Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractComparisons of Phytotoxicity of Barley Parts Extracts in Three Growth Stages on Annual RyegrassKolahi Maryam, Kolahi MinaProblem statement: The importance of allelopathy in nature and in agroecosystem has attracted researcher's attention with the main goal of using the phenomenon in biological control of weeds. currently, active involvement of scientists from different disciplines made allelopathy a multidisciplinary subject, and transformed the research from basic to applied, enabling use of allelopathy in agriculture and forestry. Screening accessions of … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2008 · 7,602 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractCollocation Discrete Least Squares (CDLS) Method for Elasticity Problems and Grid Irregularity Effect AssessmentM. Naisipour, M. H. Afshar, B. Hassani, A. R. FiroozjaeeA meshless approach, collocation discrete least square (CDLS) method, is extended in this paper, for solving elasticity problems and grid irregularity effect is assessed. In the present CDLS method, the problem domain is discretized by distributed field nodes. The field nodes are used to construct the trial functions. The moving least-squares interpolant is employed to construct the trial functions. Some … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 11 · 30 Nov 2008 · 7,093 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRecent Trends in Ozone and Particle Concentrations in the Sydney (Australia) AirshedMerched Azzi, Hiep DucAn overview is presented of changes in ground level ozone and atmospheric fine particles determined using ambient monitoring data collected at selected locations in Sydney, Australia. After removing seasonally, auto-regressive and moving average dependence from the selected time series, the trend of a selected series was modelled using the fractional long-term dependent component. The selected technique was able to detect … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 5 · 31 Oct 2008 · 6,683 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractK-Step Rational Runge-Kutta Method for Solution of Stiff System of Ordinary Differential EquationsP.O. Babatola, R.A. Ademiluyi, E.A. AreoThis study described the development, analysis and implementation of K-step implicit rational Runge-Kutta schemes for solution of stiff system of ordinary differential equations. Its development adopted taylor and binomial series expansion techniques to generate its parameters. The analysis of its basic properties adopted dalhquist a-stability model test equation and the results showed that the scheme was a-stable, consistent and convergent. … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,506 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTransient Stability Assessment of a Power System Using Probabilistic Neural NetworkNoor Izzri Abdul Wahab, Azah MohamedThis study presents transient stability assessment of electrical power system using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and principle component analysis. Transient stability of a power system is first determined based on the generator relative rotor angles obtained from time domain simulation outputs. Simulations were carried out on the IEEE 9-bus test system considering three phase faults on the system. The data … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,029 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractPolitical Stability and Balance of Payment: An Empirical Study in AsiaArfan Ali, Tan Shukui, Santhirasegaram Selvarathnam et al.This study analyze that influences of political stability on balance of payment and relative importance of political stability and economic freedom for healthy of balance of payment and exchange rate stability. Political stability has an important role in determination of healthy of balance of payment than economic freedom. This study focus on selected 10 Asian countries of various income levels … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,410 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSelf-Generation ART-1 Neural Network with Gradient-Descent Method Aid for Latin Alphabet RecognitionMbaïtiga ZacharieProblem statement: In this study a self-generation ART-1 neural network that is an efficient algorithm that emulates the self-organizing pattern recognition developed to avoid the stability-plasticity dilemma in competitive networks learning, is presented for Latin alphabet recognition to use in a vision system for road sings recognition. Approach: The first step of our approach deals with the training process where … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2008 · 6,568 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEvolution of Biochemical Parameters During Composting of Various Wastes CompostN. Saidi, M. Cherif, N. Jedidi et al.In Tunisia the most treatment waste is landfill (50% of wastes were land filled) and only 5% are composted. And since our soil become more and more poor in organic matter, green waste can be a significant source of organic matter; in parallel we cited the domestic waste and dead posodonia collected from beaches. All these wastes coming from various … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Aug 2008 · 6,937 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA New Three-Term Preconditioned Gradient memory Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization ProblemsAbbas Y. AL-Bayati, Ivan S. LatifIn the present study, we proposed a three-term of preconditioned gradient memory algorithms to solve a nonlinear optimization problem. The new algorithm subsumes some other families of nonlinear preconditioned gradient memory algorithms as its subfamilies with Powell's Restart Criterion and inexact Armijo line searches. Numerical experiments on twenty one well-known test functions with various dimensions generally encouraged and showed that … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 6,783 accessesView PDFCite