Egyptian electronic government: The university enrolment case study

E-government projects have potential for greaterefficiency and effectiveness of government operations. For thisreason, many developing countries governments have investedheavily in this agenda and an increasing number of e- governmentprojects are being implemented. However, there is a lack of clearcase material, which describes the potentialities and consequenceexperienced by organizations trying to manage with this change. TheMinistry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) is theorganization responsible for the e- Government program in Egyptsince early 2004. This paper presents a case study of the process ofadmission to public universities and institutions in Egypt which is ledby MSAD. Underlining the key benefits resulting from the initiative,explaining the strategies and the development steps used toimplement it, and highlighting the main obstacles encountered andhow they were overcome will help repeat the experience in otheruseful e-government projects.Keywords—Case studies, Egypt, Electro

Crossover from Endogenous to Exogenous Activity in Open-Source Software Development

We have investigated the origin of fluctuations in the aggregated behaviour of an open-source software community. In a recent series of papers, de Menezes and co-workers have shown how to separate internal dynamics from external fluctuations by capturing the simultaneous activity of many system's components. In spite of software development being a planned activity, the analysis of fluctuations reveals how external driving forces can be only observed at weekly and higher time scales. Hourly and higher change frequencies mostly relate to internal maintenance activities. There is a crossover from endogenous to exogenous activity depending on the average number of file changes. This new evidence suggests that software development is a non-homogeneous design activity where stronger efforts focus in a few project files. The crossover can be explained with a Langevin equation associated to the cascading process, where changes to any file trigger additional changes to its neighbours in the software network. In addition, analysis of fluctuations enables us to detect whether a software system can be decomposed in several subsystems with different development dynamics.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Europhysics Letter

Бактерицидный эффект He-Ne лазера (632,8 нм) на колонии Staphylococcus aureus

The bactericidal effect of 632.8 nm low level laser has been studied in order to point out both the effective power and laser exposure time on Staphylococcus aureus, which is reported to be involved in several dermatology problems. Low level laser has been reported to be useful for infected wounds, tissue necrosis, nerve injury, osteoarthritis or other chronic pain syndromes. Numerous studies have been conducted to quantify the effective laser parameters, i.e. dose, power, and exposure time, which ultimately leads toward clinical implementation. Staphylococcus aureus bacteria colonies were exposed to laser doses with powers of both 1 and 3 mW at different exposure times varies between 3 to 30 minutes. The bacterial colonies were isolated from a patient with inflamed wounds. Two sets of bacterial colonies were prepared to be exposed to laser beam. Next, the bacterial colonies were compared before and after exposing them to laser doses. The results showed that laser sessions have reduced the number of the bacterial colonies for both doses; 1 and 3 mw at the different exposure times and concentrations. The results revealed significant dose dependent bactericidal effects of He-Ne laser on Staphylococcus aureus at 3 mW for 30 minutes, which was found to be more effective in reducing the amount of bacteria to the less than 2% of its initial count. The results exhibited the reduction of the number of colonies as a function of exposure time. Appropriate doses of 632.8 nm can kill Staphylococcus aureus, suggesting that a similar effect may be used in clinical cases of bacterial infection.Нами был изучен бактерицидный эффект низкочастотного лазера с длиной волны 632,8 нм с целью определения эффективной мощности и времени воздействия лазера на бактерии Staphylococcus aureus, участвующие в патогенезе ряда дерматологических заболеваний. Ранее проведены многочисленные исследования количественной оценки эффективных параметров лазера: световой дозы, плотности мощности и времени воздействия. В настоящем исследовании на колонии бактерий Staphylococcus aureus воздействовали лазерным излучением мощностью 1 и 3 мВт при разном времени воздействия (от 3 до 30 мин). Колонии бактерий были выделены у больного с воспаленными ранами. Воздействие лазером уменьшило количество бактериальных колоний во всех экспериментах. Результаты выявили значительное дозозависимое бактерицидное воздействие гелий-неонового лазера на Staphylococcus aureus. При мощности 3 мВт при воздействии в течение 30 мин количество бактерий снизилось до уровня менее 2% от его первоначального количества. Результаты показали уменьшение количества колоний в зависимости от времени воздействия. Лазерное излучение на длине волны 632,8 нм обладает бактерицидным действием в отношении Staphylococcus aureus

Spectral properties in the charge density wave phase of the half-filled Falicov-Kimball Model

We study the spectral properties of charge density wave (CDW) phase of the half-filled spinless Falicov-Kimball model within the framework of the Dynamical Mean Field Theory. We present detailed results for the spectral function in the CDW phase as function of temperature and $U$. We show how the proximity of the non-fermi liquid phase affects the CDW phase, and show that there is a region in the phase diagram where we get a CDW phase without a gap in the spectral function. This is a radical deviation from the mean-field prediction where the gap is proportional to the order parameter

Analytic Determination of the Critical Coupling for Oscillators in a Ring

We study a model of coupled oscillators with bidirectional first nearest neighbours coupling with periodic boundary conditions. We show that a stable phase-locked solution is decided by the oscillators at the borders between the major clusters, which merge to form a larger one of all oscillators at the stage of complete synchronization. We are able to locate these four oscillators as well as the size of major clusters in the vicinity of the stage of full synchronization which we show to depend only on the set of initial frequencies. Using the method presented here, we are able to obtain an analytic form of the critical coupling, at which the complete synchronization state occurs.Comment: 5 pages and 3 figure

In GaN Double Heterostructure (DH) Laser Diode Performance And Optimization.

The laser performances of the blue DH InGaN laser diode (LD) structures have been numerically investigated by using ISE TCAD software

Al0.15Ga0.85N/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors (HFET)Device Structure Optimization And Thermal Effects.

Al0.15Ga0.85N/GaN heterostructure field effect transistors (HFETs) was simulated by using ISETCAD software with varying substrate type, gate length and source drain resistances

Red Emission Of Thin Film Electroluminescent Device Based On p-GaN.

High quality GaN layers doped with Mg were grown on Si(111) substrates using high temperature AlN as buffer layer by using radio-frequency molecular beam epitaxy (RF-MBE)