The aim of this paper is to investigate the adoption of internet banking among potential clients. Drawing on the model of technology acceptance (TAM) we test the influence of perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness on clients’ adoption of internet banking. To achieve this purpose a field survey was used to investigate the internet banking acceptance Omani people, were two hypotheses empirically validated. To analyze the collected data and test the hypotheses of the study, multiple regression test were used. Relaying on this analyzed data, the TAM model explained 56.3 % of the variance in users’ intention to utilize internet banking. We found that both constructs’ (perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness) have significant effect on clients’ acceptance of internet banking. The results of the study are discussed.

The emergence of stream data has brought new challenges in data mining technology. At present the stream data has been widely used in telecommunications, retailing, network analysis, sensor networks, real time surveillance system, finance applications and other field. Data stream is not the static rather it is the dynamic in nature, so the target environment changes over the time that refers to concept drift. Adapting various types of concept drift is important for dealing with real-world online learning problems. An online learning system must be able to respond to both gradual and sudden concept drifts. This paper proposes the Ensemble Boosting Classifier (EBC) which uses the weighted majority approach with adaptive windowing concept and the hoeffding tree as the base learner. Different synthetic data with the gradual and sudden concept drift applies to the EBC to test the performance in the presence of different concept drift. EBC is also tested for the real datasets. Results suggest that, EBC performed better as compared to the other methods in terms of accuracy, space and adaptive to the concept drifts.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between life satisfaction and ego states in elderly residents of nursing homes.\nMaterials and Methods: This study descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in June and July, 2013. The sample was composed of 126 volunteer elders living in nursing homes who displayed a normal mental process by scoring at least 23 points on the SMMT. Data were collected using the ‘Elderly Introduction Form,’ a questionnaire that contained identifier characteristics, elders’ health conditions and information relating to life style habits, which was prepared by the researchers; ‘The Satisfaction With Life Scale’ (SWLS); and the ‘Adjective Check List’ (ACL).\nResults: The mean SWLS score of the elderly participants was 77.84 ± 7.49. This result indicates that elderly people in nursing homes have a high level of life satisfaction. On the ACL, the dominant ego state of elderly participants was found to be Critical Parent (34.1%). Analysis of these results revealed a significant difference between life satisfaction levels and dominant ego states (F=47.304, p<0.001); the differences were attributed to the Natural Child Ego State and Critical Parent Ego State. \nDiscussion: There was a significant difference between life satisfaction level and dominant ego state. Living life with a Natural Child Ego State was related to high life satisfaction levels in the elderly.

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is one of the common breathing disorders during sleep that is related to different nocturnal cardiac rhythm disturbances. The aim of the study is to determine the frequency of arrhythmias in patients with OSAS and without history of cardiovascular diseases, and to define the risk factors that are associated with them. \nMaterials and Methods: 184 patients with OSAS and no other diseases were included in this single center study. Different diagnostic tests were performed of all participants.\nResults: Patients were divided into 2 groups – with and without clinically significant arrhythmias. The first group consist of 67 (79.76%) patients with different mainly nocturnal arrhythmias: Premature supraventricular (94.03%) and ventricular contractions (88.06%), shortly episodes of ventricular tachycardia - in 23.8% of the cases, paroxysmal nocturnal attacks of atrial fibrillation – 21.4% patients, bradicardia – 8.3% patients. The rhythm disturbances that were registered in the second group were not clinically significant. Factors that increased the probability of cardiac rhythm disorders were age (OR 10.183, p<0.001), body mass index (OR 6.609, p=0.007), apnea–hypopnea index (OR 9.333, p<0.001), duration of the desaturation time (OR 6.460, p<0.001) and the lowest saturation detected during the records (OR 13.120, p=0.001).\nConclusions: Cardiac rhythm disorders occurred more frequently in patients with moderate or severe OSAS. Age, body mass index, apnea-hypopnea index, continuation of the desaturation time and the lowest nocturnal saturation correlate with higher incidences of arrhythmias.

Robust speculation and scholarship, in ancient times and modern, has repeatedly concluded that creativity is a mystery. Nonetheless, one thing is certain about creativity. People in Western nations and people in Eastern nations conceptualize and practise creativity in in almost exactly opposite ways. The reason for this difference appears to be rooted in the difference between Western and Eastern beliefs about ontology. The Western way of thinking tends to be dualistic, separating the mind from the body, Divinity from nature, and eternity from time. The Eastern way of thinking tends to be monistic, maintaining unity between mind and body, Divinity and nature, and eternity and time. In other words, Westerners tend to believe in transcendent being, while Easterners tend to believe in impermanent becoming. For Westerners ultimate reality is beyond the changes of nature; for Easterners reality is constant change, with nothing beyond nature. An important implication of these differences is that in the West creativity is usually entrusted to the human imagination, regarded as a mental power capable of envisioning eternally original artefacts, while in the East creativity is entrusted to nature-in-the human, what Taoist philosophy calls qi, a spiritual power capable of reflecting the passing changes of nature in paintings, poems, and other forms of art. It is the intention of this paper to explore and elucidate these differences between the Western and Eastern conceptualizations of creativity, ending with a suggestion of one feature they may have in common.

Cloud cover is one of the most important atmospheric factors affecting solar radiation, which play a major role in the energy budget of the atmosphere. As they lead to cool the atmosphere because they reflect heat and solar radiation efficiently into space, where dispersion and reflect and absorb solar radiation that passes through it. In this study, the effect of cloud cover on the solar radiation to Baghdad city by calculating the vertical change of temperature and dew point temperature and determining curved convergence area which in turn represent the cloud base account and also have been identified spacing points, which in turn represents the top of the cloud and then find the thickness of the cloud and classified based on height and thickness, as well as design model absorbency clouds to the spectra of infrared solar radiation and through the application of the model is the saturated vapor pressure and the pressure of a real steam to base cloud and humidity quality and thickness of the cloud and pressure saturated steam and density of saturated steam and water content and the length of the optical path calculation of the cloud and absorbency clouds to the spectra of infrared solar radiation. It was used temperature data and the dew point temperature and atmospheric pressure to high (0.2 - 13) km for days that have been choice to represent seasons (winter and spring) and high (0.2 - 18) km for days that have been choice to represent seasons (summer and autumn). this day is (15/01, 10/02, 15/03, 10/04, 05/05/, 05/06, 05/07, 15/08, 25/09, 20/10, 5/11, 15/12) for year 2013, where have been used the day that include dew point temperature data for maximum high and using to estimate cloud cover and cloud absorption for infrared spectral of solar radiation for the station Baghdad International Airport, which is located at the latitude 33?16’17.2”N and longitude 44?13\

Recently appeared topological space used in many applications such as\ncomputer and information systems. As it is a suitable space for measurement,\ninference and reasoning. Became necessary to expand it by using of the other concepts such as grill to measure things that were previously dicult to\nmeasure it. In this paper, our objective is to generalize irresolute and quasi-\nirresolute functions via grill. Some of relations and characteristics of these\nconcepts are obtained.

Human uses various types of muscles for hopping, walking, jumping, running and other dynamic actions. Researchers study the mechanical properties of these muscles and then try to make use of them in their robotic systems. Among these muscles in human legs are mono and biarticular muscles which have the property to produce a large torque around the joint with the connecting points relatively close to the joints. The humanoid bipedal robot WABIAN-2R was developed to be used as human motion simulator. It is able to perform similar human-like walking motion. Plan has been made to use springs like mono and biarticular muscles in the lower extremity of the robot WABIAN-2R. Before these springs are implanted in real robot, the simulation part has to be done. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to model the lower extremity (legs) of WABIAN-2R like walking bipedal robot with springs like mono and biarticular muscles which correspond to rectus femoris (RF), biceps femoris (BF), gastrocnemius (GAS) and tibialis anterior (TA) in human legs and to study the effect of those muscles on the total work of each leg during walking. Matlab/Simulink is used to model and simulation the lower extremity of the robot WABIAN-2R based on ZMP method and import the results to the software LMS AMESim to study the dynamic of the lower extremity of the robot during walking.