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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImpact of Dietary Polydextrose on Clinical Signs of Canine OsteoarthritisA. C. Beynen, D. H.J. Saris, L. De Jong et al.Problem statement: Osteoarthritis is an inflammatory joint disease associated with loss of cartilage matrix. There is suggestive evidence that the intake of polydextrose fiber has anti-inflammatory activity. It was reasoned that polydextrose may have a positive influence on canine osteoarthritis. Approach: A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with privately owned dogs was carried out to assess the efficacy of STA-LITE® polydextrose in … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 5 Oct 2011 · 9,052 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOccupational Exposure of Pesticides on Activities of Alanine aminotransferase and γ-Glutamyltranspeptidase in Blood among Vegetables FarmersShamsul Bahari Shamsudin, T. Hang YapProblem statement: Most vegetable farmers are using agricultural chemicals on their farms. Many of these chemicals are used to control pests and are known as pesticides. Pesticides can be considered according to their chemical basis. Most of the more toxic pesticides fall into chemical groups of organophosphates, carbamates and bipyridyls. Approach: The general objective to study the level of liver … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 4 Oct 2011 · 7,938 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Key Components of Job Satisfaction in Malaysian Water Utility IndustryKhalizani Khalid, Hanisah M. Salim, Siew-Phaik Loke, Khalisanni KhalidProblem statement: This study aimed to examine the impacts of employee’s rewards and employee’s motivation on employee’s job satisfaction between public and private water utility organization in Malaysia. Approach: A total of 689 employees from both sectors participated. While hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to test the relationship between employee’s rewards, employee’s motivation and employee’s job satisfaction, gap analysis was … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 16 Aug 2011 · 9,050 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRule Based Shallow Parser for Arabic LanguageMona Ali Mohammed, Nazlia OmarProblem statement: One of language processing approaches that compute a basic analysis of sentence structure rather than attempting full syntactic analysis is shallow syntactic parsing. It is an analysis of a sentence which identifies the constituents (noun groups, verb groups, prepositional groups), but does not specify their internal structure, nor their role in the main sentence. The only technique used … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 10 · 4 Aug 2011 · 7,183 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEffects of Teaching Literature on Culture Learning in the Language ClassroomChittra Muthusamy, Rasaya Marimuthu, Elangkeeran SabapathyProblem statement: The role of literature in enhancing readers’ cultural understanding in the language classroom was explored. It was a part of an extensive research which focused mainly on language learning and creativity. It is argued that the interface of language, literature and culture are at the forefront of present-day language and literature learning and this facilitates inter-racial, intra-racial and … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 8 · 19 Jul 2011 · 7,773 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAchievement Motivation and Adjustment Patterns among International and National Players of Different Team SportsNirmaljit Kaur Rathee, Jagbir SinghProblem Statement: Achievement in sports demands specific behavior from an athlete.. The performer in such events must have ability to assess the situation, select the response, decide quickly and then implement it with determined efforts. Approach: This study was focused to examine the levels of achievement motivation, emotional and social adjustment among international and national players of basketball, hockey and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 3 · 18 Jul 2011 · 9,010 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCreating a Geographical Information Systems-based Spatial Profile for Exploring Health Services Supply and DemandAbdulkader A. MuradProblem statement: GIS has several techniques and functions that can be used for health services planning. Each one of these functions can be applied for different health related issues. Approach: The first part of this study reviews the relevant GIS functions that are used by health care planning researches and identifies the advantages of using these functions. The second part … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 6 · 13 Jun 2011 · 6,872 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Study of Elementary School Students' Viewpoints on Interactive WhiteboardTian-Syung Lan, Tsung-Yen HsiaoProblem statement: Introducing the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) into teaching is not only a current trend but also a major policy of education. Many studies indicated that IWB can increase the interaction between teachers and students as well as students’ motivation and enjoyment from teachers’ viewpoints. However, a study to understand and describe the opinion from children’s view is hardly found. … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2011 · 7,440 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAutomating Commercial Video Game Development using Computational IntelligenceTse Guan Tan, Jason Teo, Patricia AnthonyProblem statement: The retail sales of computer and video games have grown enormously during the last few years, not just in United States (US), but also all over the world. This is the reason a lot of game developers and academic researchers have focused on game related technologies, such as graphics, audio, physics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the goal … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2011 · 7,618 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Enhanced Russell Measure of Super-Efficiency for Ranking Efficient Units in Data Envelopment AnalysisAli Ashrafi, Azmi Bin Jaafar, Lai Soon Lee, Mohd Rizam Abu BakarProblem statement: Conventional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) helps decision makers to discriminate between efficient and inefficient Decision Making Units (DMUs). However, DEA does not provide more information about the efficient DMUs. Super-efficiency DEA model can be used in ranking the performance of efficient DMUs. Because of the possible infeasibility of radial super-efficiency DEA model, the ranking has been limited to … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2011 · 8,798 accessesView PDFCite