Volume 9, Issue 11 (2012) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Physical Properties of Rice Residues as Affected by Variety and Climatic and Cultivation Onditions in Three Continents

A. E. Ghaly — 2012-08-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1757.1768

Rice husk and straw are by-products of rice cultivation and processing industry and can be used as an energy source. Proper understanding of the physical properties of rice residues is necessary for u...

Er³⁺-Doped Soda-Lime Silicate Glass: Artificial Pink Gemstone

Pichet Limsuwan — 2012-08-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1769.1775

Er3+-doped soda-lime silicate glasses of the composition (in mol%) (65-x)SiO2:25Na2O:10CaO:xEr2O3 (where x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) were fabricated by conventional melt quenching technique. The physica...

The Cognitive Enhancing Effect of Tomato Pomace

Wipawee Thukhammee — 2012-08-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1776.1781

Poor learning abilities and impaired memory are increasing their importance in accompany with the increased elderly population and stress exposure. Therefore, the development of cognitive enhancement ...

The Beneficial Effect of Asiaticoside on Experimental Neuropathy in Diabetic Rats

Chonlathip Thipkaew — 2012-08-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1782.1788

Though diabetic neuropathy produces high impact on quality of life, annual cost and morbidities, the therapeutic efficacy is still not in a satisfaction level. Based on the crucial role of oxidative s...

Mulberry Fruits Extract Mitigate Vascular Dementia

Pratchaya Kaewkaen — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1789.1795

To date, Vascular Dementia (VaD) is the second most commonly found dementia following Alzheimerï¿½s disease. Though VaD is still increasing its importance, the therapeutic efficacy is still not in ...

Survey on Mobile Ad Hoc Network Attacks and Mitigation Using Routing Protocols

S. P. Manikandan — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1796.1801

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) due to its unpredictable topology and bandwidth limitations are vulnerable to attacks. Establishing security measures and finding secure routes are the major challenges ...

Field Programmable Gate Array Based RF-THI Pulse Width Modulation Control for Three Phase Nverter Using Matlab Modelsim Cosimulation

Valantina Stephen — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1802.1812

This study proposes different configurations of PWM techniques for harmonic reduction and improvement of fundamental peak voltage. For providing adjustable frequency power to industrial applications, ...

Gaseous Emissions and Combustion Efficiency Analysis of Hydrogen-Diesel Dual Fuel Engine under Fuel-Lean Condition

Prateep Chaisermtawan — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1813.1817

Exhaust gas emissions from diesel engine combustion using alternative fuel may change in their quantities that can affect exhaust gas after-treatment devices and environmental ambient. This study pres...

Impact of Time Spent in Parents-Children Communication on Children Misconduct

Nurani Kamaruddin — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1818.1823

Communication is a must and family communication enhances family ties. This study is design to discover whether quantity of time spent between parents and children have a direct impact on children mis...

Evolution of Creation Buddhist Lent Candle of Work Awarded in Ubon Ratchathani’s Lent Candle Contests 2003-2007

Sakchai Uttitho — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1824.1827

The tradition of Lent candle procession at the Buddhist Lent festival is the grand festival at the national level in Ubon Ratchathani province. From the merit-making tradition concerning Buddhism bind...

Mathematics Anxiety and Achievement Among Secondary School Students

Effandi Zakaria — 2012-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1828.1832

Research has shown that mathematics achievement in students is influenced by psychological factors such as mathematics anxiety. Weaknesses among students in learning mathematics in particular will aff...

Phase-Only Adaptive Nulling with Taguchi’s Method for Antenna Array Synthesis

Ali Gharsallah — 2012-09-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1833.1839

A new and very speedy synthesis method for linear array antennas with periodic element spacing is described. This study presents an efficient method for the pattern synthesis based on Taguchi’s meth...

Mathematical Analysis of How the Electrical Training Center Site is Affected by Air Pollution

Bassam A. Al-Helou — 2012-09-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1840.1848

The study has come to the result that the monitoring site at the Electrical Training Centre (ETC) at Al-Hashimyeh town is exposed to grave pollution that goes beyond Jordanian standards of the ambient...

Performance Evaluation of Multicrypt Encryption Mechanism

Rhymend Uthariaraj Vaidyanathan — 2012-09-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1849.1861

Multicast communication allows a single message packet to be routed to multiple nodes simultaneously. Membership in a multicast group is dynamic, allowing nodes to enter and leave the multicast sessio...

Determination of Antioxidants in Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches

Ng Mei Han — 2012-09-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1862.1867

The oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) undergoes sterilization before being threshed to separate the fruits from the bunch. Upon threshing, the fruits were pressed for its oil while the now Empty Frui...

E-Commerce: Security and Applications

As’ad Mahmoud Alnaser — 2012-09-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1868.1871

This study presents an investigation and comparing of all methods used in E-commerce security. Also it presents suggested methods to make e-commerce more secure. Applications of the E-commerce are dem...

Design of Square Substrate Integrated Waveguide Cavity Resonators: Compensation of Modelling Errors by Support Vector Regression Machines

Giovanni Angiulli — 2012-09-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1872.1875

The design of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) resonators is usually a cumbersome process, especially due to the length "trial and error" procedure involved in this task. In this study Suppo...

A Petri Net Based Agent Behavioral Testing

Zina Houhamdi — 2012-09-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1876.1883

In Multi-Agent System (MAS), developers concentrate on creating design models and evolving them, from higher level models to lower level models, in several steps. Considerable part of MAS implementati...

Necessity of Tutor Training in Architecture Education Using Rasch Measurement Model

BadiossadatHassanpour — 2012-09-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1884.1890

This is an unwritten norm that says learning can take place in the job. But learning in tutors’ position in the meaning of gaining experience is good but in case of try and error would be crucial. O...

Methodical Tuning of Proportional Plus Integral Controllers for Cascade Control of Separately Excited DC Motors

Ibrahim Al-Abbas — 2012-09-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 September 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2012.1891.1898

The cascade control of DC motors by PI controllers was extensively used in industry. Approximation rules based on plotting the output of the system or on computer simulation were used to determine the...