Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNative Understanding of Participation and Empowerment in Community DevelopmentN. Lyndon, R. Moorthy, A. C. Er, S. SelvaduraiProblem statement: The need for local community is often neglected at macro policy level and it is crucial to engage the native world view. The native view will provide adequate information of the needs and aspirations of the community. The aim of this study is to examine the native understanding of participation and empowerment in community development from the world … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 24 Oct 2011 · 7,578 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPublic Involvement on Environment Issues in Kota Bharu and Jeli District, KelantanMohammad Ghazi Ismail, Haliza Abdul RahmanProblem statement: Environmental problems are too serious and complex to be solved through scientific approaches, technical and purely legal. Thus, public involvement with a more comprehensive vital is needed. This is because as one of the groups interested, this group can influenced and changed decision related policy legislation and policy related to environment. Public Involvement is needed in every development … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 8 Feb 2011 · 8,518 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDevelopment of Cultural Management and Inheritance by Community ParticipationPichayapol Nguanthaisong, Souneth Phothisane, Sastra LaoakkaProblem statement: Museums were places where all collections, which indicated values of arts and cultural heritages that were useful for learning, were kept. Establishment of museums was successful by having development, systematic management, cultural inheritance, knowledge transferring, participation and support. Approach: This study aimed to study backgrounds of museum development in temples in the area of the lower northeastern, to … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 8 Feb 2011 · 8,004 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractConstrained Response Surface Optimization for a Laser Beam Welding ProcessPongchanun LuangpaiboonProblem statement: On a current operating condition of a laser beam welding process in the hard disk drive industry, it has been found that shear strength of the head support and suspension assembly is slightly higher than customers' specification. This situation leads to an inspection with a large sample size and a high frequency. Shear strength is not only one … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 29 Jan 2011 · 7,372 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Development of Potential Problem Solving of Students, Mahasarakham UniversityAmorn Suwannimitr, Choochart Deeromram, Suwadee JundeekrayomProblem statement: The problem is a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved. It is involve in daily life of everyone including the students who study in University. Basically, they have to face with the physiological and psychological change; the significant problems also exactly affected to them. These situations led them to be the risk group in which they … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 7,910 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Novel Database Design for Student Information SystemNoraziah Ahmad, Nawsher Khan, Ahmed N. Abd Alla, Abul Hashem BegProblem statement: A new system designed, where necessary and alternative solutions given to solve the different problems and the most feasible solution were selected. Approach: This study presents the database design for student information system. Computerization of a system means to change it from a manual to a computer-based, system to automate the work and to provide efficiency, accuracy, timelessness, … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2010 · 8,726 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNovel Method of the Combination of Forecasts Based on Rough SetsEslam Faik Ahmed, Wang Jia Yang, Maan Younis AbdullahProblem statement: A study in Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) had shown the problem of quantify the qualitative and the side Combined. Approach: So that problems were better resolved. The rough sets theory and AHP was introduced in the study, furthermore, these were united to create a completely new method of combination forecasts. Results: The results of numerical examples were shown … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2009 · 7,008 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDigital Recognition using Neural NetworkSaleh Ali K. Al-Omari, Putra Sumari, Sadik A. Al-Taweel, Anas J.A. HusainProblem statement: Handwriting number recognition is a challenging problem researchers had been research into this area for so long especially in the recent years. In our study there are many fields concern with numbers, for example, checks in banks or recognizing numbers in car plates, the subject of digit recognition appears. A system for recognizing isolated digits may be as … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2009 · 7,665 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHepatitis B Diagnosis Using Logical Inference and Self-Organizing MapGhumbre Shashikant Uttreshwar, A.A. GhatolDespite all the standardization efforts made, medical diagnosis is still regarded as an art owing to the fact that that medical diagnosis requires an expertise in handling the uncertainty which is unavailable in today's computing machinery. Though artificial intelligence is not a new concept it has been widely recognized as a new technology in computer science. Numerous areas such as … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2008 · 6,878 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Approach to DEA ModelsA. Azadeh, S.F. Ghaderi, Z. Javaheri, M. SaberiEvaluating the performance of activities or organizations by traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as efficiency frontier analysis models requires crisp input/output data. However, in real-world problems inputs and outputs are often imprecise. This study develops DEA models using imprecise data represented by fuzzy sets. An important outcome of assessing relative efficiencies within a group of Decision Making Units (DMUs) in … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 10 · 31 Oct 2008 · 7,232 accessesView PDFCite