Volume 11, Issue 3 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

PRICE TRANSMISSION IN SELECTED MALAYSIAN FRUITS MARKETS

Fatimah Mohamed Arshad — 2013-12-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.347.355

The market for fresh produce such as fruits in Malaysia is alleged to be inefficient due to poor flow of information between market levels and uncompetitive market particularly at the wholesale and re...

STUDY OF THE INTERFRAGMENTARY STRAIN AND THE INTERFRAGMENTARY MODULUS WITH CHANGING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN PLATE AND FEMUR

Boonthum Wongchai — 2013-12-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.356.361

For several years the distance between plate and femur has been studied for preventing the damage to the blood supply by the contact pressure between plate and femur. The Limited Contact Dynamics Comp...

FAULT DETECTION IN SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR DRIVES USING DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM AND K-MEANS CLUSTERING

V. S. Chandrika — 2013-12-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.362.370

This study presents a novel method of detection of inter turn shorts based on k means clustering technique. In addition to inter turn short detection, the other faults like open, short, phase to phase...

DOWNHOLE SEISMIC REFRACTION SURVEY OF WEATHERED LAYER CHARACTERISTICS IN ESCRAVOS, NIGERIA

Ochuko Anomohanran — 2013-12-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.371.380

The problem of datum correction in seismic surveys and the failures associated with civil engineering structures with specific reference to roads and buildings has been attributed to lack of understan...

THE MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY: MODEL FOR EVALUATION OF HUMAN ERROR PROBABILITY IN RAILWAY SYSTEM

Lombardi Mara — 2013-12-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 December 2013; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.381.390

The methodology of quantitative risk assessment in use in the railway industry refers the RAMS approach, as expected in EN 50126, to define the failure of the system. From the probability of failure f...

DOES FRAMING AFFECT RISK ATTITUDE? EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM CREDIT MARKET

Dmitry Vladimirovich Burakov — 2014-01-02

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 2 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.391.395

In this article we study the effect of framing on the attitude of lenders toward risk over a credit cycle and also review potential causes of negative framing when making decisions. Using an experimen...

KRYLOV’S SUBSPACES ITERATIVE METHODS TO EVALUATE ELECTROSTATIC PARAMETERS

Mario Versaci — 2014-01-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.396.405

Most of the electromagnetic problems can be stated in terms of an inhomogeneous equation Af = g in which A is a differential, integral or integro-differential operator, g in the exitation source and f...

AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE AND POLICY IMPLICATION FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Yoon-Doo Kim — 2014-01-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.406.413

This study looked at the current status of Korean social enterprises and their problems and suggested governmental policy implications for enhancing the competitiveness of social enterprises. As the s...

EFFECTIVE HEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR DYNAMIC ROUTING AND BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT UNDER QUALITY OF SERVICE CONSTRAINTS IN MULTISTAGE INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS

R. Deepalakshmi — 2014-01-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.414.424

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced abundant bandwidth consumption and necessities in multimedia communications from online games to video-conferencing applications with the constraint of Q...

DAILY CRUDE OIL PRICE FORECASTING MODEL USING ARIMA, GENERALIZED AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONAL HETEROSCEDASTIC AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

Rana Abdullah Ahmed — 2014-01-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.425.432

Crude oil price forecasting is gaining increased interest globally. This interest is due mainly to the economic value attached to the product. For this reason, new forecasting methods are proposed in ...

AUTOMATIC GLUCOSE INSULIN REGULATION SYSTEM-COMPARISON OF EMBEDDED CONTROL DESIGN AND HARR WAVELET METHOD FOR TYPE-1 DIABETES

R. Arangasamy — 2014-01-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.433.447

This article is aimed to inject insulin for type 1 diabetes using pumping the insulin with respect to meal disturbance. We have used the embedded linear parameter varying methodology controller and th...

STRESS; THE VULNERABILITY AND ASSOCIATION WITH DRIVING PERFORMANCE

B. M.T. Shamsul — 2014-01-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.448.454

Several factors may contribute to occurrence of road accidents which are human factors, vehicle factor, road factor and environmental factor. There has been recent evidence of a relationship between r...

LAND USE LAND COVER DYNAMICS OF NILGIRIS DISTRICT, INDIA INFERRED FROM SATELLITE IMAGERIES

P. Nalina — 2014-01-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.455.461

Land use Land cover changes are critical components in managing natural resources especially in hilly region as they trigger the erosion of soil and thus making the zone highly vulnerable to landslide...

IMPROVED PREDICTION FOR MEDIUM OPTIMIZATION USING FACTORIAL SCREENING FOR DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID PRODUCTION BY SCHIZOCHYTRIUM SP. SW1

Vidyah Manikan — 2014-01-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.462.474

Docosa Hexaenoic Acid (DHA) is an essential fatty acid that plays major role in human health. It is typically extracted from fatty fish and this puts pressure on global fish stock. DHA obtained from f...

FACE RECOGNITION USING RELATIONSHIP LEARNING BASED SUPER RESOLUTION ALGORITHM

SenthilSingh — 2014-01-16

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 16 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.475.481

The face recognition is an application which is for identifying a person from a digital image. The common problem that often occurs while identifying the face from image is due to the low resolution i...

MOTIONS STUDY OF A SINGLE CYLINDER HIGH SPEED SPARK IGNITION LINIER ENGINE WITH SPRING SYSTEM AS RETURN CYCLE

A. Z.M. Fathallah — 2014-01-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.482.491

A single cylinder two stroke spark ignition conventional engine have been modified to linier engine with spring mechanism. Before develop the design of linear engine is necessary to analysis of motion...

SECURITY BREACH IN TRADING SYSTEM-COUNTERMEASURE USING IPTRACEBACK

M. P. Rajakumar — 2014-01-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.492.498

Recently, economic scenario is often facing security breach that has heavy impact on the financial soundness of a company particularly, stock prices on firms. The utmost consequence being the whole bu...

CONFORMITY TO OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS IN MALAYSIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

Baba Md Deros — 2014-01-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.499.504

Regulation on occupational safety and health in Malaysia had evolved from the prescriptive factory and machinery act to a self-regulated occupational safety and health act. However, from the authors�...

DEVELOPMENT OF TEST PROTOCOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF FIELD-RESPONSIVE BITUMINOUS BINDERS

Ezio Santagata — 2014-01-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.505.519

Magneto-rheological fluids are materials that exhibit a significant change in their rheological properties in the presence of a magnetic field. Because of such a field-dependent behavior, they can act...

OPTIMIZING LOCALIZATION ROUTE USING PARTICLE SWARM-A GENETIC APPROACH

L. Lakshmanan — 2014-01-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.520.527

One of the most key problems in wireless sensor networks is finding optimal algorithms for sending packets from source node to destination node. Several algorithms exist in literature, since some are ...