Volume 10, Issue 2 (2013) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

A New Approach to Damage Detection in Composite Body Structures Using Time Compensated Hyperspectral Image Analysis Technique

Mahmoud Zaki Iskandarani — 2013-02-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.123.130

A novel approach to damage detection in composite car body structures using hyperspectral image index analysis algorithm is presented and discussed. The adapted technique allows the monitoring and ana...

Improvement of Manufacturing Performance Measurement System and Evaluation of Overall Resource Effectiveness

Karuppana Gounder Eswaramurthi — 2013-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.131.138

In the present highly competitive business environment, well run organizations continually strive to enhance their capabilities to create excellent value for the customers by improving the cost effect...

Analyzing and Estimating Portfolio Performance of Bangladesh Stock Market

Md. Zobaer Hasan — 2013-02-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.139.146

Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is one of the most important developments in the finance literature. Simply, CAPM is a model that describes the relationship between risk and expected return. The th...

A Working Integrated Model for the Diffusion of Construction Innovation

Ahmad Rahman Songip — 2013-02-09

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 9 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.147.158

Construction industry is said to be low in innovation and adoption of innovations is necessary to gain competitive advantage in a liberalized and globalized marketplace. This study investigated the fa...

Effect of Some Ecological Factors on Thegrowth of Aspergillus niger and Cladosporium sphaerospermum

Ibtisam Mohammed Ababutain — 2013-02-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.159.163

Indoor airborne fungi have been implicated in human health problems, damage to building materials, books, clothes and stored foods, which effected by different ecological factors. Aspergillus niger an...

Determining Optical Constants of Selenium Thin Films using the Envelope Method

Nehad M. Tashtoush — 2013-02-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.164.171

Two Selenium thin films were deposited on glass substrates using thermal evaporation technique. The optical constants (refractive index, absorption coefficient and extinction coefficient and energy ga...

Evaluation of Food Color Consumption and Determining Color Type by Thin Layer Chromatography

Shayan Hosseini — 2013-02-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.172.178

The aim of this research was to investigate the role of the social demographic parameters of the people in charge of the facilities producing pastry, poolak (a type of coin-shaped candy) and rock cand...

Video Coding Technique Using 3D Dualtree Discrete Wavelet Transform with Multi Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Approaches

Thamarai Muthusamy — 2013-02-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.179.184

Wavelet-based image compression with Wavelet transform based motion compensated video codec performs better compression to meet the rate and distortion constraints in video transmission with the avail...

Thai Dialects and Structural Modeling with Noises

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2013-02-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.185.188

Fundamental Frequency (F0) conveys the prosodic information of the human speech. The modeling of the dialects’ F0 in a particular language is vital issue that should be taken into account. Four main...

Phycoremediation and the Potential of Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production using Wastewater

Adel A. Fathi — 2013-02-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 February 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.189.194

Wastewater remediation by microalgae is an eco-friendly process with no secondary pollution as long as the biomass produced is reused and allows efficient nutrient recycling. This study was undertaken...