Volume 9, Issue 8 (2012) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

A Reliable Identification System for Red Palm Weevil

Saleh Mufleh Al-Saqer — 2012-06-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1150.1157

Problem statement: Red Palm Weevil (RPW) is a widely found pest among palm trees and is known to cause significant losses every year to palm growers. Existing identification techniques for RPW compris...

A 2-12 GHz Low Noise Amplifier Design for Ultra Wide Band Applications

V. Vaithianathan — 2012-06-09

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 9 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1158.1165

Problem statement: The Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) is a core block of an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) receiver since it amplifies a very weak signal received at the antenna to acceptable levels while introduci...

Design of Field Programmable Gate Array Based Emulators for Motor Control Applications

Ahmed Ben Achballah — 2012-06-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1166.1181

Problem statement: Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) circuits play a significant role in major recent embedded process control designs. However, exploiting these platforms requires deep hardware co...

Moringa oleifera Leaves Extract Attenuates Neuropathic Pain Induced by Chronic Constriction Injury

Jurairat Khongrum — 2012-06-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1182.1187

Problem statement: Neuropathic pain, a challenge of this decade, has been reported to be associated with the diversity conditions including diabetes. At present, there are no conventional analgesics t...

Impact of Training Program to Rationalize Consumption of Domestic Water Usages

Mohammad Said Damanhouri — 2012-06-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1188.1193

Problem statement: Reducing water consumption in terms of scarcity of water in Jordan which needs to rationalize consumption of the domestic water usages by some families in Amman-Jordan. Approach: Th...

Study of Ambient and Indoor Air Quality in the Building Built on the Former Landfill

Anuar Ithnin — 2012-06-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1194.1198

Problem statement: The air quality study of PPR Taman Wahyu II, Selayang, Selangor was a residential project that was built on the former landfill site. The landfill site will produce landfill gases w...

Using Look-up Tables to Model an Electromagnetic Suspension System

Musaab Hassan — 2012-06-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1199.1202

Problem statement: The aim of the study was to model an electromagnetic suspension system. The electromagnetic system consists of an electromagnet which was attracted an iron object which was freely s...

Coreless Winter Characteristics Observed with Global Positioning System Receivers over Antarctic and Arctic Regions

Wayan Suparta — 2012-06-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1203.1213

Problem statement: The most recent warming trends occurred during the winter in Polar Regions had been attracted many researchers to study its impacts, which might affect the sensitivity of climate pr...

The Effectiveness of Organotin (IV) Benzylisopropyldithiocarbamate Compounds as Insecticide Against Aedes Aegypti Linn (Diptera: Culicidae) in Laboratory

Hidayatulfathi Othman — 2012-06-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1214.1218

Problem statement: The widespread use of insecticides had resulted in insecticide resistance of vectors of dengue as well as polluting the environment. Organotin (IV) compounds had the potential to be...

Pitch Analysis of Ukulele

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2012-06-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1219.1224

Problem statement: The ukulele is a trendy instrument in the present day. It is a member of the guitar family of instruments which employs four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings. However...

Effects of Gas Velocity and Temperature on Nitric Oxide Conversion in Simulated Catalytic Converter

Sathaporn Chuepeng — 2012-06-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1225.1231

Problem statement: Gaseous emissions from gasoline engine such as carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxides were usually reduced in three-way catalytic converter simultaneously around ...

Reliability Centered Maintenance in Schedule Improvement of Automotive Assembly Industry

Rizauddin Ramli — 2012-06-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1232.1236

Problem statement: Today, in many automotive manufacturing companies, maintenance management is an important factor to maintain the plant operation and production equipments. Approach: In this study, ...

Effects of Environmental Noises on Fundamental Frequency Contours of Thai Expressive Speech

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2012-06-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1237.1241

Problem statement: The expressive speech of Thai had been studied for a short period of time. An important feature of speech was fundamental frequency (F0) which defines the human speech prosody. It c...

Distributed Cluster Based Routing Technique with Multiple Sinks for Wireless Sensor Networks

S. V. Manisekaran — 2012-06-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1242.1250

Problem Statement: In order to reduce or minimize energy consumption and to improve bandwidth utilization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), it was essential to consider its architecture in the networ...

Fujisaki’s Model of Thai’s Fundamental Frequency Contours with Environmental Noises

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2012-06-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1251.1258

Problem statement: An important human speech feature is the fundamental frequency (F0) contour which represents the speech prosody. It indicates the naturalness and intelligibility of the speech. Mode...

Information and Communication Technology Innovation for Construction Site Management

Nuruddeen Usman — 2012-06-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1259.1267

Problem statement: The industrialization of the world from whole to site as a result of technological innovation made many industries adopting Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for proces...

Performance Analysis of Multi Clustered Parallel Genetic Algorithm with Gray Value

P. Vishnu Raja — 2012-06-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1268.1272

Problem statement: Encoding is one of the major factors in genetic algorithms, for a complex problem the optimality for the problem is determined. The encoding mechanism is the initial step which form...

Evaluation of the Stability of Underground Rock Pillars through a Probabilistic Approach

Massimo Guarascio — 2012-06-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1273.1282

Problem statement: When the room and pillar mining method is adopted, the dimensioning of the rock pillars is one of the most important aspects that need to be faced from the engineering point of view...

Mobile Anonymous Trust Based Routing Using Ant Colony Optimization

R. Kalpana — 2012-06-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1283.1289

Problem statement: Ad hoc networks are susceptible to malicious attacks through denial of services, traffic analysis and spoofing. The security of the ad hoc routing protocol depends upon encryption, ...

Mathematical Optimum of the Audit Sample

Georgeta Ancuta Span — 2012-07-02

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 2 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1290.1293

Problem statement: The primary objective of any audit mission is to obtain a high level of assurance on the fact that financial statements are prepared in accordance with a general financial reporting...

Novel Adaptive Job Scheduling Algorithm on Heterogeneous Grid Resources

G. K. Kamalam — 2012-07-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1294.1299

Grid provides an infrastructure for sharing geographically distributed heterogeneous resources to process many applications and mainly used for solving scientific problems that requires more computati...

Fatty Acid Content of Bovine Milkfat From Raw Milk to Yoghurt

O. O. Santos Júnior — 2012-07-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1300.1306

Problem statement: The present study aimed to study the evolution of fatty acid content, focusing on rumenic acid content, from raw milk to yoghurt processed from this milk. Approach: Milk samples wer...

Cluster Based Data Consistency for Cooperative Caching over Partitionable Mobile Adhoc Network

P. Kuppusamy — 2012-07-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1307.1315

Problem statement: Data availability and consistency are foremost issues in Mobile Ad hoc Networks due to the absence of permanent infrastructure. Cooperative caching addresses the data availability i...

Learning Equipment for the Flammability Limits of Liquefied Petroleum Gas

Siriratchanee Sirisawat — 2012-07-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1316.1320

Problem statement: This article was developing learning equipment for flammability limit behavior which designed for study the relation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) and combustion. The equipment c...

Speech Compression of Thai Dialects with Low-Bit-Rate Speech Coders

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2012-07-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 July 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1321.1328

Problem statement: In modern speech communication at low bit rate, speech coding deteriorates the characteristics of the coded speech significantly. Considering the dialects in Thai, the coding qualit...