Information Techology

In IT companies, people are relevant the most relevant asset in the chain value, it is mandatory to have efficient HR management for their sustainability.
In order to validate the Hypothesis "Are non-financial factors more important than financial ones in Talent retention?" an investigation and survey were carried out by 196 professionals.
Even being impossible to obtain a clear and strong answer to the hypothesis, it was, however, possible to conclude that the payroll is an important factor for 90% of the surveyed, where also 65% already considered changing companies due to salary issues. However, when asked about the incentives that they most valued, the choice of 98% fell on non-financial benefits.
It is also concluded that there are positive correlations between the participation in the definition of processes that affect the worker’s function, age and longevity in the company; and negative correlations between recognition, career progression and HR policy.

Este trabajo se encuentra dividido en 6 partes. 

La primera (apartado II) aborda el proceso electrónico y la tendencia generalizada al abandono del papel como soporte de comunicación, pasando revista sobre el proceso de escasa cuantía y el monitorio europeo.

La segunda parte (apartado III) se dedica al análisis de los mecanismos de resolución de controversias online, trabajando especialmente sobre la reciente experiencia del Reino Unido con la “Corte online”. 

La tercera parte (apartado IV) se enfoca en los alcances y desafíos de la inteligencia artificial como instrumento para la gestión de casos y resolución de cuestiones, señalando ejemplos de su utilización en el marco de las Cortes Constitucionales de Brasil y Colombia. 

La cuarta parte (apartado V) está dedicada a las implicancias de estas nuevas tecnologías en términos de acceso ciudadano a la información pública, ofreciendo como ejemplo la experiencia del Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas y su Índice de Accesibilidad a la Información Judicial en Internet. 

La quinta parte (apartado VI) comprende una suerte de repaso de algunas de las ventajas, riesgos y desafíos que presenta la implementación de nuevas tecnologías en el proceso judicial.

Finalmente, la sexta parte (apartado VII) tiene por objeto presentar ciertas reflexiones en términos de balance y prospectiva.

In the modern world of social media dominance, the microblogs like Twitter and Facebook are probably the best source of up-to-date information. The amount of information available on these platforms is huge, although most of it is unstructured and redundant which makes our task of extracting information from it much more challenging. This automatic extraction of information from noisy sources has opened up new opportunities for querying and analyzing data. This paper is a review of the research that has been done on extracting information like event dates [1] and classification of information from social networking platforms like Twitter. We present a brief study of the work which shows that extracting useful information from Twitter and other social media platforms is indeed feasible. We provide brief study about the extraction techniques applied by the applications based on this subject like the extraction tasks and the input exploited for extraction, the types of methods of extraction used and the type of output produced.

- Result of “the Onlife Initiative,” a one-year project funded by the European Commission to study the deployment of ICTs and its effects on the human condition
- Inspires reflection on the ways in which a hyperconnected world forces the rethinking of the conceptual frameworks on which policies are built
- Draws upon the work of a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines including, anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, law, philosophy, political science

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition.

ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self-conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency). In each case, ICTs have a huge ethical, legal, and political significance, yet one with which we have begun to come to terms only recently.

The impact exercised by ICTs is due to at least four major transformations: the blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality; the blurring of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the reversal from information scarcity to information abundance; and the shift from the primacy of stand-alone things, properties, and binary relations, to the primacy of interactions, processes and networks.

Such transformations are testing the foundations of our conceptual frameworks. Our current conceptual toolbox is no longer fitted to address new ICT-related challenges. This is not only a problem in itself. It is also a risk, because the lack of a clear understanding of our present time may easily lead to negative projections about the future. The goal of The Manifesto, and of the whole book that contextualises, is therefore that of contributing to the update of our philosophy. It is a constructive goal. The book is meant to be a positive contribution to rethinking the philosophy on which policies are built in a hyperconnected world, so that we may have a better chance of understanding our ICT-related problems and solving them satisfactorily.

The Manifesto launches an open debate on the impacts of ICTs on public spaces, politics and societal expectations toward policymaking in the Digital Agenda for Europe’s remit. More broadly, it helps start a reflection on the way in which a hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the referential frameworks on which policies are built.

In current days, Big Data is stored and produced in massive volumes and from multiple sources. Using such data is becoming a vital process for the work of governments, business, and individual. One of the benefits is demonstrated in national elections called electronic voting or E-voting, which allows voting from remote locations. In this area, Big Data is a combination of massive technological power and endlessly detailed voter information that plays a role in the way elections can be conducted. Managing data either for business or government is important nowadays for building a successful E-voting framework. Many studies highlighted the Big Data collection, infrastructure, and challenges that go with E-voting process. Also, studies explained what factors affecting E-voting implementation in the Middle-East, Gulf countries, and specifically Kuwait.

Teknologjia po ecën me hapa të shpejtë dhe ndikimin më të madh mendohet që ta ketë tek bizneset. Vetëm duke hedhur një vështrim rreth e rrotull mund të shohim se sa rëndësi ka marrë ajo sot, duke ndryshuar mënyrën e komunikimit apo të marrjes së informacionit. Bizneset, nëpërmjet rrjeteve apo sistemeve kompjuterike, kanë mundësuar kontrollin e një kompanie të tërë nga mijëra kilometra larg. Autorë të ndryshëm të literaturës botërore, duke parë rëndësinë që po merr kjo fushë, kanë studiuar lidhjet e teknologjisë me përfitimet brënda një kompanie.
Në kuadër të aderimit të Shqipërisë drejt tregut të përbashkët europian, kompanitë, sidomos ato shumëkombëshe, por edhe qeveria dhe fondacione të ndryshme e kanë konsideruar investimin në teknologji si një aspekt shumë të rëndësishëm për zhvillimin e vendit. Bizneset kërkojnë që investimet që ata do të kryejnë t’iu japë përfitime në të
ardhmen. Pavarësisht një rëndësie kaq të madhe, në Shqipëri mungojnë studimet të cilat trajtojnë investimet në teknologji, ndikimin e zhvillimit të një biznesi dhe vlerën që kanë ato për kompanitë.
Ky punim ka për qëllim të studiojë ndikimin që ka investimi në teknologji dhe madhësia e kompanisë në performancën financiare për kompanitë në Tiranë. Janë përzgjedhur dy metoda të ndryshme për të një studim sa më të plotë. Duke u bazuar në literaturë është ndërtuar një model përgjithësues nëpërmjet analizës panel me 20 kompani të sektorëve të
prodhimit, shërbimit, farmaceutikës, tregtisë dhe institucioneve financiare. Variabli I varur është përfitueshmëria dhe variablat e pavarur janë: investimi në teknologji dhe madhësia e kompanisë. Studimi vijon me analizën e një pyetësori të shpërndarë tek kompanitë e Tiranës me qëllim shpjegimin e modelit dhe situatës në vend nëpërmjet
përgjigjeve të 159 kompanive. Rezultatet tregojnë që madhësia e kompanisë dhe investimi në teknologji ka një ndikim pozitiv tek performanca financiare e kompanive.

Our goal is to prepare students for the future challenges in managing and analysing the rapidly growing amounts of data that is produced manually by humans as well as automatically generated by, for example, sensors in emerging Internet of Things solutions, data capturing on the Web or as an outcome of scientific experiments. Thereby, we focus on the scientific aspects and concepts for scalable data management solutions, information retrieval and data mining as well as different information visualisation and interaction techniques rather than on existing mainstream technologies, and provide students the necessary education for a future career as data scientists and data engineers.

Radar telah menjadi instrumen yang sangat penting sejak masa Perang Dunia II. Kapal perang dan pesawat tempur dilengkapi dengan radar untuk mendeteksi keberadaan musuh. Pada zaman sekarang radar berperan penting dalam navigasi dan piranti keselamatan pada alat transportasi baik darat, laut, maupun udara. Bahkan dapat dikatakan bahwa untuk urusan keselamatan di laut, tidak ada perangkat elektronik lain di kapal yang sepenting radar. Dengan radar nahkoda dapat mengetahui kondisi di sekeliling kapalnya meliputi garis pantai, kapal, ataupun objek lainnya. Radar laut yang digunakan untuk mengukur bantalan dan jarak dari kapal untuk mencegah tabrakan dengan kapal lain, untuk menavigasi, dan untuk memperbaiki posisi mereka di laut ketika dalam jangkauan pantai atau referensi tetap lainnya seperti pulau, pelampung, dan lightships. Menurut saya radar sangat penting bagi keselamatan awak kapal karena dengan radar kita dapat mengetahui objek apa saja yang ada di laut selain itu kita dapat mengetahui jika ada kapal lain disekitar. Dengan demikian resiko terjadinya tabrakan dapat dihindari. Kelebihan radar adalah dapat menampilkan objek di sekeliling radar tanpa terpengaruh kondisi cuaca bahkan dalam kabut tebal sekalipun atau kondisi malam yang gelap.

AABSTRAK
Arsip elektronik memiliki peranan penting dalam sistem administrasi, selain itu juga
sebagai alat bukti yang sah berdasarkan Undang-undang Nomor 11 pasal 5 ayat (1)
Tahun 2008. Perkembangan teknologi informasi mengharuskan arsip diolah secara
elektronik. Tujuan penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk menjelaskan tentang apa dan
bagaimana cara mengelola arsip elektronik secara konseptual. Artikel ini disusun
berdasarkan studi literatur. Peralatan yang digunakan untuk mengelola arsip
elektronik berupa hardware (komputer, print scanner, media penyimpanan) dan
software. Pegelolaan arsip elektronik berbeda dengan arsip cetak. Arsip elektronik
memiliki empat siklus pengelolaan yaitu penciptaan dan penyimpanan, distribusi dan
penggunaan, pemeliharaan, dan disposisi. Pemindahan arsip cetak kedalam arsip
elektronik bisa dilakukan dengan cara scanning, conversion, Importing. Sedangkan
penyimpanan arsip elektronik bisa dilakukan secara online, offline maupun nearline.

ABSTRACT
Electronic archives have an important role in system of administration, it also as a valid
instrument of evidence based on Undang-Undang No. 11 pasal 5 (1) 2008. Information
technology progression requires the archive being processed electronically. The purpose of article
to explain about what and how to manage archive electronic. This article was compiled based on
the study of literature. The tools used to manage the electronic archives are hardware
(computers, print scanner, and media storage) and software. Electronic archive different with
print archive. Electronic archive has four cycles of creation and management of storage,
distribution and use, maintenance, and disposition. Removal print archive into electronic
archives can be done by way of scanning, conversion, Importing. Electronic archive storage can
be done online, offline or nearline.

This descriptive correlational study aimed at the level of Phonemic awareness as a predictor of Word Decoding ability among BS-IT students using a total enumeration technique that involves students enrolled in the course program. Moreover, it sought to determine the significant relationship between the two variables. To verify, three different tests were being utilised to collect the necessary data, i.e., a listening test for measuring the respondents' level of awareness of words with critical sounds; a phonetic transcription test to identify the respondents' level of awareness of sound-symbol relationship; and spelling test to know the respondents' level of ability for transcriptions to be translated to its American Standard English spelling. After the data had been collected and tabulated, it was interpreted that the students have a high level of Phonemic awareness with a mean of 3.66. Moreover, their Word Decoding ability resulted in a high level with a mean of 3.93. Further, it is being noticed that there is a tremendous significant relationship between the two variables with a p-value of 0.0000000859. With these findings, the researcher encourages the school, administrators, and teachers to give more exposure to sound-word connections by engaging the students with activities involving speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities and practice-based tasks.

La ingeniería del conocimiento es un área de la computación empleada en las organizaciones como una estrategia para conservar el conocimiento clave y emplearlo de manera estratégica. Este artículo muestra como la investigación de mercados logra emplear la ingeniería de conocimiento como una herramienta fundamental en su búsqueda de información útil y altamente relevante que le permita identificar qué piensan sus clientes y poder orientar efectivamente sus esfuerzos. Para ello, en este artículo se caracteriza el caso de una investigación en modelos de aceptación tecnológica del mobile learning al interior del Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, en el que por medio de un estudio de investigación de mercados usando herramientas de ingeniería de conocimiento, se identificaron los principales factores de aceptación del mobile learning en estudiantes universitarios, estos factores fueron: la autonomía en el aprendizaje, autoeficacia percibida, facilidad de uso percibida, preparación del instructor y utilidad percibida. Entre los principales aportes de la investigación se encuentra mostrar cómo las técnicas y herramientas de la ingeniería del conocimiento van más allá del campo de la inteligencia artificial y se han convertido hoy en día en un mecanismo que permite adquirir el conocimiento de los participantes de un proyecto de conocimiento. El uso adecuado de estas técnicas ayuda a los proyectos en el logro de mejores resultados identificando el tipo de información requerida y quién es el dueño de esta para aplicar el instrumento adecuado para su obtención.

ABSTRACT Knowledge engineering is an area of computing used in organizations as a strategy to conserve essential knowledge and use it strategically. This article shows how market research manages to use knowledge engineering as a fundamental tool in its search for useful and highly relevant information that allows identifying what its clients think, and expertly guide their efforts. To this end, this article characterizes the case of research on technology acceptance models of mobile learning within the Metropolitan Technological Institute. Through a Market Research study using Knowledge Engineering tools, the Main factors of acceptance of mobile learning in university students,

Water bodies like lakes or tanks or ponds play a significant role in preserving and restoring the ecological stability. They are in existence for several centuries, serving the water needs of communities. Encroachment of water bodies for development human settlements and farming has been increased due to population growth and public attitude. This research focused on the water bodies encroachment in Manapparai Taluk, which covers an area of 1090 sq.km that encompasses 108 revenue villages and located in the central part of Tamil Nadu, India. The remote sensing techniques were used to assess the land-use land cover (LULC) changes, The visual interpretation techniques were used to prepare the LULC map and investigated the changes between topographic sheets of 1976 and Quick Bird satellite imagery of 2019. The vector layers of LULC were created by using heads-up digitization method in open-source geospatial software environment i.e. QGIS and GRASS. The LULC changes were assessed according to revenue villages, also predicted the total number of water bodies encroached by the public. The results of LULC layers between 1976 and 2019 confirm that the extent of human settlement increased from 3.52% to 5.98% of the total area, while vegetation cover also increases from 1.38% to 2.12%. Besides, the lakes and ponds decreased from 4.11% (44.94 sq.km) to 3.82 % (39.14 sq.km). The research has demonstrated the advantages of QuickBird satellite imagery to provide an exact, cost-effective contribution to prepare a map and investigate LULC changes over an interval.

This research describes and analyses the sociotechnical and political dimensions of dataveillance as they are found within the security apparatus of the National Security Agency and the commercial apparatus of Google corporation. The goal is to reveal a structuring aspect of the data political economy as it is taking shape in the United States and worldwide.

Cette recherche veut décrire et analyser les dimensions sociotechniques et politiques de la surveillance des données (dataveillance), soit la collecte massive, continue et automatique des données produites par les usagers dans le cyberespace, telle qu’elle est conduite dans la sphère commerciale par l’entreprise Google et dans la sphère sécuritaire par la National Security Agency (NSA). L’objectif est d’exposer une partie des structures et des dynamiques de l’économie politique des données personnelles telle qu’elle existe aux États-Unis.

This dissertation asserts the relevance, suitability and relatable nature of pure trance film in a contemporary society with issues of isolation, anxiety and alienation. Issues closely related to recent increase in Internet and social networking use. The dissertation analyses theories on modern-age isolation in relation to critical writings and analysis of the 1940’s and 1950’s pure trance film form, drawing thematic parallels between issues represented in the film form and prevalent contemporary psychological issues within society. The dissertation then outlines specific examples of trance film working as a suitable and relatable mode of psychological expression by cross analysing the films themselves with the personal lives and sensibilities of the filmmakers.
The two films, At Land (Maya Deren 1944) and The Way to Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage 1954), are analysed with specific reference to their portrayal of psychological states via the external projection of a main protagonists’ inner psyche onto the external filmic landscape. Challenging the notion of character mediation as primitive, the dissertation asserts the use of a mediating protagonist as relatable. The dissertation examines the way in which trance films operate, regarding the human external-projection of the psyche. Analysis of Carl Jung’s earlier views on projection shed light on this, Conclusions are reached that attest to the form’s relevance and relatable nature as a form of psychological expression.

The central aim of this study was to test a model that integrates determinants of educational computer use. In particular, the article examines teacher and school characteristics that are associated with different types of computer use by primary school teachers. A survey was conducted, involving 527 teachers from 68 primary schools. A separate questionnaire was administered to ICT coordinators from the same schools to gather additional information about cultural and contextual school characteristics. The combined impact of both teacher and school characteristics was explored through a multilevel analysis. Besides the importance of school characteristics, the results point to differential effects on specific types of computer use.

This essay advocates for a significant reorientation and reconceptualization of communication studies in order to accommodate the opportunities and challenges introduced by increasingly intelligent machines, autonomous decision making systems, and smart devices. Historically the discipline of communication has accommodated new technology by transforming these innovations into a medium of human interaction and message exchange. With the computer, this transaction is particularly evident with the development of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in the later half of the 20th century. In CMC, the computer is understood and investigated as a more-or-less neutral channel of message transfer and instrument of human interaction. This formalization, although not necessarily incorrect, neglects the fact that the computer, unlike previous technological advancements, also occupies the position of participant in communicative exchanges. Evidence of this is already available in the science of AI and has been explicitly described by some of the earliest writings on communication and the computer. The essay therefore 1) demonstrates that the CMC paradigm, although undeniably influential and successful, is insufficient and no longer tenable and 2) argues that communication studies needs to rework its basic framework in order to address and respond to the unique technological challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Readers of this research will find on the following pages the result of a combination of  methods  and  investigative  approaches  dedicated  to  the  contextualization  and  measurement of how IT professionals in the city of São Paulo understand and mobilize their labour ties throughout their professional paths.  We  started  with  analyzes  and  research  carried  out  by  scholars  from  the  labour relations, employment and entrepreneurship, data from the Censuses from 1960 to 2010 and information  from  other  research  institutes  to  search  a  universe  of  research  that  would  provide  a  modest  but  representative  sample  of  IT  professionals  of  different  generations,  different work experiences and labor ties, and that meets the minimum variety of other social markers like race or color, sex and social origin.With this context defined, we interviewed a group of professionals composed of forty participants.  These  professionals  provided  interviews,  completed  forms,  and  answered  questions through various other forms of contact so as to not only provide the markers data collected  in  this  study,  but  mainly  to  present  their  experiences  and  points  of  view  on  the  modalities of work they have experienced or intend to experience in their careers.The  observation  of  the  variations  and  similarities  related  to  the  types  of  labour ties mobilized  by  professionals  of  different  generations  constitutes  the  core  dimension  of  this  study  that  intends  to  contribute  with  a  detailed  presentation  on  the  way  in  which  the  professionals  that  meet  the  target  profile  of  research  comprise  the  types  of  labour ties available  to  them,  seeking  to  overcome  the  limitations  of  approaches  that  treat  the  subject  from  a  very  far  position    - oriented  especially  by  quantitative  methods.  Listening  to  IT  professionals,  the  main  ones  affected  by  the  changes  in  the  possibilities  of  links,  is  a fundamental  element  of  this  study  that  also  seeks  to  analyze,  in  a  way  mediated  by  the  sociological  theory  that  covers  the  issues  mobilized  here,  the  visions  and  conceptions  obtained  by  the  professionals  themselves  about  models,  proposals  and  theories  that  come  sometimes from the academic world and sometimes from the corporate world. Although  these  propositional  worlds  at  times  coexist  with  the  perceptions  and  interpretations  of  the  professionals  interviewed,  this  study  shows  that  the  experiences  and perceptions  of  professionals  prove  to  be  more  complex  than  polarized  models  tend  to  postulate.

La metodología de seguridad está diseñada para ayudar a desarrollar una estrategia para proteger la disponibilidad, integridad y confidencialidad de los datos de los sistemas informáticos. La metodología ofrece un acercamiento sistemático a esta importante tarea también implica el establecimiento de planes de contingencia en casos de desastre. Los administradores de seguridad deben de decidir el tiempo, dinero y esfuerzo que hay que invertir para desarrollar las directivas y controles de seguridad apropiados Y determinar sus requisitos y limitaciones en cuanto a recursos y programación. Cada sistema informático en torno y directiva organizativa es distinta lo que hace cada servicio y cada estrategia de seguridad únicos sin embargo todos se basan en los principios.

Social media has become a prominent and a powerful forum for voter enlightenment, political activism and fastest means of information dissemination. An individual without a social media account is seen in the society as obsolete. Social media has indeed become our lives personally and professionally. An average smart phone owner cannot do without visiting a social media platform daily. Social media therefore can be used effectively to target particular voters, encourage people to exercise their franchise and to make information go viral. Social media platforms, such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube help to activate citizens' engagement in political life. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saddled with the responsibility of educating voters on their electoral roles and responsibilities unfortunately doesn't have pronounced presence in the social space. This paper analyses the roles of social media in voters' sensitization, the presence of INEC in the cyberspace and how INEC can make itself more active in the cyberspace for effective information dissemination and voter education.

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a replacement technology that can be used to incorporate these devices & thereby provide health monitoring applications in healthcare. Further development of wireless communications in recent years has led to the use of sensing element networks, which are low priced. These networks have a wide variety of applications. Various technical problems in these application areas are being resolved by researchers across the world. Apart from it, it addresses a wide variety of challenges in these technologies.

Citizens are allowed to convene their opinions on public policies online without any interference in an open democracy. The internet helps citizens’ voices to be heard irrespective of the status or position in the society. It is the voice of the voiceless. Countries and nations where people are allowed to discuss freely online are no doubt experiencing growth in the IT sector.

Some governments are antagonistic to open policies giving free internet access to people. They feared that such policies may be used against them and might also be used by some people to promote disinformation and fake news on social media. They choose to control the media that is providing information to their citizens. The low level of IT usage and awareness in Africa is the product of controlled internet. This paper therefore analyses the challenges to open internet in Africa, Nigeria in particular and the way forward.

Admittedly, the internet users in the remote and rural areas are less in embracing broadband usage due to the technology and economic factors leading them in continuously using low-speed dial up access in lieu of demanding for higher services. There is no exception in the rural areas of northern region of Malaysia as their rate of development is quite low when compared with the rest of the regions in Malaysia, causing backwardness or stagnant in the usage of broadband. Therefore, this research intends to examine the fitness of UTAUT model on the broadband continuous usage in the rural areas. A quantitative survey technique is employed by distributing 200 questionnaires to secondary school students that are residing in the rural areas of northern region of Malaysia. The result shows that UTAUT model is best fit in determining continuous usage of broadband in the rural areas.

The study aims at measuring the effects of information technology on the transformation of businesses in communication companies in Jordan. The study population consisted of companies' directors as well as their deputies, assistants, advisors, in addition to department managers and their assistants. The total number of the study subjects is 3 designated communication companies in Jordan; these are: Zain, Umniah ‫‬ , and Orange. To achieve the aim of the study, the researcher had prepared a questionnaire which comprises of 45 items covering the three factors of the independent variable (Information Technology): infrastructure, developmental environment, and executive support systems and applications, as well as the three factors of the dependent variable (Transformation of Businesses): operations, organization change, and workers' competence. In order to test the hypotheses, the following three criteria were adequately used: The Medians, the Standard Deviations, as well as the Regression Analysis. The study has reached a number of results; the most notable amongst these results is that there is a positive effect that is statistically significant of information technology on the elements of business transformation in Jordanian communication companies and all of their relating elements. The last decade of the twentieth century and the turn of twenty-first century witnessed significant progress in technology in general and information technology and communication in particular. Such progress still continues until today, accelerating with wide quick strides more than ever. This age has produced many mechanisms for manufacturing knowledge and more advanced technological means that have made the globe as a small village. Communication technology, which is represented by the internet, has played a huge rule in transferring information and technological revolution from the north to the south passing by the east and the west at the same time. All of that have had an impact on all political, economic, educational, teaching, social, media, and advertisement systems in all communities. It is the change resulting from the discrimination on the bases of the ability to affect change and not on the bases of upon whom the act of change occurs, which provides the ability to commence a special ongoing change process, creating a structural transformation that can face challenges and exploit available opportunities in a widely changing, open, intertwining environment (Al-Mashaikhi, 2019). THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY: The purpose of this study is to identify and measure the effect of the IT in its dimensions (infrastructure, developmental environment, executive support system and applications) on the transformation of business in its dimensions (operation, organizational change, and workers' competence) in communication companies in Jordan, and the difficulties, limitations, and opportunities that are provided for the organization.

The study evaluated the level of ICT skills and competencies needed by the industries from BS Information Technology graduates intended for curriculum enhancement in Zamboanga Peninsula Polytechnic State University. Academic and the Industry Sector assessed the needed competencies for an entry-level position in IT Department. More so, the study employed a descriptive-quantitative method and utilized weighted mean and T-test as statistical tools for analysis of data. Results revealed that both Industry and Academic sectors rated extremely required Technical Support Specialist, System Administrator, Web and Applications Developer, Network Engineer and Computer Programmer in the entry-level position in the IT Department. An expert level is necessary in terms of the competency in Managing Database System, Networking, and Programming both for Web and Computer as well as system design, analysis, administration, and maintenance. State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) and private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and the different industry sectors in the Zamboanga Peninsula have the same requirements in hiring BSIT graduates for entry-level positions that have acquired ICT skills as experts in their professional and common courses.

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a replacement technology that can be used to incorporate these devices & thereby provide health monitoring applications in healthcare. Further development of wireless communications in recent years has led to the use of sensing element networks, which are low priced. These networks have a wide variety of applications. Various technical problems in these application areas are being resolved by researchers across the world. Apart from it, it addresses a wide variety of challenges in these technologies. Keywords— Wireless body area networks, Health care Applications, WSN, patient monitoring, sensor, MAC

In today’s highly challenging knowledge-based economy, many universities are have been taking additional value from their technologies developed in their research laboratories by licensing their intellectual property (Tidd & Bessant, 2011). In Turkey, however, this issue is very new and most of the university administrators are not aware about the intellectual property rights (Pathak, Xavier-Oliveira, & Laplume, 2013). As Huizingh has mentioned that such technology transfer of the universities has recently become an important dimension for the university strategy, as part of a trend called open innovation. Open innovation can involve both bringing knowledge from university into the innovative corporations and also transferring technologies from within the corporation to external partners, like the universities. By licensing their technology, universities have achieve a successful return on other and more deep R&D. In that way, technology transfer by licensing technology help universities (Huizingh, 2011). However, in many universities, especially in Turkey instead of licensing technology in order to achieve additional revenues by annual royalties, have not very effective in licensing. In particular, universities transfer their competitively outstanding technologies due to the lack of strategic management. Additionally, researchers often have difficulty in licensing opportunities due to the lack of the technology licensing offices (Shane & Somaya, 2007).
In order to understand the Turkish universities in technology transfer and licensing, a well-rounded research had conducted in Istanbul, the most developed city in Turkey, in which two different universities had chosen. After analyzing the academic and managerial background on technology licensing, exploratory interviews with 45 researchers in two different faculties, which were engineering and medicine, had conducted to understand deeply the level of awareness about the technology transfer and licensing. Additionally, a simple questionnaire was given to overview the general knowledge of the researchers in licensing and intellectual property rights. In the study, a phenomenological analysis was conducted and 16 research questions were taken into consideration during the semi-structured interviews. Then the data were overviewed critically by using Atlas.ti 7 to elaborate deeply the main situation regarding to the technology transfer and licensing
The results of the depth analysis showed that most of the participants (88%) accepted that they did not know about the technology transfer and licensing. More significantly, the most of the participants from the faculties of medicine and engineering were not aware about the importance of the technology that they had developed in terms of licensing and royalties that they could earn. Those (43%) who were developing technology and transfer of the technology to the corporations felt alone and scared about licensing. Some (22%) of the young participants had mentioned about the negative attitudes of the older professors. Those, who were successful in technology transfer and licensing, on the other hand, had mentioned that they did not like to talk about licensing and they preferred to work in corporations rather than in the university in order to protect themselves from the negative attitudes of their colleagues. Most (89%) of them strongly clarified that they had potential technological solutions for specific problems, but they faced the challenges for technology transfer and licensing. The participants from the medicine had less knowledge in technology transfer and licensing than those from the engineering faculty. Some of them (32%) could not identify profitable applications of their studies. In addition, the large number of the participants (87%) had defined transferring technology as a complex process. They could not deal with the licensing activity. Hence, that mentioned that they needed technology licensing office to cope effectively and efficiently with managerial formalities.

Data insecurity affects the general public to a significant degree, and the law needs to step forward and cope with the challenges posed by data breaches, data misuse, and data injuries. The primary goal of this article is to provide a thorough analytical framework for data breach cases that specifically focuses on the evolutions needed in the areas of duty and injury in shaping the contours of liability for data injuries. This article represents the first comprehensive analysis of a duty to secure data within the modern context of data insecurity. While most of our focus is on data breaches, the principles explored in this article are broad enough to be applied helpfully in data misuse cases as well, including the recent controversy over Facebook’s permissive data use practices. We examine duty as a part of a negligence framework for data insecurity harms, and we argue that courts should recognize a legal duty to secure data. This duty is made necessary by pervasive cognitive biase...

Decision tree modelling, as one of data mining techniques, is used for credit scoring of bank customers. The main problem is the construction of decision trees that could classify customers optimally. This study presents a new hybrid mining approach in the design of an effective and appropriate credit scoring model. It is based on genetic algorithm for credit scoring of bank customers in order to offer credit facilities to each class of customers. Genetic algorithm can help banks in credit scoring of customers by selecting appropriate features and building optimum decision trees. The new proposed hybrid classification model is established based on a combination of clustering, feature selection, decision trees, and genetic algorithm techniques. We used clustering and feature selection techniques to pre-process the input samples to construct the decision trees in the credit scoring model. The proposed hybrid model choices and combines the best decision trees based on the optimality criteria. It constructs the final decision tree for credit scoring of customers. Using one credit dataset, results confirm that the classification accuracy of the proposed hybrid classification model is more than almost the entire classification models that have been compared in this paper. Furthermore, the number of leaves and the size of the constructed decision tree (i.e. complexity) are less, compared with other decision tree models. In this work, one financial dataset was chosen for experiments, including Bank Mellat credit dataset.

Data insecurity affects the general public to a significant degree, and the law needs to step forward and cope with the challenges posed by data breaches, data misuse, and data injuries. The primary goal of this article is to provide a thorough analytical framework for data breach cases that specifically focuses on the evolutions needed in the areas of duty and injury in shaping the contours of liability for data injuries. This article represents the first comprehensive analysis of a duty to secure data within the modern context of data insecurity. While most of our focus is on data breaches, the principles explored in this article are broad enough to be applied helpfully in data misuse cases as well, including the recent controversy over Facebook’s permissive data use practices. We examine duty as a part of a negligence framework for data insecurity harms, and we argue that courts should recognize a legal duty to secure data. This duty is made necessary by pervasive cognitive biase...

In this study, a method to simulate Gartner’s hype cycle [1] is proposed. A search of the academic literature on this topic provides no clear guidance on how to draw hype cycle curves with mathematical functions. This article explores a new process for simulating the curve as a combination of bell-shaped curves and S-shaped curves, and applies this process to some high-tech innovations in Japan. Trends in technologies such as customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and cloud computing are analyzed by using a corpus of 4,772 newspaper articles. For these examples, Gompertz functions show better fit than logistic functions. For the combined curve, polynomial functions of degree 9 provide the best fit, with adjusted R-square values of more than 0.97.

This paper considers a Geo/Geo/1/N queueing system with retention of reneging customers, in which retention probability depends on the number of customers in the system. The steady state distribution of the number of customers in the system is derived. Other performance measures are obtained. Some numerical examples are also given.

The adoption of video games as an alternative classroom resource is acknowledged in technology and multiliteracies discourses as a strategy for meaning-making and developing cultural knowledge. This chapter addresses how educators may be informed about strategies that can potentially reinvent traditional literacy pedagogical boundaries and how boys' meaning-making establishes new ways and practices shaping their learning processes. This multi-case study examined the experiences of four boys engaged with video gaming in two different contexts: a community center and an after-school video club. A number of findings emanating from this study, including the following: (1) boys use their video gaming practices for meaning-making and collaborative efforts; (2) boys apply their cultural knowledge as creative innovators; (3) boys demonstrate peer mentoring through storytelling, face-to-face interactions, or in their online community of practice; (4) boys make meanings using metacognitive literacy skills; and (5) boys focus on cultural preservation and narrative storytelling.