Volume 12, Issue 2 (2015) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Experimental Comparisons of Anchovy Drying using Centrifugal and Gravitational Fluidized Bed Techniques

Watcharin Dongbang — 2015-04-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.72.79

The present study investigated experimental comparisons of anchovy drying using centrifugal and gravitational fluidized bed techniques; in addition, drying models and thermal efficiency were also inve...

Impact Assessment of Soil Contamination with Antibiotics (for Example, an Ordinary Chernozem)

Yuliya Viktorovna Akimenko — 2015-04-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.80.88

The environmental behavior of antibiotics is not well known and the precise environmental risk assessment is not practical. We studied the impact antibiotics (benzylpenicillin, pharmasin and nystatin)...

The Impact of Chernozem Contamination with Lead and Oil on the Abundance and Composition of Microarthropods

Sergey Ilyich Kolesnikov — 2015-04-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.89.91

Micro arthropods population reduced with increase in the amount of oil in chernozem. The same pattern was observed up to a certain concentration of lead in the soil (background + 250 mg kg-1) and then...

Bit Error Rate Analysis of RS (7, 3) Coded Frequency Shift Keying Using Simulink

T.A. Shanmugasundaram — 2015-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.92.98

Bit Error Rate is an essential parameter to quantize the effectiveness of transceiver circuits used in low power, low duty cycle sensor nodes. BER can figure out their performance in terms of number o...

Economic and Financial Flow Generation in Tomato Industry in Italy

Giuseppe Bonazzi — 2015-03-25

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 25 March 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.99.111

In many Italian regions, firms operating in tomato industry have made significant investments in plants and machinery and often sell products to large food retail chains that require large stocks of i...

Rice Grain Moisture Determination Using Microstrip Wide-Ring and Microstrip Coupled-Line Sensors

Hou Kit Mun — 2015-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.112.120

Determining the Moisture Content (MC) inside rice grain is an important element for grain processesing such as harvesting, storage, quality control and transportation. A microstrip wide-ring sensor an...

Analysis of the Tunnel-Support Interaction Through a Probabilistic Approach

Pierpaolo Oreste — 2015-04-03

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 3 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.121.129

The analysis of the behavior of a tunnel requires the evaluation of numerous parameters, relative to the ground and the support structure and which are generally only known with a certain degree of ap...

Low Cost Shooting Simulator Based on a Single Board Computer

Aryuanto Soetedjo — 2015-04-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.130.141

This paper proposes the camera on weapon system used as the shooting simulator. The single board computer (Raspberry Pi module) is used as the main processor. The OpenCV is implemented on the embedded...

Ant Colony Optimization for Load Management Based on Load Shifting in the Textile Industry

Chaimongkon Chokpanyasuwan — 2015-04-09

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 9 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.142.154

The textile industry is a complicated manufacturing industry because it is a fragmented and heterogeneous sector dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). There are various energy-efficiency o...

A Proposed Integrated Human Recognition for Security Reassurance

Zahraddeen Sufyanu — 2015-04-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 April 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.155.165

A lot of systems require reliable and thorough authentication to ratify individual's claimed identity, especially in national and international security and defense. Unibiometric system suffers inhere...