The Role of Zakat in Poverty Alleviation in Somalia "Analytical Study on Islamic Economics"

The Role of Zakat in Poverty Alleviation in Somalia “Analytical Study on Islamic Economics” Mr. Adam Ahmed Hussein Head department quality control, Mogadishu Universit

Assessing Question Formation in University Students of English Written Performance: An Evaluative Study

This work is a testing of writing execution formative assessment. A couple thinks about show firm confirmation that innovations planned to inspire the customer feedback that understudies get about their writing yield impressive learning grabs. The impression of understudies and their function in self-evaluation are viewed as close to an examination of' the strategies employed by teachers and the formative techniques combined in such systemic philosophies as writing. There takes after a more point by point and theoretical testing of the method for feedback, which renders a reason to a discourse of the headway of speculative models for formative evaluation and of the prospects for the change of pattern

Barriers to the Use of ICT in Education: Case Study of Mogadishu Secondary Schools, Somalia.

Barriers to the Use of ICT in Education: Case Study of Mogadishu Secondary Schools, Somalia Mr. Mohamed Hussein Hassan Dean and Lecturer, of faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Mogadishu Universit

Robustness and Adaptability Analysis of Future Military Air Transportation Fleets

Making decisions about the structure of a future military fleet is challenging. Several issues need to be considered, including multiple competing objectives and the complexity of the operating environment. A particular challenge is posed by the various types of uncertainty that the future holds. It is uncertain what future events might be encountered and how fleet design decisions will influence these events. In order to assist strategic decision-making, an analysis of future fleet options needs to account for conditions in which these different uncertainties are exposed. It is important to understand what assumptions a particular fleet is robust to, what the fleet can readily adapt to, and what conditions present risks to the fleet. We call this the analysis of a fleet’s strategic positioning. Our main aim is to introduce a framework that captures information useful to a decision maker and defines the concepts of robustness and adaptability in the context of future fleet design. We demonstrate our conceptual framework by simulating an air transportation fleet problem. We account for uncertainty by employing an explorative scenario-based approach. Each scenario represents a sampling of different future conditions and different model assumptions. Proposed changes to a fleet are then analysed based on their influence on the fleet’s robustness, adaptability, and risk to different scenarios

Defining the cost of the Egyptian lymphatic filariasis elimination programme

BACKGROUND: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is targeted for global elimination. LF elimination programmes in different countries, including Egypt, are supported financially by national and international agencies. The national programme in Egypt is based on mass drug administration (MDA) of an annual dose of a combination of 2 drugs (DEC and albendazole) to all endemic villages. This study aimed primarily to estimate the Total and Government costs of two rounds of MDA conducted in Egypt in 2000 and 2001, the average cost per person treated, and the cost share of the different programme partners. METHODS: The Total costs reflect the overall annual costs of the MDA programme, and we defined Government costs as those expenditures made by the Egyptian government to develop, implement and sustain the MDA programmes. We used a generic protocol developed in coordination with the Emory Lymphatic Filariasis Support Center. Our study was concerned with all costs to the government, donors and other implementing parties. Cost data were retrospectively gathered from local, regional and national Ministry of Health and Population records. The total estimates for each governorate were based on data from a representative district for the governorate; these were combined with national programme data for a national estimate. RESULTS: The overall Total and Government costs for treating approximately 1,795,553 individuals living in all endemic villages in the year 2000 were US $3,181,000 and US$2,412,000, respectively. In 2001, the number of persons treated increased (29%) and the Total costs were US $3,109,000 while Government costs were US$2,331,000. In 2000, the average Total and Government costs per treated subject were US $1.77 and$1.34, respectively, however, these costs decreased to US $1.34 and$1.00, respectively in 2001. The coverage rate was 86.0% in 2000 and it increased to 88.0% in 2001. CONCLUSION: The Egyptian government provided 75.8% of all resources, as reflected in the Total cost estimates, and international agencies contributed the rest. Such data highlight both the commitment of the Egyptian government and the significance of the contributions of international bodies toward the LF elimination programme

Network Topology and Time Criticality Effects in the Modularised Fleet Mix Problem

In this paper, we explore the interplay between network topology and time criticality in a military logistics system. A general goal of this work (and previous work) is to evaluate land transportation requirements or, more specifically, how to design appropriate fleets of military general service vehicles that are tasked with the supply and re-supply of military units dispersed in an area of operation. The particular focus of this paper is to gain a better understanding of how the logistics environment changes when current Army vehicles with fixed transport characteristics are replaced by a new generation of modularised vehicles that can be configured task-specifically. The experimental work is conducted within a well developed strategic planning simulation environment which includes a scenario generation engine for automatically sampling supply and re-supply missions and a multi-objective meta-heuristic search algorithm (i.e. Evolutionary Algorithm) for solving the particular scheduling and routing problems. The results presented in this paper allow for a better understanding of how (and under what conditions) a modularised vehicle fleet can provide advantages over the currently implemented system

Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey

Arabic information retrieval is a popular area of research. This paper presents the current state-of-the-art in Arabic Information Retreival (IR) approaches. Moreover, it provides general guidance for open research areas and future directions

BLOX: Visual Digital Library Building

This paper describes a visual system which was created for connecting and configuring OAI/ODL digital library components. The feasibility of this approach was shown and results were encouraging

Integration of publishing and personal document management into Windows

Document Management is the initial stage of most electronic publishing endeavours. Individuals need to organise documents in such a way that they can be retrieved and accessed on demand, shared selectively, integrated with the work of others and preserved forever. Publishing of documents is another very important aspect of document management. However, tools that exist for publishing documents are limited in that they only allow a user to send documents to local devices such as disk drives. No tools exist in the user workspace to publish documents in a wide area network. The report outlines the development of a document management tool that is aimed at addressing the issues of integrating document management and the publishing of documents in the user workspace. The components of the system are the metadata extractor, the publishing tool, the user interface and the email gateway. The system was tested and evaluated, yielding the following results that show that metadata can be extracted from research documents by defining simple heuristics that define properties of the document and using a statistical learning model. Publishing of documents to a repository in the wide area network and version control of documents was also integrated into the user workspace

Evaluating Large Image Support for DSpace

Access to large images in digital libraries is desirable from a preservation perspective and may even be a requirement in some domains, such as cartography. However, providing access to large images often poses a problem as a result of the size of the images as well as the limited screen real-estate for displaying the images. Even when these issues are addressed, there is a lack of evidence about how well large image related tasks can be performed in a digital library. In investigating this, a survey was conducted in order to identify well-performing large image support tools and the best of these tools was integrated into DSpace. A user study was conducted in order to evaluate how well large images could be supported in a digital library and it was found that users were able to successfully and easily perform tasks related to large images