Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Quality Control and Everyone’s Participation in Japan to Prevent Pollution During Last Five DecadesMohammed Matouq, Nasir Kloub, Kazue InoueEconomic Growth in Japan after World War II was very remarkable and products from its manufacturing industry were widely accepted in the world market after productivity and quality of them were tremendously improved. On the other hand, Japan soon found itself in severe environmental deterioration, due to not being paid any attention to environment. However, that pollution from industry was … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 30 Apr 2007 · 7,999 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLizard Learning Algorithm for Invariant Pattern RecognitionG. M. Rao, G. R. Babu, G. V. KumariResearches are keen to know astonishing and intricate details of the nature. Each creature has its own admiring abilities and performs their routine task in more efficient manner. The bug navigation system has drawn keen attention among research community to know how they are able to perform their routine task in utmost skillful manner. The lizard is capable of identifying … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 28 Feb 2007 · 7,495 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImproving the Ranking Capability of the Hyperlink Based Search Engines Using Heuristic ApproachHaider A. Ramadhan, Khalil Shihab, Jafar H. AliTo evaluate the informative content of a Web page, the Web structure has to be carefully analyzed. Hyperlink analysis, which is capable of measuring the potential information contained in a Web page with respect to the Web space, is gaining more attention. The links to and from Web pages are an important resource that has largely gone unused in existing … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2006 · 6,382 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstract2D Object Description with Discrete SegmentsNbhan D. Salih, David C.L. Ngo, Hakim Mellah2D object shape description has gained considerable attention in field of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) and in various applications that concerned with the shapes of objects. Object shape descriptors in the literature are commonly classified into two forms: contour-based and region-based. In this paper we present our contour-based shape representation and description, where the object shape is represented and describe … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2006 · 6,543 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Postgenomic Era: Transcriptomic as the New Paradigm of LifeBruno Giardina, Marcella Renis, Vito Latora, Salvatore MusumeciNow that complete genome sequences are available for a variety of organism, the elucidation of single gene function involved in the metabolism, includes necessarily a better understanding of the cellular responses on all levels of gene products, mRNA, proteins and metabolites. Such knowledge’s growth is essential since the observable properties of living organisms, so called phenotypes, are the results of … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2006 · 6,826 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNeuropsychological Dysfunction among HIV Infected Drug AbusersRamani S. Durvasula, Charles H. HinkinHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been documented to cause direct and indirect central nervous system dysfunction that can be observed as a progressive decline in neuropsychological functioning in a large proportion of persons with HIV and AIDS. Neuropsychological decline in individuals with HIV is characterized by cognitive and motor slowing, attentional deficits, executive dysfunction and memory impairment (characterized by intact … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2006 · 7,161 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCommunication Architecture Synthesis for Multi-bus SoCAbdelkrim Zitouni, Sami Badrouchi, Rached TourkiIn the systems on chip (SoC) design, the synthesis of communication architecture constitutes the bottleneck which can affect the performances of the system. Various schemes and protocols can be necessary, just as various topologies of interconnection. To reduce the complexity of the communications refinement, we present in this study a model and a synthesis approach for multi-bus communication architecture containing … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2006 · 6,784 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRisk Assessment Study for Storage ExplosiveS. Saiful Azhar, M. Abdul Rahman, M. Saari et al.In Malaysia, there has been rapidly increasing usage in amount of explosives due to widely expansion in quarrying and mining industries. The explosives are usually stored in the storage where the safety precaution had given high attention. As the storage of large quantity of explosive can be hazardous to workers and nearby residents in the events of accidental denotation of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2006 · 7,102 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSurvival in the Current Healthcare Environment How Close Are We to Socialized Medicine?Eldo E. FrezzaIn the 1980's, some hospitals established internal agencies to regulate cash flow and capital expense. State agencies promoted the evolution of healthcare facilities into more business-like organizations. Attention to the following matters will reduce hospital costs: 1) prevent or reduce nosocomial infections; 2) treat diseases at a stage amenable to outpatient therapy; 3) obtain complete information about the policies of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2005 · 6,693 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Note towards Reshaping Java's FeaturesN. S. Kutti, Z. A. Al-Khanjari, H. A. Ramadhan, J. FiaidhiProgramming Languages continually go through the refinement process due to several findings such as lack of robustness, lack of flexibility, lack of simplicity and lack of standard. This may require pruning undesirable features, sometimes softening of hard nature of some features and adding new features to improve the scope of the languages. Recently Java has emerged as a refined language … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 30 Dec 2005 · 6,499 accessesView PDFCite