Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 7 Articles
Nowadays, the combining of advanced mobile communications and mobile account now in\nportable devices named \"smart phones\" has becomes more great uses. Among of these\ninclude health care professionals. Few studies in the challenge, blurred reality challenge\nfacing the patient and developer alike in the usability of mobile health. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the usability challenges in mobile health and usability testing. The systematic\nreview was using for collecting the prior studies that relation with our study. This study\nconcentrates on the three digital libraries Google scholar, ACM and IEEE, as well as, the\nresearcher selected the studies between 2007 and 2015. The results from this systematic were\nselected 11 studies of 106 based on the inclusions criteria. In more details, the usability\nchallenges found that 27% offered User Interface, 22% tasks and screen size, 16% insert\nmedia and 13% network. On the other hand, usability use found that, 46% of the selected\nstudies the usability use of formal type of 45% informal and 9% mixed formal and informal.\nSum up, the use of smart phones is getting more on health care and day out. Medical\napplications make smart phones useful tools in the practice of evidence-based medicine at the\npoint of care, in addition to its use in mobile clinical communications. This study will making\na contribution to the researchers to extract over the impact of the challenges on usability\ntesting and the types of usability in mobile health....
While corporate organisations in recent years have experienced increasing demands for more\neffective and efficient internal controls aimed at strengthening and enhancing the reliability\nof financial statement there exist very little empirical studies focusing on the application of\nthe five components of the COSO control framework in Revenue Cycle Internal Controls in\nGhanaian University. The study is relevant in increasing the understanding and evaluating\ninternal control effectiveness of Ghanaian Universities. The purpose of this research paper is\nto assess the level of effectiveness of the Revenue Cycle Internal Control Systems of\nUniversities in Ghana using the Committee of Sponsoring Organisation of the Treadway\ncommission (COSO) control framework in order to provide the basis for streamlining and\nimproving controls in the Universities in Ghana. The study uses primary data collected\nthrough a survey instrument from respondents sampled from Universities and University\nColleges. The results indicate that all five components of the COSO framework were in place\nand functioning effectively. The sampled population consist of Ghanaian Universities only,\nconsequently the research outcome may not necessarily represent all Universities in the world.\nOnly selected Universities and University Colleges in Ghana were included in the research,\ntherefore the findings of this study cannot be attributable to all Higher Educational\nInstitutions in Ghana....
This study explored the effect of green management in sustainable development in the\nbranding of Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism sector in Zimbabwe. The\nstudy focused on businesses in the accommodation, travel and resorts areas of the tourism\nindustry in Zimbabwe. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research design\nwhereby data was extracted from the respondents using questionnaires and in-depth\ninterviews. The key respondents to the study were managers and employees in the\naccommodation, travel sectors. The results of the study showed that SMEs in the\nZimbabwean tourism industry do not appreciate the impact of green management as a\nbranding tool. The findings indicated that most of the respondents were not aware on what of\nwhat green management is all about. A few managers appreciated the concept and concurred\nthat green management in deed was being practised by large corporations the world over. It\nwas concluded that having green and eco-labels displayed on business premises, letterheads\nand other business exchange would improve their branding and identity to the world. The\nstudy recommended that the operators in the accommodation, travel and resorts should adopt\ngreen and eco-certification programs so as to attract the modern enlightened tourist who is\ngreen and eco-sensitive....
In many technology-based and service industries, firms offer ââ?¬Å?add-onââ?¬Â products to consumers who are\npurchasing (or have already purchased) a base product. For instance, electronic retailers usually offer a wide range\nof accessories (e.g. carrying cases, memory cards, keyboards, lenses) to consumers who purchase digital cameras\nor notebook computers. In the airline industry, service add-ons often include additional baggage allowance, alcoholic\nbeverages, movies and gaming consoles, often sold separately...
Adventure tourism is a fast growing sub-sector of the tourism industry. To better understand the adventure\ntourism, the risk-taking attitude and the adventure behaviors of recreationists must be considered. This study\nclarifies these risk-taking attitudes and adventure behaviors by reviewing relevant literature. Recreation experiences,\npersonality, and risk-taking attitude are precedents of adventure behavior. By assessing the factors that affect\nadventure behavior, adventure tourism managers can provide the best adventure activities for participants....
Mountain tourism is sensitive to global warming and responsible in coping to and adapting with its effects.\nThe fast growing global tourism industry is bound to increase its share from existing 5 per cent of total global CO2\nemissions, one of the high up sources of global warming. The three quarters (as the majority) of this emission is\ncovered by mechanized mobility of passengers (both tourists and non-tourists). The trend of growing ecological\nfootprints of tourists mechanized activities from all kinds of tourism (e.g. mass or alternative) is not only adding to\nthe challenge of global warming but also gradually threatening the sustainability of mountain tourism destinations.\nIn this context, this paper brings its attention towards mass tourism bound emerging mountain tourism destination\nof Nepal which is bound for high growth on international tourist arrivals. Such a trend is compelling to grow tourists�\nmechanized mobility segments in Nepal. The paper focuses tourists� mechanized mobility induced global warming\ntrend and its related various spatial effects in Nepal Mountains. This paper also finds out the responses of various\ndirect and indirect tourism actors in managing tourist mechanized mobility segments and copings. The innovative\nresponses of the local actors in recent time reveal about the considerable contribution to transform the conventional\nmountain tourist destination of Nepal into a new form of sustainable tourism destination. The recent mass tourism\nbound landlocked mountain tourism destination of Nepal and others can learn much from the early matured European\ntourist destinations of all kinds (e.g. Alps, Andes and Rocky mountains) of Europe and Americas on responding to\nsuch negative impacts. The paper finally stresses for the substantial exchange of scientific research information and\nmutual learning among the mountain tourist destinations of all kinds....
This paper investigates a comparison between public, private and foreign banks efficiencies in the banks of Persian\nGulf region. In Persian Gulf Countries (PGC), financial sector had grown over the past years. Banking sector particularly\ngrew very rapidly and investor enjoyed high return. This study finds that whether banking sectors in PGC are efficient or\nnot. For this purpose, a sample of 103 commercial banks of Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Saudi, Kuwait, Iran and Bahrain is\ntaken from the period of 1996-2010. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to compute the efficiencies of the\nrespective banks. The result shows that the efficiency decreased in PGC�s banks after increasing the assets in banking\nsystem from year 2003. Therefore, although foreign banks don�t have any sensible change in efficiency but public and\nprivate banks decline. It cans show ownership of banking has important role in banking industries in PGC, therefore this\nstudy investigate that government ownership is less efficient than the other types. In PGC, the governments didn�t work\nefficient in toward private sectors as owner of banking system....
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