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The continuing outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia is globally concerning. Timely detection of infection ensures prompt quarantine of patient which is crucial for preventing the rapid spread of this contagious disease and also supports the patient with necessary medication. Due to the high infection rate of COVID-19, our health management system needs an automatic diagnosis tool that equips the health workers to pay immediate attention to the needy person. Chest CT is an essential imaging technique for diagnosis and staging of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The identification of COVID-19 CT findings assists health workers on further clinical evaluation, especially when the findings on CT scans are trivial, the person may be recommended for Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests. Literature reported that the ground-glass opacity (GGO) with or without consolidation are dominant CT findings in COVID-19 patients. In this paper, the U-Net based segmentation approach is proposed to automatically segment and analyze the GGO and consolidation findings in the chest CT scan. The performance of this system is evaluated by comparing the auto-segmented infection regions with the manually-outlines ones on 100 axial chests CT scans of around 40 COVID-19 patients from SIRM dataset. The proposed U-Net with pre-process approach yields specificity of 0.91 ± 0.09 and sensitivity of 0.87 ± 0.07 on segmenting GGO region and specificity of 0.81 ± 0.13 and sensitivity of 0.44 ± 0.17 on segmenting consolidation region. Also the experimental results confirmed that the automatic detection method identifies the CT finding with a precise opacification percentage from the chest CT image.

The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the factors that could affect the students to adopt e-learning system in Libyan universities. This study is quantitative approach, a questionnaire was adopted from previous studies and distributed among the students to collect the data. The sample of the study consists 365 students from Libya. AMOS software was used to analysis the data. The results indicated that Performance Expectancy, Efforts Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Habit and Trust have significant impact on behavioural intention. Moreover, the relationship between Behavioural intention and use behaviour is also significantly positive. However, the relationship of social influence and behavioural intention was not found significant. Finally, the moderation effect was significant and supported between social influence, trust, and Habit with behavioural intention.

Dynamic Balanced Scorecard (DBSC) is an effective business performance management control tool for dealing with business uncertainty, performance monitoring, evaluation and forecasting. DBSC has been proposed and utilized extensively over the years as an effective tool to manage and control the dynamics of business processes (BP) and their performance. However, there is little evidence of its application in knowledge-intensive (KI) organizations and how they can develop and enhance key aspects of their business processes, such as product-service systems innovation, and sustainability, for example. Moreover, the literature does not mention nor does it provide a vision or a DBSC model in cases where business process management (BPM), linked to knowledge creation and organizational transformation initiatives, are factored in the DBSC model. Hence this article explores this vein and aims to demonstrate the advantages of DBSC in this type of scenarios, with stark contrast of failed organizations of the past, particularly in small and medium-size enterprises (SME). Most of the private sector in developing countries like Chile is comprised of SMEs, which thrive and seek to grow sustainably adhering to a global economic trend. The DBSC model being shown here illustrates SMEs strategy, which reveals how intrinsic characteristics of knowledge-intensive organizations can foster sustainability and innovation in BPM.

Developed an integrated intellectual computerized system of ecological-economic monitoring, modeling, and managing the life cycle of the products of technogenic enterprises of transport engineering, which is presented in the form of a 3-equation structure, functioning in conditions of instability. The proposed paradigm system life cycle management applicable to any other control system of large and complex systems, such as techno-genic type. This new paradigm of complex systems and process management, including technical systems. The system is based on the following findings: concepts, principles, a set of non-linear models, decision-making methods, and the environmental and economic governance, integral criteria. As an example, in this paper offer solution to the problem of estimating the cost of the product life cycle of railway transport.

The article defines that the composition and structure of creative industries, their branch specialization and cooperation, the scale and directions of development of industrial and other relations are determined by means of solving spatial problems and are conditioned by the level of digital transformation as imperative system-reflex management of information security of society at parity-legal principles. The process of formation of digital transformation of creative industries as an imperative of system-reflexive management of information security of society on a parity-legal basis in modern conditions today must meet globalization challenges that dictate the development of the country's economy as a whole. This should be manifested in the application of modern integration models for the formation and development of creative industries. It is substantiated that the main tasks of the strategy of financial capacity for digital transformation of creative industries as an imperative of system-reflexive management of information security of society on a parity-legal basis are to achieve balance of financial opportunities and needs of industries, efficiency of their financial relations, efficiency of processes of formation, movement, allocation and use of financial resources, rational structure of sources of financial resources, under which is possible stable financial support of digital transformation.

In today’s era when a substitute for almost every product is readily available, acceptance and adoption of a new product in a market requires substantial amount of promotion. Here we formulate and analyze policies for promoting sales of a product in a market through optimal control theory problems. The market is partitioned into various segments depending upon multifarious demands of customers and promotion of the product is done segment-wise. The aim is to maximize the profits keeping in mind the demand requirements and the available budget for promotion. In order to provide a realistic model, the total available budget is taken to be imprecise. The optimal control model with fuzzy parameter is converted into crisp form using necessity and possibility constraints, and thereafter solved by using Pontryagin Maximum principle. To illustrate this technique, a numerical example is also considered by discretizing the model. The analysis also gives a deep insight of how the promotional effort should be planned by the decision makers keeping in mind the financial constrains without hindering the promotional effort at the end of the planning period. This paper mirrors the real time situation that could be faced by any industry, including that of software development, where budgets may have variable components and promotion of products may vary according to different regions and markets. The experimental data reveals that profitability can still be maximized if real-life constraints are applied in promotional planning by any industry.