Vehicle Secrecy Parameters for V2V Communications

This paper studies the parameters affecting secrecy capacity in vehicle communication. The vehicle secrecy parameters largely include vehicle driving-related parameters, antenna-related parameters for transmitting and receiving signals, path-related parameters for indirect communication, and noise-related parameters using a fading channel. Although many researches have been conducted on antenna-related parameters and noise-related parameters considered in general wireless communication, relatively little research has been made on parameters caused by the vehicle itself. These vehicle secrecy parameters also imply that secrecy capacity can be varied by the user. In the future, this study will be a very informative topic when trying to perform vehicle communication while maintaining a certain level of security capacity. In the coming autonomous driving era, this research is very necessary and will help to carry out vehicle communications more safely

Cultural Values and Gender Equity on National Olympic Committee Boards

International Journal of Exercise Science 10(6): 857-874, 2017. Women are under-represented in leadership positions throughout sport, and researchers have largely explored organizational, group, and individual antecedents of this phenomenon. The purpose of the current study was to expand on this understanding by investigating the influence of a country’s cultural values on the representation of women on National Olympic Committees. Drawing from Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory, the authors included five cultural values: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity, and long-term orientation. Results indicate that women constituted only 19.7 percent of the positions on the boards. Regression analysis, controlling for size of the Olympics program in the country, indicate that cultural values accounted for 41.8 percent of the variance in board gender diversity. Countries with lower power distance, lower masculinity, and lower uncertainty avoidance all had a higher proportion of women on the board. The authors discuss practical and theoretical implication

Standing on a glass cliff? A case study of FIFA’s gender initiatives

Rationale/Purpose: The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has taken gender equalityFootnote1 initiatives by inaugurating a female leadership development programme (FLDP)Footnote2 as well as appointing womenFootnote3 in leadership positions. As such, we draw from a new theoretical notion, glass cliff to explore why FIFA started FLDP and assigned women to leadership ranks. Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 women who accomplished FLDP. Findings and Implications: There was no direct evidence to support the glass cliff phenomenon in FIFA’s gender-related actions. Although the results are inconclusive, some evidence showed that FIFA’s gender initiatives emerged during their reforming processes in 2015. Our findings demonstrated that FIFA’s historic appointments of women to leadership positions after the corruption and the continuance of FLDP are concerned with the glass cliff effect, as women have never been sought as leaders in football governance. We addressed practical and theoretical implications and suggestions for future research