Volume 13, Issue 9 (2016) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Factors Influencing Team Effectiveness in Higher Education

Jeffrey Lawrence D’Silva — 2016-09-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.932.940

Organizations must fulfill in order to produce and sustain effective teams. Many factors can affect how effectively teams perform. Thus, this study offers the results of an investigation of the factor...

Environmental Protection through Nuclear Energy

Florian Ion T. Petrescu — 2016-09-28

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 28 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.941.946

Environmental protection through implementation of green energies is progressively becoming a daily reality. Numerous sources of green energy were introduced in recent years. Although this process ini...

Development of Islamic Society Based on Majelis Ta’lim: A Study of the Shifting Role of the Majelis Ta’lim in West Java

Agus Ahmad Safei — 2016-09-06

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 6 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.947.952

As a religious institution that has focused on the propagation of Islam (tabligh), the Majelis Ta’lim, particularly the branches in West Java, faces no small challenge. First, the Majelis Ta’lim i...

Architecture of Low Power Energy Harvester Using Hybrid Input of Solar and Thermal for Laptop or Notebook: A Review

Hanani Mohamed Nadzirin — 2016-09-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.953.961

This paper aims to develop and design the architecture of Low Power Hybrid Energy Harvester (LPHEH) using the hybrid input of solar and thermal that can be harvested for self-powered laptop or noteboo...

Iris Recognition Using Gauss Laplace Filter

Romany F. Mansour — 2016-09-15

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 15 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.962.968

Biometrics deals with recognition of individuals based on their behavioral or biological features. The recognition of IRIS is one of the newer techniques of biometrics used for personal identification...

Why is it so Difficult to Attract FDI to the MENA Countries?

Partha Gangopadhyay — 2016-09-16

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 16 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.969.975

In this study we constructively argue that the relationship between FDI flows and the per capita GDP for the MENA countries has a novel feature-hitherto unrecognised-which can partially explain the gr...

Management of Beef Cattle Production in Malaysia: A Step Forward to Sustainability

Ibragimov Abdulla — 2016-09-16

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 16 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.976.983

The beef cattle industry recorded progressive growth in the last two decades. Despite this growth, suppliers are having difficulty to meet the domestic demand for beef. Continued strong growth of beef...

Synthesis of Optimal Incoherent Subcarrier Tracking of BOC(1,1) Navigation Signals

Alexandr Ivanovich Perov — 2016-09-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.984.995

Navigation receivers of global positioning systems that are operated in complex electromagnetic environment must have an increased noise immunity characteristic. One way of such noise immunity rising ...

Opportunistic Behavior as Behavior Manipulations

Elena Yakovleva — 2016-09-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.996.1005

The study of opportunistic behavior in relation with manipulation techniques is important because it directly affects the efficiency of agent's relationship. We identified two forms of opportunistic b...

Partial Eigenvalue Assignment for High-Order Linear Systems in a Time Delayed System

Ehab A. El-Sayed — 2016-09-29

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 29 September 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1006.1013

This paper introduces a solution to the partial eigenvalues assignment problem of high order linear systems with time delayed system in both single-input and multi-input cases using orthogonality rela...