Basis Of Information Technologies Research Articles

Integration of higher and secondary education: problems and ways of their solution on the basis of information technologies

Integration of higher and secondary education: problems and ways of their solution on the basis of information technologies

Individualization of students’ independent work on the basis of information technologies

The study explores an information technology model of forming individual trajectories, which is conducive to organizing and managing students’ independent work. The existing methods of teaching at the university level allow improvement of students’ performance with the help of principles of autonomous learning that are implemented during individual work. We have suggested the structure of the devised model and considered several methods that involve the proposed technology as well as the general principle of the information technology functioning. A distinctive feature of the information technology is that it incorporates a method of forming and a method of adjusting individual trajectories of students’ independent work. These methods are based on performance prediction and aided by the modified method of cluster analysis of the McKean k-means; they take into account individual performance and motivation of each student with the help of production models of guiding the student. The suggested model of information technology is aimed at solving the problems of individualization in the higher education process and improving the academic performance of students.

OC-035 Lifetouch®: A Novel Remote Monitoring Device To Identify Patients With Advanced Cirrhosis Most At Risk Of Decompensation – A Proof Of Concept Study

IntroductionHospital readmission from inter-current illness is common in advanced cirrhosis. Community monitoring of these patients with simple information-based technology may facilitate early problem recognition and intervention. Heart rate variability (HRV)...

The algorithmic model of information technology for forming strategic portfolio of enterprise goods

Enterprise with the incremental style of behavior, conducting business activity in conditions of dynamic competitive environment, characterized by instability of its main factors and their uncertainty in time is considered. The problem of an adequate algorithmic model for forming a strategic portfolio of enterprise goods, which satisfies the system requirements to achieving the set strategic goals by the enterprise is solved. Algorithmic model integrates qualitative and quantitative methods for modeling enterprise business activity; contains algorithmic models of expert procedures for determining the morphology of the strategic portfolio of goods, ranking strategic goods by risks, as well as an algorithmic model for determining the optimal structure of the strategic portfolio of enterprise goods. The proposed algorithmic model is the theoretical basis of information technology that automates forming an effective strategic portfolio of goods, information and analytical decision support in the strategic management of the functioning and development of modern enterprises. The features of creating information technology based on the proposed model are considered.

Об’єктивізація ергономічної оцінки діяльності пілота на основі «Photoshop-технології»

На основі інформаційної технології «Photoshop» розроблено метод об’єктивної ергономічної оцінки професійної діяльності пілота. Визначено процедурні характеристики, особливості й об’єктивні критерії ергономічної оцінки умов роботи з авіаційним обладнанням, ергономічні недоліки компоновки робочого місця, що знижують безпеку польоту. «Photoshop» розглянуто як програмний засіб обробки відеоінформації, який дозволяє на основі відеореєстрації та експертного аналізу процедурних характеристик роботи пілота визначити показники процесу пілотування, оцінити ергономічну досконалість алгоритмів роботи та оптимальність розподілу функціональних обов’язків між членами екіпажу. Показано, що програмна інформаційна технологія «Photoshop» та аналогічні сучасні програмні продукти є перспективним дослідницьким методом авіаційної ергономіки для виявлення ергономічних недоліків професійної діяльності пілота

Selection and management factor analysis of urban infrastructure for U-City construction

U-City (Ubiquitous City) projects are being actively pursued, where ubiquitous technology is applied to large-scale new city development. U-City is all about creating a ubiquitous environment which, on the basis of Information Technology (IT) infrastructure, is combined with construction technology to make our lives easier and more comfortable. More recently, the concept of a U-Eco City (Ubiquitous Eco-friendly City) is widely discussed to incorporate the notion of a ‘green city’ into the U-City concept, with relevant research efforts also underway. In accordance with this tendency, this paper sets the criteria for selecting the key infrastructure required to build an effective U-City and conducts expert surveys and a Delphi analysis. For roadway facilities on which the highest priority is known to be placed, this paper analyzes their required VE-based functions and extracts management factors. The AHP technique is employed to analyze the relative importance of the nine core management factors which are required to build the U-City in roadway facilities. Among these key factors, ‘Establishment of a Ubiquitous System’ is shown to be of the greatest importance, followed by ‘Analysis of an Automation System’, ‘Establishment of Factor Technology’ and ‘Ideation of an Eco-Friendly City’. Formulating U-City establishment plans on the basis of high-priority management factors will enable the effective construction of roadway facilities. Hence, this paper sets work standards for individual management factors and proposes development guidelines.

Development of sensor systems for precision agriculture in cotton

Precision agriculture (PA) is an information-based technology, using detailed information within an agricultural field to optimize production inputs on a spatially variable basis, maximize farm profit, and minimize environmental impact. Information collection and processing plays a very important role in PA. In recent years PA technologies have been gradually adopted in cotton production. Several sensor systems for PA were developed and field-evaluated in cotton, including a plant height measurement system (PHMS), the Mississippi cotton yield monitor (MCYM), and cotton fiber quality mapping. The PHMS used an ultrasonic sensor to scan the plant canopy and determine plant height in real time in situ. A plant height map was generated with the data collected with the PHMS. Cotton plant height showed a close relationship with yield (R2=0.63) and leaf-nitrogen content (R2=0.48). The MCYM was developed for cotton yield mapping. A patented mass-flow sensor technology was employed in the MCYM. The sensor measured optical reflectance of cotton particles passing through the sensor and used the measured reflectance to determine cotton-mass flow rates. Field tests indicated that the MCYM could measure cotton yield with an average error less than 5%, and it was easy to install and maintain. The cotton fiber-quality mapping research involved a wireless cotton module-tracking system (WCMTS) and a cotton fiber quality mapping system (CFQMS). The WCMTS was based on the concept that a cotton fiber-quality map could be generated with spatial information collected by the system during harvesting coupled with fiber quality information available in cotton classing offices. The WCMTS was constructed and tested, and it operated according to design, with module-level fiber-quality maps easily made from the collected data. The CFQMS was designed and fabricated to perform real-time measurement of cotton fiber quality as the cotton is harvested in the field. Test results indicated that the sensor was capable of accurately estimating fiber micronaire in lint cotton (R2=0.99), but estimating fiber quality in seed cotton was more difficult. Cotton fiber quality maps can be used with cotton yield maps for developing field profit maps and optimizing production inputs.

RESEARCH ON ROBUSTNESS OF THE MUTUAL INFORMATION SIMILARITY METRIC FOR REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES

For the past few years, the medical image registration technology has made rapid and significant progress, and has been extensively applied for the 2D/3D medical image processing. However, the robustness of the similarity metric in the medical image registration is rarely studied. In this paper, the mutual information-based registration technology is introduced and the concept of the robustness of the similarity metric is defined. The robustness of the mutual information similarity metric is analyzed and discussed from three aspects such as interpolation methods, image data loss and noise corruption after the linear, quadratic spline, cubic spline, quadratic B-spline, and cubic B-spline interpolations are elaborated and studied. The robustness experiments reveal that the mutual information similarity metric can obtain good robustness in the case of the use of various interpolation methods in the medical image registration; the mutual information similarity metric can also keep good robustness in the case of a slight loss of image data. However, the metric will fail to register the images on the condition that the medical images are seriously incomplete. In addition, we find, if the medical images corrupted by the salt & pepper noise, then the metric basically can succeed in aligning the medical images; but regretfully, the metric fully fail under the condition of the medical images corrupted by the Gaussian noise.

Mandatory Disclosure of Blockholders and Related Party Transactions: Stringent Versus Flexible Rules

Investor confidence in financial markets depends in large part on the existence of an accurate disclosure and reporting regime that provides transparency in the beneficial ownership and control structures of publicly listed companies. Today, a common post-financial crisis regulatory reform theme is to tighten the disclosure and reporting rules that apply to large blockholders. We examine the implications of this trend, analyzing whether detailed, stringent and mandatory reporting rules could have a counterproductive effect on the financial markets. A central idea of this paper is the evolution of a well-balanced regime that is flexible and proportional and allows for a case-by-case determination of a beneficial owner. In the current era of information-based technology, the most obvious challenge for regulators is to design a legal framework that is adaptable to technological change and its impact on financial instruments.

IT-Based Classification for Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms

Managing dependencies via coordination is an effective solution for the problems that arise from these interdependencies in supply chains. This can be practical via a set of methods called coordination mechanisms. Numerous coordination mechanisms have been discussed before in literature. This paper develops a new classification of these mechanisms on the basis of information technology (IT) impact on them. This classification proves the important role of IT in better coordinating supply chains and help managers distinguish between coordination mechanisms that are created and improved by information technology and thus lead them to have the best choice based on their infrastructures and organization type.

Directions of Increasing Competition in Clothes and Textiles Industry on the Basis of Information Technologies

The importance of the clothes and textile sector in Lithuanian economy is discussed and declining trends of the sector values for the economy warns about the problems of competitiveness in the current economic conditions. The main factors behind the decline in the competitiveness of the sector are provided; and directions of the development, which are associated with the intensified use of information technologies to create new competitive advantages of the sector, are analysed.

After Crisis? – The Only Way: Economics for Sustainable Development

The aim of the paper is to justify why contemporary economics must be reoriented from the direction of Economic Growth to the direction of Sustainable Development. Human society is at a deadly curve. The Economic crisis is only one slice of Gordon’s Knot of Crises of our Civilization. The Economy is facing system challenges without precedence. Reasons for this situation are different fetishes of present positive and normative economics. The au­thor explores the main aspects of diagnoses, prognoses, analyses, assessments, and present solutions concerning economy. Of fundamental importance are: the essence of the global cri­sis, new challenges facing Western civilization in the near future, and fundamental misunder­standings in the proposed solutions of crucial problems. The one chance for an adequate solu­tion to the critical situation is the Strategy of Sustainable Development. In Poland this strategy is absent in mainstream economics as a theory of economy and as the foundation of rational policy. It concerns a very broad front of economic sciences and economic technologies. Eco­nomic academic education is also not adequate to the very serious situation facing graduates in the future. Consciousness, knowledge and abilities of economic professionals are good for the past, not for the nearest future. In Poland, an additional problem is a lack of common eco­nomic academic education in English. Present economics and economy must be verified with many original (not translated) settlements and conclusions concerning sustainable develop­ment from economics and from other sciences and from reality outside economy. Of crucial importance have been settlements and conclusions of ecology and of sociology on the basis of information technologies.

Problems and Countermeasure Research of Modern Coal Enterprises to Implement ERP

The coal enterprise ERP system is a management platform that built on the basis of information technology to provide management thinking for decision-making layer and operation methods for employees. Smooth implementation of ERP system can make it possible to distribute enterprise resources reasonably and fulfill the requirement of bringing maximum financial profits. In the paper, the problems that modern coal enterprises to implement ERP faced are analyzed, including, there exist misunderstanding and lack the knowledge of ERP to leadership, there lack of manpower and energy to enterprises after the implementation of ERP, and improper choice of partner and ERP software, etc. The article points out that leaders should seek unity of thinking, fully realize ERP is “top managerial project”, pay attention to the implementation, and dare to undertake the responsibilities. The enterprises must improve the qualities of the staff, especially the leader's qualities, carefully choose the software providers and the partners to ensure the smooth implementation of ERP systems.

정보화 수준을 고려한 컨테이너터미널의 효율성 평가

오늘날의 전반적인 산업분야에서는 정보기술을 바탕으로 운영되고, 이에 대한 투자가 증가되고 있다. 물류산업에서도 물류정보망의 중요성이 커지고, 효율적으로 운영하기 위한 정보화 투자가 증가되고 있다. 효율성에 관한 기존연구에서는 설비와 같은 고정자산만을 고려한 효율성 분석으로 이루어져, 정보화 수준이 효율성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구는 미흡하다. 본 연구는 컨테이너 터미널 효율적 운영을 위하여 정보화 수준을 고려한 효율성 분석의 중요성을 제시하고, DEA과 Bootstrap를 이용하여 정보화 수준과 관련된 상대적 효율성을 측정하였다. Today, overall industry has been operated on the basis of information technology and has increased the investment on it. In the logistics industry, the integrated material handling information network has become important more and more and the investment on the informatization has been increased to operate efficiently. In the previous literature, most of the measures for the efficiency of container terminals were the variables such as fixed assets of equipments. There has not been any research effort toward examining the effect of informatization level on the efficiency. This work describes the importance on the efficiency evaluation considering the informatization level to in a container terminal and the relative efficiency level is measured using data envelopment analysis and bootstrap.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

AbstractInsurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 6361 NAIC: 524127)Fidelity National Financial, through its principal subsidiaries, is a major U.S. title insurance and diversified real estate‐related services company. As of Dec 31 2004, Co. provided title insurance in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and in Canada and Mexico. Also, Co. provides information‐based technology applications and processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage and financial services industries. Co.'s reporting segments include title insurance, specialty insurance, financial institution software and services, lender outsourcing applications, information services, and corporate and other.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

AbstractInsurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 361 NAIC: 24127)Fidelity National Financial, through its principal subsidiaries, is a major U.S. title insurance and diversified real estate‐related services company. As of Dec 31 2004, Co. provided title insurance in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and in Canada and Mexico. Also, Co. provides information‐based technology applications and processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage and financial services industries. Co.'s reporting segments include title insurance, specialty insurance, financial institution software and services, lender outsourcing solutions, information services, and corporate and other.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

AbstractInsurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 6361 NAIC:524127)Fidelity National Financial, through its principal subsidiaries, is a major U.S. title insurance and diversified real estate‐related services company. As of Dec 31 2003, Co. provided title insurance in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and in Canada and Mexico. Co. also provides information‐based technology applications and processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage and financial services industries. Co.'s reporting segments include title and escrow, financial institution software and services, lender outsourcing solutions, information services, specialty insurance, and corporate and other.

Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

Mergent's Dividend AchieversVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 97-97 U.S. Company Report Fidelity National Financial, Inc.† First published: 22 April 2005 https://doi.org/10.1002/div.2268 † Contact: : William P. Foley II — Chmn., C.E.O. Address: : 601 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32204 Web Site: : www.fnf.com AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Insurance (MIC: 8.2 SIC: 361 NAIC: 24127) Fidelity National Financial, through its principal subsidiaries, is a major U.S. title insurance and diversified real estate-related services company. As of Dec 31 2003, Co. provided title insurance in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and in Canada and Mexico. Co. also provides information-based technology applications and processing services to financial institutions and the mortgage and financial services industries. Co.'s reporting segments include title and escrow, financial institution software and services, lender outsourcing solutions, information services, specialty insurance, and corporate and other. Volume2, Issue2Spring 2005Pages 97-97 RelatedInformation

Fundamental limits of silicon technology

Measures of the performance of digital electronics have increased steadily for four decades. The essential ingredient of progress has been miniaturization. The road to advances beyond a decade into the future has always been obscure and has stimulated much speculation as to where miniaturization must end. Thus far, new ideas have regularly met the challenges posed by new problems and have allowed the trends to continue. The persistence of silicon as the basis of information technology is the one constant. The problems and solutions arising from changing physics caused by miniaturization are examined in the perspective of the environment in which millions of closely packed devices must function and the external world that information processing technology serves. The complex structure of devices offers considerable room for ingenuity and novel approaches. The large number of devices collected on a single chip of silicon must communicate with one another via a complex array of wires. Miniaturization of the wires poses a different set of questions. The simple structure of a wire offers less scope for invention than is possible with devices and it is more difficult to see solutions to problems. Nevertheless, as has happened in the past, it is difficult to find obviously insuperable barriers to progress in fundamental physics.

Expectations and Influencing Factors of IS Graduates and Education in Thailand: A Perspective of the Students, Academics and Business Community

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study The revolution that Thailand is experiencing has occurred largely during the past 35 years from agricultural based society to industrial era and the eventual transition towards the new millennium--the Revolution. In the face of intense competition and other business pressures on organizations in 1990s, quality initiatives and continuous, incremental process improvement, though still essential, will no longer suffice. Today, firms must seek not fractional, but multiplicative levels of improvement with countless opportunities and challenges for millions of individuals. In particular, the challenges to managers responsible for introducing information-based technology have been exceptionally high. The concept of computerization has advanced tremendously in terms of hardware, software and people-ware, which has evolved significantly to sophisticated (IT). The application of information technology as a strategic competitive lever is based on the premise of attaining maximum information utilization as an enabling tool to create value and differentiating factors for superior advantage over competitors. [Benjamin et. al (1984), McFarlan (1984), Parson (1983), Porter et. al (1985), Cecil et. al (1990), Jackson (1989)]. Effective use of computers in business today is therefore an evolving art, not a science. The formula that worked for businesses yesterday might not be so effective today--and could succumb to demise by tomorrow. Many individuals entering the workplace today have directly experienced this technological phenomenon. Employees completing their careers have seen the whole spectrum of events unfold during their lifetimes. For many people, information technology has been a complicating factor, perhaps something to be feared, or at least to be viewed with apprehension. For others, the growth of information technology has been an unmitigated blessing. The technology was a major part of their formal education; it forms the basis of their employment. It is a platform on which their future depends. For nearly everyone, it has brought change. The National Economic Development Plan 8 has therefore embraced the direction to tune up the undeniably attention on IT personnel development in the contemporary educational system in Thailand. This aim to lay down the human-ware foundation for the future economic development as well as to capture the appreciation of impact information technology and the transitioning revolution will have on Thailand. 1.2 Problem Statement As Thailand moves forward into the next century with fluid business environment that is changing dynamically, the entire economy calls for the imperative of recognizing the important role of information technology to keep pace with the new millennium revolution. This rapid pace has meant an unprecedented growth of job opportunities, fueled by an ever increasing need for skilled IT managers, which is driven by the growth of computer applications such as decision support systems, expert systems, computer-aided design, computer aided manufacturing and information based business process. IT managers must anticipate these changes to prepare executives in the firm with their technological vision in formulating corporate strategies and future structural changes. To this end, it is indisputable that opportunities for skilled IT managers are bright. Therefore, it is important to systematize pertinent Information Technology curriculum course to prepare the profession for future challenges, which forms the major thrust of this research to understand the knowledge, skills, capability expected of an IS graduate and the influencing factors that could encourage IS education. The problem statement of this research is thus to understand the requisite expectation of knowledge expectations, skill expectations, capability expectation of an IS graduate and the facilities expectation that can contribute to the development of an IS graduate. …