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Abstract Information assurance (IA) projects are essential components of the information technology industry and often fail due to budget overruns, missed deadlines, and lack of performance by the project teams. The purpose of this phenomenological research was to explore the strategies necessary to improve IA project team performance. Lewin’s situational leadership theory was used as the conceptual framework for this research. Interviews were conducted with 20 IA professionals located in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. The data were transcribed, coded, and clustered for the identification of common patterns based on the Moustakas’ modified van Kaam analysis. The major themes that emerged from the interview data included the importance of: communication and teamwork, technical knowledge, training, hiring of skilled resources, and balanced project teams. An organization-wide internal training program emerged as an overarching best practice to improve the leadership strategies within the IA sector. The research results may help improve project success and contribute in some small way to the growth of the IA industry.

This paper focused on the recovery of uranium from solutions. The adsorption of uranium(VI) from standard uranium solution using activated carbon AC and AC impregnated by trioctyl phosphine oxide (TOPO) was studied using a batch system. The parameters that affect the uranium(VI) adsorption, such as contact time, solution pH, initial uranium(VI) concentration, concentration of TOPO, amount of AC and modified AC, and temperature were investigated and optimized conditions determined (0.03g of AC and modified AC contact with 20ml of standard uranium solution (100 mg/l) at pH4 and room temperature for 45min. ). The maximum loading of uranium ions on AC and TOPO/AC are 23 mg/g (230 mg/l) and 57.6 mg/g (576 mg/l), respectively. Uranium (VI) could be conveniently recovered by elution by H2SO4 this allows recycling of adsorbent. And it’s analyzed by the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Both the kinetic and the sorption isotherm modeling have been applied upon the obtained data. Thus, it was found that the uranium sorption obeys a pseudo-second order reaction while the Freundlich sorption isotherm model is most suitable to describe the studied sorption reaction.

The concept of preschool is not a new phenomenon in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to examine factors influencing children’s language development in preschools in Mathare Slum area in Nairobi. The study focused on four factors: learning facilities, teachers’ level of education, children absenteeism and strategies used by teachers to enhance children’s language development. Mixed method approach was used. Target population was 25 childhood preschools and 25 teachers. Systematic random and purposive sampling methods were used to select 8 preschools and 8 teachers. Data collection instruments were observation schedule and questionnaire. Data analysis was done through coding and categorizing to create themes; as well as frequencies and percentages. The findings showed that quality of preschools was inadequate in terms of learning facilities and teachers’ level of education. In addition, the findings of the study showed that some parents brought their children to school when they were busy, meaning, they did not value education. In addition, the findings revealed among others that teachers employed a number of strategies to enhance children’s language development although it was evident that teachers were limited in English proficiency. The study recommends that preschool teachers be given training in English proficiency for teaching children.

This manuscript deals with the Frattini Subgroups and some results based on frattini subgroups. In this paper we define the Frattini subgroup and then discuss some of its properties.We denote it by . We define nS, aS, aPNS, cS , aCS group. In this we show that nS group is a cS group and if any group G is an nS(cS) group then Fr(G)=E. thus we show that any normal subgroup of an nS-group is again an nS group and direct Product of two nS group is again an nS group. In this we show that if any nilpotent group G is nS then it is elementary abelian group.

The focus of this paper is to explore different types of matrix operations of fuzzy neutrosophic soft sets and composition method to construct the decision making for medical diagnosis.

This work presents an experimental and numerical investigation of heat transfer characteristics for horizontal circular pipe of 500mm long fitted with ribs having middle arm with cross section of 5mm width ,5mm length, pitch=80mm, with air as the working fluid. Reynolds number ranged( Re=24253, 26119 and 27984). The steel pipe(ASM4120) was subjected to two constant surface temperatures (673Ko and 973Ko). The experimental data obtained were compared with plain (without ribs). Based on the same coolant flow, the pipe with ribs was found to possess the highest performance factors for turbulent flow. The results show a good agreement between theoretical and experimental bulk temperature by factor 0.9%, 1% for inner wall temperature and 0.8% for average Nusselt number. Using ribs improved the heat transfer in a circular tube. All studies where carried out using workbench program FlUENT14.5 by using K-? model.

First principles calculations based on Density Functional Theory were carried out to study hydrogen storage capacity of sodium doped graphene. The pure graphene exhibits low hydrogen storage capacity hence we modified graphene by doping of sodium. Sodium occupies the empty (hollow) position on graphene with average carbon sodium bond-length of 2.64 Å. This investigation predicts that positively charged sodium atom on graphene physisorbed maximum six hydrogen molecules with the average adsorption energy 0.20 eV/H2 amounting gravimetric density of 9.2 wt%. Mulliken population analysis shows that the charge transfer from sodium to graphene is responsible for higher hydrogen uptake than the pure graphene sheet.

This study explored males and females binary translations from perspective of gender and ideology. The investigation of males and females gender based ideological behavior was been accomplished following Weatherall (2002) model. Further, for this purpose, English novels of Wuthering Heights andStrangerwhich have been translated into Persian by male and female translators were selected to be used as the corpus. The sentences, phrases and words of ideology and gender load were extracted and investigated according to the three categories of character description, ideology and gender stereotypes and disappearing of agent effect of Weatherall (2002). The comparisons were accompanied by examples. The comparisons indicated that these translationsare not under gender ideological considerations and neither males nor females describe each other as negative or positive; though, cases of male negative description of males and females negative description of females reported. Moreover, the results of the study indicated that neither males nor females give cause of doing or acceptance of an obligatory responsibility to each other. There were cases of assigning agency roles to cross sex characters in the results, but they were not significant and worth mentioning. Lastly, the translator gender ideology did not affect translation.

The global volume of immigration is high in absolute terms, but low in relative terms. The International Integration and Refugee Association estimated 190 million international migrants in 2005, about 3 percent of The Middle East, some parts of Europe, small areas of South East Asia, and a few spots in the West Indies have the highest percentages of immigration population recorded by the UN Census 2005. The International Organization for Migration said there are more than 200 million migrants around the world today. Europe hosted the largest number of immigrants, with 70.6 million people in 2005, the latest year for which figures are available. North America, with over 45.1 million immigrants, is second, followed by Asia, which hosts nearly 25.3 million. Most of today's migrant workers come from Asia.[1].

The purpose of this study is to examine the information literacy of rural farmers. Today’s Information is vital requirement of every field of human life such as agriculture. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian Economy, now a day’s total economic depends upon the agriculture. This is mainstay the rural villages of Bargarh District. The rice pot of odisha is called Bargarh District and 73% of peoples depend upon agriculture. Information is the vital for changing era. Information Technology is taking new outline day by day. Information literacy of rural farmers make capable to recognize when information is needed and how to be located, evaluated and use effectively. Besides the present study conducts and analysis a questionnaire-based survey 853 agricultural farmers in seven Blocks of Bargarh District. Due to this some farmers are not satisfied in the cultivation. This paper concluded the growth Information literacy in modern era of this district