Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluating Nursing and Midwifery Metrics: Providing Evidence to Support Change and Renewal in Healthcare Services in IrelandRandal Parlour, Paul Slater, Elizabeth BreslinThis study was commissioned by senior nursing and midwifery management to evaluate the impact of 'medication management metrics' (Medication Storage and Custody and Medication Administration) upon the delivery of nursing and midwifery care in the Health Service Executive (HSE) North West Area. The study employed a mixed-methodology using both quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis. Methodological and … …International Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 10 Jul 2015 · 7,130 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMETADATA DRIVEN EFFICIENT KEY GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN CLOUD SECURITYR. Anitha, Saswati MukherjeeWith rapid development of cloud computing to a greater extent IT industries outsource their sensitive data at cloud data storage location. To keep the stored data confidential against untrusted cloud service providers, a natural way is to store only encrypted data in the cloud severs and providing an efficient access control mechanism using a competent cipher key-Cmxn, which is becoming … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 10 · 12 May 2014 · 6,629 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEFFICIENT RANKED AND SECURE FILE RETRIEVAL IN CLOUD COMPUTINGJ. Jospin Jeya, E. KannanCloud computing facilitates extremely scalable services that can be consumed over internet. An important aspect of the cloud services is that user data are stored remotely in unknown machines in which users do not posses or manage. Since the data’s are stored remotely, we have to keep in mind that sensitive cloud data have to be encrypted before they are … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 6 · 3 Apr 2014 · 6,856 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRETRACTED: Toxicity Assessment of Phosphonium Based Ionic Liquids Towards Female Guppy FishMohanad El-Harbawi, Yasmin Syazwani Bt. Yusri, M. Ismail HossainIn this study, two phosphonium based ionic liquids (butyl triphenyl phosphonium chloride and hexyl triphenyl phosphonium bromide) have been synthesized using quarternisation process. The toxicities of these Ionic Liquids (ILs) are unknown and may be harmful to humans and the environment. Therefore, the toxicity assessment of these ILs was carried out according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 6 · 20 Jan 2014 · 6,854 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDISTRIBUTIVE POWER MIGRATION AND MANAGEMENT ALGORITHM FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTP. Prakash, G. Kousalya, Shriram K. Vasudevan, Kawshik K. RangarajuIn cloud computing, the resources are provided as service over the internet on demand basis. The resources such as servers, networks, storage, applications are dynamically scaled and virtualized. The demand grows gradually for each virtual machine in a cloud computing environment over time. So, it is necessary to manage the resources under each cluster to match the demand in order … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 3 · 29 Nov 2013 · 6,510 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractLearning Software Component Model for Online TutoringM. Balakrishnan, K. DuraiswamyProblem statement: Web services are interface elements which allow applications to render functional services to requesting clients using open standard protocols. A lecture method combines both social association and urban processing as course design and delivery is termed as Interface Learning. Many Interface learning services is presenting through online. To make an online tutoring scheme more effective, the previous study … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 7 · 9 Jun 2012 · 6,776 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Living Values-Based Contextual Learning to Develop the Students' CharacterKokom KomalasariProblem statement: University has an important role in the process of young generation character education. The character education should be integrated through the living values-based contextual learning model in order to be easier internalized and implemented. This study aimed at describing: (1) the living values-based contextual learning model conceptually in lecturing; (2) the implementation of the living values-based contextual learning … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 6 Mar 2012 · 9,298 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractArtificial Bee Colony based Energy Aware and Energy Efficient Routing ProtocolP. Visu, S. Koteeswaran, J. JanetProblem statement: Network becomes very important technology in the day to day life style of modern computer era, in which the wireless communication become very popular for the last few years. In the same manner, the other wireless network, i.e., ado network is very popular among the researchers in the past few decades. Approach: The Ad hoc networks are defined … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 19 Jan 2012 · 7,098 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNew Mersenne Number Transform Diffusion Power AnalysisM. F. Al-Gailani, S. BoussaktaProblem statement: Due to significant developments in the processing power and parallel processing technologies, the existing encryption algorithms are increasingly susceptible to attacks, such as side-channel attacks, for example. Designing new encryption algorithms that work efficiently on different platforms and security levels to protect the transmitted data from any possible attacks is one of the most important issues in today’s … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 12 Jan 2012 · 7,454 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvaluation of Common Maintenance Methods for Flexible PavementsAsma T. Ibraheem, Suda M. GaniProblem statement: With the increasing use and awareness of pavement management systems and the growing emphasis on asset management of pavement infrastructure, it is important to strengthen the maintenance components of these systems and particularly the preventive maintenance component. Iraqi Roads don’t receive an effective and proper maintenance during their service life until they reach the state of major failure … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 29 Nov 2011 · 7,866 accessesView PDFCite