Volume 10, Issue 9 (2013) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

An Efficient Neural Network for Recognizing Gestural Hindi Digits

Nidal Fawzi Shilbayeh — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.938.951

Handwritten Hindi digit recognition plays an important role in eastern Arab countries especially in the courtesy amounts of Arab bank checks, recognizing numbers in car plates, or in postal code for m...

Assessment of Heavy Metals Uptake and Translocation by Aquilaria malaccensis Planted in Soils Containing Sewage Sludge

Keeren Sundara Rajoo — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.952.964

Increase in human population has resulted in an enormous growth in the volume of wastewater. The conventional methods of sewage sludge disposal, that is the by-product of wastewater treatment, are cos...

Risk Analysis in Handling and Storage of Petroleum Products

Guarascio Massimo — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.965.978

Increase in productivity and technological system innovation have resulted a boost in the specific activity of use and handling petroleum Products the chemical and physical properties of petroleum pro...

A Role of Intrusion Detection System for Wireless Lan Using Various Schemes and Related Issues

Kamalanaban Ethala — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.979.985

The advancement in network based technology and augmented dependability of our everyday life on this technology. During recent years, number of attacks on networks has intensely increased. Hence inter...

Fuzzy Inference System Based Power Factor Correction of Three Phase Diode Rectifier Using Field Programable Gate Array

Sundar Rajan Giri Thulasiraman — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.986.999

This study describes a novel method in improving the input current total harmonic distortion as well as power factor of a three-phase diode rectifier circuit. In this method, three bidirectional switc...

Determining the Impact of Darkness on Highway Traffic Shockwave Propagation

Parameswary Sundara — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1000.1008

During darkness visibility diminishes resulting in reduced sight distances and drivers are subjected to anxiety that may give way to anger and frustration. However, the study is concerned with traffic...

Increasing Integration Across the Supply Chain Through an Approach to Match Performance and Risk

Maria Elena Nenni — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1009.1017

It is well known by researchers and practitioners that shared risks among actors support integration and collaboration across a supply chain. Moreover many authors have linked risk to performance cont...

Evaluation of Different Query Expansion Techniques for Arabic Text Retrieval System

Aysh Alhroob — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1018.1024

The word mismatch problem is fundamental to Information retrieval. Query expansion process helps to overcome this problem. Based on the Arabic corpuses, the comparisons between two query expansion tec...

Key Factors in the Face Stability Analysis of Shallow Tunnels

Daniel Dias — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1025.1038

Stability of the excavation face in shallow tunnels and in poor ground is at present a relevant problem in tunnelling. A new calculation procedure is illustrated in this study for the analysis of the ...

A Moderated Practice for Strategy Implementation Analysis

Shahryar Sorooshian — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1039.1042

Implementation of strategies is a crucial part of the strategic management fundamental process. The main objective of this research is to develop a practical model for analyzing strategy implementatio...

Received Signal Strength Indication Modeling in Indoor Wireless Sensor Networks

Edson Taira Procopio — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1043.1049

This study aims to identify mathematical models that represent the relation between Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) and objects in an indoor Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Using the Least S...

Impacts of Job Demands on Nurses’ Performance Working in Public Hospitals

Abdullah Mohammad Al-Homayan — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1050.1060

Job demands refers to the degree to which the working environment contains stimuli that require some effort, which suggests that job demands may lead to negative consequences if they require additiona...

Land Degradation and Preventive Measures From the Perspective of the Stakeholders

Mosayeb Heshmati — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1061.1076

Land degradation at the catchment scale in Iran is widespread, usually assumed to be accelerated by the activities of local inhabitants. Social issues such as low income, poverty and low level of welf...

An Investigation of Thermal Characteristics of a Sintered-Wick Heat Pipe with Double Heat Sources

Nattawut Tharawadee — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1077.1086

Heat pipes have been used extensively in the electronic industry for decades especially in laptop computers. For cost-effectiveness, a single heat pipe is designed to simultaneously transfer heat from...

Assessment of Melaleuca cajuputi as Heavy Metals Phytoremediator for Sewage Sludge Contaminated Soil

Shibli Nik Mohd — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1087.1092

In 2011, total marine capture landings in Peninsular Malaysia decreased by 3.9% which amounted to 1,373,105 tonnes as compared to 1,428,881 tonnes in 2010. The decline is connected to marine pollution...

Web-Enabled Generalized Architectural Model for Online Power System Analysis

Boopathi C. Sengodan — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1093.1101

In this study, an effective Web-enabled generalized architectural model is proposed. The proposed model makes the power system analysis to be completely secured, distributed, platform-independent and ...

Modules Over Rings of Small Characteristics and Maximality of Data Hiding ratio in CPTE Schemes

Phan Trung Huy — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1102.1108

Introduced CPT scheme as a block-based hiding scheme based on the ring of the integers modulo 2r, which permits to embed r = ⌊log2(k+1)⌋ secret bits in F by changing at most two entries, while the...

Solar Water Desalination System with Condenser Without Using Electricity for Rural Areas

Abhijeet Auti — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1109.1114

Domestic desalination is a process in which salt water is heated and converted to steam by using parabolic solar concentrator. Solar radiations incident on concentrator are focused at the absorber whi...

Impacts of Job Performance Level on Nurses in Public Sector Hospitals

Abdullah Mohammad Al-Homayan — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1115.1123

Job performance refers to how effective employees are in accomplishing their tasks and responsibilities related to direct patient care. Improving the performance of employees has been a topic of great...

Design and Study of Online Fuzzy Risk Score Analyzer for Diabetes Mellitus

SunithaKarnam Anantha — 2013-08-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 August 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1124.1133

The aim of this study is to determine the risks of various subjects to type 2 Diabetes and its dependence on the different subject records. A Fuzzy based system was designed to find the risk scores fo...