Volume 14, Issue 8 (2017) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Characterization of Activated Carbon from Eggshell Membranes Prepared Using Sodium Acetate and Zinc Metal Activation

Sumrit Mopoung — 2017-08-02

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 2 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.737.747

The eggshell membranes of ducks and hens were carbonized or activated with 4 wt% sodium acetate or zinc at 400-600°C. The carbonized or activated products were characterized by SEM-EDS, TEM, FTIR and...

The Relationship of Parents Knowledge Level and Socioeconomic Factor to Oral Health of Down Syndrome Children

Yetty Herdiyati — 2017-05-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 May 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.748.753

Different conditions of the oral cavity in children with Down syndrome which are compared to children without Down syndrome increase higher parents knowledge and the risk factors in maintaining oral h...

Advanced Automatic Lexicon with Sentiment Analysis Algorithms for Arabic Reviews

Ayman Mohamed Mostafa — 2017-04-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.754.765

Sentiment analysis is a statistical analysis of people’s attitudes, directions and emotions about a specific domain. The advance of telecommunication networks makes it very important to develop diff...

Continuous Wavelet Transform Based Spectral Decomposition of 3d Seismic Data for Reservoir Characterization in Oyi Field, se Niger Delta

Chukwuemeka Ngozi Ehirim — 2017-04-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 April 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.766.771

Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is one of the most used wavelet transform based spectral decomposition methods in the direct detection of hydrocarbons and as an indicator of stratigraphic variabili...

Improving Routing Discovery Based Velocity-Aware Probabilistic Using AODV with Link Prediction in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Zaid Bassfar — 2017-08-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.772.778

The current process associated with enhancing the QoS in routing for MANETs has reserved a high importance due to the limitation of available route discovery in dynamic topology. The conventional meth...

High Gain Multiband Stacked DRA for WiMax and WLAN Applications

Sugadev Mani — 2017-08-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.779.785

Dielectric resonator antennas find widespread applications in high speed wireless systems because of low loss, compact size and light weight. In this study, performance of a multiband Dielectric Reson...

Numerical Investigation of Silica Gel-Water Solar Adsorption Cooling System with Simulink

Ghilen Najeh — 2017-08-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.786.794

This paper aims to study a numerical model of an adsorption chiller driven with solar energy that is confronted to experimental measurements. This article deals with numerical study of refrigeration s...

Application of Morphological Component Analysis to Optical Image Fusion

Georges Laussane Loum — 2017-08-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.795.807

The image fusion technique is widely used in remote sensing. Its purpose is to provide comprehensive information without arte facts by combining the partial information from different source images. I...

Towards a Higher Learning Motivation among Malaysian Undergraduate Students - A Case Study of Motivation Change in Malaysian Undergraduate Students after the Global Study Program (GSP) in Japan

Lim Way Soong — 2017-08-19

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.808.822

This research paper outlines the Malaysian and Japanese undergraduate students' learning motivation, before and after joining a Global Study Program (GSP) held in Chiba University, Japan from 14 March...

The Analysis of High Dimensional Contingency Table with Interactions

Keorapetse Sediakgotla — 2017-08-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 August 2017; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2017.823.827

This paper is focused on the analysis of categorical data in a 2 × c × K contingency table. The theoretical frame work of a 2 × c design is extended to 2 × c × K with provision for test...