Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractExplicit Allocation Strategy with Deadline and Budget Constraint Algorithm in Bag of Tasks GridM. Suresh Kumar, T. PurusothamanProblem statement: This study is for effective scheduling of grid jobs based on economy for space shared resources in Bag of tasks grid. Grid Computing aims in combining the power of heterogeneous, geographically distributed, multi-domain computational resources to provide high performance or high throughput. Approach: Space shared resources are parallel supercomputers and clusters of workstations that provides a great amount … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 7 · 7 Jun 2012 · 6,232 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGC-MS Analysis and PLS-DA Validation of the Trimethyl Silyl-Derivatization TechniquesKamalrul Azlan Azizan, Syarul Nataqain Baharum, Habtom W. Ressom, Normah Mohd. NoorProblem statement: Comparison and validation analysis of the conventional and power-adjusted Microwave-Assisted (MA) techniques of TMS derivatization using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Multivariate Analysis (MVA) of Partial Least Squares Analysis (PLS-DA). Further improvement of the conventional technique using vigorous shaking was tested and analyzed. Approach: Cross-validation and response permutation test of PLS-DA and S-plot of Orthogonal Partial Least Squares … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 7 · 4 Jun 2012 · 10,325 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNovel Fuzzy Technique for Cancer Detection in Noisy Breast Ultrasound ImagesN. Alamelumangai, J. DeviShreeProblem statement: Detecting tumor areas in breast Ultrasound (US) images is a challenging task. The occurrence of benign areas in breast may result in false identification of malignant areas which may have serious outcome. Approach: The CAD system could act as a major function in the early detection of breast cancer and could decrease the death rate among women with … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 5 · 12 Mar 2012 · 6,963 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPublic Funding and Affordability of Substance Abuse Treatment ServicesRoberto A. Trevino, Alan J. RichardProblem statement: Substance abuse continues to cause significant personal, social and economic costs to the US economy. In order to decrease these costs, the goal of the US public health policy has been to increase access to drug treatment services by increasing their affordability. Government policy makers try to achieve such a goal by providing direct public funding to private … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 28 Feb 2012 · 8,260 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHeart Localization from Magnetic Resonance Images SequenceAhmed Farag, Mahmoud FakhreldinProblem statement: Heart localization is an important step in cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) analysis. This study aims to locate the moving heart region from MRI sequence of images. Approach: The idea is to use the motion detection techniques to isolate the heart region from the background image and then apply morphological operations to construct a moving heart region mask. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 4 · 30 Jan 2012 · 6,855 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractArtificial Bee Colony based Energy Aware and Energy Efficient Routing ProtocolP. Visu, S. Koteeswaran, J. JanetProblem statement: Network becomes very important technology in the day to day life style of modern computer era, in which the wireless communication become very popular for the last few years. In the same manner, the other wireless network, i.e., ado network is very popular among the researchers in the past few decades. Approach: The Ad hoc networks are defined … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 19 Jan 2012 · 7,098 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThai Speech Phonology for Development of Speech Synthesis: A ReviewSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: To implementation of the Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based Thai speech synthesis system, it is necessary to understand the phonology system for a language. Without the phonological information, the contextual factors of tree-based context clustering cannot be completed. Approach: The existing speech units in Thai are studied thoroughly so that the synthesis system can provide all of them in … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 27 Dec 2011 · 6,963 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA New Ventricular Late Potential Classification System Using Ant Colony OptimizationA. Sankara Subramanian, G. Gurusamy, G. SelvakumarProblem statement: Ventricular Late Potentials (VLPs) are low-level high frequency signals that are usually found within the terminal part of the QRS complex from patients after myocardial infarction. Patients with VLPs are at risk of developing ventricular tachycardia, which is the major cause of death if patients suffering from heart disease. Approach: Discrete Wavelet Transform was used to detect VLPs … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 30 Nov 2011 · 6,886 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Review on Recent Research and Implementation Methodologies on Medical Image SegmentationS. K. Somasundaram, P. AlliProblem statement: Image segmentation plays a very important role in digital imaging applications for classifying the anatomical structures and other Regions of Interest. Segmentation refers to the process of identifying and isolating the surface and regions of the digital image which corresponds to the structural units. Approach: In the past few decades, many methods have been proposed to segment the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 4 Nov 2011 · 7,121 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDiversity of the Rhizosphere Soil Culture-Dependent Fungi of Mature TobaccoXiaolin Li, Xinzhu Li, Kewei Zhao et al.Problem statement: The maturation of tobacco is a very important period of tobacco production. Until recently, there are no many reports on tobacco rhizospheric culturable fungi, especially at the mature stage. Approach: Five rhizosphere soils of tobacco and five non-rhizosphere soils of tobacco were collected in Yanbian county, Panzhihua. Sixty-one fungal strains isolated from these soil samples were analyzed by … …Current Research in Microbiology, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 26 Oct 2011 · 9,881 accessesView PDFCite