Preliminary Insights Into the Applications of IT in Diverse Disciplines in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Acheampong Owusu ◽  
Obed Kwame Adzaku Penu ◽  
Frederick Edem Broni Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Agriculture Education ◽  
It Use ◽  
Adoption Studies ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Work Done

This paper seeks to contribute to research work done on applications of information technologies (IT) for solving problems in Africa. This was achieved via a systematic literature review on extant literature on IT use in Africa. Relevant articles with how IT are applied to the work activities of users in Africa are retrieved from various databases and analyzed to reveal the role IT plays in the African user's information journey. The results show that healthcare, agriculture, education, and banking and finance sectors have received considerable attention from researchers. Regarding methodologies adopted, most of the papers used a quantitative approach as compared to qualitative. Considering the limited literature reviews on scholarly technology adoption studies more especially in Africa where people are still yet to appreciate the use and impact of technology in their life, this paper makes significant contributions to the few scholarly studies that have been done in this regard.

Impact of Chatbot in Transforming the Face of Retailing- An Empirical Model of Antecedents and Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kumari Anshu ◽  
Loveleen Gaur ◽  
Arun Solanki
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
The Face ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Chatbot has emerged as a significant resolution to the swiftly growing customer caredemands in recent times. Chatbot has emerged as one of the biggest technological disruption. Simply speaking, it is a software agent facilitating interaction between computers and humans in natural language. So basically, it is a simulated, intellectual dialogue agent functional in a range of consumer engagement circumstances. It is the easiest and simplest means enable interaction between the retailers and the customers. </p><p> • Purpose- Most of the research work done in this field is concerned with their technical aspects. The recent research on chatbot pay little attention to the impact it is creating on users’ experience. Through this work, author is making an effort to know the customer-oriented impact that the chatbot bear on the shoppers. The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test a framework that identify the customer oriented attributes of chatbot and impact of these attributes on customers. </p><p> • Objectives- The study intends to bridge the gap between concepts and actual attributes and applications on the subject of Chatbot. The following research objectives can address the various aspects of Chatbot affecting the different characteristics of consumers shopping behaviors: a) Identify the various attributes of chatbot that bears an impression on consumer shopping behavior. b) Evaluate the impact of chatbot on consumer shopping behavior that leads to the development of chatbot usage and adoption among the customer. </p><p> • Design/Methodology/Approach – For the purpose of analysis, author has administered Factor analysis and Multiple regression using SPSS version 23 for identification of various attributes of Chatbot and knowing their impact on shoppers. A self-administered questionnaire from the review of literature is developed. Industry experts in the field of retailing and academician evaluate the questionnaire. Primary information from the respondents is gathered using this questionnaire. The questionnaire comprises of Likert scale on a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 stands for strongly disagree and 5 stands for strongly agree. Data is collected from 126 respondents, out of which 111 respondents were finally considered for study and analysis purpose. </p><p> • Findings – The empirical results show that the study identifies various attributes of chatbot like Trust, Usefulness, Satisfaction, Readiness to Use and Accessibility. It is also found that chatbot is really influencing the customers in providing them with shopping experience, which can be very helpful to the businesses for increasing the sales and creating repurchase intention among the customers. </p><p> • Originality/value – The recent research on chatbot pay little attention to the impact it is creating on customers who are actually interacting with it on regular basis. The research paper extends information for understanding and appreciating the customer oriented attributes of artificially intelligent Chatbot. In this regard, the author has developed a model framework and proposed the attributes identified. Through the work, author is also making an effort to test empirically the impact of the identified attributes on the shoppers.

scholarly journals Beacon in Information System as Way of Supporting Identification of Cattle Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1062
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Koszela ◽  
Wojciech Mueller ◽  
Jakub Otrząsek ◽  
Mateusz Łukomski ◽  
Sebastian Kujawa
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Physiological State ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
New Information ◽  
Conducting Research

The paper concentrates on researching the possibilities of using modern information technologies in animal production in order to monitor and identify behavior and well-being of cows. Having in mind the challenges related to managing dairy herds, and economic pressure put on breeders (as well as the broadly defined well-being of animals), an endeavor was made to create a new method, which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions. The proposed method of collecting data and data processing with beacon devices as well as data warehouse, allows—according to the authors—a more complete identification of behaviors and physiological condition of a dairy herd. It is also worth pointing out that this method is competitive in terms of price. By virtue of the multitude of data that were collected, a decision was made to resign from processing data on a local computer and use a cloud compute engine instead. The presented information system creates a sequence of components, which were subject to verification both on the level of creating and conducting research. Research results that were received were then compared with knowledge presented in the literature. A vital element of validation of the aforementioned methodology was comparing results that were achieved in the course of research work with the system making use of pedometer. The aim of the authors was to develop a new information technology solution, as well as a method based on beacons, which are rather universal devices, with the use of data warehouses, allowing the identification of behavior and physiological state of milk cattle, the method which would be competitive in comparison with the existing solutions, especially in terms of price. In the proposed solution, both information coming from microcomputers and weather forecast data coming from weather forecast stations, which make the above identification easy, were used as data sources.

scholarly journals LiNbO3Coating on Concrete Surface: A New and Environmentally Friendly Route for Artificial Photosynthesis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjit K. Nath ◽  
M. F. M. Zain ◽  
Abdul Amir H. Kadhum
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Artificial Photosynthesis ◽  
Reaction Pathway ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Concrete Material ◽  
Gas Phases ◽  
Work Done

The addition of a photocatalyst to ordinary building materials such as concrete creates environmentally friendly materials by which air pollution or pollution of the surface can be diminished. The use of LiNbO3photocatalyst in concrete material would be more beneficial since it can produce artificial photosynthesis in concrete. In these research photoassisted solid-gas phases reduction of carbon dioxide (artificial photosynthesis) was performed using a photocatalyst, LiNbO3, coated on concrete surface under illumination of UV-visible or sunlight and showed that LiNbO3achieved high conversion of CO2into products despite the low levels of band-gap light available. The high reaction efficiency of LiNbO3is explained by its strong remnant polarization (70 µC/cm2), allowing a longer lifetime of photoinduced carriers as well as an alternative reaction pathway. Due to the ease of usage and good photocatalytic efficiency, the research work done showed its potential application in pollution prevention.

scholarly journals Influence of Information Technologies on the Company’s Competitive Advantage on the Market in Conditions of the Global Crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataša Đalić ◽  
Mina Paunović
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Quality Cost ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Republika Srpska

In the recent decades, there has been recorded a great expansion in the computing and communication field and all the predictions are pointing to the further technological progress when using information technologies (IT) in the companies’ business. The appearance of IT in business offers certain advantages, has an influence on the business quality, cost control and also on achieving and maintaining competitive advantage of companies in conditions of the global crisis. The research was carried out on the teritory of Republika Srpska, on the sample of 136 small and medium enterprises. The key goal of this research work was to analyze the existing effects of IT at the level of competitive advantage of companies on the market in the global crisis conditions. The research results confirmed a big importance of IT in the company business for the purpose of achieving and maintaining competitive advantage on the market in conditions of the global crisis.

scholarly journals Survey on queueing models with standbys support

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sreekanth Kolledath ◽  
Kamlesh Kumar ◽  
Sarita Pippal
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Real System ◽  
Queueing Models ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Survey Article ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Interesting Area ◽  
Modelling System

This paper is a survey article on queueing models with standbys support. Due to many real life applications of queueing models, it has become an interesting area for researchers and a lot of research work has been exerted so far. It is worthwhile to examine the performance based analysis for queueing modelling system as it provides a valuable insight to the tractability of the system and accelerates its efficiency. The provision of standbys to the queueing modelling of a real system is needed for smooth functioning in the presence of its unavoidable failures. The present survey provides a dig into the research work done, and emphasis the sequential developments on queueing models with standbys support.

scholarly journals Contributions from Taoist Stories to the Ecological-Spiritual Crisis of Contemporary Mankind

Hallazgos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Arlés Gómez Arévalo
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Far East ◽  
Eastern Culture ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
The Ancient Chinese ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Work Done

This article presents the results of work done by the research group Science- Spirituality, whose third phase is called The Concept of Natural Harmony in Regards to the Man-nature Relationship: A Dialogue between Western and Eastern Cultures. This phase is an attempt to borrow from emerging Western epistemologies together with Far East traditions,<br />primarily the ancient Chinese Taoist tradition. Taking as a starting point the contemporary mankind crisis which has been proclaimed by philosophy, science and culture and regarding that which thinkers and scientists alike, such as Husserl and Prigogine have concluded, the limitations of modern-thinking are highlighted and a thorough revision of this thinking has been proposed. This revision must be done based on<br />the sense of humanity and on the dialogue between sciences and other cultures. In this case: Far Eastern culture.<br />This research work is built upon the idea of examining our perception concerning Taoist culture, assuming that this culture is reflected in its narratives and fables and that they offer an opportunity to gain new insights and meanings regarding the world and some of the issues faced by contemporary humankind. Thus, the category crisis becomes particularly<br />important since it is understood as a challenge or opportunity in an increasingly globalized and technology-oriented world marked by problems such as inequality, exclusion, paradoxes and the contradictions of the human being, including himself, others and furthermore a permanent critical relationship to nature from which he or she has been disconnected<br />in a physical, spiritual and energetic way (Guenon, 2010, 34).

Information System for the Initiation and Competitive Selection of Participatory Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Tsurkan ◽  
◽  
David Mamagulashvili
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Data Management System ◽  
It Use ◽  
Accurate Definition ◽  
Government Project ◽  
The Government ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Selection Of

The relevance of the article is caused by the necessity to use information technologies and digital methods during the selection and launch of regional participatory projects. The objective of the paper is to develop technical task pattern for PIMS of LISP projects with the emphasis on launching models and appropriate selection procedure for participatory projects that are to obtain the interbudgetary transfer in the form of grant. The article gives more accurate definition of the term «participatory project» in the area under study. The study demonstrates the best examples of IT use during the launch and selection of regional participatory projects. The paper sets out the key requirements to the participatory projects data management system. The results of the study are practically relevant for the government, project managers and scientists, engaged in digital economics and management.

Research Issues in Parenteral Nutrition

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 294-298
Author(s):  
Amit Tagare ◽  
Umesh Vaidya
Keyword(s):  
Parenteral Nutrition ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Nutritional Interventions ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Major Clinical Problem ◽  
Extrauterine Growth Retardation

Extrauterine growth retardation is a major clinical problem in preterm infants. Aggressive nutritional interventions may play an important role to fight this prevalent problem. Parenteral nutrition is almost indispensable part of aggressive nutritional approach in neonates, because of certain limitations of enteral route during first few days of life. Formidable research work done in developed world has resolved certain important issues like dosage regimens. However, still we need to resolve quite a few unanswered queries. This is especially true for Indian context where we deal with a different population of neonates than the developed world. In this article we will discuss both the resolved and unresolved issues regarding neonatal parenteral nutrition and the research priorities for us.

Gene Expression Programming

2017 ◽  
pp. 269-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baddrud Zaman Laskar ◽  
Swanirbhar Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Natural Selection ◽  
Genetic Programming ◽  
Soft Computing ◽  
Gene Expression Programming ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Genetic Operators ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Work Done

Gene expression programming (GEP) introduced by Candida Ferreira is a descendant of genetic algorithm (GA) and genetic programming (GP). It takes the advantage of both the optimization and search technique based on genetics and natural selection as GA and its programmatic Darwinian counterpart GP. It is gaining popularity because; it has to some extent eradicated the ‘cons' of both while keeping in the ‘pros'. It is still a new technique not much explored since its introduction in 2001. In this chapter both GA and GP is first discussed followed by the elaborate discussion of GEP. This is followed up by the discussion on research work done is different fields using GEP as a tool followed up by GEP architectures. Finally, here GEP has been used for detection of age from facial features as a soft computing based optimization problem using genetic operators.

Greenhouse Solar Thermal Application

2013 ◽  
pp. 462-479
Author(s):  
Tribeni Das ◽  
Ganesh C Bora
Keyword(s):  
Flat Plate ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Solar Thermal ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Solar Thermal Applications ◽  
Flat Plate Collector ◽  
Work Done

This chapter includes brief description of different solar thermal applications of greenhouse structure based on the different research work done in this area. It provides the basic knowledge of the use of solar energy to increase the production of different agricultural products using greenhouse system, e.g., crop production and drying of agricultural products. The chapter includes the introduction of greenhouse system, the definition, the concept, and the importance of greenhouse technology. The uses of various solar thermal applications in different greenhouse systems such as flat plate collector in greenhouse fish pond system and application of photovoltaic system in greenhouse drying are covered in this chapter.

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