Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractStatistical Evaluation on Neighborhood Facilities in Relation with Residential Satisfaction and PreferenceDidit Novianto, Weijun Gao, Soichiro Kuroki, Hidetoshi FukahoriThis paper presents a study on the method of evaluating the residential environment in terms of neighborhood facilities and urban planning. Subjective evaluations through questionnaire survey were performed in order to grasp the resident’s behaviors and preferences. In 2013, questionnaires were distributed to more than 3,000 households of younger families located in Kitakyushu City, Northern Kyushu Island, Japan. In this … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 30 May 2016 · 7,741 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFinite Element Formulation for Active Composite LaminatesDragan Marinkovic, Manfred ZehnSmart structures are characterized by a synergistic integration of active materials into a passive structure connected by a control system to enable an automatic adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Piezoelectric materials are widely used as distributed sensors and actuators in smart structures, where especially hybrid composites - a combination of fiber-reinforced and piezoelectric laminae - are very powerful smart material … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 2 Jun 2015 · 7,778 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMachine Motion Equations at the Internal Combustion Heat EnginesFlorian Ion T. PetrescuThis paper presents an algorithm for setting the dynamic parameters of the classic main mechanism of the internal combustion engines. One presents the dynamic, original, machine motion equations. The equation of motion of the machine that generates angular speed of the shaft (which varies with position and rotation speed) is deduced by conservation kinetic energy of the machine. An additional … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 21 Apr 2015 · 9,387 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCoupled Hydrodynamic-Water Quality Model for Pollution Control Scenarios in El-Burullus Lake (Nile Delta, Egypt)A. El-Adawy, A. M. Negm, O. C. Saavedra V et al.El-Burullus Lake is affected by increasing and extensive human activities, rapid social-economic development and the construction of fish ponds nearby. This has significantly impacted the health of the lake eco-system. On the foundation of the two-dimensional depth averaged hydrodynamic model, distributions of the salinity, Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Ammonium (NH4) were modeled. … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 10 Nov 2014 · 7,207 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImplementing Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases Cascade on Membrane Computing Using P-LinguaBareq Shaalan, Ravie Chandren MuniyandiThe Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases (MAPK) cascade has been used as a case study for different computational software tools in both modelling and simulation of real-life problems. This study focuses on the development of new techniques for solving a MAPK cascade by using membrane computing. Membrane computing is an unconventional computational approach that provides a platform for modelling discrete system. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 15 Sep 2014 · 6,815 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractON THE CHALLENGES OF THE USE AND INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCESMariano MartínOverview: Although renewable energy sources are plentiful, their availability is highly volatile in time and distributed across regions while and the processes that transform them into useful power or chemicals are underdeveloped. In this work we discuss on the scope for the use and integration of renewable energy sources and the future development of the alternatives. Energy, the sources and … …Energy Research Journal, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 11 Sep 2014 · 7,540 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA MULTI ATTRIBUTE RANKING MECHANISM FOR PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKSSheila Anand, B. SwaminathanP2P systems are envisioned to play a greater role in collaborative applications. P2P environments remove the challenging task of using servers for information sharing. Emerging collaborative P2P systems require discovery and utilization of multi-attribute, distributed and dynamic group of resources to achieve greater tasks beyond conventional file and processor cycle sharing. The process of selection of a peer for collaborative … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 8 · 24 Feb 2014 · 6,879 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMOBILE COMMUNICATIONS FOR USING IN TELEMEDICINEMarjan Ghazi Saeedi, Mashaallah Torabi, Sakineh Hamidi, Hassan RanjiTelemedicine the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. Although there were distant precursors to telemedicine, … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 12 Feb 2014 · 9,985 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA NEW-THRESHOLD BASED JOB SCHEDULING FOR GRID SYSTEML. RamaparvathyIn heterogeneous distributed systems, utility grids have emerged as a new model of service. In this service, workflow scheduling is one of the challenging problems for satisfying user’s quality requirements. One of the main issues in work flow scheduling is to minimize the workflow execution cost in terms of time and makespan. In this study, we propose a new workflow … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 3 Feb 2014 · 6,785 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES IN IMPROVING SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT-BASED ADMISSION CONTROL FOR A SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PROVIDER IN CLOUDR. S. Mohana, P. ThangarajSoftware as a Service (SaaS) offers reliable access to software applications to the end users over the Internet without direct investment in infrastructure and software. SaaS providers utilize resources of internal data centres or rent resources from a public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider in order to serve their customers. Internal hosting can ample cost of administration and maintenance … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 10 · 5 Sep 2013 · 6,956 accessesView PDFCite