Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the wear behavior of as-cast (AC) and heat treated (HT) triple particle size (TPS) silicon carbide (SiC) reinforced aluminum alloy-based metal matrix composites (SiCp/Al-MMC). Design/methodology/approach – Al-MMCs were prepared using 20?vol.% SiC reinforcement into aluminum metal matrix and develo

Wi-Fi’s signals strength (SS), and signal quality (SQ) are found to greatly fluctuate in determination of symbolic user location in an indoor environment. This paper explores the influence of several different training data-sets in determining user’s symbolic location. The implementation and experimentation were done using offline instance-base

This paper presents a preliminary study on the roles of green infrastructure network as social spaces for well-being of urban residents.1 Diversity of Green Infrastructure Network and Cognitive Well -being of Urban Residents Mazlina Mansor1 and Ismail Said² 1PhD Candidate, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 2Associate Prof

This paper focuses on a new framework for an Intelligent Environment to respond intelligently to persons being in a ubiquitous computing environment. The framework contains 1. context notations to have a three-key-predicate relations (location, activity and response awareness), 2. taxonomy of the context aware computing in responding to user activi

The paper explored the significance of residents’ experience with an array of green infrastructure in Taiping, a small town in central Peninsular Malaysia. It argued that the existence of a composite of greenery and open spaces in a town with pleasing qualities contributes to cognitive performance, through contact and participation. In particular

The past decade has seen a rapid development of many applications in the field of pervasive or ubiquitous computing. This is made possible by rapid development in mobile and handheld devices. Due to this widespread usage however, localization and positioning systems, especially indoor, have become increasingly important for resources management. Th

Introduction: Identification of risk factors associated with functional disability among elderly population is important in order to improve their quality of life. Objective: To study the functional disability among elderly population in primary care clinics and its relation to their socio-demographic and health related risk factors. Material and M

Point-to-Point (PTP) motion control systems play an important role in industrial engineering applications such as advanced manufacturing systems, semiconductor manufacturing systems and robot systems. Until know,PID(proportionalintegral-derivative) controllers are still the most popular controller used in industrial control systems including PTP mo

This study was undertaken with the purpose of measuring intranet effectiveness in selected Malaysian companies. Defining effectiveness as composite constructs of intranet characteristics, intranet usage and individual performance, the study employed a cross-sectional survey method. A total of 359 users participated in the study. The intranet charac

Introduction: In the Malaysian National Higher Education Strategic Plan and National Higher Education Action Plan 2007-2010, seven thrusts are identified and these include: widening access and enhancing quality; improving the quality of teaching and learning; enhancing research and innovation; strengthening higher learning institutions; intensifyin