Design of a Steering Linkage Mechanism for a Simple Three Wheeled Car

One of the factors in achieving high energy efficiency in terms of fuel consumption of a car is the need to have simple and light steering system, and a three wheeled car is one of the ways to achieve this. This project attempts to design a steering linkage mechanism for a three wheeled vehicle, with two in front and one rear wheel, rear driven. Analytical and critical studies were made prior and parallel with the design to assure stability and achieved required requirements. Steering system must provide the means to steer the vehicle with stability, predictability, and enough cornering radial. Studies include analytical and critical evidence to prove the designs are logical and able to maximize the car‟s efficiency

HybridMiner: Mining Maximal Frequent Itemsets Using Hybrid Database Representation Approach

In this paper we present a novel hybrid (arraybased layout and vertical bitmap layout) database representation approach for mining complete Maximal Frequent Itemset (MFI) on sparse and large datasets. Our work is novel in terms of scalability, item search order and two horizontal and vertical projection techniques. We also present a maximal algorithm using this hybrid database representation approach. Different experimental results on real and sparse benchmark datasets show that our approach is better than previous state of art maximal algorithms.Comment: 8 Pages In the proceedings of 9th IEEE-INMIC 2005, Karachi, Pakistan, 200

Cytological Pattern of Salivary Gland Lesions

 To study the cytological pattern of salivary glands swellings on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Methods: Patients who underwent fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for their salivary gland swellings, were included. Data was analyzed from various angles including site, diagnostic categories, diagnostic entities, age and gender. Results: Parotid gland (74.3%) was the most frequently affected site, followed by submandibular gland (23.6%). The cases were divided into four main reporting groups i.e. unsatisfactory, inconclusive/ lesion of undetermined significance, non neoplastic and neoplastic constituting 0.7%, 3.6%, 22.9% and 72.9% of all the lesions respectively. Non neoplastic lesions included non specific sialadenitis, cystic lesions without any evidence of neoplasia and sialadenosis comprising 43.8%, 37.5% and 18.8% of these lesions respectively. Neoplastic lesions were divided into three categories namely benign, malignant and indeterminate. Benign tumors constituted 79 (56.4%), malignant neoplasms consisted of 8 (5.7%) and indeterminate category contained 15 (10.7%) of all cases. Mean age was 43 years and MF ratio was 1:1.7. Pleomorphic adenoma was the most frequent diagnosis among all cases, in all neoplasms as well as in benign neoplasms. Conclusion: Parotid was the commonest site of involvement. Pleomorphic adenoma and mucoepidermoid carcinoma were the most common lesions in benign and malignant neoplastic categories respectively

LOYALITAS PELANGGAN: KUALITAS PRODUK DAN KUALITAS PELAYANAN

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat pengaruh yang signifikan antara Kualitas Produk dan Kualitas Pelayanan terhadap Loyalitas Pelanggan pada Toko Bintang Sport secara parsial dan secara simultan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang bersifat survey. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Toko Bintang Sport. Sample penelitian ini sebesar 92 responden. Uji kuesioner yang digunakan adalah uji validitas dan uji reliabilitas. Teknik analisis data menggunakan analisis regresi linier berganda, uji t, uji F dan koefisien determinasi. Hasil penelitian ini adalah diperoleh persamaan Y’ = 1,564 + 0,656X1 + 0,313X2 artinya kualitas produk dan kualitas pelayanan berpengaruh positif terhadap loyalitas pelanggan Toko Bintang Sport. Uji t kualitas produk terhadap loyalitas pelanggan diperoleh nilai thitung lebih besar dari ttabel adalah (23,660 > 1,986), maka variabel kualitas produk berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Uji t kualitas pelayanan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan diperoleh nilai thitung lebih besar dari ttabel adalah (18,161 > 1,986), maka variabel kualitas pelayanan berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan. Uji Fhitung diperoleh nilai Fhitung lebih besar dari Ftabel adalah (323,9 > 3,10), artinya bahwa kualitas produk dan kualitas pelayanan secara bersama-sama berpengaruh signifikan terhadap loyalitas pelanggan Toko Bintang Sport.Kata Kunci: Kualitas Produk, Kualitas Pelayanan dan Loyalitas Pelanggan