SEMANTICS STUDY ON TERMS AND SYMBOLS USED ON THE INTERNET YAHOO CHAT

Language is a key of communication, and communication itself is not limited in the family, society and nation but it can be done in a cyber space or Internet. The abbreviation of internet is international network. People use internet as a means of communication. One of the facilities that can be found on internet is Internet chat or chatting. Chatting is a virtual place when two people or more can have a typed conversation in real time. Meanwhile on internet chat, we can find that yahoo messenger is popular nowadays. People who participate in yahoo messenger use terms and symbols as need for communication to represent common phrases that they say one another. Those combinations always appear in the conversation. They are so unique, and it seems that not all people know those combinations and their meanings. Considering this condition, it also brings the writer to analyze the process of how those terms and symbols are used. The purpose of this study is to know the terms and symbols commonly used by the chatters on the Internet yahoo chat particularly yahoo messenger and to find out the formation of those terms. In this study, the writer used qualitative descriptive research design because it dealt with words and phrases, not statistical analysis. The data source used in this study was conversation among chatters on yahoo messenger channel at Revolusi-net. To collect the data, the instruments used in this study were the writer herself and observation. The writer joined in the chatting among chatters of regional chat room on yahoo messenger channel. She collected and identified terms and symbols commonly used in the conversation among chatters on yahoo messenger channel. Finally, she put them on the table and analyzed them based on their number of characters. The result of this study showed that there were forty-two terms and twenty symbols commonly used by the chatters on yahoo messenger channel. The word formations found on yahoo messenger channel, included acronym, borrowing, clipping, ejaculation and multiple processes. The formation of those terms could be explained more in chapter IV. The writer hoped that by using those combinations, people would enjoy chatting in economical way

Feature Extracting in the Presence of Environmental Noise, using Subband Adaptive Filtering

In this work, a new feature extracting method in noisy environments is proposed. The approach is based on subband decomposition of speech signals followed by adaptive filtering in the noisiest subbbands of speech. The speech decomposition is obtained using low complexity octave filter bank, while adaptive filtering is performed using the normalized least mean square algorithm. The performance of the new feature was evaluated for isolated word speech recognition in the presence of a car noise. The proposed method showed higher recognition accuracy than conventional methods in noisy environments

Did Global Financial Crisis Impact the Islamic Banking Efficiencies? Evidence From Malaysian Islamic Banks

First, this paper investigated the loan and deposit efficiencies of Malaysian Islamic banks during 2008-2013 applying the non-parametric technique, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and found that the average technical efficiency (TE) of loan financing was 83%, 88%, 87%, 95%, 100%, and 94% and the average technical efficiency for deposit mobilizations was 87%, 94%, 94%, 96%, 92%, and 96%. Only four banks in 2008, two bank in 2009, three banks in 2010, two banks in 2011-2013 are both technically and scale efficient in loan production. On the other hand, only four banks in 2008 and 2009, five banks in 2010 and 2011, three banks in 2012, and five banks in 2013 are both technical and scale efficient in deposit mobilizations. Second, the paper compares the efficiencies of Islamic banks between the global financial crisis (GFC) and the post global financial crisis (PGFC) in determining whether the efficiencies of banks between the GFCP and PGFCP are stable. Both parametric and non-parametric tests found no significant difference in the efficiencies between the two periods suggesting that the efficiencies of the Malaysian Islamic banks were stable

Algorithmic complexity of quantum capacity

Recently the theory of communication developed by Shannon has been extended to the quantum realm by exploiting the rules of quantum theory. This latter stems on complex vector spaces. However complex (as well as real) numbers are just idealizations and they are not available in practice where we can only deal with rational numbers. This fact naturally leads to the question of whether the developed notions of capacities for quantum channels truly catch their ability to transmit information. Here we answer this question for the quantum capacity. To this end we resort to the notion of semi-computability in order to approximately (by rational numbers) describe quantum states and quantum channel maps. Then we introduce algorithmic entropies (like algorithmic quantum coherent information) and derive relevant properties for them. Finally we define algorithmic quantum capacity and prove that it equals the standard one

Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage

NoThis is an analytical report for the Community Liaison Unit (CLU), 'Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage'. This report provides the context, explores the problems and the perceptions of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities of forced marriages. Therefore, this report represents a comprehensive and rigorous synthesis of existing research evidence combined with primary data collected specifically for the report

Aerial mapping using high resolution digital camera and unmanned aerial vehicle for geographical information system

In aerial photogrammetry, aerial photographs are acquired using aerial camera and light aircraft as a platform. The aerial photographs are usually processed for mapping such as for production of topographic map and other special purpose map known as thematic map. However, this method is expensive and suitable for large area but it is not practical for mapping small area. This study concentrates on the use of high resolution digital camera and a very light platform known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as data acquisition system in capturing digital aerial photographs. The acquired digital aerial photographs were processed using image processing software to produce digital map and digital orthophoto. The results showed that an accuracy of sub-meter can be obtained using the employed method. In Geographical Information System (GIS), it is quite common that topographic map and orthophoto are used as a base map. Hence, the findings from this study could also be used as an input for GIS. Not to forget, the photogrammetric technique could be used not only for mapping but it could also be used for any environmental protection and conservation