A Safety & Health Leader's Guide to DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & BELONGING

The mental health discourse need not involve the creation or invention of a whole new experience or dogma. When workers feel respected, valued, cared for and viewed holistically, rather than as "cogs in a system," the natural outflow will be mental health- "state of someone functioning at a satisfactory level of cognitive, emotional and behavioral adjustment." (U.K. OSH adviser, personal communication, 2022) In a social context, the safety and health team may facilitate a psychosocial hazard identification and risk assessment process, but the follow-up actions are likely to relate to people management systems. [...]this responsibility could sit with line management, human resources or an organizational effectiveness group.

Research on Affective Interaction in Mini Public Transport Based on IPA-FMEA

In the promotion of sustainable modes of transport, especially public transport, reasonable failure risk assessment at the critical moment in the process of service provider touch with users can improve the service quality to a certain extent. This study presents a product service touch point evaluation approach based on the importance–performance analysis (IPA) of user and failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA). Firstly, the authors capture service product service touch points in the process of user interaction with the product by observing the user behavior in a speculative design experiment, and perform the correlation analysis of the service product service touch point. Second, the authors use the IPA analysis method to evaluate and classify the product service touch points and identify the key product service touch points. Thirdly, the authors propose to analyze the failure of key product service touch points based on user-perceived affective interaction and clarify the priority of each key touch point. Finally, reluctant interpersonal communication, as the key failure caused by high risk, is derived according to the evaluation report, which leads to establishing new product service touch points and improving the overall user experience to promote sustainable transports with similar forms and characteristics.

On IG people are rather looking for a reaction. Characterization, content and use of networks for interpersonal communication among young people

This study analyses the decisions made by current generations of young people (Millennials and Generation Z) as users of digital technologies for interpersonal communication through ICTs, describing the expressive characteristics they attribute to social networks (Instagram) and instant messaging (WhatsApp). A mixed method is used to approach the research: on the one hand, the application of a self-administered questionnaire, as a pilot study and development platform for qualitative research;on the other hand, ten group dynamics with national and international undergraduate and postgraduate university students from two Spanish universities, one public and one private. The results show that WhatsApp and Instagram are the main channels for communication and the shaping of digital identity, but their use changes depending on the needs, interlocutors, and services of the application. The representations linked to these applications for interpersonal communication are well differentiated and clear reasons are given for their preference and suitability to the interests of digital natives. Millennials and Centennials are linked to a digital culture of "resident" users (White and Le Cornu, 2011), although some differences are observed between both groups with regard to the uses they make of these applications. WhatsApp and Instagram are affected by the COVID19 experience and undergo important transformations.

Exclusionary Behaviors Reinforce Historical Biases and Contribute to Loss of Talent in the Earth Sciences

Geosciences remain one of the least diverse fields. Efforts to diversify the discipline need to address the role of hostile and exclusionary work and learning environments. A workplace climate survey distributed to five professional organizations illustrates varied experiences of earth and space scientists over a 12-month period (pre-COVID). A majority experienced positive interactions in the workplace. However, scientists of color, women and non-binary individuals, scientists with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, and asexual (LGBQPA+) scientists more frequently experienced negative interactions, including interpersonal mistreatment, discriminatory language, and sexual harassment. Geoscientists of color were more likely to experience devaluation of their work than white scientists. More than half of women and non-binary respondents, as well as those who identify as LGBQPA+ experienced identity-based discriminatory remarks. Disabled geoscientists were more likely to hear negative identity-based language than those who did not disclose a disability. Overall, 14% of all respondents experienced sexual harassment in the previous year. Rates were greatest for historically excluded groups: non-binary (51%), LGBQPA+ (33%), disabled (26%), women (20%), and geoscientists of color (17%). A majority of geoscientists reported avoiding their colleagues and almost a third considered leaving their institution or a career change. Historically excluded groups were more likely to report opting out of professional activities with potential career consequences. To address continued exclusion and low retention in the earth and space sciences, recruitment is not enough. We need to create environments that ensure opportunities for all to thrive.

Wellness Discourse in the Era of Modern Media Technologies in Communication

The wellness discourse formed on the Internet is considered as a discursive platform for implementing communicative interactions of Internet users aimed at getting or providing wellness services. Analysis of modern media technologies shows that in the conditions of the coronavirus situation in the world, which has changed the degree of human involvement in interactive processes of personal interaction on the Internet, the nature of the promotion of wellness services has changed markedly - the demand for blogging on Instagram or other social media has increased. The boundaries of wellness discourse are also changing, as the communicative activity of participants is constantly growing, thereby changing the value component of the communication vector. Since the terminological base for a clear division of its boundaries is not sufficiently formed in the scientific consciousness, and the mechanisms through which this media practice is formed are not described, the authors attempt to describe this phenomenon from the perspective of modern media technologies that contribute to the formation of wellness hyper discourse. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Facial expression recognition of masked faces using deep learning

Facial expression recognition (FER) represents one of the most prevalent forms of interpersonal communication, which contains rich emotional information. But it became even more challenging during the times of COVID, where face masks became a mandatory protection measure, leading to the challenge of occluded lower-face during facial expression recognition. In this study, deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) represents the core of both our full-face FER system and our masked face FER model. The focus was on incorporating knowledge distillation in transfer learning between a teacher model, which is the full-face FER DCNN, and the student model, which is the masked face FER DCNN via the combination of both the loss from the teacher soft-labels vs the student soft labels and the loss from the dataset hard-labels vs the student hard-labels. The teacher-student architecture used FER2013 and a masked customized version of FER2013 as datasets to generate an accuracy of 69% and 61% respectively. Therefore, the study proves that the process of knowledge distillation may be used as a way for transfer learning and enhancing accuracy as a regular DCNN model (student only) would result in 46% accuracy compared to our approach (61% accuracy).

COMMUNICATION: The Importance of Transparency

While exhausting, my personal experience gave me opportunities to better understand how the type of communication I used could impact the perception of my audience on the receiving end, I specifically remember communicating messages that built trust (e.g., "we want to protect you and your family") and at the same time created uncertainty (e.g., "we do not know what the future looks like"). [...]Geller emphasizes that it is imperative to establish interpersonal communication- communication between individuals, which is foundational in a relationship. If you think about the concept of psychological safety-the ability to show and employ one's authentic self without fear of negative consequences to self-image, status or career-you can see how transparent communication not only creates the space for employees to feel psychologically safe, but also that it perpetuates the environment to practice it (Geller, 2022).

Hardening a Work from Home Network with Wireguard and Suricata

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to make many work adjustments in our daily life like work from home, school from home, shop form home and many remote activities. Work from home activity present both new security opportunities and loopholes. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one solution for such remote activities. However, VPN products may be confusing for users due to their complexity and user unfriendliness. Fortunately, there existed Wireguard, which is kernel structure of VPN module, that balances in security and ease to use. Embedded system using Raspberry pi armed with VPN Wireguard and equipped with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Suricata being one of the solutions to overcome it. In this study, we tried hardening a Work from home network using Wireguard and Suricata. Combination of ease to use in compact hardware and hardening with Interruption Detection System (IDS) give capability result for operation with 18,7% CPU and 22,7% memory usage and protection with captured 100% event port scanning and exploit. © 2021 IEEE.

Post Graduate Engineering Education from Home for Optical Networking Laboratory during COVID19 Second Wave in India

Effective Teaching learning process must be very difficult in this COVID19 era for engineering teachers where they need support of hardware to explain certain fundamental things. Optical networking is one subject where it is difficult to explain certain results without experimental analysis. This paper describes basic optical networking experiments like Wavelength Division Multiplexing types of Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON), Time Division Multiplexing types of Passive Optical Network (TDM-PON), Fiber to the Home Network (FTTH), Wireless passive Optical Network using free space optics (FSO) techniques. Optsim 5.0 software is used to simulate the applications. © 2022 IEEE.

A Qualitative Study On The Communicative Needs, Expectations And Experiences During Covid-19 Pandemic: 65 Years And Over Ankara Sample

This study examines the high-risk group of individuals age 65 and over who most frequently experience the negative consequences of Covid-19. We review their communicative needs and expectations, knowledge and information sources, and risk information and knowledge patterns. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 47 people aged 65 and over residing in Ankara. We evaluated our results in the context of The Social Amplification of Risk Framework, considering the major communication stations disseminating risk information. We found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, individuals aged 65 and over accessed risk information through new media and traditional media, and interpersonal communication, especially with close family and children, served as a primary information source during the pandemic. The trust factor, particularly regarding medical expertise, was an essential criterion in evaluating information. The communicative needs and expectations changed for this high-risk group. The need for improved digital communication capabilities become apparent during the pandemic crisis. Suggestions that consider public perspectives and risk perceptions while incorporating the relationship between risks and communication processes may contribute to structuring impactful risk communication activities.Alternate : Bu çalışmada, Covid-19 pandemisinde hastalığın olumsuz sonuçlarını ağır derecede yaşama ihtimallerinin yüksekliği nedeniyle öncelikli risk gruplarından biri olarak tanımlanan 65 yaş ve üzeri kişilerin iletişimsel ihtiyaçları, beklentileri, bilgi ve enformasyon kaynakları ve risk enformasyonunu ve bilgilerini değerlendirme biçimleri ele alınmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında Ankara’da ikamet eden 65 yaş ve üzeri toplam 47 kişiyle yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular, Riskin Sosyal Artırımı Kuramsal Çerçevesi bağlamında, risk enformasyonunun iletimindeki temel iletişim uğrakları dikkate alınarak değerlendirilmiştir. 65 yaş ve üzeri bireylerin Covid-19 pandemisi sürecinde risklere ilişkin enformasyona geleneksel medyanın yanı sıra yeni medya aracılığı ile de ulaştıkları;kişilerarası iletişimin bu süreçte temel bilgi kaynaklarından biri olarak işlev gördüğü;yakın aile ve özellikle çocukların Covid-19 pandemisiyle ilgili bilgilenme süreçlerinde ayrıcalıklı bir yeri olduğunu belirlenmiştir. Enformasyonun değerlendirilmesinde güven unsurunun temel kriter olarak dikkate alındığı ve tıp alanındaki uzmanlıklara daha yüksek güven atfedildiği ortaya konmuştur. Ayrıca iletişimsel ihtiyaçların ve beklentilerin pandemi süreci içerisinde değişime uğradığı anlaşılmıştır. Pandemi döneminde, dijital iletişim yetkinliklerin geliştirilmesi ihtiyacı belirginlik kazanmıştır. Görüşmelerden elde edilen bulgulardan hareketle, kamuların perspektifini ve risk algısını gözeten;risklerin iletişimsel süreçlerle bağlantısını dikkate alan etkili risk iletişimi çalışmalarının yapılandırılabilmesine katkıda bulunabilecek öneriler sunulmuştur.

PANDEMIC COMMUNICATION: FAKE NEWS, MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES VERSUS TRUTH AND TRUST

The concepts of fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories were studied by some of the worlds' most well-known researchers and their articles contain both common conclusions and different opinions.The rapid rise of social networks in the flow of interpersonal communication, coupled with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighted more acutely than a decade ago the fierce confrontation between promoters of fake news and misinformation through conspiracy theories, on the one hand, and the defenders of truth, democracy and trust in state institutions, on the other hand. Both communication specialists and virologists and epidemiologists acknowledge the importance of stopping the flaw of fake news and misinformation in the relationships between the administrative and sanitary authorities, on the one hand and the population, on the other hand, as a success factor in the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Increasing the trust of the population in the administrative and sanitary authorities represents another success key in eradicating infodemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design an Intrusion Detection System, Multiple Honeypot and Packet Analyzer Using Raspberry Pi 4 for Home Network

Increased crime and cyber-attacks make network security an essential prerequisite for organizations. However, organizations cannot guarantee this because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to suspend activities in the office and give employees the option to work from home. As a result, employees must always be connected to the home network to work. It can attract hackers to take advantage of the situation by launching various attacks. Therefore home network security must be updated, minimize vulnerabilities, and apply additional security. The number of IoT devices that can connect to the home network is also considered to increase security because the main entry point for hacking IoT is through the network. Raspberry Pi 4 can be used as a low-cost, power-efficient, and practical solution for home network security, including IDS Suricata, multiple honeypots (Cowrie & Dionaea), and Tshark packet analyzer. There are six types of attack simulations: port scanning, brute force, TCP flood attacks, smurf attacks, UDP flood attacks, and exploits on services/ports. Measurement of device performance is also carried out when running the system. Log data from the four sensors will be visualized with the ELK stack, making it easier to analyze attacks. ©2021 IEEE

Intrusion detection in computer networks using machine learning algorithms

With the dawn of the COVID-19 age, the communication industry has witnessed a large spike in users as home networks, workplaces and even conferences have gone online. This has led to a rise in the number of victims of cyber network attacks due to lack of ample security measures being taken in most network environments. Hence the introduction of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) is proven to provide an increased security level. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have been put into extensive use in tasks of intrusion detection. An ML technique that adds to the performance of standard IDS is the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm, owing to their decent generalization nature and the capability to surpass the barriers of dimensionality. The objective of the project is to determine and compare the performance and accuracy of several ML algorithms like k-means clustering, SVM and KNN. The data set used to derive these results is “kddcup99”, which contains 41 features. Data preprocessing is the first step towards achieving this goal, by performing feature extraction, followed by calculating the variance of features. This facilitates the filtering of relevant features from the non-linear dataset. Final objective is to separate the dataset into dissimilar classes based on the attack type faced by the network. © 2021 IEEE.

Penetration Test on Home Network Environments: A Cybersecurity Case Study

Most of the people nowadays use internet connection in their home, especially nowadays that most of the companies are forced to adapt to a Work from Home Basis due to the pandemic (Covid 19) to continue their business activities. This study assesses how vulnerable the default setting of SOHO Routers that the public/private telecommunication companies provide to their consumer. Furthermore, the study assesses how limited/outdated the protection of the router that is provided. This study uses a Kali Linux, a Debian-Based Linux used for Digital Forensics and Penetration Testing to test the vulnerability of the routers to network attacks. Network Attacks such as Deauthentication, Dictionary and Bruteforcing Attack, ARP Poisoning, etc. are performed to help identify threats that could compromise the network of the user and provide secure practices and solutions to help mitigate those kinds of attack. © 2021 ACM.

Sustainable Development of Employability of University Students Based on Participation in the Internship Promotion Programme of Zhejiang Province

In the context of severely restricted employment opportunities, undertaking an internship is an important way for students to enhance their employability and sustainable development. The aim of this study was to judge if the implementation of the Internship Promotion Programme (IPP) at universities in Zhejiang Province, China, could enhance graduates’ employability. We conducted surveys and interviews with 400 students and 100 business executives who participated in the IPP during the past 6 years. Based on the collected data and statistical analysis, the findings show that internships help students to improve their innovative thinking, interpersonal communication abilities (domestic and international), problem-solving skills, value creation and responsibility. Participants in the IPP were compared with students who did not take part. The results demonstrated that the IPP participants exhibited higher capabilities to perform important workplace tasks and that as a result, they became more attractive to employers. The analysis, therefore, demonstrates a positive correlation between the internship experience and employability. As a result, it can be concluded that the IPP improves students’ employability and is beneficial to enhancing the quality of higher education, and hence the sustainable development of students.