AGENT: Alumni growth and engagement across new technologies

The AGENT project aims to use social networking technologies (LinkedIn and Facebook) to support the development of undergraduates’ employability and career development. The focus of the project is on e-mentoring by alumni to provide a ‘bridge’ between individuals whose social ties and connections are weakened by time and distance, whilst at the same time capitalising on the learning opportunities afforded by the widening of social networks. Social networking sites (SNSs) have been shown to provide students with the tools to make connections, build relationships and support personal development. From a social capital perspective, SNSs can support ‘weak ties’ by allowing students to grow a social network from which to draw resources in the form of information, knowledge, advice and expertise that an institution’s alumni can provide. Alumni are a key resource for building professional networking communities that can provide offline as well as online support to students. We report on an on-going JISC project –AGENT (Alumni Growth and Engagement across New Technologies) that explores how Web 2.0 technologies engage alumni, create the sense of belonging, develop more effective and mutually-beneficial alumni-student connections and associated positive social capital outcomes.Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) 2011-201

Mining social network data for personalisation and privacy concerns: A case study of Facebook’s Beacon

This is the post-print version of the final published paper that is available from the link below.The popular success of online social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook is a hugely tempting resource of data mining for businesses engaged in personalised marketing. The use of personal information, willingly shared between online friends' networks intuitively appears to be a natural extension of current advertising strategies such as word-of-mouth and viral marketing. However, the use of SNS data for personalised marketing has provoked outrage amongst SNS users and radically highlighted the issue of privacy concern. This paper inverts the traditional approach to personalisation by conceptualising the limits of data mining in social networks using privacy concern as the guide. A qualitative investigation of 95 blogs containing 568 comments was collected during the failed launch of Beacon, a third party marketing initiative by Facebook. Thematic analysis resulted in the development of taxonomy of privacy concerns which offers a concrete means for online businesses to better understand SNS business landscape - especially with regard to the limits of the use and acceptance of personalised marketing in social networks

International Accounting Standards Harmonisation: the Case of Iran Privatisation

Accounting standards harmonisation literature shows that from the beginnhg of the twenty first century IASs and IFRSs are receiving increasing attention from professional accounting bodies and stock market authorities of developed and developing countries more than ever before. Consequently number of countries chose to join the lAS users have incresed dramatically in recent years. The objective of this paper is to explore how Iranian Accounting Standards Board achieves harmonisation with IASs and lFRSs while govemment using some efforts to develop local stock market as means of privatisation. Tehran Stock Exchange which is involved in the third wave of country privatisation required companies to prepare their financial reports using National Accounting Standards. These standards are in harmony with lASs and lFRs as they are developed based on the same procedure of lASB\u27s “due process”. In the same way, proposed projects of lran Accounting Standards Boards aim to develop conceptual framework in order toestablish a platform for standard setting. Due to recent development in privatisation in relation to Internationally harmonised national accounting and auditing standards the standard setting in lran is in the state of flex national and International wise

Kualitas Politur Organik Dari Ekstrak Kayu Jati Dan Sirlak

Penggunaan bahan finishing kayu dewasa ini dikuasai oleh bahan finishing dengan pelarut mineral, seperti melamin dan nitroselulosa. Meskipun bahan finishing ini dapat memberikan kualitas finishing yang baik, awet serta harga yang terjangkau, namun kelompok bahan finishing ini melepas banyak polutan, sehingga dapat merusak lingkungan dan berbahaya bagi kesehatan. Dalam penelitian ini dilakukan eksplorasi penggunaan bahan alternatif berupa ekstrak kayu jati yang dicampur dengan sirlak untuk produksi pewarnaan kayu atau lapisan atas. Performa bahan finishing alternatif diuji secara fisis, mekanis dan kimia pada kayu tusam dan karet, serta dibandingkan dengan performa bahan finishing komersial, yaitu melamin formaldehida (MF) dan nitroselulosa (NS). Contoh uji kedua jenis kayu direndam dalam larutan bahan finishing kemudian dikeringkan. Perubahan berat dan dimensi contoh uji akibat rendaman ditentukan pada kondisi basah dan kering. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pertambahan berat dan Perubahan dimensi akibat rendaman beragam menurut jenis kayu, orientasi serat dan jenis bahan finishing yang digunakan. Contoh kayu tusam mengalami Perubahan berat dan dimensi lebih besar daripada kayu karet. Semua formula finishing organik mampu melindungi kayu dari intrusi air, namun tidak sebaik kelompok komersial MF dan NS. Formula lapisan atas ekstrak jati dan sirlak memiliki daya tahan terhadap larutan kimia dan ketahanan gores lebih rendah daripada MF dan NS. Namun demikian, formula pewarnaan kayu ekstrak jati dan sirlak memiliki nilai warna lebih baik daripada wood stain komersil

New Approach to Oil Palm Wood Utilization for Woodworking Production Part 1: Basic Properties

An explosive development in oil palm plantations in the country has produced a consequence in the generation of plantation wastes. The disposal of these wastes has created an enormous environmental problem that some practical solution to their economic utilization has to be sought. A series of experiments have been accomplished to observe the possibility of converting the oil palm stem into valuable woodworking products. The first stage of this effort was determining basic characteristics of oil palm wood. Results in general showed that the wood has a great characteristic variation across and along the stem, which may develop problems in its utilization. Characteristics of this wood also vary according to species variety. Quality degradations of oil palm wood were mostly happened during drying process; hence, modifications to upgrade quality should be undertaken before or within the drying process

Magnetotransport and spin dynamics in an electron gas formed at oxide interfaces

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas formed at oxides' interface in the presence of a magnetic field. We consider several scenarios for the oxides' properties, including oxides with co-linear or spiral magnetic and ferroelectric order. For spiral multiferroic oxides, the magnetoelectric coupling and the topology of the localized magnetic moments introduce additional, electric field controlled spin-orbit coupling that affects the magneto-oscillation of the current. An interplay of this spin-orbit coupling, the exchange field, and of the applied magnetic field results in a quantum, gate-controlled spin and charge Hall conductance

Moderatisme Fikih Perempuan Yusuf Al-qardhawi

This paper examines the thought Yusuf al-Qardhawi about women fiqh. The theory used is maqasidus Shari'ah. The analysis used was content analysis. This research, including qualitative research because examines the idea of a character in response to public issues are very real. The results showed that, women in the time of Prophet Muhammad followed the prayer jamaah, Jum'ah prayer, the prayer of Eid fithri and Eid al-Adha.They also attended the majlis of science and even in the battlefield. Women are also allowed to work outside the home with requirements pertaining to religion and are not prohibited, consistently maintaining the ethics of Islam, and not leave its core responsibilities to her husband and children. in the context of the public, women should be leaders;and others.paper ini mengkaji pemikiran Yusuf al-Qardhawi tentang fiqh perempuan. Teori yang digunakan adalah maqasidus syari'ah (tujuan aplikasi hukum syariat). Analisis menggunakan content analysis. Penelitian termasuk penelitian kualitatif karena mengkaji gagasan seorang tokoh dalam merespons isu-isu publik yang aktual. Hasil penelitian menunjukan, bahwa perempuan masa Nabi mengikuti shalat jama'ah, shalat jum'ah, shalat idul fithri dan idul adha. Mereka juga, menghadiri majlis ilmu dan berada di medan perang. Perempuan juga boleh bekerja di luar rumah dengan syarat profesinya dibolehkan agama dan tidak diharamkan, konsisten menjaga etika Islam, dan tidak meninggalkan kewajiban utamanya kepada suami dan anak-anak; dalam konteks publik, perempuan boleh menjadi pemimpin; dan lain-lain

Attitudes of Educators and Practitioners in the UAE Towards Elements of General Education in Learning Accounting

Most universities and higher education institutions in developing countries seem to concentrate on areas of specializations inteaching accounting. Many do not seem to give attention to general education despite the fact that local and International accreditation bodies (i.c. AACSB) require general education to be pan of the accounting degree. This paper aims at finding out how educators and practitioners differ in terms of their preference ratings of general education knowledge in accounting curriculum. A survey was conducted and discriminant analysis was applied to the collected data. The results suggest that. The two groups differ in their preference in general education. Practitioners seem to give more emphasis on general knowledge in the areas of art and science and business mathematics and statistics. while educators seem to pay more attention to general knowledge in marketing and economics