Volume 8, Issue 12 (2011) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Ginger Supplementation Enhances Working Memory of the Post-Menopause Women

Naritsara Saenghong — 2011-10-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1241.1248

Problem statement: Cognitive impairment is one important problem in post-menopausal women. Although hormone therapy can improve this condition, it also produces adverse effect. Recent findings showed ...

Palynological Studies of Sediments from North Chioma-3 Well, Niger Delta and its Palaeoenvironmental Interpretations

Olugbenga Ebenezer Ige — 2011-10-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1249.1257

Problem statement: The Niger Delta Nigeria stands among the world's best-studies delta complexes but its superficial deposits are among the poorest known publicity. In spite of continuous oil prospect...

The Application of Local Wisdom for Production of Condiment Isan' Food Ingredient into Commercial

Nitchapanrawee Phengphol — 2011-10-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1258.1262

Problem statement: The problem of the research derives from a lack of study and understanding about the production of condiment Isan food and ingredients being introduced into commercial, even though ...

Effect of Dry Ice Application in Fish Hold of Fishing Boat on the Fish Quality and Fisherman Income

Semin — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1263.1267

Problem statement: This study presents the effect of dry ice application in the fish hold of fishing boat on the fish quality and fisherman income. Dry ice is made with compressed CO2 gas to produce h...

(+)-Syringaresinol Lignan from New Species Magnolia Thailandica

Wisit Monthong — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1268.1271

Problem statement: Magnolia, an ancient genus, is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. Having evolved before bees appeared, the...

Hardware Approach of a Multipurpose Finite Impulse Response Filter for Real-Time Filtering Applications

Md. Syedul Amin — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1272.1281

Problem statement: Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters are widely used in various DSP applications. The design of digital FIR filters is a very basic problem in digital signal processing. A FIR filt...

Characterization of Egyptian Smectitic Clay Deposits by Methylene Blue Adsorption

Salwa D. Abayazeed — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1282.1286

Problem statement: The characterization of smectitic clays has been traditionally made using physical and chemical methods which are time-consuming and require costly equipment. Adsorption of methylen...

A Method for Human Resource Risk Management in Mobile Workforce Brokering Systems

Arash Mousavi — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1287.1294

Problem statement: Human Resource Risk Management is one of the crucial issues in Mobile Workforce Management Systems (MWM) in general, and in Mobile Workforce Brokering Systems (MWBS) in Particular. ...

Efficient Classification of Cancer using Support Vector Machines and Modified Extreme Learning Machine based on Analysis of Variance Features

A. Bharathi — 2011-10-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1295.1301

Problem statement: The primary objective is to propose efficient cancer classification techniques which provide reliable and significant classification accuracy. To achieve this primary research goal ...

Contemporary Sculptures: Decoding the Body of Aesthetic Knowledge Suitable for Public Parks

Adool Booncham — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1302.1306

Problem statement: The contemporary sculptures are constructions in public parks for people to use and appreciate. These are new things which Thai society has just known. The knowledge and understandi...

Vertical Profile of C, N, P, K and Radionuclides in Soil Collected from Highland Tea Plantation Areas

Zaini Hamzah — 2011-10-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1307.1313

Problem statement: Cameron Highlands is a well known agricultural area in Peninsular Malaysia. Long term usage of fertilizer has caused accumulation of major elemental component in the soil. This accu...

An Optimal Path Management Strategy in Mobile Ad Hoc Network Using Fuzzy and Rough Set Theory

P. Seethalakshmi — 2011-10-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1314.1321

Problem statement: Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes that dynamically forms a network. Most of the existing ad-hoc routing algorithms select the shortest path usin...

Hybrid Traffic Management Model for Multi-Protocol Label Switching Network

E. R. Naganathan — 2011-10-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1322.1327

Problem statement: MPLS is a highly scalable, protocol agnostic and data-carrying mechanism. Traffic engineering is the major research area in MPLS due to the emerging requirements of MPLS and the int...

Fluctuations of Phytoplankton Community in the Coastal Waters of Caspian Sea in 2006

Siamak Bagheri — 2011-10-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1328.1336

Problem statement: The Caspian Sea ecosystem has been suffered with many problems since 1980s. Aanthropogenic pollution from heavy metals, hydrocarbons, pesticides, changes in the quantity of nutrient...

X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescent Analyses of Prehistoric Pottery Shards from Ulu Kelantan

Zuliskandar Ramli — 2011-10-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1337.1342

Problem statement: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and X-Ray Fluorescent (XRF) were used in order to obtain mineralogical and elemental composition of seven pottery shards that have been unearthed during the ...

Risk Factors to Alcohol Law Violations in the Community: Quasi-Experimental Study

Wuttiphong Phakdeekul — 2011-10-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1343.1348

Problem statement: Alcohol-related health problems such as chronic and acute diseases, accidents/injuries and social problems are well recognized. Although many countries including Thailand enact laws...

Segmentation of Medical Image using Clustering and Watershed Algorithms

M.C. Jobin Christ — 2011-10-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1349.1352

Problem statement: Segmentation plays an important role in medical imaging. Segmentation of an image is the division or separation of the image into dissimilar regions of similar attribute. In this st...

Thermodynamic Characteristics of Camel’s Urine as an Inhibitor for Mild Steel in 1.5 M H₂SO₄ Acid Solution

Ehteram A. Noor — 2011-10-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1353.1362

Problem statement: The corrosion inhibition of mild steel in 1.5 M H2SO4 by Camel’s Urine (CU) addition was evaluated at five different temperatures in the range from 30-70°C by weight loss measure...

Effects of Land Use Practices on the Organic Carbon Content, Cation Exchange Capacity and Aggregate Stability of Soils in the Catchment Zones

Mosayeb Heshmati — 2011-10-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1363.1373

Problem statement: Land use practice leads to changes in the physico-chemical properties of soils, such as Soil Organic Carbon (SOC), Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and Soil Aggregate Stability (SAS) ...

Design Analysis of An Electromagnetic Band Gap Microstrip Antenna

M.S. Alam — 2011-10-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1374.1377

Problem statement: Wideband compact antenna is highly demandable due to the dynamic development in the wireless technology. Approach: A simple, compact EBG microstrip antenna is proposed in this study...

The Impact of Crisis and Macroeconomic Variables towards Islamic Banking Deposits

Muhamad Abduh — 2011-10-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1378.1383

Problem statement: The nature of Islamic banks is different from conventional banks which may lead to a different deposit behavior of their depositors. This study aims to analyze the dynamic effects o...

Role of Information Technology Infrastructure Library in Data Warehouses

Tariq Rahim Soomro — 2011-11-02

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 2 November 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1384.1387

Problem statement: The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is most widely used de-facto- standard, consists of set of concepts and practices for Information Technology Service Managem...

Performance Analysis of a Highly Available Home Agent in Mobile Networks

Abdelgadir Tageldin Abdelgadir — 2011-10-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1388.1397

Problem statement: Network Mobility as a service is provided by the NEMO protocol in IPv6 environments. NEMO is an extension to MIPv6 and thus inherits the same reliability problems of MIPv6. MIPv6 is...

Applying Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Grey Relation Analysis to Evaluate the Supply Chain Performance of the Wafer Testing House

Yun-Chin Chen — 2011-10-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1398.1403

Problem statement: In the information age, the process of E-Commerce (EC) operates quickly and the present enterprises of Taiwan have to face the Free Cross-Strait Market (FCSM) with Mainland China, w...

Effective Processing of Constraints based Spatial Join using R-Trees

R. Parvathi — 2011-10-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 October 2011; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2011.1404.1412

Problem statement: This study focuses on the spatial join effects with the constraints-based spatial data without any extra cost and Finding the minimum execution time of the spatial query and spatial...