Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordWebsite Usability Evaluation of Nonprofit Organizations: An Exploratory Study of Saudi ArabiaSaqib SaeedCommunity informatics discourse can be termed as a computing community’s response to the social responsibility initiative, which is looking at the technological support to improve communities. Nonprofit organizations are an important part of any society, so recently there are many studies on technologically supporting this segment of society. Saudi Arabia has a huge presence of nonprofit organizations, so in the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 3 · 13 Mar 2019 · 8,123 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordDynamic Simulation and Optimum Operation Strategy of a Trigeneration System Serving a HospitalFrancesco Calise, Massimo Dentice d'Accadia, Luigi Libertini et al.This paper presents a numerical analysis of a trigeneration system in a hospital, aiming at determining the cost-optimal operating strategy as a function of the energy demands to be matched. The system includes: A natural gas fired reciprocating engine, heat exchangers for waste-heat recovery, a single-stage LiBr-H2O Absorption Chiller (ACH), a cooling tower, pumps, a backup boiler, a backup vapour-compression … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 4 · 29 Aug 2016 · 8,183 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessAll words, across the recordAn Economic and Environmental Evaluation of the Em-Ferro Plastic Sorting TechnologySeyedehfarzaneh Nojabaei, Omid Nematshahi, Matthew FranchettiRecycling has been continually practiced since the dawn of mankind; however, increasing production costs as well as environmental impacts of the conventional waste disposal methods have shed a light on the importance of recycling as a sustainable way to produce goods and services. Recycling has proven to be beneficial, economically and environmentally: It saves resources, prevents pollution, supports public health … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 30 May 2015 · 6,982 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordCIRCULAR NEIGHBOR REPLICATIONAhmad Shukri Mohd Noor, Nur Farhah Mat Zian, Yazid Md SamanDistributed system rely on replication techniques to tolerate data failure and site disconnection thus ensur-ing flexibility of the system so as to preserve its dependability. The idea of replication is robust however practical implementation of the replication techniques is often rigid that would bring down system's de-pendability and performance. This study intended to evaluate existing techniques and then develop a … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 12 · 29 Dec 2014 · 8,111 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordTHE SECURITY SURVEY AND ANAYLSIS ON SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION COMMUNICATIONA. Shahzad, S. Musa, A. Aborujilah, M. IrfanThe SCADA system connectivity with several open networks using internet facility brought SCADA platform more vulnerable from attacks/threads. Therefore, the detail security review has been conducted, to find the potential security issues which are residing and warming the SCADA communication and also existing potential security solutions that are used to protect the SCADA communication. However, Security deployments are the future … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 10 · 23 Jun 2014 · 7,646 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordAn Expert System Applied in Construction Water Quality MonitoringLeila Ooshaksaraie, Noor Ezlin Ahmad BasriProblem statement: An untoward environmental impact of urban growth in Malaysia has been deterioration in a number of watercourses due to severe siltation and other pollutants from the construction site. Water quality monitoring is a plan for decision makers to take into account the adverse impacts of construction activities on the receiving water bodies. It is also a process for … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 28 Feb 2011 · 7,724 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordMobile Ad Hoc Network Security for Reactive Routing Protocol with Node Reputation SchemeA. Suresh, Dr. K. DuraiswamyThe mobile node’s reputation in the Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) identifies its trust worthiness for secured multiple data communication. Unknown nature of the node’s communication status for initial period has great impact in the effective data transfer as MANET is self-organized and distributed. Problem statement: The functional operation of the mobile network relies on the trusty cooperation between the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 25 Feb 2011 · 6,992 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEvaluation of Customer Relationship Management in a Teaching HospitalFereshteh Farzianpour, Leila Godarzi, Amin Torabipoor Hamedani et al.Communication between individuals has a vital role in human being’s life, specially their professional. In medical practice it is a certain and economical way recognize the patient’s problems and identify them. It is necessary to communicate with patients suffering mental or physical problems to be able to look after them. An analytical-descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. The population under study … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 12 Apr 2013 · 6,603 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordOptimizing Clusters Alignment for Bilingual Malay-English CorporaRayner Alfred, Chan Chen Jie, Ng Zhen Wei et al.Bilingual corpora, containing the same documents in two different languages, are becoming an essential resource for natural language processing. Clustering bilingual corpora provides us with an insight into the differences between languages when term frequency-based Information Retrieval (IR) tools are used. It also allows one to use the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and IR tools in one language to implement … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 12 · 26 Nov 2012 · 7,150 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordA Generic Charging Policy Based Accounting for Web ServicesV. MuthuLakshmi, Sheila AnandProblem statement: Metering and charging are basic accounting functions that are essential for commercial usage of web services. Current charging and accounting schemes primarily involve users being charged flat or based on the connection/session time. Accounting management of web services should provide for metering, charging, accounting, billing, payment and auditing. We have extended our earlier work, a Policy based Accounting … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 9 · 9 Aug 2012 · 7,411 accessesView PDFCite