Predicting the impact of suicide on incidental witnesses at an early stage helps to avert the possible side effect. When suicide is committed in public, incidental observers are left to grapple with it. In many cases, these incidental witnesses tend to experience the emotional side effect with time. In this study, we employed a Machine…

Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign on (SSO) are two security concepts that are related to each other. IAM governs the user access in an organization whereas SSO facilitates the user by authenticating to one centralized application and not having to re-authenticate when trying to access other applications. This paper addresses the different…

Mental health disorder is becoming a social problem, and there is a need for technology that can easily check for states of stress and depression as a countermeasure. Conventional methods of diagnostic support and screening include self-administered psychological tests and use of biomarkers. However, there are problems such as burden on subjects, examination costs, dedicated…

Plastic is highly polluting nowadays and is found in many disposable elements used for people. Plastic materials are disposed inadequately and large quantities of them become pollution in the ground, water, and air, affecting plants and animals. Most of the plastic is Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) which is used in many activities. Resistance, support capacity, and…

In this paper a chemical substance reporting system is presented to enable industry to assess the impacts of increasing chemical regulations. Chemical regulations impose the need to monitor, control and restrict the use of hazardous substances. As chemical substances become more regulated, industry requires mechanisms to identify potential business continuity risks, posed by increased regulation.…

Flow measurements are important for numerous industries as it directly relates to proper equipment functioning and product quality. This work demonstrates a novel thermal energy based compact flow measuring sensor. The sensor injects thermal energy into the core which is then extracted by the moving flow through the center of the core. Temperature changes produced…

Usually, after properly biasing an analog circuit we need to linearize its transistors in order to linearize the entire circuit for performance analysis and design. This linearization is done through modeling of devices, which is becoming more and more complicated as the electronic technology advances. This is not of course a major issue for circuit…

Nd:YAG laser has shown some potential to be used in dental practice replacing the conventional method. In particular, it can be used to modify the tooth surface by the ablation process. The laser provides an ability to accurately deliver a significant amount of energy into a confined region. Thus, alteration of the sample surface and…

A design of elliptical printed dipole antenna based on neural network approach is presented in this paper for recent WiMAX, Bluetooth, WLAN, LTE, and future 5G applications. The dipole patch is printed on top of substrate which has relative permittivity of 2.2 and 0.787mm of thickness. The elliptical dipole antenna is single band and the…

A sequential pre-treatment of demineralization and torrefaction, was carried out on palm empty fruit bunches (EFB). EFB and demineralized EFB (DEFB) were torrefied in a vertical tubular reactor in the temperature range of 200 to 280 °C for 30 mins under nitrogen (flow rate:100 mL/min. The pretreated samples were characterized using proximate and ultimate analyses,…

This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable nature and the involvement of low cost. In this critical survey, a thorough analysis of various intelligent techniques is carried…

This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable nature and the involvement of low cost. In this critical survey, a thorough analysis of various intelligent techniques is carried…

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications can take big advantage of Context Awareness approaches. Parameters such as user mobility, passengers comfort reaction and pollution emission levels (CO2) can enrich such applications during the decision making phase. Moreover, the expanding in ITS services offers great opportunities for travelers to find the best route to reach their destinations…

DC power is apparently attempting to breach into the power system – the system which it once lost to the AC power paradigm. DC is already present in the generation, transmission and utilization sides of the system, leaving distribution as the only area where it has not shown any significant presence – this may be…

The monitoring of environmental parameters is a critical topic in occupational medicine. With advances in technology, during the recent years, the wearable sensors are widely used to evaluate the ambient parameters. In this paper a compact, small, light-weighted, and configurable sensor node in three physical layers for prolonged chemical ambient monitoring is described. The device…

Cloud Computing is considered nowadays an attractive solution to serve the Big Data storage, processing, and analytics needs. Given the high complexity of Big Data workflows and their contingent requirements, a single cloud provider might not be able alone to satisfy these needs. A multitude of cloud providers that offer myriad of cloud services and…

At present, the wireless charging and data transmission systems developed by major car manufacturers rely heavily on additional transmission equipment. This paper presents a newly developed wireless power and bidirectional data transmission scheme without adding any radio frequency (RF) devices. The battery charge status and vehicle related information can be transmitted bidirectionally in the wireless…

Conceptually, flood modeling can be done based on process and data availability (data driven model). The implementation of flood mitigation requires accurate data, which can be obtained from high resolution satellite imagery, vertical air photos and high-resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Modeling using high accuracy DEM data can detect landforms in more detail. The objective…

In this study, torrefaction pretreatment on palm kernel shell (PKS) was investigated using fixed bed reactor. The PKS was torrefied at the temperatures of 210, 230, 250, 270 and 290 °C. The characteristics between untreated and torrefied PKS were compared. The results showed that, the mass and energy yield lessened, while the calorific value augmented…

Digitalization changes the way people work to a considerable extent. It alters business models and process organizations of whole industries. The ensuing market dynamics and faster innovation cycles cause an increase in complexity. In this article, the interconnection of digitalization and complexity in work systems is analyzed. For this purpose, a framework for comparing relevant…

Fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) comes to cope with the context of the new mobile telecommunications era. Edge computing is a new collaborative technology under standardization utilizing end-user devices or near-end-user edge devices to operate processing, communication, or control operations. The achievement of efficient error control is a very critical aspect in the successful…

This work presents new pipeline-parallel, generic and configurable parallel hardware architectures for the Direct/Inverse Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT/IDWPT) independent of any specific family of wavelets, implemented in FPGA technology using a parallel architecture of direct FIR filter. We propose in the following paper, new P-parallel structures for the DWPT and IDWPT transforms based on the…

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a new concept that has a great appeal for researchers, businesses and the ordinary tech user. It presents new possibilities of connection between devices and people and it stimulates our need and desire to interact, to exchange ideas and to communicate with the surrounding environment. This paper briefly explores…

There are more than 7billion people in the world where there are around 500 million people in the world who are denied from normal lifestyle due to physical and mental issue. It is completely fair to say that every person deserves to enjoy a normal lifestyle. While physically and mentally challenged people find suitable way…

A low-complexity dual-band chirp FSK, direct conversion receiver is described in this paper. The receiver is dedicated to be used in the transceiver unit of a medical implantable wireless sensor. The system uses the RF band between 402 and 405 MHz. Two sub-bands frequencies employing chirped pulses are assigned for both binary information. The novelty…