Volume 10, Issue 6 (2013) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

New Car Demand Modeling and Forecasting Using Bass Diffusion Model

Zuhaimy Ismail — 2013-06-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.536.541

Forecasting model of new product demand has been developed and applied to forecast new vehicle demand in Malaysia. Since the publication of the Bass model in 1969, innovation of new diffusion theory h...

Comparison and Analysis of Vertical Coherence in the Shallow Water of Two ocean region

V. G. Sivakumar — 2013-06-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.542.548

Noise characteristics at shallow water is highly variable due to wave guide nature of the shallow water environment, reflection of noise from the bottom surface; due to biological activities and also ...

A Hybrid Approach Based Medical Image Retrieval System Using Feature Optimized Classification Similarity Framework

Yogapriya Jaganathan — 2013-06-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.549.562

For the past few years, massive upgradation is obtained in the pasture of Content Based Medical Image Retrieval (CBMIR) for effective utilization of medical images based on visual feature analysis for...

Improvement of Transient Stability of Power System Using Solid State Circuit Breaker

Kalai Murugan Amirthalingam — 2013-06-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.563.569

The aim of this study is to use a solid state circuit breaker for the improvement of transient stability margin. Long distance AC transmission is often subject to stability problems, which limits the ...

Generator Dynamic Performance Affected by Parameter’s Uncertainty

Akbar Beik Khormizi — 2013-06-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.570.578

This study investigates the effect of generator parameters inaccuracy on the transient stability performance of generator and power system. Normally, generator parameters are identified either by calc...

Particle Swarm and Neural Network Approach for Fault Clearing of Multilevel Inverters

R. M.S. Parvathi — 2013-06-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.579.595

This study presents a machine learning technique for fault diagnostics in induction motor drives. A normal model and an extensive range of faulted models for the inverter-motor combination were develo...

A Dynamic Approach for Rate Adaptation in Mobile Adhoc Networks

Palaniammal Senniappan — 2013-06-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.596.605

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes with no fixed infrastructure. The absence of central authorization facility in dynamic and distributed environment affects the optimal u...

Modelling Knowledge Summarization by Evolving Fuzzy Grammar

Nurfadhlina Mohd Sharef — 2013-06-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.606.614

Summarized text is a simplified and condensed version of the original text containing highlighted information to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time. Typically, text summarization...

The Differences and Stability of Children’s Career Expectations

Mei-Ju Chou — 2013-06-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.615.623

Each child has different career expectations, which offers different opportunities in deciding future careers. The study aims to explore the differences and stability of children’s career expectatio...

Study on Infrared PbS Detector Prepared Using Copper Electrodes of Printed Circuit Board

Hariyadi Soetedjo — 2013-06-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.624.627

Copper layers of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) have been used as electrodes for PbS infrared structure detector to introduce low cost and simple in preparation. PbS deposition as an active layer detecto...

Electric Field in Polymeric Isolators of the 500kV Voltage Class

Vitor Chaves De Oliveira — 2013-06-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.628.637

This study presents a detailed study of the electric field in polymeric isolators of the 500kV voltage class through modifications in the dimensions of the anti-corona ring. That is, by varying the th...

Assessing the Impact of Total Quality Management Practices and Quality Culture with Competitiveness of Saudi Contractors

Rushami Zien Yusoff — 2013-06-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 June 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.638.645

Total quality management practices in construction industries can be described as the processes or that aligns the business performance strategy to the business processes in the hopes of achieving cus...