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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPerceptions of Care, Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Health Care Utilisation among Health Insurance users in GhanaSeth Christopher Yaw AppiahThe socio-demographic characteristics of clients and their perception of quality of care play a major part in people’s decision making process especially in service utilization. This study assesses the relationship between clients’ socio-economic features as well as their perceived quality on health care utilization. The study adopted a non-experimental cross sectional design in eliciting information from health clients who accessed … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 25 Jun 2015 · 7,622 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractASSESSMENT OF OIL PALM PLANTATION AND TROPICAL PEAT SWAMP FOREST WATER QUALITY BY MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSISSeca Gandaseca, Noraini Rosli, Mohammad Shawkat Hossain, Chandra Imam AriantoThis study reports the spatio-temporal changes in river and canal water quality of peat swamp forest and oil palm plantation sites of Sarawak, Malaysia. To investigate temporal changes, 192 water samples were collected at four stations of BatangIgan, an oil palm plantation site of Sarawak, during July-November in 2009 and April-July in 2010. Nine water quality parameters including Electrical Conductivity … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 4 · 3 Jul 2014 · 8,218 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSPATIAL AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE SURFACE WATER AND DEEP SEDIMENTS OF FRESH WATER AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMKantha Deivi Arunachalam, Sathesh Kumar Annamalai, Kamesh Viswanathan Baskaran et al.The aim of this study was to assess the levels of various trace metals present in water and sediment of fresh water aquatic ecosystem during the post monsoon season. The study was extended to identify the trace metal contamination in the water and sediment samples collected along the shores of Lambapur and Peddagattu the tribal villages in India using an … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 10, Issue 2 · 26 Mar 2014 · 7,597 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHARMONICS REDUCTION IN FRONT END RECTIFER OF UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES WITH ACTIVE CURRENT INJECTIONT. Chandrasekar, B. Justus Rabi, A. KannanHarmonics are the by-products of modern electronics devices so it is necessary to mitigate the harmonics and offer techniques to mitigation of harmonics. It is greatly hampered by a three phase rectifier used as a front-end ac-to-dc converter in many systems. High power factor is achieved by injecting high-frequency currents into the three-phase rectifier. This study presents the high power … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 1 Feb 2014 · 6,803 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMODELING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CORPORATE IDENTITY MIX IN PERCEIVED QUALITY AND CUSTOMER-RELATED BRAND EQUITY WITH INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS AND MICMAC ANALYSISMahsa Pishdar, Mohammad Reza Seyyed Hashemi Toloun, Fereshteh Farzianpour, Morteza RezaeiaslThis study aims to identify the relation between corporate identity mix, perceived quality on customers’ behalf and customer-centric brand equity. A review of the available literature within this scope resulted in making a primary model which represents that the corporate identity mix has an effect upon the perceived quality and brand equity by some variables such as corporate image and … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 29 Jan 2014 · 7,160 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractE-Service Quality and its Effect on Consumers’ Perceptions TrustMohammad Al-Nasser, Rushami Zien Yusoff, Rabiul Islam, Abdullah ALNasserE-service quality measurement in online shopping has been receiving increasing attention currently and as a result, many studies have tried to highlight major dimensions of e-service quality linked with online environment. Excellent e-service quality is an important matter for online vendor. It is the factor that will enable them to attract more online customers. The aim of the study is … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 31 Dec 2013 · 8,358 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEVALUATION OF SERVICE TRANSACTIONS AND SELECTION OF QUALITY OFFERED SERVICES IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTM. Alamelu, A. M.J. Mohamed Zubair RahmanThe application of service oriented architecture in business is to meet the best quality requirements to the customers and providers. Where, service evaluations are carried out based on the quality attributes of scalability, usability, security, performance. In past many evaluation systems have been proposed for business applications with different criteria. However, security metric to be considered this study proposes a … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 2 · 20 Dec 2013 · 6,702 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIMPLEMENTATION OF SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION TECHNIQUE WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM TO OPTIMIZE UNIFIED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONERM. Shankar, S. Monisha, H. Shesna et al.This study proposes a novel control design of Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC). This design is enabled by a control framework that employs Genetic Algorithm which determines optimum points and angle for filtering and Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation Technique (SVPWM) to offer significant flexibility to optimize waveform. In addition the same framework integrates the major functions of the UPQC … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 14 Dec 2013 · 6,711 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAnalysis on Characteristics of Corn Farmers on Selecting Seeds Under the Seed Subsidy in China: A Case Study in Liaoning and Hebei Provinces, ChinaNing-Ning Sun, Shoichi Ito, Qianhui Gao et al.The Seed Subsidy (SS) is the direct subsidy to encourage farmers cultivate with high quality seeds, which was introduced to nationwide farmers by Chinese government since 2004. China is the second biggest corn producer in the world and the government has provided SS for the corn producers since 2004. As the government allocated an increasing amount of budgets on SS … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 22 May 2013 · 7,166 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractStudy of Ambient and Indoor Air Quality in the Building Built on the Former LandfillAnuar Ithnin, Nazipah Zakaria, Nor Azura Sulong et al.Problem statement: The air quality study of PPR Taman Wahyu II, Selayang, Selangor was a residential project that was built on the former landfill site. The landfill site will produce landfill gases which can influence the air quality level in and outside the building. Approach: This air quality study also involving PPR Intan Baiduri, Batu Caves, Selangor as a control … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 8 · 21 Jun 2012 · 6,989 accessesView PDFCite