa Catarina. De acordo com os estudos da Global Burden of Disease 2013 - Mortality and Causes of Death (MURRAY et al., 2015), o Acidente Vascular Cerebral (AVC) é uma das mais importantes doenças crônicas, em termos de abrangência, sendo a terceira principal causa de morte no Brasil e a principal causa de incapacidade no mundo. A sistematização proposta busca, auxiliar pesquisadores e instituições de saúde na aplicação das técnicas de descoberta e análise de conformidade dos processos na área da saúde, de modo que tais técnicas possam contribuir para a melhoria do fluxo de atividades em estabelecimentos de saúde e, consequentemente, gerar um efeito positivo sobre a saúde no Brasil. É formada por nove etapas que envolvem: o conhecimento do Sistema de Informação Hospitalar (SIH) e da base de dados; a preparação da base de dados para aplicação das técnicas de mineração de processos; o estudo dos protocolos assistenciais, procedimentos operacionais padrão, instruções de trabalho e outros documentos feitos pela instituição de saúde para o processo selecionado; o estudo das diretrizes clínicas, regulamentos, normas, leis e outros documentos que envolvem o processo escolhido; a transcrição dos documentos selecionados em notação Business Process Management and Notation; a correlação entre os protocolos assistenciais, procedimentos operacionais padrão, instruções de trabalho e outros documentos com as diretrizes clínicas, regulamentos, normas, leis e outros documentos; e por fim as análises quantitativas usando técnicas de mineração de processos, tais como, descoberta do modelo do processo real e análises de conformidade para confrontar os modelos dos processos com os registros de eventos. Palavras-chave: Mineração de Processos. Descoberta. Análise de Conformidade. Sistematização. Área da Saúde. Acidente Vascular Cerebral.Abstract: The medical treatment processes are universally performed according to clinical guidelines. However, there is a gap between these guidelines and the actual clinical practice, that is, there are differences between the activities performed and the activities recommended in the procedures. Therefore, a challenge for the health management sector is to address the gap between actual clinical processes and the recommendations given in the procedures. Thus, there is an urgent need for methods that can: measure adherence to the actual behavior of the process with respect to expected behavior; identify where deviations occur most often and; produce results that can be easily understood by physicians to highlight the most common causes of identified deviations. This is one of the objectives of process mining. Process mining provides a true picture of what is happening, spelling out diverse perspectives on process activities, resources, and information. This area of study is concerned with the discovery, monitoring and improvement of operational processes through the extraction of knowledge from records generated by information systems. The main objective of this research is to systematize the conformity analysis of the health processes, having as a quantitative empirical study the procedures for the treatment of patients with Ischemic Stroke, eligible for intravenous, intraarterial and mechanical thrombolysis, of the São José Municipal Hospital, located in the city of Joinville - Santa Catarina. According to studies by the Global Burden of Disease 2013 (MURRAY et al., 2015), stroke is one of the most important chronic diseases in terms of outreach, being the third major cause of death in Brazil and the leading cause of disability in the world. The proposed systematization seeks to assist researchers and health institutions in the application of the techniques of discovery and analysis of conformity of the processes in the health area, so that such techniques can contribute to the improvement of the flow of activities in health facilities and, consequently, positive effect on health in Brazil. It is formed by nine steps that involve: the knowledge of the Hospital Information System (SIH) and the database; the preparation of the database for application of process mining techniques; the study of care protocols, standard operating procedures, work instructions and other documents made by the health institution for the selected process; the study of clinical guidelines, regulations, norms, laws and other documents that involve the chosen process; the transcription of the documents selected in notation Business Process Management and Notation; the correlation between care protocols, standard operating procedures, work instructions and other documents with clinical guidelines, regulations, standards, laws and other documents; and finally the quantitative analyzes using process mining, such as real process model discovery and compliance analyzes to compare process models with event logs. Keywords: Process Mining. Discovery. Conformance Checker. Systematization. Healthcare. Stroke