bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
IT Investment Under Competition: The Role of Implementation Failure
Authors: Xin Mingdi , Choudhary Vidyanand 
Published: July 2018

How does competition impact firms’ incentive to innovate by investing in information technology (IT)? Prior literature suggests opposite predictions on the direction in which competition drives IT investment. This paper analyzes a game theoretic model of duopoly competition and shows that an important feature of IT sheds new light on firms’ investment decisions: IT implementation can fail. Without the possibility of implementation failure, the opportunity to invest in IT hurts firms’ profits because the productivity gains are competed away. Implementation failure creates a possibility of cost-based differentiation and mitigates competition, although these two effects can drive firms’ IT investment in opposite directions. Interestingly, a higher probability of implementation failure can lead to lower investment risks and higher expected profits. Firms in highly competitive markets are better able to recoup the returns to their IT investments and, therefore, more motivated to invest in risky IT than firms in less competitive markets. The online appendix is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.3005 . This paper was accepted by Chris Forman, information systems.
Obesity, osteoarthritis and genetic risk
Authors: Jiang L. , Zhu X. , Rong J. , Xing B. , Wang S. , Liu A. , Chu M. , Huang G. 
Published: July 2018

Objectives Given the function of adiponectin (ADIPOQ) on the inflammatory condition of obesity and osteoarthritis (OA), we hypothesized that the ADIPOQ gene might be a candidate gene for a marker of susceptibility to OA. Methods We systematically screened three tagging polymorphisms (rs182052, rs2082940 and rs6773957) in the ADIPOQ gene, and evaluated the association between the genetic variants and OA risk in a case-controlled study that included 196 OA patients and 442 controls in a northern Chinese population. Genotyping was performed using the Sequenom MassARRAY iPLEX platform. Results The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs182052 was found to be potentially associated with knee OA risk (additive model: odds ratio = 1.38; 95% confidence interval 1.07 to 1.76; p = 0.012). Furthermore, a non-significant association was observed for rs182052 and body mass index with regard to OA risk in interaction analyses (p = 0.063). Similarly, no significant interaction was detected for rs182052 and age with regard to OA risk (p = 0.614). Conclusion These findings suggest that the SNP rs182052 in the ADIPOQ gene may potentially modify individual susceptibility to knee OA in the Chinese population. Further studies are warranted to investigate our findings in more depth. Cite this article: L. Jiang, X. Zhu, J. Rong, B. Xing, S. Wang, A. Liu, M. Chu, G. Huang. Obesity, osteoarthritis and genetic risk: The rs182052 polymorphism in the ADIPOQ gene is potentially associated with risk of knee osteoarthritis. Bone Joint Res 2018;7:494–500. DOI: 10.1302/2046-3758.77.BJR-2017-0274.R1.
Webquest e mobile-learning como métodos pedagógicos de ensino e aprendizagem: um novo olhar?
Authors: Gomes Gilmária Henllen Gondim , Amorim Liromaria Maria De , Rodrigues Micaelle Nayara Dias , Barbosa Jailma Dos Santos , Oliveira Gislene Farias de 
Published: July 2018

O presente estudo discute a inclusão das TIC no processo educacional. Estes implicam em reflexões importantes sobre o impacto das novas tecnologias no âmbito da educação. As ferramentas tecnológicas enquanto estratégias educacionais exigem um mais aguçado planejamento das aulas, bem como dá ênfase ao papel do professor ante a aprendizagem dos alunos. A inserção da webquest e da mobile lerning nas aulas trouxe ganho para ambos os lados, desde uma melhoria na motivação, até um maior envolvimento de todos os atores no processo de ensino, na construção e aquisição dos conteúdos.
Beyond Traditional Audits: The Implications of Information Technology on Auditing
Authors: Shaikh Humaiz , Uzair Jokhio Mohammad , Ahmed Maher Zulfikar , Chandio Shahmurad , Manirajah Mirza , Abdullah Bin , Raza Ali , Salam Shah , Shah Asadullah 
Published: July 2018

This paper examines the manner in which audits would be conducted in the future and how technology has transformed and impacted the business processes of public, private sector entities and various organisations and the guidelines which need to be followed to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The tranperancy of financial statements is of paramount interest to shareholders and other significant stakeholders. This necessities that the financial statements are audited to acquire a certain level of confidence over the integrity of numbers and the validity of business rationale which thereby arises a need for auditor to be well equipped with all the tools and system essentials in carrying out an effective and efficient audit. Information Technology can act as an impediment or stimulant towards the achievement of the above discussed objective. Various organizations use automation tools and ERP applications which have become a vital cog in their internel control environment. Understanding by auditor of these automated controls is necessary to ensure that the they are well equipped with the requisite skills and have knowledge of all technological tweaks that would be required in the audit process of a complex structured entity. The primary function which can be performed by generalized audit software include customizing data in numrous ways to serve the distinct purpose. The audit teams obtain insights into latest developments and plan their procedures accordingly keeping in view the applicable professional standards.
Analysis of Road Accidents Using Data Mining Techniques
Authors: Nidhi. R Ms , Kanchana V Ms 
Published: July 2018

Road Accident is an all-inclusive disaster with consistently raising pattern. In India according to Indian road safety campaign every minute there is a road accident and almost 17 people die per hour in road accidents. There are different categories of vehicle accidents like rear end, head on and rollover accidents. The state recorded police reports or FIR’s are the documents which contains the information about the accidents. The incident may be self-reported by the people or recorded by the state police. In this paper the frequent patterns of road accidents is been predicted using Apriori and Naïve Bayesian techniques. This pattern will help the government or NGOs to improve the safety and take preventive measures in the roads that have major accident zones.
Tensile Resistance of GFRP Wrapped Steel-Dowelled Half-Lap Timber Connection
Authors: Ali Chew Amirah , Atikah Seri Nurul , Nur Syazni Wan Shaari Wan , Hanafie Yasin Mohd , Hassan Rohana 
Published: July 2018

Generally, the use of timber mainly focuses on simple structures or structures that can take small loads. This paper report on tensile resistance of steel dowelled timber connection wrapped with glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP). It involved experimental work in laboratory designed to determine the tensile strength behaviour for half-lap timber connections with steel dowel as the mechanical fasteners. Bintangor species representing strength group 5 and Yellow Meranti species representing strength group 6 were tested in the conditions of with and without the GFRP wrapping. The performances of the connections were observed using the European Yield Model (EYM) as the guideline. The EYM theory is generally used to determine the load carrying capacity of timber-to-timber, panel-to-timber and steel-to-timber connections, reflecting all possible modes of failures. All half-lap connection members were tested at the rate 0.0006 mm/min using the universal testing machine. As a result, it was found that the steel-dowelled half-lap timber connection with GFRP wrapping performed better than the timber connection without the wrapping. The ultimate load of GFRP wrapped connections made of Bintangor and Yellow Meranti species were found increased at 17% and 44% higher compared to the connection without the GFRP wrapping accordingly.
Effect of Toxicity Concentration of Waste Lubricating Oil (Hazardous Noxious Substances) on Aquatic Life
Authors: Munirah Bt Abdullah Nor , Sabiha binti Mohd Aluwi Nur , Park Heekyung , Binti Ahmad Kamal Norashikin 
Published: July 2018

This lab scale study aims to investigate the effect of different concentration of waste lubricating oil on the African catfish juveniles, Clarias gariepinus. Five different concentrations of waste lubricating oil were used for 96 hours period which are 0 ml/L, 5 ml/L, 10 ml/l, 15 ml/l, and 20 ml/L. After 96 hours of experiment, tank 4 which being added with 20 mL waste lubricating oil shows the highest percentage of fish mortality (100%) followed by tank 3 (95%), and tank 2 (76%) while the lowest percentage of mortality is recorded in tank 1 (19%). The result from the toxicity test showed that the higher the concentration of waste lubricating oil, the higher the mortality rate of fish. The lethal concentration LC50 that caused 50% mortality of test fish was estimated at 8.1 ml/L. From the observation, waste lubricating oil which contains heavy metals had cause damage to renal and nervous system of fishes thus causing them to lost equilibrium and irregular vertical swimming that will finally cause death. It can be concluded that the harmful environment that will trigger death of fish will be created by indiscriminate discharge of waste oil into water bodies. Therefore, it is recommended to treat the wastewaters, sewage and industrial wastes before it is being discharged into the aquatic ecosystems to sustain the aquatic species for the future. The proper effluent treatment technology should be adopted to check the present of oil spillage in the water. The enforcement of laws and legislations related to the protection of aquatic environment must be enhance and take into considerations.
Socio-Environmental Factors and Tuberculosis: an Exploratory Spatial Analysis in Peninsular Malaysia
Authors: Rauf Abdul Rasam Abdul , Mohd Shariff Noresah , F Dony Jiloris , Misni Alamah 
Published: July 2018

Spatial pattern of tuberculosis (TB) describes the environmental variation of the disease. Controlling the disease is not only depends on bio-medical method, but there is also a need to explicitly understand socio-environmental contexts which include the elements of people, space and time. A spatial exploration of local TB dynamic in Malaysia’s perspectives is necessary since earlier studies were limited in addressing these contexts. This paper discusses a general spatial pattern of TB distribution pattern in Peninsular Malaysia for a ten-year period from 2005 to 2014 and its general possible correlation with socio-environmental factors in 2010. Geographical information system (GIS) and correlation analysis are fundamental techniques used to explore the local pattern of TB distribution and the relationship. Data on annual TB cases and state map were collected from the Ministry of Health and the Department of Rural and Country Planning Malaysia respectively. The overall spatial pattern of TB cases has shown increasing trends and concentrating in five states, including Selangor, Johor, WPKL, Kelantan and Kedah, even though there is no specific pattern in the area. This study suggests that the majority of the cases have occurred in the urban states, having high-medium incomes and populous areas.
Selection of dancer member using simple additive weighting
Authors: Adela Hana , Azmi Jasmi Kamarul , Basiron Bushrah , Huda Miftachul , Maseleno Andino 
Published: July 2018

Travel and dance form in Indonesia is closely related to the development of community life, both in terms of ethnic structure and within the scope of the unitary state. This study determines the criteria for selecting dancer members and how to apply the qualified Simple method. Based on predetermined criteria is the ability to dance physical flexibility, skilled, nimble, confident, have the ability, fill out the form, and certificate of achievement. From the results obtained values then V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 is a member of a qualified dancer and has a highest value with a score of 100 which was obtained from V2.
Characteristic Investigation on Impact Strength of Aluminium Based Hybrid Composite Plates Weld by FSW
Authors: M Sadashiva , H K Shivanand 
Published: July 2018

Aluminium Alloy 2024 metal-matrix composites fortified with Silicon carbide fine greenish particulates show enhanced mechanical properties like high toughness , high flexible modulus, and good resist wear, which makes them promising auxiliary materials for automobile field and aviation enterprises. Notwithstanding, these composites likewise demonstrate poor in malleability and ductility because of reinforce of non-deformable ceramic particulates, which restrains their wide applications to a specific degree, stifle this by strengthen arbitrary spasmodic E-glass fibers and exceeds expectations structure with higher sturdiness. The Current work is meant to examine the process parameters of friction stir welding on Aluminium metal matrix composite plates of measurement 100mmx50mmx6 mm joined by the high carbon high chromium tool, rotational speed of 600rpm, 900rpm and 1200 rpm also compiled welding speed rate of 40 mm/min, 80mm/min and 120 mm/min, Followed via completed Charpy Impact test on ASTM standard samples, classify the effect quality and contrasted and that of unreinforced matrix.
Protection Preserving Over Encrypted Data Using Key with Similarity Check
Authors: Sabari prasanth G , Rajasekaran M 
Published: July 2018

Computing gives people to store enormous data efficiently and economically since it depends on third party management security is the million dollar question. In order to provide protection over the private data user can encrypt the data and can upload in cloud. Encryption process could be done by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm which is highly secure and unbreakable. Encrypted data with key management play significant role in cloud computing in order to get decrypted data user should appropriate key for the file to get decrypted data which would be transferred very securely. Proposed system try to avoid update of unwanted data like inappropriate sentences will be avoided from malicious user to misuse the data .The concept of data mining plays a vital role. This concept of combination of cloud computing and data mining gives us the good result of security of personal detail and unwanted data would not accommodate on the internet .This process would help mostly on providing authenticated data by only legitimate user can access the data even legitimate user cannot find the decrypted content if unwanted data exist in the file. This approach have overcome security issues of own personal or organization data.
Effect of Utilizing Prosopis Juliflora Ash as Cementitious Material
Authors: Amal Anik S George , Kathirvel Parthiban , G Murali 
Published: July 2018

Since the building made of cement concrete consumes almost half of the total energy generated and accordingly accountable for huge amount of CO2 emission, it is necessary to replace the Portland cement (PC) with sustainable construction material. Similarly, Prosopis juliflora is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae, a kind of mesquite which is considered to be a potential threat for ground water in South India. Hence, this has to eradicate so as to maintain the groundwater and also to effectively utilize its ash thereby reducing environmental pollution, this can be used as a partial replacement for cement. In this regard, this paper investigates the technical feasibility of using prosopis juliflora ash (PJA) as cementitious material by partially (10, 20, 30 and 40 %) replacing cement by prosopis juliflora ash. The mixes were evaluated for their fresh, physical and strength properties such as workability, density and compressive strength and the results were compared with the conventional mix
A Working Model for Mobile Charging using Wireless Power Transmission
Authors: Joe Louis Paul I , Sasirekha S , Naveen Kumar D D , S. Revanth P 
Published: July 2018

Portable electronic devices are very popular nowadays. Almost all portable devices are battery powered, meaning that eventually, they all must be recharged–using the wired chargers currently being used. As the usage of these portable electronic devices is increasing, the demands for longer battery life are also increasing. These batteries need to be recharged or replaced periodically. It is a hassle to charge or change the battery after a while, especially when there is no power outlet around. Now instead of plugging in a cell phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), digital camera, voice recorder, mp3 player or laptop to recharge it, it could receive its power wirelessly. The technology for Wireless Power Transmission or Wireless Power Transfer or Transmission (WPT) is in the forefront of electronic development. WPT systems are designed to transmit power without using wires more efficient than transmitting it while using wires. There could be large number of applications for wireless power systems. Hence, in this work, a wireless battery charger has been proposed for mobile phone charging which is expected to eliminate all the hassles with today’s battery technology. The advantage of this device is that it can wirelessly charge up the batteries which can save time and money in a long run for the general public.
Flexural Behaviour of RC beams using GFRP Composites
Authors: Sivasankar S , Bharathy T , Vinodh Kumar R 
Published: July 2018

Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures damaged by sudden accidental loads due to earthquake and severe environmental exposure. Traditional strengthening methods are not meeting the service life of the structure for long time. Recently, FRP strengthening is used successfully in all kind of exposure with minimum cost and less duration. In this paper RC beams were strengthened by GFRP sheets in two different orientations. Two specimens are control beams, two specimens are wrapped with U wrapping and the remaining beams are bottom wrapping. The size of the beam is 1700mm long, 150mm wide and 250mm depth. The test specimens consit of 2 nos of 10mm dia rods as longitudinal reinforcement in compression zone and 2 nos of 10mm dia steel rods in tension zone. 2-legged stirrups of 8mm diameter were used with a centre-to-centre spcaing of 150mm. All beams were tested under four-point loading. Experiments will be undertaken until beams fails so that the influence of GFRP characteristics on the Flexural behaviour of beams which includes Flexural behaviour, Ultimate load carrying capacity, Deformation and Stress-strain behaviour. Evaluation of the results will lead to optimum GFRP jacketing /wrapping arrangements for the concrete beams are considered here.
Study on Strength Properties of Concrete with Ceramic Waste Aggregate and Silica Fume Admixture
Authors: G Suresh , S Harishankar 
Published: July 2018

The ceramic waste is used as a coarse aggregate replacement in concrete is a two way beneficial process that involves minimization of resources for construction and processing of hazardous industrial wastes that cannot be recycled. The ceramic waste obtained from waste dismantled building were used as coarse aggregate 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% replacement. To improve the mechanical properties silica fume is added as admixture in the concrete. The optimum percentage replacement was obtained considering the strength as well as the objective of using ceramic waste aggregate. The compressive strength of concrete cubes were tested . The compressive strength of aggregate replaced concrete has been compared to that of conventional concrete and the results are evaluated.
Methods of Protecting the Distributed Computation in Multi-Agent System
Authors: A. Khovanskov S , E. Rumyantsev K , S. Khovanskova V 
Published: July 2018

Currently, there are many different approaches for organization of the distributed calculations in computer network technology grid, metacomputing (BOINC, PVM, and others). The main drawback of most existing approaches is that they are designed to create centralized distributed computing systems. In this article we propose to organize the solution of such problems as multivariate modeling, through the creation of distributed computations in computer networks based on decentralized multi-agent system. When used as a computing environment a computer network on a large scale can cause threats to the security of distributed computing from the intruders. One of these threats is getting the calculation about the result by the attacker. A false result can leads in the modeling process to adopt is not optimal or wrong decisions. We developed a method of protecting distributed computing from the threat of receiving false result.
Steel Statically Uncertain Transverse Frames Probabilistic Calculation
Authors: Chichulina Kseniia , Chichulin Viktor , . . 
Published: July 2018

The aim of the work is probabilistic calculation and evaluation of steel statically uncertain frames reliability parameters and recommendations development for reducing their material content by controlling the reserves of the load bearing capacity of the.A method for evaluating the reliability parameters of steel statically uncertain frames by all able-bodied statens is developed. Logical probabilistic methods of statically uncertain systems work are used. The probability estimation method of statically uncertain systems failure based on the boundary equilibrium method, taking into account the correlation of individual destruction schemes, is obtained. The method of calculating the significance and contribution of individual frame elements and their influence on the system failure probability as a whole is proposed. The practical method of designing steel statically unidentified frames with the use of steel statically uncertain constructions reliability coefficient γs is offered. The scientific novelty of the work is to develop a scheme for determining frames failure probability by estimating the working capacity. In particular, the fragile and plastic fracturing failures of the frame section are considered. The algorithms for calculating the steel frames failure probability are determined by the probabilistic method of graphical equilibrium. The steel frame separate elements significance indexes are determined. The numerical experiment on the developed programs on a PC is presented for estimation of steel frames failure probability of various sections. the of of steel statically uncertain constructions reliability coefficient γs is proposed for usage.The practical value is more complete consideration of the structures and the probabilistic nature of strength and load, the use of the reliability coefficient. The possibilities of obtaining more economical frames in the design of new ones as well as reconstruction of existing buildings and facilities are identified. Based on the proposed methodology, algorithms and developed programs on the PC for the probabilistic calculation of steel statically uncertain frames for various purposes are compiled.