Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSafety Health Impacts of Particulate Matter from Excavation Work SitesGiuseppe Pizzo, Marina ClericoEpidemiological studies have shown a linear relationship between airborne particulates and effects on human health. This study examines the risk that can be run by populations which are exposed to significant pollutant sources such as excavation in urban areas for renovation work. The health risk assessment methodology defined by the WHO air quality guidelines for Europe was applied to assess … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 25 Jul 2012 · 7,936 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Integral Two Space-Variables Condition for Parabolic EquationsA. L. Marhoune, F. LakhalIn this study, an integral two space-variables condition for a class of parabolic equations. The existence and uniqueness of the solution in the functional weighted Sobolev space were proved. The proof is based on two-sided a priori estimates and on the density of the range of the operator generated by the considered problem. …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 12 Mar 2012 · 7,263 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAutism Worldwide: Prevalence, Perceptions, Acceptance, ActionPatricia B. Kopetz, E. Desmond Lee EndowedThis metanalysis scrutinizes the growth of the neurodevelopment condition known as “autism” as a modern-day phenomenon. Over the past decade and worldwide, estimates of increases between 50% to over 2000% in cases of Autistic Disorder diagnoses have been charted, studied and discussed. The rise in diagnoses of autism impacts us all. The world seeks greater awareness and understanding of the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 22 Feb 2012 · 11,673 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Forager Bee's Intelligence Inspired Dynamic Queue Scheduling for the Internet TrafficY. Suresh, S. Arumugam, M. A. BhagyaveniProblem statement: In the present evolution of large scale internet communication, per flow control scheme faces scalability issue due to tremendous number of flows. The aggregation based approaches such as differentiated architecture relieve the storage of state of flows in core router. TCP is the dominating protocol that carries majority of the total internet traffic. Recent internet traffic measurement shows … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 5 · 22 Feb 2012 · 7,014 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAdaptive Channel Estimation for Multiuser Underwater Communication SystemsS. Aliesawi, C. C. Tsimenidis, B. S. Sharif, M. JohnstonProblem statement: Multiple Access Interference (MAI) signals and poor estimation of the unknown channel parameters in the presence of limited training sequences are two of the major problems that degrade the systems’ performance. Two synchronous multiuser receivers with Rake reception of Interleave Division Multiple Access (IDMA) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems, in conjunction with channel estimation, are considered … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 20 Feb 2012 · 7,358 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Comparison of the Bayesian and Other Methods for Estimation of Reliability Function for Burr-XII DistributionSafaa Ali Nasir, Nashaat Jaisam Al-AnberProblem statement: The Burr-XII distribution has been widely used especially in the modeling of life time event data. It provides a statistical model which has a wide variety of application in many areas and the main advantage is its ability in the context of life time event among other distributions. The conventional maximum likelihood method is the usual way to … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 27 Dec 2011 · 7,856 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAdhoc on Demand Multipath Reliable and Energy Aware Quality of Service Routing for Mobile Adhoc NetworksV. Thilagavathe, K. DuraiswamyProblem statement: In a mobile adhoc network, there are a number of challenges for providing quality of service routing for multimedia applications and real time applications like voice transmission. The QoS parameters considered in this study are link reliability and energy consumption. Existing studies estimate the link reliability constraint between two nodes using exponentially distributed epoch lengths. The major problem … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 7 Nov 2011 · 7,848 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHeart Rate Variability Analysis in Different Age and Pathological ConditionsM.E.S. Chelladurai, N. KumaravelProblem statement: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has been used as a measure of mortality primarily with patients who had undergone cardiac surgery. The analysis of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) demands specific capabilities which are not provided either by parametric or nonparametric conventional estimation methods. The Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) adaptively estimates the Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) of nonlinear nonstationary signals. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 4 Aug 2011 · 6,822 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Efficient Age Estimation System based on Multi Linear Principal Component AnalysisV. Tamil Selvi, K. VaniProblem statement: Human age estimation is an active research topic in computer vision. A vital characteristic in establishing identity of the person is the age. Age estimation from face images continues to be an extremely challenging task compared to other cognition problems. Age is a crucial factor in ascertaining the identity of a person. Age is estimated from the human … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 4 Aug 2011 · 6,483 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEstimation Methods for Multicollinearity Proplem Combined with High Leverage Data PointsMoawad El-Fallah, Abd El-SallamProblem statement: Least Squares (LS) method has been the most popular method for estimating the parameters of a model due to its optimal properties and ease of computation. LS estimated regression may be seriously affected by multicollinearity which is a near linear dependency between two or more explanatory variables in the regression models. Although LS estimates are unbiased in the … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 18 May 2011 · 7,624 accessesView PDFCite