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The paper analyses a contemporary Georgian novel – Zura Jishkariani’s Chewing Dawns: Sugar-free. The novel belongs to the sub-genre of bio-punk. The aim of the paper was to identify the defamiliarized and ironized socio-cultural processes taking place in the contemporary Georgian society, considering the narratological concept of alternative worlds and the theoretical framework of conceptual metaphor. The outcomes of the research would draw the cultural-intellectual orientations of contemporary Georgian society. Based on these two conclusions, the paper aimed to find an age-long similarity between the social-political challenges of the 1920s and the contemporary problems of the Georgian society. Research has proved that numerous systems of values have been deconstructed and carnivalized by means of a play with alternative worlds. The development of the world depends on the activation of the human brain capacity, which ensures the cognition of the “higher reality“. The literary text under analysis reflects current achievements in cognitive sciences. The mental trips reflect the capacity of the human brain. The text describes the protagonist’s aspiration towards manipulating and stimulating of the human brain. This is the only way to overcome the banality of life. The manner of narration and the idealization of the aim serve the purpose of description of the revolutionary spirit.

Background Negative bystander behaviors significantly impact the trajectory of cyberbullying incidents. Previous research has established a link between cyber victimization experience and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of this relationship. To address this gap, the current study investigated the mediating role of uncertainty stress and the moderating role of internet self-efficacy between cyber victimization experience and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a total of 826 Chinese senior high school students ( M age =15.82 years, SD age =0.68, age range: 14–17 years) recruited via a cluster sampling strategy. Validated self-report measures were used to assess cyber victimization experience, uncertainty stress, internet self-efficacy, and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to test the proposed model in which uncertainty stress mediates the relationship between cyber victimization experience and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying, with internet self-efficacy moderating the relationship between uncertainty stress and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying. Results This study revealed that cyber victimization experience was significantly and positively associated with negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying among adolescents. Mediation modeling indicated that cyber victimization experience directly affected negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying and indirectly affected negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying through the mediating role of uncertainty stress. Furthermore, the mediation role of uncertainty stress was moderated by internet self-efficacy. Specifically, adolescents with lower internet self-efficacy had a stronger association between uncertainty stress and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying, compared to those with higher self-efficacy. Conclusions This study enriches existing literature by elucidating that the mediating effect of uncertainty stress and the moderating effect of internet self-efficacy represent additional explanations of the association between cyber victimization experience and negative bystander behavior in cyberbullying among adolescents. It also provides empirical support for formulating the intervention measures in cyberbullying among adolescents from a bystander’s perspective.

CPS (Cyber Physical Systems) is an approach often adopted for improving real-world activities by utilizing data. It also can be used to improve customer experiences in service applications by analyzing customer behavior, captured by sensing devices and by supporting utilization of that data by the service providers, to improve the system. In developing such systems, no method has been established to systematically evaluate the impact of individual component design on the user experience. Knowledge Experience Design is a method for distilling and validating information that affects the quality of the user experience by focusing on user activities and underlying knowledge. This methodology has been applied to a system for a museum, in which visitor activities are observed by sensing devices, to aid the Curator’s awareness for improving museum services. As a result, a cooperative process for designing devices and user experience as a service was derived, in which competing interests of lower power consumption and user experience improvement have been attained. The proposed design method can be used for the co-design of systems that are built on the close coordination of hardware devices and software applications, for providing value-oriented services to users, which aids realization of CPS oriented to evaluating and improving such environments.

The rapid advancement of networking, computing, sensing, and control systems has introduced a wide range of cyber threats, including those from new devices deployed during the development of scenarios. With recent advancements in automobiles, medical devices, smart industrial systems, and other technologies, system failures resulting from external attacks or internal process malfunctions are increasingly common. Restoring the system’s stable state requires autonomous intervention through the self-healing process to maintain service quality. This paper, therefore, aims to analyse state of the art and identify where self-healing using machine learning can be applied to cyber–physical systems to enhance security and prevent failures within the system. The paper describes three key components of self-healing functionality in computer systems: anomaly detection, fault alert, and fault auto-remediation. The significance of these components is that self-healing functionality cannot be practical without considering all three. Understanding the self-healing theories that form the guiding principles for implementing these functionalities with real-life implications is crucial. There are strong indications that self-healing functionality in the cyber–physical system is an emerging area of research that holds great promise for the future of computing technology. It has the potential to provide seamless self-organising and self-restoration functionality to cyber–physical systems, leading to increased security of systems and improved user experience. For instance, a functional self-healing system implemented on a power grid will react autonomously when a threat or fault occurs, without requiring human intervention to restore power to communities and preserve critical services after power outages or defects. This paper presents the existing vulnerabilities, threats, and challenges and critically analyses the current self-healing theories and methods that use machine learning for cyber–physical systems.

Technology has become ubiquitous, it is all around us and is becoming part of us. Togetherwith the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and enabling technologies (e.g., Augmented Reality (AR), Cyber-Physical Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain or edge computing), smart wearables and IoT-based garments can potentially have a lot of influence by harmonizing functionality and the delight created by fashion. Thus, smart clothes look for a balance among fashion, engineering, interaction, user experience, cybersecurity, design and science to reinvent technologies that can anticipate needs and desires. Nowadays, the rapid convergence of textile and electronics is enabling the seamless and massive integration of sensors into textiles and the development of conductive yarn. The potential of smart fabrics, which can communicate with smartphones to process biometric information such as heart rate, temperature, breathing, stress, movement, acceleration, or even hormone levels, promises a new era for retail. This article reviews the main requirements for developing smart IoT-enabled garments and shows smart clothing potential impact on business models in the medium-term. Specifically, a global IoT architecture is proposed, the main types and components of smart IoT wearables and garments are presented, their main requirements are analyzed and some of the most recent smart clothing applications are studied. In this way, this article reviews the past and present of smart garments in order to provide guidelines for the future developers of a network where garments will be connected like other IoT objects: the Internet of Smart Clothing.

Abstract Ransomware is a pernicious contemporary cyber threat for organizations, with ransomware operators intentionally leveraging a range of harms against their victims in order to solicit increasingly significant ransom payments. This article advances current research by engaging in a topical analysis into the depth and breadth of harms experienced by victim organizations and their members of staff. We, therefore, enhance the understanding of the negative experiences from ransomware attacks, particularly looking beyond the financial impact which dominates current narratives. Having conducted an interview or workshop with 83 professionals including ransomware victims, incident responders, ransom negotiators, law enforcement, and government, we identify a wide array of severe harms. For organizations, the risk of business interruption and/or data exposure presents potentially highly impactful financial and reputational harm(s). The victim organization’s staff can also experience a range of under-reported harms, which include physiological and physical harms that may be acute. We also identify factors that can either alleviate or aggravate the experiencing of harms at the organizational and employee level; including ransomware preparedness, leadership culture, and crisis communication. Given the scale and scope of the identified harms, the paper provides significant new empirical evidence to emphasize ransomware’s positioning as a whole-of-organization crisis phenomenon, as opposed to an ‘IT problem’. We argue that the wider discourse surrounding ransomware harms and impacts should be reflective of the nature of the real-term experience(s) of victims. This, in turn, could help guide efforts to alleviate ransomware harms, through improved organizational ransomware preparedness and tailored post-ransomware mitigation.

Large-scale attacks from 2008 and 2011 against Georgia further emphasized the necessity of implementing laws on information security and founding cyber actors in the country. Announcing cyber security as a challenge of collective defence and recognizing the ultimate importance of providing proper cyber security in the defence field, Georgia started developing its cyber capabilities in the sector in early 2014, through its LEPL Cyber Security Bureau. This article will review8-year the experience of Georgia, describe the deterrent issues in this process, and bring information regarding the successful steps, which deserve to be noticed.

Cybersecurity cannot be ensured with mere technical solutions. Hackers often use fraudulent emails to simply ask people for their password to breach into organizations. This technique, called phishing, is a major threat for many organizations. A typical prevention measure is to inform employees but is there a better way to reduce phishing risks? Experience and feedback have often been claimed to be effective in helping people make better decisions. In a large field experiment involving more than 10,000 employees of a Dutch ministry, we tested the effect of information provision, simulated experience, and their combination to reduce the risks of falling into a phishing attack. Both approaches substantially reduced the proportion of employees giving away their password. Combining both interventions did not have a larger impact.

Although cyber incivility (i.e., an interpersonal workplace stressor displayed through uncivil behaviors manifested in online working communication) occurs every day in the workplace, we know little about how it influences employees’ task performance at daily level, nor why and when this influence occurs. To address these limitations, we theorized and tested a model that links cyber incivility to task performance via negative affect and sleep quality at daily level and a cross-level boundary condition at the person level (i.e., self-leadership). Multilevel modeling results based on data collected from 112 full-time employees with 866 observations suggest that daily cyber incivility has a time-lagged effect on task performance of the following day after controlling for task performance the same day. This intrapersonal effect can be explained by the induced negative affect of the following workday but not sleep quality of the previous night. In addition, the relationship between cyber incivility and negative affect and the indirect effect of cyber incivility on task performance via negative affect were weaker among employees with high rather than low self-leadership.

Background Scholars have argued that cyberbullying should be characterized as an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) given its potential for traumatic impacts on youth development. Considering the current attention surrounding mental health and well-being among adolescents, it seems critical to empirically measure this relationship, and also determine if some types have a stronger negative influence. Methods Data utilized in this study were derived from a survey conducted on a nationally-representative sample in 2023 involving 2,697 English-speaking middle and high school students aged 13 to 17 residing within the United States. Results We identified a strong positive relationship between PTSD symptoms and experience with cyberbullying. Surprisingly, exclusion and rejection were just as harmful as overt threats when it comes to inducing trauma. Gossip and malicious comments were as detrimental as targeting someone based on their identity. Conclusion By becoming more trauma-informed and implementing school-based specific measures, those who work with youth can better safeguard and support them in the face of cyberbullying.