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The purpose of this study is to compare organizational learning, organizational performance, and electronic human resource management in the water department staff of Tehran and Kermanshah provinces. Given its purpose, this study is an applied research, in which questionnaire is used to measure the variables. After measuring the content validity and reliability (the Alpha coefficient of electronic human resource management (0.7), organizational learning (0.8), and organizational performance (0.75)), the research tools were distrusted among the statistical population, i.e. the questionnaires were distributed in a sample of 240 individuals (120 persons from the staff in Tehran province and 120 persons from the staff in Kermanshah province) consisting of all experts of water department in Tehran and Kermanshah provinces. The statistical method of multivariate variance analysis (MANOVA) was used to analyze the data. The research results indicated that among all the variables and their components, there is a significant difference only in the information acquisition and creation component of organizational learning between the two groups, and there is no difference in other components. Finally, according to the results obtained, some suggestions have been presented to future researchers.

The major challenges in automatic multimodal image registration are the in consistency in intensity (or) contrast patterns and the existence of non overlapping regions between images. Also presence of high non-homogeneous image contrast makes it very difficult to compare the image contents. The proposed method is using a phase representation derived from Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform as similarity metric for registering multimodal images. This method uses a transformation that minimizes the residual error between phase representations of two multimodal images. Sub pixel level local optimization techniques are used to improve the stability in handling situations like small initial overlapping between images. This method has been tested on various multimodal images. This technique has better accuracy than existing registration techniques even in the presence of image non-homogeneity and inconsistency in intensity patterns.

We proposed a new status based clusterhead election algorithms for mobile ad hoc networks which are responsible for stable clusterhead election for a cluster and maintain a stable clustering by predicting staying time for a cluster and selecting an optimal clusterhead. In proposed method if there is two or more than two cluster heads are within the same radio range, initially clusterhead changes will be delayed up to delay timer. After delay timer expire if both the cluster heads are still in the same radio range, then old new clusterhead change its status from 0 to 1 and become as Clustermember within same cluster. In proposed method old clusterhead within the cluster has priority to act as clusterhead compared to other clusterhead which is coming from other cluster.

This study assessed knowledge commonly shared by postgraduate students in Obafemi Awolowo University. The study also investigated factors that influence postgraduate students’ knowledge sharing. The study was a descriptive survey design which involved the design of questionnaire which was validated by means of Cronbach’s coefficient alpha of (0.70). The questionnaires were administered on (503) postgraduate students. The findings revealed that knowledge in the areas of individual studies was the most commonly shared knowledge among the majority (92.8%). The study further revealed that of the three identified factors (individual, institution and technology factors) influencing knowledge sharing among the postgraduate students, only individual factor (? = .085, p < 0.05) was shown to significantly influence students’ knowledge sharing bahaviours. The study suggests further research in such areas as: the construction of shared knowledge in collaborative problem solving and computer-supported collaborative learning among postgraduate student in Nigeria.

In this study, an attempt has been made to investigate the health seeking behavior of the rural people of Satkhira district. A total of 135questionnaire were distributed and only 90 completed questionnaires were returned. The average income of the respondents was 4644.5 BDT; the most of the respondents had an urgent need of more health education. The monthly income of the respondents influenced major problem to take quality health care for the respondents. Finally, the paper provides some recommendations for the policy makers and planners which may help improve the health status of the day laborer class in Bangladesh.

This paper entitled A Study of Placelessness in V. S. Naipaul’s Life and Works focuses and analyzes with great sovereignty how the fire of getting a place fulgurates repeatedly in V. S. Naipaul’s own life and his works. This theme, directly or indirectly, has been smeared by him in some of his fiction and non-fiction works. The paper analyzes uselessness, rootlessness, placelessness, selflessness and unsuccessfulness of his characters. Place becomes burning issue in his own life also. In Naipaul’s works, his characters deliberately get staunch support by him as they personally feel a lack of a suitable place to affirm and confirm their presence in the mundane world. This paper is an attempt to give answer why is called Naipaul rootless despite of having his good roots not only in Trinidad but also in the other countries of the world and why his characters feel suffocation and seem taciturn. Naipaul gave vent to his accumulated anguish or grief through his characters in his works. Naipaul, a noted raconteur, to what extent remains successful in his endeavors with regard of the concept of place, is the key concept of this paper.

The study brings out subscribers preference of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Coimbatore city. The main objective of this study is to know the subscriber inclination and major influencing factor for preferring a particular operator. The research design used in this study is descriptive research design. Data was collected from 200 subscribers, after screening the data 200 subscribers were taken into the account. Data was collected by survey method through structured questionnaire with closed ended questions. The primary data were collected through questionnaire, personal and telephonic contact with the subscribers. The secondary data were collected from the available literature sources. For distribution of questionnaire to the subscribers random sampling method was used and to collect the customer opinion survey was taken among the selected subscribers. The collected data includes personal details, preceding and existing operator, awareness of MNP, utilization of MNP and satisfaction level of MNP. Most of the educated subscribers are having the awareness about of MNP. But, in case of illiterate people no awareness is there about the MNP. Most of the subscriber made satisfied with new operator. In India, out of 851 million subscribers 13 million subscribers are makes MNP request (1.53 %) the same outcome is exposed in this study also i.e, most of the subscribers are not willing to switch their operator and they want to retain their existing operator.

This study examines a survey and analysis of the wrong use of the past perfect tenses by students in essay writing. The survey became necessary because of the in-depth deficiency students exhibited in essay writing in West African Senior Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and National Examination Council (NECO). The respondents of the study consisted of final year senior secondary student for the WASSCE and NECO classes and respondents from High Impact Capacity Teacher Building Workshop. They were required to write an essay or composition titled ‘My Best Teacher’ on page I of High Impact Capacity Teacher Building Workshop. It was discovered that there were some similarities in the type of errors, especially in the area of past perfect tenses in the second composition: ‘My First Day in the School (page 48-50). (Taken from Countdown for WASSCE/SSCE, NECO, JME English Language (Ogunsanwo et al 2005).

Fourth-Generation (4G) wireless networks will be heterogeneous, integrating different networks to provide continuous access for mobile users with multi mode access capability. The Fourth Generation communications systems is all about a global wireless communications system and defines a cost effective, simple, operable and personalized according to the users’ needs concept. The vertical handoff requirements are potential of the network, network cost, handoff latency, network conditions, power consumption and user’s preference. These must be considered during vertical handoff. In this research paper a new vertical handoff decision based on ARM & AI Techniques is designed. A refined, intelligent Associative Rule Mining (ARM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technique is used to execute the vertical handoff intelligent mechanism in fourth generation wireless networks to produce an effective service which reduces the handoff delay and complexity.

Web-based decision support systems are used to model data and make adequate decisions based upon it. They address the needs of managers in solving structured and semi-structured problems. They have provided assistance to human discrimination to put right people in right places. This research paper focuses on Academic Course Scheduling Decision Support System, which provides a reliable tool that can be used to improve decision making process in academic course scheduling. Due to the dearth of adequate classrooms in most academic institutions, and pressure on the available ones, it becomes more and more difficult for school management to battle with the problem. This paper gives a model for appropriate scheduling of courses to classrooms, as well as determining courses priorities. To facilitate good implementation of this work, the researchers painstakingly took out time to collect enough data from the case study (Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria) as well as materials and journals from various authors/sites. The application was developed using a scripting language, PHP, and MySQL database as backend to effectively achieve the aims of this project.