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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWeight of Evidence Allocates Mineral Depositional ZonesAbdullah A. Bokhari, Guang Dao HU, Rani FouadProblem statement: Yunnan province in general and Pulang area in particular is geological rich area which prevents field study in multi locations due to high risk outcrop. Approach: New technology such as Geographic Information System (GIS) and an ArcView extension module Arcweight of evidence (WofE) became very handy to provide safety for researchers and allow organization to control their budget. … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 31 Dec 2010 · 6,981 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAssessing the Applicability of Landslide Databases for Hazard Management Using Objective and Subjective Models: Australian Geoinformatic CaseM. OwneghProblem statement: In order to assess the applicability of Australian landslide databases as a hazard management support system, current hard and soft literature and data sources were screened. This assessment resulted in the selection of four main data bases including national landslide database (A), Peril Aus ІІ (B), the Cities project (C) and analytical study of Fell (D). Approach: In … …Current Research in Geoscience, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2010 · 10,352 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Legalization of an Informal Health SectorRoger Lee MendozaProblem statement: The Philippines--a developing Southeast Asian country--exemplifies the co-existence of Western-oriented, medical science and indigenous, non-allopathic practices collectively known as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). The purpose of this study is to determine why and how the economics and politics of CAM’s integration with biomedical science could impede the achievement of health care redistribution in developing countries like the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 10,019 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluation of Mast Cell Distribution in Oral Lichen Planus and Lichenoid Lesions by Immunohistochemical and Histochemical AnalysisMahi Balci, Mustafa Emre ErcinThe histopathological assessment of Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) and oral lichenoid lesions is relatively subjective. The distinguishing criteria established by WHO effectively reproducible when all selection criteria were fulfilling but sometimes fail to provide a reliable diagnosis. The aim of the present study was to evaluate mast cell counts and their distribution among OLP and lichenoid lesions. The density and … …American Journal of Immunology, Vol. 12, Issue 4 · 11 Dec 2016 · 7,791 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Grammaticalization of the Spanish Complement-taking Verb without a ComplementizerJiyoung YoonThis study examines authentic data samples taken from the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) in order to uncover any semantic trends that can be commonly observed in verbs taking a sentential complement without the complementizer que in Spanish. In doing so, special attention is given to the grammaticalization process that can account for epistemic fragments in which the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 12 Sep 2015 · 8,770 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAssessment of Ecotourism Travel Risk on Word-of-Mouth: Via Fuzzy Set PerspectiveFangyi Liu, Cheng-Hsi Fang, Hsueh-Lan Chan, Tom Meng-Yen LinBecause of the subjective cognition on Word-Of Mouth (WOM) influence and the fuzziness on perceived-risk judgment, perceived risk in WOM Influence is a venture variable, which cannot be measured directly. The aim of this study is to define the mathematics meaning of the influence and develop a new fuzzy set method to build the influence membership function to exactly measure … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 5 · 31 May 2013 · 7,143 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCustomers’ Attitude towards Diminishing Partnership Home Financing in Islamic BankingDzuljastri Abdul Razak, Muhamad AbduhProblem statement: Diminishing partnership or musharakah mutanaqisah contract in home financing is recently introduced by the Islamic banking industry as an alternative of the bay bi’thaman ajil contract which has received many criticism from shariah scholars as mimicking conventional loan. This study aims to examine customers’ attitude upon diminishing partnership home financing and their intention to subscribe into the financing … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 15 Feb 2012 · 7,905 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSpeech Compression for Noise-Corrupted Thai Expressive SpeechSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: In speech communication, speech coding aims at preserving the speech quality with lower coding bitrate. When considering the communication environment, various types of noises deteriorates the speech quality. The expressive speech with different speaking styles may cause different speech quality with the same coding method. Approach: This research proposed a study of speech compression for noise-corrupted Thai expressive … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 6 Aug 2011 · 6,230 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards the Development of Speaker-Dependent and Speaker-Independent Hidden Markov Model-Based Thai Speech SynthesisSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: Tone distortion in Thai languages can deteriorate not only the intelligibility of speech but also its naturalness. Therefore, the correctness of tone must be carefully taken into account in continuous speech synthesis. The preliminary work confronted this problem when applying HMM-based speech synthesis to Thai. Approach: This study presented a study on speaker-dependent and speaker-independent Hidden Markov Model … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2009 · 6,925 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEffect of Environmental Comfort Factors in Enclosed Transitional Space toward Work ProductivityQi Jie Kwong, Nor Mariah Adam, Sai Hong TangProblem statement: The investigated area in this study was the enclosed lift lobby, which distinguishes itself as a unique form of region categorized under building transitional spaces. Such region may act upon on the work performance of occupants, as occupants are sensitive towards the conditions of immediate surroundings. The objective of this study was to investigate the occupants’ perceptions of … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Jun 2009 · 7,323 accessesView PDFCite