Volume 5, Issue 9 (2008) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Uptake and Translocation of Iron by Native Tree Species In A Constructed Wetland Treating Landfill Leachates

A. Snow — 2009-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1091.1106

A surface flow wetland was constructed in the Burnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, to treat stormwater runoff from the surrounding watersheds which are comprised primarily of commercial p...

Strongly Real Elements in the Linear Groups PSL_n(q)

Ibrahim A.I. Suleiman — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1107.1109

We investigated which elements in some projective special linear and unitary groups are strongly real. In particular we showed every real element in PSL2(q) strongly real. We write a full table for r...

Dynamic Response of Loads on Viscously Damped Axial Force Rayleigh Beam

I. A. Adetunde — 2012-08-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 August 2012; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1110.1116

This research examines the effects of moving loads on viscously damped axial force Rayleigh beam. The authors especially tried to find the effect of the moving mass and moving force in connection with...

Security Policy Development: Towards a Life-Cycle and Logic-Based Verification Model

Luay A. Wahsheh — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1117.1126

Although security plays a major role in the design of software systems, security requirements and policies are usually added to an already existing system, not created in conjunction with the product....

Predictors of Technology Deployment Among Malaysian Teachers

Naresh Kumar — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1127.1134

Technologies advocate researchers had identified a number of factors that affect individual teachers' usage of computers. Nevertheless mix results were reported in literature. Hence, this study used p...

The Serviceability Considerations of HSC Heavily Steel Reinforced Members under Bending

Ali Akbar Maghsoudi — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1135.1140

To investigate the serviceability conditions of High Strength Concrete (HSC) beams, the total number of 6 beams (L = 2 m, b = 0.2 m, h = 0.3 m) heavily reinforced with different ratios of ρ and ρ' w...

Effect of Film thickness on the Electrical and Structural Properties of CdS: In Thin Films

Shadia J. Ikhmayies — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1141.1143

Polycrystalline CdS:In thin films were prepared by the Spray Pyrolysis (SP) technique on glass substrates at a substrate temperature Ts= 490°C. The effect of film thickness on the electrical and stru...

Quantum Hadamard Gate Implementation Using Planar Lightwave Circuit and Photonic Crystal Structures

Shamsolah Salemian — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1144.1148

An all optical method has been proposed for quantum Hadamard gate implementation. This quantum gate was realized by using Y-junction beam splitter. Normal modes in waveguides have been used as quantum...

Political Stability and Balance of Payment: An Empirical Study in Asia

Arfan Ali — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1149.1157

This study analyze that influences of political stability on balance of payment and relative importance of political stability and economic freedom for healthy of balance of payment and exchange rate ...

Inclusion Identification by Inverse Application of Boundary Element Method, Genetic Algorithm and Conjugate Gradient Method

Mahmud Khodadad — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1158.1166

Characterization of the interior of an inhomogeneous body using displacement measurements obtained by conducting a simple tension test was investigated. A homogeneous elastic solid body is assumed to ...

Optimal Decentralized Load Frequency Control Using HPSO Algorithms in Deregulated Power Systems

Seyed Abbas Taher — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1167.1174

Load Frequency Control (LFC) is one the most important issues in electrical power system design/operation and is becoming much more significant recently with increasing size, changing structure and co...

Gait Optimization of Biped Robot during Double Support Phase by Pure Dynamic Synthesis

Nima Jamshidi — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1175.1181

This paper deals with dynamic optimization of biped locomotion. The main focus of this research is motion optimization of double support phase. The optimization problem is dealt by using Pontryagins...

Relationship between Architectural Outer Shape and Function of Buildings: Behaviour Study on Building Constructed in China

ISSA. A.M. Al-Kahtani — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1182.1186

The present study attempted to investigate the behaviour of some projects designed and constructed in China during the last decades from an architectural view point and their compatibility with respec...

Weighting Spatial Information in GIS for Copper Mining Exploration

Farhad Hosseinali — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1187.1198

Exploration of new mines is vitally important for human life. Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) can be effectively used in the gathering, weighting, analyzing and presenting spatial and attribute i...

TwigINLAB: A Decomposition-Matching-Merging Approach To Improving XML Query Processing

Su-Cheng Haw — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1199.1205

The emergence of the Web has increased significant interests in querying XML data. Current methods for XML query processing still suffers from producing large intermediate results and are not efficien...

Economical Investigation of ICECHP Using Gasohol-A Case Study for Iran

Iman Baratian — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1206.1211

Energy is one of the most important factors in strategic planning throughout the world and can be considered as a dominant driving force for the industry and world economy. Biofuels development and ap...

TwigX-Guide: Twig Query Pattern Matching for XML Trees

Su-Cheng Haw — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1212.1218

The growing importance of XML and the lack of efficient solutions for managing and querying XML data have led to the development of hybrid systems. We present a hybrid system, TwigX-Guide; an extensio...

Analytical Solution of Nonlinear Vibrating Systems

N. Tolou — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1219.1224

The responses of nonlinear vibrating systems are investigated analytically using Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM). To demonstrate the validity of the proposed method, the results obtained by HPM hav...

Transient Stability Assessment of a Power System Using Probabilistic Neural Network

Noor Izzri Abdul Wahab — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1225.1232

This study presents transient stability assessment of electrical power system using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and principle component analysis. Transient stability of a power system is first ...

Aerodynamic Noise Prediction Using stochastic Turbulence Modeling

Arash Ahmadzadegan — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1233.1238

Amongst many approaches to determine the sound propagated from turbulent flows, hybrid methods, in which the turbulent noise source field is computed or modeled separately from the far field calculati...

Spatial Variability of Soil Inorganic N in a Mature Oil Palm Plantation in Sabah, Malaysia

Abdul Rahim Anuar — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1239.1246

The identification and understanding of soil factors influencing yield variability of oil palm enable their efficient management. Soil samples were therefore collected from a fertilizer response trial...

New Efficient Strategy to Accelerate k-Means Clustering Algorithm

Moh’d Belal Al- Zoubi — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1247.1250

One of the most popular clustering techniques is the k-means clustering algorithm. However, the utilization of the k-means is severely limited by its high computational complexity. In this study, we p...

Dynamic Analysis of Structures Using Neural Networks

N. Ahmadi — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1251.1256

In the recent years, neural networks are considered as the best candidate for fast approximation with arbitrary accuracy in the time consuming problems. Dynamic analysis of structures against earthqua...

Ductility Performance of Hybrid Fibre Reinforced Concrete

S. Eswari — 2008-09-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1257.1262

This study presents a study on the ductility performance of hybrid fibre reinforced concrete. The influence of fibre content on the ductility performance of hybrid fibre reinforced concrete specimens ...