Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInternet Politics and Digital Divide Issues: The Rising of a New Electronic Aristocrats and Electronic MeticiansAthanasios I. BozinisThe use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the beginning of 1990 until today has brought important changes on function and structure of both public sector and governments. Within the framework of application and use of e-democracy, new technologies enhance the citizens’ democratic participation in public affairs, by using e-voting, e-ballot, while by using e-mail, citizens can develop and … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2007 · 8,270 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIntegrating Data Mining Methods Across all Domains of a Smart CityRushit Dave, Nuo Xu, Simon Arneberg et al.As modern cities continue to develop, smart devices are being used to improve citizens’ lives. As these devices become more sophisticated, the amount of information that they collect increases. A Smart City is a city that uses a large amount of generated data to constantly improve the services offered to the people that live there. Data mining techniques can be … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 18, Issue 5 · 30 May 2022 · 7,075 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDetection of Commercial Fraud in Processed Meat Products Using Rapid TechniquesAli M. Ahmed, Takwa H. Ismail, Reham R. Abouelmaatti et al.Meat adulteration with different species has become a considerable problem worldwide. It means that meat products contain undeclared meat species; so, the meat ingredients are not consistent with the label. It has direct impact on public health, religious faith, fair-trades and food safety standers. This study focused on species adulteration detection in meat products by applying accurate, slandered and fast … …American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Vol. 16, Issue 2 · 4 Jun 2020 · 7,817 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractShort Text Mining: State of the Art and Research OpportunitiesMohamed Grida, Hasnaa Soliman, Mohamed HassanWith the growing number of connected online users producing a tremendous amount of unstructured short-texts daily, understanding and mining these data becomes very useful for individuals, governments and companies for identifying the public users’ attitudes towards different entities, such as products, services, events, places, organizations and topics. However, analyzing these short-texts using traditional methods becomes a significant challenge due to … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 10 · 13 Oct 2019 · 8,091 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBig Data Interoperability for E-GovernanceEl Benany Med Mahmoud, El Beqqali Omar, Aris M. OukselThe notion of governance is innate to any society in the word. The use of big-data allow governance as a competitive advantage to attract resources, with the emergence of the social web and exponential data generated accordingly. Such social web and exponential data can be analyzed to give the enlightened human beings about the good governance and maintain an intelligent … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 10 · 7 Oct 2019 · 8,099 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVANET Routing Protocols and Architectures: An OverviewAnas Abu TalebVAVETs have become an interesting area of research since vehicles can be equipped with sensors, processing and communication devices. As a result, various life changing application emerged in different areas such as safety and public services. VANETs are considered as a subclass of Ad hoc networks. However, they have special characteristics that differentiates them such as QoS requirements, privacy, safety … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 3 · 30 Mar 2018 · 8,161 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMeasuring Intra-City Eco-Efficiency Variations of Urban Infrastructures in JeddahMohammed Aljoufie, Alok TiwariSaudi cities are experiencing construction booms linked to urban infrastructure services and the Kingdom’s second largest city, Jeddah, is not an exception. As these booms are associated with urban expansion and rapid population growth, the major challenge confronting urban planners is the ensuring of resource efficiency given the offered infrastructure. In fact, reducing the consumption of resources and the impact … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 3 · 14 May 2016 · 7,445 accessesView PDFCite
EditorialOpen accessIn the abstractNaloxone as a Harm Reduction Initiative: Misinterpretations of ResearchRichard R. MassattiIn the American Medical Journal, Annahita Beheshti and colleagues review the literature on naloxone use for opioid overdose in West Virginia (Beheshti et al., 2015). The authors cite several of my publications in support of their views on naloxone (Massatti, 2013; Massatti et al., 2014), but many of these citations misinterpret my work by using it to present a counterargument … …Current Research in Medicine, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 9 Apr 2016 · 8,029 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the abstractRapid Entire Body Assessment: A Literature ReviewDima Al Madani, Awwad DababnehThe aim of this review is to provide a summary of one of the observational postural analysis ergonomic assessment tools; Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) in terms of its development, applications, validity and limitations. Research showed REBA’s convenience for postural assessment of jobs in numerous professional settings, including industrial and health care jobs, construction, sawmill tasks, supermarket industry, food industry, … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 26 Feb 2016 · 16,255 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessIn the abstractAn Economic and Environmental Evaluation of the Em-Ferro Plastic Sorting TechnologySeyedehfarzaneh Nojabaei, Omid Nematshahi, Matthew FranchettiRecycling has been continually practiced since the dawn of mankind; however, increasing production costs as well as environmental impacts of the conventional waste disposal methods have shed a light on the importance of recycling as a sustainable way to produce goods and services. Recycling has proven to be beneficial, economically and environmentally: It saves resources, prevents pollution, supports public health … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 30 May 2015 · 6,976 accessesView PDFCite