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On a global scale, one of the prevalent causes of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It will cause a steady deterioration in the individual from the mild stage to the severe stage, and thus impair their capacity to finish any tasks with no aid. The diagnosis is done with the utilization of existing methods which include medical history; neuropsychological testing as well as MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), a lack of sensitivity as well as precision does affect the consistency of efficient procedures. With the deep learning network’s utilization, it is possible to create a framework for detecting specific AD characteristics from the MRI images. While automatic diagnosis is done with the application of diverse machine learning techniques, the existing ones do suffer from certain constraints with regards to accuracy. Thus, this work’s key goal is to increase the classification’s accuracy through the inclusion of a pre-processing approach prior to the deep learning model. The Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database of AD patients was used to develop a deep learning approach for AD identification. In addition, this study will present ideas for Haralick features, feature extraction from Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Visual Geometry Group (VGG)-19 network techniques. The results of the experiments show that the deep learners offered are more effective than other systems already in use.

Purpose: This research aimed to identify and evaluate the risks of content production in the governmental digital libraries of Tehran.Method: In terms of essence, this research is synthetic (library studies, qualitative and quantitative), and regarding purpose, it is an applied one.  In the first part, using the studies of the research literature, a set of indicators related to the risks of content production in the governmental libraries of Tehran was obtained. The second part of this research involved a fuzzy Delphi approach that was conducted at two stages among 20 experts. In this stage, a researcher-made questionnaire based on the indicators obtained from the first stage was used. The third part of the research was a survey-analysis conducted with a quantitative method using a questionnaire made out based on the results of qualitative stage with three criteria: the probability of occurrence, effect intensity, and the inability of organization to respond and was distributed among 100 managers and experts of governmental digital libraries in Tehran.Findings: In this research, the risks of content production were identified and fell into nine major categories (human force, environmental factors, infrastructure, protection and maintenance,  creators`  technical rights, integration, content evaluation of sources and authors and information security).Conclusion: The results of this evaluation show that digital libraries are not exactly at their best level when it comes to their responses to the risk of human resources, authors' rights, and integration risks.

Most real-time speech signals are frequently disrupted by noise such as traffic, babbling, and background noises, among other things. The goal of speech denoising is to extract the clean speech signal from as many distorted components as possible. For speech denoising, many researchers worked on sparse representation and dictionary learning algorithms. These algorithms, however, have many disadvantages, including being overcomplete, computationally expensive, and susceptible to orthogonality restrictions, as well as a lack of arithmetic precision due to the usage of double-precision. We propose a greedy technique for dictionary learning with sparse representation to overcome these concerns. In this technique, the input signal's singular value decomposition is used to exploit orthogonality, and here the ℓ1-ℓ2 norm is employed to obtain sparsity to learn the dictionary. It improves dictionary learning by overcoming the orthogonality constraint, the three-sigma rule-based number of iterations, and the overcomplete nature. And this technique has resulted in improved performance as well as reduced computing complexity. With a bit-precision of Q7 fixed-point arithmetic, this approach is also used in resource-constrained embedded systems, and the performance is considerably better than other algorithms. The greedy approach outperforms the other two in terms of SNR, Short-Time Objective Intelligibility, and computing time.

The human machine interface research in the light of modern fast computers and advanced sensors is taking new heights. The classification and processing of neural activity in the brain accessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Electrocorticography (ECoG), EEG Electroencephalogram (EEG) etc., are peeling off new paradigms for pattern recognition in human brain-machine interaction applications. In the present paper, an effective novel scheme based upon a synergetic approach employing the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Support Vector Machine and Wavelet packet transform for motor imagery classification and optimal Channel selection is proposed. GA with SVM acting as the objective function is employed for simultaneous selection of features and channels optimally. The binary population of GA is uniquely represented in three-dimensional structure and a new cross-over operator for GA are introduced. The new modified cross-over operator is proposed for the modified three-dimensional population. The ‘data set I’ of ‘BCI Competition IV’ is taken for evaluation of the efficacy of the proposed scheme. For subject ‘a’ accuracy is 88.9 6.9 with 10 channels, for subject ‘b’ accuracy is 79.20±5.36with 11 channels, for subject ‘f’ accuracy is 90.50±3.56 with 13 channels, and for subject ‘g’ accuracy is 92.23±3.21with 12 channels. The proposed scheme outperforms in terms of classification accuracy for subjects ‘a, b, f, g’ and in terms of number of channels for subject ‘a’ and that for subject ‘b’ is same as reported earlier in literature. Therefore, proposed scheme contributes a significant development in terms of new three-dimensional representation of binary population for GA as well as significant new modification to the GA operators. The efficacy of the scheme is evident from the results presented in the paper for dataset under consideration.

Recently, Massive Open Online Courses have become sensational in the field of distance learning. There is a plethora of advantages being listed in learning through MOOCs but this pedagogy lacks in few areas when compared with traditional classes. One of those inabilities of MOOC is its support to prepare the students for laboratory-based courses. The authors of this study chose a MOOC course that teaches Digital Photography and created an Augmented Reality (AR) experience for a module that explains the different parts of a digital camera. The 2 nd year Multimedia students of Vellore Institute of Technology have been asked to experience the MOOC video followed by the AR experience. Their feedbacks before and after the AR experience has been statistically tested and reported. The results revealed that the students feel more confident and concentrate more when the instructional video was given as an AR experience. This study suggests that AR integrated MOOC modules might help in training students better for practice-based courses.

The objective of this study is to verify the importance of the capabilities of cloud computing services in managing and analyzing big data in business organizations because the rapid development in the use of information technology in general and network technology in particular, has led to the trend of many organizations to make their applications available for use via electronic platforms hosted by various Companies on their servers or so-called cloud computing that have become an excellent opportunity to provide services efficiently and at low cost, but managing big data presents a definite challenge in the cloud space beginning with the processes of extracting, processing data, storing data and analyze it. Through this study, we dealt with the concept of cloud computing and its capabilities in business organizations. We also interpreted the notion of big data and its distinct characteristics and sources. Finally, the relationship between cloud computing with big data was also explained (extraction, storage, analysis).

The Covid-19 outbreak has had a severe effect on the world economy. The company's business operations and profitability are damaged during the covid 19 outbreak. This deterioration is not only threatening the company’s survival position but also destroy the investor’s investment return. Therefore, it is vital to establish an effective early prediction technical method to foresee a corporate distress by a Pro-technical measurement to enhance the corporate sustainability. This study applies Altman Z-Score Model to as a Pro-Technology technique to the financial distress prediction of Malaysia’s Government Linked Plantation Companies (GLC-P) over a period of 10 years starting from 2012 to 2021. The significant contribution of the study is that the Z-Score Model provides an advanced indication tool regarding the financial stability of the respective GLC-P companies. The findings indicate that Financial Distress Prediction was dependent via in-time application of leverage, liquidity, activity, and profitability to the Altman Z-Score Model. Profitability and leverage were found to be superior prediction tool to financial distress.

The incorporation of STEM education into the curriculum has been an aspiring objective for many nations around the world. Most students choose not to pursue STEM-discipline studies because they are losing interest slowly. Moreover, the level of engagement required for STEM education is limited due to inadequate interactive teaching and tools that facilitate effective learning in a classroom setting. The objective of this project is to assess how educational game applications can help incline students’ interest in science, develop an educational game application, and conduct user experience testing. A mobile application on Earth and Space Science has been developed for 10 – 11-year-old school students. The project is based on the Rapid Application Development methodology considering the short development timeframe.  The application was created using the Ionic Framework, Angular 5, C#.NET and SQLExpress. The findings indicated that this experiment motivates students to be more inclined to science.

The article explores approaches to assessing the quality of health care sites. The main components of evaluation are identified. The author's toolkit for health site evaluation is offered. It is based on the three branches of resource competitiveness (content, technical and marketing components). Twenty parameters of site quality calculation are defined, which have the scale and are supported by determining the weights of components. The scaling of the resulting indicator is proposed. It allows designation of the level of development of the particular site in the field of health. The practical approbation of the proposed method was carried out on the example of Ukrainian sites on the topic of rehabilitation and disease prevention. The diagram of the grouping of websites on a level of development of separate components is constructed to define the further directions of work with these sites to strengthen their competitive positions in the "Health" category. The author's typology of health sites depending on the calculated numerical combinations of the quality assessment level of components is given. It also describes the state of the "ideal" mix of components of the health site, which is formed based on the balance of individual elements.