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    • Diagnosis of voice disorders using band energy spectrum in wavelet domain 

      Murugesa Pandiyan, Paulraj, Prof. Madya Dr,; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Muthusamy, Hariharan, Dr. (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), 2008-03-08)
      In the evolution of quality of speech, acoustic analyses of normal and pathological voices have become increasingly interesting to researchers in laryngology and speech pathologies. Vocal signal information plays an important ...

    • Study the effect of TIO2 and soaking time to the natural hydroxyapatite properties 

      Shahrizal, M. H.; Sri Asliza, Md Amin; Mohd Nazree, Derman; Mohd Zaheruddin, Kasmuin (Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 2006-05-24)
      Natural hydroxyapatite has potential to be used as implant material in biomedical applications. In this study natural HA were obtained from bovine bone by heated and ground into desired size. Dense natural HA were fabricated ...

    • Ambiguity analysis of isolation - Based multi-antenna structures on mobile terminal 

      Azremi, Abdullah Al Hadi; Costa, Mario; Koivunen, Visa; Vainikainen, Pertti (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), 2011-04-10)
      This paper presents a comprehensive numerical study on the ambiguities for different isolation-based multi-antenna structures. The focus is on four-element planar inverted-F antennas (PIFA) array on a typical 100mm 40mm ...

    • Physiological signals based human emotion recognition: A review 

      S., Jerritta; M., Murugappan; Ramachandran, Nagarajan, Prof. Dr.; Wan Khairunizam, Wan Ahmad, Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03-04)
      Recent research in the field of Human Computer Interaction aims at recognizing the user's emotional state in order to provide a smooth interface between humans and computers. This would make life easier and can be used in ...

    • Investigate spectrum-sliced WDM System for FTTH 

      Nasim, Ahmed; Syed Alwee Aljunid, Syed Junid, Prof. Madya Dr.; R. Badlishah, Ahmad, Prof. Madya Dr.; Hilal Adnan, Fadhil, Dr.; Mohd Abdur, Rashid, Dr. (Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011-06-27)
      In this paper, we have investigated the performance of spectrumsliced WDM system for FTTH network using NRZ modulation format with 2.5 Gb/s bit rates and 0.4-nm channel spacing. The bit-error-rate (BER) measured against ...

    • Bioethanol from cassava: Characterization of starch during thermo-enzymatic hydrolysis 

      Ku Syahidah, Ku Ismail; Noorulnajwa Diyana, Yaacob; Khairul Farihan, Kasim; Khairul Akhbar, Ahmad Zabidi; Mohamed Zulkali, Mohamed Daud, Prof. Dr. (Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 2008-12-12)
      One of the greatest challenges for the 21" century society is to meet the growing demand for energy for transportation in a sustainable way. High prices of petroleum in the market are in critical state and alternative for ...

    • Vision based robot positioning and recognition using artificial intelligent system 

      Fathinul-Syahir, Ahmad Sa'ad; Hazry, Desa, Dr.; Muhammad Juhairi Aziz, Safar; Md Tasyrif, Abdul Rahman (International Islamic University Malaysia (UIAM), 2008-12-18)
      Many applications using vision based automation system incorporating robotic technology have been developed in many sectors, such as land-based and aerial-based remote sensing for natural resources assessments, precision ...

    • Tuberculosis bacilli detection in Ziehl-Neelsen-stained tissue using affine moment invariants and extreme learning machine 

      Muhammad Khusairi, Osman; Mohd Yusof, Mashor, Prof. Dr.; Hasnan, Jaafar, Assoc. Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03-04)
      This paper describes an approach to automate the detection and classification of tuberculosis (TB) bacilli in tissue section using image processing technique and feedforward neural network trained by Extreme Learning ...

    • Stereo vision based robotic bin picking system for agile manufacturing 

      Fathinul-Syahir, Ahmad Sa'ad; Hazry, Desa, Dr.; Muhammad Juhairi Aziz, Safar (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)Faculty of Electrical Engineering, 2009-06-02)
      This research aims at conducting a fundamental analysis on developing a stereo vision system for an industrial robot to perform bin picking operations similar to a human way of bin picking.A Vision System and a set of ...

    • A preliminary study of inhaled pharmaceutical aerosol flow characteristics in metered dose inhaler spacer 

      Ahmad Faizal, Salleh; Muhammad Izham, Ismail; Md Tasyrif, Abdul Rahman; Sazali, Yaacob, Prof. Dr.; Khaled, Helmy, Dr. (Springerlink, 2008-06-25)
      Metered Dose Inhalers (MDI) is used to prevent and relieve the symptoms and progression of certain diseases (asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectosis) by delivering the inhaled ...

    • Parameter determination of 0.5 hp induction motor based on load factor test - A case study 

      Ismail, Daut, Prof. Dr.; Gomesh Nair, Shasidharan; Muhammad Irwanto; Yanawati, Y.; Nor Shafiqin, S.; Mohd Irwan, Yusoff (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-06-21)
      The load can influence the efficiency of the induction motor. Even if the load has higher or less load factor, it can reduce the efficiency of an induction motor by several percentage. By knowing this, it is important that ...

    • Clear sky global solar irradiance on tilt angles of photovoltaic module in Perlis, Northern Malaysia 

      Ismail, Daut, Prof. Dr.; Muhammad Irwanto; Mohd Irwan, Yusoff; Gomesh Nair, Shasidharan; Noor Syafawati, Ahmad (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-06-21)
      The performance of a photovoltaic (PV) is highly influenced by its orientation and its tilt angle with the horizontal, due to the fact that both the orientation and tilt angle change the amount of solar radiation reaching ...

    • Automated face localization and facial features detection using geometric information 

      Chai, Tong Yuen; Mohd Rizon, Mohamed Juhari, Prof. Dr.; Karthigayan, M.; Sugisaka, M.; Hazry, Desa, Dr.; Ibrahim, Z. (Malaysia-Japan University Center (MJUC), 2007-11-12)
      This paper presents algorithms to detect irises of both eyes and mouth from color and intensity images and extracts intensity valleys from the race region. Next, the algorithm extracts iris candidates from the valleys and ...

    • Hypovigilance warning system: A review on driver alerting techniques 

      Arun, S.; Murugappan, M.; Sundaraj, Kenneth, Prof. Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-06-27)
      In recent years, driver hypovigilance (drowsiness and inattentiveness) is one of the major causes for road accidents and it leads to severe traumas such as physical injuries, deaths, and economic losses. Several researchers ...

    • Special designed universal power switching generator simplifies power electronics studies 

      Rosnazri, Ali; Ismail, Daut, Prof. Dr.; Tunku Muhamad Nizar, Tunku Mansur; Nor Hanisah, Baharudin; Irwanto, Misrun (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-06-06)
      This paper presents a specially designed power switching generator device that produces 4 types of waveforms; square-wave, sinusoidal PWM, quasi-sinewave or multilevel and high-frequency DC pulses with a total of 14 different ...

    • A study on the effects of tyre to vehicle acoustical comfort in passenger car cabin 

      Ahmad Kadri, Junoh; Wan Zuki Azman, Wan Muhamad; Zulkifli, Mohd Nopiah, Assoc. Prof. Dr.; Mohd Jailani, Mohd Nor, Prof. Ir. Dr.; Ahmad Kamal Ariffin, Mohd Ihsan, Prof.; Mohammad Hosseini, Fouladi, Dr. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03-11)
      Car cabin interior vehicle acoustical comfort is one of the factors which attract the buyers to purchase the vehicle in order to have comfort sound and minimum noise in passenger car cabin. Basically the amount of discomfort ...

    • Nucleus segmentation technique for acute leukemia 

      Nurul Hazwani, Abd. Halim,; Mohd Yusof, Mashor, Prof. Dr.; A. S., Abdul Nasir; N. R., Mokhtar; H., Rosline (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03-04)
      Leukemia is a disease that affects blood forming cells in the body. Early detection of the disease is necessary for proper treatment management. Abnormal white blood cells or blasts play important role for hematologists ...

    • Production of bioethanol from cassava: Enzyme concentration study 

      M., Abdullah; Noorulnajwa Diyana, Yaacob; Ku Syahidah, Ku Ismail; Khairul Farihan, Kasim; M. D., Mohamed Daud (Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)School Of Engineering & Information Technology, 2009-08-12)
      To meet the growing demand for energy of transportation in a sustainable way is one of the greatest challenges for the 21st century. Petroleum based products are in critical phase and alternatives for fuel is needed. A ...

    • Self-heating and substrate effects in ultra-thin body ultra-thin BOX devices 

      S., Makovejev; V., Kilchytska; Mohd Khairuddin, Md Arshad; D., Flandre; F., Andrieu; O., Faynot; S., Olsen; J. P., Raskin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-03-14)
      Self-heating and substrate effects are discussed and qualitatively compared in the ultra-thin body ultra-thin BOX (UTB2) devices without a ground plane. Ultra-thin body is aggravating thermal properties of the devices due ...

    • Modeling and validation of brushless DC motor 

      Mohd Sabri, Hussin; Azuwir, Mohd Nor; Nor Zaiazmin, Yahaya (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-04-19)
      A black box modeling for a Brushless Direct Current motor is developed and simulated based on real-time data. Taking a discrete time form for the system model, an ARX model structure was selected in this work. The real-time ...