Potential Opportunities, Barriers and Enablers to Use E-Learning within Libyan Medical Educational Institutions
Conference paper

An article published in The New York Times on March 20, 2009 gives a very clear message of Libyan citizens: “We don’t need money, we need roads, we need health care, education, and we need an economy”. There are only 13 doctors, 48 nurses, 34 hospital beds per 10,000 people in Libya. Similar to this, ample evidences are available to prove that Libya has a poor healthcare system

Mohamed Abolgasem Ali Arteimi, (07-2010), طرابلس: الأكاديمية الليبية, 1-8

An Investigation of Factors Influencing Design Team Attributes in Green Buildings
Journal Article

 Buildings contribute significantly global environmental problems. Better design can minimize these impacts. Design Green Building (DGB) aims to reduce buildings' impact on the environment. However, the green design performance depends on design team attributes. In addition, the Governance System (GS) and Client Quality (CQ) as external factors have influence on Design Team Attributes (DTA) of green building. Approach: To identify mentioned factors questionnaire survey was conducted to collect dada required. A sample of 277 respondents has been covered under the study, including architects and engineers practicing design and consultancy building sectors. Analysis data includes descriptive and quantitative analysis by using SSPS software version 16 was carried out. A correlation and regression models was established to explore the relationship between identified factors. Results: Architect is most involved one during the design process of green buildings with mean 4.82 followed by mechanical and electrical engineers with mean 4.52 and 4.44 respectively, while structural and civil engineers, interior designers and quantity survivors were 3.71, 3.29 and 2.88 respectively. The most design team attributes were investigated have a significance degree of influence except design team reputation. On the other hand, the other hand, the Governance system and client quality have major influence on these attributes. Conclusion: Involvement and participation of all project stakeholders are required. Design team attributes are the key factors to improve green design performance. Governance system and client quality play major role to enhance design team attributes. Therefore, effective regulations and policies may increase performance of the green Effective design team management device should be applied to implement Design team attributes effectively in order to improve green design team performance. 

Mohamed S Abd Elforgani, (07-2010), Science Publications: American Journal of Applied Sciences, 6 (7), 963-973

Managing manufacturing performance for competitiveness
Conference paper

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to presents a methodology to assist in the performance improvement of the process. The purpose is to assist operation processes to control and reduce cost of operations.

Methodology/approach–The paper is based on literature studies, research and experience which can be applied by an organisation in order to identify the potential benefits.

Findings–This paper provides a methodology used in this paper suggested that there will be a significant opportunity to improve the performance of the majority of the existing assets. Through benchmarking, gaps are identified and an outline of a procedure to quantify existing gaps was provided. All the tools provided by the methodology of benchmarking within the process focus on quantifying a financial gap; this sets out the priorities and justifies the case for continuous improvement. The improvement in the time of the process will lead to an increase in the value of the production, thus creating financial savings.

Originality/value–This is the first attempt framework, measures and industry world class targets, to benchmark best manufacturing practices in a company at the oil sector in North Africa. The paper provides some useful insights and can help companies to implement best practices and benchmarking to improve their practices.

R Elhuni, Munir Ahmad, Nasreddin Dhafr, R Elhuni, Haitham Mansour, (07-2010), Proceedings of 20th international conference on flexible automation and intelligent manufacturing, Oakland, CA, USA: FAIM2010, 1--13

Enhancement of Educational Institutions Dynamic Websites by adding Security and Accesibility;,
Conference paper

his paper provides a study to one of the web application and summarizes the concept of using dynamic websites in the Internet, so as to provide decision in education institutions with a suitable maters environment in order to achieve their tasks in a perfect way, also to help instructors and students to realize the educational objectives of the institution. In this paper the aspects and the importance of exchanging information between all the parties involved in the institution through reaching a high speed in performing tasks is addressed. In order to execute this work efficiently, a secure transformation and granting the right to access in a secure manner with respect to priorities were the first task to look at.

Abobaker Mohamed Abobaker Elhouni, (07-2010), Amman, Jordan: IEEE, 40-45

Performance Evaluation of Fast Handover in Mobile IPv6 Based on Link-Layer Information
Journal Article

Handover latency is the primary cause of packet loss resulting in performance degradation of standard Mobile IPv6. Mobile IPv6 with fast Handover enables a Mobile Node (MN) to quickly detect at the IP layer that it has moved to a new subnet by receiving link-related information from the link-layer; furthermore it gathers anticipative information about the new Access Point (AP) and the associated subnet prefix when the MN is still connected to the previous Corresponding Node (CN).

This paper proposes an enhancement to Fast Mobile IPv6 handover (FMIPv6), based on link layer information, we also present performance evaluations in terms of the packet loss and handover latency using evaluation models.

Mohammed Alnaas, (06-2010), Elsevier: Elsevier, 6 (83), 1644-1650

Static Recrystallization in Nb/Ti low Carbon Micro alloyed Steel
Conference paper

Activation energy for static recrystallization estimated in this work of 281kJ/mol is in excellent agreement with previously reported data (both experimental and mdeled) and indicates that difusion of Nb in austenite is most probably the rate controlling process

Abdunnaser H. Fadel, (05-2010), Serbia: Association of Metallurgical Engineers of Serbia (AMES), 13-18

Network Security for QoS Routing Metrics
Conference paper

Abstract— Data security is an essential requirement, especially when sending information over a network. Network security has three goals called confidentiality, integrity and availability (or Access). Encryption is the most common technique used to achieve this goal. However, the computer society has not yet agreed on a standard method to measure data security. The ultimate goal of this study is to define security metrics based on different aspects of network security, and then demonstrate how these metrics could be used in Quality of Service (QoS) routing to find the most secure path connecting two distant nodes (source and destination) across an internetwork. Three security metrics are proposed in this document, these metrics have been derived from three important issues of network security, namely: authentication, encryption and traffic filtration techniques (firewalls and intrusion detection systems). The metrics follow different composition rules in that the first is binary, the second is either concave or additive and the last is multiplicative. Routing algorithms that make use of such metrics have been implemented in the C# programming language to test the viability of the proposed solution. Computational effort and blocking probability are the most commonly used performance measures were used to assess the behavior and the performance of these routing algorithms. Results obtained show that the algorithms were able to find feasible paths between communicating parties and helped in making reasonable savings in the computational effort needed to find an acceptable path. Consequently, higher blocking probabilities were encountered, which is thus the price to be paid for the savings.  

Ibrahem Ali Mohammed Almerhag, Abduelbaset Mustafa Alia Goweder, (05-2010), The International Islamic University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Proceedings of ICCCE 2010, 151-157

Using Routing Optimization in next generation network to achieve high QoS",
Conference paper

This paper deals with the routing optimization in IPV6 networks. It's the key processes of traffic engineering and network planning. Routing optimization provides a means to balance the traffic load in the network with the goal to improve the quality of service. The main objective of our routing optimization procedures is the minimization of the end-to-end delay, which is the total time of an individual packet to transfer from source to destination node. By optimized one of router's functions, this function is the packet classification. This work is done modify the packet classification operation in the router architecture by making it based on two tuples (source address and flow label) instead of the regular five tuples to classify the coming packets. Finally, to test and compare the performance of our algorithm, we used the network simulator NS-2,version 2.29. The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm indeed helps to minimize the end-to-end delay as a result of router optimization.

Abobaker Mohamed Abobaker Elhouni, (05-2010), Montreal, QC, Canada: IEEE, 70-75

Influence of Reheating Temperature and Vanadium Content on Transformation Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Medium Carbon Forging Steels
Journal Article

The influence of vanadium and nitrogen on microstructure and mechanical properties of medium-carbon

steels has been studied by means of metallography and mechanical testing. Vanadium addition to the low

nitrogen steel suppresses the formation of ferrite–pearlite following the low reheating temperatures and microstructure

consists of bainitic sheaves. Increasing nitrogen at the same vanadium level promotes the acicular

ferrite formation. For high reheating temperatures, dominantly acicular ferrite structure in both the low

nitrogen and the high nitrogen vanadium steels is obtained. The results suggest that vanadium in solid solution

promotes the formation of bainite. The effect of nitrogen is related to the precipitation of VN particles in

austenite with high potency for intragranular nucleation of acicular ferrite and to the precipitation of V(C, N)

particles in ferrite with high potency for precipitation strengthening. Addition of both vanadium and nitrogen

considerably increases the strength level, while CVN20 impact energy increases on changing the microstructure

from bainitic ferrite to the fine ferrite–pearlite and acicular ferrite.

Abdulnaser Hamza Ahmed Fadel, (04-2010), Japan: ISIJ International, 4 (50), 601-606

Simply Connectivty of Immediate Bsins of Newton’s Function.
Journal Article

In this paper we want to show that each immediate basin of fixed points of Newton’s

function for a real polynomial is simply connected.

Keywords: Newton’s function, Immediate basin, Simply connected.

omar Ismail omar elhasadi, (03-2010), الاكاديمية الليبية جنزور: Libyan Academy, 8 (4), 28-32