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<span lang="EN">The rise of Internet access, social media and availability of smart phones intensify the epidemic of pornography addiction especially among younger teenagers. Such scenario may offer many side effects to the individual such as alteration of the behavior, changes in moral value and rejection to normal community convention. Hence, it is imperative to detect pornography addiction as early as possible. In this paper, a method of using brain signal from frontal area captured using EEG is proposed to detect whether the participant may have porn addiction or otherwise. It acts as a complementary approach to common psychological questionnaire. Experimental results show that the addicted participants had low alpha waves activity in the frontal brain region compared to non-addicted participants. It can be observed using power spectra computed using Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA). The theta band also show there is disparity between addicted and non-addicted. However, the distinction is not as obvious as alpha band. Subsequently, more work need to be conducted to further test the validity of the hypothesis. It is envisaged that with more participants and further investigation, the proposed method will be the initial step to groundbreaking way of understanding the way porn addiction affects the brain.</span>

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This paper presents the classification of EEG correlates on emotion using features extracted by Gaussian mixtures of EEG spectrogram. This method is compared with three feature extraction methods based on fractal dimension of EEG signal including Higuchi, Minkowski Bouligand, and Fractional Brownian motion. The K nearest neighbor and Support Vector Machine are applied to classify extracted features. The 4 emotional states investigated in this paper are defined using the valence-arousal plane: two valence states (positive and negative) and two arousal states (calm, excited).The accuracy of system to classify 4 emotional states is investigated on EEG collected from 26 subjects (20 to 32 years old) while exposed to emotionally-related visual and audio stimuli. The results showed that the proposed feature extraction using Gaussian mixtures of EEG spectrogram yielded better classification results using the KNN classifier.

Learning opportunities are available with the accessibility of new learning technologies, discovery of untraditional learning pathways and awareness of the importance of connecting current knowledge with new learning. Such situation allows the expansion in the number of courses, programs and professional certifications offered to the students resulting to the increment of the number of graduates annually. The graduates then employed by the industry for executing the job. However, there is a growing concern about the increment of unemployed graduates in the job market. One of the reasons of the mismatch between graduates’ skills and employers’ needs is that the jobseekers tend to choose wrong job because they are overwhelmed by the choices and typically they just randomly send the application because it is time consuming to filter relevant advert. Such action may have repercussion to the industry because the employers need to select relevant candidates to fill up the post from the unfiltered pile of applications making the selection process lengthy and time consuming. In this paper we proposed an automated approach to match the graduates’ and employers’ needs using a hybrid of text mining and visualization approach to facilitate jobseekers’ task of relevant job application. The important keywords are automatically extracted based on the frequency of the word used in the adverts. Then, the graduates’ skills are matched from their personalized profile. Relevant visualization approaches are incorporated to facilitate the selection. It is practical and feasible for the proposed approach to be incorporated in job searching websites that can optimize jobseekers and employers time and effort for a suitable match.