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Factors impacting research productivity of academic staff at the Iraqi higher education system

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Research productivity is a vital element in enhancing the university ranking and, it is an important metric to measure the performance of academic staff. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors impacting research productivity of academic staff at Cihan University Erbil, Iraq. A survey was carried out among 87 academic staff randomly selected at the university to determine the impact of Fund, Collaboration, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and Job Satisfaction on Research Productivity. The data was analyzed by using Smart PLS 3.2.9. The results indicated that Fund, Collaboration, ICT and Job Satisfaction had positive and significant impact on Research Productivity, although Fund has the highest impact on Research Productivity. The implication of this study is the management of universities should pay greater attention on research funding opportunities, rewarding collaboration among researchers, enabling ICT and improving job satisfac ion to boost research pr.....

Article Published 2020 2158 hits Available

Classification of driver behaviours using machine learning

Alaa Zaidan, Ruqayah

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According to the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS), over 500,000 car accidents occurred in 2016, making cars an unsafe means of transportation. This research aimed to collect driver behaviour-related data for Malaysian drivers to provide useful insights for Malaysian driving profile and to modulate machine learning for classification tasks. Twenty-one drivers (11 male and 10 female) were studied and compared for their driving style in Lebuhraya Behrang Stesen-tg malim (11 km per driver). Drivers were asked to drive naturally while considering their safety. Two analysis techniques were utilized (i.e. Statistical and Machine Learning-Based). Different conclusions were drawn from each analysis. The number of driving events for each driver was calculated (i.e. aggressive, normal and safe) and statistical tests (i.e. Mean, Standard Deviation, Correlation analysis, Oneway ANOVA and T-test) presented significant differences between each driver from the same gende.....

Thesis Published 2021 2563 hits Available

Symbolism of water in the Umayyad and Abbasid Poetry

Ahmed,Alaa-addin Hussein

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Water is a symbol of nature, which poets successfully drew with their sheer expression of the meaning of this symbol. The poets also displayed how it functioned in their poetry, presenting it as an important vital element that satisfied all of its dimensions in a plethora of poetry and poetic drawings and imagery. This research tackles this symbolism conveying thereby the poet’s suffering in his view of “water”. This beautiful theme, which was caught with the dexterous pens of the poets. The two researchers searched in the poetic collections of the Umayyad and Abbasid ages for the most significant manifestations of the approaches of these poets to the term, “water”, through their careful selection of this term, recognizing water as the elixir of life, describing it with the lightest and most delicate language regarding the most important subjects dealt by the poets of the two eras.First is the Umayyad era where the Arabic poetry was still closely attached to its environment a.....

Article Published 2022 493 hits Available

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