Volume 12, Issue 11 (2015) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

The Physicochemical Properties and Sensory Evaluation of Bread Made with a Composite Flour from Wheat and Tempoyak (Fermented Durian)

Fazilah Ariffin — 2015-11-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.775.784

Composite flour from wheat flour and Tempoyak Flour (TF) was produced in this study. Three different bread formulations from the composite flour were produced, containing 5% TF (TF5), 10% TF (TF10) an...

Hydraulic Flow through Engineering Bentonite-Based Containment Barriers

Eric Wooi Kee Loh — 2015-11-04

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 4 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.785.793

This paper presents the use of software modelling as a tool to study the impact of hydraulic "resistivity" on the contaminant transport through bentonite-based containment barriers. A sensitivity anal...

Determinants of Sicilian Wine Consumption: Evidence from a Binary Response Model

Francesco Caracciolo — 2015-11-05

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 5 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.794.801

The growing importance of Sicilian wines in the Italian market provides the context in which this paper is set. This study presents the results of a recent survey on Sicilian wine consumption in Italy...

Legislative Strengthening and Empowerment: Efforts to Strengthen Local Governance and Accountability through Provincial Parliaments in Indonesia

Cecep Darmawan — 2015-11-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.802.809

This paper is about the performance of legislators at the provincial level in Indonesia. The study was conducted in the West Java Province to establish efforts made to strengthen local governments and...

Agriculture Production and Economic Growth

Chintan D. Shah — 2015-11-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.810.813

Post world-war II global economy is growing at steady pace and most of nations have been experiencing rise in per capita income whether they are rich or poor. Agriculture industry is major employer of...

Cluster as an Innovational and Organizational Form of State Regulation of Business

Alexandr Dzhindzholia — 2015-11-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.814.819

This article studies state regulation of business determines and analyzes its economic, legal and organizational forms. The authors offer and substantiate the hypothesis that cluster is an innovationa...

The Roles of Some Antecedents of Broadband User Behavioural Intention among Students in the Rural Areas through PLS-SEM

Ishola D. Muraina — 2015-11-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.820.829

The insufficient broadband enabled-services in the rural areas have been identified among the reasons that prolong the behaviour of rural dwellers on the use of low-band internet while government agen...

3D Cinematography in the Cinema Art of Kazakhstan: Technological, Film Studying and Social Aspects

Vladimir Ilyich Popov — 2015-11-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.830.835

The article discusses the problems of formation and study of the new direction in the audiovisual culture and art-3D cinema. The film set of the first Kazakhstan 3D film, i.e., complicated for product...

Application of an Enhanced (G'/G)-Expansion Method to Find Exact Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs in Particle Physics

S.M. Rayhanul Islam — 2015-11-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.836.846

The enhanced (G'/G)-expansion method is very effective and powerful method to find the exact traveling wave solutions of nonlinear evolution equations. We choose the Phi-4 equation to illustrate the v...

Pedestrian Detection in RGB-D Data Using Deep Autoencoders

Pavel Aleksandrovich Kazantsev — 2015-11-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.847.856

Recent popularity of RGB-D sensors mostly comes from the fact that RGB-images and depth maps supplement each other in machine vision tasks, such as object detection and recognition. This article addre...

Investigation into the Use of Electrochemical Extraction to Draw Gold from Refractory Ores

Bagdaulet Kenzhalyevich Kenzhaliyev — 2015-11-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.857.864

This paper studies the possibility of extracting gold by electrochemical leaching through the use of a sodium thiosulfate solution. In this regard, the requirements for environmentally sound technolog...

Development of an Anthropomorphic Gripping Manipulator: The Analysis of Implementation Methods

Ivan Vladimirovich Krechetov — 2015-11-17

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 17 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.865.874

The object of the article is the study of implementation methods for the development of hardware-software engineering solutions in the field of the creation of a universal anthropomorphic gripper. Suc...

Sorption Extraction of Noble and Non-Ferrous Metals from Process Leaching Solutions

Bagdaulet Kenzhalyevich Kenzhaliyev — 2015-11-18

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 18 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.875.884

In view of the annual increase in ore processing output for low grade or refractory gold-bearing ores, as well as recoverable raw materials, stricter requirements for completeness of gold extraction a...

Specific Features of the Accumulation and Distribution of Heavy Metals in Soils of the Floodplain and Deltaic Landscapes of the Don River

Tatiana M. Minkina — 2015-11-19

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.885.895

The purpose of this work was to study specific features of the accumulation and distribution of the total content and mobile forms of Heavy Metals (HM) in soils of the estuarine ecosystems of the floo...

Modeling the Error Term by Moving Average and Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Processes

Ayodele Abraham Agboluaje — 2015-11-20

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 20 November 2015; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2015.896.901

This study has been able to reveal that the Combine White Noise model outperforms the existing Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) and Moving Average (MA) models in model...