The Quality of E-learning on The Website

The goal of the current study is to learn more about different online apps that can be used in E-learning. The study also aims at shedding light on more important methods using applications on the web in the quality of E-learning. Applications are taken from the website: Classroom, Edmodo, Moodle, Zoom, Free Conference call, Meet, WebEx Meet, Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber, and YouTube. These applications are used in E-learning. The study focuses on various types of university education, and it is made public through social media. The study uses Google Forms approach that consists of a set of questions that are answered entirely and at random. The study was conducted on 288 samples during the 18 hours ending on 29/ 05/2020 at 13:50:30. The results were a questionnaire of seeing which website applications are mostly used in the quality of E-learning. Google, statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS), and Excel data analysis system is scrutinized by using the questionnaire results. Now E-learning uses more interactively in universities than any other time during the different web applications for creating conferences, seminars, classes for students.

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park: Geologic resources inventory report

Geologic Resources Inventory reports provide information and resources to help park managers make decisions for visitor safety, planning and protection of infrastructure, and preservation of natural and cultural resources. Information in GRI reports may also be useful for interpretation. This report synthesizes discussions from a scoping meeting held in 2012 and a follow-up conference call in 2020. Chapters of this report discuss the geologic setting and significance, geologic features and processes, and geologic resource management issues within Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. Information about the previously completed GRI map data is also provided. A GRI map poster (separate product) illustrate the GRI map data. Geologic features, processes, and resource management issues identified include erosion and mass wasting, fluvial features and processes, monadnocks, earthworks, stone quarry, building stone, ultramafic rocks, seismic activity, caves and karst, and eolian features and processes.

Disclosure Sentiment: Machine Learning vs. Dictionary Methods

We compare the ability of dictionary-based and machine-learning methods to capture disclosure sentiment at 10-K filing and conference-call dates. Like Loughran and McDonald [Loughran T, McDonald B (2011) When is a liability not a liability? Textual analysis, dictionaries, and 10-Ks. J. Finance 66(1):35–65.], we use returns to assess sentiment. We find that measures based on machine learning offer a significant improvement in explanatory power over dictionary-based measures. Specifically, machine-learning measures explain returns at 10-K filing dates, whereas measures based on the Loughran and McDonald dictionary only explain returns at 10-K filing dates during the time period of their study. Moreover, at conference-call dates, machine-learning methods offer an improvement over the Loughran and McDonald dictionary method of a greater magnitude than the improvement of the Loughran and McDonald dictionary over the Harvard Psychosociological Dictionary. We further find that the random-forest-regression-tree method better captures disclosure sentiment than alternative algorithms, simplifying the application of the machine-learning approach. Overall, our results suggest that machine-learning methods offer an easily implementable, more powerful, and reliable measure of disclosure sentiment than dictionary-based methods. This paper was accepted by Brian Bushee, management science.

Preface

The Conference took place virtually due to covid-19 outbreak and travel restrictions. The organisers were from different cities in Iraq but most of them from Basrah. There were five plenary speakers and these speakers were from UK, Australia, South Africa, Jordan and Iraq. Each speaker took approximately an hour with Q&A session. In overall, there were 11 sessions that were delivered by 82 speakers, who were from different countries, each speaker spent 15 min to deliver their talks. All the discussions and Q&A time were live through Zoom rooms and FCC. The overall attendance number was more than 500 people during 5 days. Laptops, phones, Zoom and free conference call were needed to deliver the meeting successfully. The only technical difficulty that we faced sometimes is the weak WiFi signals. The drawbacks in the delivery of the conference virtually, was we couldn’t welcome people in person and couldn’t have Gala dinner. Other than that everything went very well. The idea of the conference is for the chemist, scientists, scholars, engineers, and students from Iraq and all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. We think it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in different aspects of chemistry and its relation with other sciences. The conference program consists of invited sessions and technical workshops and discussions with eminent speakers covering a wide range of topics in chemistry. This rich program provides all attendees with the opportunities to meet online and interact with one another. We hope your experience with the 3rd VICC is a fruitful and long-lasting one. We would like to thank the organization staff, the members of the program committees, and reviewers. They have worked very hard in reviewing papers and making valuable suggestions for the authors to improve their work. We also would like to express our gratitude to the external reviewers, for providing extra help in the review process, and the authors for contributing their research results to the conference. Special thanks go to IOP Publishing-Journal of Physics Conference Series for their generous assistance and cooperation. List of Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee, Technical committee are available in this pdf.

Sacred Earth and African Women’s Theology

This special issue is one of the nine academic publications emerging from the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ (the Circle) Fifth Pan-African Conference, held at the University of Botswana (Gaborone), July 2-5, 2019. The conference was also a commemoration of the Circle’s thirty years of existence. It featured papers on some aspects of the theme, “Mother Earth and Mother Africa in Theological/Religious/Cultural/Philosophical Imagination.” As was noted in the Conference Call for Papers:The land is often constructed as female gendered and the oppression of women is interlinked with the oppression of the Earth; and…it is widely acknowledged that we live in the era of global warming - which is humanly induced and of which many have also linked with anthropocentric religious/cultural/theological perspectives.

Virtual Face to Face Meeting for Non-Technical Personnel

Covid-19 has impacted profoundly the business environment. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) becomes not only the major platform but also sustains the existence and running most business. Retail business becomes more dependent on technology. Small Business Enterprises (SME) have to jump and become savvy in ICT. The SME supply chain and marketing environment are moving toward ICT based platforms. On the other side the penetration of social media tool especially smartphone is widely spread. It can be safely assumed that every job holder whether entrepreneur, employee, or professionals or craftspeople is familiar with smartphones. The gap that must be bridged is using smartphone for business purposes. One of the business requirements that are not easy to replace is face to face communications. As Internet is ubiquitous and smartphones can easily access the Internet, there are numerous application that can resides both in computers and smartphones. The application that is closely similar to face to face meeting is known as Video Conference call. With this application it is possible to perform business briefing any time and anywhere provided there is Internet access. As business communication is not limited to technically savvy parties, a supportive system must be selected and introduced to them. We select Zoom as the application and develop a simple training syllabus. The syllabus has been implemented to a retail chain.

Usefulness of Free Conference Call (FCC) in Digital Learning Platform: A Comparative Study using Users' Perception and Economical Compatibility

The outbreak of the present pandemic coronavirus (official designation COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2) has a clear negative impact on academic and research activities. Issues created by such pandemic viz. loss of communication; shut down of school, college and universities; disruption of the formal learning process; damage of print materials, etc. provoke the transformation of the learning process from conventional to digital. A sophisticated & multitasking platform for online learning is the primary requirement of this transformation, which conforms to the 5A's of access, i.e., Availability, Adequacy, Accessibility, Affordability, and Appropriateness. It bridges the digital divide by ensuring equal access to the web for all. In this paper, the authors have conducted a comparative analysis between the most commonly used web-conferencing tools (viz. FCC, ZOOM, GTM, Join.me & Cisco WebEx) in India, both in terms of users’ & economic perspective. The Users’ perspective was determined by conducting a short online survey using a Google form questionnaire. The survey contains 450 respondents equally distributed among three sample groups, viz. Students, faculty members & library professionals. And the Economical compatibility is identified by solely using the tools & check their pricing & plans. After evaluation & comparison, the study identified that the tool FCC (Free Conference Call), can use by learners and educators as an alternative solution to the physical classroom. This is a dissemination or sharing platform and the most versatile and comprehensive free web-conferencing solution which can be used by academic institutions and educators for online classes. Besides, this paper also goes through a basic overview of 5 A’s of access and provides sufficient evidence that FCC meets all the five criteria of accessibility to clarify the judgment of its acceptance.