Volume 14, Issue 7 (2017) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Experimental Investigation of Thermo-Physical Properties of Soil Using Solarisation Technology

Ahmed Abed Gatea Al-Shammary — 2017-07-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.649.661

Soil Thermo-Physical Properties (TPP) depend on heat transfer in the soil. This paper presents a study on different soil solarisation technologies influenced by soil TPP. This study evaluates three fa...

Simple Fabrication and Characterization of Piezoelectric Nanogenerators from Cobalt-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanofibers

Suyitno — 2017-07-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.662.669

The ferromagnetic cobalt doped into Zinc Oxide (ZnO) crystals is a promising method for enhancing the performance of Piezoelectric-Based Nano Generators (PENGs). The study reports the characterization...

Can Emotional Stability Buffer the Effect of Job Stress on Deviant Behavior?

Aminah Ahmad — 2017-06-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.670.677

The interrelationships between job stress, WDB and emotional stability have not been studied in a model to comprehend whether emotional stability could weaken the impact of job stress on employee devi...

Evaluation of Keratinolytic Activity Succeeds by Keratinophilic Fungi in Jaipur, India

Vishnu Sharma — 2017-04-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.678.681

Earth has innate background for fungi that cover individual kingdom since evolution. The keratinophilic fungi are allied moulds that produce the keratinase enzyme to degrade the keratinous materials i...

Stationarity and Cointegration between Health Care Expenditure and GDP for Jordan

Rasha M.S. Istaiteyeh — 2017-06-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.682.689

This paper explores the Granger-causality relationship between real GDP per capita and real health care expenditure per capita for Jordan during 1995 through 2013. The findings point out that the domi...

A Conceptual Model for Risk Allocation in the Construction Industry

Chipozya Kosta Tembo-Silungwe — 2017-06-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 June 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.690.700

Appropriate risk allocation influences positive project delivery on construction projects while inappropriate allocation results in disputes, quality shortfalls, time and cost overruns. The existing b...

Extracting Unique Personal Identification Number from Iris

Nenad Nestorovic — 2017-07-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.701.710

The aim of this research is to propose an enhanced model that significantly reduces the noise in the iris templates and thus present an efficient and reliable iris recognition system. Accuracy of Iris...

Manufacturing Strategy and Competitive Advantage: A Mediating role of Organizational Culture (A Case Study of Small Industry Batik Trusmi Indonesia)

Aam Amaningsih Jumhur — 2017-07-19

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.711.717

The effect of manufacturing strategy and competitive advantage has empirically resulted varied studies with regards to industry or service sectors as object of the study. Manufacturing strategy on one...

Formal Credit and its Impact on Income - Evidence from the Poor Households in Vietnam

Le Trung Hieu — 2017-07-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.718.725

The poor households are normally financial constrained, which inhibits them from income-generating activities. Formal credit market in Vietnam has been more and more improved and thus the poor househo...

Identification of Characteristics of Land Cover in Mangkauk Catchment Area Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) And Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Ichsan Ridwan — 2017-07-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 July 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.726.736

Land cover is anything that includes any types of appearance on the surface of the earth on a particular land. Information related to land cover can be used as at the parameter to determine the amount...