Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOnline Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition Based on a Rule Based ApproachSaad M. Ismail, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh AbdullahHandwriting recognition is a very challenging problem. Much work has been done on the recognition of Latin characters but limited work has been done on recognizing Arab characters. Most Arabic handwriting recognition in previous works focused on recognizing offline script and little take the online cases. The main theme of this study is on-line handwritten Arabic character recognition. A successful … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 11 · 25 Sep 2012 · 7,193 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPoetry Classification Using Support Vector MachinesShahrul Azman Noah, Noraini Jamal, Masnizah MohdProblem statement: Traditional Malay poetry called pantun is a form of art to express ideas, emotions and feelings in the form of rhyming lines. Malay poetry usually has a broad and deep meaning making it difficult to be interpreted. Moreover, few efforts have been done on automatic classification of literary text such as poetry. Approach: This research concerns with the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 8 Aug 2012 · 8,871 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe International Multimodal Transport of Hazardous Goods and WasteGiancarlo Carosso, Cesare Luceri, Pierpaolo OresteThe international multimodal transport of hazardous goods and waste is a sector of remarkable economic importance. This transport activity is connected to several productive sectors and it can have considerable repercussions on the environment and health as well as on the safety of the workers and third parties that study in the same field. A certain part of the transport … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 10 Jul 2012 · 7,118 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTrust and its Relationship to Demographic FactorsAsghar MirfardiProblem statement: Social trust is the main theme in the social life. Trust is “the expectation that arises within a community of regular, honest and cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms”. Development, social trust and security are intertwined categories and have interaction to each other. Social trust, as a main factor in social capital, provide social context for developmental … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 8 Feb 2011 · 8,441 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEducation to Face the Wicked Challenges of SustainabilityBland TomkinsonProblem statement: The nature of sustainable development requires new paradigms for education. Issues of sustainability are ‘wicked problems’ that do not lend themselves to conventional didactic approaches. The challenge for higher education is to examine interdisciplinary approaches to global societal responsibility and, within this, issues of education for sustainable development. Approach: A project, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 8,708 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCultural Identity Expressions through Visual Analysis in Post-Disaster HousingAsal Kamani Fard, Mohd Hamdan Ahmad, Dilshan Remaz OssenProblem statement: The incidence of natural disasters as well as followed human beings’ efforts for reestablishing life is considered as unavoidable essence of nature. Whilst, the interdisciplinary theme of post disaster recovery and reconstruction has been researched worldwide in order to examine its different aspects. And within architectural interests, evaluating the housing reconstruction programs would lead to beneficial clues through … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2010 · 7,270 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReduce Computation Steps Can Increase the Efficiency of Computation AlgorithmZulkarnain Md. AliProblem statement: Lucas function is a special form of second-order linear recurrence relation. It is used in LUC cryptosystems. The performance of LUC cryptosystem depends on the size of public key, messages and two relatively primes. The increasing of size of these parameters will increase the computation time need to perform the LUC Cryptosystem computation. The efficiency means the quality … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 10 · 24 Aug 2010 · 7,015 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMachine Translation System in Indian PerspectivesSanjay Kumar Dwivedi, Pramod Premdas SukhadeveProblem statement: In a large multilingual society like India, there is a great demand for translation of documents from one language to another language. Approach: Most of the state government works in there provincial languages, whereas the central government’s official documents and reports are in English and Hindi. Results: In order to have an appropriate communication there is a need … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 10 · 30 Jul 2010 · 8,418 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHeuristic Lemmatization for Arabic Texts Indexation and ClassificationFaten Khalfallah Hammouda, Abdelsalam Abdelhamid AlmarimiProblem statement: This study proposed a system based on a heuristic lemmatization for Arabic text indexation and classification. This research is needed for a lot of NLP applications such as the research of information and automatic abstract. This system was not related to any linguistic rule. The proposed method was limited to five different domains: Sports, medicine, politics, economics and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2010 · 6,974 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNanocrystalline Powders of Alkaline-Earth Phosphates as Precursors for BioceramicsParhi Purnendu, A. Ramanan, Alok R. RayBone is a nanocomposite made of calcium phosphates and collagen. Collagen has a typical fibrous structure, with diameter ranging from 100 nm to 2 μm. It is suggested that calcium hydroxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2 in the size range 5-50 nm embedded in the collagen framework provides mechanical strength to bone. Among calcium phosphates, apatites are found to be the most suitable for … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2006 · 6,543 accessesView PDFCite