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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractUtilizing Geographic Information System for Prediction of Soil Erosion in Sono Sragen Catchment AreaMuhammad Mukhlisin, SukocoProblem statement: Embung is a small dam created by manmade lakes and used to catch water during rainy season for an irrigation source. In Sragen area, Embung Sono is one of around twenty embung that used to catch rain water for irrigation. Soil erosions in catchment area are potential to reduce water capacity of the embung. Although many embung have … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 13 Jul 2011 · 7,795 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPredictor Factors of Telecentres Outcome from the Users Perspectives in Rural CommunitiesMohammad Badsar, Bahaman Abu Samah, Musa Abu Hassan et al.Problem statement: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in developing countries is considered as a fundamental strategy of community development. In this regard, the government of Malaysia and developing agencies considered telecentres as a tool for providing the potential and benefits of ICTs for rural and remote community in order to make value and offer equal ICT access to all Malaysians … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 6 · 13 Jun 2011 · 7,441 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHandwashing Practices amongst Health Workers in a Teaching HospitalBalafama Abinye Alex-Hart, Peace Ibo OparaProblem statement: Hand washing with soap is an important means of preventing hospital acquired infections .However the rate of hand washing with soap and water is unacceptably low amongst health workers. Few studies on this subject have been done amongst health workers in Nigeria. The aims of this study were to explore perceptions, attitudes and hand washing practices amongst health … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 27 Apr 2011 · 21,602 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPredicting Missing Attribute Values Using k-Means ClusteringNambiraj Suguna, Keppana Gowder ThanushkodiProblem statement: Predicting the value for missing attributes is an important data preprocessing problem in data mining and knowledge discovery tasks. Several methods have been proposed to treat missing data and the one used more frequently is deleting instances containing at least one missing value of a feature. When the dataset has minimum number of missing attribute values then we … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 25 Feb 2011 · 7,873 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLand Surface Temperature Retrieval by Using ATCOR3_T and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Methods in Penang IslandK. C. Tan, H. S. Lim, M. Z. MatJafri, K. AbdullahProblem statement: Many studies have been devoted to establish the methodology for retrieval of LST from single channel algorithm by utilizing Landsat satellite images. However, this method required many atmospheric parameters to retrieve LST. Thus, it is very difficult to acquire the complete information for atmospheric parameters. Approach: While for ATCOR3_T, this method can be used to retrieve LST without … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 5 · 31 May 2010 · 7,497 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractKhaen: An Application of Isan Local Wisdom for Conservation Revitalization and Development of Raw Materials and Khaen Making for Value-Added CultureChampadaeng Sithisak, Bunsom Yodmalee, Khaentaphon SamdaengdejProblem statement: The electricity in recent time, the raw materials for making “Khaen” (Lao reed mouthorgan) were decreased. The Reed Mouthorgan manufacturing was a high wisdom heritance. The objective of this research was to study the following issues: (1) the history of Reed Mouthorgan musical instrument, raw material and Reed Mouthorgan manufacturing in Esan Region. (2) The state of problems … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,686 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCTSS: A Tool for Efficient Information Extraction with Soft Matching Rules for Text MiningA. Christy, P. ThambiduraiThe abundance of information available digitally in modern world had made a demand for structured information. The problem of text mining which dealt with discovering useful information from unstructured text had attracted the attention of researchers. The role of Information Extraction (IE) software was to identify relevant information from texts, extracting information from a variety of sources and aggregating it … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 5 · 31 May 2008 · 6,892 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractWordnet and Ontology Based Query Expansion for Semantic Information Retrieval in Sports DomainM. Uma Devi, G. Meera GandhiSemantic Search has been a major longing factor from the envisage state of Semantic Web. Information on the Web is growing at a very rapid pace and has become quite voluminous over the past few years. Semantics of the query is not considered in Traditional Search system since it is a mere Keyword based Search. To increase the number of … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 2 Feb 2015 · 6,993 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPLANT RECOGNITION USING STEREO LEAF IMAGE USING GRAY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXHermawan Syahputra, Agus Harjoko, Retantyo Wardoyo, Reza PulunganAdequate knowledge, such as information about the unique characteristics of each plant, is necessary to identify plant. Researchers have made plant recognition based on leaf characteristics. The leaf image-based plant recognition in view of different angles is a new challenge. In this study, the research on the plant recognition was conducted based on leaf images resulted from 3D stereo camera. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 24 Dec 2013 · 8,116 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAgent and Radio Frequency Identification Based Architecture for Supermarket Information SystemHasan Al-SakranIn recent years the acceptance of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in business environments has been increasing rapidly due to its competitive business value. Adopting a suitable RFID-based information system has become increasingly important for supermarkets. However, most supermarkets still use conventional barcode-based systems to manage their information processes, which are consistently reported as one of the most unenthusiastic aspects … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 1 Jun 2013 · 6,742 accessesView PDFCite