Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAlcohol Consumption and its Correlates Among Residents of Mining Town, Kitwe, Zambia: 2011 Population Based SurveyCosmas Zyaambo, Olusegun Babaniyi, Peter Songolo et al.Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, liver cirrhosis and cancers. It has also been associated with risky sexual behaviors, hence, attributed as a factor in the increase of HIV incidence and prevalence. A cross sectional study was conducted using a modified World Health Organizations Global Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) Surveillance Initiative NCD-STEPs 1and … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 29 Jan 2013 · 8,051 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Survey of Intrusion Detection Schemes in Wireless Sensor NetworksMurad A. Rassam, M. A. Maarof, Anazida ZainalWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are currently used in many application areas including military applications, health related applications, control and tracking applications and environment and habitat monitoring applications. The harsh and unattended deployment of these networks along with their resource restrictions makes their security issue very important. Prevention-based security approaches like cryptography, authentication and key management have been used to protect … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 10 · 17 Aug 2012 · 8,738 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Quantity Survey of Halon 1301Supat PatvichaichodProblem statement: The objectives of this article were to survey the data of Halon 1301 user in Thailand in which the data was used to establish the guidelines of Halon management project. Approach: The data survey of Halon 1301 user began by sending a questionnaire to 3,756 organizations that were expected to use Halon 1301, total number of replied organizations … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 26 Jan 2012 · 7,378 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleTrends in Preferences in the Market for Alternative Investments: A Summary of Recent Deutsche Bank Alternative Investment SurveysErik BenrudProblem statement: This study introduced to the literature information on and from the Deutsche Bank Alternative Investment Survey: 2002-2009. Approach: All the survey data for our analysis is from the DBAIS survey. We obtained the interest rate data, from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Results: Our results present important summaries of the trends and relationships among participants in the alternative … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 7,597 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleUsability Requirements of Formal Verification Tools: A SurveyRozilawati Razali, Paul GarrattProblem statement: Formal notations employ mathematical symbols and interpretation to illustrate system elements. The formality imposed by the notations allows the accuracy and consistency of a system model to be confirmed by verification tools. Formal notations on the other hand are difficult to understand and use by most users. As supporting instruments, verification tools are expected to be as usable … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 10 · 10 Aug 2010 · 7,189 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleUtilization and Modification of Point Sampling and Line Sampling in the Forestry SurveyDifei ZhangProblem statement: In the practice of conventional point sampling and line sampling methods in the forestry survey, we often encounter problems such as boundary and hole problems. These problems could introduce bias in the results of forest sampling. Proper modifications are needed. Approach: This study developed novel probability computation approaches in the utilization and modification of horizontal point sampling and … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,679 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Survey on Environmental Factors and Job Satisfaction Among Operators in Automotive IndustryA. R. Ismail, M. H.M. Haniff, C. B. Kim et al.Problem statement: A survey was conducted to investigate the relationship between environmental factors, job satisfaction that influence the workers’ discomfort in four automotive manufacturing in Malaysia. Discomfort level of operator in workstation often were associated with workstation design, posture comfort operator at work, activity which involved work and place influence environment such as heat, noise and lighting. The aim of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2010 · 7,036 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMotivators, Barriers and Concerns in Adoption of Electronic Filing System: Survey Evidence from Malaysian Professional AccountantsMing-Ling Lai, Kwai-Fatt ChoongProblem statement: Worldwide, electronic filing (e-filing) system and its' adoption has attracted much attention, however, scholarly study on accounting professionals' acceptance of e-filing system is scant. Approach: This study aimed (i) to examine factors that motivated professional accountants to use e-filing (ii) to solicit their usage experience and (iii) to assess the barriers to adoption and other compliance considerations. The … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2010 · 8,502 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Survey of Compute Intensive Algorithms for Ribo Nucleic Acids Structural DetectionRa’ed Al-Khatib, Rosni Abdullah, Nur’Aini Abdul RashidProblem statement: Finding an accurate RNA structural alignment from primary sequence due to it is time consuming and computationally NP-hard problem is a major bioinformatics challenge. According to our investigation majority of current researches were concerned on achieving faster execution time, improving space complexity and better cache management. Recently one research introduced cache-efficient Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) algorithms with good speed-up … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2009 · 6,463 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Survey of Protein Fold Recognition AlgorithmsMohammed Said Abual-Rub, Rosni AbdullahProblem statement: Predicting the tertiary structure of proteins from their linear sequence is really a big challenge in biology. This challenge is related to the fact that the traditional computational methods are not powerful enough to search for the correct structure in the huge conformational space. This inadequate capability of the computational methods, however, is a major obstacle in facing … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 6,879 accessesView PDFCite