Volume 15, Issue 1 (2018) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Drought Tolerance and Evaluation of Genetic Changes in Rice Mutant Lines

Aryanti Amsal — 2018-01-16

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 16 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.1.9

The genetic improvement of rice through mutation induction to obtain drought resistance is essential for stable and adequate rice production would enable us to anticipate the rice yield-reducing effec...

Application of Homotopy Perturbation Method for SIR Model with Vital Dynamics and Constant Population

Mohammed S. Mechee — 2018-01-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.10.21

In this work, we have studied Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model with vital dynamics and constant population, which is used as a mathematical models in many physically significant fields of ap...

The Effects of Power Usage on Five Power Modes in South Africa Using Multivariate Techniques

Busanga Jerome Kanyama — 2018-01-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.22.29

South Africa contends with the lack of access to secure affordable energy. This affects the country’s ability to provide reliable power to consumers. This paper investigates the source of energy ‘...

The Exchange Rate Pass-Through into Inflation with Symmetric Oil Price Shocks: An Empirical Analysis for Saudi Arabia: 1970-2015

Abdulaziz Hamad Algaeed — 2018-01-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.30.42

The purpose of this paper is to analyze theoretically and empirically the relationship between inflation as a dependent variable and bilateral exchange rate, output gap and symmetric oil price shocks....

Efficiency of EDTA and TWEEN 80 for the Removal of Chromium using Soil Washing Technologies

Pantawat Sampanpanish — 2018-01-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.43.50

The study on the efficiency of chelate and surfactant for the removal of chromium using soil washing technology of which the chelate is EDTA and surfactant is TWEEN 80 at concentrations of 8, 16 and 3...

Influence in the Drink Preparation Mode Associated Coffee the Antioxidant Capacity of Different Brands

Ázula Narayama Malacco Ferreira — 2018-01-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.51.59

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages worldwide and commonly present on Brazilian tables. It is known for its health benefits, mainly ascribed to its antioxidant compounds. Because of a lack of...

Shots Temporal Prediction Rules for High-Dimensional Data of Semantic Video Retrieval

Shaimaa Toriah Mohamed Toriah — 2018-01-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 January 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.60.69

Temporal consistency stands as a vital property in semantic video retrieval. Few research studies can exploit this useful property. Most of the used methods in those studies depend on rules defined by...

Reliability Equivalence Factors of a Parallel System Subject to Weibull Distribution Using Multivariate FGM Copula

Neama Salah Youssef Temraz — 2018-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.70.83

This paper analyze a parallel system consisted of n dependent components with lifetimes follow Weibull distribution. FGM Copula in multivariate case is used to generate the reliability function of the...

A Proposed Design for Illumination and Cameras Surveillance System for Optimum Supervision at a Perimeter Area of Nuclear Facility

Amir Abdel Wadoud — 2018-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.84.94

An important component of a comprehensive security plan is lighting. Security Protective Lighting has three functional objectives: To illuminate a person, object, place or condition of security to per...

Soft Sensors for Monitoring Combustion Quality and Flue Gas Emissions in Power Station Boilers

Nallamilli P G Bhavani — 2018-02-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 February 2018; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2018.95.115

This research work includes a combination of Fisher’s Linear Discriminant (FLD) analysis by merging Radial Basis Function (RBF) Network and Back Propagation Algorithm (BPA) for monitoring the combus...