Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCurrent and Future Nanotech Applications in the Oil IndustryCocuzza Matteo, Pirri Candido, Rocca Vera, Verga FrancescaProblem statement: Nanotech applications in the oil industry are not completely new: nanoparticles have been successfully used in drilling muds for the past 50 years. Only recently all the other key areas of the oil industry, such as exploration, primary and assisted production, monitoring, refining and distribution, are approaching nanotechnologies as the potential Philosopher's stone for facing critical issues related … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 13 Mar 2012 · 10,630 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Evaluation of Relative Efficiency of Teaching HospitalsFereshteh Farzianpour, Shayan Hosseini, Tahera Amali et al.Problem statement: The main purpose of applying practical and scientific ways to evaluate the hospital’s performance and activities the optimal use of physical facilities ‘technology and the present human power. One the scientific way used for this purpose is using economic analysis and tools one of which is to determining hospitals’ technical efficiency the present study tries to determine the … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 3 · 27 Jan 2012 · 7,583 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRural Students’ Skills and Attitudes Towards Information and Communication TechnologyHairulliza M. Judi, Hazilah M. Amin, Nor A.M. Zin, Rodziah LatihProblem statement: Despite various initiatives and programmes by the government to incorporate ICT in education, not much research has been done to evaluate the achievement of these initiatives and programmes, including ICT proficiency among students. This study fills in the gap of lack of current information pertaining to the Malaysian secondary school students’ ICT competencies, knowledge on internet and attitudes … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 21 Oct 2011 · 7,964 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAgeism in British Columbia: A Brief ReportLarry Anderson, Yongjie Yon M.A.This short report, using Palmore (2001) Ageism Survey, presents data demonstrating the prevalence of Ageism in British Columbia, Canada. Correlation patterns relating to humour, employment, victimization and personal rejection are discussed. Particular emphasis is placed on connecting ageism and relational self-esteem. Sources of respondents include: The Senior Connector, a newspaper distributed throughout British Columbia; the Council of Senior Citizen Organizations … …Current Research in Psychology, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 30 Jun 2010 · 8,231 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSegmentation and Recognition of Handwritten Numeric ChainsSalim Ouchtati, Mouldi Bedda, Abderrazak LachouriAutomatic reading of numeric chains has been attempted in several application areas such as bank cheque processing, postal code recognition and form processing. Such applications have been very popular in handwriting recognition research, due to the possibility to reduce considerably the manual effort involved in these tasks. In this study we propose an off line system for the recognition of … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2007 · 7,639 accessesView PDFCite