This paper found upper and lower bounds on the expected nearest neighbor distance for distributions having unbounded supports (-∞,∞) and induced lower and upper bounds for logistic and Laplace distributions, as typical. Then we found the risk of nearest neighbor of their distribu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15152
The study reviewed the procedure involved in the design of chain drive in mechanical system. Machine design and its fabrication hardly do without chain drive system. It involved some calculations using some mathematical model. Frequently, computation makes the designing procedure...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14188
Nowadays, clustering plays a critical role in most research areas such as engineering, medicine, biology, data mining, etc. Evolutionary algorithms, including continuous ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, and genetic algorithms, have been employed for data clus...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15341
The maximum likelihood and restricted (or residual) likelihood methods are common tools for estimating variances in linear mixed models. However, regression in the light of future data can yield different results. Investigations into the characteristics of this new variance are e...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/15514
In the traveling salesman problem, there are a collection of cities and travel cost between each pair of them. The aim is to find the minimum cost way of visiting all cities and returning to the starting point. This kind of problem is deceptive and one of the most intensely studi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14453
This study presents Diabetes Diagnosis with Maximum Covariance Weighted Resilience Back Propagation Procedure. The Maximum covariance method is divided into three phases. A large number of candidate’s hidden units is considered by initializing their various weights with random va...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14871
Pilgrimage (Hajj) of Muslims is considered the largest human gathering all over the world in which more than three millions move together through a very limited space in a short time period. The yearly number of pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia, denoted by NPO for short,...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14563
When a firm decides to make irreversible investment expenditure, it neglects its right without obligation to invest but wait for new desirable information that might affect investment decision. Studies have shown irreversible investments with the underlying value process driven b...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2015/14583
This paper gives a brief discussion on the Multinomial coefficients. Using this notion, we obtain generalizations of the Vandermonde’s and the Chu Shih-Chieh’s identities for the Binomial coefficients, respectively. This is done through the use of two known principles in Combinat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15505
The work aims to provide feasible structures for the open processes based thermal cycle as well as the regenerative open processes based thermal cycle characterised by rendering high thermal efficiency at low temperatures. Both cycles differ from the conventional Carnot-based the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13696
The extraction of oils from Irvingia gabonensis, Citrullus lanatus and Telferia occidentalis in organic solvents was carried out. Oil compositional analysis was done with Gas Chromatography (GC), results revealed varying compositions of fatty acids as major constituents of the pr...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2015/15511
Aim: The objective of this work was to produce complementary foods from germinated/fermented sorghum, germinated/roasted soybean and dried roselle calyces. Methodology: Complementary foods were formulated from sorghum, soybean and roselle calyces by varying the processing methods...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/14707
Research was conducted at Curtin University (Western Australia) to assess the seedling tolerance of three species Eucalyptus, gomphocephala DC (Myrtaceae) (common name ‘Tuart’), Eucalyptus marginata Sm. (common name ‘Jarrah’) and Corymbia calophylla (Lindl.) K.D. Hill & J. A....
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13756
In the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry, there is a need to create an aseptic environment. Part of creating an aseptic environment is having HEPA filters installed and working properly. Many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) require strict...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/15044
Aims: The aim of this study was to assess Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) levels in liquid and powdered milk and other dairy products in Jordan using ELISA technique and antiaflatoxin M1 (AFM1 reduction) effect of fermentation, high heat treatments and the addition of plant extracts during m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2015/13622