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2. Effect of Social Media on Learning Effectiveness: Examining the mediating role ofthe Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization and knowledgesharing.
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Et. al., R Hemalatha,, primary
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3. Big Data Predictive Analytics and Performance: The Role of Transformational Leadership
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Et. al., Collins Ngu Nji,, primary
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4. B-Spline Collocation Solution of One Dimensional Nonlinear Differential Equation Arising in Homogeneous Porous Media
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et al., Nilesh Sonara and et al., Nilesh Sonara
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This paper investigates the Numerical solution nonlinear partial differential equation for one dimensional instability phenomenon known as Boussinesq's equation arising in a porous media in oil-water displacement treatment (instability). Its Numerical Solution has been acquired by utilizing B-Spline method with proper boundary and initial conditions. The Numerical solution of Boussinesq's equation using Spline method is very nearer to Exact Solution obtained by analytical method .It is surmise that when distance and time increases, its saturation of injected water is increases . Numerical solution and graphical illustration has been obtained by Matlab.
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5. Green ICT Framework for Ethiopian Higher Educational Institutions
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et al., Habtamu Erjabo and et al., Habtamu Erjabo
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The higher educational institutions (HEIs) of developing countries have two most important challenges i.e. cost effective ICT solutions, aligning ICTs with modern technologies and adopt sustainable approaches to significantly reduce the power consumption. An essential aim of the paper is to determine how to reduce power consumption & carbon foot prints, apply reduce, reuse and recycle practices for ICT equipment’s in HEIs. The developing country like Ethiopia is one of the countries where power scarcity is a big challenge and required to develop strategies that can encourage power savings along with green ICT strategies. Developing countries also face numerous challenges like strategic alignment in energy efficient techniques, refurbishing, reusing and recycling of the ICT equipment with standard scientific practices. Developing continent countries like African HEIs are still reluctant in adopting the energy efficiency standards practices. As a primary observation, it was observed that these HEIs are still away from the wide range adoption of energy efficient mechanism and green standard practices for ICT equipment. This research paper analyzed the current green ICTs usage in HEIs and selected three universities as sampling sites for primary data collection, case observation, and analysis. Finally a green ICT framework for reducing power consumption, reusing, refurbishing and recycling the ICT equipment in HEIs is proposed for adoption. The research performed experimental analysis in simulated environment using dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technique (DVFS) with VM migration. The simulated results found that the total consumption of energy by the ICT center is approximately reduced by 95 % for the specified configuration of the ICT center equipment. The results showed the significant contribution to reduce energy consumption, minimize environmental impacts and reduce the Co2 emission especially in the selected university ICTs.
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6. Gender Difference of Rural Grade Five Students’ Performance in Solving Word Problems Involving Measurement Formulae and Higher-Order Thinking Skills
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et al., Menaga Suseelan and et al., Menaga Suseelan
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This study assessed the gender difference in the performance of Grade Five elementary students from the rural region in solving word problems involving measurement formulae and higher-order thinking skills. The sample of this study comprised 109 students from three types of elementary schools, namely National School (NS), Chinese National-Type School (CNTS) and Tamil National-Type School (TNTS) located in the rural region of Penang, Malaysia. The findings indicate that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of the male and female students in the rural region of Penang, but both genders were found to perform poorly in solving measurement formulae word problems involving higher-order thinking skills. This implies the needs to shift the focus of mathematics teaching from procedural fluency to mastery of mathematical reasoning as well as problem solving skills to promote rural students’ higher-order thinking skills.
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7. Diagnosis of Faulty IGBT Switches in Multi-Level Inverter Using ANFIS Technique
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et al., Vimalakeerthy Devadoss and et al., Vimalakeerthy Devadoss
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Consistent performance of multilevel inverters is frequently downgraded by the fault in power electronic components such as IGBT switches, which is a major obstacle in operation of motor and drive. Identification of open & short circuit problems of IGBT switches in multilevel inverters is constantly a broadly explored area. Several procedures have been suggested to recognise the faulty IGBT switches of inverters based on current measurement and analysis. Bearing in mind the downsides of load current centred fault detection techniques, in this paper, inverter output voltage is considered for fault estimation purpose, because it is independent of load variations. Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is a dominant technology in the grouping of difficult patterns. In the present work, classification of faulty IGBT switches is carried out through ANFIS technique. Results show that ANFIS reduces number of inputs and size of the network and hence avoids the usage of any in-between numerical processes to decrease the size of the network and in turn lessens the processing time. The values of root mean square error lies in the range of acceptable limit and it shows the effectiveness of the ANFIS based approach in the identification of both open & short circuit problems of IGBT switches of multilevel inverters.
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8. Punching And Kicking Technique Analysis Of The Winner In The 75 Kg Male Kumite Category At Olympic Qualification Tournament 2021
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et al., Nevita Ariani and et al., Nevita Ariani
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The aims of this study are a. to analyze the punching and kicking techniques which score and do not score points, b. to identify the most effective technique used by the karate athletes in order to score points, and c. to be a reference as a training evaluation parameter. Descriptive study with quantitative approach is used in this study. The research sample is the winner in the 75 kg male kumite category at the Olympic Qualification Tournament 2021. The instrument in this study is the stroke and kick techniques employed. The data is presented with descriptive statistics and is analyzed using the SPSS.26 version. The results of this study show that the punching techniques used score more points for the athlete than the kicking techniques. Based on the results, the total use of the punching techniques is 33 times or 60% and it has a 27.27% (counted points) success rate. Meanwhile, the total use of kicking techniques is 22 times or 40% and it has a 0% success rate.
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9. Study the Characteristics of TiO2: Ag Pure and Doped Films as Gas Sensor
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et. al., Omar Taha Hamdi and et. al., Omar Taha Hamdi
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In this research, thin films of titanium dioxide were prepared and doped with certain doping percentages (2, 4, 6)% of silver. The films were prepared at a temperature of (400°C) and deposited on glass floors using thermal chemical spraying technique, after which it was annealed. At a temperature of (300Cº) for two hours, the results of the X-ray examination showed that the prepared pure and silver-dotted titanium dioxide films possess a polycrystalline structure of the Anatase type, and we note an increase in the growth of crystalline levels and their intensity with the increase in the percentage of doping. The results of the optical properties showed that the doping led to a decrease in transmittance and energy gap and an increase in absorbance, while the results of the Hall effect showed a clear increase in the concentration of carriers and a decrease in mobility values at room temperature with an increase in doping ratios. The results of gas sensitization to nitrogen dioxide showed that the sensitivity increases with increasing doping, where the best sensitivity appeared at (6%) of doping at a temperature of (200Cº).
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10. Public Administration Concern for Social Values, Can it Improve Optimal SME Tax Compliance?
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et. al., Rachmad Utomo and et. al., Rachmad Utomo
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This study aims to examine social-programs that have been carried out by tax administration to make small medium enterprise (SMEs) aware of their tax obligations. The tax office held a social program to increase the capacity of SMEs. It can take different forms, including workshops, entrepreneurship training, seminars and thematic tax classes. Qualitative research methods have been used in this study. The selection of informants was used by purposive sampling, assuming that they understand the problem and respond to the objectives of this study. The results showed that social-programs were not strong enough to encourage SMEs to comply with their tax obligations. The law enforcement and supervision function in the tax office, still plays a major role in improving SME tax compliance. The theoretical implication, human economic behavior can trigger ego attitudes and then spread to other citizens if the government does not develop a government system of reciprocity of kindness and responsibility from citizens to the state. As a practical implication, it is suggested that state revenue agencies increase the network of government cooperation and collective action with the aim of building a national tax culture. KEYWORD
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11. Effect of doping with In2O3 on some properties of ZnO: SnO2 thin film prepared by thermochemical hydrolysis method and its use in gas sensing applications
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et. al., Ali H . Abdulzahra and et. al., Ali H . Abdulzahra
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The current study aims to prepare thin films from (ZnO: SnO2) mixture. Undoped membranes (ZnO: SnO2) dotted with (In2O3) and with a percentage of doping (3.5, 7%) based on chemical thermal dissolution (CSP) technology, by depositing them on glass floors at a temperature of 400 degrees Celsius and at a rate of one spray for four seconds in every one minute. To obtain thin films with high homogeneity and transparency, in order to impose a study of the structural properties of the prepared films and the possibility of these films responding as a gas sensor.
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12. Bridgeless SEPIC Power Factor Correction Rectifier in DCM with reduced losses
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et. al., Dr.Suresh.Seetharaman and et. al., Dr.Suresh.Seetharaman
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Single phase AC-DC bridgeless SEPIC power factor correction (PFC) rectifier in discontinuous conduction mode is proposed. In this topology conduction losses are less with improved thermal management. During each switching cycle two semiconductor switches are only present in current flowing path. In a effective simple manner unity power factor is achieved through discontinuous conduction mode. Control circuit complexity is reduced by soft switching of power switches and zero current turn off of output diode. Conventional SEPIC PFC rectifier is compared with the proposed topology. PI controller compensates the error and maintains unity power factor. The results obtained from simulation and experiment show the effectiveness of the proposed topology.
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13. Adaptive 1-D Polynomial Coding of C621 Base for Image Compression
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et. al., Samara S. AL-Hadithy and et. al., Samara S. AL-Hadithy
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The optimal solution to the difficult issues associated with bytes consumption of digital images is to utilize image compression techniques that essentially based on exploiting redundancy(s) efficiently to minimize image size for storage requirements and /or fast transmitted. 1-D polynomial coding is a simple form of the common 2D- polynomial coding that based on modeling spatial image block information using the 1-D nature, which implicitly diminished the extra coefficients of deterministic part and leads to improved compression performance. In this paper, Adaptive 1-D Polynomial Coding for grayscale image compression is proposed with adopting a new compress scheme of six to one data (C621) base for probabilistic part (residual image) effectively, The experimental results tested on six standard gray square images of medical and natural bases, the results showed elegant performance in terms of CR and PSNR compared to the traditional 1-D coding techniques and the well-known standard JPEG, that the compression ratio increase more than three times compared to the traditional 1-D and with higher quality compared to JPEG for the images converged to the same compression performance.
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14. Hybrid System for Plagiarism Detection on A Scientific Paper
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et. al., Farah K. AL-Jibory and et. al., Farah K. AL-Jibory
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Plagiarism Detection Systems are critical in identifying instances of plagiarism, particularly in the educational sector whenever it comes to scientific publications and papers. Plagiarism occurs when any material is copied without the author's consent or attribution. To identify such acts, thorough knowledge of plagiarism types and classes is required. It is feasible to detect several sorts of plagiarism using current tools and methodologies. With the advancement of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the availability of online scientific publications, access to these publications has grown more convenient. Additionally, with the availability of several software text editors, plagiarism detection has become a crucial concern. Numerous scholarly articles have previously examined plagiarism detection and the two most often used datasets for plagiarism detection, WordNet and the PAN Dataset. The researchers described verbatim plagiarism detection as a straightforward case of copying and pasting, and then shed light on clever plagiarism, which is more difficult to detect since it may involve original text alteration, borrowing ideas from other studies, and Other scholars have said that plagiarism can obscure the scientific content by substituting terms, deleting or introducing material, rearranging or changing the original publications. The suggested system incorporated natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) techniques, as well as an external plagiarism detection strategy based on text mining and similarity analysis. The suggested technique employs a mix of Jaccard and cosine similarity. It was examined using the PAN-PC-11 corpus. The proposed system outperforms previous systems on the PAN-PC-11, as demonstrated by the findings. Additionally, the proposed system obtains an accuracy of 0.96, a recall of 0.86, an F-measure of 0.86, and a PlagDet score of 0.86. (0.86). 0.865 and the proposed technique is substantiated by a design appl
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15. Identification of Fungi infected Leaf Diseases using Deep Learning Techniques
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et al., Sukanya S. Gaikwad and et al., Sukanya S. Gaikwad
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This paper presents CNN based model to identify fungi-affected leaf diseases of Psidium guajava. Identifying these leaf diseases at an early stage will help the farmers take significant precautions and prevent the disease from spread to other parts of the plant and the neighbouring plants. The dataset is collected from real environment of the farms. It has four categories of infected leaves (3971 in number) and they are Pseudocercospora leaf spot, Rust, Insect eaten leaf, and another category is of the healthy leaf of Guava (Psidium guajava). Then, applied CNN, AlexNet and SqueezeNet architectures to identify 3971 fungi infected leaves of Guava. SqueezeNet architecture shown 75.9% recognition accuracy as compared to the other two architectures.
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16. The Experience of Year 5 Students Integrating WOW Online Games in Vocabulary Learning
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et al., Syafiqah Hasram and et al., Syafiqah Hasram
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This paper is on empirical research on vocabulary learning by using an online game as its platform. A qualitative case study was conducted to investigate Year 5 students’ experience of integrating WOW online games in vocabulary learning. The study also aimed to view the difference in learning experience gained by students of diverse race, socioeconomic status, and familiarity with mobile devices. The data was collected via classroom observations, document analysis and a semi-structured focus group interview. 20 Year 5 students were selected from a suburban school in a district in Malaysia. The findings revealed that the students had positive experience in integrating online games (it is called WOW), which were discussed in 4 themes; able to experience fun learning, personalised learning, attractive features, and enjoyable positive reinforcement. A clear difference of experience of integrating online games in vocabulary learning is evident among students from different races, socioeconomic status and levels of familiarity with mobile devices. The findings indicated that a majority of Malay and Indian participants, as well as those from Top and Middle socioeconomic class and have high or moderate level of mobile device familiarity, enjoyed utilising WOW due to the ease of accessing WOW in portable devices and in their own time. However, a number of underprivileged groups, such as students of low socioeconomic status, the Orang Asal (Indigenous) and students with low level of mobile device familiarity, had an unsatisfying experience and faced multiple challenges throughout integrating WOW online game in vocabulary learning. The outcome of this study could provide pertinent knowledge on ESL students’ experience in integrating online educational games. Based on the findings, it is recommended for primary school teachers to integrate online games in expanding students’ vocabulary repertoire through fun learning.
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17. Applying SGD Optimization Algorithm Method for Detecting and Localizing of Concealed Objects in Passive Millimeter-Wave Images
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et. al., Vida Yousefi Ramandi and et. al., Vida Yousefi Ramandi
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Millimeter waves have salient characteristics such as penetration through fabric fibers. These waves can be used to generate passive millimeter-wave images (PMMWIs) for detecting and localizing concealed objects under clothing. The obtained images have important applications in security systems and treat detection. These systems are installed in places such as airports, warehouses, and places that require high security. Passive millimeter-wave images are generated using passive scanners. The main challenges in these images are their incomprehensibility and low signal-to-noise ratio ant this avoids extracting good features from the images and reduces the accuracy of detecting and localizing concealed objects in the image. In this study, SGD Optimization Algorithm Method was used for detection and localizing after selecting highly ambiguous sample images. According to simulation results, our proposed method improves the classification process significantly.
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18. The Effect of Computer-Mediated Text-Based and Audio-Based Corrective Feedback On the Development of Writing Accuracy of Iranian EFL Learners
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et. al., Dr. AmirReza Nemat Tabrizi, Ranjbaran, Maryam Moghaddam, et. al., Dr. AmirReza Nemat Tabrizi, and Ranjbaran, Maryam Moghaddam
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The use of a computer as a means and/or a source of feedback provision has facilitated the process of teaching and learning writing. The integration of computers into writing classes enabled teachers to provide timely and reliable feedback. Taking into account these opportunities that computers bring to the classroom, the present study attempted to investigate the effect of computer-mediated text-based and audio-based corrective feedback on the development of writing accuracy of Iranian EFL learners. For reaching the aims of this study, Iranian female intermediate students were chosen based on cluster random sampling. First, all the participants took Nelson proficiency test as a homogeneity test. Then, a writing accuracy pre-test was administered to measure the participants’ initial level of writing accuracy. After that, when the experimental groups learnt the writing ability using computer-mediated corrective feedback, the control group just experienced their routine method of teaching. Experimental group I received text-based correction as treatment and experimental group 2 received audio-based correction as treatment. At the end of the research, a post-test with the same content as the pre-test was conducted for all the participants in order to measure their achievement in English writing accuracy. After the required data were collected, in order to analyze data including homogeneity test scores and writing accuracy pre-test and post-test scores, SPSS software was used. Descriptive statistics of data provided information such as group’s means, standard deviations, and frequency. Inferential statistics helped us to test the research hypotheses. For doing this, ANOVA test was run to compare the differences among performance of the three groups, and find out about the effect of treatments. The results of the data analysis showed that group receiving audio and text based corrective feedback instruction outperformed the control group in post-test of writing accuracy.
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19. Analysis of Science Book Content for Middle First Grade According to International TIMSS Standards
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et. al., Prof. Dr. Salem Abdullah Salman Al-Moussawi and et. al., Prof. Dr. Salem Abdullah Salman Al-Moussawi
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The current research aims to analyze the content of the science book for the first intermediate grade in accordance with the international (TIMSS, 2019) standards, a list of (TIMSS) standards has been built that must be available in the content of the science book for the first intermediate grade to achieve this goal, and after reviewing a set of literature, studies and research, a list of TIMSS standards was reached in its initial form, which consisted of two dimensions: after the content, which includes four main requirements: (Biology - Chemistry - Physics - Earth Sciences) where it included the requirements of Biology (6) main criteria, the requirements of chemistry include (3) main criteria, physics requirements include (5) main standards, and Earth sciences include (4) main standards, the list was presented to a group of arbitrators and specialists in curricula and teaching methods, thus, the final list consisted of (18) criteria as a total sum of the criteria of the four main requirements, as for the cognitive dimension: which included three areas (knowledge - understanding - application), the field of knowledge included (3) standards and the field of understanding (8) standards and the field of application (5) standards, and a final total of (16) standards for the three areas.The researcher analyzed the content of the science book for the first intermediate grade in the light of the list that was built, and the idea was adopted as a unit for recording, and repetition as a unit for enumeration, they unanimously agreed on the validity of the analysis, and using the Holsti equation, the stability of the analysis was calculated in agreement with external analysts and with the researcher himself, thus the results of the content dimension analysis of the science book for the first grade average were as follows:The content of chemistry appeared in the first rank with a percentage (49.15) of (115) iterations, and the physics content came in the second place with a p
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20. Elevating Lesson Study (LS) Quality in Indonesian Higher Education: An Evaluation of Results
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et. al., Paldy and et. al., Paldy
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This study aims to evaluate the implementation of the LS program at university level. The results of the evaluation can be used to revise and improve the quality of the LS, especially the quality of learning and professionalism of lecturers. Evaluative research was used to analyses the implementation of the LS as a whole, starting from aspects of context, input, process, and output: by conducting interviews with the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty (TTEF) and the Head of the English Education Study Program (EESP), by giving an open questionnaire to 16 lecturers and 45 students, and by identifying the video recording learning process. Based on the criteria for the success of the LS, the results of the evaluation show that the implementation of the LS has not fully achieved its maximum potential, there are several weaknesses related to the process and output aspects, such as the lack of consistency and commitment of lecturers as observers. The quality of learning has been found to be in the process of improving. The results of this evaluation become a practical guidance to the university stakeholders in order to develop the implementation of the LS program to deliver better quality in the future. Comprehensive analysis on four aspects of the implementation of the LS with reference to the program success criteria as a guideline and basis for determining the results of evaluation of LS implementation in all tertiary institutions
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21. Assessing Social Capital with Respect to Urban Forms in Pakistan
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et. al., Zulfiqar Ali Tariq and et. al., Zulfiqar Ali Tariq
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In this paper we explore the social capital with respect to urban forms in Pakistan. Social capital is a concept that is recent to sociology, and both Robert Putnam and James Coleman have given attention to it over the last two decades.Putnam stresses the horizontal relationship between individuals and Coleman emphasises the vertical contribution and relationship between individuals in public organisations as the producers of social capital.As regards the notion of sustainable growth, social capital is, besides other capitals, an integral part of the services needed by a sustainable community and is considered one of the engines of development. It is important to recognise that social capital is defined by aggregation and replication. It implies the ability to aggregate it by correct use. Keeping it idle adds to its degradation and deterioration.A significant distinction between social capital and other sources of capital is seen by this fact. The key goal of this study is to examine the connection between social capital and sustainable development in Pakistan's city of Lahore. Lahore is the capital city of Pakistan and is thus regarded as one of Pakistan's least established cities opposed to more southern areas of the region. We have adopted the methodology for the chosen case studies to include deciding characteristics of urban type in Lahore. The study established crucial social sustainability characteristics that are alleged to be largely determined by neighborhood-scale facets of urban form. The research discussed several major facets of urban design; density, land usage, forms of housing, height of buildings, and accessibility. Results show a clear correlation, albeit in a particular way, between local characteristics and social development. Density and usability have proven to be key characteristics that have a major effect on social sustainability, in accordance with the outcomes of many surveys. In order to investigate th
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22. Exponential stability and Exponential synchronization results for fractional order impulsive Neural Networks
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et. al., Devija Shaji and et. al., Devija Shaji
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In this paper we focus on exponential stability analysis of Caputo fractional order impulsive neural network using convex Lyapunov function and obtain the suitable LMI conditions. We have also included exponential synchronization of error system that is derived from the drive-response system. The obtained results are verified using examples.
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23. A Philosophical Approach to Explaining Divine Revelation in Farabi's Thought
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et. al., Abdullah HosseiniEskandian and et. al., Abdullah HosseiniEskandian
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Revelation is one of the sciences and teachings that many people are not able to understand and comprehend this knowledge due to its divine and metaphysical origin. Therefore, many philosophers and thinkers have studied and explained this mysterious consciousness and have tried to interpret it rationally and logically. Farabi is one of the philosophers who studied revelation for the first time and provided a detailed explanation of this divine knowledge. He believes that this divine knowledge is revealed to the prophet directly or through the mediation of the Tenth Intellect. The study of divine revelation as a science of inhuman origin, in the opinion of Abu Nasr Al-Farabi, can solve many problems of people regarding the lack of understanding or misunderstanding of divine revelation and answer many of their questions and doubts in the field of divine revelation. In this article, through descriptive-analytical method and with the help of library sources, we first try to define revelation and examine what revelation is from the point of view of Farabi, and then discuss the relationship between the prophet and Tenth Intellect and the quality of revelation. Farabi believes that the eloquent and imaginative power of the prophet has reached sufficient and faithful perfection and the prophet, due to his supreme spiritual perfection, is able to receive and convey revelation to the people in words and deeds.
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24. Changing the Cultural Face of Iranian Films under the Influence of the Islamic Revolution in 1976
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et. al., Mohammad Saberi and et. al., Mohammad Saberi
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In today's multicultural world, Iranian cinema is undoubtedly one of the most important tools which its analysis and study can pave the way for different sociological and cultural research, in particular from the perspective of communication and cinema. In a comprehensive view on Iranian cinema from the Constitutional period to the post Islamic Revolution of Iran, in the other words, since cinema entered Iran and the techniques of this industry became popular among filmmakers and numerous audiences were attracted to the cinema’s white screen, until the great happening of the Islamic Revolution of Iran that changed everything including cinema, this study will analyze the nature of cinema, especially in the field of morality and individual values which also shows its impact in the society. In this article, we will observe that before the revolution the body of cinema based on the box office and it was under the influence of the cinema with slangy and entertaining limited themes. With the emerge of the Islamic Revolution, under the influence of the surrounded social conditions, it shifts to the religious and ideological themes which tries to demonstrate the role of society and the government in creating a spiritual revolution in the form of cinema.
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25. Expert Advice- Disease prediction using Machine Learning
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et. al., Kamran Afaq and et. al., Kamran Afaq
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Cancer is a type of disease which have now become very frequent and causing very critical damages in recent years and continue to remain its streak as no reliable cure is found as of now and cure that are found are very costly . This leads to an increase in the number of deaths even if a patient is created with a lot of care and given many therapies.The only way to manage it and reduce its damage is to diagnose it at an early stage. CSE(Comp. Science & Engg.) is used in many Bioinformatics and Biomedical fields to carry out many analysis ,prediction and to create automated diagnostic tools to ease the manual work of the front line workers that are our Doctors,nurses and group practices and we think it could also be used to diagnose and prognose disease such as Cancer by training the machine in such a way that it could tell the probability of having it in your system. One of the leading fields which could help us in this process is better known as Machine Learning where various tools and techniques and modules and algorithms are available to forecast the probability of cancer on the basis of collected standard data attributes and using them to predict the probability of extent of diseases such as cancer. The Expert Advice is a research paper which implies Machine learning for self-analytics or (analysis through feedback and reward and award techniques) and prediction of illness like cancer and fortify diseases like cancer. In this paper, we have studied ,researched and surveyed various papers,journals, books and datasets to compare the efficacy of different algos of Machine Learning about cancer prediction based on the given databundel and their attributes like accuracy,probability of prediction comparing different versions of algo and their results..It would be appropriate on our side to state that we can certainly leverage algos like RandomForest (RF), Naïve Bayes (NB), Decision Tree (DT),SVM, FNN.,RBFN,KNN, etc. In ord
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26. App store bugs-review classification using BERT- DNN model
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et. al., Mrs.Sabitha .P and et. al., Mrs.Sabitha .P
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There so many applications available on the internet (Especially in Google play store), which many are using for all types of different purposes. Many users gives their reviews about the applications they used like their experience, the issues they face, the updates which will be helpful for them, etc. All of these reviews should be analysed so that the developer can improve the applications by adding required updates needed by the users, and fixing issues faced by the users. For this purpose we need to analyse the reviews in an efficient manner which will save more time and improve their applications. In this project we are doing classification of bugs in reviews with the help of encoder based BERT(Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model,which have been very popular in natural language processing, has been widely used now a days. This will help us to classify the reviews in a manner that we can identify positive and negative reviews which will help the developers to find the bugs. The reports that are under negative and neutral reviews are considered for bugs. It is found that BERT model is much efficient in text classification so it will be very well suitable for review based classification. There four different phases in this project first one is the data exploration, then we pre-process the data, and then do feature selection, finally we classify the reviews using BERT model.
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27. Novel Contingency Analysis of Radial Distribution System with Distributed generation
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et. al., Sobha Rani.P and et. al., Sobha Rani.P
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Contingency analysis is one of the tools in smart distribution management system to analyze the contingencies, associated violations of line currents, bus voltages and power flows. In this paper, distribution power flow method using superposition principle is implemented to observe the contingencies under different loading conditions. The results are analyzed by placing distributed generation sources at various buses for different loadings. Contingency ranking is evaluated based on performance indices determining line over loading and bus voltage violations. The proposed method is illustrated through simulations of loaded 33-bus radial distribution system
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28. Success Factors Evaluation in Construction Projects
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et. al., Mohammad Hosein Ramin and et. al., Mohammad Hosein Ramin
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Nowadays, contractors, employers, and all stakeholders of a civil project looking to improve the quality level of construction in any type of project. This demands attention to some factors, which the project will be completed in the determined time and with an intended and predicted budget. Furthermore, the demands and expectations of stakeholders should be fulfilled. A project like this is called a successful project. Probably, the first issue in the implementation of civil projects is manpower resources, which are responsible for advancing the contractor and employer objectives. Therefore, paying attention to these resources and considering them more can improve the speed and quality of performance in the project. Considering their needs and motivation in a project can create energy and motivation in each of them individually, to improve performance. The aim of this study is success factors evaluation in the civil projects which is in terms of the purpose objectives and descriptive method. Statistical society of engineers that works in employer, consultant, and contractor teams of construction firms in Tehran, is in a site area in the residential project between 250 to 350 m2. To collect data, a five-item questionnaire was used. Questionnaires were distributed electronically among 170 engineers who work in the contractor, consultant, and employer teams in construction firms, and 149 questionnaires are answered. The final questionnaire results were obtained through Cronbach's alpha of 0.858. Based on these results, the five project success were ranked highest point to lowest, respectively, which contain employer and team satisfaction, project accidents, and project financial budgeting and scheduling. As seen in the results, the projects received very few scores in terms of scheduling that needs more attention.
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29. Effect of LEGO-Based Curriculum on Better Understanding of Mathematical Concepts among First-Grade Students
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et. al., Mina Ahmadi and et. al., Mina Ahmadi
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The overall objective of this study was to evaluate the use of LEGO-based curriculum on first grade students' understanding of mathematical concepts. The study population consisted of all first grade students in Tehran. Performances LEGO-based curriculum the school complies with its peers based on age, sex, fees received, the area and educational facilities. In this study, the sampling method, and targeted schools that agreed the project was done. A total of 30 first- grade students (15 males, 15 female) as students enjoyed the LEGO -based instruction and 30 students without the benefit of a LEGO -based implementation as control group randomly selected. To collect data in this study has been made by researchers from the Czech list. In this Czech lists several questions to gauge respondents' demographic information and to assess the hypothesis in which five closed-ended questions were used for assessing each components and the answers were set on a 5-point Likert scale. The results showed that the use of LEGO -based curriculum to better understanding the concepts of horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry, numerical and geometrical patterns in first-grade pupils in Tehran’s influence. However, the results showed that the use of LEGO -based curriculum to better understanding the implications of the concept of ten categories has no effect.
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30. The Nature of the Human Corpse Transaction in the Direction of Medical Education
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et. al., Farzaneh Kardan and et. al., Farzaneh Kardan
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Medical education is of particular importance today. Advances in medical education increase the health index. Medical education is based on autopsy. Increasing the number of corpses for autopsy develops medical education. To this end, some people have donated their bodies after death. To this end, some people have donated their bodies after death. Trading human body after death is the solution that forensic medicine has proposed for eliminate the deficiency of the human body that medical universities need it for medical education. The fatwa of the jurists has proved the correctness of this action, however, there is an important question in this regard what is the nature of the human body trading? Differences in the nature of tradings, pillars and rulings is one of the necessity of this article. The purpose of this article is written with using library resources and descriptive-analytical method, is explanation the religious way that trading of the human body in its form is correct. Using Quranic verses, hadiths of the infallibles and sira Aqla,, this result is obtained conditional the trading to the death of the owner of the human body and impossibility of delivering the subject of the trading at the time of its execution and the anonymity of time are the reasons for the invalidity of most tradings of the human body are. The transfer of the human body after death is valid only in the form of a will human body because conditional delivery of commodity does not invalidate the will.
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31. Real Time Object Detection
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et. al., Azeem baig and et. al., Azeem baig
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A The design and implementation of object counting algorithm based on image processing by using Raspberry pi on real time basis. Features of an image containing objects to be detected are extracted uses a method called BLOB (Binary Large Object) analysis. This method is used so as to identify the objects/regions using pixel connectivity and further more parameters . Preprocessing of the input test image is done to get a binary image. The number of objects identified is displayed or read out using a speaker interfaced to the hardware. The hardware Raspberry Pi, running with UBUNTU operating system flashed into a memory card, works as a standalone device with the Raspberry Pi camera being used as an image acquisition device to constantly capture image frames of objects of interest.
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32. Depth of mathematical knowledge and its relationship to information processing among secondary school students
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et. al., Maryam Rahim Hashem Al-Saadi and et. al., Maryam Rahim Hashem Al-Saadi
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The current research aims to study the relationship between the depth of mathematical knowledge and information processing for secondary school students,In order to verify the goal, the researchers adopted the descriptive approach in line with the nature of the research, and the following null hypothesis was formulated:There is no statistically significant correlation at the significance level (0.05) between the depth of mathematical knowledge and information processing for the fifth literary grade students.The research community, represented by the literary fifth grade students in the Rusafa 2nd, Education Directorate, was identified, and the sample was chosen in a stratified random manner, as it consisted of (400) students and the construction of the two research tools are the Mathematical Knowledge Depth Test and the Information Processing and Application Test on the Sample, statistical analyzes were conducted for the two test items, to ensure the psychometric properties, and the use of appropriate statistical tools and package (spss) to analyze the results of the application of the two tests, which resulted in the existence of a correlation between the depth of mathematical knowledge and information processing.In light of the results of the research, several recommendations were made, most notably the interest in ways and methods that can develop the levels of depth of mathematical knowledge and information processing among secondary school students in general, as well as the diversity of activities given to students of the fifth literary grade, which develop their depth of mathematical knowledge and information processing skills.
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33. Intelligent Structures and Their Role in Creating Interactive Spaces
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et. al., Molouk Sadat Mirkazemi and et. al., Molouk Sadat Mirkazemi
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Urban planning has always been studied alongside its interaction with the surrounding environment. Yet, owing to the urban sprawl, the uncontrolled and poorly-managed population growth in the modern era, and the application of construction technology in a way inconsistent with the context, we are now witnessing an unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning. Interactive architecture is a method that mostly deals with the interactive nature of architecture, humans, and the surrounding locations. Hence, the main quest in this discipline is to find ways to achieve, through innovative structures introduced as modern construction technologies, the ideal architecture and interactive spaces from the perspective of urban planning. In this regard, technological breakthroughs need to be reviewed and updated accordingly as an efficient tool in the processing method. One such breakthrough is intelligent structures that can respond appropriately and timely to the environment by receiving and processing environmental events and information through properties such as adaptability, selectivity, fast performance, automated performance, and dependency. The current study employs a descriptive-analytical design and archival methods to examine the interaction between the context and the intelligent structures and the benefits thereto. The findings indicated that, with its particular emphasis on human senses, culture, and context, construction technology, in addition to its primary role of implementing innovations in architectural spaces, can create interactive spaces, strengthen the spirit of social interactions, alleviate social problems and improve the quality of service-entertainment spaces.
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34. Dynamic Pricing for Perishable Items Considering Substitutes and Advertisement
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et. al., Masoud Amini and et. al., Masoud Amini
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This study is an attempt to model and solve a pricing model of inventory control model. The literature on this topic is really comprehensive and many different factors including product variety, product perishability, money's temporal value, etc. have been thoroughly studied. Most of these studies are included in literature review section of this paper. The innovation and distinction between this study and those available in the literature is consideration for advertisement as an influential factor which affects demand function. In addition, two different models are studied through considering maintenance costs in two varieties as time-dependent and time-independent. In this model, the demand function will be investigated for two products which are simultaneously on the market. The demand for products is a multi-variate function of products' price and advertisement and timing factors through considering substitution rate. Substitution rate clarifies that a customer can be inclined toward any of the products with different prices. To enhance the applied dimension of this study, advertisement factor (frequency advertisement) has been considered on the one hand and maintenance costs have been considered in two different forms of time-dependent and time-independent on the other. The following section entails a schematic representation of this study. Profit function has been optimized through mathematical modelling of the problem. The main question of this study is selecting an optimal level for the price and advertisement expenses or continuity in pricing problem to maximize the profits obtained by a business in a [0, T] time frame.
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35. The Investigation of the Relationship between Math and Philosophical Problems to Improve Teaching of Problem Solving
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et. al., Zahra Falahan and et. al., Zahra Falahan
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Teaching math problem solving is one of the most important parts of curricula in schools and universities in most fields of study. There have been numerous studies, which have shown the problems and challenges of this field as well as the advantages of its improvements. Teaching the math problem solving is not merely learning the science of mathematics, but it is learning a set of skills to face different types of problems, which may be encountered for the first time. In addition, numerous studies are showing the role of cognitive and metacognitive processes such as logical reasoning in the improvement of the teaching and learning of mathematics. Many philosophers such as Wittgenstein have considered philosophical research equal to the philosophical problem solving. In the current study, the similarities that, in past and present time, have led people such as Descartes and Pólya to use philosophical problem solving, which is referred to as philosophical research, for math problem solving to improve teaching math problem solving, have been investigated and it has been indicated that how the philosophical problem solving methods lead to development of math problem solving skills. The results of the current study show that the commonality in the use of argumentation, cognitive and metacognitive processes, uncertainty, reasoning, and understanding and use of abstract concepts have led people such as Descartes to try to utilize the philosophical problem solving for math problem solving. Accordingly, the transfer of learning between the philosophical research and math problem solving phenomenon can be used in teaching or in another way, through the combination of the problem solving with the philosophical methods, the teaching of math problem solving can be developed.
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36. Investigating the Relationship between Healthcare Expenses and Life Expectancy with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Developing Countries of Asia and Europe
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et. al., Mohammad Hadian and et. al., Mohammad Hadian
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Economic growth and GDP increase along with the heightening of the quality of life and equality of income distribution are amongst the primary goals of the economic systems and development programs. The present study tries to investigate the relationship between healthcare expenses and life expectancy with GDP in the developing countries of Asia and Europe. The present study is a retrospective analytical research that uses the data from the websites of the global bank and WHO for such a study population as the developing countries in Asia and Europe. Considering the findings of the developing countries in Asia and Europe and based on the fact that the probability value (P-value) of the stationarity test is below 0.1 for the two variables “healthcare expenses” and “GDP”, it can be concluded that the null hypothesis (existence of a unit root) is rejected in this level (without differentiation) and that the variables are reliable hence there is no reason for rejecting the opposite presumption, i.e. the nonexistence of a unit root). The summary of the results obtained from this study indicated that there is a long-term relationship between healthcare expenses and GDP in many of these countries that have stationary data (with at least one of the stationarity tests) in such a way that the causality of these two variables is from the side of GDP towards the healthcare expenses in some of the developing countries and from the healthcare expenses’ side towards GDP in some and bilateral in some others.
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37. [1,2] -Connected domination number of graphs
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et. al., G. Mahadevan and et. al., G. Mahadevan
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A set in a graph G is said to be a -connected dominating set if for every vertex , and is connected. The minimum cardinality of a -connected dominating set is called the -connected domination number and is denoted by . In this paper, we initiate a study of this parameter.  
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38. Gender Concepts in the Phraseological World Picture of the English and Uzbek Languages
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et. al., Guli Ismoil kizi Ergasheva and et. al., Guli Ismoil kizi Ergasheva
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A new interpretation of the processes of categorization within the framework of cognitive linguistics, refusal to recognize the objective truth, interest in the subjective and private life of a person, the development of new theories of personality, in particular, the theory of social constructivism, led to a revision of the scientific principles of studying the categories of sex, previously interpreted mainly as biologically deterministic. These facts have led to the emergence of a number of scientific disciplines focused on the study of the socio-cultural construction of various aspects of social identity, including gender. The linguistic expression of stereotypes in the form of phraseological units seems to us the most vivid reflection of the cultural potential of the nation, since, interpreted by most researchers as "representatives of the national mentality", they are "a means of expressing the essence of the conceptual structure of ethnocultural consciousness." Gender stereotypes that embody the concepts of "masculinity" and "femininity", in turn, determine the models of social behavior, being part of the conceptual and linguistic picture of the world. 
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39. The way of using daylight in the process of historic buildings reconstruction via new construction technology (Case study: Safa Bath)
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et. al., Molouk Sadat Mirkazemi and et. al., Molouk Sadat Mirkazemi
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Nowadays, the development of modern architecture has led to a more favorable attitude in reconstructing and repairing abandoned and destroyed historic buildings in Iran. Regeneration of these buildings using modern construction methods, which are fit to Iranian architectural patterns, is one of the best ways to restore their forgotten values. On the other hand, since natural light is the just light source for architects, improving the quality of natural light emission inside this building by technical methods was considered as the main objective of providing the design strategy in this study. Evidence has been shown that the quality of light emitted indoors via hornos is the principal challenge related to the Safa Bath. Accordingly, light conditions were simulated in the present study using Ladybug, Honeybee, and DesignBuilder software. Then, the required lights were directed inside this building to improve the quality of their diffusion using optical fibers and the HSL solar system placed on the dome. Results revealed that the implementation of the proposed idea improved lighting situations by about 40% in summer to 80% in winter and about 42% in municipal electricity consumption. It should be noted that the obtained plans and diagrams were qualitatively analyzed and assessed at the end of the research.
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40. Providing a Model of Good Corporate Governance Maturity in the Iranian Insurance Industry
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et. al., Rahmatollah Gholipour Souteh and et. al., Rahmatollah Gholipour Souteh
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The subject of this article is corporate governance maturity and its purpose is to provide a model of good corporate governance maturity in the insurance industry in Iran. The research is qualitative-exploratory and the method used in the present study is grounded theory or data foundation based on the approach of Strauss-Corbin. The research paradigm model based on Strauss and Corbin's approach included causal conditions, intervening factors, contextual conditions, strategies and actions of realization and consequences of realizing the maturity of corporate governance. Participants in this study were managers of Alborz, Asia, Pasargad, Parsian, Mellat insurance companies in Tehran. Using purposive sampling method, 12 interviewees were selected, which was obtained after 12 interviews with data saturation. The data collection tool in the qualitative section was a semi-structured interview. The interview was prepared and conducted according to an interview protocol. Also, in the present study, in order to assess the validity, the interview guide was sent to 10 experts and their opinions were used. The results of calculating the maturity indicators of good corporate governance are extracting a total of 721 open codes, 240 pivot codes and 69 selected codes. These data showed that providing benefits and compliance with laws and regulations, risk control and management, accepting social and corporate responsibility, not deviating from the rules, holding training courses and the culture of corporate governance. In explaining the results, they were related to causal conditions. The underlying factors were; Consensus and participation, ethical culture building, control and management, implementation of rules and regulations, revenue generation and benefits, periodic reporting, monitoring and improvement of methods, interaction with other countries, corporate readiness. Strategies were: Effective monitoring and control, law enforcement, securing benefits and increasing profit
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41. Study of changes in land use and land cover in and around the Chah Nimeh water reservoir in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran
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et. al., Tahmine Dehghani and et. al., Tahmine Dehghani
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Remote sensing is the technology of obtaining information and imaging from the ground using aviation equipment such as airplanes, balloons or space equipment such as satellites. Remote sensing is the science of extracting information from terrestrial objects indirectly. High remote sensing capabilities such as cost-effectiveness and availability of this data have made them an important source of information. By examining multi-time satellite images, we can understand land use changes. This study examines the trend of land use change, vegetation dynamics and water area changes in Chah Nimeh over a five-year period. For this purpose, Sentinel 2 satellite images from April 2016 to April 2020 have been used. After making the necessary corrections, using the unsupervised classification method and relying on the spectral characteristics of the phenomena in different bands, a land use map of the region was prepared. The percentage of changes in each of the uses was obtained after determining the area in GIS. The accuracy of the method was reviewed with samples taken from Google Earth images on the same date as the satellite images. According to the kappa coefficients for the years 2016 to 2020 (0.75, 0.83, 0.81, 0.79 and 0.83), the use of spectral properties of phenomena in this type of classification is highly reliable. Also, according to the results, no significant changes were observed in the area of Chah Nimeh and surrounding lands during these 5 years.
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42. Forgery of Shari'a rulings in the credit case and it's efficacy in Figh
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et. al., Alireza Rostami and et. al., Alireza Rostami
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Following the definitions of verdict, it seems that there is no difference in how shari’a ruling is forged as a real theorem. The fundamentalists have analyzed the falsification of Shari'a rulings in real theorems, without considering the lordship of the Shari'a; while the Lordship of the Shari'a encircling all the worlds and the causes and causes of the unseen and intuition, which is with present knowledge and without transgression and error, it is appropriate that the falsification of the rulings be Personal theorem. what has led to the idea that the method of falsifying the rulings is a real theorem is the manner in which the Qur'an and the Sunnah are addressed; while with a little care and reflection we realize that the speeches are the bearers of the Shari'a rulings, not itself. In addition, the requirement of surrounding the Shari'a is that his credibility be effective in the world of evolution and cause change in the world of evolution if none of the rational credentials has such an effect; That is, the sanctity and legitimacy that the Shari'ah validates, in the world of evolution, it causes the effect and origin of change, while rational prohibitions and discharges do not have such effects.
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43. The Effect of Micro-Silica on Compressive Strength in Concrete Structures in Shiraz
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et. al., Javad Jafari and et. al., Javad Jafari
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In recent decades, extensive studies have been conducted on concrete admixtures using materials science in high-tech countries. Besides, over the past few years, almost comprehensive studies have been carried out by specialists to introduce a type of high strength concrete in Iran however, there is still a great need for more extensive studies in this field. Today, in addition to the basic ingredients of concrete, aggregate, cement, and water, other materials are often used in concrete, and are commonly called concrete admixtures. One of the admissible admixtures for high strength concrete is micro-silica gel admixture with a combination of polycarboxylate ether (PCE)-based super-plasticizer. This study aimed to determine the effect of these materials on concrete and its mechanical properties such as concrete compressive strengths and find suitable percentages of cement, water, and aggregate, both technically and economically, using Shiraz native materials in workshops. To do so, a series of tests were performed on samples made of concrete and the effect of admixtures, before and after being added to 7-, 28-, 42-, 90-, and 120-day cube samples as well as the weight percentages of cement, water and aggregates were examined in the mix design. Notable that through this study it was necessary to also evaluate concrete compressive strength made of Shiraz native materials.
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44. CEO Powerful Features on Conditional and Unconditional Conservatism
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et. al., Saeedeh Rezaee and et. al., Saeedeh Rezaee
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The present study aimed to investigate the characteristics of CEO capabilities on the conditional and unconditional conservatism in companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange. In order to test research hypotheses after collecting and screening the initial data a sample consisting of companies listed on Tehran Stock Exchange, up to 142 companies in a period of 6 years (2012-2017) was studied. Excel was used to calculate and classify the research variables. Then, using the multiple regression analysis in Eviews, we test the research hypotheses. The results of the research showed that the CEO abilities do not have a positive and significant effect on conditional conservatism but have a positive and significant on conditional conservatism.
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45. Comparing the Role of Project-Based Teaching Method vs. Place-Based Teaching Method on Motivation of Iranian EFL Learners
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et. al., Zahra Rezaei Bandari and et. al., Zahra Rezaei Bandari
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There are Methods and approaches which can help learners to be motivated. Students should have inspiring learning experiences already in the schools. To meet the elevated requirements of education and motivation, several different learning methods have been developed. Project-based learning (PBL) is one of these methods. On the other hand in our global society children are increasingly disconnected from their local history and cultural traditions. So there is a great need for a revival in connection to our heritage which place based learning facilitate it. This study is going to investigate effect of project based education and place based education on motivation of Iranian EFL learners. The main objective of the current research is to compare the benefits of these approaches and survey their role on Iranian EFL learners’ motivation. Participants of the study were 60 learners in upper-intermediate level who gave a PET as the homogenization test. Next, 40 participants were selected with respect to their proficiency level. Then, the researcher divided them into two experimental groups; experimental 1. (E1: project based instruction) and experimental 2 (E2: place based instruction); each group included 20 participants. The first instrument was the PET (Preliminary English Test) that was used to determine the proficiency level of the participants in this study. The data was collected from pretest, posttest and the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) test. The data obtained through the pretest and posttest were be analyzed using SPSS software, those Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners who have been taught by project based instruction outperformed those learners who have been taught by place based instruction.
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46. The relationship between organizational commitment and organizational performance with respect to knowledge sharing (Case study: Selected Project-based organizations)
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et. al., Pouria Jahanbakhshian and et. al., Pouria Jahanbakhshian
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Organizational culture and organizational commitment are of significant impact on the preparation and adoption of new technology systems including knowledge management systems. Appropriate initiatives in knowledge management can considerably affect the improvement of the organizations’ economic capacity and performance. Organizational culture has dramatically impacted on organizational commitment and knowledge management. As a result, organizational cultures have been under consideration in the present study. The research method was of a descriptive type. According to the type of industry and the size of organization, organizational culture was estimated as bureaucratic in three organizations. Then, Quinn organizational culture questionnaire was distributed. According to the results of the questionnaires and short interviews conducted with staffs, the dominant culture in three organizations was realized as bureaucratic. The sample size included 183 employees and a questionnaire containing 29 questions was used. The questionnaire reliability was obtained by Cronbach's alpha coefficients and the questionnaire validity was confirmed with the aid of several experts. The present research studies the relationship between organizational commitment, knowledge sharing, and organizational performance in three organizations with bureaucratic culture. Obviously, different organizations in different countries have different organizational culture. Hence, future studies can extend it into the organizations with different cultures throughout the world. It was figured out that if the cultural grounds are established in the studied organization, the organization will become a learning organization. In such circumstances, employees would have high level of commitment in their organization, feel more conveniently, and can improve organizational performance. The results show that in a bureaucratic culture, employees have little interest in sharing knowledge and little commitment to the
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47. Controller Placement in Software-defined Networking Using Silhouette Analysis and Gap Statistic
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et. al., Sanaz Honarpazhooh and et. al., Sanaz Honarpazhooh
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Software-defined Networks (SDNs) are an emerging network architecture that has been introduced as a way to facilitate network development in such a way that network control is separate from traffic transmission and is directly programmed. Typically, an SDNs relies on a centralized logic control that uses the network's global information to perform operations within the network. Therefore, the SDNs have scalability problems. In this case, the proper placement of the controllers in the SDN increases the quality of service. In this dissertation, a DBSCAN-based clustering method is proposed with the characteristic of non-dependence on determining the number of clusters in advance, which can be used to properly locate the controllers based on the number clusters. The proposed method is simulated and the results show that the proposed method in the worst case load on SDNs works better than similar methods and has improved performance compared to the base method.
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48. Enhanced LEACH for Distributed Clustering in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
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et. al., Bekele Worku and et. al., Bekele Worku
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Wireless networks have recently come into importance because they hold the potential to revolutionize many segments. Since wireless nodes have battery constraints that limits lifetime of wireless network, Energy management plays a vital role in improving network life time in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. In Wireless Sensor network, performance of Routing and energy consumption of wireless nodes are determined by distributed clustering algorithm which is used to distribute the energy and load balancing among nodes by promoting an appropriate node as coordinator. In wireless Ad hoc networks, there is no fixed topology and communications between nodes occur through sink node. An efficient energy rich node is to be elected as sink node dynamically in order to coordinate routing. So, this research focuses to compare the present distributed clustering algorithm (LEACH) with EEDCBRP for wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor network. During this study, LEACH algorithm which is used to select cluster head, shows some drawbacks that need improvements to overcome it as to improve the performance. This proposal uses energy level and distance of node to select cluster head. In the wireless network, Base station maintains the table to hold the information about energy and location of the wireless nodes. After receiving the information about all sensor nodes, base station performs the clustering process. Mobile nodes are grouped into the layer based clusters by checking energy and distance. The improvement is done in cluster head selection procedure. Finally the performance of proposed algorithm is compared with Low Energy adaptive clustering hierarchy. Network Simulator (NS2) is used to simulate and evaluate the performance. The results of simulation show that Enhanced Distributed Clustering Routing protocol effectively balances energy consumption of wireless node.
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49. The Impact of Critical Success Factors for E-Learning on Strategic Performance An applied study in a sample of the faculties for the University of Baghdad
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et. al., Dr. Nada Ismaeel Jabbouri Qammach and et. al., Dr. Nada Ismaeel Jabbouri Qammach
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The research aims to test the impact of critical success factors for e-learning on the strategic performance of a sample of Baghdad University faculties. The research problem was represented by the question that states “the difficulty of using computer programs for some teachers.” The research relied on the main hypotheses represented by the hypothesis of the correlation test and another hypothesis of a simple linear regression test that emerged Including sub-hypotheses to explore and address the research problem. While the research sample consisted of (242) professors from the University of Baghdad in four selected colleges (administration and economics, sciences for girls, media, law), and the questionnaire was used as a main tool for data collection, which was prepared by the researcher based on ready-made standards, and the researcher adopted a group of Statistical methods, including (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, relative importance, correlation coefficient, regression coefficient, T-test, F-test, percentages), and data were analyzed through the use of statistical programs (AMOS V.25, SPSS V.25) The research adopted the descriptive analytical method. Among the most prominent results that have been reached is that there is a correlation and a statistically significant effect between the critical success factors for e-learning with its dimensions (information technology, the teaching staff) and the strategic performance with its dimensions (the internal operations perspective, the learning and growth perspective, the financial perspective, and the customer perspective).
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50. TranspoInfo- A Real-Time Web Application
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et. al., Vidit Varshney and et. al., Vidit Varshney
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We all Familiar with that, In India approx 75% of Public uses Public Transportation Service in their daily life, and majority of public in cities (Delhi, Mumbai) Prefer Buses and Metro-Trains to reach their offices at time. Through this paper we have solved the major problem which the public faces Every day in Delhi, by finding bus stops, perfect location and bus timings. In this paper we have implemented a web application which is a user interface application and can easily work in mobiles and desktops. In our paper we have approached two methods: [1.] Primary Research:- We have Performed a survey in which we did a questionnaire from 15 Delhi residents about what problems they face in the transportation system . [2.] Secondary Research:- Under this research we have gone through many famous web services and app services which are being provided in Delhi, In this case study we solved the major daily life issue which public faces of Delhi in the Transportation System.
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