Objectives: This study was focused on the finite element techniques to investigate the effect of surface treatment on the fatigue life of the vibrating cylinder block for new two-stroke free piston engine using random loading conditions. Motivation: An understanding of the effects related to the random loading is necessary to improve the ability of

A neural networks (NN) model has been trained to predict the performance characteristics of a dual fuel internal combustion engine (ICE). In the network, back propagation (BP) neural network with Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) and scaled conjugate gradient (SCG) algorithms, single hidden-layer and logistic sigmoid transfer function has been used to optim

This chapter proposes an emotion recognition system based on time domain analysis of the bio-signals for emotion features extraction. Three different types of emotions (happy, relax and sad) are classified and results are compared using five different algorithms based on RVM, MLP, DT, SVM and Bayesian techniques. Experimental results show the poten

Surface roughness (Ra) and kerf taper ratio (TR) characteristics of an abrasive water jet machined surfaces of glass/epoxy composite laminate were studied. Taguchi’s design of experiments and analysis of variance were used to determine the effect of machining parameters on Ra and TR. Hydraulic pressure and type of abrasive materials were consider

This paper describes the design, analysis and comparison of two ∞ H controllers that use two different uncertainty model representations; unstructured and structured (parametric) uncertainties. The later is usually considered as less conservative. However, the application of intelligent techniques like Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFI

This research seeks to identify the ways in which land use planning system can be used to improve public health in Malaysia. the present state of Malaysian environment has been deteriorating owing to the priority accorded to economic development is rather worrying. This study seeks to examine the role assumed by the land planning and development pr

IFSB’s Guiding Principles on Shari'ah Governance Systems for Institutions Offering Islamic Financial Services defines “Shari'ah governance system” as the set of institutional and organisational arrangements through which an institution offering Islamic financial services oversees Shari'ah compliance, i.e., that Islamic banking pro

In this study, biodiesel was produced from sludge palm oil (SPO) using tolune-4-sulfonic monohydrate acid (PTSA) as an acid catalyst in different dosages in the presence of methanol to convert free fatty acid (FFA) to fatty acid methyl ester (FAME), followed by a transesterification process using an alkaline catalyst. In the first step, acid cataly

In this study sulphuric acid has been used in pre-treatment of sludge palm oil for biodiesel production by esterification process. The purpose of pre-treatment process was reducing the free fatty acids (FFA) content in the sludge palm oil (SPO) to a minimum level for biodiesel production. Esterification process of SPO was carried out to evaluate su

A reverse phase high performance liquid chromatographic method for the detection of the neurotransmitters namely serotonin, tryptophan and dopamine in human blood samples has been developed. Spiked standard samples were analysed using a fluorescence detector after chromatographic separation. For the analytes a working range of 2.5 ng/mL to 25 ng/mL