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    Penempatan Peneroka Di Rancangan Kemajuan Tanah Beris Lalang, Bachok Suatu Penilaian Sosio – Ekonomi Para Peneroka

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    Matlamat utama dalam Dasar Ekonomi Baru ialah untuk membasmi kemiskinan dan Menyusun semula masyarakat.Melalui objektif serampang dua mata kerajaan berhasrat dan berharap agar ianya dapat dipergunakan untuk menyelesaikan masalah sosio-ekonomi masyarakat.Satu langkah yang dianggap paling berkesan dalam menyelesaikan maslah sosio-ekonomi masyarakat luar bandar ialah dengan memperkenalkan rancangan pembangunan tanah

    Shape transformations of lipid bilayers following rapid cholesterol uptake

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    High cholesterol levels in the blood increase the risk of atherosclerosis. A common explanation is that the cholesterol increase in the plasma membrane perturbs the shape and functions of cells by disrupting the cell signaling pathways and the formation of membrane rafts. In this work, we show that after enhanced transient uptake of cholesterol, mono-component lipid bilayers change their shape similarly to cell membranes in vivo. The bilayers either expel lipid protrusions or spread laterally as a result of the ensuing changes in their lipid density, the mechanical constraints imposed on them, and the properties of cyclodextrin used as a cholesterol donor. In light of the increasingly recognized link between membrane tension and cell behavior, we propose that the physical adaptation of the plasma membrane to cholesterol uptake may play a substantial role in the biological response

    Liquid slosh control by implementing model-free PID controller with derivative filter based on PSO

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    Conventionally, the control of liquid slosh system is done based on model-based techniques that challenging to implement practically because of the chaotic motion of fluid in the container. The aim of this article is to develop the tuning technique for model-free PID with derivative filter (PIDF) parameters for liquid slosh suppression system based on particle swarm optimization (PSO). PSO algorithm is responsible to find the optimal values for PIDF parameters based on fitness functions which are Sum Squared Error (SSE) and Sum Absolute Error (SAE) of the cart position and liquid slosh angle response. The modelling of liquid slosh in lateral movement is considered to justify the design of control scheme. The PSO tuning method is compared by heuristic tuning method in order to show the effectiveness of the proposed tuning approach. The performance evaluations of the proposed tuning method are based on the ability of the tank to follow the input in horizontal motion and liquid slosh level reduction in time domain. Based on the simulation results, the suggested tuning method is capable to reduce the liquid slosh level in the same time produces fast input tracking of the tank without precisely model the chaotic motion of the fluid

    Effect of mega railway projects on small and medium construction companies: Impact and problems

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    Railway mega-projects are typically enormous large-scale investment projects that require a long time to develop and build. However, compared to other types of transportation, the railway is a safe mode of land transportation. Therefore, development such as railway mega-projects positively impacts small and medium construction companies. This study aims to study the impact of railway mega-projects on small and medium construction companies and investigate the problems that small and medium construction companies experience involving railway mega-projects. This study used a qualitative method of open-ended interviews to collect data from small and medium construction companies. The collected data from twenty individuals were analyzed using the thematic analysis method. The results show that the challenges of mega railway projects are divided into technical and resources. Apart from that, job opportunities are the main factor contributing to the impact of mega railway projects. The study contributes by providing insights on the impact of mega railway projects on small and medium construction companies and the challenges involving mega railway projects

    Development Of Portable Air Conditioning Using Peltier Effect For Small Area Uses

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    Air conditioning is the science of controlling dependent parameters such as human comfort,temperature,relative humidity and air quality.This paper presented the development of a portable air conditioning using Peltier Effect in the small area uses using Boost converter as current control devices.A Boost converter has been designed in order to supply a sufficient current that required to the Peltier module to operate.An Arduino UNO board is used to supply the boost converter with pulse width modulation to ensure the boost converter is able to boost the current up until required range of operation. The circuit then simulated using Proteus PCB Design and Simulation to validate the output voltage and current. Based on our findings,the boost converter is operated as predicted in term of a step up the current and voltage. The temperature for cold side are observed reach 23.6 °C in 300s at less than 1A current.This is due to Peltier module is a current control device where when the current increases,the efficiency decreases while maximum cooling occurs at some specific current.If we increased the output current,the cold side is observed to reach 23.6 °C in less than 240s.Based on our findings,this portable air conditioning is useful to cool a small area (20inch x 20inch) with ambient temperature during full load is consistently recorded at 23.6°C

    Development of Portable Air Conditioning Using Peltier Effect For Small Area Uses

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    Air conditioning is the science of controlling dependent parameters such as human comfort, temperature, relative humidity and air quality. This paper presented the development of a portable air conditioning using Peltier Effect in the small area uses using Boost converter as current control devices. A Boost converter has been designed in order to supply a sufficient current that required to the Peltier module to operate. An Arduino UNO board is used to supply the boost converter with pulse width modulation to ensure the boost converter is able to boost the current up until required range of operation. The circuit then simulated using Proteus PCB Design and Simulation to validate the output voltage and current. Based on our findings, the boost converter is operated as predicted in term of a step up the current and voltage. The temperature for cold side are observed reach 23.6 °C in 300s at less than 1A current. This is due to Peltier module is a current control device where when the current increases, the efficiency decreases while maximum cooling occurs at some specific current. If we increased the output current, the cold side is observed to reach 23.6 °C in less than 240s. Based on our findings, this portable air conditioning is useful to cool a small area (20inch x 20inch) with ambient temperature during full load is consistently recorded at 23.6°C

    Short-cut to new anomalies in gravity duals to logarithmic conformal field theories

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    Various massive gravity theories in three dimensions are conjecturally dual to logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We summarise the status of these conjectures. LCFTs are characterised by the values of the central charges and the so-called "new anomalies". We employ a short-cut to calculate these new anomalies in generalised massive gravity and in the recently proposed higher-derivative gravity theories with holographic c-theorem. Both cases permit LCFTs exhibiting intriguing features, like rank three Jordan cells or non-zero central charges. Finally, as an example we discuss in some detail the partially massless version of new massive gravity, a theory with several special properties that we call "partially massless gravity".Comment: 34 pages, 2 figures; v2: added references; v3: Several rewordings in the introduction and section 2, added references. Matches published versio
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