Predicting customer's gender and age depending on mobile phone data

In the age of data driven solution, the customer demographic attributes, such as gender and age, play a core role that may enable companies to enhance the offers of their services and target the right customer in the right time and place. In the marketing campaign, the companies want to target the real user of the GSM (global system for mobile communications), not the line owner. Where sometimes they may not be the same. This work proposes a method that predicts users' gender and age based on their behavior, services and contract information. We used call detail records (CDRs), customer relationship management (CRM) and billing information as a data source to analyze telecom customer behavior, and applied different types of machine learning algorithms to provide marketing campaigns with more accurate information about customer demographic attributes. This model is built using reliable data set of 18,000 users provided by SyriaTel Telecom Company, for training and testing. The model applied by using big data technology and achieved 85.6% accuracy in terms of user gender prediction and 65.5% of user age prediction. The main contribution of this work is the improvement in the accuracy in terms of user gender prediction and user age prediction based on mobile phone data and end-to-end solution that approaches customer data from multiple aspects in the telecom domain

A full-scale biological aerated filtration system application in the treatment of paints industry wastewater

This study was carried out to evaluate an existing treatment technology for wastewater treatment unit from a paint production factory. Biological aerated filter is a good technique for reducing land used in the purpose of wastewater treatment. Influent discharged from this factory ranged between 50–120 m3/day with an average of 70 m3/day. This unit composed of primary and secondary sedimentation tanks, gravel filter and finally sand anthracite (3:1 by volume) filter. Aeration units and two submersible pumps were equipped for aerobic treatment and sediments removal. The unit influent was characterized by average values of chemical oxygen demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) and total suspended solids (TSS) were 1711±795, 748±180 and 3821±1621 mg/l, respectively. Primary sedimentation of the wastewater for six hours reduced the COD, BOD, and TSS by 43, 26, and 76%, respectively. The treated wastewater characteristics are in compliance with the Egyptian law which regulates the discharge of industrial wastewater to the sewerage system. The results from each treatment process proved to be efficient for the treatment of such wastewater.Keywords: Paints wastewater treatment, Biological aerated filter and water qualit

Insights on Strategic Management Practices in Jordan: A Review of Literature

Strategic management and its practices have become the most important stream need to discuss and focus in business environment, due to its vital role in improving economic growth. Although many benefits and advantages can be obtained from using strategic management, but a lot of organizations still resist or employ it a little, since some of them think this method is only helpful for larger organizations and they didn’t believe its benefits also for small-medium sized enterprises (SME) as well. The purpose of this study is to review the studies which discuss the strategic management concept and its role and impact on the organization in Jordan. The paper adopted the descriptive cross sectional research design. The study found that majority of the organization try to adopt different strategies to achieve its organizational objectives which may include competitive advantage, market share, corporate reputation and total quality of the operation. The study concludes that strategic management has a significant correlation with many factors, for instance competitive advantage and great performance. It is recommended that the management should have a long-term strategic thought towards the using of strategic management tools and employ the right resources to obtain the desired success of a business depends basically on the value creation, and skill of its top management and the strategic formulation and implementation within the context of ambiguity of the business environment. The study methodology is based on a systematic review of empirical studies on the usage of strategic management models and methods. Keywords: Strategic management, Strategic planning, Jorda

Seroperevelance of Hepatitis C and Cytomegalovirus Infection In Hemodialysis Machine in Khartoum State

هدفت هذه الدراسة الي تحديد مدى انتشار فيروس التهاب الكبد الوبائي سي ( (C والفيروس المضخم للخلايا البشرية (HCMV) بين ماكينات غسيل الكلي الدموي في مستشفيات مختلفة بولاية الخرطوم ( بشاير ،الاكاديمي ،الشرطة ، ومستشفى جياد ولاية ( الجزيرة ) ) ،وأجريت الدراسة خلال الفترة من ابريل إلى ديسمبر 2019 ,جمعت91 عينه من الدم من ماكينات الغسيل الدموي للكلي في حاويات معقمة من الذكور والإناث مع مختلف الاعمار (20_90) وحفظت العينات في ثلاجة تحت درجة حرارة (-34) حتى الاختبار ، تم فصل السيرا من الدم واجراء الاختبار باستخدام طريقة عمل الاليزاenzyme-linked immune sorbent assay ELISA – IgM) ) ،النتائج التي تم الحصول عليها 91 عينه سالبه ضد الغلوبولين المناعي النوع م ( IgM) لفيروس التهاب الكبد الوباء سي ، و8 عينات (7.3 ٪) ايجابيه للفيروس المضخم للخلايا Anti CMV- ¬IgM وكانت : مستشفى جياد (3 عينات موجبه واحد من الاناث واتنان من الزكور( 2.7%) اعمارهم( 49 و37 سنة) والأنثى عمرها 27 سنه. (مستشفى الشرطة (ثلاثة عينات موجبه (2.7%),(2 ذكور(54و67) سنه و1انثي وعمرها 48 سنه ), مستشفى الاكاديمي (عينه واحدة موجبه من الزكور وعمرها 56 سنه (0.8%) وكانت 83 عينات سالبه (75.5) للغلوبولين المناعي النوع م للفيروس المضخم للخلايا

Comparison of mistakes criteria using multiple linear regressions applied to cotton data

Cotton is the main crop not only among cellulosic crops but also among the various crops that are the raw materials which is used in the yarn and fabrics industries. The data of this crop were obtained from the central organization of Statistics in Iraq including yield, domestic consumption, production, total supply, export and import of this crop for the period (1960-2019).The mistakes criteria (MSE, MAPE, MSAE, SAZ1 and SAZ2) were compared using multiple linear regressions. The results showed high-quality ratios in terms of mistakes criteria (SAZ1 and SAZ2) as compared to other criteria

Jerusalemite Passions in the Poetry of the Crusades (Victory)

The research studies Jerusalem and poets at the full sense of the word (passions): the meaning of love complaints, sadness, anger, and triumph, these are the religious, real, psychological, and emotional meanings that most poems tackled the situations/conditions that Jerusalem survived. However, the research focused only on the dimension of victory which is clearly shown in two topics: the setting on conquest plans, the process of victory and the image of the Victorians. The researcher approaches his topic in a critical analytical way based on historical events to reveal the inner feelings of poets and their emotions towards blessed Jerusalem, and to provoke and encourage rulers and governors to conquest it. They approached this gradually as every stage requires. Some looked like strategic experts who can figure out the central point of danger and its geographical dimensions to invest the appropriate opportunity to conquest new areas. But with the advent of great leaders provocation for conquest, turned to be a mechanism to defend Muslims and Islam across all countries. This, as a result, would enable Salah din Al Ayoubi to conquest Jerusalem. The poets then started singing and praising the conquerors and drawing a clear image in the heart of the crowd as well as in their minds, rich with love, and full appreciation and thanks to the Almighty for the great victory. This clearly appeared in the consciousness of poets who were fully aware of its religious and urban importance. This was clearly reflected in their poems in a monologue with oneself and the historical reality. But due to being a literary genre, it represents vision that was able to explain the self as well as the world around, which in turn created an interactive environment among poets, the feeling of the group, an its legal dreams in creating a better future

A novel PAPR reduction scheme based on selective mapping and a random-like coding with no explicit side information in OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising technique for high data rate and reliable communication over fading channels. The main implementation drawback of this system is the possibility of high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). In this paper, we develop a novel Selective Mapping (SLM) PAPR reduction technique. In the novel proposed scheme, the alternative symbol sequences are generated by module 2 additions of data with the rows of cyclic Hadamard matrix with the same size, inserting the selected row's number to avoid transmitting any side information and specially using a random-like Irregular Repeat Accumulate (IRA) encoder for both PAPR and Bit Error Rate (BER) better performance. Keywords: IRA Codes, OFDM, PAPR, SLM method

Converting cumulative grade point average to an equivalent percentage value based on a fuzzy logic

The graduates who have finished their study program will be given a merit award and their award certificates will be graded in accordance with the degree of their academic accomplishment. The awards are generally offered using two methods; one is by the cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and the other is by the average percentage of all marks for the students. The problem is when assigning a course final grade; each student's final percentage is translated to a letter, allowing the discrepancy within the same letter grade range in the final ranking. If two students have the same final score, that means equal results. However, this equality can be false if one student hits a percentage of the highest grade, while the second student earns a percentage of the lowest grade of the same letter grade. This paper introduced a new equation that transforms between the awarded cumulative grade point average and the awarded percentage ranking based on fuzzy system. The proposed approach was tested using three actual benchmarks collected from three different colleges in Beni-Suef university. The obtained results reflects the effect of the fuzzy logic in helping converting form CGPA measures to percentage measure in educational systems