Volume 7, Issue 3 (2010) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Implementation of Multi-Centroid Moment Invariants in Thermal-Based Face Identification System

Khairul Hamimah Abas — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.283.289

Problem statement: Current paramount methods and approaches in face identification field rely on facial characteristics; such as location of eyes, length of nose and mouth, regardless the type of medi...

Ultrasonic Dental Scaler Performance Assessment with an Innovative Cavitometer

Antonio Henrique Alves Pereira — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.290.300

Problem statement: There is no specific instrument to test ultrasonic dental scalers used in dentistry. Approach: The aim of this research was to develop and test an innovative cavitometer for quantit...

Synthesis and Characterization of Organotin(IV) Complexes Derived of 3-(Dimethylamino)benzoic Acid: Cytotoxic Assay on Human Liver Carcinoma Cells (HepG2)

Yip-Foo Win — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.301.308

Problem statement: Many studies have been carried out on organotin(IV) complexes derivative of carboxylate anions. However, the synthesis and characterization as well as the cytotoxic assay of organot...

Concentration of Zn, Cu and Pb in Some Selected Marine Fishes of the Pahang Coastal Waters, Malaysia

B. Y. Kamaruzzaman — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.309.314

Problem statement: Heavy metals constitute one of the most hazardous substances that could be accumulated in biota. Fish populations exploited by man often live in coastal area environments that cont...

Evaluation of Lead, Cadmium and Copper Concentrations in Bee Honey and Edible Molasses

Ahmed Hassan — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.315.322

Problem statement: Content of Cadmium, lead and copper in 26 bee honey samples from different places of Assiut governorate (south of Egypt) and three different botanical origins (Clover, Multi-flower ...

Biomechanical Analysis of Ankle Force: A Case Study for Instep Kicking

A. R. Ismail — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.323.330

Problem statement: The objective of this study was to identify, analyze and build the force equation that involved the velocity, acceleration, angle and distance at the ankle when making the instep ki...

Extraction of Protein from Common Plant Leaves for Use as Human Food

A.E. Ghaly — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.331.342

Problem statement: Protein deficiency is one of the major nutritional problems in the developing world. The most disastrous consequences occur in children where protein malnutrition manifests itself i...

Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Roots Response to Mechanization in Bernam Series Soil

Zuraidah Yahya — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.343.348

Problem statement: Field practices involving the use of mechanization in oil palm plantations could result in soil compaction which alters the soil physical properties. The gradual deterioration of so...

Myocardial-Infraction Based on Intelligent Techniques

Ibrahim Abdulrab Ahmed — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.349.351

Problem statement: Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the world. One of the most common types of heart diseases is Myocardial-Infraction. The ability to automatically identify Myocardial-I...

Whole Body Vibration Exposure to Train Passenger

A. R. Ismail — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.352.359

Problem statement: Train is one of the important and famous public transportations in the whole world. High magnitude of whole-body vibration formed by the train may cause diseases and health problems...

Optimization of Temperature Level to Enhance Worker Performance in Automotive Industry

A. R. Ismail — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.360.365

Problem statement: Production of automotive parts is among the largest contributor to economic earnings in Malaysia. The dominant work involve in producing automotive part were manual assembly process...

Sugar Beet Performance Affected by Uniformity of N Fertigation

H. Nouri — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.366.370

In common with the majority of crop species, in sugar beet nutrition nitrogen is an important element due to its role in sucrose utilization and plant growth. Application of precision agriculture, in ...

Chloride Penetration Resistance Studies on Concretes Modified with Alkali Resistant Glass Fibers

K. Chandramouli — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.371.375

Problem statement: This research study presented the durability performance of glass fibre reinforced concrete. Approach: The influence of fiber content on the durability performance of glass fibre re...

Geographic Information System-Allocation Model for Forest Path: A Case Study in Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Malaysia

I. Mohd Hasmadi — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.376.380

Problem statement: Forest road planning requires a host of information, particularly the availability of spatial and non-spatial data. The requirement of a planning system or tools to gather, integrat...

Surface Bioactivity of Sol Gel Derived 3Y-TZP Bioinert Ceramic through Hydroxylation Technique Using 5M H₃PO₄

R. Velmurugan — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.381.385

Problem statement: This study presented bone like apatite formation on yttria stabilized zirconia in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) through hydroxylation technique. Approach: Sol gel route was used to pre...

Sequences of Closed Operators and Correctness

Sabra Ramadan — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.386.389

In applications and in mathematical physics equations it is very important for mathematical models corresponding to the given problem to be correct given. In this research we will study the relationsh...

A Back Propagation Neural Networks for Grading Jatropha curcas Fruits Maturity

Z. Effendi — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.390.394

Problem statement: Jatropha curcas has the potential to become one of the world’s key energy crops. Crude vegetable oil, extracted from the seeds of the Jatropha plant, can be refined into high qual...

Voltammetric Detection of Mn(II) in Blood Sample at C₆₀ and MWCNT Modified Glassy Carbon Electrodes

Muhammed Mizher Radhi — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.395.401

Problem statement: Glassy carbon electrode GCE was modified with different microparticles to increase the efficiency of analysis Mn2+ in blood samples by cyclic voltammetry and applied for the detecti...

Assessment of Thermal Comfort: A Study at Closed and Ventilated Call Centre

A. R. Ismail — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.402.407

Problem statement: The aims of study were to investigate the effects of environmental factors including the human physiology and thermal comfort during the cycle of process works in workplace. Approac...

Application of Trujillo Algorithm for Analyzing of Structures

H. Hashamdar — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.408.414

Problem statement: The Trujillo algorithm is indirect method and has been used in this study. The approach is based upon the principle of conservation of energy. Approach: Cable structures are very li...

To Investigation the Relationship between Monetary, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth in Iran: Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach to Cointegration

Anvar Khosravi — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.415.419

Problem statement: It is important for policy makers to find affect of monetary and fiscal policy on economic growth and to know how those impacts on growth to present a effective policies. Approach: ...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Timing Synchronization in Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Ultra-Wideband Systems

Aymen M. Karim — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.420.427

Problem statement: MB-OFDM UWB systems have attractive features and received a great attention. It has the capability of sending/receiving data at rates in access of 100 Mbits sec-1. Owing to the sens...

Load Balancing of Distributed Systems Based on Multiple Ant Colonies Optimization

Al-Dahoud Ali — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.428.433

Problem statement: Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) provides a meta-heuristic optimization tool and collective intelligence model to several applications such as routing and load balancing. A lot of work...

Deoiling and Regeneration Efficiencies of Spent Bleaching Clay

A. W. Nursulihatimarsyila — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.434.437

Problem statement: Disposal and reuse of Spent Bleaching Clay (SBC) from palm oil processing industry is a problem of growing importance. The residual oil in the SBC can be recovered using hexane as s...

Efficiency Decomposition with Enhancing Russell Measure in Data Envelopment Analysis

Tien-Hui Chen — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2010.438.441

Problem statement: Most studies about the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) follow the concept of radial and non-radial efficiency measures. Because of some difficulties with the measure ...

Volume 7, Issue 3 (2010) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Implementation of Multi-Centroid Moment Invariants in Thermal-Based Face Identification System

Ultrasonic Dental Scaler Performance Assessment with an Innovative Cavitometer

Synthesis and Characterization of Organotin(IV) Complexes Derived of 3-(Dimethylamino)benzoic Acid: Cytotoxic Assay on Human Liver Carcinoma Cells (HepG2)

Concentration of Zn, Cu and Pb in Some Selected Marine Fishes of the Pahang Coastal Waters, Malaysia

Evaluation of Lead, Cadmium and Copper Concentrations in Bee Honey and Edible Molasses

Biomechanical Analysis of Ankle Force: A Case Study for Instep Kicking

Extraction of Protein from Common Plant Leaves for Use as Human Food

Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) Roots Response to Mechanization in Bernam Series Soil

Myocardial-Infraction Based on Intelligent Techniques

Whole Body Vibration Exposure to Train Passenger

Optimization of Temperature Level to Enhance Worker Performance in Automotive Industry

Sugar Beet Performance Affected by Uniformity of N Fertigation

Chloride Penetration Resistance Studies on Concretes Modified with Alkali Resistant Glass Fibers

Geographic Information System-Allocation Model for Forest Path: A Case Study in Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Malaysia

Surface Bioactivity of Sol Gel Derived 3Y-TZP Bioinert Ceramic through Hydroxylation Technique Using 5M H3PO4

Sequences of Closed Operators and Correctness

A Back Propagation Neural Networks for Grading Jatropha curcas Fruits Maturity

Voltammetric Detection of Mn(II) in Blood Sample at C60 and MWCNT Modified Glassy Carbon Electrodes

Assessment of Thermal Comfort: A Study at Closed and Ventilated Call Centre

Application of Trujillo Algorithm for Analyzing of Structures

To Investigation the Relationship between Monetary, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth in Iran: Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach to Cointegration

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Timing Synchronization in Multi-Band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Ultra-Wideband Systems

Load Balancing of Distributed Systems Based on Multiple Ant Colonies Optimization

Deoiling and Regeneration Efficiencies of Spent Bleaching Clay

Efficiency Decomposition with Enhancing Russell Measure in Data Envelopment Analysis

Surface Bioactivity of Sol Gel Derived 3Y-TZP Bioinert Ceramic through Hydroxylation Technique Using 5M H₃PO₄

Voltammetric Detection of Mn(II) in Blood Sample at C₆₀ and MWCNT Modified Glassy Carbon Electrodes