Volume 8, Issue 1 (2011) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer using Molecular, Biochemical and Pathological Markers

Salah El-Din El-Assal — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1.8

Problem statement: Laboratory diagnosis of breast cancer in most of the hospitals has traditionally been performed using cell culture and the direct hormone receptor assay, which are money and time co...

Combined Partial Oxidation and Carbon Dioxide Reforming Process: A Thermodynamic Study

Sompop Jarungthammachote — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.9.14

Problem statement: CO2 reforming is one of the methods to utilize a greenhouse gas to produce syngas, an important feed for methanol and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. However, CO2 reforming is strong e...

Germination Time Dependence of Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity in Germinated Rough Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Anuchita Moongngarm — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.15.25

Problem statement: Germinated rice has been recognized as a functional food and its health benefits. However, most related studies were on germinated brown rice but our previous study indicated that g...

Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix Bone Fracture Detection

Hum Yan Chai — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.26.32

Problem statement: Currently doctors in orthopedic wards inspect the bone x-ray images according to their experience and knowledge in bone fracture analysis. Manual examination of x-rays has multitude...

Accurate Determination of Nonlinear Refractive Index for Some Binary Glass Systems

ElSayed Moustafa — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.33.38

Problem statement: This study investigates the relation between the nonlinear optical susceptibility (χ(3)) and the ratio (α1/αo-2), then the nonlinear index determination for some binary glass sys...

Prevalence of Depression among High School Students and its Relation to Family Structure

Ali Daryanavard — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.39.44

Problem statement: Depression is common in adolescents and especially in high school students. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of depression among high school students and its re...

Effect of Temperature on the Color of Natural Dyes Extracted Using Pressurized Hot Water Extraction Method

Nursyamirah Abd Razak — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.45.49

Problem statement: Traditionally, extraction of natural dyes with boiling method produced only one single tone of colorant/dyes which involved plenty of water in several hours of extraction time. A ne...

The Effect of a Prophylactic Dose of Ibuprofen on Plasma Level of Interleukin 1, Interleukin 6 and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha in a 1500 m Running Practice

Gholamreza Sepehri — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.50.54

Problem statement: there are controversies about the effects of anti-inflammatory drugs on exercised induced changes on plasma cytokines in untrained male athletes, so the primary purpose of this stud...

Voltage Swells Improvement in Low Voltage Network Using Dynamic Voltage Restorer

R. Omar — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.55.62

Problem statement: Voltage disturbances are the most common power quality problem due to the increased use of a large numbers of sophisticated electronic equipment in industrial distribution system. T...

Comparison and Analysis of Discrete Cosine Transform based Joint Photographic Experts Group Image Compression using Robust Watermarking Algorithm

S.M. Ramesh — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.63.70

Problem statement: The performance of the watermarking algorithms is analyzed using different compression standards to study the watermark extraction behavior of these algorithms. Approach: A digital ...

Integration of Quantum Cryptography through Satellite Networks Transmission

Skander Aris — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.71.76

Problem statement: The security of the telecommunications satellite has become a crucial issue. The telecommunications can be set using the classical cryptography. But this so-called classical cryptog...

Improving Power System Transient Stability with Static Synchronous Series Compensator

Prechanon Kumkratug — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.77.81

Problem statement: Modern power system consists of the complicated network of transmission lines and carries heavy demand. Thus they cause in the stability problem. One of the major interests of power...

Mechanical Strength and Durability Properties of High Performance Mortar Containing Densified Silica Fume

Cheah Chee Ban — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.82.91

Problem statement: Numerous data and information on pozzolanic reaction and microfiller properties of silica fume were derived from laboratory investigation on silica fume in undensified form. Current...

An Enhanced Russell Measure of Super-Efficiency for Ranking Efficient Units in Data Envelopment Analysis

Ali Ashrafi — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.92.96

Problem statement: Conventional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) helps decision makers to discriminate between efficient and inefficient Decision Making Units (DMUs). However, DEA does not provide more...

A Modification of the Ridge Type Regression Estimators

Moawad El-Fallah Abd El-Salam — 2011-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.97.102

Problem statement: Many regression estimators have been used to remedy multicollinearity problem. The ridge estimator has been the most popular one. However, the obtained estimate is biased. Approach:...