Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCorrelation Between Dispersion and Mean Toassess Healthcare Servicee FficiencyRamalingam ShanmugamMotivation for this research work started while helping a hospital administrator to assess whether patient oriented activity duration, X≥0 is reflecting the service’s efficiency? Higher value of the sample mean duration, X implies lesser productivity in the hospital and more healthcare cost. Likewise, larger value of sample dispersion, sx2 in the service durations is an indicator of lesser reliability and … …Current Research in Biostatistics, Vol. 2, Issue 2 · 30 Aug 2012 · 6,876 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractErgonomics Issues in MalaysiaH. S. Loo, Stanley RichardsonProblem statement: Ergonomics so far has had little impact in Malaysia. For most Malaysian managers, ergonomics is not considered to be associated with performance, but rather with occupational health and safety and legislation. Approach: This study reviews the development of ergonomics in Malaysia and the underlying issues related to national development. Results: Many changes need to be made within the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 23 Jan 2012 · 9,509 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOntological Approach for Effective Generation of Concept Based User Profiles to Personalize Search ResultsS. Prabaharan, R. S.D. WahidabanuProblem statement: Ontological user profile generation was a semantic approach to derive richer concept based user profiles. It depends on the semantic relationship of concepts. This study focuses on ontology to derive concept oriented user profile based on user search queries and clicked documents.This study proposes concept based on topic ontology which derives the concept based user profiles more independently. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 21 Nov 2011 · 7,223 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractFuzzy Subalgebras and Fuzzy T-ieals in TM-AlgebrasKandasamy Megalai, Angamuthu TamilarasiIn this study, we introduce the concepts of fuzzy subalgebras and fuzzy ideals in TM-algebras and investigate some of its properties. Problem statement: Let X be a TM-algebra, S be a subalgebra of X and I be a T-ideal of X. Let µ and v be fuzzy sets in a TM-algebra X. Approach: Define the upper level subset µt of … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 18 May 2011 · 8,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHow Guanxi Relates to Social Capital? A Psychological PerspectiveKai-Ping Huang, Karen Yuan WangProblem statement: The study aims to offer a discussion on social capital and guanxi, in order to illustrate the similarities and differences between these two concepts and how Chinese guanxi varies from Western preconceptions concerning social networking. Approach: The literature review and arguments were conducted to provide a systematic discussion of the guanxi and social capital relationship. Results: Both guanxi … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 2 Feb 2011 · 8,639 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Study of Mashup as a Software Application Development Technique with Examples from an End-User Programming PerspectiveLiu Na, Ahmed Patel, Rodziah Latih et al.The purpose of this study is to present, introduce and explain the principles, concepts and techniques of mashups through an analysis of mashup tools from End-user Development (EuD) software engineering perspectives, since it is a new programming paradigm. Problem statement: Although mashup tools supporting the creation of mashups rely heavily on data integration, they still require users to have reasonable … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 12 · 2 Nov 2010 · 8,429 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGenome Sequence Analysis: A SurveyHassan Mathkour, Muneer AhmadProblem statement: Sequence analysis problems are NP hard and need optimal solutions. Interesting problems include duplicate sequence detection, sequence matching by relevance, sequence analysis using approximate comparison in general or using tools i.e., Matlab and multi-lingual sequence analysis. The usefulness of these operations is highlighted and future expectations are described. Approach: This study described the concepts, tools, methodologies, algorithms being … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2009 · 6,833 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMultimodal Integration (Image and Text) Using Ontology AlignmentAhmad Adel Abu Shareha, Mandava Rajeswari, Dhanesh RamachandramProblem statement: This study proposed multimodal integration method at the concept level to investigate information from multimodalities. The multimodal data was represented as two separate lists of concepts which were extracted from images and its related text. The concepts extracted from image analysis are often ambiguous, while the concepts extracted from text processing could be sense-ambiguous. The major problems that … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2009 · 6,633 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTopologies Induced by Relations with ApplicationsA. S. SalamaTopological structures induced by relations represents the process of extracting interesting decision rules from data. The attributes reduction and the calculation of core are the essentials to extract the decision rules. Finding the reducts, core and decision rules topologically is a new mathematical tool for discovering attribute dependencies in information systems. Problem statement: These mathematical tools employ some concepts from … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2008 · 7,218 accessesView PDFCite