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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractKey Performance Indicators Supporting Decision-Making Affecting Malaysian Enterprise' Project Performance in ChinaAbdullah Bin Ibrahim, Wu Jing, Da WengeProblem statement: Nowadays, Improving decision-making to define a group of strategic objectives and associated Performance Indicators (KPIs) are has become one of the critical issues for practices relating to scope management gaining competitive advantages. Approach: This study focus on validate KPI supporting decision-making for sustainability appraisal in projects management for Malaysian Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) enterprises in China. Results: … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2010 · 7,471 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractManagers Empowering EmployeesJ.D. Tony CarterProblem statement: This article looked at the behavior of organizations as an important factor for empowering employees. This allowed for a greater level of partnering between managers and employees. The more that top management wants an internal commitment from its employees, the more it must involve employees in defining work objectives, specifying how to achieve them and setting stretch targets. … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2009 · 8,542 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDevelopment of a Cultural Network for Enhancing the Healthy CitiesNawiya Nuntapanich, Songkoon Chantachan, Pirat Thidpad, Rachanont SupapongpichateProblem statement: The implementation in developing the cultural network was a strategy for managing the culture as well as the implementing the healthy city. The objectives of this research were: (1) to study situation of peaceful city and community in overall of Middle West, (2) to analyze the potentiality and readiness in implementing the healthy city and (3) to develop … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 25 Oct 2011 · 7,796 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNative Understanding of Participation and Empowerment in Community DevelopmentN. Lyndon, R. Moorthy, A. C. Er, S. SelvaduraiProblem statement: The need for local community is often neglected at macro policy level and it is crucial to engage the native world view. The native view will provide adequate information of the needs and aspirations of the community. The aim of this study is to examine the native understanding of participation and empowerment in community development from the world … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 24 Oct 2011 · 7,578 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFarmers' Perception about the Extension Services and Extension Workers: The Case of Organic Agriculture Extension Program by PROSHIKAMd. Asaduzzaman Sarker, Yoshihito ItoharaProblem statement: Need of agricultural information is the basic necessity for the farmers as it plays a pivotal role in enlightening them, raising their level of knowledge and eventually help in their decision making process regarding farming activities. Extension workers with their extension services are doing this noble work. PROSHIKA a renowned NGO in Bangladesh is promoting organic agriculture among … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 8,279 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Approach to DEA ModelsA. Azadeh, S.F. Ghaderi, Z. Javaheri, M. SaberiEvaluating the performance of activities or organizations by traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as efficiency frontier analysis models requires crisp input/output data. However, in real-world problems inputs and outputs are often imprecise. This study develops DEA models using imprecise data represented by fuzzy sets. An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2008 · 7,232 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordWhat Else do Epileptic Data RevealRamalingam ShanmugamProblem statement: Aggregating and analyzing data of all patients using statistical methodologies as often done in macro sense would be not useful when physician’s professional interest was only to provide the best medical care to the patient. For this purpose, individual data of the involved patient should be analyzed and modeled in a micro sense for the physician to notice … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 29 Mar 2011 · 7,303 accessesView PDF Cite