Volume 10, Issue 12 (2013) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Loss Monitoring of Star Topology Sensor Network Based on Scheduling Algorithm for Assessing Structural Health Information

Mohammud Ershadul Haque — 2013-10-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1484.1491

Sensor network is the new invention for assessing civil building structural health information. The new challenge to sensor network: large volume of received data, analyzing result at the computing se...

Analysis of Financial Markets Integration of Iran Within the Middle East and with the Rest of the World

Parinaz Ezzati — 2013-10-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1492.1508

It is universally argued that Iran’s financial markets are effectively isolated from the rest of the world. However, in the last three years, privatization increased in Iranian financial markets as ...

Ultra Low Power Single Edge Triggered Delay Flip Flop Based Shift Registers Using 10-Nanometer Carbon Nano Tube Field Effect Transistor

Ravi Thiyagarajan — 2013-10-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1509.1520

Carbon Nano Tube Field Effect Transistor is currently considered as promising successor of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor. The scaling down of the Metal Oxide Semiconductor device f...

Performance Analysis of Discrete Wavelet Transform Based Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing System for Different Wavelets in Different Channel Environment

HariprasadNagarajan — 2013-10-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1521.1528

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) are the two assuring technologies that offers high data rate as required for the 4G wireless systems. Conven...

The Cost Advantage of Sicilian Wine Farms

Salvatore Tudisca — 2013-10-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1529.1536

This study presents the results of research carried out on a Sicilian wine farm in order to demonstrate the economic convenience of the mechanized harvest. After the determination of the minimum optim...

Delay and Power Reduction in New Routing Fabrics

S. Vijayakumar — 2013-10-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1537.1545

In this study we created a new routing fabric for reducing power and delay. The power consumed in a FPGA core consists of both static and dynamic components. Static power contributes only 10% of the t...

Antecedents of Employee Engagement in the Manufacturing Sector

Rajendran Muthuveloo — 2013-10-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1546.1552

The purpose of this study is to find the antecedents that influence employee engagement, as the organizational performance deteriorated due to high turnover and related issues such as high absenteeism...

Balanced Score Card Approach for Better Shari’ah Corporate Governance

Sheila Nu Nu Htay — 2013-10-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1553.1557

Islamic financial institutions have emerged due to the non-Shari’ah compliant nature of conventional financial from interest, uncertainty, gambling and prohibited activities from the Islamic perspec...

Advanced Energy Efficient Passive Clustering Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks

Aouad Siham — 2013-10-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1558.1569

Wireless sensor networks have a wide applicability and increase deployment in the near future. In most of those applications, the network is composed of an important number of nodes deployed in an ext...

Measuring Drivers’ Effect in a Cost Model by Means of Analysis of Variance

Maria Elena Nenni — 2013-10-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1570.1574

In this study the author goes through with the analysis of a cost model developed for Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) activities. By means of ANOVA the evaluation of impact and interaction among cos...

Imaging Spectroscopy and Light Detection and Ranging Data Fusion for Urban Features Extraction

Mohammed Idrees — 2013-10-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1575.1585

This study presents our findings on the fusion of Imaging Spectroscopy (IS) and LiDAR data for urban feature extraction. We carried out necessary preprocessing of the hyperspectral image. Minimum Nois...

Effects of Mixed Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers Application on Soil Properties and the Growth of Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) Cultivated on Bris Soils

Mohd Hadi Akbar Basri — 2013-10-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1586.1597

The demand for kenaf in the world increases rapidly by the years. Cultivation of the crop in Malaysia is a challenging task, especially when kenaf is grown on sandy soils with low fertility, such as t...

Egronomic Fingerprint Scanner Design for People with Motor Neuron Diseases

Abdulkareem Al-Alwani — 2013-10-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1598.1603

Fingerprint devices have evolved with time for authentication and identification purposes. It is used in generic security and social applications where identification and logging is required when ente...

Optimization of Clock Tree Synthesis Under Stochastic Process Variation Modeling for Multi-FPGA Systems

Karthik Thirumalai Sampath — 2013-10-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1604.1615

In this age of scientific computing, the experiment models and evaluation is a commonly employed rendition of the simulation methods. In addition to the optimality, the methods which depict underlying...

An Adaptive Region Growing Algorithm with Support Vector Machine Classifier for Tuberculosis Cavity Identification

K. Meenakshi Sundaram — 2013-10-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 October 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1616.1628

The major world health menace is Tuberculosis (TB) that has the effect on one-third of the global population and millions of new infections are occurring every year. The cavities in the upper lung zon...

Combined Pattern Mining for D3M Using Fuzzy

S. S. Dhenakaran — 2013-11-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1629.1633

Many algorithms and models were developed but the findings are not actionable and lack of soft power while solving the complex problems. Domain Driven Data mining is used a major efforts to promote th...

Hodsong: A Monastery Ritual for a Local Wisdom Ceremony for the Monk Ranking

Theerapong Meethaisong — 2013-11-02

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 2 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1634.1637

The ranking order of monk in Isan, Thailand was influenced mostly from Buddhist believe and practices starting from Lanchang period and this religious believe become the common practices and the tool ...

Research on Security Protocol for Collaborating Mobile Agents in Network Intrusion Detection Systems

Olumide Simeon Ogunnusi — 2013-11-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1638.1647

Despite the popularity of mobile agents in academic and commercial arena, the security issues associated with them have hindered their adoption on large scale distributed applications. However, resear...

Operational Fault Diagnosis in Industrial Hydraulic Systems Through Modeling The Internal Leakage of its Components

P. Athanasatos — 2013-11-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1648.1659

In this study, a model of a high pressure hydraulic system was developed using the bond graph method to investigate the effect of the internal leakage of its main components (pump, cylinder and 4/2 wa...

Combating Cyber Terrorism-Assessment of Log for Malicious Signatures

Kamalanaban Ethala — 2013-11-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2013.1660.1666

Enhancing security to the networks and preventing the cyber attacks is a major issue in all domains. In this study, a new class of cyber terrorism is addressed where mischievous and malicious behaviou...