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ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences                             July 2017  |  Vol. 12  No. 13
   
Title: Effect of using construction and fence BRC layers on clayey silt CBR values
Author (s): Qassun S. Mohammed Shafiqu and Azhar Sadiq Yasun
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California bearing ratio (CBR) for natural fine soils has wide range values approximately from 1.5 to 40%, and according to Iraqi specification (SOBR R5) CBR values should not be less than 5%. Many studies use geogrid and geotextile meshes as layers and others use hair fiber, waste plastic strip, jute fiber, fly ash and crushed waste glass to improve CBR value of weak fill soil layers generally. This study motivated to use new method approach for improving CBR value of weak clay soils by using available not expansive fence BRC mesh and normal construction BRC. Several trails has been conducted to construct soil CBR sample with single and double BRC meshes layer with different mesh sections to note the effect of using these meshes on soil CBR value, the distribution of meshes was constructing depending on sample height. Studying the effect of using BRC meshes on soil penetration has been also conducted in order to measure the prepared natural soil behavior during loading process. Results shows that CBR improvement ratio is increased when the CBR value depends on (7.5mm) penetration and recorded lower values if the CBR value depends on 2.5 and 5mm penetration. The maximum improvement ratio was about 2 when the sample reinforced with double two layers of normal construction (BRC).

   

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Title: Development of nano-ceramic-TiO2+Al2O3 layers for increasing antibacterial effect on prosthetic implant
Author (s): Dunya Abdulsahib Hamdi, Auns Q. H. Alneami, Jammal F. Hamodi and Jaegyu Kim
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The infection of the titanium implants still remains a problem which is usually difficult to treat and may lead to eventual implant removal. As a result, preventive measures are necessary to mitigate implant-related infection; one important strategy is to render the implant surface antibacterial. The objective of the present study was to develop a biomedical material for preventing and reduction the effect of Escherichia coli bacteria type on the prosthetic implants; this was done by investigating the effect of the radioisotope with CO60 as the source of Gamma ray with thickness film of metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) of (Alumina and titanium) coated on Ti6Al4V alloy by using RF magnetron sputtering for growth-inhibitory effect on Escherichia colibacteria. The TiO2 coated as mid layer between substrate Ti alloy and Al2O3to increase the adhesion between coated film and substrate, also to reduce thermal expansion mismatch between substrate and Al2O3layer. The nanoparticles size of Al2O3 was 380nm. The results refers that the increasing of the thickness (t) of coated exposure of Gamma ray lead to increase the absorption (A) of radiation and reflection (R). By increasing (R), the material of coated become as source for Gamma ray around environment to reduce the growth of bacteria. In this study, the Gamma ray and increasing thickness at very high concentrations Al2O3 layer with nanoparticle size380nm are contributed to reduce growth of Escherichia coli. The effect of inhibited bacteria increased with increasing thickness of thin film.

   

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Title: Physicochemical and sensory characterization for dehydrated passion fruit pulp sheets (Passiflora edulis f. Flavicarpa)
Author (s): Nestor Enrique Cerquera, Jennifer Katiusca Castro and Eduardo Pastrana-Bonilla
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Post-harvest losses of fruits such as passion fruit make it necessary to introduce technologies and processes that allow the most efficient use of the same. In the present work the dehydrated sheets of pulp of passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. Flavicarpa) was characterized and was evaluated sensorially. For the dehydration tests, a static type equipment was used and fresh and dehydrated passion fruit pulp was characterized taking into account: moisture content, soluble solids, pH, acidity and proximal analysis. The conservation parameters of the dehydrated pulp were satisfactory, which was favored by the low water activity reached in the dehydrated product; the sensorial evaluation showed that temperature and speed of drying air used do not exert an influence that can be perceived in the evaluation of the quality factors.

   

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Title: Study effect of temperature and reaction kinetics model selection epoxidation against rice bran oil methyl ester with catalyst Amberlite IR-120
Author (s): Ratri Ariatmi Nugrahani, Athiek Sri Redjeki, Yuti Mentari, Miftahul Jannah, Tri Yogo Wibowo and Anwar Ilmar Ramadhan
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Some vegetable oils contain unsaturated fatty acids, such as soybean oil, palm oil, rice bran oil. Singer hearts unsaturation vegetable oils can be converted Being Cluster epoxides. On Research Singer rice bran oil methyl ester epoxy diepoksidasi resulting methyl ester. Methyl ester epoxy Both can be used as a base oil and lubricant additive materials, fuel. Operating synthesis of epoxy compounds in situ carried out to obtain a review of epoxy compounds with oxirane the high content. The singer epoxidation process used catalyst resin Amberlite IR-120 is based on its ability to review at can be reuseable, easy product separation process, and the lack of Cluster epoxide Opened Back. Objective singer is studying the effect of different temperatures on reaction time rice bran oil epoxidation catalyst with Amberlite IR-120 Against oxirane numbers methyl ester epoxy products are rice bran oil and assess the reaction kinetics. Epoxidation reaction carried out in the hearts pumpkin neck three reflux condensor with at 400oC temperature, 60 °C, and 85 °C. The reaction is run for 5 hours process sampling each with 1 hour. Reaction Against rice bran oil methyl ester with done using acetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, and the catalyst resin Amberlite IR-120 (20% (w / w)). The epoxidation results show high Temperature 60 °C until with the increasing time and the high numbers oxirane, then experienced a decline. Best oxirane numerical value of 3.90% (oxirane oxygen). Prediction Model Equations epoxidation reaction kinetics do with using pseudo-two-phase approach Langmuir-Hinshelwood Hougen - Watson. Acetic acid (AA) and peroxyacetic acid (PA) which operates be absorbed chemical on the catalyst enabled. Steps that determines the overall reaction is a reaction on irreversible surface.

   

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Title: Solving initial value problem using Runge-Kutta 6th order method
Author (s): Abbas Fadhil Abbas Al-shimmary
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The initial value problems (IVPs) in ordinary differential equations are numerically solved by one step explicit methods for different order , the behavior of Runge- Kutta of third order method is obtained by Heun [4], Kutta found the complete classification and derivation of fourth and fifth order methods in [6], the derivation of sixth order method was found by Huta in [5] but in eight stages, Butcher in ([1], [2], [3]) presented the relation between the order conditions and the rooted trees up to sixth order. the main aim of this paper is to exhibit a new more simplest representation for the trees and the derivation of Runge- Kutta method of order six with seven stages including ( rooted trees, order condition and stability region), symbolically computations are used in the study to simplify the method, finally example illustrate the method are presented.

   

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Title: Advanced electrochromic Ni(OH)2/PVA films formed by electrochemical template synthesis
Author (s): Kotok V. A., Kovalenko V. L., Kovalenko P. V., Solovov V. A., Deabate S., Mehdi A., Bantignies J. L. and Henn F.
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Electrochromic nickel hydroxide film has been prepared for the first time, using electrochemical template synthesis with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as template. Such advanced Ni(OH)2/PVA composite film has improved adhesion to substrate and can be potentially used for manufacturing flexible electrochromic devices. Films obtained by template cathodic deposition can be stored in a dry state without morphological changes which allows for optimization of manufacturing of complete devices. The optimal concentration of polyvinyl in electrodeposition solution has been found 5% wt. It has been demonstrated that polyvinyl forms nanosized 3-D matrix on substrate surface which promotes formation of X-ray amorphous nickel hydroxide and is incorporated into the film. It has been established, that at optimal current density 0.625 mA/cm2 the deposition rate is 3.87µm/h. By simultaneously recording cyclic voltammogramms and colorization curves high electrochemical and optical properties of films prepared using template synthesis with PVA have been demonstrated, with coloration degree of up to 80%. Significant effect of drying temperature on electrochemical and optical properties of Ni(OH)2/PVA composite films has been demonstrated. Low drying temperature (20°) results in films with high electrochemical activity and coloration degree. At 90° ? a drop in colorization degree has been observed.

   

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Title: Destruction of rock upon blasting of explosive agent
Author (s): Sergey Antonovich Vokhmin, Georgij Sergeevich Kurchin, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Kirsanov, Andrey Olegovich Shigin and Anna Aleksandrovna Shigina
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In order to provide the most efficient indices of development of underground excavations the main attention is paid to blasting operations, namely, to determination of optimum parameters of drilling and blasting operations. Development of new and reconstruction of existing mines require for extended scope of excavating works, their length can reach some tens of kilometers. Up till now excavations at most of mines are developed using drilling and blasting operations. Improvement of drilling and blasting operations is one of trends to increase efficiency of excavation development. Reliability extent of calculated parameters of drilling and blasting operations can influence on technical and economical performances of excavation development. At present numerous existing procedures are empiric dependencies, they are based on primary determination of specific consumption of explosive. The main drawback of such procedures is the application of coefficients of specific consumption, which vary in wide range, their values depend on the qualification of experts who perform such calculations. As a consequence, the parameters of drilling and blasting operations are set on the basis of averaged values, which impair efficiency of blasting operations. We believe that calculations of parameters of drilling and blasting operations should account for the most complete range of factors playing important role in impact of blasting energy on destructing massif. In addition, the proposed engineering approach should enable improvement of efficiency of blasting operations with desirable decrease in material and non-material expenditures. This work describes briefly tock destruction by blasting of explosives, highlights main factors influencing on efficiency of drilling and blasting operations upon development of excavations. The work analyzes calculation procedures of main performances of drilling and blasting operations, recommendations are given for development of pattern of drilling and blasting operations on the basis of calculation of destruction zones of rock massif.

   

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Title: Improvement of palm oil biodiesel properties using ethanol as an additive and its effect on diesel engine performance, combustion and emissions
Author (s): S. Madiwale, A. Karthikeyan, V. Bhojwani and M. Dombale
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As we need an alternating fuel that will replace diesel fuel in order to reduce the harmful emissions coming out of engine as exhaust by products, which necessitates the improvement in engine performance and increase in combustion characteristics of fuels in the combustion chamber. As biodiesels are having high viscosity and higher flashpoint than diesel, it will be difficult to use biodiesel as a fuel alone in present diesel engines. Hence it is preferred to blend biodiesel with diesel to get required properties of blend that will suit the present diesel engines. But higher kinematic viscosity of biodiesel/diesel blends as compared to diesel affects the atomization of fuel in the combustion chamber which further reduces the combustion pressure and temperature and reduces the power output of the engine. This necessitates the addition of ethanol as an additive in the blends which further enhances the hot flow, cold flow and thermo-physical properties of the biodiesel/diesel blends. Therefore in this study feedstock of palm oil biodiesel is used as fuel with 5% ethanol by volume as an additive in the blends of palm oil biodiesel/diesel blends. Hot flow and cold flow properties of blends of palm oil biodiesel/ethanol/diesel blends are experimentally investigated as per IS 1448 standards. Investigation outcome shows that ethanol as an additive improves the kinematic viscosity of blends of palm oil biodiesel/diesel by 4% lesser than biodiesel/diesel blend without ethanol and 12% higher than diesel. But on the other hand calorific value of the blends with the addition of ethanol decreases calorific value by 6.27% than biodiesel/diesel blend without ethanol and 6.87 % than diesel. Most importantly the cold flow properties are enhanced by the addition of ethanol in the blend such as cloud point increases by 13 % than biodiesel/diesel blend without ethanol and pour point increases by 14% than biodiesel/diesel blend without ethanol. The combustion and performance analysis are improved with the addition of ethanol and decreases the harmful emissions from the exhaust manifold of the engine. The effect of ethanol as an additive in the blends of palm oil biodiesel/diesel blend on properties, performance, and combustion and on emissions are studied in this paper.

   

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Title: Performance analysis of handover strategy in femtocell network by using Fractional Frequency Reuse and Dynamic Power Control methods
Author (s): Azita Laily Yusof, Mastura Rosdi, Norsuzila Ya’acob and Nur Idora Abd. Razak
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In Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a femtocell as known as Home Evolve Node B (HeNB) is a small base station that aims for indoor usage such as at home or enterprise in order to fulfill the upcoming demand of high data rates. It is very user deployed so it reduces operations cost for mobile operators, and at the same time provide a high user experiences to users. However, femtocell deployments caused interference between femtocells itself and also to the existing macrocells due to sharing the same frequency band between macrocell and femtocell. In order to achieve a high network capacity and a good user experience, more advanced interference coordination and radio resource management schemes would be required as compared to the conventional cellular network. Hence, the interference management methods which the are Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) and the Dynamic Power Control (DPC) were proposed. This paper analyzed on the performance analysis of handover strategy in macrocell and femtocell networks for balancing the network User Equipment (UE) by offload traffic from macrocell to the femtocell and hence the high load balancing of UE network can be achieved and then minimize the interference occurrence in the network by using the proposed methods. The simulation results showed that the proposed combining methods give a significant reduction of number of handovers and inter-cell interference in LTE HetNets by offloading the macrocells traffic to the femtocells and higher load balancing performance can be achieved.

   

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Title: Two-Stage treatment technology as a way to improve quality of oil-contaminated wastewater meant for injection into geological formation
Author (s): Ivan Golubev and Yana Karpova
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The paper deals with water conditioning issues in oil-field development using water-flooding. It is common knowledge that injected water contains oil residues and mechanical impurities, which affect permeability of geological horizon. It has been shown that these water impurities could intensify rock colmatation up to a full clogging of pores and fractures. Hence, issues of improving quality of injected water, aimed to ensure enhancement of reservoir properties, have been studied from a variety of new angles. There are given results of conducted test experiments as well as detailed description of elaborated equipment design. It has been established that two-stage treatment technology proposed in the paper, by making use of magnetic treatment device and sewage tank with liquid hydrophobic layer, will allow to considerably improve quality of injected water. Suggested water treatment unit appears to be highly applicable, providing a maximum effect at a minimum material cost.

   

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Title: Analysis of mutual inductance and coupling factor of inductively coupled coils for wireless electricity
Author (s): Chandrasekharan Nataraj, Sheroz Khan, Mohammed Hadi Habaebi and Asan G. A. Muthalif
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A basic analysis of inductive coils and its parameter calculations are presented. The simulations of mutual inductance, coupling factor calculations are demonstrated with graphical analysis. Three different lab-scale coil models such as square, circular and rectangular coils are wounded to evaluate the magnetic field by experiment, to validate the performance of Wireless Power System (WPT). In the open literature, circular coils are employed in most of the works, but lessworks were shown in the parameter analysis. Further investigations on parameter exploration seems as a prerequisite for magnetic field measurement by estimating the parameters such as mutual inductance (M), coupling factor( k), magnetic flux (F) and magnetic field (B). It helps us to select the coils according to the applications. In this work, it is observed that circular performs well than other shaped coils in terms of parametrical analysis which are mentioned above. The simulation, and experimental results are tabulated as well as supported graphical plots are shown as proving circular coils performs well in the WPT scenario.

   

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Title: Compact circular slotted rectangular UWB antenna with WLAN and partial x band rejection
Author (s): A. Sudhakar, M. Sunil Prakash and M. Satyanarayana

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A small size ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna having dimensions of 12x 19 mm2incorporated with dual band-rejected properties and good gain is recommended in this paper. The recommended antenna consists of amicrostrip line fed rectangular-shaped patch with a circular slot on one side of FR4 substrate and rectangular DGS (Defected Ground Structure) on the other side. By etching a circle on the patch, dual band notch properties are obtained from 5.08 to 6.14 GHz WLAN band and 9.58 to 10.69 GHz. The recommended antenna has an impedance bandwidth ranges from 4.6 to 11.2 GHz. Simulation is carried out with HFSS software and measurements are carried out with E5071C Vector Network Analyzer. Simulated results are compared with measured results and they are in good agreement. We have observed there is no significant change in the return loss parameters even though the circular slot of same dimensions etched on ground. This suggested antenna can be used to overcome the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) between UWB systems and WLAN systems.

   

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Title: Implementation of the functional simulator of aircraft elements design procedures at the stage of the life limit
Author (s): Irina S. Bykova, Aleksandr A. Gorbunov and Aleksey D. Pripadchev
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The present article describes the structure of the functional simulator of the conceptual design process of the long-range aircraft elements as well as the underlying methodology of the computer-assisted design (CAD) of long-range aircraft elements. The methodology is based on previously developed authorial mathematical model and includes the implementation of information, application software, and algorithmic support. To implement this methodology, namely the calculating stage of long-range aircraft characteristics, as well as to build its three-dimensional model using the integrated development environment platform Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, we have developed Fuse CAD software tool, characterized by the possibility of adjusting the result base fd on the selected criterion in the interactive mode, as well as constructing a three-dimensional model of the aircraft and the arrangement of its passenger cabin, and exporting them to CAD systems with the use of API functions of CAD systems.

   

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Title: Methodology to reduce vampire power using PIC microcontroller
Author (s): Anup Kumar, K. Fathima, T. Mary Saranya and S. Hema
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In the rapidly developing world, energy saving has become one of the major aspect in day-to-day’s life. For an efficient energy saving, all parts of the world are working in all possible ways to avoid the energy crisis in order to conserve it for the future generation. Among the various sources of energy crisis, vampire power plays a major role. Most of us are not aware that the electrical device consumes power even when they are in standby or sleep mode. Those are the power which must be paid as tariff to the government. In olden days, vampire power was not taken into account since they did not contribute much to the wastage of energy. But now-a-days, due to the invention and introduction of many advanced electrical and electronic equipment, there is a large amount of wastage of energy due to vampire power which must be taken into account. It contributes to about 20W of the total energy supplied at our residents. This rating depends on the type and model of the appliance used. So, our project proposes a system that controls the vampire power using a microcontroller depending on the relation within the different home appliances and the user’s behavior with the devices, thereby saving the energy benefiting a safer future and reducing the tariffs of electricity bills.

   

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Title: Design and analysis of cross layer approach in the detection of blackhole attacks using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System
Author (s): Vydeki Dharmar, Bhuvaneswaran Raghuve and Subramanian
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Blackhole attack is considered to be a virulent attack in mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs) that operate on reactive routing protocols. This paper presents an efficient cross layer approach to detect the malicious node that launches the blackhole attack. The proposed scheme uses Adaptive Neuro- Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), which combines the benefits of neural networks and fuzzy logic, in the detection process. Experimental results prove that the cross layer approach using ANFIS outperforms the scheme using single layer approach. The proposed scheme produces 100% true detection when Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering is used and 95.9% for subtractive clustering. The detection time has also been comparatively reduced.

   

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Title: Charger monitoring stream analysis using artificial neural networks
Author (s): Junghoon Lee and Gyung-Leen Park
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This paper develops a trace and prediction model for the energy load imposed by electric vehicle charging in Jeju City, based on artificial neural networks as well as the massive amount of charger monitoring streams collected for about 1 year. The monitoring system generates a data archive, in which a single report essentially embraces charger ID, timestamp, and battery level reading. Our data analysis module, consisting of MySQL, R, and C program implementation across Linux and Windows PC domains, not only processes raw data files to insert into a database table but also finds the active charger set. The distributions of the number of reports and the power consumption for each charger are investigated. For the day-by-day power consumption stream for vehicle charging, a neural network model traces and predicts the time series having 124 sequential values. The experiment result shows that our model catches up with unpredictable spikes just with small time lag.

   

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Title: Experimental and numerical study the heat transfer of flat plate solar collector by using Nano fluid under solar simulation
Author (s): Abbas Sahi Shareef and Ali Abd Alrazzaq Abd Dibs
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A new automatic solar simulator was designed and constructed to provide a test platform for the simulation of solar radiation and controlling by Arduino board. The light source and fabrication of the simulator is described and tested on the flat plate solar collector, and using nanoparticles Al2O3 for enhancement heat transfer of working fluid, using the Al2O3 with three different volume fraction (0.2%, 0.4%, and 0.6%), by using ultra-sonic for preparing Nano fluid and used distilled water for base of nanoparticles. This test under 1lpm (laminar flow). The numerical CFD-Model by using interfaces between laminar flow and heat transfer by COMSOL version 5.2a, the validation between the experimental and numerical is agreement variable error, the maximum error had 6.211 %, the experimental tested had the greatest difference temperature between the inlet and outlet is 15.343°C at Nano fluid had volume fraction 0.6%.

   

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Title: Replica cat: Effective identity and elimination of copy cat nodes in WSN
Author (s): Roshan Raj, Deepak Raj and N. Srinivasan
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Inside the contemporary gadget, remote sensor systems are feeble against the middle point clone, and severa dispensed customs have been proposed to discover this trap. No ifs ands or buts so they require pointlessly solid suppositions, making it hard to be sensible for enormous scale, discretionarily sent sensor systems. Inside the proposed framework, utilizing passed on clone affirmation convention particularly ercd (control regular ring based completely clone exposure) custom which has ranges: witness inclination and authenticity check for clone zone. inside the exchange way, the basic one is construct totally in light of an allotted hash work region (dht) wherein concordance set of techniques is utilized to find the cloned focus point, every middle point is committed with the flighty key, right on time than it transmits the records it needs to give its key which might be researched with the steady asset of the witness focus. If same key is given by method for each extraordinary concentration point then the witness center sees the cloned center. Finish here every center best objectives to understand the neighbor-posting containing all neighbor ids and its places. We are completing suitability set of standards, through range basically based insistently centers ID, wherein every zone/zone must host a get-together executive. The affiliation pioneer will make a sporadic grouping with time stamp to the be had center concentrations here. Witness center concentrations ask for the self-confident entire and time stamp to find the cloned center. The message is in like way encoded for security cause.

   

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Title: Generation of liability reports for a retailer for third-party coupon transactions
Author (s): Sarbani Mallick, Sana S. and N. Srinivasan
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Today Retailers process third party coupons by having an integration of their POS terminals directly with the third-party vendor databases, to validate the details of coupons, keeping the customers waiting at POS machine. To eliminate the inefficient process of having customer wait long, till the coupon approval response received from third-party vendor database, redesign the entire validation process to be simple, faster and real-time by having a solution where in the retailer maintains his own local database holding third-party coupon details with real-time integration of this database to the POS terminals. This solution simplifies the validation process, makes it real-time avoiding customer wait times thereby enhancing customer experience and customer satisfaction. This solution is designed to achieve this major objective: Business process simplification - coupon validation simplified by integration to one consolidated retailer local database rather every time going to multiple third-party databases for every coupon validation/redemption transaction. In addition all shop outlets of the retailer can access consolidated retailer database to provide same experience to customer across all its branches making validation process faster and real-time - use retailer consolidated database only to pull coupon details real-time during business hours; night time do a batch updates of coupon details from multiple third-party vendor databases to the retailer database; this ensures faster retrieval of coupon details from the database during business hours enhance customer experience and satisfaction - wait time of customer for coupon processing/approval at the POS terminal will be drastically reduced making it more real-time thus giving a pleasant experience to customer.

   

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Title: Result analysis automation
Author (s): K. Himaja, Lalam Sreevidya and N. Srinivasan
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Present exam-cell calculations are mostly done manually on excels sheets. Using Report Analysis Automation will make the examination cell activities more efficient by wrapping the drawbacks of manual systems like accuracy, time, speed and simplicity. This system will ensure examination activities are carried more effectively and it can be accessible and will be convenient for both staff and students by making it a centralized system. Finally this product would an aimed automation system, which will replace present examination cell process. Result and analysis automation is a new concept which came into existence to reduce heavy burden on examination cell and it made analysis of results a monotonous task, apart from the large amount of data that is generated in a college for various branches of all semesters. This automation system is like a mediator between staff and students; this will ease the activities of each examination. This system will make the analysis process much organized and will require data to be pre-existing. This automation, however will manage a great deal of menial work. Finally this system will minimize the manual work, which leads to ease of generating reports, reducing confusions and increase in work rate effectively.

   

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Title: Centralized clustering algorithm to enhance energy consumption in Wreless Sensor Networks
Author (s): Mustafa Fuad Ismail and Dahlila Putri Dahnil
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A Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) composed of a large number of sensor nodes within a sensing geographical area. Energy consumption is considered a major WSNs issue. Therefore, a considerable number of researches have investigated various ways to reduce energy consumption. One of the best techniques used to reduce energy consumption is clustering. Clustering helps to improve the network performance through extending the battery lifetime. Our study improves the work on LEACH Enhancements for WSNs based on the energy model by introducing the K-means clustering approach to improve energy and increase network lifespan. The proposed approach divides the nodes into member nodes and cluster head nodes. The member nodes transmit data to the cluster head, whereas, the cluster head nodes are responsible for communication with the base station. This approach is a centralized election technique where the base station makes the decision for selecting the cluster heads based on the information received from each node. The advantage of the proposed technique is that the information of each node is only sent once to the base station during the initialization phase. The base station performs weightage calculation for all nodes and nodes with the highest weights are elected as cluster heads. The base station also decides the cluster members and the decisions are then transmitted to all nodes in the network. This research introduces weightage calculation based on three important parameters which are remaining energy, number of neighbor nodes and the node’s distance to base station. The proposed technique consists of three phases: Initialization Phase, Setup Phase, and Selection Phase. The results of our proposed technique shows significant improvement of the residual energy, the total energy consumption, the total alive nodes, and total packets delivered compared to LEACH Enhancement for WSNs based on the energy model technique. In conclusion, the results of this study show improvements and achieved the objectives of this paper.

   

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Title: Eye tracking electronic wheelchair for physically challenged person
Author (s): Chee F. P., Duinong M., Chang H. W. J., Awang A., Francis A. S. and Dayou J.
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A robotic wheelchair with novel ideas which integrates three different options to all kinds of impairment as well as disabilities was designed in this project. The first option allows users that are not capable of moving their limbs, to navigate the wheelchair using their eye, namely the optical detector. The optical detector allows user that suffers severe disability such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that paralyzes the victim mobility entirely to move by moving their eye to desired location. The secondary option provides common wheelchair users who are suffering from less severe disability to navigate using a touch input option which is accessible via their smart phones, namely touch and go APP. The touch and go APP can be controlled easily as well as adjusting the speed of the wheelchair. The third option works for users with limited mobility by using a voice command application. In addition, the robotic wheelchair is integrated with multiple safety features, an ultrasonic sensor and dual bump sensor. The ultrasonic sensor is to create a threshold distance between the user and obstacle in front and to prevent collision. The bump sensor works as a failsafe, where an object that is in contact with it will reverse the robotic wheelchair to a safe distance. This research combines both ease of access navigational technology with a safety features to help those who are in need of such technology to move with a high safety element. The newly designed wheelchair does not discriminate any kinds of disabilities with the integration of the three navigational options.

   

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Title: Breakeven point and incremental analysis in decision making of lease-purchase option of heavy equipment at nickel lateritic ore mining
Author (s): Rini Novrianti Sutardjo Tui, Aryanti Virtanti Anas and Nur Fitriani
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Production and cost planning were several important things to be considered in making decisions for development of a company production. Revenues from production process of lateritic nickel ore mining in PT. ANTAM (Persero) Tbk, UBPN Sultra last few years only provided profit that did not reach the company’s target. The costs greatly affected economics of production and corporate profits, one of which was the cost of procurement of heavy equipment. The company was still using heavy equipment leasing services to carry out production activities. Based on these problems, it was necessary to do an analysis about production and decision making procurement of heavy equipment with a lease-purchase alternative for year 2016 to 2020. The data used were costs, data company's production and price data from factors that affected the heavy equipments operation. Production was analyzed by using breakeven point analysis, whereas for deciding on leasing or purchasing was using incremental analysis and sensitivity analysis. Based on data processing and analysis, it was indicated that laterite nickel ore production in 2012-2015 would still be in a state of breakeven. Estimation results of production in 2016-2020 to maintain the safety limit production showed that production of nickel laterite ore would also still be in the breakeven point. Based on the analysis of incremental and sensitivity, when the heavy equipments lifetime lasted for five years, the procurement of heavy equipment by purchasing was more efficient compared to the lease option.

   

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Title: Urban mode of dispatching students from hostel
Author (s): Vimal Kumar S., Vasudevan S. and Mary Posonia A.
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“URBAN MODE OF DISPATCHING STUDENTS” is one which is aimed solely at easing the parent’s concern of getting their wards dispatched. This work is done in such a way that the wards are not allowed to leave the premises without prior permission from their parents or guardians. Compared to the traditional mode of student dispatch this model aims at using the Short Code Service as a mode of seeking permission from the institutions by the parents for their wards. Furthermore, a Quick Response (QR) code will be sent to the concerned email id’s where at the time of arrival or departure the code is to be scanned for proper authentication of the concerned individual. An android application is designed supremely for the purpose of scanning the QR code and verifying the identity of the individual as well as the nature of the permission being sought by their folks.

   

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Title: Celebrity check-new friends: Integration of detection and removal of anonymous identical celebrity with best friend identification
Author (s): Sireesha T., Lakshmanan L. and Kavya T.
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While steady spammers misuse the built up trust connections between record proprietors and their companions to effectively spread noxious spam, auspicious discovery of traded off records is very testing because of the entrenched trust relationship between the specialist organizations, account proprietors, and their companions. In the proposed framework, we propose recognizable proof of same client in various interpersonal organization destinations (SNS) and disposal of fake client account from the SNS. This is accomplished by means of checking screen name, photograph, companions list, sexual orientation, area, birthday and school/school instruction and working spot. Utilizing these behavioral components of client social conduct, it distinguishes the fake client. In the adjustment procedure, aside from the evacuation of unknown records we likewise add on distinguishing proof Friends in view of client's attitude/Interest. We are observing Users Interest, Likes posted by the client and Android based versatility design examination. Closest companions are distinguished and security layer is encompassed by observing client's conduct design. Revolting worded posts are evacuated and the client is ended if there should be an occurrence of trouble making.

   

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Title: Online product ranking based on reviews
Author (s): Gnana Kirubaharan V., Elumalai P. S. G. and Yovan Felix A.
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Online shopping is the trend nowadays; there has been an increasing demand for easy analysis of the many consumer reviews posted in the internet. The more number of reviews there are about a product, the more difficult it becomes for consumers to navigate through the reviews to arrive at an informed decision about the product. We propose a product feature ranking framework, which automatically identifies the important aspects of products from online consumer reviews, aiming at improving the usability of the various reviews. The important product aspects are the specifications that are frequently commented on by the masses. The more frequent an aspect is mentioned, the more important it is to increase the overall opinion of the product by document level classification and extractive review summarization.

   

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Title: Disease predictive, best drug: Big data implementation of drug query with disease prediction, side effects and feedback analysis
Author (s): Sathish S. and Usha Nandhini
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Nowadays medicine consuming has become day to day activities for the people who were suffering from diseases. Hence many of the people are not aware of the medicine which is prescribed by doctors or pharmacies. Once they are affected by diseases they are approaching doctor and they are in taking the medicines prescribed by them, without having any knowledge about it and gets affected by its side effects. Due to the advancement in medical field many different approach are proposed about using medicines. Many medicines are available for one disease in which some causes side effects. Some patients have an side effect in which the medicine causes same side effects which results in increase in disease. My proposed system is that first we will identify the disease based on patient symptoms and do analysis in that and we will predict disease and suggest the best tablet which do not causes side effects by doing analysis on trained sets based on patient positive improvement and sort the best medicine in ascending order and suggest the medicine to patient, if the patient has some side effects in that top order medicine, next medicine is prescribed and we make appointment for good and best available doctors and book an appointment for that patient.

   

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Title: The development of smoking tools for bilih at Lake Singkarak Solok District, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Author (s): Delvi Yanti
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Bilih (Mystacoleuseus padangensis) is an endemic fish which population found only in Lake Singkarak, Solok regency, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Bilih is a product that decompose quickly. Therefore, we need a treatment so that bilih is able be stored longer. Then, it could be easily marketed, ie by smoking. This study is aimed to determine the nutritional value of smoked bilih generated and the financial feasibility of smoking tool developed. The results of the technical test tool is the smoked bilih have a good quality (yellow brownish and there was no physical damage on smoked bilih). The nutritional value of smoked bilih generated was 14.85 ± 0.06% (moisture); 11.61 ± 0.03% (dust); 60.14 ± 1.16% (protein), 12.14 ± 0.01% (fat), and 1.26 ± 1.06% (carbohydrate). The results of the economic analysis tool is the smoking tool is appropriate to be used because it has the B / C ratio> 1 and NPV> 0, i.e. 1.11 and 4, 329, 039.00.

   

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Title: Formation of reconditioning complexes during on-condition centralized repair of automobile units
Author (s): V. N. Krasovsky, V. V. Poptsov, V. A. Korchagin and N. I. Krasovskaja
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The article covers the results of complex studies carried out with the purpose of enhancing technical services efficiency of motor transport and auto repair enterprises. When conducting experimental studies the production capacities of "Surgutneftegas" company were used. For the first time the theoretical and empirical dependences of control-diagnosis and technological operations for on-condition centralized repair of hoisting units on the basis of motor vehicles have been obtained. Using the methods of techno-economic modeling of technological processes and mathematical-statistical processing of empirical data as well as using the multidimensional taxonomy framework, the rational structure of reconditioning complexes has been formed. This allowed minimizing the probability of their erroneous assignments for a unit under repair, which saves costs of operational defects repair excluding unnecessary operations.

   

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Title: Energy-aware for DH-AODV routing protocol in Wireless Mesh Network
Author (s): Yousif Ali Saadi, Rosilah Hassan and Dahlila Putri Dahnil
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Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) can be the key technology for the future of wireless networks. However, WMNs implementation still has many issues to be resolved especially on finding the best path to forward information. According to many researches, one of the most important component in WMNs is the routing protocol and how to make it efficient in performing the requirements of WMNs. Directional Hierarchical Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (DH-AODV) routing protocol, proposed to enhances Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol for WMNs. DH-AODV is performing well for WMN, but in this routing protocol no mechanism is considered to deal with the energy consumption of the nodes in the network. Therefore, in this paper we propose an Energy-aware DH-AODV (E-DH-AODV) routing protocol to select a path toward a gateway based on the energy balance. Furthermore, E-DH-AODV can reduce the number of broadcasting route request (RREQ) packets, by sending these packets toward the gateway considering the nodes with less hop-count only. The simulation results shows that E-DH-AODV can reduce the energy variance consumption by 10%, increase the packet delivery ratio (PDR) by 9%, and reduce the overhead by 5% in comparison with DH-AODV.

   

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Title: The effect comparison maltodextrin against results characteristics of microencapsulation of turmeric (Curcuma Domestica Val)
Author (s): Tri Yuni Hendrawati, Muhammad Ardian Mubarok and Anwar Ilmar Ramadhan
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Saffron has been established and used by the widely in both urban and in rural areas especially in a household for various kinds of its usefulness of them as an antiseptic, drug diarrhea, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory natural, prevent metastasis ( spreading cancer ), and made digestion make appetite children increase. The purpose of this research was to study the influence of concentration maltodekstrin to rendemen, the water level, and time the solubility of flour turmeric by using dryer spray (spray blow dryer). Variation composition maltodekstrin used consisting of 6 %, 8 %, 10 %, 12 %, 14 % at the temperature inlet spray blow dryer 120OC. A method of making flour saffron done by means of the pollen from saffron in grated, then sari saffron obtained added maltodekstrin with a variety composition and in stirring use homogenizer that homogeneous. We do drying in spray blow dryer at the temperature inlet 120OC. Testing the physical properties of flour saffron produced covering the water level , and rendemen solubility of time .As his application flour saffron then used as the adder power appetite on child is feasible. The research results show that rendemen largest namely 3.40 % there are in samples of 14 % and are the condition of the best with the regression equation is y = -0.014x2 + 0.0474x – 0.370 R2 = 0.877 which has the water level best to standard products powder is as much as 4 % the regression equation is y = 0.017x2 - 0.535x + 7.9 R2 = 0, 952. The solubility of the fastest time where the sample concentration maltodekstrin 6 % during 416 second by the regression equation is y = 8.267x2 - 72.73x + 601.4, with R2 = 0,917. In testing kurkumin content done testing in hplc where prove kurkumin levels in flour saffron of 3.01 % .

   

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Title: Effects of dual versus super single truck tire on flexible pavement performance: A mechanistic approach
Author (s): Ahmad M. Abu Abdo
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With the widely observed premature failures of flexible pavements, attentions have been directed to changes on heavy vehicles loads, axles configurations, and tire types and pressure as a cause for such phenomenon. Super single (wide-base) tires were introduced in early 1980s as a replacement to traditional dual tires, and considered beneficial to the transportation industries. However, this type of tires proved to cause more damage to flexible pavements. Recently, new generation of super single tires were developed with a promise that the damage issue was addressed. Many studies were conducted but were in disagreements in their findings. Thus, this study was conducted. 3D Move Analysis software was used to conduct analytical evaluation and compare both tire configurations by utilizing existing project and actual materials test data. Results showed that when compared to dual tires, super single tire induced less normal stresses in the analyzed flexible pavement by 28% in the z direction and 45% in the y direction and 47% in the x direction. Therefore and as per the results of the analysis, super single tires would inflect less percentage of bottom up cracking in the asphalt concrete layer and less permanent deformation in all pavement layers.

   

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Title: Water and glycol coolants in the autonomous heat supply
Author (s): Pavel Aleksandrovich Khavanov and Anatoly Sergeevich Chulenyov
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The solution to the problem of defrosting in the autonomous systems of heat supply in cases of an accidental power outage is often solved by replacing the water in the "freezing" of heat carriers, which include the water-glycol mixture. However, it must be borne in mind that the water-glycol fluids can lead to significant violations of the mode of operation of the heating system, which may lead to a decrease of heat transfer and the ingress of air into the system, as well as boiler malfunction that could lead to a decrease in performance or damage to the heating surfaces due to the formation of domestic deposits. In this study reviewed and analyzed thermal and hydraulic features of water-glycol (WG), water-ethylene-glycol (WEG) and water-propylene-glycol (WPG) coolants autonomous heating systems of various types. Analyzed the cost comparison, coolant system pressure losses and the principle choice of the volume of the expansion vessel.

   

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Title: Data mining approach for outlier detection on hotspot data as forest and land fire indicator: A case study in Riau Province Indonesia
Author (s): Imas Sukaesih Sitanggang, Mohamad Bentar Cahyadahrena and Shofyan
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Forest fire is one of environmental problems which has continuously repeated and causes serious problems in health and environment especially in Sumatera and Kalimantan Island Indonesia. A hotspot is an indicator for forest fires which is daily collecting by some national and international institutions. This study aims to identify outliers from a hotspot dataset based on its occurrence using data mining approach. The dataset consists of 4383 daily hotspots and 144 monthly hotspots in Riau Province in Sumatera Island for the period of 2001-2012. A medoid-based clustering algorithm namely Partitioning Around Medoids (PAM) was applied on the hotspot frequency datasets and results 17 best clusters in which the average frequency of outliers is 351.11. These outliers are mostly occurred in February, March, June, July, and August. In addition, Local Outlier Factor (LOF) algorithm was applied to identify outliers based on the location of hotspots. This study detects high number of outliers in years 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2012 based on the LOF. Majority outliers spread on several districts including Dumai, Rokan Hilir, Bengkalis and Pelalawan in Riau Province especially in the period of dry seasons namely February to March and June to August. Outlier distribution on hotspot data is important for forest and land fires prevention.

   

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Title: Particulars of oil structural organization
Author (s): Alena Kuzhaeva and Natalia Dzhevaga
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One of the general problems of all lines of research is the exhibition of various micro- and macroscopic effects. These exhibitions can be characterized by three terms: nonlinearity, nonequilibrium and heterogeneity. The reason for it is the unique in terms of composition and properties test subject - oil and its components. Considering complexity and heterogeneity of its composition, multitude of phases, the presence of colloid-dispersed inclusions, a variety of intermolecular interaction, bonds, interconnections and ordering relationship between the components, oil systems can be put down for as complex systems. Research related to the in-depth studying of the various complexity level oil systems chemical composition are highly topical for establishing causes of complications, arising in various processes, and searching for solution approach.

   

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Title: System identification and model validation of Electro-Hydraulic actuator for quarter car system
Author (s): Norlela Ishak, Mazidah Tajjudin, Hashimah Ismail and Ramli Adnan
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Electro-Hydraulic actuator is common tools used in the industries. This is due to accurate positioning toward the load and fast response make it as major instruments for the industries process. This paper presents experimental work on non-recursive identification of Electro-Hydraulic actuator system that represented by a discrete-time model in open-loop configuration. A least square method is used to estimate the unknown parameters of the system based on auto regression with exogenous input (ARX) model. The plant mathematical model was approximated using system identification by aid of System Identification Toolbox of Matlab from open-loop input-output experimental data. These models have been validated by R2 or best fitting criterion, root mean square error and correlation analysis to determine the adequate model for representing the EHA system. By using pole-placement method, this controller is designed for the model chosen through simulation in Matlab-Simulink. The results show that the model chosen which is applied with the proposed controller is able to perform position tracking with high accuracy.

   

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Title: Implementation of parameters monitoring and controlling system using wireless communication
Author (s): K. Karthikumar, M. Karuppiah, A. Arunbalaj, S. Krishnakumar and P. Sathyanathan
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Nowadays the automation has become a basic need for emerging technologies. Motors are the nerves of many industries. Hence Industrial automation is required for precise and accurate operation. This project proposes a wireless control and monitoring system for various industrial machines based on Zigbee communication protocol for safe and economic data communication in industrial fields where the wired communication is more expensive or impossible due to physical conditions. Sensor module is used to monitor the parameters of any industrial machine and transmit the data through Zigbee Protocol. In case of fault in the main machine, the controller analyze the data from sensor and automatically sends signal to the alarm circuit and relay circuit which switches to standby machine and also monitors the parameters. ARM processor based system is used for collecting and storing data and accordingly transmits the information to the control room through computer interface and stores the data periodically. A prototype and Simulink model is developed and tested to verify the performance of this proposed system.

   

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Title: A system to optimize glucose tests in the hospitals of Huila department in Colombia
Author (s): Albeiro Cortes Cabezas and Jose de Jesus Salgado Patron
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Nowadays many health centers in the world have robust hospital information systems capable of storing and processing the collected data of all type of variables associated to the different medical and laboratory tests that are made to the users of the service. A hospital information system enables the integrity and readability of patient information to be guaranteed. In addition, it makes it possible for such information to be available at the point of care where the patient is, independently of the institution providing health services where it is attended. Unfortunately, hospitals in Huila do not yet have an adequate information system, so that old-fashioned, complex and unstructured methods are used, such as handwriting the results of tests performed in paper formats, which are then examined and analyzed by the attending physician and then make the relevant decisions. In this project, an information system was implemented to optimize the process of glucose testing (glucometry) in hospitals in Huila to improve the organization of data, making access much more comfortable. The HL7 standard set was used as a guide for good interoperability and to make the system scalable. Access can be made through a mobile application, which was developed using Android Studio or through a website. The information system allows access to the data of a specific patient and also has the option of graphing them to observe the evolution of glucose levels over time and thus provide the appropriate treatments for each case.

   

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Title: The steps of creating an experimental system for accumulation and storage of electrical energy
Author (s): Kirill Evgenievich Karpukhin, Alexander Alekseevich Shorin, Alexey Stanislavovich Terenchenko and Vladimir Nikolaevich Kondrashov
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The basic questions of the integrated environmental safety and energy conservation issues in the transport sector of Russia and the world as a whole are viewed in this scientific article. The usefulness of hybrid and electric vehicles is shown. Modern types of accumulator cells used in hybrid and electric vehicles were examined. The main stages of development, manufacturing and testing of complex accumulation and energy storage system for the driverless electric vehicle of FSUE NAMI were analyzed. The main aspects of operation of the electric vehicles at low ambient temperatures were considered. The results of the laboratory tests for the accumulation and energy storage system with thermostatic system were shown.

   

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Title: On the conversion of automotive engines for general aviation
Author (s): Luca Piancastelli and Stefano Cassani
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Automotive engines have outstanding quality controls and extremely high cost-effectiveness. This is typical to lean, mass production. For this reason, the application of these engines on aircraft is most appealing. Ultralight-sport aircraft have pioneered this approach. A few automotive-aircraft certified engines are already available on the market. However, this approach has not been as successful as foresaw a few years ago. This is due to the differences between the automotive application and the aircraft use. These differences have lead to teething problems that have been solved in almost 20 years of research work. The level now reached and the experience achieved makes it possible to convert any "successful" automotive engine into an aircraft engine. This work starts with the description of the data available from automotive manufacturers. Automotive engines have a huge background of statistical data on performance, reliability and TBO (Time between Overhaul). The correlation of these data to an aircraft application is not straightforward. Then the performance curves obtainable from the new aircraft engine are introduced. Finally, an algorithm calculates the residual life to TBO (Time between Overhaul) of an automotive engine. The method was tested on a few small last-generation CRDIDs (Common Rail Direct Injection Diesels) and spark ignition (gasoline) engines. These engines were also converted for use into small aircrafts with power ranging from 60 to 200HP. This very simple method is implemented directly in the FADEC (Full Authority Digital Electronic Control) or E-ECU (Engine Electronic Control Unit) of the engine with very few lines of C-Code (C-Language Code). It is assumed that the engine undergoes regular maintenance schedule and OBD (On Board Diagnostic) is implemented. OBD is perfectly able to foresee the imminent failure of the accessories like the starting motor, the generator, the turbocharger, the injector's, the HPP (High Pressure Pump), etc. These parts are external to the engine and can be changed during field maintenance. Accidents, like prolonged under/overcooling, crankshaft damper failure, over speed are monitored by the OBD and require specific maintenance actions. Ordinary problems like excessive fuel, lubricant, coolant consumption, pressures out of range... are also dealt by the OBD-related service system.

   

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