Comprehensive comparison on quarter-car, half-car and full-car models were conducted to analyze the effect of using semiactive control policies, namely skyhook, groundhook and hybrid controls, in improving ride quality of passenger vehicle. Sprung mass acceleration, suspension deflection and tire deflection responses were analyzed for measurements

Engineering Education is facing new challenges to improve their outcomes toward higher quality to meet the job market demand and to keep abreast with current technologies. Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is the key that might provide accountability and essential ingredient in this quality improvement effort. It is an analytical decision making

The production of palm oil results in the generation of huge quantities of polluting wastewater commonly known as Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME). POME is a thick brownish liquid that contains high amount of total solids, oil and grease, chemical oxidation demand (COD), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and if not properly treated, can disrupt the nat

The performance of an ordinary automobile engine was tested with several percentage of industrially made ethanol (99.8%) mixed with gasoline in IIUM Engine Test Bed. Without having any modification to the engine, a 1500 cc. Mitsubishi 4G 15 internal combustion four engine was tested with various percentages of ethanol mixed with gasoline starting t

Previous results show that fermentation of palm oil mill effluent (POME) with Aspergillus niger IBS-103ZA has successfully increased the phenolic content and also antioxidant activities of the extract [1]. In this study, the potential use of Aspergillus niger IBS-103ZA to treat the effluent for removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and heavy meta

We have investigated the effect of manganese (Mn) doping on properties of nanosized biphasic calcium phosphate powders and their dense bodies. Manganese levels of 0.6, 1.3, 1.9, 4.3, 7.0 and 11.9 at.% were successfully incorporated into biphasic calcium phosphate via a sol–gel route. The prepared powders were calcined at temperatures of 500–120

 Innovation – New, novelty, better discovery and invention  Technological innovation resulted from installation, improvement, modification or replacement of current available technology.  Implementation of technological change normally affects the organization work system and its operation, effectiveness, productivity while giving comfor

Tax audit, a key feature of the self-assessment system (SAS), may have a significant deterrent effect on taxpayers. Previous studies show that the audit experience may influence taxpayers’ compliance behaviour. Though the SAS has been implemented on companies in Malaysia since 2001, information on the efficacy of tax audit activities conducted by

In this paper, we describe the HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) system developed to operate a humanoid robot head capable of visual tracking and servoing of human face through image processing. The robotic humanoid head named Amir-II, equipped with a camera and servoing mechanism is used as the platform. The Amir-II tracks the human face within the fi

Productivity is a very important concern now a day for an industry. Productivity improvement is a vital factor for continuous economic growth and increase in standard of living. Productivity can be improved through time and motion study. Time and motion study plays a very important role to improved productivity of an industry or any production sect