Conference Papers: Recent submissions
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Production and characterization of tissue engineering scaffolds based on polyhydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate polymers
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)In the engineering of various tissues, the scaffold material and architecture of the scaffold can affect cell seeding and tissue growth both in vitro and in vivo. This paper reports the production of three-dimensional, ... -
Molecular dynamics folding simulation of β-hairpins from protein G
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)The structure and trajectories of the 41–56 β-hairpins from the protein G (PDB ID: 1GB1) has been studied using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation. The purpose of this project is to investigate the pathway of the folding ... -
Evaluation of anti-corrosion properties of DLC coatings for medical devices
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Biomaterials are now widely being used as coatings over different medical implants and devices to prevent the implants and medical devices from the environment they interact with; to be precise the coatings prohibit any ... -
Characterization of calcium phosphate bioceramic from Paphia undulata shells
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)This study aim to synthesize bioceramic from Paphia undulata shell by using dry technique in order to proposed new bioceramic for human bone repair application. The clam shells obtained from the fisherman of Kuala ... -
Influence of zirconia on microstructure of bioactive glass coated on stainless steel for biomedical application
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)We investigated the effects of zirconia on microstructure and characterization of bioactive glass coating. Coatings were performed by sol-gel method and thermal properties of the prepared gel were studied by differential ... -
Effect of particulate size on mechanical strength of Anadara granosa bioceramic
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)The Malaysian cockle (Anadara granosa) shells have a potential to be used as bone filler and bone graft for non-load bearing bone application. In this project, the effect of particulate size on mechanical strength of ... -
Review of various approaches towards speech recognition
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Speech recognition is an important application that enables interaction of human beings with machines. The various stages in speech recognition system are pre-emphasis, feature extraction and recognition stage. This ... -
Feasibility of N1-P2 habituation to differentiate loudness levels
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)In the present study, the feasibility of habituation correlates of N1-P2 component of late auditory evoked potential to differentiate loudness levels was investigated. In ten normal hearing subjects, it was shown that ... -
EEG based detection of alcoholics using spectral entropy with neural network classifiers
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)This paper suggests the application of gamma band spectral entropy for the detection of alcoholics. First, the gamma sub band signals (30-50Hz) are extracted using an elliptic band pass filter of sixth order to extract ... -
A method based on the granger causality and graph kernels for discriminating resting state from attentional task
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Exploring the directional connections between brain regions is of great importance in understanding the brain function. As a method of this exploration, Granger causality is defined in terms of the amount of improvement ... -
A modified chest leads for minimization of ventricular activity in electrocardiograms
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)A very little information of the atrial depolarization and repolarization phase of the electrocardiogram is seen in normal and in any abnormal ECG’s. The observation of the electrical activity of the each atrium is ... -
Classification of frontal alpha asymmetry using k-Nearest neighbor
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Frontal alpha asymmetry is used as the EEG feature in this study. Total number of 43 students participated in EEG data collections of relax and non-relax conditions. The spectral power of the alpha band for both left and ... -
A new LMS based adaptive interference canceller for ECG power line removal
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Most of the ECG signals recorded suffer from the presence of power line interference. Removal of power line interference is important for analysing ECG. Notch filters can be used to remove the stationary power line ... -
A speech recognition system based on structure equivalent fuzzy neural network trained by firefly algorithm
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)Speech recognition technology is a technology that allows a computer to recognize the speech and the words that express through the microphone or speaks by phone. A Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) is a learning approach that ... -
Monitoring the effect of hypoxia in bowel dialysate metabolites levels with online biosensors
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02-27)The intestinal tract is one of the main organs that, after hemorrhage or shock, appears to be involved in an ischemic/reperfusion injury. Metabolic substances, such as glucose and lactate are useful measurements for the ... -
Substrate influence on the structural, surface and optical properties of CdZnS thin films
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Cadmium zinc sulfide (CdZnS) thin films have been grown on the sonicated glass, indium tin oxide (ITO) and p-Si substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique under identical chemical bath conditions through our ... -
Ferroelectric materials in microstrip patch array antenna
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)This paper describes the utilizing of ferroelectric materials in antenna application. The proposed of ferroelectric materials are Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) and Bismuth Titanate (BiT). BST, with dielectric constant ... -
Ethanol sensor based on zno nanowires synthesized by wet chemical route
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)ZnO nanowires (NWs) were synthesized via a wet chemical route, and subsequently characterized and evaluated for their ethanol gas sensing performance. It was observed that the ZnO NWs average width and length was ... -
Programmable low-power wireless sensors network for vibration monitoring and analysis
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)Wireless sensors networks have been widely applied for monitoring and structural analysis in the last years. In this work, a low cost, energy saving, high speed and programmable wireless sensors network has been introduced. ... -
Temperature oriented design of an amplifier using submicron VLSI
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Mechatronic Engineering, 2012-02-27)In recent trends various steps like logic optimization partitioning, floorplanning, placement and routing are used for design of any VLSI circuits. Among the above steps floor planning and placement play an important ...