Volume 13, Issue 12 (2016) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Utilization of Holt's Forecasting Model for Zakat Collection in Indonesia

Akbarizan — 2016-12-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1342.1346

The practice of zakat is gaining popularity in Indonesia. This development is attributed to the strong role of the government in consistently developing zakat infrastructure and the increased awarenes...

The 'Umbrella' Function Describing the Density of External Electrons Injected in NaCl Crystal

Siti Wahyuni — 2016-12-01

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 1 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1347.1353

Electrons injected in NaCl crystal are studied using Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizsacker (TFDW) model. The external potential that contributes to the TFDW energy functional is not only due to the nuclei...

Weissella cibaria Fungistatic Activity against Fusarium spp. affecting Yellow Pitahaya

Leidy Johana Valencia-Hernández — 2016-12-10

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 10 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1354.1364

Fungistatic activity of a Lactic-Acid Bacteria (LAB) was assessed in vitro while isolated from its rumen fluid, against Fusarium oxysporum and Fusarium fujikoroi, basal-rot related species in yellow p...

Willingness to Communicate in English: Academic Motivation and using English outside the Classroom as Predictors

Mr. Ahmed Fahim Youssef — 2016-12-11

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 11 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1365.1376

Willingness to Communicate (WTC) in English has become a field of interest since the construct was introduced by McCroskey and Baer in 1985. This study, investigated 230 trainee teachers' Willingness ...

A Combined Approach to Improve Supervised E-Learning using Multi-Sensor Student Engagement Analysis

Abdulkareem Al-Alwani — 2016-12-12

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 12 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1377.1384

E-learning provides an important means of education which can reach masses irrespective of their locations all over the world. The E-learning systems and platforms have evolved over the years, but E-l...

Cognitive Mechanism of Metaphorization in Zoological Terms

Zifa Kakbaevna Temirgazina — 2016-12-13

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 13 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1385.1393

Terminology of any science, as a result of verbalized scientific expertise, is formed in conjunction with the ordinary consciousness of native speakers. Metaphor in a particular scientific zoological ...

Properties of ZnO:Ga Thin Films Deposited by dc Magnetron Sputtering: Influence of Ga-Doped Concentrations on Structural and Optical Properties

Putut Marwoto — 2016-12-14

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 14 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1394.1399

ZnO:Ga thin films were deposited on corning glass by dc magnetron sputtering. Influence of Ga-doped concentrations on the structural and optical properties of ZnO:Ga thin films were investigated. The ...

Estimating the Claim Severity Distribution using Variable Neighborhood Search

Kunjira Kingphai — 2016-12-19

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 19 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1400.1406

In this study, Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is utilized to estimate the parameters of actual motor insurance claims data set and compared them obtained by the Moment Estimation Methods (MOM) and...

Multiple Vehicle Tracking using Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model and Kalman Filter

Fandy Setyo Utomo — 2016-12-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1407.1412

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of the Republic of Indonesia in catalog Crime Statistics in 2014, the number of crimes of theft of motor vehicles has increased since 2010 until ...

Spherical and Improved Helmholtz Coil with High B₁ Homogeneity for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Sidi M. Ahmed Ghaly — 2016-12-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1413.1418

Several types of volume RF coils such as Helmholtz pair have been used for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. However, the field uniformity of a coil has always been suffering from a critical issue in imagin...

Priorities of Value Policy in Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA

Yury Grigoryevich Volkov — 2016-12-22

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 22 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1419.1427

Conceptual interpretation of research practices undertaken in this study enabled the authors to identify the specific role of value policy as an efficiency factor of state management in improving race...

About the Gear Efficiency to a Simple Planetary Train

Relly Victoria V. Petrescu — 2016-12-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1428.1436

Synthesis of classical planetary mechanisms is usually based on kinematic relations, considering the achieved transmission ratio input-output. The planetary mechanisms are less synthesized based on th...

Interdisciplinary Format of the New Master's Program "Popular Science Journalism" at Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)

Yuliya B. Balashova — 2016-12-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1437.1441

The article discusses the new Master's program "Popular science journalism", which started two yeas ago at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. In 2016 the first students graduated from this pro...

Free Vibration Analysis of Rectangular Cantilever Plates Using the Hyperbolic-Trigonometric Series

Mikhail V. Sukhoterin — 2016-12-23

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 23 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1442.1451

The purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical analytical method for an accurate solution to the problem on frequencies and mode shapes of a rectangular cantilever plate. The problem is reduced t...

Explicit Direct Integrators of RK Type for Solving Special Fifth-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

Mohammed S. Mechee — 2016-12-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1452.1460

The main contribution of this paper is the development of direct explicit methods of Runge-Kutta (RK) type for solving special fifth-Order Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs). For this purpose, we ...

A Design of Environmental-Based Learning to Instill Land Ethics in the Learners

Epon Ningrum — 2016-12-26

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 26 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1461.1469

Though environment is universal, there are different perspectives under which it can be described. For instance, in learning, an environment is viewed as one of the learning components and aspects whi...

A Proposal for Standardized Data Attribution and Ownership in the Cloud Environment

Talal Talib Jameel — 2016-12-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1470.1475

Since the earliest days of cloud computing there has been a steady migration of data from local data stores to the cloud. As more and more cloud platforms become available, this inflow of data has onl...

Glassy Amorphous Metal Injection Molded Induced Morphological Defects

Raffaella Aversa — 2016-12-27

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 27 December 2016; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2016.1476.1482

Melt rheology in injection molded metastable supercooled liquid metal of Zr44-Ti11-Cu10-Ni10-Be25 alloy may induce selective crystallizations. High mobility Be, Cu and Ni atoms have been observed to d...