Empathy is an attribute of importance between the nursing professional and the patient, where it influences the recovery of their health. Several studies carried out have shown worrying results where they reflect a great decrease in empathy during the formative academic years. The objective of the study is to determine empathy in nursing interns from…

According to IEC 61805 and ISO 26262 standards requirement inclusion of LBIST (Logic Built in Self-Test) became mandatory to achieve safety critical application such as automotive field. In such systems, once device is switched ON LBIST (Logic Built in Self-Test) is activated and testing of digital logic is performed. After safety subsystem says that the…

Dynamic positioning, a system to maintain vessel position and heading, is a technology that is used in many vessels and being intensively used as research topic in marine engineering. In order to make this system work properly, an accurate parameters value is needed. This research focuses on finding several parameters needed in this control system,…

Previous research has found that first-years in college is challenging due to changes in academic demands and the adaptation process. In addition to this, research on career development has found that barriers and supports may influence career interest, motivation to continue and student retention. This study explores the influence of specific supports and barriers among…

A nonlinear adaptive robust controller is proposed in this paper for trajectory-tracking control problems of robot manipulators. On one hand, to effectively approximate the systematic dynamics, a simple time-delay estimator is first adopted. On the other hand, to minimize the control error, the controller is designed based on a sliding mode structure using the obtained…

A new method of analysis and classification of rock acoustic emission signals is proposed. It is based on symbol description of signals and involves the following processing. First, signal segments containing pulses are detected. Second, noise of the detected pulses is reduced by the wavelet filtration method. Fourth-order symlets and adaptive threshold scheme based on…

Academic certifications are achievements desired by people, because they have a direct impact, positively, on their social lives. Such an important document, still widely issued in paper format, may be subject to forgery or impossibility of verification due to the unavailability of the issuing entity. This work consists of identifying, analyzing and testing some of…

This paper presents a low voltage, low power, fast settling switched capacitor based Proportional to Absolute Temperature (PTAT) current reference circuit. Unlike in a conventional resistor based PTAT current source, the proposed circuit saves a significant amount of silicon area on chip and hence the circuit becomes less susceptible to process variations. It creates a…

Portuguese organizations that have invoicing software, certified by the Tax and Customs Authority, need to comply with technical requirements that involve business continuity and disaster recovery. The recent tax legislative changes created conditions for the dematerialization of documents, allowing waiving invoice printing, encouraging the adoption of an electronic invoicing and document archiving system. The pandemic…

In this study, the ASTM A48 Class 30 gray cast iron was cast in a medium frequency induction furnace. The ultimate tensile strength (UTS), ultimate flexural strength (UFS) and microstructure were determined in accordance with ASTM E8/E 8M-80 and ASTM A438-80 (1997). From the results of this study, the graphite size at overheating temperatures 1350oC…

With the advancements in technology, smart entities are becoming increasingly intelligent, therefore, increasing their interaction capabilities with their surrounding environment. Apart from the traditional smart low profile devices, these entities now involve cars, mobiles, televisions, and extend to universities and smart cities. One of the bi-product of the smart cities is the emergence of the…

It is the age of information. Social networks are the main reason why, following the increasing activity of online users. With this comes a big impact on the real world, it can be positive and highly negative as well. Therefore, research in this field is highly needed for the betterment of societal behaviors within social…

This paper aims to design an accurate and robust algorithm for counting the steps based on the smartphone’s accelerometer for indoor applications. Different daily activities have been considered in the experimental scenarios, including normal walking with various smartphone positions and running activities. The detection process’s accuracy is ensured by setting an appropriate segregation approach and…

Complete manual annotation of dependency treebank needs resources like annotators and annotation tools and takes long time and has high possibility of inconsistent annotations for free word order languages such as Myanmar. This paper describes a dependency head annotation scheme with Universal part-of-speech and Universal Dependencies for Myanmar dependency treebank. Currently 22,810 sentences and 680,218…

Computer vision offers several strategies that permit computers to comprehend the substance of inputted data to extract the relevant highlights features. That gives the possibility to develop several successful recognition systems like face identification. One of the enormous difficulties these days is the way to have a prompt identification face in a multi-client identification system.…

This study used 15 VECM analysis models to analyze the relationship among exchange rates of South Korea, China and Japan; and between exchange rates of each country and international financial market variables. The analysis variables are the Won, Yuan, Yen spot exchange rates and international financial market variables. The results of the analysis are as…

Traditional crossroads use traffic lights, but may cause delays due to its stop and wait process. Moreover, autonomous vehicles are being made, although it is not yet mass-produced. This work presents a design and implementation of an agile system that communicates and coordinates autonomous vehicles entering the intersection by adjusting their speeds and maneuvers to…

This paper presents the results of the research conducted with the help of cognitive cybernetics about the “mass” factor from the theory of totalitarianism. According to the expert system model, “big data” analysis sought to discover knowledge for assessing the future status of digital social connectivity. Originally developed models and methods of cognitive and computer…

Many recent studies on autonomous driving have focused on model-based control. A number of studies has addressed that simple models such as the Kinematic Bicycle Model are easier to design controls for autonomous driving systems. However, such a simple vehicle model has a weakness in that it is subject to modeling errors. This is because…

Nowadays, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) is very important especially in the era of smart cities and intelligent transport systems. Fully automated number plate detection and recognition system helps in reducing time, error, and cost for tracking of vehicles and for recording traffic violations. The main goal of this paper is to design a low…

In today’s modern world, reliable automatic personal recognition is a crucial area of discussion, primarily because of the increased security risks. A large number of systems first require the recognition of a person before they can access their services. Biometric recognition can be used, which can be understood as automatic identification or automatic verification of…

The income generated from the tourism sector exhibits the main driving force for national revenues in Indonesian. Based on data from the Ministry of Tourism in Indonesia, it turns out that the potential tourist category originated from the cluster of college students or school-aged cohort. In this line, social media signifies a similar age of…

One drawback of the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem with the Analytic Network Process (ANP) is that the origin of the network cannot be clearly defined. In addition, it is not possible to specify internal relationship between criteria and sub-criteria. The application of Design Structure Matrix (DSM) with the Partitioning Reachability Matrix method resulted…

Transformer health assessment techniques, based on applicable standards, such as the dissolved gas analysis (DGA), through laboratory testing or online monitoring are used to analyze the symptoms of a failure which develops in transformers from an early stage. The DGA from a sample of dielectric liquid taken from the main tank generates information on the…

This paper presents an adaptive step-size and variable leaky least mean square algorithm based on nonlinear adaptive filter with the adaptive lookup table using spline interpolation. An adaptive step-size approach is proposed with the energy of squared previous and present errors to boost up the convergence rate. A modified variable leaky mechanism is proposed with…