Volume 1, Issue 1 (2004) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

The Mechanism of Stock Market Integration: Evidence for the Taiwan and U.S. Stock Market

Min-Hsien Chiang — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.1.4

This study investigates the sources of the comovement of the Taiwan and U.S. stock market. The empirical evidence shows that both economic fundamentals and equity risk premiums can act as transmission...

Variation in the Thickness of A Fluid Interface Due to Internal Wave Propagation: A Lattice Boltzmann Simulation

J.M. Buick — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.5.11

The change in the thickness of an interface between two immiscible fluids due to the propagation of an internal capillary-gravity wave along the interface is considered using a Bhatnagar, Gross and Kr...

Surface Roughness Prediction Model in Machining of Carbon Steel by PCD Coated Cutting Tools

Yusuf Sahin — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.12.17

The surface roughness model in the turning of AISI 1040 carbon steel was developed in terms of cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut using response surface methodology. Machining tests were carrie...

Small Business Critical Success/Failure Factors In Developing Economies: Some Evidences From Botswana

Zelealem T. Temtime — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.18.25

Although the discovery of diamond has propelled Botswana from one of the poorest countries in 1966 to its current economic status as a middle-income country, the country still faces the problems of ec...

A Fully Integrated Dual-Band Low Noise Amplifier for IEEE 802.11 and Hiper LAN Application

Mow Shouxian — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.26.32

A fully-integrated dual-band Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), which can be used for IEEE 802.11 and Hiper LAN applications, was investigated in this paper. The proposed LAN was implemented entirely pm a sin...

Range of Medium and High Energy Protons and Alpha Particles in NaI Scintillator

Onder Kabadayi — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.33.35

We have calculated the range of proton and alpha particle in NaI scintillator which is a commonly used substance in scintillation detector manufacturing. The stopping power of proton and alpha particl...

Revisiting the Unit Root Hypothesis and Structural Break: Asia and Emerging Economies Foreign Exchange Markets

Christopher Gan — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.36.50

This study examines the stationary of ten Asian and for emerging Foreign Exchange (FX) rates during the 1990s. The paper employs the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test to the following FX ra...

Standard Abundance Distribution of Elements in the Universe and Magic Numbers with Boltzmann Probability

Frederick Osman — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.51.53

The decay of the standard abundance distribution of elements in the Universe for heavy elements has well-know maxima near magic numbers of the nuclear shell model and deep minima in between. Combining...

Parallel Iterative Algorithms with Accelerate Convergence for Solving Implicit Difference Equations

Qing-Fu Liu — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.54.61

This study focuses on the solution of implicit difference equations, which are very difficult to compute in parallel for the diffusion equation. For improving the convergence rates and the properties ...

Sex Bias in Secondary School Social Studies Textbooks: A Case Study in India

K. Sumalatha — 2004-03-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 March 2004; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2004.62.63

Textbooks are filled with names of famous men and authors. So a reexamination of the composition of the textbook writing staff has been necessary for the staff’s conception of male-female equality h...