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Smart Safety Solutions: Real-Time SMS Alerts for Gas Leakage and Fire Detection using IoT
Full text linkSecurity issues are becoming more and more important in today\u27s environment, necessitating increased attention to detail because of the rising dangers of infiltration and dangerous situations. Gas leaks and fires are among the most urgent hazards to residential and commercial safety as they may cause a devastating loss of life and property. Conventional alarm systems that just use sound signals frequently fail to guarantee prompt human reaction, particularly in situations where inhabitants are not present. Using Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are coupled with GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology, this study suggests a real-time gas leak and fire detection system that sends timely SMS notifications. To identify anomalies, the system uses an Atmega644P microprocessor that is interfaced with gas and fire sensors, relays, and buzzers. Through the SIM548C GSM module, which notifies pre-designated emergency contacts via SMS in real time, the system instantly sounds an alarm in the event of a gas leak or fire. This rapid communication mechanism ensures faster response and mitigates potential damage. The increasing importance of intelligent, real-time safety systems in tackling contemporary security issues is highlighted by this review
The Power of USSD: A Solution to African Financial Transaction Problems
No full textPaying mobile bills has now become simple with the help of Internet banking and credit cards, Customer adapted to prepaying and get credited by buying them online or at the store nearby. Whereas the post-pay adapted customer pays his bills by end of his service session through online money transfer or paying bills at the store. These payment processes are hard to make sometimes, considering the resources available in underdeveloped countries or in a place where the Internet is difficult to find. Unstructured Supplementary Service Data payments (USSD) also come in handy when a customer runs out of Internet credits or uses a phone which does not provide him internet on the go. With limited resources, USSD payment provides clients the advantage of getting a phone card credited on tap. To make this happen, network providers and banks must work together. The network provider creates a database to save bank card details and accesses them when required with permission of the respective customer whenever a transition is made through USSD. For every payment, an authentication protocol is performed to avoid hackers and make secured money transfer. This Journal highlights the downsides of financial exclusion in modern societies and how we can leverage the technology of mobile money to drive financial inclusion in our society with a particular interest in unbanked areas in Nigeria. The financial sector is a heavily regulated sector in Nigeria, so it will be essential to see what it takes to set up mobile money operations in Nigeria and make it accessible to people who actually need it and the availability of the technology needed to make that happen. Even though mobile money operation is not so new, adoption has been very slow and this study is going to primarily highlight how adoption can be improved and the infrastructure needed to drive that adoption. The result of this study shows that the adoption of Mobile money can increase financial inclusion in Nigeria to 95% and as well connect over 99% of the adult population to easy credit facilities and financial services.
In conclusion, the study recommends the quick adoption of mobile money wallets for personal finance considering the literacy landscape of Nigeria and the ease with which it provides credits and financial services to people in remote areas of the country, improving the ease of doing business, and bringing much-needed financial literacy to the people
Inernet of Everything: A Solution to Mobile Banking using Voice Recognition
Full text linkThe advancement in banking transaction system over the years has been enormous and the needs for identifications of customer s authentication validation and confirmation are of utmost priority and should be dealt with judiciously Mobile banking has emerged as one of the main division in digital world of financial transactions and consists of information inquiry notifications and alerts applications and payment transfer Mobile based application is used for connecting customer handset with bank server for all such services in the banking industry The current trend of Mobile banking as gone beyond the use of One Time Password OTP applications used by banks The problem with current banking applications is that they send data directly to customer in plain text form compromising with security recognised as OTP in most of the online transaction An online banking customer logging in to the bank s website with username and password triggers a request to send an OTP to his or her registered mobile phone or the OTP may not be necessary after one or two transaction There is every likely hold of Mobile phone been stealing access by unauthorised person or being hacked Upon receipt of a text message with the OTP the customer enters it with an additional field on the banking site s login page to complete the login process since your details are already on your phone It could have been fine if the mobile network can act immediately but blocking of network provider involves the presentation of National Identification Number NIN which is a chain reaction The purpose of this research work is to provide cost effective secure fast Mobile banking solution combining features of cryptography as well as behavioural pattern and Interactive Voice Response for final authentication and authorisation of costumer identification in all form of financial transaction
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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