A Framework to Enhance the International Competitive Advantage of Information Technology Graduates

The main objective of any educational institution is to provide its students with the best educational knowledge and experience so, they can be employed to meet the labor market demands. Due to the rapidly changing technology industry and the expanding need for information technology (IT) professionals. The mismatch between IT graduates and the needs of the labor market leads to their inability to employ and job misplacement. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the most significant factors affecting IT graduates\u27 employability and their ability to compete in the local, regional, and international labor markets through a detailed literature review and by conducting two surveys, one for IT graduates and the other for IT employers. Then, data were collected and analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 28.0 to build our proposed framework which will integrate all factors and parties involved to enhance graduates’ employability to match the labor market demands. The proposed model will assist all parties in improving their plans for producing graduates who are skilled, knowledgeable, and meet the labor market demands

A Literature Review on Agile Methodologies Quality, eXtreme Programming and SCRUM

most applied methods in the software development industry. However, agile methodologies face some challenges such as less documentation and wasting time considering changes. This review presents how the previous studies attempted to cover issues of agile methodologies and the modifications in the performance of agile methodologies. The paper also highlights unresolved issues to get the attention of developers, researchers, and software practitioners

Relationship between E-CRM, Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Trust, and Loyalty in banking Industry

E-CRM strives to enhance customer service, build relationships with customers, and keep key clients. E-CRM deals with technology, people, and processes and with the goal of fostering customer loyalty. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between E-CRM, service quality, customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty in banking industry. In order to gather sufficient reviews, a literature review was carried out utilizing a number of corresponding publications that were indexed in reliable databases. A model that highlights the relation between E-CRM and customer satisfaction, service quality, trust, and loyalty is also shown in this study. The supervisors of administrative organizations can utilize this research\u27s insights into E-CRM to build client loyalty and increase the revenue and profitability of their fir

An Integrated Framework for Delivering Healthcare Services through Information Technology

Egyptian integrated healthcare services delivery is undergoing a transformative shift driven by the rapid advancements in information technology . This paper presents an integrated framework designed to leverage IT solutions for the efficient delivery of healthcare services for patients. The proposed framework encompasses various components, including electronic health records , telemedicine, and interoperability standards.The integration of electronic health records serves as the foundation for seamless information exchange among healthcare providers, ensuring a comprehensive and up-to-date view of patient health. Telemedicine, a key aspect of the framework, facilitates remote consultations, enabling healthcare professionals to extend their reach and provide timely interventions. Additionally, the framework incorporates advanced data analytics techniques to derive meaningful insights from the vast amount of healthcare data generated

Sleep-related breathing disorders in patients with schistosomal cor-pulmonale

Schistosmiasis has long been an endemic disease in Egypt and an important cause of pulmonary hypertension. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the clinical and polysomnographic features of sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD) in patients with schistosomal cor-pulmonale and to evaluate their effects on pulmonary hemodynamics. Patients and methods: We studied 10 stable patients diagnosed with schistosomal pulmonary hypertension (7 males and 3 females their mean age was 43.7 ± 8.04) and 10 healthy volunteers matched for age, sex and BMI. Patients’ exclusion criteria were: smoking, morbid obesity, other secondary causes of pulmonary hypertension, systemic hypertension, ischemic or rheumatic heart disease or left heart failure. All patients underwent overnight polysomnography or ambulatory cardiorespiratory sleep studies, spirometry, ECG and echocardiography. Daytime sleepiness was also assessed using the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). Results: The mean AHI in patients group was 20.0 ± 11.34/h while in the control group it was 2.3 ± 1.16/h. 80% of the patients were found to have an AHI > 10/h and 60% had moderate to severe sleep apnea (AHI ⩾ 15/h). In addition, the majority of the patients (80%) spent > 30% of the night with an arterial oxygen saturation <90%. SRBD were not correlated with anthropometric measures, spirometry nor with the typical symptoms of SA such as excessive sleepiness as assessed by ESS. More importantly, SRBD were significantly associated with measures of pulmonary hypertension severity, and patients with moderate to severe SA had more impaired cardiovascular function as indicated by more severe right ventricular dilatation (p = 0.036) than patients with mild sleep apnea. Conclusion: SRBD are highly prevalent in patients with schistosomal pulmonary hypertension (PH). Also, the SA severity was correlated with more advanced PH and more severe cardiovascular impairment. Therefore in the evaluation of patients with schistosomal PH, polysomnography or an ambulatory cardiorespiratory sleep study seems justified to identify potentially treatable SRBD that may additionally challenge the already compromised cardiovascular system in these patients

AI-Based Cancer Detection Model for Contrast-Enhanced Mammography

Background: The recent development of deep neural network models for the analysis of breast images has been a breakthrough in computer-aided diagnostics (CAD). Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) is a recent mammography modality providing anatomical and functional imaging of the breast. Despite the clinical benefits it could bring, only a few research studies have been conducted around deep-learning (DL) based CAD for CEM, especially because the access to large databases is still limited. This study presents the development and evaluation of a CEM-CAD for enhancing lesion detection and breast classification. Materials & Methods: A deep learning enhanced cancer detection model based on a YOLO architecture has been optimized and trained on a large CEM dataset of 1673 patients (7443 images) with biopsy-proven lesions from various hospitals and acquisition systems. The evaluation was conducted using metrics derived from the free receiver operating characteristic (FROC) for the lesion detection and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) to evaluate the overall breast classification performance. The performances were evaluated for different types of image input and for each patient background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) level. Results: The optimized model achieved an area under the curve (AUROC) of 0.964 for breast classification. Using both low-energy and recombined image as inputs for the DL model shows greater performance than using only the recombined image. For the lesion detection, the model was able to detect 90% of all cancers with a false positive (non-cancer) rate of 0.128 per image. This study demonstrates a high impact of BPE on classification and detection performance. Conclusion: The developed CEM CAD outperforms previously published papers and its performance is comparable to radiologist-reported classification and detection capability