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The effect of surfactant extraction method on pore characteristics of mesoporous carbonated hydroxyapatite
(Trans Tech Publications, 2014)Incorporated with pore sizes of 2-50 nm, CHA was found to be a promising drug delivery agent for disease treatment and could be a carrier for different types of proteins. A desired drug delivery system should consist of ... -
Effectiveness–NTU correlation for low temperature PCM encapsulated in spheres
(Elsevier Ltd., 2012-05)The applicability of the effectiveness–NTU method for characterising a PCM thermal energy storage system was experimentally investigated. The system consisted of PCM encapsulated in spheres with a liquid heat transfer ... -
The effects of varying target hardness on ricochet angle
(American Institute of Physics, 2007-05-09)This project is a study on ricochet characteristics off wooden targets when fired upon by 22 calibre bolt action rifle. A series of experimental testing has been carried out on three different woods chosen to give range ... -
Effects of winding angles in biaxial ultimate elastic wall stress (UEWS) tests of glass gibre reinforced epoxy (GRE) composite pipes
(Trans Tech Publications, 2013)This paper presents an experimental investigation into the influence of winding angles in multiaxial ultimate elastic wall stress (UEWS) tests of glass-fibre reinforced epoxy (GRE) composite pipes. Currently, UEWS test is ... -
Electrical resistance tomography: a review of the application of conducting vessel walls
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Despite decades of research, the study on tomography continues to be a subject of great scientific interest. Amongst all the kinds of tomography available, electrical resistance tomography (ERT) has been chosen as the field ... -
Electrocardiogram-based emotion recognition system using empirical mode decomposition and discrete fourier transform
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)Emotion recognition using physiological signals has gained momentum in the field of human computer–interaction. This work focuses on developing a user-independent emotion recognition system that would classify five emotions ... -
Electromyographic responses during elbow movement at two angles with voluntary contraction: Influences of muscle activity on upper arm Biceps Brachii
(Maxwell Scientific Organization, 2012-11-15)Analysis of Electromyography (EMG) signals generated by individuals is part of human musculoskeletal system research and signals are always influenced by the electrode placement in the muscle. This characteristic is also ... -
An Electronic Nose system for aromatic rice classification
(American Scientific Publishers, 2011-04)Aromatic rice is a variety of rice with good cooking qualities such as nice aroma and flavour. It is pricier because it is only suitable to be cultivated in regions with specific climatic and soil conditions. Presently, ... -
Emergence of discrete and abstract state representation through reinforcement learning in a continuous input task
(Springer-Verlag, 2013)"Concept" is a kind of discrete and abstract state representation, and is considered useful for efficient action planning. However, it is supposed to emerge in our brain as a parallel processing and learning system through ... -
Emergence of multi-step discrete state transition through reinforcement learning with a recurrent neural network
(Springer-Verlag, 2012)For developing a robot that learns long and complicated action sequences in the real-world, autonomous learning of multi-step discrete state transition is significant. To realize the multi-step discrete state transition ... -
Emotion recognition from facial EMG signals using higher order statistics and principal component analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-04)Higher order statistics (HOS) is an efficient feature extraction method used in diverse applications such as bio signal processing, seismic data processing, image processing, sonar, and radar. In this work, we have ... -
Erratum: Adaptive boosting with SVM classifier for moving vehicle classification
(Elsevier Ltd, 2013)Profoundly hearing impaired community (PHIC) cannot moderate wisely an acoustic noise ema- nated from moving vehicle in outdoor. They are not able to distinguish either type or distance of moving vehicle approaching from ... -
Estimation of apparent elastic moduli of trabecular bone considering biological apatite (BAp) crystallite orientation in tissue modulus
(Trans Tech Publications, 2014-02)This study presents a prediction of apparent elastic moduli of vertebral trabecular bone using the homogenization method. A micro-finite element (FE) model of trabecular bone was reconstructed from a sequential of cross-section ... -
Estimation of carrageenan concentration by using ultra sonic waves and back propagation neural networks
(Asian Network for Scientific Information, 2010)The application of Artificial Neural Networks in chemical engineering field is being under immense research. One of the physical properties of every material has its own intensity to absorb the sound waves. Carrageenans ... -
Evaluate the effects of various surface roughness on the tribological characteristics under dry and lubricated conditions for Al-Si alloy
(Scientific Research Publishing Inc. All rights reserved., 2012-07)The effect of surface roughness average of hypereutectic aluminum silicon alloys (with 16 wt% Si) on the friction and wear was investigated. Various surface roughness average (Ra) of different degrees was verified as well ... -
Experimental determination of the performance of rice husk-carbon nanotube composites for absorbing microwave signals in the frequency range of 12.4-18 GHz
(EMW Publishing, 2013)Composites of rice husks and carbon nanotubes (RHC-NTs) are an innovation in improving the absorption of microwave signals. Rice husks, which are an agricultural waste material, have been found to possess a significant ... -
An experimental investigation of palm pressed fibre waste as lubricant in strip drawing
(Penerbit UTM Press, 2014)The abundance of palm pressed fibre (PPF) biomass waste generates greenhouse gases. Therefore, an experimental study on catalytic pyrolysis technology using a tubular reactor on PPF oil was performed at temperature of 450 ... -
Experimental investigation of PCM spheres in thermal energy storage system
(Trans Tech Publications, 2013)This paper presents the experimental result of a small scale packed bed of random spheres with encapsulated PCM being charged and discharged. A vapor compression refrigerator and heated room with fan heater were used to ... -
Exudates segmentation using inverse surface adaptive thresholding
(Elsevier B.V., 2012-07)This paper presents a new approach to detect exudates and optic disc from color fundus images based on inverse surface thresholding. The strategy involves the applications of fuzzy c-means clustering, edge detection, otsu ... -
Face recognition using eigenfaces and neural networks
(Science Publications, 2006)In this study, we develop a computational model to identify the face of an unknown person’s by applying eigenfaces. The eigenfaces has been applied to extract the basic face of the human face images. The eigenfaces is ...