Volume 5, Issue 10 (2008) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Design, Modeling and Implementation of Pic Based Wireless Control System to Eliminate Blind Spots in Vehicle Side Mirrors

Mahmoud Z. Iskandarani — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1263.1268

A PIC controlled IR system for the control of vehicle side mirror system movements for the purpose of revealing blind spots is designed and implemented. The designed and built system allows the side v...

Design of Robust Decentralized Control for UPFC Controller Based on Structured Singular Value

Seyed Abbas Taher — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1269.1280

New approach based on structured singular value (µ-synthesis) was proposed for the robust decentralized unified power flow controller (UPFC) design. To achieve decentralization, using the Schauder fi...

Reed Solomon Coding for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum in Jamming Environment

Othman Sidek — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1281.1284

Frequency hopping spread spectrum with noncoherent M-ary frequency shift keying system is considered. In this study Reed Solomon codes RS (255, 223) are employed in a standard error correction role to...

Dynamic Stress Analysis of the Arterial Wall Utilizing Physiological Pressure Waveforms

M.M. Khani — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1285.1290

Arterial diseases, promoted by alterations in arterial wall properties, are among the main causes of mortality. Mechanical stresses of the arterial wall caused by pulsatile luminal pressure define art...

A Sectoral Efficiency Analysis of Malaysian Stock Exchange Under Structural Break

Chin Wen Cheong — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1291.1295

We investigated the weak-form market efficiency of nine daily sectoral indices of Malaysian stock market between 1996 and 2006. The structural break unit root tests evidenced most of the price indice...

Resonance Caused by the Gravitational waves On an Earth Satellite

Mohamad Radwan — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1296.1299

The present work deals with the motion of an Earth satellite taking into account the oblateness of the Earth and of a passing Gravitational wave. The oblateness of the Earth is truncated beyond the se...

Utilization of Distributed Architecture Based on Internet GIS for Geomorphologic Data and Environmental Management: Case Study of Damavand Volcano Conic, Iran

Ebrahim Moghimi — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1300.1307

Despite the great significance of geomorphologic-environmental data in different disciplines, there are sundry problems in relation to availability, accessibility and their applicability. Primarily th...

The Relation Between Jet Stream Location and Cyclones Over the Western Iran

Manuchehr Farajzadeh — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1308.1312

Daily rain data for the selected stations were obtained from the Meteorological Organization of Iran for the 1985-1999 period. The consecutive rain days of length 1 to 5 days and widespread over the s...

Validation of the Calculation and Measurement Techniques of Earth Resistance Values

N. Mohamad Nor — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1313.1317

Much research has been published in the literature on the mathematical approaches to obtain the most accurate earth resistance and resistivity values. However, the published research only conducted th...

Simulation Studies on A Cross Flow Plate Fin Heat Exchanger

M. Thirumarimurugan — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1318.1321

Compact heat exchangers which were initially developed for the aerospace industries in the 1940s have been considerably improved in the past few years. The main reasons for the good performance of com...

Input-Output Feedback Linearization Cascade Controller Using Genetic Algorithm for Rotary Inverted Pendulum System

Iraj Hassanzadeh — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1322.1328

The Rotary Inverted Pendulum (RIP) system is a significant classical problem of control engineering which has been investigated in the past decades. This study presents an optimum Input- Output Feedba...

Effect of the Detoxification on the Shrinkage Temperature and pH of Chromium Leather Waste, Another Promising Way for the Tannery Pollution

A. Malek — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1329.1335

The leather tannery industry produces a significant amount of solid chromium waste. Environmental concerns and escalating landfill costs are becoming increasingly serious problems to the leather indus...

Flow Simulation in Engine Cylinder with Spring Mesh

M.H. Shojaeefard — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1336.1343

This investigation presents results from numerical simulation of the air flow in Spark Ignition Engine (SI engine) cylinder. Accurate modeling of the flow in cylinder is a key part of successful combu...

Electromagnetic Assessment on Human Safety of Mobile Communication Base Stations at University of Macau

K.H. Chiang — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1344.1347

Assessment of the electromagnetic exposure due to the mobile communication base station at University of Macau is presented by two testing scenarios. The first scenario about 20 in-situ measurements a...

Engineering Properties of Locally Manufactured Burnt Brick Pavers for Agrarian and Rural Earth Roads

Emmanuel Akintunde Okunade — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1348.1351

This study explored the possibility of employing burnt bricks produced locally by completely traditional methods as pavers on unpaved agrarian and rural earth roads in indigent communities. The pavers...

A Fuzzy Mathematical Programming Approach to DEA Models

A. Azadeh — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1352.1357

Evaluating the performance of activities or organizations by traditional Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as efficiency frontier analysis models requires crisp input/output data. However, in real-world...

Publishing Geospatial Data through Geospatial Web Service and XML Database System

Pouria Amirian — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1358.1368

Technically the spatial non-interoperability problem associated with current geospatial processing systems can be categorized as data and access non-interoperability. In GIS community, Open GIS Consor...

Effects of Tomato Geometries and Air Temperature on the Drying Behavior of Plum Tomato

M.S. Brooks — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1369.1375

The drying behavior of plum tomatoes as affected by drying temperature and tomato pieces geometry was investigated. The tomato was cut into halves, quarters and eighths and dried at temperatures of 55...

Spatial-Temporal Yield Trend of Oil Palm as Influenced by Nitrogen Fertilizer Management

Abdul Rahim Anuar — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1376.1383

One of the major challenges in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations today is proper interpretation of yield maps for site-specific management and identification and understanding of the caus...

Perceptions of Paddy Farmers towards Sustainable Agricultural Technologies: Case of Haraz Catchments Area in Mazandaran province of Iran

A. Bagheri — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1384.1391

Sustainable agriculture has defined and described in many ways. Despite the diversity in conceptualizing sustainable agriculture, there is a consensus on three basic dimensions of the concept, namely,...

Transforming Spatio-Temporal Yield Maps to Classified Management Zone Maps for Efficient Management of Oil Palm

Abdul Rahim Anuar — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1392.1396

One of the major challenges in oil palm plantations today is proper interpretation of yield maps for site-specific management and development of classified management zone maps for its efficient manag...

The Effect of Shot Peening and Polishing on the Pitting Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steel

Omar Badran — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1397.1402

An experimental work was performed to study one of the major problems encountered in industry (i.e., pitting corrosion), which cost the industrial world billions of dollars every year. Stainless Steel...

Numerical Modeling of Laterally Loaded Piles

S.T. Kok — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1403.1408

Design of laterally loaded piles due to soil movement relies on a number of theoretical and numerical approaches. However, the magnitude of soil movement is difficult to estimate with reasonable confi...

Empirical Analysis II: Business Cycles and Inward FDI in China

Yahya Sharahili — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1409.1414

It is well-known that the current speeding-up of globalization has been, on one hand, spreading macro economic effects around the world, while, on the other, fueling firms’ activities of crossing na...

Kinetics of Manganese Uptake by Wetland Plants

A.E. Ghaly — 2008-10-31

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 31 October 2008; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2008.1415.1423

The aim of this study was to assess the kinetics of Mn removal by broad-leaved cattail, soft stem bulrush, soft rush and wool grass plants from contaminated wastewater under laboratory conditions. The...