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Objective: Individuals with aphasia often experience significant problems in their daily lives and social participation. Technologies that address speech and language disorders deficit in merging between therapist’s major role and reinforcing the training between sessions at home. It also lacks the Arabic language attention; however, current systems are typically expensive and lack amusement. Moreover, cumulative…

The proactive caching has been an emerging approach to cost-effectively boost the network capacity and reduce access latency. While the performance of which extremely relies on the content prediction. Therefore, in this paper, a proactive cache policy is proposed in a distributed manner considering the prediction of the content popularity and user location to minimise…

This study conducted experiments to investigate the effects of resting actions of e-learners during break times on keeping and improving the concentrations of learners in e-learning. Two smart toys (a dog-type robot “aibo” and a toy drone) were used for the resting actions. Two types of experiments were conducted to examine the effects: one is…

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping known as V-SLAM, is an essential task for autonomous vehicles. It can be carried out using several sensors, in particular with on board cameras. To locate a vehicle, SLAM algorithms are based on two main tasks. The first task (front-end kernel) is intended to process images in order to provide…

A precise modelling plant system is substantial to improve the design of the DC motor controller, where a low accurate model may cause an unacceptable controller system. This study presents a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system for design a high speed motor data acquisition system (HSMDAQS) and injected collected data (ICD) Simulink model to estimate accurately the…

After studying the aviation problems in Iraq, on one hand, and because Iraq has various weather characteristics due to its different terrains (i.e. mountains, plain fields, and deserts). We discussed these problems with pilots and aviation specialists, and came to the conclusion that the main offset faced is vision deficiency is foggy and dusty weather.…

Caregivers experience lower back pain due to their awkward postures while handling patients. Therefore, a monitoring system to supervise caregivers’ postures using wearable sensors is being developed. This study proposed a postural recognition method for caregivers during postural change while handling a patient on a bed. The proposed method recognizes foot positions and arm movements…

In this paper, performances of two variations of chaos based algorithms are compared. First algorithm is a self-adaptive color image encryption algorithm is proposed based on Radial Hilbert Transform and chaos. This technique uses chaotic random phase masks operated on the transformed pixels to increase the randomness in confusion and diffusion operations. Also, a random…

This article is part of the field of Multi-Criteria Decision Aid (MCDA), where several criteria must be considered in decision making. All criteria are generally as varied as possible and express different dimensions, and aspects of the decision problem posed. For more than four decades, several MCDA methods have emerged and have been applied perfectly…

This paper addresses essential features/issues and proposes solutions that would improve the overall performance of a multi-phase buck converter. Low efficiency at light load is addressed with phase shedding, load fast transient and regulated output voltage spiking/dipping is addressed with novel helper technique at the point of load (output node). An Integrated current sensing is…

A real-time embedded system requires plenty of measurements to fallow the Nyquist criteria. The hardware built for such a large number of measurements, is facing the challenges like storage and transmission rate. Practically it is very much complex to build such costly hardware. Compressive Sensing (CS) will be a future alternate technique for the Nyquist…

Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEH) can be used in many areas of application, including human walking, railways, pavements and bridges. Piezoelectric energy harvesters are currently based on two types of external forces, namely pressure load and mechanical oscillation or vibration. A vibration energy harvesting (VEH) is a mechanical oscillation in a piezoelectric energy harvester that harvested…

Social skills and resilience are very important aspects for mental health; therefore, it is necessary to take into account the positive contribution in the development of adolescents, they are in a vulnerable stage, adapting to physical, mental, emotional, etc. changes. Adolescents, not knowing how to handle the difficulties that may arise, if they do not…

Ethereum smart contract system has seen a steady adoption as it continues to support tens of thousands of contracts. This feature has evolved to give a practical shape to the ideas leading up to fractional ownership transfer, using advanced smart contracts such as ERC-981. However, alongside its numerous benefits, various risks arise with the actual…

We describe the control design strategy used to control a soft robotic artificial muscle composed of silicone rubber using hand gesture signals. This artificial muscle is actuated with pneumatics, and therefore, the control strategy employed is through the regulation of air pressure within the inner chambers. Using the hand gestures of bringing the hands apart…

Horse power – the prime mover that has been there with humans for ages; chiefly used for transportation in the early days, and later, also used as an energy source leading to the conception of the term – horse power (hp). The current paper presents an interdisciplinary effort that brings forward an approach for evaluation…

In this paper, we present a new method to deduce minimal cut sets depending on the minimal path sets of the complex systems (networks) to generate the Incidence Matrix, and then compared it with the truth table of the system. This comparison, based on some algebraic properties, gives minimal-cut sets of the complex network with…

The Health-related quality of life corresponds to the perception that people have of their level of well-being, considering aspects of their lives and their impact on their state of health. The studies were initially carried out in a population that presented both acute and chronic pathologies and covered practically all areas of medical specialties; subsequently,…

The family can be referred to as a basic nucleus of society, where it must be fully formed as a group and guarantee the safety and development of its members. Increasing social inequality affects society and also the families that comprise it. It is a study with a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental, descriptive and…

Several challenges like changes in brightness, dynamic background, occlusion and inconsistency of camera position make the recognition of hand gestures difficult in any vision-based method. Diversity in finger shape, size, distribution and motion dynamics is also a big constraint. This leads to the motivation in developing a dense Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) flow based…

This article discusses the problem of handwriting recognition in Kazakh and Russian languages. This area is poorly studied since in the literature there are almost no works in this direction. We have tried to describe various approaches and achievements of recent years in the development of handwritten recognition models in relation to Cyrillic graphics. The…

Stop and Wait (SW) ARQ, Go Back N (GBN) ARQ, and Selective Repeat (SR) ARQ are the main ARQ (Automatic-Repeat-reQuest) protocols used to ensure reliable delivery of digital data at correct sequence. These protocols are implemented at the DLC (Data Link Control) sub layer of Data Link Layer (DLL) of OSI (Open System Interconnection) network…

Due to high failure rates many students end up spending unnecessary years struggling to qualify and subsequently accumulate unnecessary debt. In this paper, our principal contribution is to provide an expert system that statistically predicts the success of a first year student in an undergraduate Science programme given only academic merit in their subject matter.…

This paper highlights the importance of on-campus online job recruitment system and its role in helping students grab the available job opportunities. It highlights the problems associated with the traditional way of hiring, especially for college students. It also presents some findings and results obtained through various surveys conducted within the campus before and after…

This study aims to review English as a foreign language learning students’ perception of blended learning on various aspects of learning process. The study seeks to answer the question as to whether there is any correlation among students derived independent variable and their perception with respect to the merits and demerits of online blended learning.…