MS Word Files Research Articles

Building a fluid mechanics multiple-choice test program for smartphones with android operating system

On the basis of a set of Fluid Mechanics Multiple-Choice Tests (FMMCT) in the form of MS Word files, the author used the programming languages and open source programs Android Studio, PHP, Java Script, HTML, and Hot Potatoes 6 to proceed developing an FMMCT program FluidMCT, operating on smartphones with the Android operating system, to create favorable conditions for learning fluid mechanics better. The program consists of two parts: (1) The program to be installed on the smartphone created through the Android Studio Bumblebee Software │2021.1.1 Patch 2 [1]; (2) The programs and databases are installed on the server. Hot Potatoes 6 software helps to create FMMCT lessons with results as HTML files containing JavaScript language to perform operations and scoring. Based on this sample test, 160 FMMCT lessons are conducted on the basis of separating the test content, the selected evaluation content and the JavaScript operating files in the form of *.js to optimize the saving process. storage and programming for big data. On the server, programs written in PHP, HTML, JavaScript and MySQL databases help to manage the data system containing FMMCT, the table user in the MySQL database along with PHP programs support account security management through the login process. These two program systems (1) and (2) are linked together. Using smartphones, users can freely run 20 FMMCT lessons; however, to continue running the remaining 140 lessons, students must provide resource system logins. In addition, a system program is created and installed on the server, and another result is the FluidMCT.apk file, allowing it to be installed on Android smartphones for use. Through the results of this program development, a multiple-choice test program of any other subject can be built conveniently and quickly.

Digitalization as a Form of Preservation of Cultural and Historical Heritage. Examples from Sofia. Project CLaDA-BG

The archive "Immovable Cultural Assets" at the Regional History Museum - Sofia contains 1300 documentation folders of buildings, bridges and monuments located in the centеr of the city. Currently, all folders have their own digital copies - text in MS Word file and original old photos, mainly from the 70s and 80s of the last century, with corresponding image from current time. Plans and sketches of the surrounding landscape are attached as well. However, the focus of the digital unit is not on the architectural ensemble and urban planning, but for the historical reference for the person or event related to the particular monument. Through various methods of work, an attempt was made to preserve part of the history of the city - preserving its memory in digital format. Тhey consisted digitalization of the paper folder, collecting information in two various ways: at the libraries, archives and in the field - by describing and photographing the monument.

Digitizing the Austrian Universities’ ICR for an Effective Higher Education Governance

The Intellectual Capital Reports (ICR) of the Austrian Universities are a major source of data needed for the evidence-based governance of the higher education sector in Austria. However, the current information gathering processes within the Science Ministry were very time consuming and labor-intensive due to the following reasons:
 
 Out of the three sections of the ICR universities could only deliver the indicator section via digital interface.
 The performance report as well as the performance agreement monitoring chapters, which consist largely of body of texts, had to be processed manually by gathering and compiling data out of separate pdf files for each university.
 
 This impedes the effectiveness of the use of the data contained in the ICR for governance purposes.
 Additionally, creating said elements at the universities largely happens by way of a collaborative effort. At some institutions, however, the processes for an effective collaboration require immense coordination efforts as these processes provide very little digital support.
 Consequently, the Science Ministry, under involvement of the universities, decided to create a tool, which enables the universities to compile the majority of the ICR in an online database achieving the following effects:
 The universities compile the ICR in a browser-based application in one of two ways: either they use the application’s interface to compile the report elements collaboratively with clear process structures as well as comprehensive tasks and responsibilities. Alternatively, universities may copy texts from MS Word files if they have already established their own processes.
 The contents of the aforementioned sections are automatically entered into a search database that enables the Science Ministry to browse, compare and compile information either by keyword search or by exporting (sub)chapters. Search results may be grouped by single universities or groups of universities as well as the reporting year.
 Thus, accessibility of information contained in the ICRs is more easily accessible by providing tools for effective of data mining, thus conserving staff resources and therefore enhance the informed decision-making processes required for effective governance.

Challenges in Engaging Students during an Online Health Professions Education Course: An Exploratory, Qualitiative Study

Objectives: Multiple challenges have raised in medical education after the pandemic due to transition from face-to-face to online learning. One of the major issues faced is related to student engagement. This study aimed to understand the challenges of student engagement in online learning for a health professions education program. Study design: Qualitative explorative study. Place & duration: The study was conducted in the medical education department, institute of health professions education and research, Khyber medical university, Peshawar, Pakistan. For the purpose of data collection, three institutes were involved: Khyber Medical University (KMU), Riphah International University (RIU) and University College of Medicine & Dentistry (UCMD). All three institutes were conducting Masters program in Health Professions Education (MHPE). The study was conducted from 28/02/2021 to 31/08/2021. Methodology: A total of 12 students and six faculty members were recruited from three different Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) programs in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews were recorded on Zoom, two variables assessed on interviews were, defining online student engagement and challenges of student engagement in online learning. The interviews were transcribed onto MS Word files. The files were imported into NVivo v12.0 and analyzed to determine any emergent themes and sub themes. Results: A total of four main themes and eleven sub themes emerged. The themes were: lack of motivation, distractors, lack of faculty development and non-conductive environment. Conclusion: The participants identified lack of student motivation and interest in online learning; technical challenge such as internet connectivity; lack of faculty training; household distractions and a non-conducive environment such as a large class size as the main challenges for online student engagement in a MHPE program. Keywords: Student engagement; medical education; online learning, health professions education, student participation, digital transformation.

English modal constructions ‘must HAVE DONE’ and intermediate modals in authentic context of use ‒ a case study

The aim of the present paper is to examine the degree to which the first year students of English philology at ATH in Bielsko-Biala are able to recognize the particular modal constructions occurring in authentic linguistic materials, after having been introduced to their forms and meanings theoretically. The paper focuses on contextualization by means of linguistic corpora of selected English modal constructions, such as the perfective use of central modals on the example of ‘must HAVE done’, and particular ‘intermediate’ modals (1. must have; 2. dare + bare infinitive; 3. WE/I shall; 4. BE about to; 5. BE to; 6. HAVE got to; 7. BE bound to; 8. BE willing to; 9. HAPPEN to), following a remote lecture on descriptive grammar of the English language via the MS Teams application during the coronavirus lockdown in January, 2021. The case study concerns the results obtained from an assignment administered to 64 first year students, presented in four tables. The assignment, attached in the form of an MS Word file to edit, required the students to select and cite from either of the two corpora of the English language – BNC or COCA – examples of authentic use of each of the modal constructions studied during one of the lectures. The paper consists of six sections, two on the main theses in cognitive linguistics, whose achievements pertain to usage-based acquisition of new linguistic material, three parts related to the research conducted, including the methodological part, an analysis of the results obtained, followed by a discussion and general conclusions. The last section signals how selected theses of cognitive linguistics apply to the results of the said research.

Psychological Effects of the COVID-19-Induced Lockdown 2020 among Educated Adults of Nepal

Using diary method, a qualitative research was conducted to know about the feelings, actions and mental processes of the adults during lockdown induced by COVID-19 in 2020. The final dataset had 1800 entries from 30 participants for 20 days during May and June months of 2020. The participants were made write diary in MS Word file with a ‘change tracker’ on. The sampling was non-probability, convenient. NVivo 10 was used to analyze the data. Data have been collected phenomenologically and have been analyzed by content analysis. Consequently, three themes in emotions were found out: positive emotions, negative emotions and mood swing. Behaviors had three themes: adaptation, entertainment and compulsive behaviors. Mental processes had three themes: attribution, acceptance and cognition. The conclusion is that people have started to adapt to new norms created by the lockdown of COVID-19. Still, they are afraid/anxious about start and spread of disease as they have an obsession. In response, they show compulsive behaviors like seeking news. They think that government is responsible for the proper handling of crisis. They are angry at people for being careless when they often break the lockdown themselves.

Forgery Detection Mechanism with Abnormal Structure Analysis on Office Open XML based MS-Word File

We examine the weaknesses of the existing OOXML-based MS-Word file structure, and analyze how data concealment and forgery are performed in MS-Word digital documents. In case of forgery by including hidden information in MS-Word digital document, there is no difference in opening the file with the MS-Word Processor. However, the computer system may be malfunctioned by malware or shell code hidden in the digital document. If a malicious image file or ZIP file is hidden in the document by using the structural vulnerability of the MS-Word document, it may be infected by ransomware that encrypts the entire file on the disk even if the MS-Word file is normally executed. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze forgery and alteration of digital document through internal structure analysis of MS-Word file. In this paper, we designed and implemented a mechanism to detect this efficiently and automatic detection software, and presented a method to proactively respond to attacks such as ransomware exploiting MS-Word security vulnerabilities.

Manuscripts and old prints of the Karaim Digital Archive – from Ms Word files to TEI P5

Manuscripts and old prints of the Karaim Digital Archive – from Ms Word files to TEI P5

Empirical Analysis of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Smartphone on Young Generation

The aim of this study is to identify factors of smartphone adoption on young generation this study proposed an approach by dividing smartphone-based services into four different categories of Productivity that incorporate business utility apps (e.g., MS Word file viewer and file manager, easy in use, filling up expectations, article, internet, and education), Entertainment, which includes Game, Sports, Music, Mobile tv, and Photography apps. In addition, Information category contains Finance, News, Travel, Medical, Banking, Weather, and others. Networking indicates those services for the social networking such as Facebook and Twitter and others social networking apps. The survey comprises of four sections and responses are collected in 5-point Likert scale to measure the actual view of the respondents. Pearson correlation and Regression analysis are conducted to measure the degree to a correlation between dependent and independent variables. There is no significant relationship between smartphone services with expensiveness, affordability, and flexibility. But a significant relationship between smartphone services with protection towards the environment, tools for social networking, wireless Internet services, mobile tv & online banking. Out of 150 respondents, about 80% of them are quiet satisfied on smartphone services Among the respondent’s boys are mostly found of using different types of financial services like online marketing, online payment, online banking, etc. but girls are mostly found of entertainment services. Finally, it’s observed that on the eve of the twenty-first-century young generation demand and expectation regarding smartphone services is increasing in every day.

Study on the tracking revision history of MS Word files for forensic investigation

Document forensics remains an important field of digital forensics. To date, previously existing methods focused on the last saved version of the document file stored on the PC; however, the drawback of this approach is that this provides no indication as to how the contents have been modified. This paper provides a novel method for document forensics based on tracking the revision history of a Microsoft Word file. The proposed method concentrates on the TMP file created when the author saves the file and the ASD file created periodically by Microsoft Word during editing. A process whereby the revision history lists are generated based on metadata of the Word, TMP, and ASD files is presented. Furthermore, we describe a technique developed to link the revision history lists based on similarity. These outcomes can provide considerable assistance to a forensic investigator trying to establish the extent to which document file contents have been changed and when the file was created, modified, deleted, and copied.

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Improving Speed of Virus Scanning - Applying TRIZ to Improve Anti-Virus Programs

As the number of viruses increases the amount of time to scan for those viruses also increase. This situation is worsened because of the increasing number of files typically stored in a computer system. Besides more complex tests are required to detect the modern day’s intelligent viruses. Thus a combination of all these factors makes a full virus scan very lingering and resource consuming. With thousands of types of viruses and gigabytes of storages, a typical virus scanning may take several hours. Because of this reason many users don’t like to virus scan their computers unless so required. This article highlights the common factors that increase the scanning time. For example, apart from the increased number of files and viruses, the scanning of compressed files requires more time, a lot of time is wasted by scanning the same files again and again in different scanning sessions, poor searching and file comparing algorithms can increase the scanning time, a reliable scanning may require a combination of various methods which demand more time to scan.The article discusses some methods of reducing the duration of a typical virus scanning session. Some of the solutions are; avoiding repetitive scanning by storing the AV state of previously scanned files, selective scanning of files (e.g., scanning only those files which have been changed since last scanning), applying only selected scanning methods relevant to specific file types (e.g., scanning MS Word files for Macro viruses and not for boot sector viruses), applying improved 'string search' methods for signature scanning, applying improved method of file comparison for integrity testing, reducing disk read time by reading files in a separate threads etc.

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Design and Implementation of a Virtual Calculation Centre (VCC) for Engineering Students

Most of the academic institutions in all over the world provide their attendees with databases where courses and other materials could be uploaded, downloaded and checked by the faculty and students. Those materials are mostly PDF files, MS Word files, MS power point presentations or downloadable computer programs. Even though those databases are very beneficial, they need to be improved to meet the studentsâ?? needs, especially in engineering faculties where students may need thermo-physical properties of some substances, charts, diagrams, conversion factors and so forth. In addition, many students see it cumbersome downloading and installing a computer program that they do not need often in their studies. As an attempt to satisfy the academic community needs in the faculty of Engineering in Abou Bekr Belkaid University (Tlemcen, Algeria), we had to devise some Web technologies and techniques to design an interactive virtual space wherein many engineering-related Web applications are accessible on-line. Students and professors can access on-line to properties of many substances, convert physical quantities from and into a variety of units, exploit computer programs on-line without installing them, generate tables and charts, and also, they can use diagrams on-line by means of the mouse. The set of those applications is called a Virtual Calculation Center. This paper goes through the different services that could be implemented in a Virtual Calculation Center, and describes the techniques and technologies used to build those applications.

The other Office

PEOPLE WHO teach technology courses often debate the utility and ethics of teaching students to use software that they either won't buy or can't afford to buy. Microsoft Office, which costs from $250 to $400, is a good example. Many schools and universities have institutional licenses for Microsoft Office, but many do not license the program for home or off-campus use. Furthermore, if a student does buy a computer, Microsoft Office may or may not be bundled with the computer (the bundled software may be Works instead of Office). OpenOffice is a readily available, free alternative to Microsoft Office. Unfortunately, the tech press often ignores this powerful suite of programs, so finding reviews of it is difficult. The reviews I have found are positive, and the software is even used by several large corporations, including Novel. OpenOffice is software, which means it has been developed over time by volunteers, much like Mozilla, FireFox, and Opera. Some years ago, Sun Microsystems purchased the rights to develop its own version of MS Office, but open-source development continues by the organization that originally wrote the software (www.openoffice.org). I won't be reviewing Sun's Office, at least not in this column. OpenOffice was originally developed for the Unix operating system, which is at the heart of Mac OS X. OpenOffice is currently available for the following operating systems: Windows 2000, NT, and XP; Linux 2.2.13; and Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4. Downloading and installing OpenOffice varies by type and version of the operating system, so you'll need to be careful. You really have to be sure to download the version that matches your operating system exactly. Before I continue, a disclaimer is in order. My Mac has AppleWorks 6, Microsoft Office 2004, and now OpenOffice 2.X software. I prefer to use AppleWorks, though I am sometimes forced to use Microsoft Office. In general, I write in AppleWorks and if need be I save my document as an MS Word file. If people send me MS Word documents with a lot of tables, then I am forced to use Word. To write this column, I downloaded and installed OpenOffice, but I admit that I have not used it extensively. So far, I have used only the word processor called Writer and the presentation program called Impress. The other programs in OpenOffice are Calc, Draw, Base--a database manager--and Math. I would suspect that math teachers would find many more uses for Math than I will, since it lets you create mathematical formulas with ease. In a future column, I might be in a position to share my views on the rest of the OpenOffice suite of software. Here's how to download and install OpenOffice on a Mac. A more general discussion of the software itself follows. First, keep in mind that Mac OS X, which comes with installer software, does not include uninstaller software. So if you botch the install, you will have to hunt around for an uninstaller. For more information on uninstalling Mac software, I recommend you visit Indiana University's helpful knowledge-base pages at http://kb.iu.edu. Before you can run OpenOffice on a Mac, you will need to install X11, which is a Unix Window Manager that is totally compatible with Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4. Installing on a machine running OS 10.4 requires that you use the installer that came on the system discs. To use the system discs, you go to Install Bundled Software Only, find X Code Tools, and install X11.user.dmg. Don't install X11 SDK.pkg. After you have completed this step, download OpenOffice. On my Mac connected to the university network, the download of 140 MB took about 15 minutes. (Incidentally, both the website and the software are called openoffice.org.) I believe that installing X11 on a Mac running OS 10.3 can be done without the system discs. Once you launch OpenOffice on a Mac, Writer will be opened. From there, you can move to the other program modules by using the New button, which is located on the top left of the tool bar underneath the File and Edit menus. …