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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImprovement of Manufacturing Performance Measurement System and Evaluation of Overall Resource EffectivenessKaruppana Gounder Eswaramurthi, Pidugun Venkatachalam MohanramIn the present highly competitive business environment, well run organizations continually strive to enhance their capabilities to create excellent value for the customers by improving the cost effectiveness of the operations. Significant improvement has taken place in the management of resources associated with manufacturing systems, to reduce the wastage of resources. The Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) concept provides a quantitative … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 3 Feb 2013 · 8,073 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInternal Evaluation of the Department of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringFereshteh Farzianpour, Shayan Hosseini, Abdolmehdi Mirsepasi et al.Internal evaluation is a process in which it is possible to evaluate an educational program using standards based on pre-defined objectives and certain educational quality. The aim was to evaluate educational program of Environmental Health Science and Engineering students in the Environmental Health department and investigate if it is adjusted for students needs. The study was cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 12 Jan 2013 · 7,465 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReliability Centered Maintenance in Schedule Improvement of Automotive Assembly IndustryRizauddin Ramli, Mohammad Nizam ArffinProblem statement: Today, in many automotive manufacturing companies, maintenance management is an important factor to maintain the plant operation and production equipments. Approach: In this study, we present an implementation of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) practice in one of the automotive manufacturing company in Malaysia. The RCM practice was used to assist the company in focusing their maintenance activities based … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 8 · 27 Jun 2012 · 7,976 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluation of Common Maintenance Methods for Flexible PavementsAsma T. Ibraheem, Suda M. GaniProblem statement: With the increasing use and awareness of pavement management systems and the growing emphasis on asset management of pavement infrastructure, it is important to strengthen the maintenance components of these systems and particularly the preventive maintenance component. Iraqi Roads don’t receive an effective and proper maintenance during their service life until they reach the state of major failure … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 29 Nov 2011 · 7,866 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBiocontrol of Soil Fungi in Tomato with Microencapsulates Containing Bacillus subtilisMarcela Hernàndez-Suàrez, Francisco Daniel Hernàndez-Castillo, Gabriel Gallegos-Morales et al.Problem Statement: An option to reduce pollution by synthetic agro-chemical in root plant disease management is the use of antagonist rhizobacteria belonging to Bacillus genus, because their inhibitory properties, stimulation of plant growth and crop yield increase. Approach: This study was carried out in order to evaluate if Bacillus subtilis strains could play an antagonists role of plant pathogens and … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 6 Jun 2011 · 8,934 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSilk-Cloth Weaving Development of the Mon-Khmer Ethnic Group in Lower-IsanWira Phansuwan, Suoneth Photisan, Anongrit KangrangProblem statement: Silk cloth weaving culture of the Mon-Khmer ethnic group in Lower-Isan has a specific identity which should be handed down to future generation. The purposes of this research were to examine: (1) the body knowledge concerning silk clothes of the Mon-Khmer ethnic group in Lower-Isan region, (2) the process of production or silk-cloth weaving of the Mon-Khmer ethnic … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,770 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLisrel Analysis of Factors for Empowering Producers to Abolish Livelihood Poverty through Optimizing Agricultural Water Resources ManagementFatemeh Panahi, Iraj MalekmohammadiProblem Statement: Most of the projected increase in global population will take place in third world countries that already suffer from water, food, and health problems. Irrigation in developing countries tends to be stereotyped as equity reducing, in competition with other uses for scarce water resources. Agricultural intensification through the practice of irrigation as a strategy for poverty reduction is … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,034 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWaste Disposal and Pollution Management in Urban Areas: A Workable Remedy for the Environment in Developing CountriesJ. A. Awomeso, A. M. Taiwo, A. M. Gbadebo, A. O. ArimoroProblem statement: Both wastes and the crude disposal techniques have created subtle and yet serious environmental pollution havoc in many developing countries. This has lead to the degradation of abiotic and biotic components of these nations’ ecological systems. Poor industrial waste disposal systems as well as the indiscriminate and inappropriate domestic litter disposal habit have been identified and proved to … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 28 Feb 2010 · 9,115 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Contractor Perception Towers Industrialised Building System Risk in Construction Projects in MalaysiaSalihudin Hassim, Mohd Saleh Jaafar, Saiful Azri Abu Hasan SazalliThe use of IBS (Industrialised Building System) has attracted a lot of countries like Singapore, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. This system can replace the conventional building system which is labour oriented. However, since the first project of IBS in year 1964 till today, IBS in Malaysia is not well accepted by the construction parties because of failure … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 5 · 31 May 2009 · 9,441 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEnergy Management System Audit and Implementation in Educational BuildingsJ. Nouri, A. R. Karbasi, R. Borgheipour, A. TaheriConcerning the high energy consumption of educational buildings in available study; it is conducted to estimate the energy consumption at the Faculty of Humanities (Building No. 2), Science and Research Campus (SRC) of the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Tehran, Iran. Auditing and implementing the energy management system in the implied building, efforts are finally made to propose managerial solutions towards … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2006 · 7,392 accessesView PDFCite