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The Impact of Hofstede’s National Culture on Usage of Emails Among Academician in Malaysian Public Universities
Authors: Shah Bali Mahomed Anuar , G. Mcgrath Michael , Zhi Yuh Bong
Published: July 2018

This research investigates the impact of Hoftstede’s National Culture which mediated by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) on usage of emails among academician in Malaysian public universities. Data was collected by using survey questionnaires among 146 academic staff from two public universities in Malaysia. Path analysis was conducted using SmartPLS 2.0 to assess the usage of emails model. Study found that power distance (PD), uncertainty avoidance (UA) and collectivism (C) have negative impact on perceived ease of use (PEOU) of usage of emails. Study further discovered that PD, and C have negative influence on perceived usefulness (PU) of usage of emails. In addition, study found that masculinity (M) has no noteworthy impact on both PEOU and PU of usage of emails. Moreover, long-term orientation (LT) and Indulgence (I) were found to have noteworthy positive relationship with PEOU and PU on usage of emails. On technology acceptance model (TAM), PEOU and PU were found to have noteworthy positive impact on usage of emails (U) while PEOU has a noteworthy positive impact PU of usage of emails. This paper discusses the implications of these findings for future academic research and practice.
Proposed Ethical Work Behavior Model in Boundaries of Organizational Domain
Authors: Saeed Behjati , Rana Altounjy
Published: July 2018

The organizational code of ethic plays a big role as linkage between the organization’s mission, values and principles with the standards of professional conduct. Due to this, the objective of this research is to identify the ethical work behavior and depict a baseline to predict the organizational code of ethic.Both inductive and deductive method of inquiry was adopted, starting with qualitative grounded theory as antecedent variables were bushed in linguistic form. The developed conceptual model, which was demonstrated by 28 items, measuring 6 constructs which tested the behavioral side of the ethical practices, in quantitative phase. The proposed “Ethical work behavior model” was studied for generalizability by smart-PLS and test for [a] the loadings of studied items on their anticipated latent variables and also test [b] the proposed relationship among a set of dependent and independent constructs. Result of 168 distributed questioners in 30 different academic base organizations, indicates that both situational and individual leverage can explain and predict the ethical work behavior.
Reconstruction of Zakah Governance in Indonesia (Review on the No. 23 Year 2011)
Authors: Budi Santoso Cahyo , Nizarul Alim Mohammad , Riyadi Slamet
Published: July 2018

The issuance of Law Number 23 Year 2011 on the Management of Zakat changed the paradigm of zakat management in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to assess the governance of zakat based on zakat regulation. The content zalcat content analysis approach shows that BAZNAS has two major roles, namely the coordinator and operator. Supervision is an important element in zalcat governance, currently the state plays a role in supervising the aspects of sharia only [this is done by the Ministry of Religious Affairs] while the supervision on financial management has not been done by the Financial Services Authority [OJK]. Supervision over zakat governance by OJK should be a necessity considering the zakat fund managed by amil zakat nationally more than 3 trillion Rupiah.
Effects Rahn, Ijaroh, Customer Satisfaction Through Quality of Service in. PT. Sharia Rural Bank Syarikat Madani
Authors: Wibisono Chablullah , Budi Harto Rahmad
Published: July 2018

Community desire of a product needs the companion for business credit financing, disposal venture capital partners for micro s and macro businesses and banking sector needs to increase every year, so the role of the strategic investment partner is so decisive.  As the products business development, Since 1991 Islamic banking system has served the public with "Syariah" products. To achieve these objectives, the role of the corporate world become extremely important to give influences in society economy, so better services to achieve customer satisfaction in banking area is needed.The data in this research was conducted by spreading some questionnaires and taking the entire sample of 150 respondents of PT. SRB SayrikatMadani, and then the Data were tested by using Path analysis. The test results showed that the variable of Rhan (X1) Customer Satisfaction (Y) through Quality Services (X3) has path coefficient value 0554 t-count = 0223 while t-table 1661 (α = 0.05) and 2367 (α = 0, 01). It showed that the value of t-count <t table, it can be concluded that the path coefficient is not significant. Ijaroh (X2) The customer Satisfaction (Y) through Services Quality (X3) has path coefficient 0.315 t-count = 0.016 while t-table 1661 (α = 0.05) and 2367 (α = 0.01). in this case, t count <t table, it can be concluded that the path coefficient is not significant.
The Link Between Employees’ Organizational Tenure and Citizenship Behaviour: do Different Types of Trust Play Important Role?
Authors: Bee Seok Chua , Adela Mutang Jasmine , Hudani Md. Nawi Nurul , Wider Walton , Cho Chiew Tan
Published: July 2018

This study aims to examine the mediating effects of five different types of employees’ trust on the relationship between employees’ organizational tenure and their organizational citizenship behaviour. Using data obtained from 163 employees from banking organization located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Structural equation modelling was used to assess the relationship between variables. The Employees Trust Scale and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour Scale were used to measure the variable. The relationship between the variables was analysed by using partial least squares structural equation modelling [PLS-SEM]. Results showed that the direct effect of employee organizational tenure showed a positive but not significant effect towards organizational citizenship behaviour. For the direct effect of employee’s trust towards their organizational citizenship behaviour, the sub scale of integrity and relationship influence organizational citizenship behaviour significantly. The sub scale of integrity shows a negative and significant effect towards organization citizenship, whereas the sub scale of relationship affects organizational citizenship behaviour positively. While, the mediation test showed mediation effect did not exist between employee organizational tenure, employee’s trust, and organizational citizenship behaviour. The final part of analysis indicated the model has adequate predictive relevance.
People's Motives Toward Bone Fracture Alternative Treatment in District of Bandung Barat
Authors: Fatma Sjoraida Diah , Novianti Evi , Rizal Edwin , Sri Rezeki Diah
Published: July 2018

The purpose of this study is to determine the community motive towards an alternative treatment of bone fractures in the district of West Bandung. Today, alternative treatment, especially fracture bone treatment is still popular with the societies, whereas technology and science in the medical world are growing very rapidly. The research method used is qualitative with phenomenology approach. The results of the study show some motives that are the reasons for choosing alternative treatment, among others: [1] Economic motives. The cost of alternative treatment of fractures is fairly cheap because it is not emphasized on a certain amount of cost. [2] Social motives. Believe in the neighbor's experience or experience of the public figures who have done the alternative treatment. [3] Psychological motives. Feel safe and not afraid when doing alternative treatments.
Competency Model of Indonesian Construction Laborers in Malaysia
Authors: Ismail Fadillah , Sazrina Saimy Intan , Md. Yusoff Rosman , Yusal Yusoff Anis , Shiau Wei Chan , Kartini Rashid Umi
Published: July 2018

Quality of human resources is a significant factor to improve high productivity performance of an organization or industry. The quality of human resources can be indicated through competence, skills, ability and other specific characteristics of employee to build a teamwork within organization. Competency-Based on training emphasizes what an employee can do more than how much they know. Hence, through a mixed research method using explanatory approach, this study aims to build a model of Indonesian labor competency based on the competence of 300 Indonesian construction laborers in Malaysia. This model emphasizes four criteria of competency which are communication, skills, interpersonal, and attitude. The finding showed that Indonesian labor force is competent in communication, interpersonal, and attitude. However, Indonesian labor force is seen to be incompetent in criterion skills and still needs training to improve their skills to be in line with the industry needs
Reliability index of critical thinking among electrical technology teachers
Authors: Hizwan Mohd Hisham Mohd , Kamin Yusri , Sukri Saud Muhammad
Published: July 2018

This paper aims to determine the reliability index for critical thinking among electrical technology teachers in vocational colleges. Teachers are the backbone of the education system in technical education and the executor of the policies and goals that have been set by the government through the Ministry of Education. Critical thinking is one of the higher order thinking skills that involves both cognitive skills and dispositions. Empirical research suggest that people begin developing critical thinking at a very young age. Teachers are thus urged to provide explicit instruction in critical thinking to teach how to transfer knowledge critically to students. In order to transfer critical thinking, the teacher should be infused with the sub-skills that contribute to the development of critical thinking.
Success Factors in Creating Consumer Trust of Standardized Herbal Medicine in East Java, Indonesia
Authors: Suryadi Nanang , Suryana Yuyus , Komaladewi Rita , Sari Diana
Published: July 2018

The development of Herbal Medicines in various countries of the World has been a discussion of researchers. Indonesia is one of the countries that uses and produces herbal medicine, which is believed to have enormous natural resources to support the development of this plant-based medicine. Consumer Trust becomes an interesting phenomenon to be examined more deeply, because the use of herbal medicine [traditional] is still less by modern medicine [chemical] when consumers buy for their own treatment. Several studies in various contexts show that Perceived Value has an impact on Consumer Trust. Nevertheless whether in the context of herbal medicine consumer perceptions of the value of herbal medicinal products will affect the trust of taking the herbal medicine. This study uses the design of Structural Equational Modeling analysis, and involving 357 respondents. In this article was revealed the influence of dimensions of Perceived Value to Consumer Trust of Herbal Medicines with Emotional Value, Functional Value, and Price Value Significantly Positive effect Consumer Trust, only one dimension has no significant effect that is Social Value.
Mediating Role of Open Innovation Between the Relationship of Blue Ocean Strategy and Innovation Performance, a Study of Malaysian Industry
Authors: Shafiq Muhammad , Tasmin Rosmaini , Takala Josu , Imran Qureshi Muhammad , Rashid Mehwish
Published: July 2018

This paper presents the introduction, literature review and methodology part of a bigger research work. Blue ocean strategy, open innovation strategy and innovation performance are the main constructs of this study. In the start after the introduction of problem of innovation performance and discussion of Malaysian industries specifically, Government linked companies is presented. Then variables of the study are discussed in detail. Then relationship of these variables are discussed, and the mediating variable of innovation strategy is presented. Relationship of these different variables are established from previous literature. In the end, theoretical framework is displayed and hypothesis are created for this study. Methodology and conclusion are also discussed. A self-administered questionnaire for Kim & Mauborgne’s Blue ocean strategy’s five characteristics is developed.  While already established questionnaires are used for other two variables of innovation strategy and innovation performance. Results and discussion section presents the reliability, correlation and regression analysis of the pilot study, performed in Malaysian industry. In the end, possible future work of the study is elaborated.
Prevalence Level and Predictors of Face to Face and Cyberbullying in Selected Service Sectors of Pakistan.
Authors: Iftikhar Mehwish , See Beh Loo
Published: July 2018

There found a scarcity of academic research on understanding of both the traditional and cyberbullying jointly at workplace of organisations. As an emerging field of research area, detailed understanding about the predictors of cyberbullying has yet not been fully established. Drawing on the sample of 285 officials working in 4 service sectors [banking, telecom, hoteling and education] of Pakistan, this research endeavoured to investigate about prevalence rate, extent and frequency of both the traditional and cyberbullying and predictors responsible for causing bullying among workers of service sectors of Pakistan. Using NAQ-21 and NAQ-R on the basis of the layman’s cut-off criteria for measuring bullying and cyberbullying prevalence, results highlighted that 36%, 55%, 50% and 59% of the respondents were categorised as bullied traditionally and 18%, 30%, 27% and 49%  were cyberbullied in education, banking, telecom and hoteling service sectors respectively, and this is unfortunately a very high ratio. Overall bullied [traditionally] percentage was 50 and cyberbullied was 31. Smart PLS-SEM based analysis verified that, multiple dimensions of organisational climate were found to be the predictors of workplace bullying, while technology [social networking and ICT’s] is significantly related to the prevalence of cyberbullying at workplace of service sector organisations. This research provides new insights about new type of bullying i-e cyberbullying and its predictors/causes. Prevalence percentages of workplace traditional and cyberbullying have also been determined that shows bullying spread in service sectors at an alarming rate, which needs to be controlled.
The Mediating Role of Overall Equipment Effectiveness on the Relationship between Fit Manufacturing and Business Performance
Authors: Ibrahim Esmaeel Raghed , Zakuan Norhayati , Mohd Jamal Noriza
Published: July 2018

Advanced manufacturing technology systems have replaced traditional manufacturing systems as manufacturing industry have many technological developments in recent years. Now, the primarily concern is effectiveness of the equipment for the modern manufacturing technology systems. Though, there is a lack of empirical studies confirming this impact on business performance. Recently, manufacturing industries have adapted fit manufacturing strategies in order to enhance the system effectiveness to get competitive advantage. These strategies are mainly, lean, agile and sustainable manufacturing. This paper aims to systematically review the literature on the existing fit manufacturing strategies and their relationship with business performance from year 2009 to 2015, also to find the possible intervening variable that can influence the inconsistency of the relationships between the fit manufacturing strategies and business performance. On the basis of the findings from the systematic literature review, we suggest researchers on the in the field of operations management to investigate the mediating relationship of overall equipment effectiveness between the relationship of the fit manufacturing strategies and business performance.
The Dynamic of Location Attributes Toward Malaysian Real Estate Investment Trust Performance
Authors: Abdul Jalil Rohaya , Sarrazin Mohammad Izran , Chai Ping Tiong
Published: July 2018

The Malaysian real estate investment trusts (M-REITs) properties intensive location contributes toward higher rental yield. Nevertheless, the location diversification depends on the type of properties in the portfolio, puzzled shareholder in their investment decision making in M-REITs. This study aim to determine the dynamic of location attributes toward financial performance. The pearson correlation and descriptive analysis of ten years (2006 until 2015) data is used. This study indicate that there is correlation between attributes of economic location with dividend yield(DY) (cor: 0.241). Yet, the market capitalization, have a negative correlation (cor: -0.246), which contradict with prior study on REITs’ location attributes. This study also show that attributes of location of M-REITs properties should located between 5km to 10km from central business district (CBD).This study conclude that in order to ensure M-REITs properties remain competitive for commercial occupancy. The investment on M-REITs proven that dynamic of location attributes is priority, which support that M-REITs design for a long term investment goal.
Assessing the Effects of Crowding Perception and Gender Among Southeast Asia Pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Alsolami B , R. Embi M , A. Majrashi A , S. Karban A
Published: July 2018

This study gives a better understanding of the effect of crowding on pilgrims at the Hajj. It explores the levels of perceived crowding of Southeastern Asian pilgrims and investigates the effects of gender on their perceived crowding. Questionnaire in both Bahasa Melayu and English languages were administered for data collections from randomly selected pilgrims, (n=128), from the Southeast Asia Hajj group at Mina for three days (10th, 11th and 12th of Dhul-Hijjah). Results revealed that pilgrims witness high levels of crowd perception within their stay at Mina. In addition also, differences between the overall perceived crowding, perceived human crowding and perceived spatial crowding among pilgrims were revealed. Perceived human crowding was found as an indicator to the overall perceived crowding at Mina.  Future research could be carried out to assess the effects of other factors such as education and cultural backgrounds and these findings can help authorities in charge of formulating policies manage crowd levels and perception.
An Analysis on Ibn Khaldun's Methodology in Social Change
Authors: Halim Harliana , Yusoff Kamaruzaman , Basir Aminuddin , Md. Yusoff Rosman , Sarawati Johar Siti , Hisyam Abdul Rahim Mohd , Suraya Aziz Hani , Shakor Borham Abdul
Published: July 2018

In the realms of historical sociology, Ibn Khaldun is a name that strikes absolute familiarity among experts. However, the discussions expressed in historical sociology debates do not specify how Ibn Khaldun's ideas and thoughts were actually focusing on social changes that occur in a society. Hence, the discussion of this article will analyse the approaches and methodologies applied by Ibn Khaldun in analysing the social changes that took place during his lifetime and prior to it, as recorded in Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun. This paper uses a historical descriptive qualitative research approach. Facts were analysed using a text analysis approach in understanding Ibn Khaldun's methodology on social change and Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun, assisted by induction and deduction approaches. As a result, the researcher found that Ibn Khaldun applied a diversity of approaches in discussing social changes which encapsulate humanitarian, historical philosophy, inquiry, logic and metaphysical, critical and critique, realistic, inductive and deductive, comparative, observational and participatory approaches in studying social changes issues. In addition, he also applied a combination of critical approaches and contextual knowledge, as well as thematic and descriptive approaches in writing. This proves how significant the social changes issues were to Ibn Khaldun, thus they needed to be monitored and managed wisely.
Sovereignty of A Nation: A Lesson Learnt From the Case of Batu Puteh Island (Pedra Branca)
Authors: Azman Suhaimy Khairul , Jaes Lutfan , Anuar Kamri Khairol , Othman Hussain , Rul Anuar Nordin Shah , Akmal Damin Zahrul , Halim Harliana , Hisyam Abdul Rahim Mohd , Shakor Borham Abdul , Fuad Othman Mohd , Ismail Marwan , Zain Mubarak Mohd , Ramlan Najah , Suraya Aziz Hani
Published: July 2018

This paper discusses on the issues related to Batu Puteh Island (Pedra Branca) which is a topic of discussion in relation to the sovereignty of a country and its implications in the future. Losing territories will undermine the sovereignty of a country and is an insult to them. The reality is a bitter truth. Sovereignty is a symbol of power to many countries. The corresponding letter by the Acting Secretary of Johore dated 21st September 1953 stated that Johore does not claim ownership of Pedra Branca. The letter was seen by ICJ as a sign that Johore had handed over its sovereignty on Batu Puteh Island over to the British. Therefore, the court concluded that the letter clearly indicates that since 1953, Johore has declared that it no longer had sovereignty over Pedra Branca. Various questions arise regarding the letter. Where is the authority and sovereign of the Sultan of Johore who ruled over Johore and its territories? Can an Acting Secretary of State legitimately decide on matters of sovereignty, land and territorial rights? Or, should it be decided by the Sultan as head of a sovereign state? These are some of the questions which are yet to be answered and documentation is vital. It will determine the future and the road to success. Learn from history, learn from the administrative weaknesses and individual mistakes, and remember that history repeats itself in the future. Our own mistakes cost us an island which was originally ours for centuries. Our absent mindedness led us in losing the island’s sovereignty to other nation. Everyone knows that the island belongs to Johore with all related documents are complete and history has proven it. Always be careful when making any decisions or be sorry for life.
NEWS Analysis Towards Youth Financial Competency Management
Authors: Isa Khairunesa , Rahman Ahmad Abd. , Md. Yusoff Rosman , Ani Fauziah , Isa Fadzlunesa
Published: July 2018

This is a descriptive study of the financial management competency of rural youth. Around 200 youths from areas of Parit Raja, Batu Pahat Johor participated as respondents for this study. Lack of knowledge in managing finances and imbalance in mitigating lifestyles are chief factors which caused youth to be within the highest group declared bancrupt in 2014.  36 items in the survey was ued as intrument for this study which are respondents’ background, spending pattern based on NEWS Analysis, competeny level in financial management and challenges faced in managing finances. Results yielded showed that expenditure pattern for youth in ‘needs’ are significantly higher than those in ‘wants’. Eventhough the ratio is rather small which is 1:30, the level of competency of youth finance is rather high at the value of min 4.04. Nevertheless, the challenges faced by respondents are at an average level (min=3.14). In conclusion, rural youths has high level of literacy. This is due to the exposure obtained when they were young and spending pattern based on NEWS Analysis. Hence, even though youth faced obstacles they are nevertheless aware and know the steps which need to be taken to ensure the stability of their finances.
The Influence of Knowledge, Skills, Attitude and Organization Commitment Using Ethical Climate as A Moderator Towards Ethical Decision Making of Accountants in Malaysia: A Conceptual Paper
Authors: Kanjanapathy Malini , Ramakrishnan Suresh
Published: July 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of Knowledge, Skills, Attitude and Organization Commitment Using Ethical Climate as a moderator towards Ethical Decision Making of Accountants in Malaysia. Empirical research on ethical decision making of Accountants has shown that knowledge, skills and attitude are important factors in improving Accountants decision. However, literature on Accountants Ethical Decision Making in Malaysia has highlighted research gaps in few areas which is the use of Individual and Situational Moderators in measuring the Theorist of Ethical Behavior, The use of Personal Values to Measure Ethical Judgment, The effect of Organization Culture and Ethical Climate on Ethical Decision Making using Self-Efficacy as the Moderator. To fill this sequel of research gaps, this research tends to identify the effects of knowledge, skills and attitude and Organization Commitment using Ethical Climate as a Moderator to measure ethical decision making of Accountants. In doing so, this research use Theory of Planned Behavior. This study focus on the Big Four Accounting Firms in Malaysia. This is because the audit of the Transmille Company by Deloitte auditors has not lived up to the expectations of public. The positivistic research philosophy will be used to empirically test the formulated hypotheses. The study will use quantitative analysis approach and survey strategy to collect data by adapting established measurement tools for each construct in the conceptual model. Questionnaires results will be analyzed using SPSS software.
Emotional Intelligence Dimension on Self-Esteem of Employees Through the Personality Of Leader
Authors: Sarawati Johar Siti , Akbal Abdullah Md. , Md. Yusoff Rosman , Azman Suhaimy Khairul , Isa Khairunesa , Ismail Fadillah
Published: July 2018

This paper concept focuses more on an analytical discussion of employee’s self-esteem from the perspective of emotional intelligence through the personality of leaders in the workplace. This is one of the challenges the application of psychology in the organization currently based on human capital. This discussion encompasses the conceptual of self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and personality, purpose of study, the influence, challenges and outlook. In fact, human capital development should be along the physical and material development of the country that we do not deny the growing momentum ahead of the years. All employees in any organization as a human entity that should be a high capacity of human capital in terms of emotional intelligence to produce the output and quality workmanship and value in the steady integrity. Then, the leader in the workplace should have a strong emotional intelligence to be able to translate into a treatment and a dynamic personality in influencing a more positive work climate. The end of this paper will demonstrate the need for all leaders have emotional intelligence that is based on the strength of the affective and personality ideal as a catalytic force to help enhance employee self-esteem. It also would allow employees to be able to form effective human resources.
The Development of Islamic Religion Education Curriculum at University Seen From the Perspective of Maqashid
Authors: Arifi Ahmad , . .
Published: July 2018

In this present globalization era, many fields of changes occur, especially in education field which runs rapidly and dynamically. An individual’s science, technology, and competence will quickly obsolete it they are not upgraded. Thus, it is required education curriculum development, especially Islamic Religion Education so that they are able to answer era challenge. This study is aimed to explain the development of Islamic Religion Education (IRE) curriculum development at universities seen from the perspective of Maqashid. In this context, curriculum development which is based on maqashid is a curriculum development based on maqashid is a curriculum development which is based on contextual objective which adapt dynamic era development that is a curriculum which is able to cover various recent developments and objective which direct learners to the natural benefit (rahmatan lil alamin). Research method which is utilized is natural qualitative. This research has been successful to collaborate philosophical base of curriculum development of Islamic Religion Education Study Program seen from maqashid perspective. This research concludes that the development of curriculum of Islamic Religion Education at Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Science Faculty, UIN Sunan Kalijaga orients on values of rahmatan lil ‘alamin manifested in three things: First, the study program vision has possessed value philosophy which supports the achieved civil society through interconnection integration of science in the context of developing world peace and civilization. Second, preparing learners to be able to fulfill national qualification standard by developing curriculum which refer on Indonesian Qualification Framework (IQF) and High Education National Standard (SNPT) and fulfill University International Qualification, which is ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA). Third, preparing learners to have open attitude, live in harmony in the multicultural society and able to behave cooperatively in maintaining morality values.
Big data analytic on block chain across healthcare sector
Authors: Shilpa Miss. , Rahul Sharma Er , Sartaj Singh Mr
Published: July 2018

Block chain is a decentralized transactional methodology for authorization and updates, in the Cryptocurrencies ecosystem. It is an exploring way in the Cryptocurrencies ecosystem to bit traditional corporate such as the mainstream healthcare and finance.The responsive nature of healthcare data along the lasting provocation of inter-synchronization, healthcare info exchange and patient record matching has created opportunities for a Block chain to maintain the victory of the challenge.The proposed paper aims to put Block chain technology or network based peer to peer authenticate layer on medical big data, for either information portability or set permission during third party involvement during some relevant big data analytic or findings. Based upon propose approaches, healthcare big data can be derived among multiple healthcare service providers, patients and analytic platforms with secure node to node distribution without any centralized ledger or storage point.
Spectrum aware clustering in cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Authors: Sagar Anand Ukey Aishwarya , Chawla Meenu
Published: July 2018

Cognitive radio (CR) is an emerging technology developed for efficient utilization of the radio spectrum. CRN utilizes CR technology and enables the unlicensed users also referred as secondary users (SUs) to access free portions of the licensed spectrum in an opportunistic manner. To support scalability and stability in distributed CRNs also referred as cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs), SUs are often organized into smaller groups known as clusters. Spectrum aware clustering is considered as the key technique to overcome numerous is-sues associated with the dynamic nature of CRAHNs. This article focuses on clustering in CRAHNs and presents a comprehensive review of various spectrum aware clustering algorithms presented in the literature. The article highlights notable clustering metrics and includes the description of cluster formation and maintenance process. The article also renders potential research gaps in existing research works and discusses open challenges and issues that need to be addressed for efficient clustering in CRAHNs.
Design and simulation of low actuation voltage RF MEMS shunt capacitive switch with serpentine flexures&rectangular perforations
Authors: Jayavardhani K , K. Noureen Fathima S , Bhima Sankar K , Kavya Sri K , Sunithamani S
Published: July 2018

This paper presents the design and simulation of RF MEMS shunt capacitive switch with low actuation voltage, low insertion loss and high isolation. Actuation voltage depends on the parameters like air gap, spring constant and actuation area. In this design, we have proposed a serpentine meander structure to reduce the spring constant of the beam thus reducing actuation voltage. The rectangular perforation is used to reduce the squeeze film damping by decreasing the mass of the switch. The proposed switch has attained a low actuation voltage of 4.5V for a displacement of 0.84μm. The air gap between the beam and the dielectric is 1μm. This radio frequency (RF) MEMS shunt switch is designed and simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics 5.2. The RF performance of the shunt switch is analyzed in Ansoft HFSS 13 and the results show that the return loss was about -13.50 dB at 20GHz in the OFF state and -8.5 dB at 18 GHz in the ON state. A high isolation of -36.00 dB was achieved in the OFF state at a frequency of 5GHz and a low insertion loss is obtained. The results show that the switch is suitable for wireless applications operating in the frequency range from 5 to 20GHz.
Design approach for wideband FM receiver using RTL-SDR and raspberry PI
Authors: Satya Narayana P , N.V.S. Syam Kumar M , Keerthi Kishan A , V.R.K. Suraj K
Published: July 2018

Software defined radio replaced majority of hardware modules like mixers, filters, modulators and demodulators etc., with Software blocks in the field of radio electronics and communication. In this some or all the functionalities are Configurable using this software implemented on technologies like FPGAs, DSPs etc. Owing to lack of ease in implementing and reconfiguring huge hardware modules, we move on to implement an adaptable communication system with the help of SDR, as it can be easily configured to work with wide range of frequencies. We find various SDR transceiver modules which can be interfaced with digital computer and aided with firmware like GNU radio, SDR shark, etc., allowing us to construct blocks with the help of built in components that decode and process the received data and produce required output. In requirement of implementing a cost-effective, compact sized and portable system, we use a processing unit providing enough computational power to perform signal processing tasks which is Raspberry pi. Here we are going to implement a low cost SDR communication system that capture, process and visualize the Wide Band Frequency signal.
Kannada morpheme segmentation using machine learning
Authors: Angle Sachi , Ashwath Rao B , N. Muralikrishna S
Published: July 2018

This paper addresses and targets morpheme segmentation of Kannada words using supervised classification. We have used manually annotated Kannada treebank corpus, which is recently developed by us. Kannada bears resemblance to other Dravidian languages in morphological structure. It is an agglutinative language, hence its words have complex morphological form with each word comprising of a root and an optional set of suffixes. These suffixes carry additional meaning, apart from the root word in a context. This paper discusses the extraction of morphemes of a word by using Support Vector Machines for Classification. Additional features representing the properties of the Kannada words were extracted and the different letters were classified into labels that result in the morphological segmentation of the word. Various  methods for evaluation were considered and an accuracy of 85.97% was achieved.
Design and development of C3 protocol for performance measurement of wireless sensor network
Authors: S. Patil Kasturi
Published: July 2018

In twenty-first century, technology changes tremendously. A wireless sensor network is bunch of sundry sensor nodes where, nodes are distributed arbitrarily. Sensor consumes most of its energy in data transmission and reception. System ascertained different amended protocols for performance quantification of WSN. Sensing node sense environment but doesn’t transmit or receive the data. Slumber nodes neither sense environment nor transmit or receive data. Proposed system validate the analytical models utilizing extensive simulations incorporating experimental results on the substratum of different parameter here performance is checked. A protocol for communication and connectivity in Wireless Sensor Network is proposed. This ascertains coverage, connectivity and energy-efficient communication. It contains steps such as: Declaration of deployment area, cull of nodes, connectivity of nodes, and communication between all nodes.
Raspberry PI based advanced communication for disaster management
Authors: Su. Suganthi Dr , Aishwarya S , Keerthana S , R. Sandhya B
Published: July 2018

When a natural disaster occurs one of the major crisis is communication. This is mainly because when a calamity occurs all the cellular networks, towers and other contemporary means of network goes down making it impossible to communicate with others. Thus in this paper we propose an alternative solution for communication during disaster which can be achieved using a Long range radio transceiver module, which can operate without the help of any towers or base stations. The proposed transceiver model is a standalone device which can transmit and receive voice signals which operates on ISM band of frequency range 902 to 928 MHz, providing a hinderance free good communication, and as an additional feature is made to receive FM station signals using FM radio module, to keep us updated with the news, rescue and relief activities.
Visual recognition and classification of videos using deep convolutional neural networks
Authors: Shobha Rani N , N. Rao Pramod , Clinton Paul
Published: July 2018

Classification of videos based on its content is one of the challenging and significant research problems. In this paper, a simple and efficient model is proposed for classification of sports videos using deep learned convolution neural networks. In the proposed research, the gray scale variants of image frames are employed for classification process through convolution technique at varied levels of abstraction by adapting it through a sequence of hidden layers. The image frames considered for classification are obtained after the duplicate frame elimination and each frame is further rescaled to dimension 120x240. The sports videos categories used for experimentation include badminton, football, cricket and tennis which are downloaded from various sources of google and YouTube. The classification in the proposed method is performed with Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNN) with around 20 filters each of size 5x5 with around stride length of2 and its outcomes are compared with Local Binary Patterns (LBP), Bag of Words Features (BWF) technique. The SURF features are extracted from the BWF technique and further 80% of strongest feature points are employed for clustering the image frames using K-Means clustering technique with an average accuracy achieved of about 87% in classification. The LBF technique had produced an average accuracy of 73% in differentiating one image frame to other whereas the DCNN had shown a promising outcome with accuracy of about 91% in case of 40% training and 60% test datasets, 99% accuracy in case of 60% training an 40% test datasets. The results depict that the proposed method outperforms the image processing-based techniques LBP and BWF.
Maximum power point tracking of a solar PV array using single stage three phase inverter
Authors: Jayakumar M , Vanitha V , Jaisuriya V , Karthikeyan M , Daniel George , Vignesh T
Published: July 2018

Solar power is widely available around the globe but efficient transfer of solar power to the load becomes a challenging task. There are various methods in which the power transfer can be done, the following work proposes a method for efficient tracking of solar power.  MPPT [ maximum power point tracking] algorithm applied on three phase voltage source inverter connected to solar PV array with a three phase load. MPPT is applied on inverter rather than conventionally applying MPPT on DC-DC converter. Perturb and Observe method is applied in the MPPT algorithm to find the optimal modulation index for the inverter to transfer maximum power from the panel. Sine pulse width modulation technique is employed for controlling the switching pattern of the inverter. The algorithm is programmed for changing irradiation and temperature condition. The system does not oscillate about the MPP point as the algorithm set the system at MPP and does not vary till a variation in irradiation is sensed.  The proposed system can be installed at all places and will reduce the cost, size and losses compared to conventional system.
A parametric study of residual stress in plate
Authors: S. Agrawal Nikhil , B. Kulkarni P , D. Pachpor P , N. Khapre R , Nakhate Dipak
Published: July 2018

Residual stress is a process-induced stress in a molded part that exists in the body in the absence of external loading or it exists in steel section of the unloaded state. Residual stress is also termed as ‘Locked Stress’. This paper presents to find out this lock stress analytically. The theoretical and analytical inputs are considered in terms of aspect ratio and these results are compared by percentage error. The previous study mentioned many experimental methods by which residual stresses were sorted out. A Plate is a flat surface having thickness small as compared to other two dimensions. Researchers are mainly focused on the treatment of the different plate theories related to Kirchhoff or Reissner/Mindlin. The developed ANSYS finite element model analyzed square and rectangular plate and compared the analytical results in terms of deflection and stress with theoretical results which are obtained from classical theory. Different boundary conditions for different plate size are considered and solved.
Employing control surface model in preliminary aircraft design software
Authors: Al-Shamma Omran , Ali Rashid , S. Hasan Haitham
Published: July 2018

Many aircraft design software packages are available in the market. Some of them are intended for preliminary design phase. These packages investigate the aircraft stability and controllability through the stability model to get the dimensional and non-dimensional derivatives. For students and fresh engineers, these derivatives are ambiguous and do not give a well-defined consideration about the influence of the control surface sizing on them.Therefore, adding the control surface model to preliminary software will assist, enhance, and improve students' knowledge, sympathy, and investigating studies. This paper presents the control surface model for use in preliminary aircraft design software. The model consists of three sub-models. Each sub-model is involved to perform the sizing of one of the primary conventional control surfaces. The aileron represents the first sub-model. The elevator represents the second sub-model, while the rudder represents the third sub-model. A flowchart for each sub-model is provided.
DeyPoS-homomorphism authenticated tree (HAT) for multi-user locality in cloud storage
Authors: Muthu Selvam M , Mariappan K , V. Sriramakrishnan G , Suseendran G
Published: July 2018

The technology PoS (Dynamic Proof of storage) is a cryptographic primordial allows a abuser to test the reliability of subcontracted documents and effectively replace documents in the cloud storage system. Despite the fact that investigators have projected several dynamic proofs of storage designs in distinct client settings, hassle in the multi-client settings have now not been examined adequately. In sensible multi-client cloud server storage space wishes a cozy client part cross client system of deduplication, it permits client toward bypass importing manner as well as gain instantly the rights of the files, while different vendors of the same files hold uploaded to the cloud system server. In the direction of familiarity not a bit of prevailing dynamic Proof of Storages can guide this system. This research article  we are bring the model of dynamic proof of storage in deduplicatable system and endorse a green creation known as Dedupicatable Dynamic Proof of Storage (DeyPoS), on the way to attain DeyPoS and comfy  reduplication concurrently in cross client. Taking into account confront of formation assortment and personal blot creation make use of a new tool called HAT (Homomorphic Authenticated Tree). Also verify precautions of creation and the hypothetical, investigational outcomes shows that the creation is green in use.
Data secure in horizontally distributed database using apriori algorithm
Authors: Mariappan K , V. Sriramakrishnan G , Muthu Selvam M , Suseendran G
Published: July 2018

Data mining strategies are utilized as a part of business and explore and are ending up increasingly prominent with time. Information mining can remove valuable data from substantial databases. Most proficient methodologies for mining circulated databases assume that the majority of the information at each site can be shared and conveyed database is use to designate diverse database in various area. Affiliation govern mining is a critical research territory in information mining, which shows relations among thing sets in database[1].The convention, relies upon Fast Distributed Mining (FDM), [2]which is unsecured rendition of Apriori calculation. The reason for the Apriori Algorithm is to discover relationship between various arrangements of information [3].In this undertaking, for information mining, administrator will take after FDM calculation by influencing relationship to run the show. Association of every single private subset will be finished by utilizing affiliation run the show. (In our application affiliation manage shaped for the qualification of a possibility for work)
An energy minimizing score based optimal data gathering in wireless sensor networks
Authors: Balamurugan P , Shyamala Devi M , Sharmila V
Published: July 2018

In wireless sensor networks, Sensor nodes are arranged randomly in unkind physical surroundings to collect data and distribute the data to the remote base station. However the sensor nodes have to preserve the power source that has restricted estimation competence. The sensed information is difficult to be transmitted over the sensor network for a long period of time in an energy efficient manner.  In this paper, it finds the problem of communication data between sink nodes and remote data sources via intermediate nodes in sensor field. So this paper proposes a score based data gathering algorithm in wireless sensor networks. The high-level contribution of this study is the enhancement of a score- based data gathering algorithm and the impact of energy entity for Wireless Sensor Networks.  Then the energy and delay of data gathering are evaluated. Unlike PEGASIS and LEACH, the delay for every process of data gathering is considerably lower when SBDG is employed.  The energy consumed per round of data gathering for both SBDG and EE-SBDG is less than half of that incurred with PEGASIS and LEACH. Compared with LEACH and PEGASIS, SBDG and EE-SBDG are fair with node usage because of the scoring system and residual energy respectively.  Overall, the Score-based data gathering algorithm provides a significant solution to maximize the network lifetime as well as minimum delay per round of data gathering.