Volume 11, Issue 9 (2014) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

THE PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ITS RISK FACTORS AMONG MALAY ELDERLY IN RESIDENTIAL CARE

R. Normala — 2014-07-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1456.1462

The motivation for the study is to improve the quality of life for elderly in residential care particularly the mental health aspect. Hence, the aim of this study is to examine the prevalence of depre...

RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY ANALYSIS OF POLYPHENOL RECOVERY FROM ARTICHOKE WASTE

Antonio Zuorro — 2014-07-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1463.1471

Large amounts of a solid waste consisting mainly of outer bracts and stems are produced from the industrial processing of artichokes. In this study, the recovery of polyphenols from the two waste comp...

ENHANCING SECURITY FOR IPV6 NEIGHBOR DISCOVERY PROTOCOL USING CRYPTOGRAPHY

Rosilah Hassan — 2014-07-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1472.1479

Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) would gradually be replaced by Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) as the next generation of Internet protocol. The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), one of the main...

FREE CONVECTION OF HEAT TRANSFER IN FLOW PAST A SEMI-INFINITE FLAT PLATE IN TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD WITH HEAT FLUX

P. Geetha — 2014-07-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1480.1485

A steady two-dimensional MHD free convection of heat transfer in flow past a semi-infinite flat plate in transverse magnetic field with heat flux has been examined. The governing partial differential ...

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PROCESS INNOVATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF OLIVE FARMS

Riccardo Testa — 2014-07-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1486.1491

Within a business enterprise, process innovations lead to reduced production costs and to increased profit margins. In this study, we shall examine an olive farm that operates in a perfectly competiti...

THE APPLICATION OF LIFE CYCLE COST (LCC) APPROACH TO QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THE PARMA PDO HAM SECTOR

Mattia Iotti — 2014-07-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1492.1506

In the international literature, the subject of the analysis of the cost of production is often confined to the analysis of short-term convenience. However, the quantification of the cost of productio...

A DATA WAREHOUSE DESIGN FOR THE DETECTION OF FRAUD IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN BY USING THE BENFORD’S LAW

Cornelia Kraus — 2014-07-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1507.1518

Large data volumes and the inability to analyse them enables fraudulent activities to go unnoticed in supply chain management processes such as procurement, warehouse management and inventory manageme...

ASSESSING THE EFFECTS OF LOGGING ACTIVITIES ON AVIAN RICHNESS AND DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT AGED POST-HARVESTED HILL DIPTEROCARP TROPICAL RAINFOREST OF MALAYSIA

M. N. Rajpar — 2014-07-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1519.1529

Logging activities have encroached into the hill dipterocarp tropical rainforest area since the lowland dipterocarp forests have decreased in size. Hill dipterocarp tropical rainforest is rich in habi...

THE ADVERSE EFFECT OF STEEL PARTICLE CONTAMINANTS ON FATIGUE LIFE OF GREASE LUBRICATED BALL BEARINGS

A. Stathis — 2014-07-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1530.1541

The rating life of ball bearings is reduced when hard particle contaminants are present in the lubricant. Usually, this life reduction is taken into account in the calculation of modified rating life ...

ESTIMATED AND ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS VARIABLES USING FUZZY SEMI-PARAMETRIC SAMPLE SELECTION MODEL

L. MuhamadSafiih — 2014-07-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1542.1552

An important progress within the last decade in the development of the selectivity model approach to overcome the inconsistent results if the distributional assumptions of the errors terms are made th...

REMOVAL OF CONGO RED DYE FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY DATE PALM LEAF BASE

Ghadah Alsenani — 2014-07-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1553.1557

Removal of dyes from wastewater is important for industry and environmental protection. The adsorption technique, using biomass is attractive method for environmental and economical reasons. This stud...

USING LIGHT TO SEE NEUTRONS AND ACCESSING THE 2D HIGH RESOLUTION: BAROTRON: A NEW PULSE FOR NEUTRON SCATTERING

Patrick Baroni — 2014-07-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1558.1565

Since first years of exploitation in 1960-70, neutron scattering has emerged as a unique and non-destructive means to probing inside matter properties at the nanometer length scales. Because the neutr...

A NEW THERMAL PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF METALS FROM ZINC-CARBON AND ALKALINE SPENT BATTERIES

Girolamo Belardi — 2014-07-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 July 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1566.1573

The aim of this study is the thermal recovery of manganese and zinc from a mixture of zinc-carbon and alkaline spent batteries containing 40.9% of Mn and 30.1% of Zn after a preliminary physical treat...

ETHIC IDENTIFICATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE SIBERIAN ARCTIC

Natalia Koptseva — 2014-08-21

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 21 August 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1574.1578

This article discusses some of the problems (population dynamics, knowledge of the native language) among indigenous peoples of the North, who live in the Krasnoyarsk region (Siberian Arctic, Russia)....

ECONOMETRIC MODELLING OF INDICATORS OF INNOVATION ACTIVITY LEVEL

Natalia Grigoryeva — 2014-09-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1579.1583

In the article we attempt to identify indicators that have a significant impact on the level of innovation activity, for a deeper understanding of the essence and principles of the innovative process....

THROUGHPUT AND BIT ERROR RATE ANALYSIS OF LUBY TRANSFORM CODES WITH LOW AND MEDIUM NODAL DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS

I. Joe Louis Paul — 2014-08-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 August 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1584.1593

This study presents two degree distributions namely low and medium nodal degree distributions aiming to build a low overhead Luby Transform (LT) codes. The motivation is to design a fast encoder/decod...

ENSURING EFFICIENCY CONTROL OF INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CLUSTER

Nina Ivanovna Larionova — 2014-09-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1594.1597

As experience of the developed countries shows, the best solutions to the problems related to ensuring competitiveness of enterprises can be found within clusters. Drawing up mechanisms for government...

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF EARLY POTATO PRODUCTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

Filippo Sgroi — 2014-08-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 August 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1598.1603

The interactions between a given commercial enterprise, its territory and development, have become a key issue in recent years. Theories of economic development tell us that a territory may undergo de...

LONG-REACH OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS (LR-OANS): A PROMISING CANDIDATE FOR FUTURE OPTICAL ACCESS

I.M.M. Mohamed — 2014-08-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 August 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1604.1615

The ever-increasing demand for broader bandwidth per user, which results from the continuous development of new bandwidth-hungry services and applications, creates the motivation to upgrade the curren...

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA AS BIOMARKERS OF EXPOSURE TO INDOOR POLLUTANTS AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN KLANG VALLEY

Juliana Jalaludin — 2014-08-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 August 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1616.1630

Poor indoor air quality can be particularly harmful to children and interfere with the growth of their lung function as they spend much of their time indoors. In order to understand the mechanism of e...

ASSESSMENT OF ORGANIC WASTE MANAGEMENT METHODS THROUGH ENERGY BALANCE

Antonio Comparetti — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1631.1644

In Italy, the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) is nowadays landfilled or processed through aerobic composting. The Italian towns currently support a high cost for OFMSW disposal and c...

ON THE RELIABILITY OF REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES PREDICTION OF MEAN FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF A RECTANGULAR TURBULENT JET IN CROSSFLOW

E. Khali — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1645.1658

A jet of fluid discharging into a cross stream, also known as Jet In Crossflow (JICF), has received many experimental and numerical investigations. In addition to the fundamental understanding of thre...

NEURAL CASCADED WITH FUZZY SCHEME FOR CONTROL OF A HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT

A. Selwin Mich Priyadharson — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1659.1670

A novel design for flow and level control in a hydroelectric power plant using Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)-Human Machine Interface (HMI) and neural cascaded with fuzzy scheme is proposed. This...

STUDY OF UNDERSTANDING OF CONTRADICTIONS OF COMIC CONTENT BY GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS

Tatiana Vasilyevna Artemyeva — 2014-09-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1671.1675

Annotation: Tasks with comic content are especially difficult for the thinking of children, as they have to resolve the contradiction and inconsistence with their expectations. The article provides an...

A HYBRID FIREFLY ALGORITHM WITH FUZZY-C MEAN ALGORITHM FOR MRI BRAIN SEGMENTATION

Mutasem K. Alsmadi — 2014-09-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1676.1691

Image processing is one of the essential tasks to extract suspicious region and robust features from the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). A numbers of the segmentation algorithms were developed in or...

SERVITIZATION OF SOUTH KOREA ECONOMY: CAUSES FOR SLUGGISHNESS AND POLICY ISSUES

Bongho Kim — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1692.1702

Since the 1960 s, the South Korea economy has achieved a rapid economic growth, whereas from the mid 1990's and beyond, servitization showing the growth of the service section over the nominal GDP has...

SWIM: FUTURISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS

Rajendran Muthuveloo — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1703.1713

The field of strategic management is undergoing significant changes due to the constant changes taking place in the business environment due to issues like emergence of new economic power, conflicts w...

DEEP TRAPS SPECTRA IN UNDOPED GAN FILMS GROWN BY HYDRIDE VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS

A. Y. Polyakov — 2014-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1714.1721

Decreasing the residual donors density and deep traps spectra densities in undoped GaN films grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) is very important for promoting the use of such material in hig...

LED TECHNOLOGY FOR BUILT AND ENVIRONMENT OF MALAYSIA

C. H. Lim — 2014-10-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 October 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1722.1726

Increasing the country population and the trend of industrialization caused increasing Malaysia's electricity consumption. Light Emitting Diode (LED) is a new sustainable technology that has taken ove...

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF AQUACULTURE INVESTMENTS UNDER CONDITIONS OF RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Filippo Sgroi — 2014-10-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 October 2014; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2014.1727.1734

This study aims to analyze, from a technical and economic point of view, the choice between alternative investments in aquaculture under conditions of risk and uncertainty. In particular, a comparativ...