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The Architecture of Interactive Multimedia Courseware: A Conceptual and an Empirical-Based Design Process: Phase One

This research was aimed at designing an effective interactive multimedia courseware to be utilized in Malaysian classrooms. A courseware for interactive instructional design for learning Arabic (Bahasa Arab Interaktif Kurikulum (BAIK) was developed, incorporating Mayer’s Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning (Mayer, 2001), Gagne’s Nine Steps of Instructional Events (Gagne, 1985), Keller’s ARCS Model of Motivational Design (Keller, 1988), and ASSURE Model of instructional Design intervention (ASSURE, 1999). The process of developing the software was divided into two phases, namely the conceptual phase and the engineering phase. This paper discusses the first phase namely; the conceptual and theoretical approaches. These approaches are divided further into four parts, such as, the conceptual approach, the model approach, and the design and development process. Furthermore, as this research utilized real life applications of these models and theories of instructional design, the instructional design thus created could act as a prototype for future instructional design developers. Phase two of this research will discuss the empirical aspects of the finished product in an actual institution setting.
Analysis of the European Market for Organic Food

"Analysis of the European market for organic food" is the first volume to be published by the OMIaRD project. In providing the most comprehensive and up to date information and analysis of European organic food markets, it offers important information in its own right but also contributes a foundation for further study. It covers all important aspects of the organic market, including production, consumption, foreign trade, supply deficits, prices and premiums. Nineteen countries have been separately investigated, and comparison and overview allow important policy and marketing conclusions to emerge.
Context-Aware Community Construction in Proximity-Based Mobile Networks

Sensor-equipped mobile devices have allowed users to participate in various social networking services. We focus on proximitybased mobile social networking environments where users can share information obtained from different places via their mobile devices when they are in proximity. Since people are more likely to share information if they can benefit from the sharing or if they think the information is of interest to others, theremight exist community structures where users who share informationmore often are grouped together. Communities in proximity-basedmobile networks represent social groups where connections are built when people are in proximity.We consider information influence (i.e., specify who shares information with whom) as the connection and the space and time related to the shared information as the contexts. Tomodel the potential information influences, we construct an influence graph by integrating the space and time contexts into the proximity-based contacts of mobile users. Further, we propose a two-phase strategy to detect and track context-aware communities based on the influence graph and show how the context-aware community structure improves the performance of two types of mobile social applications.
Perceptual Optimization of Room-In-Room Reproduction with Spatially Distributed Loudspeakers

It is often desirable to reproduce a specific room-acoustic scene, e.g. a concert hall in a playback room, in such a way that the listener has a plausible and authentic spatial impression of the original sound source including the room acoustical properties. In this study a perceptually motivated approach for spatial audio reproduction is developed. This approach optimizes the spatial and monaural cues of the direct and reverberant sound separately. More specifically, the (monaural) spectral cues responsible for the timbre and the (binaural) interaural cross correlation (IACC) cues, responsible for the listener envelopment, were optimized in the playback room to restore the auditory impression of the recording room. The direct sound recorded close to the source is processed with an auditory motivated gammatone filterbank such that the spectral cues, ITD’s and ILD’s are comparable to the direct sound in the recording room. Additionally, the reverberant sound, which was recorded at two distant locations from the source, is played back via dipole loudspeakers. Due to the arrangement of the two dipole loudspeakers, only the diffuse sound field in the playback room is excited, therefore the spectral cues and the IACC of the reverberant sound field can be controlled independently to match the cues that were present in the recording room. As indicated by a preliminary listening test the applied optimization is perceptually similar to the reference signal and is generally preferred when compared to a conventional room-in-room reproduction.
Prevalence of Hypertension in Hail Region, KSA: in a Comprehensive Survey

Hypertension is a global pandemic; thus, the purpose of this study was to estimate the current prevalence of hypertension in Hail Region, KSA. The study used a cross-sectional survey of Saudi civilian, included 5000 individuals selected from 30 primary health care centers (PHCs) in Hail Region. The results shows that the overall prevalence of hypertension in Hail was 30.2%. The prevalence of male was 30.8% and female was 29.6% (P <0.0001). The risk of hypertension increases with the increase of age, as well as, with increasing of body mass index (BMI) and this was found to be statistically significant p < 0.0001. The results designate that Hypertension is a chief health problem in Hail Region that necessitate urgent intervention control measures. Improved community-based awareness and prevention efforts are strongly needed to address the modifiable factors.
A power mean inequality for the Grötzsch ring function

The Grotzsch ring function has numerous applications in geometric function theory and its properties have been investigated by many authors. Here we extend an earlier functional inequality involving the Grotzsch ring function and the geometric mean, due to Anderson, Vamanamurthy and Vuorinen, to the case of power mean. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 30C62, 33E05.
Small business mentoring in an international context: A preliminary study

This paper presents the findings of a preliminary study of owner/managers of small family owned businesses in rural and regional areas of Australia. The lack of communication in relation to opportunities to participate in developmental programs offered by Commonwealth Government bodies and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to small business in rural and regional areas was found to be minimal. Recommendations were made that a regional mentoring program be established to facilitate access to the global market place by small business. ; ;
Comprehensive Study on Software Defined Network for Energy Conservation

: SDN is another NW topology that gives more encourage to the overseer for dealing with the entire NW (administrations and resources) by decoupling the control plane from the information arrange and concentrate the control coherently . in this papers we presented. A comprehensive view of the SDN begins with definition then primary standards of SDN. Next, we illuminated the fundamental segments of the SDN architecture and how these segments communicate with each either. Next, we introduced ideas about the energy conservation in SDN environment and we discussed the virtualization and its significance from the perspective of the SDN.
Empirical Support for Concept Drifting Approaches: Results Based on New Performance Metrics

Various types of online learning algorithms have been developed so far to handle concept drift in data streams. We perform more detailed evaluation of these algorithms through new performance metrics - prequential accuracy, kappa statistic, CPU evaluation time, model cost, and memory usage. Experimental evaluation using various artificial and real-world datasets prove that the various concept drifting algorithms provide highly accurate results in classifying new data instances even in a resource constrained environment, irrespective of size of dataset, type of drift or presence of noise in the dataset. We also present empirically the impact of various features- size of ensemble, period value, threshold value, multiplicative factor and the presence of noise on all the key performance metrics.
HYPOGLYCAEMIC EFFECT OF SAPONIN FROM THE ROOT OF GARCINIA KOLA (BITTER KOLA) ON ALLOXAN-INDUCED DIABETIC RATS

Garcinia kola Heckel is a species of flowering plant in the Guttiferae family. The plant has been reffered to as a ‘wonder plant’ because every part of it has been found to be of medicinal importance. In this present study, saponin extract from the root of Garcinia kola was evaluated for antidiabetic activity in Wistar albino rats. Diabetes was induced in rats by single intraperitonial injection of alloxan(150mg/kg body weight). Three days after alloxan induction, the hyperglycemic rats were treated with metformin, a standard antidiabetic drug and saponin from the root of Garcinia kola orally at the dose of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg body weight daily for 7 days. The fasting blood glucose levels were measured on the 3 rd and 7 th day during the 7 days treatment. Serum biochemical parameters such as Alanine Transaminase (ALT), Aspartate Transaminase (AST), Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP), and total protein were estimated. The saponin extract at the dose of 100mg/kg produced the maximum reduction of 35.98% in blood glucose after the 3 rd day treatment as compared to the 31.26% observed for metformin. 200mg/kg dose of saponin produced a maximum reduction of about 72.67% after the 7 th day treatment as compared to 35.84% observed for metformin. The present study infers that saponin extract from the root of Garcinia kola demonstrated remarkable antidiabetic activity even more than a standard antidiabetic drug in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Consequently, this plant may be of value in diabetes treatment.
Diel and seasonal patterns in acoustic presence and foraging behaviour of free-ranging harbour porpoises

A temporal and geographical analysis of echolocation activity can give insights into the behaviour of free-ranging harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena. Seasonal and diel patterns in the presence and foraging activity of harbour porpoises were investigated based on a year-long passive acoustic monitoring data set recorded at 5 sites in the western Baltic Sea. Diel patterns in detection rates were found at 4 sites. A year-round rhythm in presence, however, was found at only 1 station, whereas the other 3 stations showed diel rhythms for 2 to 3 seasons. Three of the sites showed diel patterns in foraging sequences on a seasonal level, but no station showed such patterns for the complete year of investigation. Both diurnal and nocturnal patterns in harbour porpoise detections were observed, indicating that diel rhythmic behaviour is more complex than previously reported. In contrast, foraging behaviour showed only nocturnal rhythms. Owing to the limitations in passive acoustic monitoring, all categorized foraging sequences are a minimum esti- mate. Therefore, classified foraging sequences are most likely pelagic foraging, while bottom grubbing could have been missed. Differences in the occurrence of foraging sequences between station, season and time of day lead to the assumption that the long-term echolocation diel pat- terns of porpoises strongly depend on the temporal changes in food availability and composition within a certain habitat. Echolocation behaviour of foraging porpoises is strongly influenced by seasonally available prey resources, which require adaptive foraging strategies. Therefore, owing to seasonal variations, analyses of diel patterns need to be conducted over sufficiently long time periods and large geographic scales to allow generalized interpretation of the findings. Conse- quently, no general conclusion regarding diel rhythms in harbour porpoise echolocation was found. We hypothesize that porpoises in the study area alternate between foraging on benthic prey in shallow waters at daytime and in the pelagic in deeper waters at night.
Signi cance of the Knowledge Production Function for Industrial Clustering

The nature of the knowledge production function as a factor differs from the conventional factors like labour, capital and land. Whilst the economic value of the conventional factors is relatively certain, the nature of knowledge is amorphous and its potential value is asymmetric compared to the rest of the economic factors. The most important, although not the only source of new knowledge, is considered the R&D. Other key factors for creating new knowledge are: high level of quali ed human resources; labour force experience and concentration of scientists and engineers in the structure of the corporate formations.
Heat transfer for film condensation of vapour

Study provides an analysis of the heat transfer for constant heat flux densities across the film. A situation of this type is observed with film condensation. The analysis of film condensation includes the distribution of mean heat transfer coefficient and of heat flux density along the height of condensation surface. It has been determined that the mean heat transfer coefficient does not depend on the nature of condensation temperature variation. Semi empirical relationships evaluating the temperature gradient are suggested. http://dx.doi. org/10.5755/j01.mech. 17.2. 329
INVESTIGATION OF ABILITY LIBERATION OF METALS FROM PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS BY MECHANICAL PROCESSES FOR PHYSICAL SEPARATION PROCESSES

Physical separation process was widely applied for the separation of metallic component from Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) due to their advantages as friendly-environment, facilitated control, and low-cost. However, the efficiency of physical separation depends on a level of the liberation between the metallic and non-metallic components which is conducted by mechanical processing. In this study, the liberation of metals from computer PCBs was conducted in detail by mechanical processes including cutting and crushing. The obtained results demonstrate the distribution metallic and non-metallic component weighs as a function of particle sizes. The separation efficiency of metals was conducted by air separation using vacuum sorter equipment. The results showed that the comminution processes using hammer mill for reach the highest efficiency with 92 % recovery and 87 % grade of metallic components in the heavy fraction with particle size 1.0 1.4 mm by air separation process.
IJSRD || National Conference on Technological Advancement and Automatization in Engineering || January 2016 ISSN:2321-0613

Due to increase in innovations in communication and mobile technology new wireless devices, applications and services have evolved. The mobile data traffic is doubling every year which leads to demand for huge spectrum. The scarcity, expensiveness and fixed spectrum allocation policy will lead to the deficit in years ahead. The license holders of the spectrum are not utilizing it fully and efficiently, so there are times when spectrum is not being used and this is an opportunity wherein other users can use it to meet growing demands. This is called Cognitive Radio (CR). The information about availability of radio spectrum is the key parameter of functioning of cognitive radio. This paper describes the spaces in radio spectrum, fundamentals of cognitive radio technology and cognitive radio cycle. We compare the performance of energy and cyclostationary based detection method under AWGN and Rayleigh fading channel condition.
Rescaling Power Relations between Trade Unions and Corporate Management in a Globalising Pharmaceutical Industry: The Case of the Acquisition of Boehringer Mannheim by Hoffman—La Roche

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are reorganising their production systems. Many MNCs are integrating their production on a continental scale and allocating specific responsibilities and tasks to their research centres on a global scale. Empirical research on the pharmaceutical industry suggests that the spatial reorganisation of the production system can be understood as a process of reterritorialisation and deterritorialisation on different scales. In this paper I outline how MNCs in the pharmaceutical industry are responding to the challenges of the changing economic environment. The ongoing restructuring and rationalisation in the Swiss pharmaceutical giant F Hoffmann–La Roche serves as an example. The recent acquisition of the German pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company Boehringer Mannheim by F Hoffmann – La Roche illustrates how such huge business transactions meet with trade unions which are completely unprepared. I also discuss the responses of trade unions in different affected locations to the ongoing spatial industrial reconfiguration. Whereas the executive committees of MNCs think, develop their strategies, and act on a global scale trade unions, social movements, and local governments are, in contrast, locally and nationally anchored. They have not been able to break out of the cage of localism and the national state with their concepts and activities. This structural inequality is one of the reasons for the loss of importance and credibility of trade unions. Therefore, labour must adopt a new approach to the spatial and social scales of its political practice.
Product innovation and market acquisition of firms

The paper explores the incentives for an incumbent firm to acquire an entrant willing to sell a product innovation, rather than openly compete with this entrant and, in case of acquisition, the incentives to sell simultaneously both the existing products and the new one, rather than specializing on a single variant. We prove that, in some circumstances, an incumbent firm can find it profitable to make an acquisition proposal to the entrant in order to deter entry. Nevertheless, in this acquisition scenario, a product proliferation strategy is never observed at equilibrium. Rather, the incumbent restricts itself to offer either its own variant or the product innovation produced by the entrant, depending on the quality differential existing between them. It follows that, while being available for sale, sometimes the innovation simply remains unexploited
Respuesta de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Perú a la aplicación de diferentes dosis de MicoFert agrícola

Se realizo una investigacion en la Empresa Pecuaria El Tablon (Cumanayagua, provincia Cienfuegos, Cuba), con el objetivo de evaluar el efecto que ejerce la aplicacion de diferentes dosis de MicoFert agricola sobre la produccion de materia seca (MS) y el contenido de fosforo foliar en Leucaena leucocephala cv. Peru. El diseno fue de bloques al azar, con seis tratamientos y tres replicas. Los tratamientos estuvieron constituidos por cuatro dosis de MicoFert (250, 500, 750 y 1 000 g/m -1 ), una variante a razon de 25 kg de N ha -1 , y el control. El experimento tuvo una duracion de dos anos; se realizaron cuatro cortes por ano, con una frecuencia de 90 dias, a una altura de 25 cm sobre el suelo. La aplicacion de MicoFert agricola incremento el rendimiento de MS entre 13 y 40 %, de forma proporcional a las dosis aplicadas, respecto al control. El rendimiento mas alto de MS (18,44 t ha -1 ) se obtuvo con la aplicacion de nitrogeno, y difirio significativamente del resto de los tratamientos. Fue evidente el efecto que ejercio la inoculacion con el biofertilizante en el contenido de fosforo foliar, el cual mostro diferencias significativas entre las variantes con MicoFert y el control. La colonizacion de raicillas por los hongos micorrizicos arbusculares (HMA) fue proporcional al incremento de las dosis de biofertilizante, con valores de 34, 38, 44 y 49 %, respectivamente. La fertilizacion con nitrogeno y el control presentaron 28 y 26 % de colonizacion micorrizica, lo que indico la presencia de HMA nativos.
Household Food Security Status and Its Determinants in Maphumulo Local Municipality, South Africa

Food security at the household level remains a major issue in South Africa and for many other developing countries, particularly those in Africa. As a means of ensuring food security in KwaZulu-Natal province, various food security intervention programmes were launched. Nonetheless, food security remains an issue among households in the province. This paper estimates the household food security status of the “One Home One Garden” (OHOG) beneficiaries against that of non-beneficiaries and assesses the determinants of household food security status in Maphumulo. A stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 495 households (including 330 OHOG beneficiaries and 165 non-beneficiaries). The status of household food security was estimated by means of a “Household Dietary Diversity Score” (HDDS). Additionally, a Household Food Consumption Score” (HFCS) tool was employed to supplement the HDDS. The results showed that food consumption patterns were characterized by medium (4.89) and average (4.22) HDDS for the OHOG beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, respectively. Taking HDDS as a proxy for household food security, an independent samples t-test (Levene’s test—equal variances assumed) reveals a significant (p < 0.001) relationship between the sample means of the two groups. A greater proportion (65%) of the OHOG beneficiaries had an acceptable (≥35) HFCS level, whereas just over half (54%) of the non-beneficiaries fell in the borderline (21.5 to 35) HFCS level. The determinants of household food security status were elicited by means of a binary logistic regression model. The results revealed that education (p = 0.036), receiving infrastructural support (irrigation) (p = 0.001), and participation in the OHOG programme (p = 0.000) positively influenced the food security status of households, yet household income (p = 0.000) and access to credit (p = 0.002) showed a negative correlation. This paper proposes that government and developmental agencies, in their efforts to enhance food security through food security intervention programmes, should support households by investing in education and agricultural infrastructure, as well as giving priority to smallholder infrastructural irrigation support for households that largely rely on rain-fed systems.