Volume 9, Issue 4 (2012) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Biomarkers of Oxidative DNA Damage and Soluble Fas/Fas Ligand in Type 2 Diabetic Patients

Mohamed H. Mahfouz — 2012-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.450.458

Problem statement: Involvement of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications has been proposed. 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) has been reported to serve as a new sensitive b...

Discussion around the Scattering Matrix Realization of a Microwave Filter using the Bond Graph Approach and Scattering Formalism

Hichem Taghouti — 2012-02-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.459.467

Problem statement: Further to research works made previously and which use collectively the scattering formalism and bond graph technique for the modeling of a physical systems often working in high f...

The Effect of the Static Var Compensator and R/X Ratio of Short Transmission Line on Transient Stability of Single Machine Infinite Bus System

Prechanon Kumkratug — 2012-02-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.468.471

Problem statement: It is becoming increasingly important to fully utilize the existing transmission system assets due to environmental legislation, rights-of-way issues and costs of construction and d...

Tourism Equilibrium Price Trends

Mohammad Mohebi — 2012-02-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.472.477

Problem statement: A review of the tourism history shows that tourism as an industry was virtually unknown in Malaysia until the late 1960s. Since then, it has developed and grown into a major industr...

Machining Performance Study on Metal Matrix Composites-A Response Surface Methodology Approach

A. Srinivasan — 2012-02-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.478.483

Problem statement: Metal Matrix Composites (MMC) have become a leading material among composite materials and in particular, particle reinforced aluminum MMCs have received considerable attention due ...

Mulberry Fruit Mitigates Alcohol Neurotoxicity and Memory Impairment Induced by Chronic Alcohol Intake

Jintanaporn Wattanathorn — 2012-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.484.491

Problem statement: To date, the therapeutic strategy efficacy against memory impairment induced by alcohol intoxication is still limited. The novel therapeutic strategy which is easy to approach, less...

The Mathematical Model and Simulation of Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor in Medium Transmission Line

Prechanon Kumkratug — 2012-02-09

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 9 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.492.495

Problem statement: It is becoming increasingly important to fully utilize the existing transmission system assets due to environmental legislation, rights-of-way issues, costs of construction and dere...

Restructuring and Expanding Technology Acceptance Model Structural Equation Model and Bayesian Approach

Margaretha Ari Aggorowati — 2012-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.496.504

Problem statement: Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is one of models that analyze user behavior to accept and use a new technology. SEM is the most statistical method which use in TAM analysis that p...

Symbol Timing Estimation in Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing based Ultrawide band System

M. N. Suresh — 2012-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.505.509

Problem statement: The Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) Based Ultra Wideband system (UWB) is highly susceptible to symbol timing error. Symbol timing estimation in MB-OFD...

Utilization of Charge Transfer and Kinetic Methods for the Determination of Doripenem

Nora H. Al-Shaalan — 2012-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.510.518

Problem statement: This study presents rapid, uncomplicated and sensitive spectrophotometric techniques for the analysis of doripenem in both its pure and pharmaceutical forms. Approach: The main prin...

Still Image Compression Using Texture and Non Texture Prediction Model

G. Mohanbaabu — 2012-02-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.519.525

Problem statement: Existing lossless image compression schemes attempt to do prediction in an image data using their Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and their spatial neighborhood based techniques. In the...

A Hidden Genetic Layer Based Neural Network for Mobility Prediction

L. Velmurugan — 2012-02-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.526.530

Problem statement: With numerous wireless devices increasingly connecting to the internet, WLAN infrastructure planning becomes very important to maintain desired quality of services. For maintaining ...

An Efficient Way for Clustering Using Alternative Decision Tree

E. Gothai — 2012-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.531.534

Problem statement: To Improve the quality of clustering; a Multi-Level Clustering (MLC) algorithm which produces a most accurate cluster with most closely related object using Alternative Decision Tr...

A New Strategy for Signaling Overhead Reduction in the Proxy Mobile IPv6 Protocol

Adnan J. Jabir — 2012-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.535.541

Problem statement: The rapid growth of the Internet usage has been realized by the Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6). Concurrent to these technological advances is the communication overheads. Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PM...

A Multi-Agent Based Data Replication Mechanism for Mobile Grid

T. Senthilnathan — 2012-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.542.552

Problem statement: In Mobile grid, the mobile devices can be effectively incorporated in to the Grid. It enables both the mobility of the users requesting access to a fixed grid and the resources that...

Role of Endometrial Thickness on Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection

Mohammed Al-Sunaidi — 2012-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.553.556

Problem statement: Endometrial receptivity is a key factor in successful outcome of in vitro fertilization. The endometrial receptivity is determined clinically by estimation of endometrial thickness ...

Attitude towards Community Building in Association of Southeast Asian Nations: A Public Opinion Survey

Ravichandran Moorthy — 2012-02-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.557.562

Problem statement: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) envisioned an integrated regional community by the year 2015, following the European Union model. However, unlike the European Com...

Effect of Mosquito Repellent on the Transmission Model of Chikungunya Fever

Surapol Naowarat — 2012-02-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.563.569

Problem statement: In 2008 there was a large outbreak of Chikungunya fever in southern Thailand. Chikungunya fever is an emerging disease which tends to affect rubber plantation and fruit orchard work...

Seasonal ARIMA for Forecasting Air Pollution Index: A Case Study

Muhammad Hisyam Lee — 2012-02-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.570.578

Problem statement: Both developed and developing countries are the major reason that affects the world environment quality. In that case, without limit or warning, this pollution may affect human heal...

Socioeconomic Impact on Farmers in Malaysia: A Case Study on Integrated Agricultural Development Project

Nor Diana Mohd Idris — 2012-02-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.579.583

Problem statement: Integrated Agricultural Development Project (IADP) is a platform for rural socioeconomic improvement. This initiative has raised the income of farmers by creating a large scale frui...

Some Applications of Spanning Trees in Complete and Complete Bipartite Graphs

S. N. Daoud — 2012-02-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.584.592

Problem statement: The number of spanning trees τ(G) in graphs (networks) is an important invariant, it is also an important measure of reliability of a network. Approach: Using linear algebra and ma...

Customers’ Attitude towards Diminishing Partnership Home Financing in Islamic Banking

Dzuljastri Abdul Razak — 2012-02-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.593.599

Problem statement: Diminishing partnership or musharakah mutanaqisah contract in home financing is recently introduced by the Islamic banking industry as an alternative of the bay bi’thaman ajil con...

Neuroprotective Effect against Cerebral Ischemia of Passiflora foetida

Jintanaporn Wattanathorn — 2012-02-16

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 16 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.600.604

Problem statement: Although cerebral ischemia induced by stroke has been regarded as the important problem worldwide, the therapeutic efficacy is still inadequate. Since the free radicals are implicat...

Low Pass Filter Model for Chemical Sensors in Response to Gases and Odors

Mahmoud Z. Iskandarani — 2012-02-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.605.608

Design and Modeling multi-gap sensing odor system for the objectives of odor recognition, classification and correlation are carried out. The model illustrates the low pass functionality of the multi-...

Bayesian Framework in Repeated-Play Decision Making

Yohei Kobayashi — 2012-02-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.609.614

Problem statement: There have been much reported on decisions from experience, also referred to as decisions in a complete ignorance fashion. Approach: This note lays out a Bayesian decision-theoretic...