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Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordStatistical Measurement of Nurses’ Level of Awareness of Value of Occupational Therapy Services in a Paediatric WardLesetja Given Ledwaba, Legashe Hezekiel Ledwaba, Rirhandzu Valley Mathebula et al.The study investigated the extent of information the nurses have about Occupational Therapy (OT) and its place within a health Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). It took place in the paediatric ward of the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Gauteng Department of Health. It was stimulated by the adverse attitude of the nurses to the OT staff and/or students from Sefako … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 6 · 12 Apr 2017 · 7,594 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEvaluating the Potential for Development of Vegetable Nursery Industry: Analysis in an Important Vegetable Region in ItalyGiuseppe Timpanaro, Arturo Urso, Carlo Prato, Vera Teresa FotiNursery industry has a considerable importance in the value chain’ building of vegetable companies. Its importance increases in a country like Italy, where vegetable productions in open field and in greenhouse contribute significantly to the creation of income and employment and to the socio-economic support of entire geographic areas. However, this sector is underpowered, if compared to the potential expressed … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 17 Jun 2015 · 7,304 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordESTIMATING LOSS SEVERITY DISTRIBUTION: CONVOLUTION APPROACHRo J. PakFinancial loss can be classified into two types such as expected loss and unexpected loss. A current definition seeks to separate two losses from a total loss. In this article, however, we redefine a total loss as the sum of expected and unexpended losses; then the distribution of loss can be considered as the convolution of the distributions of both … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 2 May 2014 · 6,898 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAN EFFECTIVE OPTIMIZED GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR SCALABLE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM CLOUD USING BIG DATAR. Palson Kennedy, T. V. GopalThe distributed computations are broadly used in the current world for processing large scale jobs. For data intensive applications with big data, it has recently received a very good attention. A simple programming model that allows easy development of scalable parallel applications to process big data on large clusters was required. In our proposed work the input files will be … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 6 · 31 Jan 2014 · 6,673 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordDoes Over or Under Dispersion in Inverse Binomial Data Suggest Anything? A Case in Point is the Waiting Time for Both Heart-Lung TransplantsRamalingam ShanmugamThe model is an abstraction of the reality. The selection of the usual inverse binomial as an underlying model for the number of patients waiting in months for heart and lung transplant is questionable because the data exhibit not the required balance between the dispersion and its functional equivalent in terms of the mean but rather an over or under … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 29 Jan 2014 · 6,891 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordIs Cancer Recurrence Postponed By a Treatment? A New Model AnswersRamalingam ShanmugamDuring a treatment period of a cancer patient, the medical team ponders over a question: Is patient’s cancer recurrence significantly postponed by the medication, even if the illness is not completely cured? This question could be answered with data evidence if the data are analyzed with an appropriate model and a suitable methodology. A scanning of the literature reveals that … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 26 Mar 2013 · 6,894 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA Fuzzy Fast Classification for Share Market Database with Lower and Upper BoundsSrinivasan Vaiyapuri, Rajenderan Govind, Vandar Kuzhali JaganathanIn recent years, many researchers focused on the research topic of constructing fuzzy classification system. This study introduces a Fuzzy Fast Classification (FFC) approach for large data sets. It has three phases, in the first phase the large data base is reduced with the entropy by removing the number of attribute. In the second phase an approximate classification is obtained … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 12 · 8 Nov 2012 · 6,674 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordIntervened 2-Tier Poisson Distribution for Understanding Hospital Site InfectivityR. ShanmugamProblem statement: Whether it is a surgical site or medical treatment at a hospital site, the nurses in particular and the entire medical team including surgeons/physicians in general undergo a risk of being infected ironically by the patients whom they intend to disinfect. There are 2-tiers of patients at the site. One type consists of patients who are internally and … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2012 · 6,927 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordBreaking Bud Dormancy and Different Shade Levels for Production of Pot and Cut Cucurma alismatifoliaL. A. Thohirah, C. L.S. Flora, N. KamalakshiProblem statement: Cucurma alismatifolia is a member of the family Zingiberaceae. It is widely grown in Thailand and is also a highly demanded plant in Holland and Israel where it is grown for cut flowers and as pot plants. C. alismatifolia has a good potential as a new flowering crop in the floriculture industry. The development of new flowering pot … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 9,568 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordNutritional Value of the Maize Stalk Borer and American Bollworm as Unconventional Protein SourcesA.E. Ghaly, F.N. AlkoaikProblem statement: The maize stalk borer and American bollworm were grown in an artificial media to evaluate their potential as human food sources. Approach: Both cultures were started from moths and the life cycle and culture structures were evaluated. Results: The larvae of both insects reached maximum weight and maximum length at the same time. The growth rate of the … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2010 · 8,095 accessesView PDFCite