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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractActivity-Based Costing in the Public SectorAthanasios Vazakidis, Ioannis Karagiannis, Anthi TsialtaProblem statement: In the modern economic environment, the Public Sector aims at the continuous improvement of quality of the provided services. Thus, detailed information with regard to the cost of services is essential along with capable management to take advantage of this information. Approach: The study discussed the basic beginnings, the processes of activity-based costing and whether this costing method … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 9,567 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 abstractCognitive-Behavioral Stress Management Interventions for Ethnic-Minority HIV-Positive Alcohol/Drug Abusers in Resource Limited and Culturally Diverse CommunitiesRobert M. Malow, Rhonda Rosenberg, Jessy G. DévieuxThe article reports our intervention work with Alcohol and Other Drug Abusing (AOD) People Living With HIV (PLWH). Present research has involved adapting Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management (CBSM) and other strategies to improve quality of life and health outcomes for PLWH. Historically, CBSM has used relaxation and coping skills training to reduce negative mood and improve coping behaviors. The efficacy … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 5, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 7,759 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSustainable Management of Effluents from Small Piggery Farms in MexicoJ.L. de Victorica-Almeida, M. Galván-García, R. Ayala-RuizIn Mexico, pig farming is the third most important livestock activity due to its contribution to the total meat production. However, it is estimated that around 38% of pig farms dispose their wastewaters without any treatment directly into the nation’s water bodies, which in turn has a severe impact in the environment. One reason for not treating is the high … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 30 Jun 2008 · 7,369 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Multi-Agent Architecture for QoS Support in Grid EnvironmentAli Rezaee, Amir M. Rahmani, Saeed Parsa, Sahar AdabiGrid computing is emerged as a new distributed computing technology that implements flexible and coordinated resource sharing among dynamic, heterogeneous, unpredictable and geographically distributed collections of resources owned by different individuals and organizations. Due to heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the grid, resource management and application scheduling is a complex undertaking. This paper proposed a multi-agent architecture that addressed resource … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2008 · 7,082 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOperation of an SLA-aware Grid FabricMatthias HovestadtResearch on Grid Computing started under purely technical questions of how to realize the virtualization of distributed resources. Now, the commercial user should be attracted to use the Grid. Future applications of the Next Generation Grid will demand for flexible negotiation mechanisms supporting various ways of Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. In this context a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a powerful … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2006 · 6,663 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Ontological Approach for Dental Extraction Decision Making and Knowledge Dissemination – A Pilot Study for Dental Extraction ForcepsShanmuganathan Vasanthapriyan, Kuhaneswaran BanujanTooth extraction is one of the most usual surgical procedure in the field of dental. Not having proper knowledge of tooth and extraction instruments may cause too much complexity in extraction procedure or even some damages to patients’ jaws. Mainly when using extraction forceps, the proper forceps should be used according to the teeth and the situation. So, it is … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 6 · 24 Jun 2019 · 7,422 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Conflict-Free Routing Tables Update Method for Persistent Multilink and Node Failures in SDN ArchitecturesYannick Florian Yankam, Jean Frédéric Myoupo, Vianney Kengne TchendjiThe large-scale network management abilities of centralized architectures, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN), are attracting increasing interest from major computer networking companies. In this architecture type, the nodes follow the rerouting rules predefined by the control plane in the controller. However, when a link or node failure becomes persistent over the time, the controller must recompute the routing and rerouting … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 3 · 11 Mar 2019 · 7,473 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessIn the abstractChromomycosis: Case Reports of Exuberant Forms Including Carcinomatous DegenerationCarla Andréa Avelar Pires, Aline de Lima Dias, Adriana Kamilly Leitão Pitman Machado et al.Chromomycosis, or chromomycosis, is a chronic, progressive cutaneous and subcutaneous mycosis caused by several species of pheoid or dermaticeous (darkly pigmented) fungi. It mainly affects male patients, in the age group between 30 and 60 years and is more common on rural areas, being associated to traumatic events, which may explain the high frequency of involvement of the lower limbs … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 6 Feb 2019 · 7,765 accessesView PDFCite