ASSESSING STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION WITH QUALITY OF SERVICE OF STUDENTS INFORMATION SYSTEM

With the increasing number of higher education institutions in Jordan, universities are competing to attract more students. To achieve this goal, the universities are competing to provide the students with all possible satisfaction means through providing efficient e-services. This paper measures the satisfaction of the students at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Jordan, with the quality of e-services. It mainly concentrates on the students’ satisfaction with the in-house developed Student Information System (SIS). To measure the satisfaction of the students, a questionnaire was developed and distributed to a sample of the university students. The questionnaire forms were collected and analyzed. The results of the questionnaire showed that the students were satisfied by the transition to e-services and the SIS has a positive impact on the students’ satisfaction. The research also provides the university with some suggestions to improve the SIS and, therefore, meet the demand of the students.Student Information Systems (SIS), Student satisfaction, SERVQUAL, quality of service.

How African American Adolescents Manage Depression: Being With Others

BACKGROUND: African American (AA) adolescents with depression face serious negative outcomes. Despite racial/ethnic disparities in treatment utilization, few studies have explored how AA adolescents manage their depression. OBJECTIVE: To describe common ways AA adolescents manage depressive symptoms through relationships with people in their lives. DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive methods were used to analyze the narratives of 22 AA young adults who had been depressed as adolescents and 5 AA adolescents in treatment for depression. RESULTS: A typology describing the varied ways AA adolescents manage their depressive symptoms through interactions with other people was constructed and labeled Being With Others. The five categories in the typology are keeping others at bay, striking out at others, seeking help from others, joining in with others, and having others reach out CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians might use the Being With Others typology to guide discussions related to detecting, assessing, and treating AA adolescents with depression

CAN DATE PALMS PLANTED FOR URBAN LANDSCAPING PURPOSES SERVE IN THE PRODUCTION OF EDIBLE FRUITS? AN EVALUATION OF TISSUE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS, FRUITS QUALITY AND HEALTH RISKS

More than 80.000 date palms are grown for ornamental purposes as part of public urban greenery in the city of Al Ain. The fruits that these palms produce, are often not valorized as food for humans, due to the fear that they might contain potentially hazardous pollutants, such as heavy metals. When palms are grown near roads or in urban environments, pollution might arise from the exhaust and dust produced by vehicles, industrial activities, as well as through urban waste material deposition, including irrigation with treated sewage effluent. On the other hand, many date palms grown for landscaping purposes might have a high potential to contribute to food production and security, should analyses reveal that their fruits are safe for consumption. The aim of the present study was thus to assess the overall quality of date fruits obtained from urban environments and roadside plantations in and around Al Ain. As part of this, possible heavy metal pollution of the fruits was investigated. In total, 34 date samples representing 11 date varieties were analyzed. All sampled palms were under long-term irrigation with treated sewage effluent. Element analysis of the potentially marketable dates revealed that their Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, or Cr levels were too low to cause toxicity in humans, even at high daily consumption rates. In fact, concentrations of these trace metals, as well as other nutritional elements such as Ca, Mg, K and P in the sampled dates were in a rather low range compared with other plant-based food. This meant that the contribution of the date fruits to human supply with nutritional elements would be comparatively small at standard consumption rates. The concentrations of Pb, Co and Ni were in a safe range for human consumption, but Cd concentrations were slightly elevated across all analyzed samples. Ingestion of the sampled dates would exceed maximum permissible daily Cd intake at a rate of 50 – 70 g dry fruit pulp per day. This would correspond to 130 – 180 g fresh date fruits. Washing of the date fruits did not reduce their element concentrations. The latter were also in a similar range across all sampling locations and maturity groups.The findings of the present study suggest that the use of date fruits produced in urban environments and along roads would be possible, given that Cd concentrations are closely monitored, and sources of Cd pollution identified. The elaboration and implementation of valorization strategies for fruits harvested from urban dates would be facilitated by the ability of the site engineers, workers, and researchers to distinguish between the different date varieties. Experience with the date sampling pertaining to this study suggested that most workers and laboratory technicians are not able to do this. For this reason, a simple flowchart was developed as part of this thesis, based on which the most widely grown date cultivars in Abu Dhabi can be easily distinguished and classified. This decision matrix was accompanied by a reference photo repository, included into the literature review

Performance Comparison of LEACH and LEACH-C Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) draw the attention of researchers due to the diversity of applications that use them. Basically, a WSN comprises many sensor nodes that are supplied with power by means of a small battery installed in the node itself; the node can also be self-charged by a solar cell. Sometimes it is impossible to change the power supply of battery-operated nodes. This dictates that sensor nodes must utilize the energy they have in an optimal manner. Data communication is the main cause of energy dissipation. In this context, designing protocols for WSNs demands more attention to the design of energy-efficient routing protocols that allow communications between sensor nodes and their base station (BS) with the least cost. LEACH is a prominent hierarchical cluster-based routing protocol. It groups sensor nodes into clusters to reduce energy dissipation. On the other hand, LEACH-C is a protocol based on LEACH that claims to improve energy dissipation over LEACH. In this paper, a successful attempt was made to compare these two protocols using MATLAB. The results show that LEACH-C has better performance than LEACH in terms of power dissipation

The Extent to Which the Jordanian Private Industrial Companies Use SMA Techniques

This study aims to examine the extent of usage of SMA techniques in the Jordanian private industrial companies (JPIC) and to examine the impact of general and financial managers’ characteristics on the adoption of SMA techniques. It also aims to explore the importance of usage the SMA techniques by JPIC in the future. The study is based on a questionnaire survey of JPIC. The study reveals that 12 out of 19 SMA techniques were adopted by JPIC. These techniques are ABC, COQ, VCC, SCM, EMA, benchmarking, BSC, competitor cost assessment, competitor position monitoring, CPA, customer lifetime value and valuation of customer assets. The results also provide interesting findings; whenever JPIC used the SMA technique they placed high importance of usage rate in the future. The SMA techniques that were not used by JPIC had a low importance of usage rate in the future, in exception of integrated PMS which achieved high importance of usage rate and the LCC which achieved a moderate rate. Finally, no impact of general and financial managers' characteristics was found on the adoption of SMA techniques in JPIC. Keywords: strategic management accounting, private companies, Jordan

Dynamic specification of vowels in Hijazi Arabic

\ua9 2024 De Gruyter Mouton. All rights reserved.Research on various languages shows that dynamic approaches to vowel acoustics – in particular Vowel-Inherent Spectral Change (VISC) – can play a vital role in characterising and classifying monophthongal vowels compared with a static model. This study’s aim was to investigate whether dynamic cues also allow for better description and classification of the Hijazi Arabic (HA) vowel system, a phonological system based on both temporal and spectral distinctions. Along with static and dynamic F1 and F2 patterns, we evaluated the extent to which vowel duration, F0, and F3 contribute to increased/decreased discriminability among vowels. Data were collected from 20 native HA speakers (10 females and 10 males) producing eight HA monophthongal vowels in a word list with varied consonantal contexts. Results showed that dynamic cues provide further insights regarding HA vowels that are not normally gleaned from static measures alone. Using discriminant analysis, the dynamic cues (particularly the seven-point model) had relatively higher classification rates, and vowel duration was found to play a significant role as an additional cue. Our results are in line with dynamic approaches and highlight the importance of looking beyond static cues and beyond the first two formants for further insights into the description and classification of vowel systems

Understanding the Relationship Between Use of Innovative Technology and Employee Performance: A Case of the Bank of Jordan

Technological implementation and innovation are considered highly critical in today’s competitive and dynamic business environment. This study aimed at analysing the role of innovative technology and work practices on employee performance within the Bank of Jordon. Quantitative methods aligned with survey technique were used to gather data from managerial and non-managerial staffs of the bank. A close ended questionnaire was used for data collection. Further, statistical analysis using correlation and regression was used to explore research objectives comprehensively. This study found positive correlation between technology implementation, innovative work practices, employee attitudes and employee performance.  Employee attitudes were least correlated with performance outcomes. Further, results suggest that innovative technology implementation, work practices and employee attitudes have significant impact on employee performance within the Bank of Jordon. The results of study are not generalisable considering the methodological limitations and sample size. Further researchers can expand scope of this study by incorporating large samples by taking into account triangulation approach. Keywords: Innovative technology, Employee performance, Bank of Jordo

The Effect of using Learning Strategy Mastery in the Collection of the Ninth-Grade Students in the Study of Islamic Education in Ma'an.

The educational curriculum considered as one of The main  Education Tools  in achieving its objectives, it’s a tool for interaction between the teacher and the learner; therefore  the civilized nations takes   great importance to the design  process on a sound basis, and to oversee their implementation in adequacy and effectiveness, and  evaluation and development processes in scientific methodology, it is considered a matter of national priorities that acquires the most of their attention (the hill et al., 1993). And the success of the process of implementing the curriculum and learning processes, education, depends largely on the presence of qualified teachers that they able to accommodate the educational philosophy of the educational system and the goals of the community, and the processes of development and modernization of the curriculum; to keep pace with developments and global changes in various fields; and the  curriculum needs of strategies for teaching and evaluation; to contribute in the Giving learners' knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to live in the developed and variable world, and away from the traditional methods of teaching and evaluation. It is no longer the role of the teacher in this era to indoctrination information, and facts, but its role  became  prepared for the learning and educational environment , is where the acquisition of knowledge, skills,, values and attitudes being  and  the educated started to have different thinking skills and the  objective educational of Mastery  that the modern education seeks to achieve; which required from teachers to realize it; and therefore the development of tactics, and methods of teaching; to keep pace with those objective and variables alrhmh (1987). Shows Sparks (Sparks, 2000) that the teacher should be able to diagnose students' needs, and understands how to learn every student, and that he should be familiar with the subject under consideration by, and roads that must be used to teach students, and owns stock a wide range of teaching strategies; that can choose what suits them learning educational situation. And the educationalists indicate to the close relationship between the teacher and teaching effectiveness, and that teaching provides a platform rich with opportunities, which provides the challenge for each student; to discover and invent applications of knowledge; to be used in solving problems, revealing the relationship between generalizations and concepts of realism and uses it, and the effectiveness of teaching keep teacher familiar strengths and weaknesses of the students, and make it able to adjust its strategies in education to suit requested (Selden, 1999). Sawa See (Sawa1995)that the teacher and teaching should be evaluate based on the appropriateness of the teachers strategies  and their impact on learning, and the ability to make optimum use of  teaching strategies, and building  meaningful class events  to teache students'