Volume 11, Issue 5 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

EFFECT OF USING STEEL SLAG AGGREGATE ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONCRETE

Sultan A. Tarawneh — 2014-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.700.706

This study presents an evaluation of the physical and mechanical properties and characteristics of steel slag aggregate concrete in comparison with the typical crushed limestone stone aggregate concre...

INVESTIGATION STUDIES ON SUB-COOLING OF CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS USING HELIUM INJECTION METHOD

T. Ramesh — 2014-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.707.716

In cryogenic propellants, the sub-cooling of cryogenic propellants contained in tanks is an important and effective method for bringing down the lift-off mass of launch vehicle and thus the performanc...

POWER STABILITY MONITORING BASED ON VOLTAGE INSTABILITY PREDICTION APPROACH THROUGH WIDE AREA SYSTEM

H. H. Goh — 2014-02-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.717.731

Nowadays, power systems are being forced to operate closer to its security limit due to current economic growth and the difficulties to upgrade the existing grid infrastructure. With the sudden increm...

AN INTELLIGENT VERTICAL HANDOVER DECISION ALGORITHM FOR WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

V. Anantha Narayanan — 2014-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.732.739

The Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWN) should be compatible with other communication technologies to offer the best connectivity to the mobile terminal which can access any IP based services at ...

CONTRIBUTION TO THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE OF ANT COMMUNITIES (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) IN A XEROPHITIC SCRUBLAND OF SOUTHEAST DURANGO, DURANGO

Maria P. Gonzalez-Castillo — 2014-02-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.740.747

In order to assess the species richness and diversity of ants in a xerophitic scrubland, a total of three areas were monitored in the Southeast of Durango within the municipalities of Nombre de Dios a...

FUZZY RULE-BASED SYSTEM FOR AVENUE MANAGEMENT

S. Prakash — 2014-02-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.748.758

Mutual Funds are becoming effective way for investors to participate in financial markets. An investor must learn to analyze and measure the risk and return of the portfolio. The performance of funds ...

GROWTH OF YB³⁺ DOPED LiNBO₃ CRYSTALS USING LASER HEATED PEDESTAL GROWTH METHOD

Bariza Boudour — 2014-02-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.759.763

The growth of LN single crystals free from defects greatly doped with rare earth elements (RE3+) and having a high optical quality is still an unresolved problem. Always, crystals of the niobate lithi...

VIRTUAL MINING MODEL FOR CLASSIFYING TEXT USING UNSUPERVISED LEARNING

S. Koteeswaran — 2014-02-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.764.768

In real world data mining is emerging in various era, one of its most outstanding performance is held in various research such as Big data, multimedia mining, text mining etc. Each of the researcher p...

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF HIGH EFFICIENT AND LOW POWER ARCHITECTURE FOR FUZZY BASED IMAGE FUSION

S. Anbumozhi — 2014-02-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.769.781

Image fusion based on wavelet transform is the most commonly used image fusion method, which fuses the source images’ information in wavelet domain according to some fusion rules. But because of the...

VHDL DESIGN AND HARDWARE REALIZATION OF HYBRIDARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE

Rajeswaran Nagalingam — 2014-02-24

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 24 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.782.788

Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) use Genetic Algorithm (GA) in many optimization problems to efficiently compute the function value in less time. In this study the weight optimization of the Artificial Ne...

A NOVEL ARTIFICIAL HYDROCARBON NETWORKS BASED SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION CONTROLLER FOR INDUCTION MOTORS

Hiram Ponce — 2014-02-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.789.810

Most of machine-operated industrial processes implement electric machinery as their work sources, implying the necessary improvement of control techniques and power electronics drivers. Many years hav...

DISTRIBUTION OF LOAD USING MOBILE AGENT IN DISTRIBUTED WEB SERVERS

Vijayakumar G. Dhas — 2014-02-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 February 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.811.817

The continuing growth of the World-Wide Web is placing increasing demands on popular Web servers. Many of the sites are now using distributed Web servers (i.e., groups of machines) to service the incr...

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMPLIFIED INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR PREVENTING AND REDUCING LOW BACK PAIN AMONG MALAYSIAN BUS DRIVERS

Shamsul Bahri Mohd Tamrin — 2014-03-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.818.832

An intervention study was conducted in order to determine the effectiveness of an exercise program for reducing Low Back Pain (LBP) among bus drivers. A total of 197 bus drivers were randomly selected...

THE BLENDING EFFECT OF COALITE, COCONUT SHELL CHARCOAL AND GELAM WOOD CHARCOAL ON CALORIFIC VALUE

Nukman — 2014-03-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.833.836

The aim of this research is to scrutinize the effect of blend solid fuels consisting of coalite, coconut shell charcoal and gelam wood charcoal on calorific value. Coalite is the solid fuels made from...

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF ANTI-COLLISION ENABLED ROBOT USING HYBRID BEACON SCHEDULING APPROACH

P. Prabakaran — 2014-03-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.837.843

In multi-robot environment, when many robots are moving in the same workspace, there is a possibility of their physical collision with themselves as well as with physical objects. In this study, hybri...

SOFT COMPUTING APPROACH TO PREDICT INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE VALUES

Mario Versaci — 2014-03-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.844.850

The estimation and the prediction of the values related to the Intracranial Pression (ICP) represents an important step for the evaluation of the compliance of the human brain, above all in those case...

CARRY SAVE COMMON MULTIPLICAND MONTGOMERY FOR RSA CRYPTOSYSTEM

Rupali Verma — 2014-03-08

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 8 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.851.856

RSA public key cryptosystem provides encryption and digital signatures. With growth of key size an efficient design of RSA in terms of area, frequency, throughput and power consumption is hard to achi...

THYROID HORMONES (T3 AND T4) AS A MARKER OF UTERINE CANCER RISK FACTOR AFTER MENOPAUSE

Zena A.M. Al-Jawadi — 2014-03-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.857.859

Due to limited available information of the correlation between T3 and T4 on uterine cancer. This study focused on the following: Possibility of T3 and T4 as a marker of uterine cancer by studying the...

JOB INSECURITY AND EMPLOYEESâ€™ MOTIVATION TO ENGAGE IN PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Andrei B. Ankudinov — 2014-03-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.860.865

Current economic slowdown in Russia can cause significant problems with employment in a number of national economy sectors. The article presents results of econometric analysis of employees’ confide...

MENTAL STATE REPRESENTATION: SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS

Alexander Oktyabrinovich Prokhorov — 2014-03-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.866.871

Since the time of statement of the problem of states in psychology, the study of "sensuous" tissue - the mental state representation-takes a fundamental meaning. The problem is concluded in the ...