Information Technology Revolution Research Articles

The Role of Digital Libraries as Information Resources for Scholars: A Descriptive Analysis

Information is actually viewed as the fulcrum for prosperity and strength and extremely important for social and economic development of the society. The revolution in Information and Communication Technology has bridged knowledge gap by offering free flow of information. The PG Students generally gather information from internet and furthermore from the reference books, since they need to plan cases, Projects, assignments and so on. Undoubtedly, they generally utilized the books, reference books, contextual analyses, to gather information and sometimes they gathered information from online database. Due to Around the world Web, access to the web is now a part of the everyday living of ours. An enormous number of user’s rummage around the snare each day. More and more folks have to seek out indexed collection.

Employee Relations in India: Current Context and Emerging Paradigm

Employee relations in India has been changing with the changing context. The industry has come a long way since independence. The paradigm has changed at an even faster pace over the last decade due to fundamental shifts in technology and socio-economic factors. The onslaught of COVID also brought in tectonic shifts in this field. Rise in the proportion of middle-class, democratisation of information technology, automation and industrial revolution 2.0, focus on ESG, steps towards improving the ease of doing business are other important changes driving the paradigm shifts in employee relations. The industry is now moving from restrictive industrial relations (IR) practices to more collaborative and progressive practices that look at workers and unions as partners rather than adversaries. The article discusses a case in point, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, where progressive IR practices have shown demonstrable results in the changing context.

A coupled awareness-epidemic model on a multi-layer time-varying network.

Social interactions have become more complicated and changeable under the influence of information technology revolution. We, thereby, propose a multi-layer activity-driven network with attractiveness considering the heterogeneity of activated individual edge numbers, which aims to explore the role of heterogeneous behaviors in the time-varying network. Specifically, three types of individual behaviors are introduced: (i) self-quarantine of infected individuals, (ii) safe social distancing between infected and susceptible individuals, and (iii) information spreading of aware individuals. Epidemic threshold is theoretically derived in terms of the microscopic Markov chain approach and the mean-field approach. The results demonstrate that performing self-quarantine and maintaining safe social distance can effectively raise the epidemic threshold and suppress the spread of diseases. Interestingly, individuals' activity and individuals' attractiveness have an equivalent effect on epidemic threshold under the same condition. In addition, a similar result can be obtained regardless of the activated individual edge numbers. The epidemic outbreak earlier in a situation of the stronger heterogeneity of activated individual edge numbers.

Public Communication in The Era of The Communication and Information Technology Revolution

Pemerintah Provinsi Riau melalui Diskominfotik Provinsi Riau beradaptasi menggunakan teknologi untuk kepentingan komunikasi publik. Tujuannya untuk mengetahui gambaran komunikasi publik yang dilakukan Diskominfotik Provinsi Riau di era revolusi teknologi komunikasi dan informasi. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif, Teknik pengumpulan data yakni observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data menggunakan Miles dan Huberman serta Teknik Pemeriksaan keabsahan data menggunakan Triangulasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Komunikasi publik yang dilakukan Diskominfotik Provinsi Riau melalui sejumlah tahapan. Tahapan pertama yakni mengumpulkan data dari berbagai sumber dengan membentuk kemitraan dengan sejumlah Operasi Perangkat Daerah (OPD), membentuk komunitas informasi masyarakat, bermitra dengan humas-humas vertikal dan ikut berperan aktif dalam organisasi Perhumas Riau. Selanjutnya tahap analisis data dan menyajikannya dalam sebuah konten yang nantinya disebarluaskan kepada masyarakat. Setelah konten tersebut siap, kemudian didistribusikan ke seluruh kanal media Pemerintah Provinsi Riau diantaranya Website mediacenter.riau.go.id, media sosial diantaranya Instagram, Facebook, Twitter dan Youtube, tidak lupa juga disiarkan di radio online

Digital Divide in Pakistan: Barriers to ICT Usage among the Individuals of Pakistan

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) revolution has radically improved connectivity across the globe and pervaded into most aspects of modern human life. The fourth industrial revolution is currently taking place, and it will be digital. Pakistan has made significant progress in the last few years in IT, but currently, Pakistan is ranked 135 out of 144 in access to the internet. This low level of ICT usage depends on the multiple factors affecting the individual's decision to ICT usage. For this purpose, this study surveys the correlates of ICT use capabilities in Pakistan. ICT usage is composite of specified digital skills. The data sourced from PSLM – HIES survey (2018-2019) was used for empirical analysis. The empirical evidence is based on the Logit model. The marginal effects of the Logit model suggest that socioeconomic, demographic, regional, and supply-side factors well explain the variation in the ICT usage capabilities of the individuals. Moreover, the leading determinants of the digital divide are ICT infrastructure and access to focal technology. We found a sizeable digital divide among the individuals of Pakistan. This study is an implication of target 9c of the ninth goal of sustainable development goals related to increasing access to ICT and striving to provide universal and affordable access to the internet in least-developed countries. The study's findings help the researcher highlight the factors hindering the ICT use capabilities of individuals and bridging Pakistan's digital divide diffusion.

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF XBRL ADOPTION IN NIGERIA

The information technology revolution has profound implications on financial reporting, financial information preparers and users. Today, speed, quality, accuracy and transparency are components for timely and useful corporate reports. This study explores the concepts, potential benefits and challenges of implementing eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in Nigeria. The study uses both primary data and secondary data sources towards achieving its stated objectives. It reviews, existing literature in the context of developing countries, to analyze the prospects of XBRL adoption in Nigeria. Whereas interviews were conducted with stakeholders relevant to the process of XBRL adoption in Nigeria. Also, the study reports XBRL adoption effort in Nigeria. Findings indicate that there is a lack of awareness about XBRL among key stakeholders, including professional accountants. It was also found that there are inter-stakeholders’ rivalry which hampered the formation of XBRL Provisional Nigerian Jurisdiction thus the drive for the implementation of XBRL requires greater cooperation and collaboration of the major stakeholders, including government regulators, professional accountancy organizations, public entities, technology experts, educators, investors and other users of financial reports. The study concludes that XBRL could benefit stakeholders across the supply chain in corporate reporting, and there were options to address the challenges. It recommends that the authorities should consider persuasion for voluntary regulatory compliance with XBRL reporting system by large entities rather than mandatory compliance. The initiative for the establishment of XBRL Nigeria Provisional Jurisdiction should be accelerated and sustained towards fast XBRL adoption in Nigeria.

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF XBRL ADOPTION IN NIGERIA

The information technology revolution has profound implications on financial reporting, financial information preparers and users. Today, speed, quality, accuracy and transparency are components for timely and useful corporate reports. This study explores the concepts, potential benefits and challenges of implementing eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in Nigeria. The study uses both primary data and secondary data sources towards achieving its stated objectives. It reviews, existing literature in the context of developing countries, to analyze the prospects of XBRL adoption in Nigeria. Whereas interviews were conducted with stakeholders relevant to the process of XBRL adoption in Nigeria. Also, the study reports XBRL adoption effort in Nigeria. Findings indicate that there is a lack of awareness about XBRL among key stakeholders, including professional accountants. It was also found that there are inter-stakeholders’ rivalry which hampered the formation of XBRL Provisional Nigerian Jurisdiction thus the drive for the implementation of XBRL requires greater cooperation and collaboration of the major stakeholders, including government regulators, professional accountancy organizations, public entities, technology experts, educators, investors and other users of financial reports. The study concludes that XBRL could benefit stakeholders across the supply chain in corporate reporting, and there were options to address the challenges. It recommends that the authorities should consider persuasion for voluntary regulatory compliance with XBRL reporting system by large entities rather than mandatory compliance. The initiative for the establishment of XBRL Nigeria Provisional Jurisdiction should be accelerated and sustained towards fast XBRL adoption in Nigeria.

Hashed Access Policy-Based Secure Data Transmission Using SDHAK-ECC

Cloud computing (CC), which provides numerous benefits to customers, is a new revolution in information technology. The benefits are on-demand, support, scalability, along with reduced cost usage of computing resources. However, with the prevailing techniques, the system’s authentication is still challenging and it leads to being vulnerable. Thus, utilizing Barrel Shift-centric Whirlpool Hashing-Secure Diffie Hellman ASCII Key-Elliptic Curve Cryptography (BSWH-SDHAK-ECC), the hashed access policy (AP)-grounded secure data transmission is presented in this paper. The data owner (DO) registers their information initially. The user login and verify their profile grounded on the registration. The user selects the data to upload to the Cloud Server (CS) after successful verification. The AP is created; after that, the image attributes are extracted; also, utilizing the BSWH approach, a hash code is produced for the AP. Concurrently, by utilizing the Adaptive Binary Shift-based Huffman Encoding (ABSHE) technique, the selected image is compressed. Also, by utilizing the SDHAK-ECC algorithm, the compressed image is encrypted. Lastly, to the CS, the created AP along with the encrypted image is uploaded. The data user sent the request to access and downloads the data. After that, the AP was provided to the user by the data owner. Next, the user sends it to the CS, which checks its AP with the user’s AP. When the AP is matched with the cloud AP, the encrypted data is downloaded and decrypted. Finally, the experimental outcomes revealed that the proposed model achieved a higher security value of 0.9970 that shows the proposed framework’s efficient performance in contrast to the prevailing techniques.

A REVIEW STUDY OF ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND ERGONOMICS

The Information Technology revolution has led to computers predominating almost every aspect of our lives from programming videocassette recorders and microwave ovens, to withdrawing cash from automatic teller machines, to purchasing rail tickets, and to performing most aspects of our work. The role of engineering psychology is distinct from both psychology and engineering in that it arises from the intersection of the two domains. Engineering psychology is distinguished from ergonomics in that "the aim of engineering psychology is not simply to compare two possible designs for a piece of equipment but to specify the capacities and limitations of the human from which the choice for a better design should be directly deductible". In the present study, a comprehensive introduction and literature review of engineering psychology have been presented. The study was considered from different viewpoints which includes general introduction to engineering psychology; a comprehensive literature review that deliberates the present subject from the consideration of the need for a psychology of engineering, differentiation between engineering psychology, ergonomics, and importance of engineering psychologists.

Security of Information Systems and Infrastructure Against Emerging Cyber Threats

Abstract: The information technology revolution that has been occurring over the last three decades has subtly altered how commercial and government activities are conducted worldwide. We have seen the incredible development of the commercial Internet over the past twenty years, which laid the seed for a worldwide, linked digital network that has enabled everything from online banking and commerce to telemedicine and social networks accessible and commonplace. Without taking into account cyber newline security, modern nations all over the world have moved the control of crucial activities in industry, utilities, banking, transportation, and newline communication to networked computers. As a result, there was tremendous output with little expenditures. The move to networked systems is still on the rise. Today, information technology and the newline information infrastructure are absolutely necessary for both our economic and our security. Cyberspace, industrial control systems, and newline information technology are required for the security and efficient operation of India's critical infrastructure, which includes the nation's energy, banking and finance, transportation, communication, and newline base for the defence industry. These systems are susceptible to disruption or exploitation. Organized cyberattacks on our infrastructure may be launched from a newline distance thanks to the cyber newline space. This study was conducted to examine the current situation of developing cyberthreats and ensuing cyberattacks, as well as the efforts taken by different organisations to reduce risk and safeguard their newline information systems and information infrastructure.

Factors Affecting the Acceptance of E-commerce in Hospitals: A Narrative Review

Context: The global use of the Internet has expanded e-commerce as a tangible representation of the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution in all industries. Like other sectors, e-commerce is essential in the healthcare sector for meeting patients’ increasing demands and providing high-quality and cost-effective healthcare services at clinics, hospitals, and other healthcare centers. Objectives: We investigated the factors affecting the acceptance of e-commerce in healthcare centers and hospitals. Evidence Acquisition: In this narrative review, articles indexed in PubMed, Emerald, Scopus, ProQuest, and Google Scholar and published from 2010 to 2021 were searched using the “e-commerce”, “healthcare”, and “hospital” keywords. Inclusion criteria encompassed being conducted in the field of e-commerce in medical and health centers in Iran and the world and published from 2010 to the end of December 2021. Studies in which the role of e-commerce was inconspicuous, those that were irrelevant to healthcare centers, studies failing to note effective research parameters in abstracts, and finally, scientific sources lacking full text were excluded. Finally, ten relevant papers were chosen and analyzed. Results: Based on our findings, today's technologies, such as e-commerce, have influenced the quality of healthcare and investments in the healthcare industry. Besides, high-ranking managers of healthcare centers and hospitals should support the establishment and deployment of e-commerce by providing appropriate facilities to implement such systems, e.g., adequate hardware and software needed to install and efficiently run the system. Conclusions: In this way, the positive effects of e-commerce were shown in all aspects of healthcare centers, including improvements in healthcare services’ quality, enhanced financial performance, and facilitated service provision. It is suggested that health centers provide adequate hardware and software to easily install and run the E-commerce system and other e-health programs so that medical personnel can more easily accept these technologies.

SOCIALIZATION IS A CONDITION FOR THE EMERGING INNOVATIVE MACROECONOMIC STYLE OF DEVELOPMENT

Socialization is a special condition for an innovative macroeconomic style of development in the coordinates of the information technology revolution. It is inextricably linked with a radical change in the position of the aggregate worker in the modern economy. A set of new principles, conditions and factors is the generator of an innovative macroeconomic style of development. The achievements of the information technology revolution and the system for stimulating the diffusion of its results determine development trends. Under their influence, the main strategic principles and patterns of socialization of the modern economy are determined.

Intelligent Manufacturing and Carbon Emissions Reduction: Evidence from the Use of Industrial Robots in China.

Driven by the information technology revolution, using artificial intelligence to promote intelligent manufacturing while achieving carbon emissions reduction is increasingly the focus of international attention. Given this, based on the fact that China's industrial manufacturing is more intelligent, this paper uses industrial sector data and robot data from 2000 to 2017 to examine the impact of intelligent manufacturing on industrial carbon dioxide emissions and to discuss its internal mechanism. The research found that intelligent manufacturing significantly inhibits carbon dioxide emissions in the industrial sectors. The emission reduction effect is more obvious in industries with higher carbon emissions and intelligence. The mechanism test shows that intelligent manufacturing mainly achieves industrial emission reduction by reducing fossil energy consumption in the production process and improving energy use efficiency. The research findings of this paper provide favorable evidence for using new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to achieve carbon emissions reduction, and validate the importance of intelligent manufacturing in tackling climate change in the future. It provides an essential reference for developing countries to use artificial intelligence for their carbon emissions reduction goals.

Uses and purpose of the information and communication technology and its impact on women library professionals in Bhopal

In addition to creating new possibilities for social and economic development, the information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has also created issues and hurdles. It has an impact on all facets of society and can shape and improve a wide range of developmental applications in the social, industrial, and agricultural sectors. ICT offers special chances for human development. ICT has been expanding inequities between and between countries, regions, gender, rich-poor, elite disregarded, and also within the many categories of women in various fields of endeavour. At the same time, ICT has been enlarging these gaps. Building up women's capacities is important so that they can participate in productive endeavours, institutional development, family and societal change, decision-making, political representation, trade and commerce, entrepreneurial growth, and social leadership. In order for women to own, manage, and control businesses in all sectors of the economy, including IT- based ones, there is a need to expand their prospects.

Education TV's website that guides today's student community

Language was needed to communicate with one another when human society emerged on earth. In ancient times, language was understood through gestures and sounds. Human society brought language into written form to continue civilizing. That script was also transformed into hieroglyphics, syllables, scripts, etc., and changed to the scriptwriting system we use today. We needed a medium to communicate with distant people. In the early days, it was also communicated by writing. It wrote on barks, clay tablets, pottery tiles, animal skins, and clothes. As the knowledge of human society expanded, so did his discoveries. After the discovery of paper, mankind wrote everything on paper as the medium of letters. Human society communicated through it. As the time of writing on paper gradually became obsolete, writing on a computer became new with the development of technology. There was only a letter to contact those far away that day. The telegraph came because of the technological revolution. The phone arrived. The radio came on. Television also came. As a result of the information technology revolution, the internet, a medium that surpassed all this, came into being. The website swallowed up everything that had previously been used for communication separately. Do you want to send a letter to someone? Want to talk to someone in some corner of the world? Want to listen to the radio? Even if there is no television at all, do you want to know what's happening in other countries? The website has been transformed into a time mirror that shows everything. Various literature is being created in Tamil on such a website. Originally created for the communication of various types of information, the website today has a deep footprint on all platforms. It is also doing the work of educating the students. No one learns anything at birth and comes back. Everyone learns language, mathematics, science, society, etc. during their student days. Today, websites have created a situation where even going to school can be done from home. In this context, the Tamil Nadu Government's Education TV, which broadcasts educational programmes for students, also has a website. This article aims to examine whether the website has similar functionalities for today's student community.

Investigating the Role of Electronic Human Resource Management Practices on Commercial Banks Performance

In the advent of the Information Technology (IT) revolution, many organizational departments have gone through functionality changes to increase their efficiency and performance. This study aimed to investigate the impact of the functions of electronic human resource management (E-HRM) within an organization on its banking performance. In reference to previous studies, the researcher developed the research model to investigate how the application of E-HRM impacts banking performance in terms of Information technology, E-recruitment and selection, E-training, E-motivation and E-communication. The study's population comprises of management level personnel in Pakistan's banking industry. For the purpose of sampling, the researcher selected all commercial banks operating in Lahore to fill out the questionnaire since seventeen commercial banks exist in Pakistan. The findings of the results indicate that Information Technology, recruitment and selection, Training and Motivation has significant effect on banks profitability and Communication has insignificant effect on Bank performance. This study makes significant contributions. The study proved that successful use of e-HRM solutions enhances the profitability of the banking sector in Pakistan.

مراجعة طرق إخفاء البيانات العكسية في الصورة المشفرة

In the past few years, the world had witnessed a revolution in multimedia and Information Technology (IT) development and utilization. This results from the increase of the internet-based-communications including the transfer of the digital data in text files, audio, video, and/or image formats. Which is why, multimedia and IT became one of the crucial parts of people’s daily lives. There are numerous threats that target Image integrity, confidentiality, and authentication, therefore, the information security is a very important concept. The Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) is a data hiding method. RDH-Encrypted Image (RDH-EI) procedure which is working through embedding additional data to an image had emerged. Lately, the RDH-EI with the wide range is used, which is why, it has attracted the interest and focus of the employers as well as the academics. Thus, a survey that discusses previous researches will be carried out for the purpose of identifying the most significant (RDH-EI) approaches throughout the past five years. Several methods of RDH-EI with the different embedding rate, when its value is low (< 0.1 bpp), it is impossible to reconstruct the image without fault. Otherwise in the case where the embedding rate is high (>0.1 bpp), it is possible to obtain an image that is quite similar to the original image but it still needed for preprocessing step.

Big Data Issues, Challenges and Techniques: A Survey

The data is growing daily due to the revolution in Information Technology, and the data size is much bigger than traditional data. Big data is the combination of data sets which is huge and diverse. Big data has multifaceted characteristics like Volume, Variety, Veracity, Velocity and Value (5Vs). Due to these characteristics and versatility, many issues and challenges occur in data retrieving and manipulation. The data management and processing issues are also facing data analysts and researchers. The existing traditional tools and algorithms are not capable of resolving these issues. In this survey paper, we will provide the current issues and challenges in the field of big data and discuss in detail the big data tools (Hadoop, Apache Spark) to use in different applications to serve the end users.

Evaluation of Web-Based Information on Spine Tuberculosis.

Objective: To evaluate and assess the information about spine tuberculosis available on the internet to the general public for its quality, adequacy, and authenticity.Introduction: Tuberculosis is a bacteriological disease that has been associated with humankind since early human civilization. Spinal tuberculosis is an affection of the spine by the tubercle bacilli and can cause major complications, such as neurological dysfunction and spine deformities. Since the revolution in information technology, information about the disease is widely available on the internet.Material and methods: A total of 68 websites were selected on Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines for the information available about the disease. Scientific journals, books, and any other research materials were excluded from this study. The information was documented and evaluated for its validity, sufficiency, and authorship.Results: The public education websites (PEdWebs: Those websites which did not have direct involvement in patient care) were the major source of the information with 58.82% (40) of it coming from them. In all, there were 69% (47) physicians and 30.9% (21) non-physicians. Among the physicians, 89.4% reviewed the information through commercial websites. “Inadequate” information about spine tuberculosis was provided by 11.8% (8), “Moderate information” by 51.5% (35), and “Sufficient information” by 36.8 % (25) of the websites. Among the websites, 13.2% (9) did not mention any specific presentation of the disease. Sufficient information on that aspect was provided by only 45.58% (31) of the websites. Only 39% emphasized the importance of early diagnosis and subsequent disease management. The majority, i.e., 79.4% (54), did not mention the preventive measures.Conclusion: The internet has a lot of information regarding spine tuberculosis. The majority of this information comes from physicians. However, not every website has complete and essential information regarding the disease.

Research on the Application of Big Data in the Informatization of University Education

With the continuous development of information technology revolution, cloud computing, Internet of things, Internet and other information technologies appear. They have infiltrated every corner of society. As a result, the numbers are exploding. It is difficult to estimate the value and information of these data. Education has become an important front in social life in the era of big data. This paper mainly analyzes the data characteristics and data sources. In the era of big data, the application of big data in the informatization of college education is discussed.