Volume 11, Issue 6 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

SIMULATED ANNEALING APPROACH TO COST-BASED MULTI- QUALITY OF SERVICE JOB SCHEDULING IN CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIROMENT

Monir Abdullah — 2014-03-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.872.877

Cloud computing environments facilitate applications by providing visualized resources that can be provisioned dynamically. The advent of cloud computing as a new model of service provisioning in dist...

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND INFLUENCE OF CALCINATIONS TEMPERATURE ON MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF Ni_0.75Zn_0.25Fe₂O₄ NANOPARTICLES SYNTHESIZED BY SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE

Beh Hoe Guan — 2014-03-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.878.882

The calcinations temperature is one of the important process parameter which influences the changes of magnetic properties in ferrites. This study provide better understanding of the influence of calc...

A RECONFIGURABLE ARCHITECTURE OF TURBO DECODER FOR MIMO-HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS

T. Yasodha — 2014-03-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.883.887

A novel channel based rescheduling scheme for modern turbo convolution code is proposed by the inclusion of suboptimal and low-complex max-log-MAP algorithm. Demands for dedicated custom solutions in ...

MODEL BUILDING FOR AUTOCORRELATED PROCESS CONTROL: AN INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

M. A. Djauhari — 2014-03-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 March 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.888.898

We show that many time series data are governed by Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) law. This motivates us to propose a procedure of time series model building for autocorrelated process control that m...

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR MEASURING THE CONSUMPTION OF SAVE WATER TAPS

Inacio Henrique Yano — 2014-04-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.899.905

Currently, water consumption is on the agenda of most organizations around the world. Beyond the environmental benefits for a better use of natural resources there is also a financial motivation to co...

EFFICIENT RANKED AND SECURE FILE RETRIEVAL IN CLOUD COMPUTING

J. Jospin Jeya — 2014-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.906.911

Cloud computing facilitates extremely scalable services that can be consumed over internet. An important aspect of the cloud services is that user data are stored remotely in unknown machines in which...

PREDICTION OF FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Abhijit Suresh — 2014-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.912.920

The modern society has posed several threats to the public. Public security is declining with increasing anti-social behaviour. Cases of rape and terrorist attacks have become increasingly common and ...

MAY PARENTS INHERIT FROM HEIRS? TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARENT-SPUN-OFF RELATIONSHIP

Federica Brunetta — 2014-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.921.928

Spin-offs create financially and administratively stand-alone units that hold a strong affiliation with the parent firm due to the concurrence of the ownership structure. So far, few studies have adop...

FINGER KNUCKLE-PRINT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON LOCAL AND GLOBAL FEATURE EXTRACTION USING SDOST

N. B. Mahesh Kumar — 2014-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.929.938

Finger knuckle-print biometric system has widely used in modern e-world. The region of interest is needed as the key for the feature extraction in a good biometric system. The symmetric discrete ortho...

OPTIMIZATION OF DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF HEATING SYSTEM OF PRESS EQUIPMENT

Andrey Vladimirovich Ostroukh — 2014-04-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.939.946

The manufacturing of rubber products has a steady growth. Thereby modernization of existing and design of new advanced equipment for this industry is a topical problem. The article is devoted to optim...

YOUTHS’ SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD WITH INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: TOWARD AN ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT QUALITY MODEL

Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh — 2014-04-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.947.958

Creating and developing sustainable livelihood opportunities for young people is reliant, in part, on an understanding of the social and economic process and context that affect their lives. The goals...

ORGANIC SOL-GEL METHOD IN THE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES

Keanchuan Lee — 2014-04-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.959.962

Nanosized Zinc Oxide (ZnO) was synthesized using sol-gel method. The nanomaterials with structure were annealed at different temperatures ranging from 500 to 700°C which were chosen based on the Ther...

DETECTING ASSET IMPAIRMENT EARNINGS MANAGEMENT ON IFRS CONTEXT: SOME EVIDENCE FROM GREEK LISTED COMPANIES

Ekaterini C. Laskaridou — 2014-04-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.963.968

The purpose of this study is two fold: (a) to bring on issues of asset impairment manipulation in the IFRS context (b) to examine, any statistical inference validating impairment discretionary charges...

EFFICIENT KEY MANAGEMENT AND AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

T. Lalitha — 2014-04-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.969.977

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is vulnerable to node capture attacks in which an attacker can capture one or more sensor nodes and reveal all stored security information which enables him to compromis...

A MULTILEVEL CONVERTER WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF SWITCHES FOR FUEL CELL POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEM

K. Prasada Rao — 2014-04-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.978.993

This study investigates the potentials of cascaded five and seven level converters with reduced number of switches for fuel cell power conditioning system. Fuel cells is one of the most important sour...

INVESTIGATION ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF SIMPLE AND COMBINES MECHANICAL FAULTS IN ASYNCHRONOUS MOTOR BASED ELECTRIC DRIVES

Bouras A. Karim — 2014-04-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.994.1004

In this study, the problems of mechanical unbalance, parallel and angular misalignments and their combinations are analyzed experimentally. Such frequent defects in the drives mainly in the major powe...

AN ANALYSIS OF SOUND FOR FAULT ENGINE

Suphattharachai Chomphan — 2014-04-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1005.1009

Various types of faults of the gasoline engine may result in similar symptoms. Sound analysis of engine has been conducted to diagnose the engine faults. This study presents a study of sound analysis ...

EXPORTS, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIA (1971-2013)

Muhammad Haseeb — 2014-04-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1010.1015

The main objective of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship between exports, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the economic growth in Malaysia. Records of annual time series data...

COMPUTER AIDED SEGMENTATION OF BRAIN TISSUES USING SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES

D. Ramkumar — 2014-04-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1016.1024

In this study, an efficient computer aided classification of brain tissue in to Gray Matter (GM), White Matter (WM) and Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) is proposed. The proposed work consists of the follow...

REFLECTION OF A WEAK DISCONTINUITY OF THE AXIS AND THE PLANE OF SYMMETRY

Bulat Pavel Viktorovich — 2014-04-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 April 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1025.1030

In this article we consider the problem of discontinuous characteristic (weak discontinuity) reflection from the axis and the plane of symmetry of the supersonic flow. There is a known problem of pert...