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Factors Affecting The Acceptance Of E-Ticketing Services For Airline Reservation System Among UUM
The growth of the IT usage has been tremendous in the world of business today and no doubt it has been widely used in the area of airline industry. The e-ticketing system is one of the examples of such application of the technology. This study is a user-focused research that aims to identify the factors that determine acceptance of e-ticketing system by user. Adapting the technology acceptance model (TAM) as a theoreticaI framework, this
study examines the variables perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use as antecedents of behavior intention to use the technology. Furthermore this study examines the effect of computer self-efficacy as determinant towards perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. Finding will be expected to show the significant effect of computer self-efficacy in explaining behavior intention though perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness
Darth Fader: Using wavelets to obtain accurate redshifts of spectra at very low signal-to-noise
We present the DARTH FADER algorithm, a new wavelet-based method for
estimating redshifts of galaxy spectra in spectral surveys that is particularly
adept in the very low SNR regime. We use a standard cross-correlation method to
estimate the redshifts of galaxies, using a template set built using a PCA
analysis on a set of simulated, noise-free spectra. Darth Fader employs wavelet
filtering to both estimate the continuum & to extract prominent line features
in each galaxy spectrum. A simple selection criterion based on the number of
features present in the spectrum is then used to clean the catalogue: galaxies
with fewer than six total features are removed as we are unlikely to obtain a
reliable redshift estimate. Applying our wavelet-based cleaning algorithm to a
simulated testing set, we successfully build a clean catalogue including
extremely low signal-to-noise data (SNR=2.0), for which we are able to obtain a
5.1% catastrophic failure rate in the redshift estimates (compared with 34.5%
prior to cleaning). We also show that for a catalogue with uniformly mixed SNRs
between 1.0 & 20.0, with realistic pixel-dependent noise, it is possible to
obtain redshifts with a catastrophic failure rate of 3.3% after cleaning (as
compared to 22.7% before cleaning). Whilst we do not test this algorithm
exhaustively on real data, we present a proof of concept of the applicability
of this method to real data, showing that the wavelet filtering techniques
perform well when applied to some typical spectra from the SDSS archive. The
Darth Fader algorithm provides a robust method for extracting spectral features
from very noisy spectra. The resulting clean catalogue gives an extremely low
rate of catastrophic failures, even when the spectra have a very low SNR. For
very large sky surveys, this technique may offer a significant boost in the
number of faint galaxies with accurately determined redshifts.Comment: 22 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy &
Astrophysic
A solution to the zero-hamiltonian problem in 2-D gravity
The zero-hamiltonian problem, present in reparametrization invariant systems,
is solved for the 2-D induced gravity model. Working with methods developed by
Henneaux et al. we find systematically the reduced phase-space physics,
generated by an {\it effective} hamiltonian obtained after complete gauge
fixing.Comment: 5 pages, revte
Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey
This cross-sectional study aimed at estimating prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and predictors of hypertension among Saudi adult population. Multistage stratified sampling was used to select 4758 adult participants. Three blood pressure measurements using an automatic sphygmomanometer, sociodemographics, and antihypertensive modalities were obtained. The overall prevalence of hypertension was 25.5%. Only 44.7% of hypertensives were aware, 71.8% of them received pharmacotherapy, and only 37.0% were controlled. Awareness was significantly associated with gender, age, geographical location, occupation, and comorbidity. Applying drug treatment was significantly more among older patients, but control was significantly higher among younger patients and patients with higher level of physical activity. Significant predictors of hypertension included male gender, urbanization, low education, low physical activity, obesity, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. In conclusion prevalence is high, but awareness, treatment, and control levels are low indicating a need to develop a national program for prevention, early detection, and control of hypertension
Noncommutative fluid dynamics in the Snyder space-time
In this paper, we construct for the first time the non-commutative fluid with
the deformed Poincare invariance. To this end, the realization formalism of the
noncommutative spaces is employed and the results are particularized to the
Snyder space. The non-commutative fluid generalizes the fluid model in the
action functional formulation to the noncommutative space. The fluid equations
of motion and the conserved energy-momentum tensor are obtained.Comment: 12 pages. Version published by Phys. Rev.
Exact Results for Supersymmetric Sigma Models
We show that the metric and Berry's curvature for the ground states of
supersymmetric sigma models can be computed exactly as one varies the Kahler
structure. For the case of these are related to special solutions of
affine toda equations. This allows us to extract exact results (including exact
instanton corrections). We find that the ground state metric is non-singular as
the size of the manifold shrinks to zero thus suggesting that 2d QFT makes
sense even beyond zero radius. In other words it seems that manifolds with zero
size are non-singular as target spaces for string theory (even when they are
not conformal). The cases of and are discussed in more detail.Comment: 9
Large scale distribution of total mass versus luminous matter from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: First search in the SDSS-III BOSS Data Release 10
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) in the early Universe are predicted to
leave an as yet undetected signature on the relative clustering of total mass
versus luminous matter. A detection of this effect would provide an important
confirmation of the standard cosmological paradigm and constrain alternatives
to dark matter as well as non-standard fluctuations such as Compensated
Isocurvature Perturbations (CIPs). We conduct the first observational search
for this effect, by comparing the number-weighted and luminosity-weighted
correlation functions, using the SDSS-III BOSS Data Release 10 CMASS sample.
When including CIPs in our model, we formally obtain evidence at of
the relative clustering signature and a limit that matches the existing upper
limits on the amplitude of CIPs. However, various tests suggest that these
results are not yet robust, perhaps due to systematic biases in the data. The
method developed in this Letter, used with more accurate future data such as
that from DESI, is likely to confirm or disprove our preliminary evidence.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PR
Remarks on Screening in a Gauge-Invariant Formalism
In this paper we display a direct and physically attractive derivation of the
screening contribution to the interaction potential in the Chiral Schwinger
model and generalized Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge theory. It is shown that these
results emerge naturally when a correct separation between gauge-invariant and
gauge degrees of freedom is made. Explicit expressions for gauge-invariant
fields are found.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, to appear in PR
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