The purpose of this study is to show how to design the character used as the symbol or Mascot of the educational institution and how to apply the design results into advertising and Brand identity design such as printing art, poster, digital media, toy, and souvenir. In this study, the ideas of mascot design have…

Android Operating system (OS) has been used much more than all other mobile phone’s OS turning android OS to a major point of attack. Android Application installation serves as a major avenue through which attacks can be perpetrated. Permissions must be first granted by the users seeking to install these third-party applications. Some permissions can…

Today, Drowning is the 3rd major cause for unintentional injury death accounting for 7% of deaths of all injury deaths. Drowning is a state of suffocation when water or other fluids accumulate the lungs, resulting in respiratory impairment, ultimately leading to death. The predominant problem during rescue operations of such accidental drowning is to locate…

IoT integrates and connects intelligent devices or objects with varied architectures and resources. The number of IoT devices is growing exponentially. Due to the massive wave of IoT objects, their diversity and heterogeneity among their architectures, the existing communication protocols for wireless networks become ineffective in the context of IoT. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has…

Environmental monitoring has gained significant importance in outdoor air quality measurement and assessment for fundamental survival as well as ambient assisted living. In real-time outdoor urban scale, instantaneous air quality index estimation, the electrochemical sensors warm-up time, cross-sensitivity computation-error, geo-location typography, instantaneous capacity or back up time; and energy efficiency are the six major challenges.…

Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is the future of aviation. It is a vast system that provides situational awareness for the aviator and regulator at a very low cost and does so with the aid of multiple disparate systems working closely together and communicating with one another. ADS-B uses the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS/ GPS)…

Manufacturing industry is facing several challenges in power quality and energy consumptions that play a significant role in the cost of goods sold in addition to the operational efficiency of manufacturing plants. The current techniques are not enough to manage the manufacturing processes from power perspectives as it is focusing only on the monitoring of…

The technological evolution and the frequent use of the Internet as a technology within the framework of the Internet of Things and Robotics has affected various fields such as Industry 4.0, smart agriculture, smart cities, home automation and autonomous cars. These advances applied to everyday life have facilitated the implementation of new concepts to minimize…

In this paper we propose an algorithmic approach for Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for digital watermarking which outperforms the existing frequency domain techniques in all aspects including security along with the criteria in the neural networks such as conditions embedded, and types of watermarking attack. This research addresses digital watermarking in deep neural networks and…

Biological networks represent biological systems, and various graph analysis algorithms have been applied to solve various real-world problems. Network motif analysis, as one of network analyses, is detecting frequently and uniquely over-occurring subgraph patterns in a network. The detection process requires high computational resources, and various tools have been developed to provide efficient solutions. However,…

Lime mortar, an age-long building material is primarily popular for its flexibility, the basis of its ability to accommodate masonry deformation, hence durability. However, lime’s characteristic delayed setting/hardening time, low mechanical strength and poor internal cohesion often characterised by volumetric changes have put its use into decline. These shortcomings have therefore relegated relevance of this…

The technics of maximum power point tracking is widely used in solar photovoltaic energy and electric power system applications. Traditionally, these technics are based on conventional methods like perturb and observe and incremental conductance. In this work, three methods based on particle swarms optimization, incremental conductance and adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system are presented. A…

In this paper, the investigated results on tool wear in milling process of a Gleason spiral bevel gear was investigated. The CVD Ti (C, N)-Al2O3-TiN coated carbide inserts were used in the experimental process. The cutting inserts clamped on the tool head of Gleason tool head system. The workpiece material that was used in this…

The huge number of images on the image sharing websites poses challenges for classification and retrieval of the images. On many image sharing websites, tags can be assigned by the users to an image that describes the contextual and visual description of an image. However, ambiguous or incorrect tags have appeared in frequent tags that…

The article discusses the possibility of using solar energy for street lighting systems in the city of Gitega, in the Republic of Burundi. Analysis of weather and climate conditions of the city was carried out and an effective street lighting system based on solar mini-power plants using an intelligent control system developed. Calculations of technical…

Background: The quality of care of the nursing professional in relation to the hospitalized patient refers to the set of knowledge and attitudes that the nursing professional must provide quality care, preventing risks and improving patient satisfaction, for which its objective is to determine the quality of nursing care in hospitalized patients at the LanFranco la…

Interpolation tools are used daily in hydrology and climatology. With the purpose to regionalize spot´s registration parameters, such as depth of precipitation, temperature, humidity, among others. The accuracy of these methods is not fully validated. This research presents a comparative study between the most used interpolation methods for the regionalization of hydrological and climatological parameters.…

Traffic congestion is being experienced daily by many travellers both on the inner-city roads as well as on the highways. The toll plaza can become a real highway bottleneck, as vehicles must stop and manually pay the tolls at the toll booths. This stop-and-go process can seriously affect traffic fluidity, resulting in a lower quality…

In 1980, an application was developed to track, manage and store documents in electronic format. Scan technology has enabled organizations to digitize papers for easier document storage and tracking. Document management tools have since developed by introducing new functionalities, related to security, users services, workflow and audit. Our research is part of the context of…

Atmospheric pressure plasma was used to treat polypropylene (PP) surfaces. Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) was used to determine the chemical species formed in the plasma as well as the electron temperature and density of the plasma. The flux of species (O and OH) produced during the plasma treatment interact with the polymer surface creating polar…

This research presents an effectively autonomous method that can save time and increases productivity for an assembly line in industry by using a 6DOF manipulator and computer vision. The objects are flat, aluminum type and randomly stacked in a box. Firstly, 2D color image processing is performed to label the object, then using 3D pose…

The fifth-generation (5G) wireless system was implemented due to the massive connectivity, especially Internet of Things (IoT) including industrial automation, Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications, which is shelter an extensive range of applications services and use cases and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). A cellular Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) based on radio resource allocation schemes need…

The pressing and most urgent challenge for most of the Posts in Southern Africa is to transit from its historical reputation of being a snail-paced, inefficient, loss-making and ineffective service provider to an agile, innovative, solution-driven and highly competitive service provider that strive for excellence. In this context, adoption, and diffusion of technology and digital…

Cyberattacks such as spear phishing and malspam pretending to be companies, institutes, and government officials are increasing and evolving. Malware has a variety of purposes, such as collecting personal information and illegal access to the system. New types of malware are increasing every day, and many malware programs spread all over the Internet, causing severe…

This paper proposes a photovoltaic (PV) integrated shunt active power filter (SAPF) for reactive power compensation, uneven loading and compensation of harmonic current. The control of SAPF is implemented by using adaptive based current estimation algorithm to maintain power factor near to unity and source current sinusoidal at source side. The weights are calculated online…