Information Technology (IT) governance is considered an integral part of corporate governance that is the accountability of the organization’s Board of Executive to ascertain that organization’s information technology assists to achieve the established goals and objectives of the organization, by applying different of welldefined methods, processes and procedures for communication and relations...

Syarahan-syarahan Hikam Abu Madyan ialah karya yang mengandungi panduan perjalanan kerohanian ahli Tasawuf. Syarahan ini telah dilakukan terhadap dikarang oleh Syeikh Shu`ayb al-Maghribi. Namun begitu kajian tentangnya masih belum banyak dilakukan. Oleh itu, bertujuan menjelaskan biografi pengarang Madyan, penisbahan kepada beliau dan karya-karya dalam kategori syarah bagi ini. Pengkaji akan me...

Pada umumnya mortar geopolimer merupakan yang bebas dari pemakaian PC sebagai pengikatnya, sehingga bisa dijadikan terobosan untuk menghentikan penggunaan PC. Penelitian dilakukan secara eksperimental, dikarenakan menggunakan jurnal ilmiah dan penelitian-penelitian terdahulu referensi, penelitian ini membahas tentang alumunium powder dalam pembuatan ringan berbahan dasar fly ash abu sekam padi,...

We read with interest the article by Abu El Makarem MA et al. (1) entitled, “Platelet count/bipolar spleen diameter ratio for the prediction of esophageal varices: The special Egyptian situation.” This study evaluated noninvasive predictors of esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients by multivariate logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. However, in our ...

Novel analytic solutions are derived for integrals that involve the generalized Marcum Q−function, exponential functions and arbitrary powers. Simple closed-form expressions are also derived for specific cases of the generic integrals. The offered expressions are both convenient and versatile, which is particularly useful in applications relating to natural sciences and engineering, including w...

* Corresponding Author: Hamed Ekhtiari, MD Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tel/Fax: 0098-21-55421177 E-mail: [email protected] Seyyed-Ehsan Parhizgar , Hamed Ekhtiari 1*

continued on page 15 S erving as the Director of PATH for the past six years has been a very rewarding experience for me. I took over immediately after DEMO’97 from Professor Pravin Varaiya who had led PATH during the years of the NAHSC (National Automated Highway Systems Consortia). We faced some very difficult times after the demise of the NAHSC but were able to maintain our position as the l...