Research Articles

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Kai Chen and Hua Zhou

An experimental study and model validation of pressure in liquid needle-free injection

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1552 - 1562

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.089

Meng Qinghua, Zheng Huifeng and Lv Fengjun

Fatigue failure fault prediction of truck rear axle housing excited by random road roughness

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1563 - 1568

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.088

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Saidi M., Safi B., Benmounah A. and Aribi C.

Effect of size and stacking of glass fibers on the mechanical properties of the fiber-reinforced-mortars (FRMs)

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1569 - 1582

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.168

Hamed Niroumand and Khairul Anuar Kassim

Simulation comparison of the dispersion behaviour of dry sand subjected to explosion

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1583 - 1590

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.183

Ahmet Beycioğlu, Celalettin Başyiğit, Şemsettin Kilinçarslan and Ayhan Şamandar 

Effect of mineral admixtures on properties of lightweight pumice concrete

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1591 - 1603

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.185

Jikai Zhou, Xudong Chen, Jian Zhang and Yan Wang

Internal relative humidity distribution in concrete considering self-desiccation at early ages

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1604 - 1610

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.108

Abdulaziz A. Al-Othman

Implication of gravity drainage plan on shallow rising groundwater conditions in parts of ArRiyadh City, Saudi Arabia

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1611 - 1619

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.077

Kambiz Narmashiri, N. H. Ramli Sulong and Mohd Zamin Jumaat

Flexural strengthening of steel I-beams by using CFRP strips

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1620 - 1627

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.140

M. Shahidi, M. Bayat, I. Pakar and G. R. Abdollahzadeh

Solution of free non-linear vibration of beams

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1628 - 1634

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.293
 

Olufisayo A. Olufayo, George M. Ochieng, Julius M. Ndambuki and Frederick A. O. Otieno

One-dimensional finite difference approach for sedimentation process in sand filled reservoirs

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1635 - 1642

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.241

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Shoorangiz Shams Shamsabad Farahani, Reza Hemmati, Mehdi Nikzad and Omid Isanejad

Comparison of artificial intelligence strategies for UPFC supplementary controller design

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1643  - 1652

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.203

Lifeng Wu, Yong Guan, Yinyu Du, Shihong Zhou and Wei Pan

Deterioration analysis of aluminum electrolytic capacitor for DC-DC converter

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1653 - 1664

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.079

Khaled Alghathbar

Real-time algorithmic design for silent pass lip reading authentication system

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1665 - 1672

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.246

J. S. Mandeep

Experimental analysis of tropospheric scintillation in Northern Equatorial West Malaysia

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1673 - 1676

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.190

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Saeed Bahrami, Mohamadreza Shahrokhzadeh and Seyyed Mohsen Mirhoseini

An improved 2PL-HP based concurrency control algorithm in real time database

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1677  - 1684

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.125

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Chi-Ru Yang, Yen-Shun Peng, Yih-Feng Chang and Sun-Zone Lee

Effect of addition of Asiatic clam (Corbicula fluminea) shell in incense material on mitigating air pollutants

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1685  - 1693

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.310

TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

D. S. Shu’aibu and S. K. Syed Yusof

Link aware call admission and packet scheduling for best effort and UGS traffics in mobile WiMAX

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1694 - 1701

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS10.678

APPLIED PHYSICS

A. K. Khalifa, Khalida Inayat Noor and Muhammad Aslam Noor

Some numerical methods for solving Burgers equation

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1702 - 1710

GEOPHYSICS

Maged Marghany and Mazlan Hashim

Discrimination between oil spill and look-alike using fractal dimension algorithm from RADARSAT-1 SAR and AIRSAR/POLSAR data

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1711 - 1719

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.213

Anca Munteanu, Alexandru Nedelea, Laura Comanescu and Catalina Gheorghe

The dynamics of slopes affected by avalanches in Piatra Craiului Massif – Southern Carpathians

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1720 - 1731

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS10.469

Marian Marin, Adrian Tişcovschi, Gabriela Manea and Danut Diaconeasa

Geomorphology and climate conditions that determine sedimentation in Mamaia bay

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1732 - 1741

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS10.424720

Abul Quasem Al-Amin, Walter Leal Filho, M. A. Kabir, Mohammad Nurul Azam, Abdul Hamid Jaafar and Fatimah Kari

Climate change impacts: Prioritizing mechanism and needs for future Malaysian agriculture

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1742  - 1748

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.028

THERMAL PHYSICS

O. D. Makinde and R. J. Moitsheki

Symmetry reductions and computational dynamics of a nonlinear reaction-diffusion problem with variable thermal conductivity

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1749 - 1754

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS10.549

COMPUTER SCIENCE

José Luis Ochoa, Maria Luisa Hernández-Alcaraz, Rafael Valencia-García and Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar

A semantic role-based methodology for knowledge acquisition from Spanish documents

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1755  - 1765

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.115

Hamid A. Jalab and Rabha W. Ibrahim

New activation functions for complex-valued neural network

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1766 - 1772

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.105

Resul Kara

Power control in wireless ad hoc networks for energy efficient routing with end-to-end packet delay minimization

[Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1773 - 1779

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

S. Ali Beyramabadi and Ali Morsali

Intramolecular proton transfer of 2-[(2,4-dimethylphenyl)iminomethyl]-3,5-dimethoxyphenol Schiff-base ligand: A density functional theory (DFT) study

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1780 - 1788

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.097

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Mopoung S.

Occurrence of carbon nanotube from banana peel activated carbon mixed with mineral oil

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1789 - 1792

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS10.489

NUMERICAL MATHEMATICS

Muhammad Aslam Noor, Javed Iqbal,Sanjay Khattri and Eisa Al-Said

A new iterative method for solving absolute value equations

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1793 - 1797

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.244

Muhammad A. Noor, Khalida I. Noor, Asif Waheed, Sanjay K. Khattri and Eisa A. Al-Said

A new method for solving a system of fifth-order obstacle boundary value problems

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1798 - 1802

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.249

MATHEMATICS

Lu Lu and Xiuxia Quan

The experimental parameters optimization approach using a learning genetic algorithm

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1803 - 1807

S. Ekmekçi, A. Bayar and Z. Akça

Fuzzy ellipsoidal projective plane model

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1808 - 1813

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.103

Lu Lu and Xiuxia Quan

Optimization of software engineering resources using improved genetic algorithm

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1814 - 1821

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.235

M. Merdan, A. Gokdogan and V. S. Erturk

A numeric-analytic method for approximating three-species food chain models

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1822 - 1833

Bayram Ali Ersoy

Isomorphism theorems for fuzzy submodules of gamma modules

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1834 - 1839

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.087

STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS

N. A. B. Kamisan, A. G. Hussin, Y. Z. Zubairi and S. F. Hassan

Distribution of wind direction recorded at maximum wind speed: A case study of Malaysian wind data for 2005

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1840 - 1850

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.032

Md. Azizul Baten and Anton Abdulbasah Kamil

Optimal control of inventory-production systems with gumbel distributed deterioration

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1851 - 1862

        DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.031

EARTHQUAKE EDUCATION

Fatih Aydin and Mücahit Coskun

Gifted students’ opinions about “earthquake": A qualitative study

        [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 1863 - 1867