Dense and Proximate Development—Daylight in the Downtown Area of a Compact City

Daylight is of utmost importance and should be the main source of light in most areas dedicated to working and living. When considering our contemporary way of living, it can be easily discerned that most of our life is spent indoors, yet in a typical architectonic design approach, daylight is too often hardly of consequence. Hence daylight becomes a critical factor. Designers comply with the legal requirements of the solar hours required for areas subjected to constant use. Simultaneously for electrical engineers’ daylight is only an additional source of light valued only where energy efficiency is concerned. The basic idea of this research is to, starting from the concept level, design the building’s volume in line with energy efficiency requirements and user expectations using daylight access strategy as the main parameter. This scope of research has been a subject of various scientific theses conducted within the last years at the Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology. This paper is dedicated to the latest and most developed outcomes. The presented solution is an architectonic point of view dedicated to the use of the daylight factor in office areas located in a dense city district that may support efficient energy requirements, including the requirements of the electric lighting system. Illumination values were set according to the BREEAM daylight and PN-EN 17037 Daylight of Buildings standard. The presented strategy is unconventional for Poland, but has the potential to be included in practice and should be developed further, together with electrical engineers, as a part of energy-saving solutions. Possibly, it should be followed simultaneously with the development of the compact cities ideas. It is hoped that it might be a starting point for discussion, and for a more detailed interdisciplinary research in the future.

A New Content Based Search Mechanism for Image Retrieval Search Engine

In the growing world of technology, where everything is available in just one click, the user expectations has increased with time. In the era of Search Engines, where Google, Yahoo are providing the facility to search through text and voice and image , it has become a complex work to handle all the operations and lot more of data storage is needed. It is also a time consuming process. In the proposed Image retrieval Search Engine, the user enters the queried image and that image is being matched with the template images . The proposed approach takes the input image with 15% accuracy to 100% accuracy to retrieve the intended image by the user. But it is found that due to the efficiency of the applied algorithm, in all cases, the retrieved images are with the same accuracy irrespective of the input query image accuracy. This implementation is very much useful in the fields of forensic, defense and diagnostics system in medical field etc. .

Konten Kurikulum Akuntansi Perguruan Tinggi Dan Kesesuaiannya Dengan Standar Kompetensi Lulusan

Changing trends in business and finance have an impact on accounting learning and curriculum. This study aims to see how the college accounting curriculum produces competent graduates and their conformity with the IQF competency standards, the competencies needed to prepare graduates to enter the accounting profession and the competencies expected by users (employers). This study uses a mix-method with a sequential exploratory model (content analysis and descriptive statistical analysis). The results of this study show that colleges provide graduates with competencies in accounting, business, general competencies and other competencies that can support graduates' careers. The compatibility between graduates competencies based on the college accounting curriculum and the IQF competency standards has been appropriate, while the compatibility between graduates competencies with the professional organizations competency and user expectations competency has not been appropriate. In their curriculum, some college have included courses related to digital technology. We hoped there will be further harmonization and adjustment between the accounting curriculum and graduate competency standards to improve graduates work ability.

USABILITY APLIKASI ANDROID HONDA e-Care DENGAN USE QUESTIONNAIRE DAN IMPORTANCE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (IPA)

Honda Pondok Pinang, which is located on Jl. Ciputat Raya No.80 Pondok Pinang, South Jakarta, in customer service using an android application called HONDA e-Care. HONDA e-Care is very helpful in making it easier for consumers to access Honda service services. Customers can book services at Honda dealers online, get notifications of periodic maintenance schedules, and search for the nearest dealer from a location that can be seen on a digital map by first accessing the Honda e-Care application. But consumers often also face problems, such as when booking a service, but the ongoing booking service does not appear. Until now, no one has conducted research on the quality of the Honda e-Care application. This study aims to measure the extent of the usability of the HONDA e-Care android application and provide suggestions for developing the HONDA e-Care application in the future. Based on the gap analysis, it was found that in general the HONDA e-Care android application on the Honda Pondok Pinang was not satisfied with the quality of the current applications. Based on the IPA analysis, the priority scale for improving the quality of the HONDA e-Care android application can be mapped where quadrant I is the highest priority scale according to the user's perspective, namely: [2], [5], [7], [8] and [9]. These four items must be upgraded immediately by the manager to meet user expectations.

A Bottom-up Ontology-based Approach to Monitor Circular Economy: Aligning User Expectations, Tools, Data and Theory

With circular economy being high on governmental agendas, there is an increasing request from governing bodies for circularity measurements. Yet currently existing macro-level monitoring frameworks are widely criticized for not being able to inform the decision making. The reasons behind their failure stem from a lack of consensus on terminologies and definitions among scholars, politicians and practitioners, a lack of supporting data and tools and, consequently, a lack of transparency and trustworthiness.To fulfill those needs, a bottom-up approach to build a shared terminology is suggested by involving macro-framework users within a government, data providers and tool developers. Their expertise and expectations for monitoring the transition are elicited through the process of formal ontology development and alignment.The ontology development experiment builds upon a use case of the Amsterdam Circular Economy Monitor (2020). First, four ontology development approaches are used to create a theory-centered, a user-centered, a tool-centered and a data-centered ontology. The ontologies are later compared, merged, and aligned with each other to arrive at one single ontology. The notes taken during the process are used to provide a detailed discussion on common concepts, identified conflicts, and gaps in monitoring expectations between the monitor users, data, tools, and the latest theory.

Quality Management in Libraries Case Study: Book Collection Retrieval in Academic Libraries

Quality management in the library is related to quality control of the library's work to meet user expectations and contributes to the continued success of the organization. However, quality control is lacking and not be the main focus in many libraries. This paper aims to explain how quality management improves work results in libraries. The research method used in this paper is qualitative research using a case study method. We conduct research in Library X that already underwent quality control in book processing activities. The data were collected through observation, and interviews for book processing activities and its quality control data during 2018-2020. The data was then analyzed document analysis. The study found that Library X could perform better by improving the quality of book processing and fixing the error just before they put the book on its shelves. Quality control gives a comprehensive evaluation in Library X either for humans, processes, and systems of book processing activities that help Library X conduct its duty to provide their user needs and expectations. Quality control and quality management also help Library X describe the library working atmosphere and can be used for giving motivation to all librarians and staff to give better service and performance for the end-users.

Survey of users’ level of satisfaction toward inclusive management and marketing of library service in Nigeria

Aim: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) brought significant innovation and improvement to library services and methods of meeting user needs. Assessment of user satisfaction with the various library services is an important variable toward inclusive library management and marketing of library services in the 21st century. With the application of ICTs bringing about different resources and various accessibility modes (print and online), it became necessary to investigate user satisfaction with various available library resources and services. Methods: The study addressed user satisfaction using adapted customer satisfaction scores (CSAT) metric with Rodski Survey to elicit information from 560 respondents that visited the library within the space of one week. The questionnaire was given to the respondents during their library visit twice daily for one week and the process excluded those that have filled the questionnaire before. Results: The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. The findings revealed the level of user satisfaction to be average. It was also discovered that the resources in the library did not meet their information needs as the majority responded that the resources are inadequate and the overall assessment of their interaction with librarians is excellent despite the inadequate resources. Conclusion: Based on the findings, recommendations were made to create a holistic marketing strategy to improve usability of the library, to acquire more resources and funding to meet user expectations, and to address the need for adequate management of library resources.