IJSK VOLUME 5

A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF USING THE WRONGLY SPELLED AND/OR PRONOUNCED TURKISH WORDS ON WEB SEARCH ENGINES

ŞEYDA TÜRKER, YILTAN BİTİRİM

This study investigates how the Web search engines handle Turkish words which are frequently being wrongly spelled and/or pronounced with their own particular wrong form(s). First of all, the three most popular international Web search engines Google, Bing, and Yahoo were selected, and a query list consisted of a set of such words with their incorrect forms was formed. All queries were run on the Web search engines separately and, at each run, every document retrieved in the first twenty was classified as “relevant” or “non-relevant …. ….

HIERARCHICAL ROUTING PROTOCOL IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK – A SURVEY

S M SHAMIM, ANGONA SARKAR, ATIKUL ISLAM

The area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is one of the most emerging and fast growing fields in the scientific world. It consists a collection of sensing devices and these sensing devices are known as sensor nodes. Each sensor nodes are deployed into the network to monitor the physical or environmental condition such as temperature, sound, vibration at different location. The data is transfer over the network and each sensor node consumes some energy in sending data and receiving data. In WSN, the lifetime of the network depend how much energy spent in each transmission. The efficient use of energy source in a sensor node is most desirable criteria for prolong the life time of wireless sensor network. So designing efficient routing protocol for reducing energy consumption is the important issue in the network. A large number of routing protocol has been proposed since few decades … .

AN EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL WEB SEARCH ENGINES’ PERFORMANCES BASED ON ENGLISH, ARABIC, AND TURKISH LANGUAGES IN VARIOUS CATEGORIES

MOHAMAD YAHYA J. NAMK, YILTAN BİTİRİM

ABSTRACT This study illustrates the performance evaluation of the three international Web search engines Google, Bing, and Yahoo based on the three languages English, Arabic, and Turkish in six various categories, i.e., “business”, “culture”, “health”, “sports”, “technology”, and “travel”. A total of 30 categorised queries (five per category) were determined and each of them was run in English, in Arabic, and in Turkish languages separately on each of the three Web search engines. At each run, every document retrieved in the first 10 was classified as “relevant” or “non-relevant” and, in each category, precision ratios were calculated for each of the five queries at every Web search engine and language pair. Then, they were used in the evaluation.

CONSTRUCTING LONELINESS PREDICTION MODEL ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES BY USING ANNS

KUN-LIN HSIEH

T This study investigated the relationship between the SNSs use and loneliness of Facebook users, providing results that can serve as a reference for analyzing SNSs uses and the prevention of loneliness. Herein, we employed a Facebook API application to collect data from Facebook users and adopted the UCLA Loneliness Scale. And, this study verified that people with various degrees of loneliness used Facebook differently. …. ….

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF THREE DATA MINING MODELS FOR BUSINESS TAX AUDIT

TSUNG-NAN CHOU

Although the taxation audit can increase the government revenue and motivate taxpayers to comply with tax laws, the audit processes could be labor and time intensive and require the information technology to make the audit programs more effective. The data mining models including logistic regression, artificial neural network and rough set analysis were examined in this study for the selection of tax audit cases, and their performances were compared with various metrics. … .

DATA ACCESS CHALLENGES AND BUSINESS ALLEGATION

MS.SNEHA RAUT

ABSTRACT This paper highlights overview of security relevant aspects of existing data warehouse solutions. As today’s decision s in the business world become more real-time, the systems that support those decisions need to keep up. Data warehouse is repository of integrated information, available for queries and analysis. The protection of data privacy and confidentiality in underlying warehouse is guaranteed through reliable security measures in different area. We conceptually define security policies to secure data from suspicious parties

BARRIERS TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT SUCCESS IN SAUDI ARABIAN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

ABDULAZIZ I. ALMAJED, PAM MAYHEW

T Many studies and reports have revealed that the rate of Information Technology (IT) project failures is high, in spite of enormous investment in IT infrastructure and software. This paper presents an empirical study of the main barriers that affect IT project success in Saudi Arabian public organizations, from the chief information officers’ (CIOs) perspective. A qualitative approach using a semi-structured interview method was used to collect the data; interviews were conducted with CIOs in order to gather their opinions about the barriers to IT projects’ success. A content analysis method was adopted to analyze the outcomes of the interviews. …. ….

COMPARING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL IN PREDICTING SOIL SURFACE TEMPERATURE

FARIBA SHAKER, AMIR HASSAN MONADJEMI, HOJAT YAZDANPANAH

Soil surface temperature affects plant’s chemical reactions which is an important factor in its nutrient absorption. Therefore soil surface temperature is an essential parameter in the quality and quantity of agricultural products. In this paper we use artificial neural networks to predict future soil temperature from five measured parameters, namely ‘minimum soil temperature’, ‘moisture’, ‘minimum and maximum air temperature’, and ‘total sunny hours per day’. … .

SERVICE PRAXIS USING TABLET PERSONAL COMPUTER (IPAD APPS) – A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK

KANDAPPAN BALASUBRAMANIAN, V.JAYKUMAR, LEENA NITIN FUKEY, THIRUGNANASAMBANTHAM

ABSTRACT This paper explores the integration of Tablet personal computer (TPC) such as Apple iPad in university classroom, since the use of recent technology among the student community is rapidly increasing. The use of technology also supports the multiple learning practices and engages the students effectively through the use of applications. The information technology has provided educators and learners an innovative learning environment to generate exciting new paths in the learning process by using the iPad apps. This style of learning integrates traditional classroom methods to transform into blended learning methods by engaging the students with online activities.

E-LEARNING READINESS ASSESSMENT MODEL IN KENYAS’ HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

OKETCH HA , NJIHIA JM , WAUSI AN

ABSTRACT In order to benefit from eLearning, institutions should conduct considerable up-front analysis to assess their eLearning readiness. Studies show that there are numerous models that have been developed, however, they are used in developed counties whose eReadiness is high hence not applicable in developing countries. This paper includes a model that has been developed to assess eLearning readiness of lecturers from institutions of higher learning in Kenya. It investigates the eLearning readiness of lecturers from the University of Nairobi, and the objective was to carry out a diagnostic eLearning readiness assessment of lecturers and determine the factors that influence eLearning readiness.

EFFECTS OF MACHINE CONSTANT TO ROTOR ANGLE STABILITY IN SINGLE MACHINE INFINITE BUS POWER SYSTEMS

Bilgehan TOZLU, Fatin SONMEZ

This paper treats the effect of inertia constant of machine (machine constant) which is synchronous generator in single machine infinite bus power systems, to rotor angle stability. The system is modeled by an equation named swing equation and it is simulated in computer by using Matlab/Simulink. I. …. ….

Rotor angle stability, machine inertia constant, SMIB

MR ADMIRE KACHEPA, DR NOBERT JERE

Mobile phones have become an important technological device used in many instances. The power of mobile phones can improve service delivery in many instances. It may not be appropriate to explain all the areas which the mobile phones have been used. We targeted the education sector. The motivation for this sector was that in many countries in Africa, science subjects like Mathematics have very low pass rates. We were interested in understanding how the mobile phone could be used to improve Mathematics learning. … .

THE DESIGN OF TEXT-TO-VOICE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR PHYSICALLY & VISUALLY IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN NIGERIA

ETIM STEPHEN EKPE

ABSTRACT Over the years the visually and physically impede students have increased tremendously in Nigerian schools for academic pursuit. The challenge is that the architectural designs of most of the institutions where the education of these students with disabilities took place did not take into consideration, the disability nature of these people as such many of them find it very difficult having access to the facilities in school which make them experience far less career success than their nondisabled peers.

SIMPLE STEREO FM BASEBAND GENERATOR USING TIME-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING MIXING TECHNIQUE

EDWARD JEN, CHUNG-HSING CHAO

Most, if not all, modern frequency modulation transmitters today implement the baseband processing using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) or digital signal processors (DSPs). Although ASICs and DSPs present the most cost-effective and turnkey solutions, it is an intellectually stimulating and rewarding endeavor to generate the baseband signal using widely available, inexpensive, discrete components. Many available published discrete designs have been optimized for cost and low part count, condensing multiple steps into one processing stage

REAL-TIME AVIATION DEBUGGING SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES PILOT PANEL

ALIAKBAR ZAHRAVI, KOK-WHY NG

ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a real-time debugging system for Ground Control Station (GCS). It is to solve the problems in real time that occur during the flight mission. The errors are based on the external environment of the software. Our developed GCS software is of low cost, reasonable accuracy and with real-time debugging capability.

DEVELOPING A MOBILE PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING SYSTEM：A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Li-Chun Tang, MS, RN, Zu-Chun Lin, PhD, RN, Szu-Ying Lai MS, RN

Most of the teaching methods used in problem-based learning utilize text and pictures to illustrate problems. The majority of the feedback and evaluation is based on the traditional pen-and-paper observations of teachers/tutors. These methods may not generate the best possible results in assisting and evaluating learning. Problem- based learning combined with mobile technology allows students to learn and problem solving in a more organized, conceptualized, interactive, and prompted manner. …. ….

EFFECTS OF CYBERSPACE ON SLAVE TRADE AND PROSTITUTION

AMOS O OLAGUNJU, DANIEL OLAJONLU

Internet slave trade and prostitution are criminal activities that continue to affect women and young girls around the world. Women and young girls are forced, threatened, beaten to satisfy the sexual desire of men every day. Prostitution is not only inherently harmful and dehumanizing to women and children but also fuels the growth of human trafficking or modern-day slavery. … .

MODELING A RFID AND AGENT-BASED SHOP FLOOR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR DRAM TESTING FIRM BY UML

HSIEN-PIN HSU

ABSTRACT Due to centralized and hierarchical structure, many shop floor control systems (SFCSs) currently used in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) testing firms are facing with problems, such as with difficulties in data collection and to integrate with legacy systems. To deal with these problems, advanced technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and agented-based approach appear capable and

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACTS OF VIDEO AND ONLINE GAMES ON ADOLESCENTS

AMOS O OLAGUNJU, NHIA YANG

ABSTRACT Adolescents today play too many video and online games. Adolescents are usually affected by video and online games. The influence begins from childhood until adolescent age when video and online games become a normal part of life. This is a confounded problem given that both video and online games have positive and negative effects on youths. What drive adolescents to play video and online games?

HYBRID COMBINATION OF MESSAGE ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUES ON ARABIC TEXT: USING NEW SYMMETRIC KEY AND SIMPLE LOGARITHM FUNCTION

MOHAMMED ABDULLAH MOHAMMED AYSAN, PRAKASH KUPPUSWAMY

ABSTRACT Cryptography is the practice and study of Encrypting/Decrypting information. In modern times cryptography is considered a branch of both mathematics and computer science and is affiliated closely with information theory, computer security and engineering. Cryptography is used in applications present in technologically advanced societies; examples include the security of ATM cards, computer passwords and electronic commerce, which all depend on cryptography. The algorithms and methods used to encrypt messages in Arabic language are few and old; there are no modern encryption algorithms to encrypt the Arabic letters. This research paper proposed the mixed encryption algorithm based on simple multiplication and logarithm function with Caesar cipher to solve the problem

THE COMPARATIVE ACEPTANCE LEVEL OFUSING E-BOOK HOUSED IN MOBILE DEVICES

Zu-Chun Lin, PhD, RN1 , Yun-Ju Li, MS, RN2, Chiu-Pin Lin, PhD3, Szu Ying Lai, MS, RN

The rapid development in technology has driven the continuous improvement of software and devices used in education. Mobile devices and e-Book research is more common in elementary, junior high school education and non-nursing professional training. Further studies are required for the application in nursing….. ….

ANALYSIS OF CONCEPTS OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Samuel Madauda and Paluku Kazimoto

Groups of specialized people and companies with a high-developed communications infrastructure intended to monitor and record conditions at diverse locations of their business to get up-to-date feedback. It is challenging for creating robust and reliable wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we present an analysis of wireless network sensor demands and environment. It was demonstrated that wireless sensor networks well designed provides accurate feedback for attacks and that the current signal form in the appliance cable could accurately be reproduced with particular design. … .

CHALLENGES OF ELECTRONICS TAX REGISTER MACHINE (ETRS) TO BUSINESSES AND ITS IMPACT IN IMPROVING TAX REVENUE

Hamdu Kedir Mohammed, Zinash Degife Gela:

ABSTRACT This study was conducted to assess Problems faced by traders during using ETRs the Case of Addis Ababa City. The paper has identified problems related to the use of ETRs from the perspective of tax payers. The study has used both primary and secondary sources of data. Using random sampling method 363 tax payers were selected from the total population of 6794 with 85% return rate. The major findings are:

USES OF MOBILE BANKING SERVICES – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

T. Velmurugan Dr. M. Ramesh

ABSTRACT In line with the global industries’ move in acquiring the latest advanced technology to stay ahead of competitors, banks throughout the world and India have notably been moving in the same direction. Evidently, Mobile banking is considered a new era in banking, in which banks are spending considerable amount of money to have it available to their customers and to cut their operations costs.

GENERATING FUNCTIONS FOR B1(n) AND B2(n)

Sabuj Das, Haradhan Kumar Mohajan

ABSTRACT This paper shows how to prove the two Theorems, which are related to the terms and respectively Theorem: + and Theorem: +.

A MOBILE AGENT FRAMEWORK FOR REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING

AKOMOLAFE Oladeji Patrick , EMUOYIBOFARHE Justice

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Healthcare service delivery is currently shifting from “Doctor-Patient Contact Base” to “Anywhere-Anytime Service Based” paradigm due to technological advancement in pervasive computing, the widespread of the Internet and wireless mobile communication systems, which has given rise to tele-medicine, tele-monitoring and tele-health. Unfortunately these are widely distributed and fragmented with high degree of heterogeneity, strong local

EXTENDING PERFORMANCE EXPERT SYSTEM TEMPLATES SET TO SUPPORT MPI 3.0

A. LINEV, S. FROLOV, A. SIDNEV, A. VIKHIREV, O. LOGINOV

ABSTRACT Development of high performance applications requires support from various profiling and analysis tools. Advances in technology should be accompanied by rework of existing instruments and continuous revision of their compliance to state of the art.

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PRIVACY CONCERNS OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITE USERS IN TAIWAN

Kuang-Ming Kuo, Paul C. Talley

The study has two purposes: (1) to investigate the impact of awareness and control on Social Network Sites (SNSs) users’ information privacy concerns, and (2) to understand how information privacy concerns and the notion of trust shape users’ risk perceptions. The study collects data using survey methodology. A total of 356 SNS users are analyzed via partial least squares….. ….

TOWARDS IMPROVED QUALITY OF TEACHING AND LEARNING USING ICTs AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AT AFRICA UNIVERSITY

AGRIPPAH KANDIERO

ICTs are gaining ground in University education throughout the world. Currently, a large Number of universities world–wide support ICTs in Education particularly Emerging Technologies in different forms. Despite this wide spread adoption of ICTs in university education, research on the impact of ICTs in Education suggests that the full potential is not yet realised. The focus of the paper was to understand why ICTs have not yielded the expected results despite a number of global, national and institutional initiatives by policy makers and leaders and identify opportunities to improve the quality of teaching and learning using ICTs. … .

EFFICIENT DATA PRE-PROCESSING FOR DATA MINING USING NEURAL NETWORKS

JothiKumar.R, Dr. Sivabalan.R.V

ABSTRACT Organizations are maintaining history of data for future analysis. These huge volume of database is analysed to Predict and improve the benefits and profits of the organization and also for the development. By analysing the history of data, strategic decisions can be made to improve the performance of the organizations by the top level peoples. So organizations are interested in analysing the data which will result in valuable insight.

FAULT TOLERANCE IN INTEGRATION INTERFACES OF BUSINESS SOFTWARE

Rivo LEMMIK, Dr. Kristo KARJUST, Dr. Tauno OTTO

ABSTRACT Current paper describes different integration technologies of business software to analyze fault tolerance and reliability of those interfaces. Main focus is on the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software Microsoft Dynamics NAV, which can be integrated with other business applications as central business data source.

A LINUX MICROKERNEL BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR OPENCV IN THE RASPBERRY PI DEVICE

Stevan O. N. Silva, Luciano Silva

ABSTRACT This work presents the development of an embedded architecture based on the Linux system and the OpenCV library, focused on the effective use of the hardware, through the selection of specific features required by this library and aiming for performance improvement. The approach goes from Linux kernel configuration to the inclusion of required libraries, the root filesystem structure, system utilities and startup scripts.

PREDICTION OF HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS BY ANN FOR ALUMINUM & STEEL MATERIAL

Ilker MERT, Hüseyin Turan ARAT

ABSTRACT The engineering properties of the metals are affecting efficiency of heat transfer processes in heat exchangers which mainly used in heating, refrigeration, air conditioning, power plants, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, petroleum refineries, and natural gas processing. Therefore, selection the material types are very important for heat exchangers manufacturing.

THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION ON PATIENTS’ KNOWLEDGE IN TAIWAN: A META-ANALYSIS

Yi-Horng Lai

Information technology application in health education plan in Taiwan had gone for a long time. This study was performed to synthesize existing research comparing the effects of information technology application versus traditional instruction in health education plan on patients’ knowledge in hospital in Taiwan. Meta-analysis was a statistical process whereby the findings of several studies, focusing on a common problem or topic, are pooled in an effort to draw inferences as to the meaning of a collective body of research. Early meta-analysis studies were published prior to the microcomputer revolution, since 1970. …. ….

SECURING THE NETWORKED SOCIETY; A UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY APPROACH

Otanga Daniel and Gichoya David

Privacy and security of information is an essential requirement for organizations in the current networked environment. It is therefore upon the organizations to enhance their approaches to handling information in order to maintain authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of documents they create, send and receive within their network and beyond. The aim of this paper is to discuss shaping the networked Society with main emphasis on Privacy, Virology and Security issues on Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) network. A case study approach was used to understand the methods the university used to secure information on its network. This paper uses design theory for information to describe the security scenarios. … .

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS

Askari. Mohammad Bagher

ABSTRACT Photovoltaic’s deal with the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy. Classic photovoltaic solar cells based on inorganic semiconductors have developed considerably [1] since the first realization of a silicon solar cell in 1954 by Chapin, Fuller and Pearson in the Bell labs. [2] Today silicon is still the leading technology on the world market of photovoltaic solar cells, with power conversion efficiencies approaching 15 – 20% for mono-crystalline devices. Though the solar energy industry is heavily subsidized throughout many years, the prices of silicon solar cell based power plants or panels are still not competitive with other conventional combustion techniques – except for several niche products. An approach for lowering the manufacturing costs of solar cells is to use organic materials that can be processed under less demanding conditions.