Volume 2, Issue 1 (2005) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Spectrometric Methods Used to Determine Heavy Metals and Total Cyanides in Accidental Polluted Soils

A. Mihaly-Cozmuta — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.358.362

The study presents the level of soil pollution in the area adjacent to three sedimentation ponds as a result of an environmental accident. Soil samples from various sites have been collected and analy...

Work Performance of MB Trac 900 Tractor on Mountains Terrain in Turkey

Tolga Ozturk — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.363.366

The forestry works mainly involves such various stages as growing, protection, production, wood harvesting, marketing and utilization of forest products. Wood harvesting is performed by completion o...

Industrial-academic Co-operation of Technical University and Automobile Industry in Taiwan

S. C. Tzeng — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.367.371

This study discusses a successful case of industrial-academic cooperation involving the technical university and the Ford Motor Company in Taiwan. The cooperation involved the exchange technical ski...

Teawaste as An Adsorbent for Heavy Metal Removal from Industrial Wastewaters

Amir Hossein Mahvi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.372.375

Water used in industries creates a wastewater that has a potential hazard for our environment because of introducing various contaminants such as heavy metals into soil and water resources. In this ...

An Algebraic Approach to the Harmonic Oscillator Plus an Inverse Square Potential in Three Dimensions

Shi-Hai Dong — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.376.382

The eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the three-dimensional Schrödinger equation with a harmonic oscillator plus an inverse square interaction are obtained. A realization of the ladder operators fo...

Will Financial Analysts Mistake Stocks of Good Companies for Good Stocks? Evidence from Taiwan Stock Market

I-Ju Chen — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.383.386

It has been shown that the individual or institutional investors rely on the information provided by the financial analysts. A good stock recommended by financial experts is expected to make profit ...

Considering Environmental Externalities in Technology Selection: the Case of Urban Buses for Athens

Dimitrios A. Georgakellos — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.387.393

The present study proposes a procedure for considering the environmental externalities in technology selection decision-making, based on the outcome of Life Cycle Assessments. Currently, even if the...

Modeling of Particle Separation in Bends of Rectangular Cross-section

Bingtao Zhao — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.394.396

A new theoretical model for predicting particle separation efficiency in bends is developed based on the investigation of flow pattern, the critical particle size separation theory and the boundary ...

Application of Polyelectrolyte in Turbidity Removal from Surface Water

A. H. Mahvi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.397.399

One of the most important treatment processes in surface water treatment plants is coagulation. Surface waters such as rivers and lakes contain suspended particles and turbidity. With the aid of coa...

Transducer for Tension Force Measuring of Strip Materials

Emad Said Addasi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.400.402

In winding-up motor drive systems, such as that used in textile industry, it is very important to get a constant tension force for the winding strip material (thread) and to reduce its oscillations. ...

Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena

Frederick Osman — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.403.409

Computations are to be performed using the laser driven inertial fusion energy option based on volume ignition with the natural adiabatic self-similarity compression and expansion hydrodynamics [1]....

Retail Banking Loan Portfolio Equilibrium Mix : A Markov Chain Model Analysis

V. Thyagarajan — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.410.419

The variance analysis of actual loan sanctions with the non-documented method of loan allocation of the selected retail bank, over a period of 24 months, revealed that there is a scope to improve th...

An Investigation on the Spreading of the Silage Production in Turkey: An Example for the Administration of Agricultural Directorate of Tekirdag Province

A. Gürel — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.420.422

Around the problems and success during the spreading of the innovations of the agricultural office of the province Tekirdag to determine 89 agricultural engineers of the agricultural office be came ...

The Operational Features of Pumping Stations Equiped with Parallel-Connected Centrifugal Pumps for Land-Reclamation

Khalid S. Al-Rababa — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.423.425

The required water supply of a pump could be provided by means of different combinations of pressure piping and pumping units at different operational costs. The basic indices describing the operati...

A Successful Industrial Academic Cooperation, Development of Closed-cell Metallic Foams

Sheng-Chung Tzeng — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.426.429

This investigation proposes a successful case of industrial-academic cooperation between the Chienkuo Technology University and J. King Aluminum Inc. This study was proposed by the rotating machiner...

Architecture for Combined Energy and Attitude Control System

Ibrahim Mustafa Mehedi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.430.435

Combining the energy and attitude control system is a feasible technology for small satellites to improve the space missions. In this Combined Energy and Attitude Control System (CEACS) a double rot...

Design of Flywheel with a Moving Hole

Jihad Said Addasi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.436.439

A special apparatus has been designed to study linear, circular, and rotational motions. This apparatus consists of a flywheel, rotating in horizontal plane by the mean of a hanging mass. This flywh...

Chaotic Discrimination and Non-Linear Dynamics

Partha Gangopadhyay — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.440.442

This study examines a particular form of price discrimination, known as chaotic discrimination, which has the following features: sellers quote a common price but, in reality, they engage in secret ...

Development of Ecological Criteria of Noise Control With Application of Absorbents

M. A. Al-Nawafleh — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.443.446

The operation conditions of the industrial equipment, acoustic parameters essentially depend on type of the sound field (free, diffuse or mixed). Besides the effect of the noise control of the machi...

Comparison of Environmental Performance-HSEQ Management System, Regarding the International and Iranian Oil and Gas General Contractors

J. Nouri — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.447.451

The ever-increasing significance of the health, safety, environment and quality Management system has led general contractors including those involved in the oil and gas industry to place the implem...

Distribution of Biomicrofacies and Cement Types in the Changxing Formation (Upper Permian), Western Hubei-eastern Sichuan Provinces, South China

Mutwakil Nafi — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.452.464

The Changxing formation is subdivided into lower, middle and upper parts. Four types of microfacies were recognized in the Changxing formation. They include SMF-3, SMF-6, SMF-7 and SMF-19. The Chang...

Production of Silica-refractory Bricks from White Sand

Gazze Almarahle — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.465.468

At present, no refractories are produced in Jordan, but large quantities are imported for use in the lining of furnaces and kilns in the metallurgical industries.The aim of this study is to initiate ...

On Micromechanisms of Hydrogen Plastification and Embrittlement of Some Technological Materials

Yu. S. Nechaev — 2005-01-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 January 2005; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.469.472

Some fundamental problems of revealing micromechanisms of hydrogen plastification, superplasticity, embrittlement, cracking, blistering and delayed fracture of some technologically important industr...