Summary: The enhancement in technology has sped the search process making more information available to users in a short amount of time. This also involves semantically enriched data for CLIR, which can either be in the form of different language or different writing system. This research investigated the retrieval performance of Quranic texts

Summary: Electronic learning (e-Learning) has become a necessary way of teaching and learning in order to meet the demands of time and is now a requisite for the development of higher education in the modern era. However, despite its many benefits, e-Learning has led to more frequent violations of academic integrity, which is a critical aspect

Summary: Health Information Technology (HIT) systems such as Electronic Health Record (EHR), Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) are reported to have potential benefits that include improving physicians` performance, patients` outcome and reducing healthcare cost among others. The benefits that

Summary: Machines lack analytical and deduction capabilities to understand the gigantic reservoirs of data. The knowledge behind the data remains largely un-extracted. On the other hand, information retrieval mechanisms do not perform well in natural language environment. Search engines perform document-level analysis rather than content-level

Summary: The emergence of mobile government (m-government) has resulted in improved transaction facilities for both government and citizens, providing a medium through which government services and transactions are delivered. Studies related to the m-government interface have focused on usability, neglecting end users’ views. Optimal design,

Summary: Over the last two decades, the internet has been rapidly developing resulting in many organizations setting an online presence in order to preserve and form an online relationship with users. Similarly, Muslims use internet as a medium to disseminate Islam; and this is seen necessary due to the wide distribution of Muslims all over th

Summary: As competition across the globe continues to intensify at a rapid pace, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are required to adapt effective tools to improve their competitiveness. The experiences of the large sized companies reveal that the alignment between the business and IT strategies in the organization will effectively enhance t

Summary: In 2013, out of the 1.7 million students that sat for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Nigeria, less than five hundred thousand (29.4%) can have a placement in the Nigeria Institutions of Higher Learning. Perhaps, people are thinking of an alternative to the conventional university programs which accommodates less

Summary: There is an enormous competition among major telecommunication service providers in Kuwait. Competition among service providers in limited population of Kuwait is a matter of survival of those companies to retain their customer base and remain in telecom business. Not only this, but to sustain competitive edge over each other. Kuwaitâ

Summary: This thesis examines one of the important aspects of the relationship between knowledge management and innovation - the influence of the people. From the literature review, it is discovered that most studies examined the relationship between knowledge management (KM) and innovation at an organizational or administrative level. This st