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Usability of Social Tags in Digital Libraries for E-Learning Environment
(De Montfort University, 2015-12)
This study contributes to the academic literature concerning social tag systems for digital libraries, addressing the identified information gap from the user’s perspective. It defines social tagging tools and tests users’ ...
Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
(De Montfort University, 2015-07)
This thesis examines the way in which dance work produced by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products ...
Reforming the United Nations Security Council: Making it more Democratic in the Post-Westphalian Legal Order
(De Montfort University, 2015-09)
The Security Council has sometimes failed to perform its main duty, which is the maintenance
of international peace and security. The Council’s responsibilities in this regard have grown
as new international challenges ...
Bandwidth and Energy-Efficient Route Discovery for Noisy Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
(De Montfort University, 2015-07)
Broadcasting is used in on-demand routing protocols to discover routes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). On-demand routing protocols, such as Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) commonly employ pure flooding based ...
Identifying Memory Address Disclosures
(De Montfort University, 2015-01)
Software is still being produced and used that is vulnerable to exploitation. As well as being in devices in
the homes of many people around the world, programs with these vulnerabilities are maintaining life-critical
systems ...
Context-aware GPS Integrity Monitoring for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
(De Montfort University, 2015)
The integrity of positioning systems has become an increasingly important requirement
for location-based Intelligent Transports Systems (ITS). The navigation systems, such
as Global Positioning System (GPS), used in ITS ...
Multimodal E-assessment: An Empirical Study
(De Montfort University, 2015)
Due to the availability of technology, there has been a shift from traditional assessment methods to e-assessment methods designed to support learning. With this development there is a need to address the suitability and ...
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Company Income Tax Collection in Nigeria
(De Montfort University, 2015-06)
The Nigerian economy is heavily dependent on oil as 80% of its revenue currently comes from this sector. However, tax revenue has never played a strong role in the country's management of fiscal policy and this is an issue ...
Support Vector Machine-based Fuzzy Systems for Quantitative Prediction of Peptide Binding Affinity
(De Montfort University, 2015-03)
Reliable prediction of binding affinity of peptides is one of the most challenging but important complex modelling problems in the post-genome era
due to the diversity and functionality of the peptides discovered. ...
A Multilayer Framework for Quality of Context in Context-Aware Systems
(De Montfort University, 2015-06)
Context-aware systems use context information to decide what adaptation actions to perform in response to changes in their environment. Depending on applications, context information includes physical context (e.g. temperature ...
