AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM FOR THE EXTRACTION OF TRILITERAL ARABIC ROOTS

Stemming in the Arabic language is extracting the root form of the verb, removing inflectional affixes and derivational morphemes. Stemming is a share form of language processing in the systems of information retrieval. It is similar to the morphological processing used in natural language processing, but to some extent has different aims. Stemming is used to reduce word forms to common words. Stemming is the process of removing all affixes from a word to extract its root. This paper describes a stemming algorithm that has been developed for the Arabic language. The algorithm utilizes an important morphological aspect of the Arabic language. The algorithm examines the word and extracts its root. It examines the word letter by letter starting from the end of the word, i.e., from the last letter of the word to the first. The algorithm correctly stems most Arabic words that are derived from roots, and achieves high rate of accuracy. The algorithm has been tested on a corpus of 242 abstracts of Arabic documents from the Proceedings of the Saudi Arabian National Conference

THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING ENABLERS ON KNOWLEDGE SHARING CAPABILITY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON JORDANIAN TELECOMMUNICATION FIRMS

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of knowledge sharing enablers on knowledge sharing capability. This study used a questionnaire where the scale is adapted to measure those dimensions of knowledge sharing enablers (i.e. enjoyment in helping others, knowledge self-efficacy, top management support, organizational rewards, and ICT use) and knowledge sharing capability. This study targeted the telecommunication companies in Jordan, namely Orange and Umniah. The suitable returned questionnaires accounted for 367 out of 600. Multiple regression analysis was used to explore the impact of each of the knowledge sharing enablers on knowledge sharing. This study found that knowledge sharing enablers affect knowledge sharing. Also, it found that the most influential dimension of knowledge sharing was enjoyment in helping others; followed by ICT use, organizational rewards, and then top management support. However, knowledge self-efficacy did not have a statistically significant effect over knowledge sharing

Serotype Distribution and Drug Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae, Palestinian Territories

To determine antimicrobial drug resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes, we analyzed isolates from blood cultures of sick children residing in the West Bank before initiation of pneumococcal vaccination. Of 120 serotypes isolated, 50.8%, 73.3%, and 80.8% of the bacteremia cases could have been prevented by pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Serotype 14 was the most drug-resistant serotype isolated

Making sense of e-government implementation in Jordan: a qualitative investigation

E-government has become a popular focus of government efforts in many developed countries and, more recently, in several developing countries. Jordan is one such developing country that has embarked on an e-government initiative (the programme was launched in the year 2000, and is expected to take several years to complete). Existing empirical research on e-government has been undertaken principally within western developed countries. Of those studies that have focused on e-government implementation within developing countries, a few have identified one or more factors that play a part in the progress or otherwise of an e-government capability. Whilst useful as a combined list of possible factors to bear in mind, these studies have been based on “one-off” snapshot analyses of the situations found within the countries being studied. There is no indication as to whether the existence factors vary over time, and why this occurs. The aim of this research was to investigate the dynamic nature of, and interrelationships between, the factors that influence e-government implementation in Jordan over time. By conducting 42 semi-structured interviews with major stakeholders in Jordan including employees of the public and private sectors as well as ordinary citizens, qualitative data was collected over three periods of empirical work. By analysing the data based upon Strauss and Corbin’s variant of the grounded theory method, the research aim has been achieved. The findings of this research indicate that the factors that affect e-government implementation in Jordan differ in terms of their levels of dynamism: some persisted over three years of this longitudinal research while others emerged during the second and third cycle of the empirical work. Furthermore, while there are some factors that are similar to those that were already mentioned in the previous literature, four new factors have emerged from this research, these being: Wasta, war in Iraq, Parliament’s priorities, and government priorities. The factors that were founded from this research, and their dynamic nature, cumulated into a model based on the Jordanian context. This model said an important message to both researchers and policy makers working in the field of e-government: the factors of influence should never be regarded as being static or complete. The value of this research lies in the fact that it is one of only a handful of research that focus on issues affecting e-government implementation specifically in Jordan. Furthermore, it is unique in that it views the factors operating in this environment from a dynamic rather than a static perspective