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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIs Air Pollution Controlled Enough? “Tapered Probabilities” AnswerRamalingam ShanmugamAir pollution is dangerous sespecially to the residents in cities, as it causes lung, heart, or respiratory illness. Public health professionals ponder whether the air pollution is significantly controilled. The amount of existing air pollution is measurable, but not its regulated level, which is therefore as a parameter in a novel manner in this article. However, there is no suitable … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 6 Nov 2017 · 12,734 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractService-Learning in Business Education: An Analysis of Spirituality, Leadership and MotivationMark Dickerson, Roxanne Helm-Stevens, Randy FallThe major goal of this study was to explore student perceptions of service-learning and its effect on development of their leadership skills and spirituality. This manuscript begins by describing the theoretical foundations that inform the literature on the correlation between service-learning and leadership, spirituality and motivation. The researchers then put forth their quantitative data, presented using two data sets, drawing … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 21 Jun 2017 · 8,539 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Randomized Population Constructive Heuristic for the Team Orienteering ProblemManal ZettamThe NP-hard (complete) team orienteering problem is a particular vehicle routing problem with the aim of maximizing the profits gained from visiting control points without exceeding a travel cost limit. The team orienteering problem has a number of applications in several fields such as athlete recruiting, technician routing and tourist trip. Therefore, solving optimally the team orienteering problem would play … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 13, Issue 9 · 17 Jun 2017 · 8,290 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFrom the Chicago School to Post-sub Cultural Carriage: A Review and Analysis of Contemporary Trends in Youth Culture ResearchMohd. Aslam BhatThe historicity of youth culture studies is much challenging to date exactly. Sociologists however, trace its genesis from Chicago School and then leap to Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Theoretically it was, with the works of post subculturists that youth culture research gained ascendency. Global youth culture posture further revamped the field. This paper constructs a critical dialogue between … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 1 · 18 Feb 2016 · 8,525 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractUnderstanding Preferences for Nature Based and Sustainable Tourism: The Role of Personal Values and General and Specific Environmental AttitudesPaola Passafaro, Francesca Cini, Vittoria Diaco et al.This paper reports the results of a study which investigated the social psychological correlates of people’s preferences for sustainable and unsustainable tourism activities. Two-hundred-eighty-two participants from two Italian cities responded to a questionnaire which recorded their tourism preferences, their general pro-environmental attitudes and values and their specific attitudes towards sustainable tourism. Results showed positive correlations among the constructs considered. Groups … …Current Research in Psychology, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 2 Oct 2015 · 8,351 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIMPACT OF THE ANTECEDENT FACTORS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MALAYSIAN EXPORT COMPANIESSaad Dubayyan Alshammari, Rabiul IslamThe study aimed at investigating the impact of the antecedent factors on the performance of exporting companies in Malaysia through the mediating influence of marketing mix adaptation. In order to provide deep and rich investigation, the impact of the antecedent factors on the marketing mix adaptation was examined. A questionnaire was used as the instrument of the study and the … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 30 Aug 2014 · 7,387 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPROBING NON-ADHERENCE TO PRESCRIBED MEDICINES? A BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION WITH INFORMATION NUCLEUS CLARIFIESRamalingam ShanmugamNo illness gets cured without the patient’s adherence to the prescribed medicine (s). Reasons such as too many medicines, lack of health insurance coverage, high co-payment cost, loss of cognitive memory to take. are commonly noticed for non-adherence. In some illnesses, the patients who do not adhere to the prescribed medicines end up again in hospital. How should the pertinent … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 17 Jul 2014 · 7,227 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFACTORS INFLUENCING MOBILE-LEARNING ADOPTION INTENTION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION IN HIGH EDUCATIONNgo Tan Vu Khanh, Gwangyong GimThis study investigates the use of mobile phones and tablets for learning purposes among university students in Vietnam. For this purpose, the research is based on relevant technology acceptance literature and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is proposed to analyze the adoption of mobile devices and smart phones by Vietnam students for accessing course materials, searching the web for information … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 2 Jul 2014 · 8,626 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBUSINESS LOGIC EVALUATION MODEL USING DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS APPROACH FOR SER-VICE INTEGRATIONM. Thirumaran, M. Jannani, P. Dhavachelvan et al.In order to extract and integrate the required business logics from the rapidly expanding business services accurately and efficiently, developers must fathom the entire service and must decide on the proper approach to merge them which is a complex and time-consuming task. So integrating the service logics automatically by scrutinizing the dependency relations existing on business rules, functions and parameters … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 8 · 10 May 2014 · 6,516 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractONTOPARK: ONTOLOGY BASED PAGE RANKING FRAMEWORK USING RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORKS. Yasodha, S. S. DhenakaranTraditional search engines like Google and Yahoo fail to rank the relevant information for users’ query. This is because such search engines rely on keywords for searching and they fail to consider the semantics of the query. More sophisticated methods that do provide the relevant information for the query is the need of the time. The Semantic Web that stores … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 9 · 24 Apr 2014 · 6,580 accessesView PDFCite