Volume 6, Issue 11 (2009) | American Journal of Applied Sciences

Camel's Milk Alleviates Oxidative Stress and Lipid Peroxidation Induced by Chronic Aluminum Chloride Exposure in Rat's Testes

Fahaid H. Al-Hashem — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1868.1875

Problem statement: The present study was carried out to examine the effectiveness of Camel’s milk in alleviating aluminum chloride (AlCl3)-induced oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation in rat test...

Morphological Characteristics and Pathogenicity of Synchytrium psophocarpi (Rac.) Baumann Associated With False Rust on Winged Bean

Abdollah Karami — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1876.1879

Problem statement: Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus L.) is an important tropical legume in countries like Malaysia due to its potential as a high protein value crop. However, bright-orange pus...

Chemical Characteristics of Compost and Humic Acid from Sago Waste (Metroxylon sagu)

Auldry Chaddy Petrus — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1880.1884

Problem statement: Agriculture waste such as Sago Waste (SW) has a potential to cause pollution either on land or in water. In order to reduce this problem, a study was conducted to investigate the ef...

Performance of Pre-Weaned Dairy Calves under Hot Arid Environment: Effects of Immunoglobulins and Age on Diseases and Mortality

M. A. Razzaque — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1885.1891

Problem statement: A high mortality rate (crude mortality 43.6%) of pre-weaned dairy calves resulted in unavailability of replacement heifers in Kuwait. Dairy producers resorted to import pregnant hei...

Effect of Enhancing Urea-Humic Acid Mixture with Refined Acid Sulphate Soil

Mohd Taufik Mohd Yusuff — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1892.1896

Problem statement: Acid Sulphate Soil (ASS) is a problem soil partly because of its high acidity. This low pH could be exploited to reduce ammonia loss from urea by reducing soil microsite pH. The use...

Facial Features for Template Matching Based Face Recognition

Chai Tong Yuen — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1897.1901

Problem statement: Template matching had been a conventional method for object detection especially facial features detection at the early stage of face recognition research. The appearance of moustac...

The Effect of Buoyancy Force in Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of a Two-Dimensional Continuous Ohmic Heating Process

Elzubier A. Salih — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1902.1908

Problem statement: Earlier work on ohmic heating technique focused on viscous food and foods containing solid particles. In this study, the use of ohmic heating on sterilization of guava juice is carr...

Synthesis and Characterization of Silver/Clay Nanocomposites by Chemical Reduction Method

Mansor Bin Ahmad — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1909.1914

Problem statement: Silver Nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have been synthesized by using chemical reduction method into the interlayer space of a Montmorillonite (MMT) as a solid support which is used to antib...

Molecular Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa UPM P3 from Oil Palm Rhizosphere

Badri Fariman Azadeh — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1915.1919

Problem statement: Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been used in agriculture as biological agents. It has shown substantial control of a variety of soil-borne plant pathogens including Macrophomina phaseoli...

Knowledge of the Most-at-Risk Populations about Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention

A. Ebadian — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1920.1923

Problem statement: In this study we tried to assess the knowledge of general population (15-45 years), injecting drug users, female sex workers, MSM and male prisoners about HIV prevention in Iran. Ap...

A Bound Test Approach to Cointegration of Tourism Demand

Fateh Habibi — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1924.1931

Problem statement: Given the high contribution of tourism industry in the Malaysian economy, Malaysia has a vast view to increase its market share of the international tourist arrivals in the Asia Pac...

Stock Market Development and Economic Growth

Athanasios Vazakidis — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1932.1940

Problem statement: This study investigated the causal relationship between stock market development and economic growth for France for the period 1965-2007 using a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM)...

Solving Square Jigsaw Puzzles Using Dynamic Programming and the Hungarian Procedure

Naif Alajlan — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1941.1947

Problem statement: To design, implement, and test an algorithm for solving the square jigsaw puzzle problem, which has many applications in image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision s...

From Feature Selection to Building of Bayesian Classifiers: A Network Intrusion Detection Perspective

Kok-Chin Khor — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1948.1959

Problem statement: Implementing a single or multiple classifiers that involve a Bayesian Network (BN) is a rising research interest in network intrusion detection domain. Approach: However, little att...

Modeling of Biological Processes by Using Membrane Computing Formalism

Ravie Chandren Muniyandi — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1960.1968

Problem statement: Membrane computing has structural resemblance with the cell structure. This characteristic provides the versatility in the modeling of biological processes. Approach: This study was...

Influence of Chemical Properties on Soil Carbon Storage of a Tropical Peat Swamp Forest

Anton Eko Satrio — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1969.1972

Problem statement: It is important to investigate the seriousness of degradation of peat swamp forest caused by skidding system in terms of its function as a carbon sink. In this study, we formulated ...

The Impact of Air Exchange Effectiveness on Thermal Comfort in an Air-Conditioned Office

Roonak Daghigh — 2009-11-30

American Journal of Applied Sciences, Published online: 30 November 2009; doi:10.3844/ajassp.2009.1973.1980

Problem statement: Impact of air exchange effectiveness on thermal comfort has not been investigated and, therefore, not well understood .Therefore, the influence of air exchange effectiveness on ther...