This paper presents an analysis of the essential characteristics of the TQM philosophy by comparing the work of five notable authors in the field. A framework is produced which gather the identified TQM enablers under the well-known operations management dimensions of process, business and people. These enablers are linked with sustainable development via balance scorecard type economic and non-economic measures. In order to capture a picture of Libyan Company’s efforts to implement the TQM, a questionnaire survey is designed and implemented. Results of the survey are presented showing the main differentiating factors between the sample companies, and a way of assessing the difference between the theoretical underpinning and the practitioners’ undertakings. Survey results indicate that companies are experiencing much difficulty in translating TQM theory into practice. Only a few companies have successfully adopted a holistic approach to TQM philosophy, and most of these put relatively high emphasis on hard elements compared with soft issues of TQM. However, where companies can realise the economic outputs, non-economic benefits such as workflow management, skills development and team learning are not realised. In addition, overall, non-economic measures have secured low weightings compared with the economic measures. We believe that the framework presented in this paper can help a company to concentrate its TQM implementation efforts in terms of process, system and people management dimensions. 

The continuous call on the increase of the quality of teaching put more pressure on academics to

draw on students experiences and propose new approaches for delivering information and increasing the

standards of teaching excellence. There are several generalized approaches to the scholarship of teaching and

learning such as continuous professional development and learning by developing, however cooperative

learning combined with project-based learning can be used in a range of disciplines in graduate studies such

as Information Technology. From our experience in teaching: e-commerce subject and web application

security course we found that such a strategy encourages lecturer to continue improve the curriculum and

delivery process leading to better learning experience for the students. This paper reports on the practical

nature of cooperative learning and how to use it to bridge Teaching and Learning as well as Theory and

Application. Our purpose is to report on cooperative learning in graduate studies using Project-based learning

strategy. It demonstrates the value of student empowerment and leadership in autonomous project groups.

The strategy is designed primarily to increase student engagement and improve the learning process. We

evaluate the success of the strategy by evaluating student attendance and active participation in classroom

discussions, learning outcomes, and student results. The success of the strategy encourages us to incorporate

the project-based approach on more than one course

This paper presents an application of the hazard model reliability analysis on wind generators, based on a condition monitoring system. The hazard model techniques are most widely used in the statistical analysis of the electric machine’s lifetime data. The model can be utilized to perform appropriate maintenance decision-making based on the evaluation of the mean time to failures that occur on the wind generators due to high temperatures. The knowledge of the condition monitoring system is used to estimate the hazard failure, and survival rates, which allows the preventive maintenance approach to be performed accurately. A case study is presented to demonstrate the adequacy of the proposed method based on the condition monitoring data for two wind turbines. Such data are representative in the generator temperatures with respect to the expended operating hours of the selected wind turbines. In this context, the influence of the generator temperatures on the lifetime of the generators can be determined. The results of the study can be used to develop the predetermined maintenance program, which significantly reduces the maintenance and operation costs. 

Abstract— In this paper, the XMLSchema-driven mapping of architecture components for generating new data formats will be introduced and an investigation of how the XMLSchema can be stored in different ways will be carried out. In general, any application that has the capability to work with XML documents will need to display the structure of its related data in a different format specified for a particular occasion, due to its nature in working in heterogeneous environment. Accordingly, mapping document from one data structure to another is needed. Such a mapping process is essential, especially when dealing with XMLSchema. Actually, when the data are to be translated between XML and database there should be some means of mapping formulated for the data before they can be transferred either to the database or in the document. Most of the techniques use object relational mapping for transforming data between XML and the database. In this paper, we will present different types of mapping of XMLSchema such as tree-to-tree which means XMLSchema to another XMLSchema and XMLSchema to XHTML. Other mappings are XMLSchema to relation, XMLSchema to object relational, and XMLSchema to relational algebra. We also introduce general algorithms for many of the mapping types. The algorithms and the techniques show how XMLSchema drives the mapping of architecture components to generate a new data structure.

Abstract— Query expansion is the process of supplementing additional terms to the original query to improve the information retrieval (IR) performance. For heavily inflectional languages such as Arabic, query expansion is considered a difficult task. In this paper, the well-known approach: "The similarity thesaurus" is adopted to be applied on Arabic. Prior to applying this approach, first; datasets (three collections of Arabic documents) are pre-processed to create documents inverted index vocabularies, then, the normal indexing process is carried out. The thesaurus method is applied to create a modified (expanded) query of the original one and the target collection is indexed once more. To gauge the enhancement of retrieval process, the results of normal indexing and those of applying thesaurus approach are evaluated against each other using precision and recall measures. The results have shown that the thesaurus method has considerably enhanced the performance of the Arabic Information Retrieval (AIR) System. As the number of expansion terms increases up to a certain extent (35 terms), the performance has been improved. On the other hand, the performance will not be affected, or grow insignificantly as the number of expansion terms exceeds this limit.

The present paper involves a detailed comparison between the salt tolerance and physiological responseof three eucalypt species occurring within the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia. Eucalyptus gomphocephala DC (Myrtaceae) (common name ‘Tuart’) is restricted to the calcareous (limestone), brown or yellow sand of the coastal Spearwood dunes. Eucalyptus marginata Sm. (common name ‘Jarrah’) is a small tree on the porous, well-drained sandy soils of the Bassendean dunes Plain, and a much larger tree on the Darling Range. Corymbia calophylla (Lindl.) K.D. Hill & J. A. S. Johnson (common name ‘Marri’), and has a similar distribution to that of Jarrah, but is more common on wetter, well drained soils. This investigate implemented to find out the seedling tolerance of these three species to soil-induced stressor, namely salinity via addition of sodium chloride solution. Tolerance assessment measured changes in seedling growth, leaf allocation and leaf physiology after 70-80 days. Neither E. marginata and C. calophylla could tolerate the highest salinity (0.25 M NaCl solutions) with 9-13% survival, although E. marginata was clearly the least tolerant with 52% reduction in relative growth rate and a 88% in transpiration rates. E. gomphocephala was the most tolerant to salt stress in terms of survival and growth parameters. 

The title complex was isolated as a red solid from the reaction of 4-(salicylaldiminato)antipyrine, HL, and cobalt (II) acetate in ethanol. The complex has been characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR, UV-Vis, and X-ray single crystal diffraction. Two crystallographically different cationic units, A and B, of the title complex are found. Both units are essentially isostructural; nevertheless, small differences exist between them. Both units contain four cobalt atoms arranged at the corners of distorted cubane like core alternatively with phenoxy oxygen of the Schiff base. In both cases, one cobalt binds to three coordinated sites from the corresponding tridentate Schiff base ligand, and the fourth one was bonded by the acetate oxygen, and the fifth and the sixth donor sites come from the phenolate oxygen of another Schiff base ligand.

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