Age Of Information Technology Research Articles

Freeform Compliant CMOS Electronic Systems for Internet of Everything Applications

The state-of-the-art electronics technology has been an integral part of modern advances. The prevalent rise of the mobile device and computational technology in the age of information technology offers exciting applications that are attributed to sophisticated, enormously reliable, and most mature CMOS-based electronics. We are accustomed to high performance, cost-effective, multifunctional, and energy-efficient scaled electronics. However, they are rigid, bulky, and brittle. The convolution of flexibility and stretchability in electronics for emerging Internet of Everything application can unleash smart application horizon in unexplored areas, such as robotics, healthcare, smart cities, transport, and entertainment systems. While flexible and stretchable device themes are being remarkably chased, the realization of the fully compliant electronic system is unaddressed. Integration of data processing, storage, communication, and energy management devices complements a compliant system. Here, a comprehensive review is presented on necessity and design criteria for freeform (physically flexible and stretchable) compliant high-performance CMOS electronic systems.

Constructing the image of the teacher on Reddit: Best and worst teachers

In addressing the public image of the teacher, this study reports on the analysis of 600 discussion entries on Reddit, a social media platform, in which respondents described memories of their best and worst teachers. Results of inductive analyses suggest: (1) a model of teacher, student, and teacher-student relationship for characterizing and reflecting on teachers in teacher education programs; (2) the relevance of social media in contributing to the public image of the teacher in an information technology age, as well as its anonymous and, arguably, more authentic nature; and (3) the need to address gender in teacher memory studies.

ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ Е-ГРИВНІ ЯК ІННОВАЦІЙНОГО ПЛАТІЖНОГО ІНСТРУМЕНТУ

In the last three decades, Information Technology has evolved so much that it has formed its own personal world. And this world could not do without its own means of payment – electronic money and an electronic economy appeared. In fact, they are not money, and therefore represent an alternative, a way of exchange without direct use of credit money. Convenience, cheapness and a number of other advantages of their use have firmly established them in the market. Since in the modern world, the recovery of the economy of any highly developed state is impossible without an effective and modern system of money circulation, so every year electronic money occupies a large share in the total money circulation, thereby displacing cash. In the age of Information Technology, the role of the electronic money circulation system is considerable. Due to the difficult geopolitical situation in the world, it is necessary to develop its own payment system. The payment system is an integral component of the financial and economic integrity of any state, and, in particular, the domestic payment system is designed to ensure the turnover of funds, manage the single currency supply, regulate the hryvnia exchange rate and underestimate the price of settlement services. In modern conditions, it should be closely interrelated with all elements of economic activity, exist in a strategically important way that carries out reliable and clear implementation of financial transactions. The payment system must have certain advantages, namely: accessibility, ease of use, efficiency, prospects for opening an electronic account, security and reliability. So, the role of the payment system in a market economy is defined as important and relevant in terms of its function, namely, ensuring an unpretentious and prompt transfer of funds to the need for stability of economic turnover and economic growth of our state. This article describes certain modern features of the development of a highly efficient system of money circulation and the use of modern payment mechanisms, where one of the most promising elements in this area is electronic money, highlights the main problematic issues of a theoretical and practical nature. This determines the urgency of the problem of development and improvement of the payment system in Ukraine.

Takhrij al-Hadith Via Websites: A Study of al-Durar al-Saniyyah, Mawqi� al-Islam and Islamweb

Ponte Academic JournalApr 2017, Volume 73, Issue 4 Takhrij al-Hadith Via Websites: A Study of al-Durar al-Saniyyah, Mawqi� al-Islam and IslamwebAuthor(s): Shahril Nizam Zulkipli ,Zuriani Yaacob, Norazmi Bin Anas, Mohd Syukri Bin Mohd Noor, Mohd Zahirwan Halim Bin Zainal Abidin, Wan Kamal Nadzif Bin Wan Jamil, Asmadi Bin YakobJ. Ponte - Apr 2017 - Volume 73 - Issue 4 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.4.8 Abstract:After the Industrial Revolution, the fifth phase of human civilization i.e. the Age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is emerging. In accordance with this advancement, the Islamic world has started looking at how Islamic religious education can be easily and effectively delivered via useful ICT applications such as websites, digital libraries and specific software packages to name a few. Technological advancement and communication and cyberspace have indeed given a new dimension to the study of hadith in a digital manner. In other words, it is also considered an effort to strengthen, uphold and preserve the texts of hadith in this era of prevalent use of digital devices. It seems that this study has identified three influential websites i.e. al - Durar al � Saniyyah, Mawqi� al-Islam as well as Islamweb that can be used to ease the takhrij al-hadith or simply defined as hadith extraction in the collections. Terminologically, takhrij is the science of hadith extraction and authentication; including validating the chains of transmitters by hadith scholars as well as grading the authenticity level of hadith. In other words, it refers to the process of tracking the hadiths in various collections. Thus, the study is in fact intended to demonstrate the ease of takhrij in the era of ICT and also to explore the websites of hadith which can facilitate learning processes. The methodology used was the quantitative data collection of hadiths on websites. On a positive note, the study found few takhrij facilities that have been refined on these websites including (1) Masdar al � Hadith (original source text), (2) Ranking of hadith, (3) Sanad (chain of hadith narrators), (4) Matn (text of hadith), (5) The position of hadith in other sources by specifying Shawahid (witnesses) and Mutaba'at (follow-up), (6) Al-wa Jarh ta'dil (a systematic approach to critiquing a narrator's position as a narrator), (7) Categories of hadiths based on the Sanad and also (8) Hukm al-Hadith (derivation of hadith ruling). It is again to emphasize that all these takhrij facilities are provided in the three websites stated earlier. Above all, Islamweb is the best website that can be used by many researchers as it has been applying comprehensively the above-mentioned eight takhrij facilities. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password

Study Of Signal Transmission through Different Array of Cu, Au and Ag Nanospheres

Twenty first century is the age of Information Technology and we always look for faster information transport and processing capabilities. Data can be moved by transistors and optical fibers. Transistors carry small amount of data and are small in size while optical fibers can carry huge amount of data but are much bigger in size. Metal nanostructures may possess right combination of electric and optical properties to tackle the issues outlined above and realized dream of significantly faster processing speeds. In this work, dispersion relation in Plasmon modes in linear chain and alternated chain of nanoparticles like silver-gold, and gold-copper were studied. Expressions of angular frequency of Plasmon modes, group- velocity and extinction- coefficient were derived by solving equation of motion of Plasmon oscillation on the single kind of nanoparticle and that on different alternated chain of nanoparticles. Expressions of angular frequency of Plasmon modes, group velocity and extinction coefficient were tested for specific linear chain of nanoparticles. Calculation showed that extinction coefficients for the linear chain of Copper, Gold and Silver nanoparticles are less and group velocities higher than that of alternated silver-gold and alternated gold-copper at their respective resonance frequenciesJournal of Institute of Science and TechnologyVolume 21, Issue 1, August 2016, Page: 133-139

Social cybermovements: a review of the concept and theoretical framework

The empirical works that explore the ways in which social movements and democracy are changing in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) age have increased in number, especially since 2011 (with the emergence of global indignation movements). The growing mass of studies devoted to this subject has begun to define a new field of research. This area requires specific categories and an organised theoretical framework to distinguish the wide scope of collective action that forms the basis of this field. This paper aims to advance in this direction, offering an analysis of theoretical framework for the study of “social cybermovements”. Firstly, we will explore some of the main causes that have got involved in the birth of this field of study in the digital era. Secondly, we will differentiate the theoretical framework of the social cybermovements and we will stress that it is important to keep in mind the particular characteristics in the diverse cases of collective action. We will review the different studies that have tackled the collective action in the Internet age. We will observe that there are several terms of collective actions which do not refer exactly to the concept of social movement. Thirdly, we will analyse the emerging theoretical framework on social cybermovements. We will study some of the principal works of the literature in the field of the social movements in the networks society.

Customer social participation in the social networking services and its impact upon the customer equity of global fashion brands

Those of us who live in the age of information technology are offered the opportunity to engage in multiple-way communication with others, the brand, and the media. Thus, customer participation is the most important in an online environment. Although such constructs correspond in part to the online, they fall short of meeting the unique characteristics of customer participation in social media. This study provides a clarification of the definitions presented by researchers and explores the construct of customer participation within SNS, and seeks to reveal how the relationship among external factors may influence customer participation and how it, in turn, effects customer equity. The main finding is that SNS participation motivation and customer social participation were positively associated. In particular, customer-media participation demonstrated the strongest influence on customer equity. This study contributes to filling this gap by offering analysis of the role of customer participation in SNS on customer equity.

أثر الاندماج على جودة الإدارة الشاملة ( دراسة حالة مجموعة بنک الخرطوم )

تتناول هذه الدراسة مشکلة تأثير عملية الدمج المصرفي على الجودة الشاملة ومفهوم إدارتها وهدفت هذه الدراسة الى اختبار عملية الدمج في الجهاز المصرفي السوداني ممثلة في مجموعة بنک الخرطوم وقياس مدي تطبيقها لمفهوم إدارة الجودة الشاملة في عصر العولمة والمنافسة المفتوحة اذ لابد من تطبيق مفهوم ابعاد إدارة الجودة الشاملة وذلک لأهمية جودة المنتج والخدمات في ظل السوق المفتوحة والتي اصحبت سوق للطلب وليست للعرض. وبنا على ما سبق تم اختيار الفرصة التالية. تلتزم مجموعة بنک الخرطوم بتطبيق ابعاد مفهوم الجودة الشاملة ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم تناول موضوع الجودة الشاملة من عدة مباحث ومفهومها أهميتها وأهدافها، التطور التاريخي لها وإدارة الجودة الشاملة وفوائدها ومبادئ إدارة الجودة الشاملة وتناولت الدراسة جودة الخدمة المصرفية ومفهومها وابعادها فتناولت تقويم الأداء على أساس الجودة الشاملة وشهادة الايزو وعلاقتها بالإسلام. وفي الدراسة الميدانية تناولت الدراسة اختبار بيانات الجودة الشاملة في المجموعة والتي جمعت عن طريق بناء استبانة خاصة وزعت على عينة عشوائية من العاملين بفروع المجموعة بالعاصمة القومية. اما الخاتمة فشملت على النتائج التي أظهرت عدم تطبيق أي من معايير الجودة الشاملة في المجموعة کما وشملت الخاتمة على التوصيات والتي منها الالتزام بمفهوم الجودة الشاملة کم اقتراح إطار لتطبيق مفهوم إدارة الجودة. تلتزم مجموعة بنک الخرطوم بتطبيق ابعاد مفهوم الجودة الشاملة ولتحقيق اهداف الدراسة تم تناول موضوع الجودة الشاملة من عدة مباحث ومفهومها اهميتها واهدافها, التطور التاريخي لها وإدارة الجودة الشاملة وفوائدها ومبادئ ادارة الجودة الشاملة وتناولت الدراسة جودة الخدمة المصرفية ومفهومها وابعادها فتناولت تقويم الاداء على اساس الجودة الشاملة وشهادة الايزو وعلاقتها بالاسلام. وفي الدراسة الميدانية تناولت الدراسة اختبار بيانات الجودة الشاملة في المجموعة والتي جمعت عن طريق بناء استبانة خاصة وزعت على عينة عشوائية من العاملين بفروع المجموعة بالعاصمة القومية. اما الخاتمة فشملت على النتائج التي اظهرت عدم تطبيق أي من معايير الجودة الشاملة في المجموعة کما وشملت الخاتمة على التوصيات والتي منها الالتزام بمفهوم الجودة الشاملة کم اقترح إطار لتطبيق مفهوم ادارة الجودة. AbstractThis study deals essential problem that is the effective of consolidation on total quality. To express whether the effective is ether positive or negative upon the act of consolidation.This study aims to choose the act of consolidation in banking system represented in bank of Khartoum (group) to measure how the principle of total quality were applied for the importance of this topic in the time of globalization age, and opened competition. The principle of total quality should be applied for the quality of the product and service is being very important as result superabundance of alteration in opened market that became market for demanding and not just for supplying. The tested hypothese is Bank of Khartoum (group) obligates to apply the concept of total quality management.This study tested the total quality from data that collected by questioner the conclusion of study included results that expressed non application of any principle for total quality in the grope, though the result of consolidation accrued sum improvements in many tested financial rates. And recommend to increase attention to total quality concept and information system that gives rapid information in information technology age beside accurate study before joining into consolidation between banks,. its also recommends a frame to apply total quality concept.

Unconventional Military Advising Mission Conducted by Conventional US Military Forces

This article examines how and why many contemporary US mainstream military advisors—as compared to Special Forces advisors—often work from a position of disadvantage when conducting unconventional advising missions. Post-9/11 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan have caused the US military to adapt to myriad complexities, including a renewed need for the widespread execution of the unconventional military advising mission by the Special Forces and conventional units. Although Special Forces typically possessed both the organizational flexibility and historical knowledge and skills to successfully perform military advising, the conventional military experienced some strains as it adapted to this nontraditional mission. This empirical work examines how the US military changed to conduct military advising missions, with a special focus on conventional forces. US military mainstream advisors cultivated a multifaceted “Swiss Army knife” of advisory skills—including warrior, peacekeeper–diplomat, information age technology, leader, and other essential cultural tools—to conduct the unorthodox mission. As soldiers build Swiss Army knives of advisory skills, they produce ripples of cultural change in the armed forces, which indicates the emergence of a more sophisticated, postmodern US military culture.

The Beat of my Heart

I am a geologist. My heart belongs to geology and to all people of good will on this Earth. Even though this introduction begins the account of the trials and tribulations of my life, I actually wrote it last. While writing, from time to time, I kept asking myself some burning questions: Why did I actually decide to write about the most significant events that I encountered in the twentieth century? Why did I decide to write about a man from a small town in eastern Bohemia, which, granted, lies in a part of Europe close to its geographical center, but which is quite insignificant otherwise? In this age of information technology, who might be interested in the life of a country boy, who to some readers may even seem to have come from somewhere in the boonies, in spite of the fact that before long, he succeeded in reaching the status of a university professor? Will I be able to deliver my story in a captivating way, which will be correctly understood? May I hope that a mere life’s account may perhaps inspire someone to a creative act? Isn’t it a little presumptuous to give an account of just one man’s life together with several key events of his lifetime, even though in no chapter have I forgotten the magnificent beings whom fate permitted me to meet? As a geologist, I was used to writing especially about facts, backed up by concentrated observations, measurements, and analytical data. At the age of almost ninety-five, I do realize that many of my memories have paled and that my feelings and connections regarding the countryside and environment of my youth have been idealized. Today I recall with a smile many of the events that used to upset, anger, or annoy me. With …

Academic excellence in the age of information technology

This article presents the results of the author’s analysis of academic excellence in times of globalization and information technology. The author considers the problem in terms of the creation and the success of the research universities, highlights the main features of the world’s leading universities, identifies potential threats of creation in developing countries and countries with transition economies, and places emphasis on particular criteria for the top world rankings

Effectiveness of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Gadgets in Gaining Knowledge of Tomato Crop Production Practices among Farmers of Karnataka

The twenty-first century is characterised as an age of information technology. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become indispensable in our daily life to reinforce ourselves for our agricultural needs. ICTs can be broadly interpreted as technologies that facilitate communication, processing and transmission of information by electronic means. Some of the ICT gadgets like televisions, computers, mobiles and internet are effectively used by technologists to disseminate agricultural-related information to the large number of farmers. Many efforts are going on in designing Agriportals, expert systems and developing multimedia DVDs for agriculture. Universities, research institutes and development departments are utilising these support systems to educate the farmers on various agriculture-related aspects. The present study is designed to measure the relative effectiveness of television, Agri-portal and multimedia DVDs in gaining knowledge of tomato crop production practices among farmers. The study was conducted in Hoskote taluk of Bangalore rural district. Total sample size of the study is 90 farmers comprising 30 each under television, Agri-portal and DVD. The before and after experimental research design was adopted for the study. The three treatments namely, television (T1), e-krishi Agriportal (T2) and DVD (T3) were tested for their effectiveness. The effectiveness was studied in terms of knowledge gained through these three treatments. Television (T1) was found to be the most effective and superior in imparting knowledge with the enhancement of 49.86%, followed by DVD 43.35% and e-krishiAgri-portal 43.03%. All the three treatments were effective in imparting knowledge with considerable variation in their effectiveness. The paired ‘t’ test revealed that there exist a significant difference in knowledge level of tomato crop production practices among the T1, T2 and T3 farmers at 1% level of significance.

USING PORTFOLIOS TO ENHANCE SELF–REGULATED LEARNING

Nowadays, in the age of information technology, when social media in education has become a buzz phrase, teachers tend to look only at the progress tests and final examination results of their students while ignoring the process of learning and competence-based approaches leading to the self–regulated development of certain skills. Portfolios, as a widely-used tool in pre-service teacher training, reveal a clear picture of the student growth and development. It also shows the achievement of learning outcomes foreseen in the study programme. The paper presents the results of the research based on the implementation of language learning portfolios in and out of the classroom. The article describes students’ attitude shift in self–tracking progress and the development of self–regulated learning (SRL). The model of self-regulated learning while using learning portfolios is designed. Three basic phases: preparatory, performance and appraisal of the model are identified. The techniques that enhance self-regulated learning are revealed and discussed on a comparative basis. The results of the study indicate that keeping record of one’s academic achievement in language learning portfolios leads to the enhancement of self-regulated learning. Distribution frequencies analysis is used to measure the students’ attitude shift and the perception of self-regulated learning in the appraisal phase. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/2335-2027.9.9

Cryptocurrency: Next Level in the Evolution of Money

Currency system has been constantly evolving since the concept of money has been introduced. In this age of information technology, the next level in the currency system is digital currency, popularised since the last few years by its main sub-type, the cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies are open-source algorithms which can be programmed by anyone and facilitates peer-to-peer financial networking without the need for third party arbitration, thereby reducing the dependency on banking system. This creates an open system which has tremendous economic potential in increasingly digitalised and globalised world. However cryptocurrency is not without its weaknesses, such as digital security, market regulation and speculative attacks among others.

Digital Age 2.0 and its challenges on media ethics

We are currently living in the digital age, more commonly known as the Information Technology (IT) Age; which can be described as an era where every aspect of human life or activities are mainly information based. This is due to the development and use of technology. We live in a world that has become more open in the sense of communication (global village) and internationalization (trans-border flow of data). The revolution in Information technology is having its implications on our access to information. The digital space provides us with a vast expanse of data and information on a domain that is easily accessible to all. And as such the ethical aspect with regards to the data get threatened. This paradigm shift in this digital age brings new ethical problems which are mainly related to issues of media laws; such as the right of access to information, the right of privacy which is threatened by the emphasis on the free flow of information, and the protection of the economic interest of the owners of intellectual property. In this paper the ethical questions related to technology and its implications on media laws and ethics will be discussed. Specific attention will be given to the challenges these ethical problems pose to the information on the digital space.

Technology for nature conservation: an industry perspective.

Information age technology has the potential to change the game for conservation by continuously monitoring the pulse of the natural world. Whether or not it will depends on the ability of the conservation sector to build a community of practice, come together to define key technology challenges and work with a wide variety of partners to create, implement, and sustain solutions. I describe why these steps are necessary, outline the latest developments in the field and offer actionable ways forward for conservation agencies, universities, funding bodies, professional societies, and technology corporations to come together to realize the revolution that computational technologies can bring for biodiversity conservation.

SPECTROGRAM STUDY OF BODO VOWELS

Bodo Language is phonetically rich language but it is not analysed systematically and scientifically still now. So each and every parts of language is to be studied with the help of modern equipments for find out the accurate results. In the age of Information Technology where the Information Technology (IT) is threading the entire into a Global Village with knowledge as the prime currency and sole differentiator, development of appropriate access technology take part vital role for gaining the information. Especially for India, with its multi-lingual requirements and not so fortunate achievements in terms of overall literacy, development of speech technology in each of its recognized language demands utmost attention. Moreover, development of such Speech Technologies in Indian Languages, with their core dependence on linguistic and cultural ethos, need to be developed largely in India. From the present analysis and study of Bodo vowels spectrograms, it is seen that the lower frequency regions for almost all vowels are very clear. It is a very uncommon characteristic observed in case of the Bodo vowel utterances in comparison with other local languages of Assam. So this will help the speech researcher’s on Bodo Language in various directions in future.

A Review on Shape based Descriptors for Image Retrieval

In the age of information technology, a large number of images are generated at 24/7 which leads to a growing interest for searching out similar images from the large databases/ data warehouses. For searching an image from the database, images need to be described by certain features. The most important feature to describe an image is its shape. Now-adays, shape is used for image retrieval. Description of Shape is denoted by various techniques which are generally divided into two broad categoriesRegion based descriptor and Contour based descriptor. Contour based descriptor considers the whole area of the image while region based descriptor considers the boundary lines of the image. In this paper, shape based descriptors are reviewed. Some important shape descriptors have been identified for image retrieval according to the standard principles.

Automatically finding relevant citations for clinical guideline development

ObjectiveLiterature database search is a crucial step in the development of clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews. In the age of information technology, the process of literature search is still conducted manually, therefore it is costly, slow and subject to human errors. In this research, we sought to improve the traditional search approach using innovative query expansion and citation ranking approaches. MethodsWe developed a citation retrieval system composed of query expansion and citation ranking methods. The methods are unsupervised and easily integrated over the PubMed search engine. To validate the system, we developed a gold standard consisting of citations that were systematically searched and screened to support the development of cardiovascular clinical practice guidelines. The expansion and ranking methods were evaluated separately and compared with baseline approaches. ResultsCompared with the baseline PubMed expansion, the query expansion algorithm improved recall (80.2% vs. 51.5%) with small loss on precision (0.4% vs. 0.6%). The algorithm could find all citations used to support a larger number of guideline recommendations than the baseline approach (64.5% vs. 37.2%, p<0.001). In addition, the citation ranking approach performed better than PubMed’s “most recent” ranking (average precision +6.5%, recall@k +21.1%, p<0.001), PubMed’s rank by “relevance” (average precision +6.1%, recall@k +14.8%, p<0.001), and the machine learning classifier that identifies scientifically sound studies from MEDLINE citations (average precision +4.9%, recall@k +4.2%, p<0.001). ConclusionsOur unsupervised query expansion and ranking techniques are more flexible and effective than PubMed’s default search engine behavior and the machine learning classifier. Automated citation finding is promising to augment the traditional literature search.

Epochs and Evolution of Consciousness by Gebser and Barfield

If all beings have consciousness in some way, so it is not something that is evolved by mankind. It has already and always existed. Evolution of consciousness refers to what human has now gained the power to select what he wants to become in the future based on developments in different areas, such as technology, medicine, and so on. Jean Gebser and Owen Barfield are two famous philosopher who have studied the evolution of consciousness from the pre-historic era to the modern age of information technology and cybernetics era. This paper precisely shed light on their examinations epochs of consciousness and its evolution. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5p450