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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRural Population Density Effect on Socio-economic Characteristics: A ReviewAyoob K. Ismael, Ibrahim NgahProblem statement: Rural population density has a very significant independent influence over important demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the world rural communities. Thus, the understanding of rural population density becomes an important issue to be studied. Approach: Using the rural settled areas of Shaqlawa District as a case study, this study seeks to reveal the specific importance of rural population … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 24 Oct 2011 · 8,092 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSustainability of International Standards Organisation 14001 Standards through Integration with Lean PrinciplesPuvanasvaran A.L.A. Perumal, Robert Kerk Swee Tian, Mohd Razali MuhamadProblem statement: Both Lean and Environmental Management System (EMS) are key business processes which are employed by companies to enhance their manufacturing process and quality performance. ISO 14001 requires a commitment to continual improvement. Yet it does not prescribe how a company should seek the continual improvement. Lean is a process improvement method that helps companies that use it to … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 11 · 8 Oct 2011 · 6,800 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractClinical and Functional Profile of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients: A One Year Follow UpMarco Orsini, Marcos R.G. de Freitas, Osvaldo J.M. Nascimento et al.Problem statement: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and degenerative disease that affects the anterior horn motor neurons of the spinal cord and pyramidal tracts. In Brazil, there are few epidemiological data on this disease. Recently, some important findings have been reported, allowing a better understanding on the underlying processes of neuronal death, as well as the characteristics of … …Neuroscience International, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 6 Oct 2011 · 7,777 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe New Reality of Competing: Strategic Marketing Intelligence and the Assessment of the Business Transformational Model PropositionNurhan Papatya, Gurcan PapatyaProblem statement: The study contains "Strategic Marketing Intelligence (SMI)" contents and formation which are directed to the business’s permanent and continuous priority and the investigation of "transformational model proposition", designing bases, the thought of transformation to core competence and proposed model’s applicability and advantages. Approach: This study is handled as a qualitative assessment related to restricting content of the concepts … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 20 Sep 2011 · 7,534 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDesign and Development of Ontology Suite for Software Risk Planning, Software Risk Tracking and Software Risk ControlC.R. Rene Robin, G. V. UmaProblem statement: Ontology as a conceptual courseware structure may work as a mind tool for effective teaching and as a visual navigation interface to the learning objects. Knowledge visualization is defined as the use of visual representations to transfer knowledge between at least two persons. This study presents the design, development and visualization of ontologies for Software Risk Planning, Software … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 7 Mar 2011 · 6,971 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIndividual Factors and Knowledge SharingEugene Okyere-Kwakye, Khalil Md NorProblem statement: Knowledge management has been acknowledged as an important element for businesses today. While individuals within the organizations might recognize the importance of knowledge management for the success of their day to day business functions, previous literatures have shown that individuals are still reluctant to participate in knowledge management efforts especially knowledge sharing. As the behavior people show in … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 7 Jan 2011 · 14,413 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMonitoring Educational Organizations' Culture of Sustainable Consumption: Initiating and Evaluating Cultural Change in Schools and UniversitiesDaniel FischerProblem Statement: Patterns of consumption are considered as a main driver of unsustainable development. In the debate, education and educational organizations are unisonous considered as a key player to contribute to a more sustainable socialization of young consumers. Both schools and universities are challenged to become places and life-worlds in which sustainable consumption can be learned and experienced. The objective … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 8,857 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Event-Based Methodology to Generate Class Diagrams and its Empirical EvaluationSandeep K. Singh, Sangeeta Sabharwal, J. P. GuptaProblem statement: Event-based systems have importance in many application domains ranging from real time monitoring systems in production, logistics, medical devices and networking to complex event processing in finance and security. The increasing popularity of Event-based systems has opened new challenging issues for them. One such issue is to carry out requirements analysis of event-based systems and build conceptual models. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 11 · 23 Oct 2010 · 7,632 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Design to Develop New Formats and Model Products for the CommunityRatthai PorncharoenProblem statement: The manufacture of community needed to be designed in a new style so that it would be needed by the consumers. The objectives of this research were to study: (1) the former product design and creation of new product design, (2) the development of model book of new product for being disseminated to community and (3) the development … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 7,264 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAgriculture Communication in Malaysia: The Current SituationMd. Salleh Hassan, Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Bahaman Abu Samah et al.Problem statement: Without doubt, it is important to expose and educate farmers with the current and updated agriculture information. To implement this, the related agriculture agencies in Malaysia should consider the best channels for them in spreading the needed valuable agriculture information to the farmers. The question that can be raised now, can the mass media be the right channel … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 9,395 accessesView PDFCite