Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBoric Acid Levels in Fresh Noodles and Fish BallPang-Hung Yiu, Jian See, Amartalingam Rajan, Choon-Fah J. BongBoric acid (H3BO3) is detrimental to human health if consumed in excess. However, it continues to be used in the production of food especially noodles and some processed seafood such as fish ball. Five kinds of noodles and a type of fish ball were collected over a period of four weeks from a random sample of manufacturers in Bintulu, Sarawak, … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 10,609 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImage Recognition Using Combination of Discrete Multi_Wavelet and Wavenet TransformDr Mikhled AlfaouriFocus of the method was to present image identification and labeling using new combination of dynamic transforms. This method is based on using the combination of the Discrete Multi-wavelet Transform (DMWT) and Wavenet Transform (WN). In this method, the resulting coefficients were computed by the proposed multi-wavelets transform for single-level decomposition. The low pass sub bands of the upper left … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2008 · 7,088 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSource Couple Logic (SCL): Theory and Physical DesignMohamed Azaga, Masuri OthmanThis study describes and presents the analysis for the Source-Coupled Logic (SCL) inverter as will as the effect of submicron layout parasitics. The SCL inverter circuit model and its operation is defined. The analysis for the SCL is carried from the point of view of input/output voltage characteristics and the effect of noise margin. The inverter gate delay model is … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2008 · 7,466 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTrace Metal Mercury Levels in Residential Homes in KuwaitL. AL-Awadi, A. R. Khan, R. Al-KandariKuwait is an oil rich state on the northeastern corner of Arabian Peninsula and has faced the unprecedented man made environmental disaster in early 1991 of igniting over 600 oil wells those continually burnt for a period of over six months. The use of crude and heavy fuel oil in the power generating facilities has aggravated the pollution due to … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 29 Feb 2008 · 6,827 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Innovative Technique of Texture Classification and Comparison Based on Long Linear PatternsV. Vijaya Kumar, B. Eswara Reddy, U. S.N. Raju, K. Chandra SekharanThe present paper proposes a method of texture classification based on long linear patterns. Linear patterns of long size are bright features defined by morphological properties: linearity, connectivity, width and by a specific Gaussian-like profile whose curvature varies smoothly along the crest line. The most significant information of a texture often appears in the occurrence of grain components. That’s why … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 8 · 28 Aug 2007 · 6,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOptical Character Recognition System for Arabic Text Using Cursive Multi-Directional ApproachMansoor Al-A'ali, Jamil AhmadThis paper presents a novel new technique based on feature extraction and on dynamic cursor sizing for the recognition of Arabic Text. The most challenging area in Arabic OCR (AOCR) research is the segmentation of words into their sub-words and their individual characters. Several rules are defined that govern the size and movement of the cursor through each segment. The … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2007 · 6,970 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractClassification of Squamous Cell Carcinoma Based On Color and Textural Features in Microscopic Images of Esophagus TissuesP. S. Hiremath, Y. Humnabad Iranna, Jagadeesh D. PujariThis paper presents a method for feature extraction using color and texture from microscopic images of esophagus tissues obtained from the abnormal regions of human esophagus detected through endoscopy. This method is used for classification of Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of esophagus, namely, poorly differentiated SCC, moderately differentiated SCC, and well differentiated SCC. Three different color spaces, namely, HSV, YCbCr, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2007 · 6,874 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Dynamic Weight Assignment Approach for Index TermsKamel E. Haouam, Farhi MarirCurrently in the development of Informational Retrieval (IR) systems, a set of keywords represents the semantics of a text document and after assigning weights to the set of keywords, they are used for indexing, searching and retrieval purposes. The current approaches for assigning weights are provided by an IR model that is used by an IR system. The main objective … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2006 · 6,943 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Feasibility Study of Challenges and Opportunities in Computational Biology: A Malaysian PerspectiveR. J.A. Richard, N. SriraamThe term computational biology refers to the knowledge derived from a computer analysis of biological data that includes identification of genes in DNA sequence of different organisms, prediction of structural and functional mechanism of proteins, feature extraction and classification of genomics and proteomics. Computational biology is a rapidly developing branch of science and is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and Concepts … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2005 · 6,924 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Real-time Image Processing with a Compact FPGA-based ArchitectureRidha Djemal, Didier Demigny, Rached TourkiThis study have presented a filed programmable gate array implementation of a real time video smoothing algorithm. In comparison with smoothing video techniques like deblocking filters in H.264 or smoothing in JPEG2000, the proposed method is implemented in hardware and its computational cost and complexity are reduced where all pixel processing related to uncompressed video is done on the fly. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 7,001 accessesView PDFCite