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This paper presents the design of 16-element linear array for smart antenna application. Conventional patch antenna is optimized to operate at 1.85GHz (3G applications) by using CST Microwave Studio parameterization. Accurate inter-element spacing has been designed to remove the mutual coupling which causes shifting of the maximum beam pattern towa

The quality of dental practitioners depends on the quality of education they receive; one critical aspect in dental education, therefore, is clinical training. In clinical training, supervisors must not only be clinically competent and knowledgeable, they must also possess good teaching and interpersonal skills to provide necessary feedback and gui

This study investigates students’ conceptual knowledge and understanding of basic statistical concepts and compares it against statistical competence, which is associated with discrete statistical knowledge and basic interpretive skills. It particularly examines the correspondence between students’ perceived ability and their empirical understa

This paper reports the design, implementation, and evaluation of a research work for developing a high performance natural speaker-independent Arabic continuous speech recognition system. It aims to explore the usefulness and success of a newly developed speech corpus, which is phonetically rich and balanced, presenting a competitive approach towar

Computer application should be enjoyable to use, do useful things and enhance the lives of people who use them. In the days of the web, issues of usability are critical to computer application such as e-commerce. Usability is re-defined as trade-off between increasing the user's motivation to encourage exploration and purchasing in e-commerce,

Tropical forests are a repository of biodiversity which provides habitats for more than 50% of the earth, s plant and animal species, an important sink for carbon stores which provides many goods and ecosystem services and a critical contributor to livelihoods, mainly of the indigenous groups which are totally dependent on forests. Yet, forests are

This paper describes an efficient framework for designing and developing Arabic speaker-independent continuous automatic speech recognition systems based on a phonetically rich and balanced speech corpus. The speech corpus contains 415 sentences recorded by 42 (21 male and 21 female) Arabic native speakers from 11 Arab countries representing three

The validity of performance assessment depends to a large extent on the rating scale that is used in the assessment procedure. It delineates the theoretical construct being measured and yield considerable influence on how performances are judged and interpreted. Implications of the use of rating scales are therefore far too important to be taken li

This study investigates students’ conceptual knowledge and understanding of basic statistical concepts and compares it against statistical competence, which is associated with discrete statistical knowledge and basic interpretive skills. It also examines the correspondence between students’ perceived ability and their empirical understanding of