Volume 11, Issue 1 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

DISTINGUISHABILITY BASED WEIGHTED FEATURE SELECTION USING COLUMN WISE K NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF GENE MICROARRAY DATASET

Jeyachidra — 2013-11-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1.7

In data mining, much research is being carried out to discover the previously unknown, valid, novel, useful and understandable patterns in large databases. The patterns must be actionable so that they...

COMPARISON FOR WIMAX SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS AND PROPOSAL QUALITY OF SERVICE IMPROVEMENT IN WIMAX NETWORKS

R. Nandhini — 2013-11-19

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.8.16

The objective of the broadband wireless technologies is to ensure the end to end Quality of Service (QoS) for service classes. Wimax is a revolution in wireless networks which could support real time ...

E-LEARNING READINESS AMONG MEDICAL EDUCATORS IN UNIVERSITI SAINS ISLAM MALAYSIA

Salleha Khalid — 2013-11-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.17.23

Recent advances in information technology has made e-learning feasible in many fields of education. Medical education is not any different. This survey is conducted among all the medical educators in ...

A NOVEL SPEECH ENHANCEMENT APPROACH BASED ON MODIFIED DCT AND IMPROVED PITCH SYNCHRONOUS ANALYSIS

V. R. Balaji — 2013-11-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.24.37

Speech enhancement has become an essential issue within the field of speech and signal processing, because of the necessity to enhance the performance of voice communication systems in noisy environme...

HALF OF THRESHOLD ALGORITHM: AN ENHANCED LINEAR ADAPTIVE SKIPPING TRAINING ALGORITHM OR MULTILAYER FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS

Manjula Devi Ramasamy — 2013-11-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.38.46

Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (MFNN) has been successfully administered architectures for solving a wide range of supervised pattern recognition tasks. The most problematic task of MFNN is tr...

CONSUMERS’ PERCEIVED RISK AND ITS EFFECT ON ADOPTION OF ONLINE BANKING SERVICES

Fereshteh Farzianpour — 2013-11-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.47.56

Although online banking services have gained a lot of attention, many consumers are still not willing to use them. Since online banking services can be a competitive advantage for banks, it is useful ...

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM FOR ARTIFACT REMOVAL IN BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Salvatore Calcagno — 2013-11-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.57.68

Recent works have shown that artifact removal in biomedical signals can be performed by using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) or Independent Component Analysis (ICA). It results often very difficult ...

AN IMPROVED DESIGN OF REVERSIBLE BINARY TO BINARY CODED DECIMAL CONVERTER FOR BINARY CODED DECIMAL MULTIPLICATION

Praveena Murugesan — 2013-11-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.69.73

Reversible logic gates under ideal conditions produce zero power dissipation. This factor highlights the usage of these gates in optical computing, low power CMOS design, quantum optics and quantum co...

RISK ANALYSIS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: A PRACTICAL SELECTION METHODOLOGY

Alberto De Marco — 2013-11-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 November 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.74.84

Project Risk Management (PRM) is gaining attention from researchers and practitioners in the form of sophisticated tools and techniques to help construction managers perform risk management. However, ...

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY BASED MODEL FOR DEMATERIALIZATION OF ACADEMIC CERTIFICATES FOR INDIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

Ramakrishnan Raman — 2013-12-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.85.88

Information Communication Technology (ICT) can integrate all facets of academic business. Though some schools and Universities in India have attempted to digitize some or many parts of their business ...

EMPIRICAL DETERMINATION OF THE AVERAGE ANNUAL RUNOFF COEFFICIENT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

Giovanni Grillone — 2013-12-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.89.95

Runoff estimation in ungauged basin is a challenge for the hydrological engineers and planners. For any hydrological study on an ungauged basin, a methodology has to be appropriately selected for the ...

ROLE OF WORK-FAMILY ENRICHMENT IN IMPROVING JOB SATISFACTION

Ng Swee Fung — 2013-12-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.96.104

The role of work-family enrichment in improving job satisfaction has been given little attention. In this study a mediation model was tested which includes work-family enrichment as the mediator, job ...

OSTEOPOROSIS AS A NOVEL MARKER OF UTERINE CANCER RISK FACTOR

Zena Abdul Monim Al-Jawadi — 2013-12-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.105.108

Due to limited available information on the occurrence and treatment of uterine cancer, health institutions in major countries trend to study some factors and diseases that may relation or plays as pr...

THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF Mg-Cu-Zn FERRITES IRRADIATED BY Î³-RAYS OF ⁶⁰Co SOURCE

Mohamed Eltabey — 2013-12-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.109.118

Ferrite samples with chemical formula MgxCu0.5-xZn0.5Fe2O4 (x = 0.0, 0.2 and 0.4) was prepared by the conventional ceramic method. The enhanced changes in the dc/ac resistivity and the dielectric cons...

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF HUFFMAN AND LEMPEL-ZIV WELCH DATA COMPRESSION FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NODE APPLICATION

Asral Bahari Jambek — 2013-12-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.119.126

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are becoming important in today’s technology in helping monitoring our surrounding environment. However, wireless sensor nodes are powered by limited energy supply. T...

IDENTIFICATION, MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF SOME RUMINAL BACTERIA THAT CATALYZE AND DEGRADE PLANT CELLULOSIC MATERIALS

Ahmed A. Mansour — 2013-12-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.127.136

In the last few years there was a growing economic awareness about plant wastes and use it in compost production or in feeding of farm animals, some of these wastes are useless and cause a lot of prob...

ERROR DETECTION SCHEMES FOR FINITE FIELD MULTIPLIERS

B. Sargunam — 2013-12-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.137.144

Finite field multipliers are widely used in the field of cryptography for the purpose of scalar multiplication. The outputs of the finite field multipliers may consist of errors due to certain natural...

STEEL FIBER CURVATURE IN CONCRETE COMPOSITES: MODULUS PREDICTIONS USING EFFECTIVE STEEL FIBER PROPERTIES

Abdellatif Selmi — 2013-12-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.145.151

Results in the literature demonstrate that substantial improvements in the mechanical behavior of concrete have been attained through the addition of steel fibers as a reinforcing phase. We have devel...

IMPLEMENTATION OF SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION TECHNIQUE WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM TO OPTIMIZE UNIFIED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONER

M. Shankar — 2013-12-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.152.159

This study proposes a novel control design of Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC). This design is enabled by a control framework that employs Genetic Algorithm which determines optimum points and...

INVESTIGATION OF STABILITY OF KOREAN GINSENG IN HERBAL DRUG PRODUCT

Latifa Bashir Babiker — 2013-12-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.160.170

This study was designed to investigate long term stability of K-Gin capsules, a herbal medication that contains korean ginseng. Stability studies ensuring the maintenance of product quality, safety an...