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Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEcological Sanitation in Morocco Promotion of the Urine-Diversion Dehydration Toilets-Case of Dayet IfrahYoussef Abarghaz, M. Mustapha Mahi, Mme Christine Werner et al.Problem statement: Most of people in rural areas in Morocco don’t have adequate systems of collection, evacuation and transport of black and gray water. They simply defecate in nature. There is a huge demand, which cannot possibly be met by conventional sanitation systems due to the enormous costs of the pipe network, lack of water and serious environmental drawbacks in … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 7 Apr 2012 · 8,024 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordModeling of Fundamental Frequency Contour of Thai Expressive Speech using Fujisaki's Model and Structural ModelSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: In spontaneous speech communication, prosody is an important factor that must be taken into account, since the prosody effects on not only the naturalness but also the intelligibility of speech. Focusing on synthesis of Thai expressive speech, a number of systems has been developed for years. However, the expressive speech with various speaking styles has not been accomplished. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 8 · 9 Aug 2011 · 6,975 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordThe Cyber Space and Information, Communication and Technology: A Tool for Westernization or Orientalism or BothAhmad Rizal Mohd Yusof, Mohamad Fauzi Sukimi, Solahuddin Bin Ismail, Zaheruddin Bin OthmanProblem statement: The role of ICT and cyberspace and their existence have become prevalent popular phenomena to the extent that they are perceived to have the potential for transforming the world and launch it into a Digital era. The advent and advancement of ICT and cyberspace has also facilitated the globalization process and is used as an integrative tool, making … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 12 · 15 Oct 2011 · 7,503 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAn Approach to Develop a Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling by Fuzzy Rule Based System and Comparative Study with the Traditional Priority RulesRamin Ahmed, Md. Muzahid Khan, Md. Hasibul Haque, Md. Hasibur RahmanThis paper aims at developing a dynamic job shop scheduling by establishing fuzzy rule based system and comparing its effectiveness with the traditional priority rules. In order to understand the priorities of different jobs in a job shop, the paper investigates all the contributing criteria of different parameters. Since the traditional priority rules only emphasis on a single parameter at … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 11 Feb 2016 · 8,365 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH FOR MEASURING TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SMALL-SCALE IMPROVED SALT PRODUCTION IN GUINEABoubacar Siddighi Balde, Hajime Kobayashi, Makoto Nohmi et al.Salt production is a major driving force behind the loss of mangrove in Guinea. As the traditional salt production causes increasing deforestation, the intensive exploitation of mangrove resources has now reached a critical threshold. Therefore, improved techniques using sunlight as the source of energy has been introduced as an alternative to the traditional salt production techniques which consumes a significant … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 8 · 14 May 2014 · 7,641 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA NOVELTY APPROACH OF SPATIAL CO-OCCURRENCE AND DISCRETE SHEARLET TRANSFORM BASED TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION USING LPBOOSTING CLASSIFIERC. Vivek, S. AudithanRecently, the research towards Brodatz database for texture classification done at considerable amount of study has been published, the effective classification are vulnerable towards for training and test sets. This study presents the novel texture classification method based on feature descriptor, called spatial co-occurrence with discrete shearlet transformation through the LPboosting classification. It can be considered as a frame through … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 5 · 11 Jan 2014 · 6,602 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAN EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUE OF MULTIPLE IMPUTATION IN NONPARAMETRIC QUANTILE REGRESSIONYanan Hu, Qianqian Zhu, Maozai TianIn this study, we consider the nonparametric quantile regression model with the covariates Missing at Random (MAR). Multiple imputation is becoming an increasingly popular approach for analyzing missing data, which combined with quantile regression is not well-developed. We propose an effective and accurate two-stage multiple imputation method for the model based on the quantile regression, which consists of initial imputation … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 10, Issue 1 · 4 Jan 2014 · 6,813 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordHuman Face Detection and Recognition using Web-CamPetcharat Pattanasethanon, Charuay SavithiProblem statement: The illuminance insensitivity that reflects the angle of human facial aspects occurs once the distance between the object and the camera is too different such as animated images. This has been a problem for facial recognition system for decades. Approach: For this reason, our study represents a novel technique for facial recognition through the implementation of Successes Mean … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 17 Aug 2012 · 8,271 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordMeasurement of Ground Level Ozone at Different LocationsYasmen A. Mustafa, Sinan J. MohammedProblem statement: Ground level ozone is the most important index substance of photochemical smog. Photochemical smog is now observed in many urban and industrial centers around the world and it has become a common phenomenon in many large cities. Ozone is a most harmful pollutant for humans, in addition it plays an important role in damaging vegetation and materials. Therefore … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 13 Jun 2012 · 7,402 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordRealization of Fault Tolerant Routing Protocol for ZigbeeSharmila Sankar, SankaranarayananProblem statement: Increased use of handheld devices and sensor devices pose problems in existing routing protocols. The performance of the existing routing protocols deteriorates very much on these dense scenarios. Control overheads are very important parameter in deciding the performance of routing protocols, which are introduced during route discovery and maintenance process. Denser the network, higher is the control overhead … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 5 · 2 Mar 2012 · 6,827 accessesView PDFCite