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Research Title: Jordanian Nurses’ Perspectives of Spirituality and Spiritual Care
Author: Maha Mohammed Wahbi Atout, Published Year: 2022
Cancer Nursing , In press
Faculty: Nursing
Abstract: Background: Spirituality is considered one of the main aspects of wholesome care for
human beings. Spirituality is a multidimensional concept and has several definitions in the
literature. Most of the studies concerning spirituality were conducted in Western cultures
and the Middle East; however, there are a limited number of studies regarding spirituality
in Jordan. Objective: The aim of this study was to explore Jordanian nurses’
perspectives on spirituality and spiritual care in a palliative care unit in 1 cancer center in
Jordan. Methods: A descriptive qualitative design with 20 semistructured interviews
was used to access Jordanian nurses’ perspectives on spirituality. This study was
conducted in the major specialist center for the treatment of cancer in Jordan. A purposive
sample of 20 registered nurses who had worked at least 6 months in the palliative care
unit was recruited. Results: Nurses’ perceptions of spirituality were represented by 2
themes: spirituality means connectedness to “Allah,” and spirituality evokes enjoyment in
life. Two themes emerged in terms of nurses’ perceptions of spiritual care: ensuring
patients’ comfort and relaxation, and sharing patients’ religious rituals.
Conclusion: These findings underscore the importance of the nurses’ perspectives on
spirituality in the context of Islamic and Arabic culture, and the need for training in
spirituality. Implications for Practice: The concept of spirituality is recognized as a
fundamental aspect of the nurse’s role, making it essential to improve nurses’ capabilities
to integrate spirituality courses into the nursing curriculum
Keywords: Nurse Palliative care Perception Spirituality
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Research Title: Challenges to online education during the time of COVID‐19: A focus group study
Author: Maha Mohammed Wahbi Atout, Published Year: 2022
Nursing Forum,
Faculty: Nursing
Abstract: Aim: To explore the experience of online education during coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID‐19) from the perspectives of nurse educators, postgraduate students, and
undergraduate students in two universities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
(OPT). This article only highlights the challenges faced by nurse educators and
students.
Method: A qualitative design using a focus group strategy was employed. The data
were collected from two universities in the OPT from September 2020 to October
2020. The maximum variation sampling strategy was used.
Findings: Seven focus groups were conducted with nurse educators (n = 2),
postgraduate students (n = 1), and undergraduate students (n = 4). The findings
revealed that nurse educators and students faced several challenges when they were
abruptly turned to online learning. These challenges included challenges concerning
clinical courses, lack of resources, lack of interaction, evaluation, and their home
environment.
Conclusions: This study is the first to demonstrate the challenges involved in nursing
education in OPT during the COVID‐19 pandemic.
Impact: The findings of this study can be used to improve the online learning
experience during COVID‐19. As a recent change to nursing education, it is vital to
understand the nature of the problems related to this sudden change
Keywords: challenges, COVID‐19, focus group, Occupied Palestinian Territory, online education
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Research Title: The Effect of Internal Control on Employee Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Jordan: The Role of Accounting Information System
Author: Qasim Ahmad Alawaqleh, Published Year: 2021
Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 8
Faculty: Business
Abstract: Abstract
This study explores the role of the Accounting Information System (AIS) in mediating the relationship between internal control and the
performance of employees. This study examines whether internal control would influence the performance of employees and whether
the AIS would impact the performance of employees in Jordan’s industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Internal control
is expected to impact employee performance. The survey questionnaire was used to gather data. A random sampling approach was used
to survey the respondents. A total of 270 questionnaires were distributed; only 203, with a 75% response rate, were available. The data
was analyzed using AMOS and SPSS. The result from the analyses provides support for the hypothesis that AIS mediates the relationship
between internal control and the performance of the employee. Specifically, this study found evidence that internal control yielded a
strong positive relationship with employee performance and a positive relationship with AIS. The study also found that AIS had a positive
relationship with the performance of the employee. In brief, internal control has major effects on employee performance. Also, the AIS
mediates the relationship between internal control and the performance of the employee. The result of this research found that in the
relationship between internal control and employee performance, AIS plays an important role.
Keywords: Internal Control, Employee Performance, Accounting Information System, Industrial SMEs, Jordan
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Research Title: The moderating role of IFRS in the relationship between risk management and financial disclosure in Jordanian banks
Author: Qasim Ahmad Alawaqleh, Published Year: 2022
Banks and Bank Systems, 17
Faculty: Business
Abstract: Abstract
This study investigated the impact of IFRS on the relationship between risk management
and financial disclosure in Jordanian banks in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The study data were collected from Jordanian banks’ financial reports with the help
of panel data to measure IFRS and risk management. The study depended on daily
data, at a rate of (256) trading days from March 3, 2020 until April 29, 2021. Also, the
study used questionnaires to measure financial disclosure in addition to interviews
with eight Jordanian bank managers. Multiple regression was used to test hypotheses.
The study found a positive statistically significant relationship between risk management
and financial disclosure. The relationship was portrayed by a coefficient of 0.315.
The result also showed the moderating role of IFRS in such a relationship, the effect
reached 0.696. The conclusions have implications for both theory and practice. In fact,
the findings elucidated the connection between risk management, IFRS, and financial
disclosure. Finally, Jordanian banks should focus on IFRS and risk management,
enhanced management, and employee skills as recommendations in this study. Thus,
Jordanian banks pay particular attention to IFRS and risk management in order to
achieve profitability through financial disclosure.
Keywords: risk management, International Financial Reporting Standards, fiscal disclosure
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Research Title: BLIND COLOR USER INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS: A UML SPECIFICATION
Author: Said Ahmad Ammar Ghoul, Published Year: 2022
Proceedings of ICSIC2022 {Scopus), Arab Amman University
Faculty: Information Technology
Abstract: Color blindness, or color vision deficiency, is an inability to see the difference between certain colors. Men are more likely to be born with color blindness. Most people with color blindness can't distinguish between certain shades of red and green. Less commonly, people with color blindness can't distinguish between shades of blue and yellow. For that it’s a significant barrier to effective computer use. Several research works dealing with blind color user interfaces are currently conducted. However, requirements engineering for such interfaces is still missing. The work presented in this paper is part of an automated blind color user interface generation project which explores suitable input requirements document notations, simplifies the generating process, and outputs generated color blind user interface. It aims to define functional and nonfunctional requirements for powerful color blind user interface and their UML specification. Thus, different recent techniques that deal with these interfaces are selected according to their relevance and up to date, then they are analyzed, the lack of requirements engineering for these interface was stated, and a solution is proposed. It consists of requirements elicitation and specification with UML notations. A case study evaluating the proposed approach is presented. The obtained results confirm the power and positive impact of such requirements engineering on researches in this domain.
Keywords: color vision deficiency (CVD), color blindness requirements, color blindness user interface
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Research Title: Automatically Generated Feature Model from Requirements: Toward an Enhanced Formalism
Author: Said Ahmad Ammar Ghoul, Published Year: 2022
Proceedings of ICICS2022, IEEE, scopus, Jordan University of Technology
Faculty: Information Technology
Abstract: The feature model is one of the most important
concepts in software product line development process, as it
helps to represent commonalities and variabilities among
software products. Several research works are currently
conducted to generate a feature model of a software product
line from its requirements document. However, the generated
feature models do not include data and actors aspects which
are essential parts of any software product line. The work
presented in this paper is part of an automated feature model
generating project which explores suitable input requirements
document notations, simplifies the generating process, and
outputs generated feature model formalism. It aims to propose
a powerful feature model that should be the target of any
automated process generating a feature model. Thus, in this
work, different recent techniques that automatically generate
feature models are analyzed. The lack of data and actors in
these generated feature models was stated, and a feature
model, aimed to be a good generated target, integrating data
and actors with other conventional features is proposed. A case
study evaluating the proposed target feature model formalism
is presented.
Keywords: feature model (FM), software product line (SPL), unified modeling language (UML), FM automatic generation
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Research Title: Automatically Generated Goal Model from Requirements: Toward an Enhanced Formalism
Author: Said Ahmad Ammar Ghoul, Published Year: 2022
Proceedings of ICSIC2022 {Scopus), Arab Amman University
Faculty: Information Technology
Abstract: The Goal Model (GM) of software is one of the important concepts in the software requirements specification, as it helps in representing the software goals and the relationships between them. Several research works were conducted to generate GM of software from its requirements document. However, the generated GMs merge behavior and soft goals aspects. This merging leaded to tangled and complex generated GMs that are difficult to maintain. The work presented in this paper proposes a GM formalism handling this insufficiency. It is part of an automated GM generating project where it focuses on the target GM. Thus, in this work, different recent techniques that automatically generate GMs are analyzed, their merging, tangling, and complexity of maintenance were stated, and a GM formalism facing these challenges is proposed. It separates goals clearly into behavior goals, soft goals, and constraints aspects. An evaluating case study, which is a partial concrete and real word domain requirements specification, is presented. This separation of concerns leaded to valuable results: complexity reduction, improvement of the understandability, simplicity of maintenance, and raising up the expressiveness power.
Keywords: Goal Model (GM), Behavior goal, Soft goal, Requirement specification, Automated goal model generation, Aspect separation, maintenance
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Research Title: Feature Model Configuration Reuse Scheme for Self-Adaptive Systems
Author: Said Ahmad Ammar Ghoul, Published Year: 2022
Computers, Materials & Continua (Scopus, Q1), 71 No 1
Faculty: Information Technology
Abstract: Most large-scale systems including self-adaptive systems utilize
feature models (FMs) to represent their complex architectures and benefit
from the reuse of commonalities and variability information. Self-adaptive
systems (SASs) are capable of reconfiguring themselves during the run time
to satisfy the scenarios of the requisite contexts. However, reconfiguration
of SASs corresponding to each adaptation of the system requires significant
computational time and resources. The process of configuration reuse can
be a better alternative to some contexts to reduce computational time, effort
and error-prone. Nevertheless, systems’ complexity can be reduced while the
development process of systems by reusing elements or components. FMs are
considered one of the new ways of reuse process that are able to introduce
new opportunities for the reuse process beyond the conventional system components.
While current FM-based modelling techniques represent, manage,
and reuse elementary features to model SASs concepts, modeling and reusing
configurations have not yet been considered. In this context, this study presents
an extension to FMs by introducing and managing configuration features and
their reuse process. Evaluation results demonstrate that reusing configuration
features reduces the effort and time required by a reconfiguration process
during the run time to meet the required scenario according to the current
context.
Keywords: Self-adaptive system; feature model; system reuse; configuration management; variability modeling
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Research Title: Development of Polymeric-Based Formulation as Potential Smart Colonic Drug Delivery System
Author: Mohammad Bayan, Published Year: 2022
Polymers, 14
Faculty: Pharmacy
Abstract: Conventional oral formulations are mainly absorbed in the small intestine. This limits their use in the treatment of some diseases associated with the colon, where the drug has to act topically at the inflammation site. This paved the way for the development of a smart colonic drug delivery system, thereby improving the therapeutic efficacy, reducing the dosing frequency and potential side effects, as well as improving patient acceptance, especially in cases where enemas or other topical preparations may not be effective alone in treating the inflammation. In healthy individuals, it takes an oral medication delivery system about 5 to 6 h to reach the colon. A colonic drug delivery system should delay or prohibit the medication release during these five to six hours while permitting its release afterward. The main aim of this study was to develop a smart drug delivery system based on pH-sensitive polymeric formulations, synthesized by a free-radical bulk polymerization method, using different monomer and crosslinker concentrations. The formulations were loaded with 5-amino salicylic acid as a model drug and Capmul MCM C8 as a bioavailability enhancer. The glass transition temperature (Tg), tensile strength, Young’s modulus, and tensile elongation at break were all measured as a part of the dried films’ characterization. In vitro swelling and release studies were performed to assess the behavior of the produced formulations. The in vitro swelling and release evaluation demonstrated the potential ability of the developed system to retard the drug release at conditions mimicking the stomach and small intestine while triggering its release at conditions mimicking the colon, which indicates its promising applicability as a potential smart colonic drug delivery system.
Keywords: 5-amino salicylic acid; smart delivery system; sustainable polymers; triggered drug delivery; ulcerative colitis
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Research Title: Embedded control unit design for energy management in smart homes
Author: Kasim Mousa Al-Aubidy, Published Year: 2022
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Faculty: Engineering and Technology
Abstract: This paper deals with smart home energy management through load
scheduling and optimal use of available energy sources. In this study, three
energy sources were considered: the national electricity grid, photovoltaic
(PV) energy, and the storage unit. The PV array can provide the maximum
power to the load at a given operating point where the output power changes
with temperature, radiation and load. Therefore, a real-time controller is
proposed to track the maximum power. An energy management algorithm
has been proposed in a smart home to achieve the main goal of making the
electricity bill as low as possible. The algorithm involves scheduling loads
by assigning a priority to each load. The loads are supplied with the required
power according to their priorities and the available energy. The obtained
results indicate that supplying the PV system with a fuzzy-based MPPT
indicates an increase in system efficiency. The results also showed that the
use of energy management based on load scheduling led to a significant
reduction in the electricity bill.
Keywords: Energy management; Fuzzy logic control; Internet of thing (IoT); Smart home; Wireless sensor networks
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