Volume 8, Issue 3 (2011) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

The Phytochemical Contents and Antimicrobial Activities of Malaysian Calophyllum Rubiginosum

Suhaib Ibrahim ALkhamaiseh — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.201.205

Problem statement: Many species of plants in Malaysia are widely used in folk medicine. However, Calophyllum species have been used in traditional medicine for their therapeutic values for many year...

Performance of Hevea brasiliensis on Haplic Ferralsol as Affected by Different Water Regimes

Shafar Jefri Mokhatar — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.206.211

Problem statement: Rubber has been grown more than a century in South East Asia, who has been the largest producer of natural rubber. Demand of natural rubber increases steadily due to increasing de...

Pores Reconfiguration in Compacted Bernam Series Soil

Zuraidah Yahya — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.212.216

Problem statement: The introduction of mechanization in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations resulted in soil compaction with increased bulk density and reduced porosity due to reconfiguration o...

Heat-Modeling of Microwave Assisted Epoxidation of Palm Acid Oil

N. Saifuddin — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.217.229

Problem statement: While microwave chemistry could well be the most convenient, rapid and energy-saving way to initiate a chemical reaction, the issues of thermal versus microwave specific effect re...

Equilibrium Kinetics and Isotherm Studies of Cu (II) Adsorption from Waste Water onto Alkali Activated Oil Palm Ash

Zaira Zaman Chowdhury — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.230.237

Problem statement: Heavy metal accumulation in waste water could affect aquatic life, human health and overall ecosystem adversely. Therefore, in recent years much emphasis has been given for the us...

Contribution of Rural Women to Family Income Through Participation in Microcredit: An Empirical Analysis

Ferdoushi Ahmed — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.238.245

Problem statement: Rural women in Bangladesh have a lower socio-economic status and very limited access to income generating activities due to a number of social, cultural and religious barriers. Co...

Evaluating the Green Suppliers of the Printed Circuit Board Factories Base on the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Vlsekriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje

Jun-Yuan Kuo — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.246.253

Problem statement: The “Energy Policy for Europe, EPE” and three environmental directives, proposed by the European Union (EU) in 2007, are stricter than those self-restrained by the enterprises...

Thermal Efficiency of Double Pass Solar Collector with Longitudinal Fins Absorbers

Ahmad Fudholi — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.254.260

Problem statement: One of the most important components of a solar energy system is the solar collector. The performances of double-pass solar collector with longitudinal fins absorbers are analyzed...

An Independent Rough Set Approach Hybrid with Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Dimensionality Reduction

Nambiraj Suguna — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.261.266

Problem statement: Dimensionality reduction is viewed as an important pre-processing step for pattern recognition and data mining. As the classical rough set model considers the entire attribute set...

The Effect of Rapid Thermal Annealing Towards the Performance of Screen-Printed Si Solar Cell

Shahrul Anizan — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.267.270

Problem statement: Solar cells are used to capture the photons which generate the energy. However the efficiency of the cells to turn the amount of photon to electricity needs to be high and so the ...

Performance Appraisal-Management by Objective and Assessment Centre

Kai-Ping Huang — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.271.276

Problem statement: Two methods for performance appraisal that are discussed in this study and they are Management By Objective (MBO) and Assessment Centre techniques. Employees are appraised for sev...

IPACT: Improved Web Page Recommendation System Using Profile Aggregation Based On Clustering of Transactions

Yahya AlMurtadha — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.277.283

Problem statement: Recently, Web usage mining techniques have been widely used to build recommendation systems especially for anonymous users. Approach: Assigning the current user to the best web na...

Linking Success Factors to Financial Performance

Sivasamy Mothilal — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.284.289

Problem statement: Based on a literature survey, an attempt has been made in this study to develop a framework for identifying the success factors. In addition, a list of key success factors is pres...

Modeling of Multi-Level Capacitated Lot-Size Scheduling Problem

Zuhaimy Ismail — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.290.296

Problem statement: Lot-size is the clustering of items for transportation or manufacturing processes occurring at the same time. The issue in lot-size problem is to design production processes so th...

Reliability Equivalence Factors of a System with m Non-Identical Mixed of Lifetimes

Abdelfattah Mustafa — 2011-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.297.302

Problem statement: The aim of this study is to generalize reliability equivalence technique to apply it to a system consists of m independent and non-identical lifetimes distributions, with mixed fail...