Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Typical Case Study: Solid Waste Management in Petroleum RefineriesJadea S. Alshammari, Fatma K. Gad, Ahmed A.M. Elgibaly, Abdul Rehman KhanThe current environmental concerns have forced developed and developing countries to reduce air, water and land pollution for sustainable growth. Solid refinery waste is cocktail of hydrocarbons, water, heavy metal and fine solids and is substantial in quantity. The principal processes of waste management focus mainly on waste source reduction, reusing, recycling, composting, incineration with or without energy recovery, fuel … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Aug 2008 · 9,767 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSolid Waste Management in Petroleum RefineriesJadea S. Alshammari, Fatma K. Gad, Ahmed A.M. Elgibaly, Abdul Rehman KhanWaste management became focus of attention of many researchers and scientists in the last half century due to its vital importance. Waste management covered waste source reduction in general, by recycling, reusing, composting, incineration with or without energy recovery, fuel production and land filling. A common approach of waste management models were for specific problems with a limited scope (like … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Aug 2008 · 6,939 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractHealthcare Driven by Big Data AnalyticsCheryl Ann Alexander, Lidong WangText messages and social network posts are often included in big data and are frequently invaluable sources of health data. When machine learning or data mining is used, it is important to perform an automatic process for integrating all available and related health data. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one of the machine learning methods flexible in using algorithms to … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 28 Sep 2018 · 7,398 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVehicle Detection in Aerial Traffic MonitoringDmitry Sincha, Mikhail Chervonenkis, Pavel SkribtsovThis work describes a cascade detection of vehicles in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images and videos. There are some new approaches used in the detection. In particular, the Region of Interest (ROI) search is not only based on GIS and navigation data, but also employs visual method based on rapid image segmentation and road detection. The work also suggests doing … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 11 Jan 2016 · 7,925 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Comparison of Explicit Semi-Analytical Numerical Integration Methods for Solving Stiff ODE SystemsE.R. El-Zahar, H.M. Habib, M.M. Rashidi, I.M. El-DesokyIn this study, a comparison among three semi-analytical numerical integration algorithms for solving stiff ODE systems is presented. The algorithms are based on Differential Transform Method (DTM) which are Multiple-Step DTM (MsDTM), Enhanced MsDTM (E-MsDTM) and MsDTM with Padé approximants (MsDTM-P). These methods can be classified as explicit one step semi-analytical numerical integration methods. The error and stability analysis of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 5 · 26 Jun 2015 · 6,955 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOn Sixtic Lacunary Spline Solutions of Second Order Initial Value ProblemJwamer Karwan Hama FarajProblem statement: The lacunary problem, which we had investigated in this study, consider in finding the spline function of degree six S(x) of deficiency four, interpolating data given on the function value and third, forth order in the interval [0,1]. Also, on the extra initial condition was prescribed on the first derivative. Other purpose of this construction was to solve … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 5, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,763 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Shuffle Image-Encryption AlgorithmA. A. Yahya, A. M. AbdallaProblem statement: Image encryption needs to be secure by resisting statistical attacks and other types of attacks. Approach: The new algorithm, call it the Shuffle Encryption Algorithm (SEA), applies nonlinear s-box byte substitution. Then, it performed a shuffling operation partially dependent on the input data and uses the given key. Results: SEA was implemented and tested with different data, mainly … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 12 · 31 Jul 2009 · 8,353 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRobust Decentralized Control of Unified Power Flow ControllerHossein Shayeghi, Ali AbdolalipourA new approach based on structured singular value is proposed for the robust decentralized Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) design. To achieve decentralization, using the schauder fixed point theorem the synthesis and analysis of Multi-Input Multi-output (MIMO) control system is translated into set of equivalent Multi-Input Single-Output (MISO) control system. Power systems such as the other industrial plants contain different … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2009 · 7,151 accessesView PDFCite