Volume 11, Issue 4 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

ENHANCEMENT OF CREATIVITY THROUGH LOGO PROGRAMMING

Bens Pardamean — 2014-01-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.528.533

This study evaluated the effect of Logo programming in enhancing creativity skills. Eighty five fifth-grade students were assigned to experimental and control groups. A pre-test was administered to as...

A HIGH B₁ FIELD HOMOGENEITY GENERATION USING FREE ELEMENT ELLIPTICAL FOUR-COIL SYSTEM

Sidi M. Ahmed Ghaly — 2014-01-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.534.540

Design and testing of a prototype probe with high B1 magnetic field homogeneity that can be used for MRI is presented. It consists of four coaxial separately tuned rings of wire in a symmetric arrange...

BIFURCATION ANALYSIS OF EQUILIBRIUM POINT IN TWO NODE POWER SYSTEM

Halima Aloui — 2014-01-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.541.547

This study presents a study of bifurcation in a dynamic power system model. It becomes one of the major precautions for electricity suppliers and these systems must maintain a steady state in the neig...

MODELING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CORPORATE IDENTITY MIX IN PERCEIVED QUALITY AND CUSTOMER-RELATED BRAND EQUITY WITH INTERPRETIVE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS AND MICMAC ANALYSIS

Mahsa Pishdar — 2014-01-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.548.557

This study aims to identify the relation between corporate identity mix, perceived quality on customers’ behalf and customer-centric brand equity. A review of the available literature within this sc...

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF HIGH EFFICIENCY LOW DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODE DECODER FOR LOW POWER APPLICATIONS

M. Revathy — 2014-01-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 January 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.558.563

In this study, we propose a low power, high efficient Low Density Parity-Check Code (LDPC) Decoder Architecture for error detection and correction applications. LDPC codes have been adopted in latest ...

HARMONICS REDUCTION IN FRONT END RECTIFER OF UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES WITH ACTIVE CURRENT INJECTION

T. Chandrasekar — 2014-02-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.564.569

Harmonics are the by-products of modern electronics devices so it is necessary to mitigate the harmonics and offer techniques to mitigation of harmonics. It is greatly hampered by a three phase rectif...

EVALUATION OF THE ADEQUACY OF THE WIND SPEED EXTRAPOLATION LAWS FOR TWO DIFFERENT ROUGHNESS METEOROLOGICAL SITES

Dalila Khalfa — 2014-02-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.570.583

Increasing knowledge on wind shear models to strengthen their reliability appears as a crucial issue, markedly for energy investors to accurately predict the average wind speed at different turbine hu...

AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON HEAT TRANSPORT CAPABILITY OF A TWO PHASE THERMOSYPHON CHARGED WITH DIFFERENT WORKING FLUIDS

M. Kannan — 2014-02-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.584.591

In the present investigation a two phase thermosyphon has been fabricated to investigate the effect of operating parameters on the heat transport capability. The system consists of evaporator section,...

EFFECTS OF ETHANOL-DIESEL EMULSIONS ON THE PERFORMANCE, COMBUSTION AND EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF DI DIESEL ENGINE

R. Parthasarathi — 2014-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.592.600

The main objective of this study is to analyze the different ratio of emulsified fuels on the performance, emission and combustion characteristics of four stroke single cylinder kirloskar TV-I direct ...

THE LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH ON A-P SUPER-EFFICIENCY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MODEL OF INFEASIBILITY OF SOLVING MODEL

Chiao-Ping Bao — 2014-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.601.605

The traditional CCR or BCC model in DEA for DMU assessment often come out with multiple efficiency units, which cause problems in rank ordering. Therefore, we intended to improve level of discriminati...

PYROLYSIS OF EMPTY FRUIT BUNCHES: INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON THE YIELDS AND COMPOSITION OF GASEOUS PRODUCT

Mohamad Azri Sukiran — 2014-02-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.606.610

With the increasing concern on fossil fuel depletion and environmental problems, the utilization of renewable biomass resources is expected to play an important role in the future. Biomass can be conv...

PERFORMANCE STUDIES ON DOWNDRAFT GASIFIER WITH BIOMASS ENERGY SOURCES AVAILABLE IN REMOTE VILLAGES

V. ChristusJeya Singh — 2014-02-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.611.622

Increasing global concern over the environmental issues and depletion of fossil fuels, significant interest has been shown by the researchers to develop alternate energy technologies like biomass, bio...

PROGRESS OF BIOMATERIALS IN THE FIELD OF ORTHOPAEDICS

D. Chandramohan — 2014-02-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.623.630

The aim of this study is to compare the metallic and natural fiber reinforced polymer composite bone plates used in humerus fractures. A 3D finite element model was developed to analyze the performanc...

VARIATIONAL METHODS OF FORMING DEPRECIATION DEDUCTIONS

Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Filatov — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.631.638

Long-term planning of activity at all and the financial one in particular is one of the cornerstones of modern management. Using of author’s method to form depreciative policy allows to cut uncertai...

USER-CENTRIC DESIGN FOR SEMANTIC DISCOVERY OF MATHEMATICAL WEB SERVICES

Adlin Sheeba — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.639.647

Adopting an efficient and effective method to locate and select desired services among thousands of available web services is an important task in the service-oriented computing environment. If the se...

MATERIAL PARAMETER OF RUBBER GLOVE VULCANIZED USING COMBINED INFRARED AND HOT-AIR HEATING

Tipapon Khamdaeng — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.648.655

Vulcanization is an important chemical-thermal process in production of rubber products resulting in change of material properties, increased elasticity and strength. In general, Youngâ€™s modulu...

MODULATION IDENTIFICATION AND HAMMING ENCODING TECHNIQUE IMPLEMENTED IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO

S. Ravi — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.656.665

In SDR, it is advantageous if the data is transmitted using the best among the various modulation techniques with respect to SNR. The receiver has the ability to automatically identify the modulation ...

FUZZY SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING BASED, DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM APPLICATION FOR ALTERNATIVE CONFUSION REDUCTION STRATEGY IN SMARTPHONE PURCHASES

Robertus Nugroho Perwiro Atmojo — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.666.680

Consumer confusion is a phenomena when the consumer experiencing several confusion problems when she/he should to purchase products/services. Usually, consumer will do a strategy to coping the confusi...

EFFECTIVENESS OF A PARTICIPATORY ACTION ORIENTED TRAINING INTERVENTION APPROACH AMONG HARVESTERS IN OIL PALM PLANTATION

Ng Yee Guan — 2014-02-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.681.693

Consistent with the global demand for palm oil, the intensified upstream harvesting activities of oil palms’ fresh fruit bunches, despite the harvesters evidences of various ergonomics risk factors ...

A NEW PROCEDURE FOR 2D TO 3D CONVERSION USING DEPTH ARRAY CONVERSION

M. Kavitha — 2014-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.694.699

Entertainment in the real world becomes a popular era and it is long lasting for several decades. The major advancement in television as well as in projection leads to highest quality in terms of real...