Volume 12, Issue 5 (2015) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Measurements of Mitral Annular Displacement in 2D Echocardiography Images

Faten A. Dawood — 2015-07-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.295.303

Mitral Annular Displacement (MAD) in echocardiography has been described as a variation in mitral annulus position between the end-diastolic and the end-systolic in a complete cardiac cycle. It could ...

A Comparison of Explicit Semi-Analytical Numerical Integration Methods for Solving Stiff ODE Systems

E.R. El-Zahar — 2015-06-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.304.320

In this study, a comparison among three semi-analytical numerical integration algorithms for solving stiff ODE systems is presented. The algorithms are based on Differential Transform Method (DTM) whi...

Respiratory Health of Male Steel Workers in the Eastern Coast of Peninsular Malaysia

Nurul Ainun Hamzah — 2015-06-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 June 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.321.328

A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and associated factors with respiratory health among male steel workers. A total of 424 male workers in the ...

Regeneration of Lyes for Cleaning-In-Place (CIP) Processes in Dairies: Comparison of Recycled Potash and Soda Solutions Cleaning Properties

Marie Furic — 2015-07-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.329.334

The regeneration of lyes for their integration in the dairy CIP was investigated applying an original process combining adsorption/coagulation and flocculation operations. Solutions of potassium hydro...

Architecture of Ultra Low Power Micro Energy Harvester Using RF Signal for Health Care Monitoring System: A Review

Farah Fatin Zulkifli — 2015-07-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.335.344

This research presents architecture of Ultra Low Power (ULP) Micro Energy Harvester (MEH) using Radio Frequency (RF) signal as an input. RF has many advantages compared to other ambient sources becaus...

Modeling the Impact of Taxes on Economic Growth with Regional Resource Potential

Oleg Tsepelev — 2015-07-07

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 7 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.345.354

This study deals with estimation problems for optimal tax burdens in relation to regional economic growth. Theoretical, methodological and empirical base of the research were the concept of the Laffer...

System Dynamics Analysis of the Determinants of the Malaysian Palm Oil Price

Sahra Mohammadi — 2015-07-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.355.362

This paper investigates the major determinants of the Malaysian palm oil price using a system dynamics approach. System dynamics methodology is very relevant for examining the feedback relationships, ...

Model of Adsorption on Epitaxial Single-Layer Graphene

Davydov Sergei — 2015-07-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 July 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.363.369

Model of adsorption on graphene is built by two steps: For the beginning density of states for the graphene monolayer on solid substrate is calculated, then adsorbed atom is placed on the such constru...