Design of Robot Gripper Mechanism for ROBOCON Robot Competition

The project is conducted by assumptions that are prototype built will consist of only lifter and gripper and cost for project research and prototype are neglected. Since there is no robot base and no movement of robot, the workpieces are feed into gripper jaw opening by external action. The outcome is development of an aluminum prototype model of a robot gripper

Synthesis and characterization of amine-impregnated mesoporous ceria nanoparticles for carbon dioxide capture

Carbon dioxide (CO2) contributes more than 60% towards global warming especially from the fossil-fuel burning activity. Hence, technologies such as carbon capture storage and utilization was introduced. Among the carbon capture technologies, adsorption by porous materials have been used as adsorbent material. Ceria has been chosen in this study. Commercial ceria has several drawbacks such as less porosity and surface area which reduce the availability of CO2 adsorption site. The objective of this study is to prepare a mesoporous ceria nanoparticles (MCN) via hydrothermal and sol-gel methods. 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APTMS) was used in order to improve the CO2 capture performance. The characterization of all samples were carried out by nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherm, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis, pyrrole and CO2 adsorbed FTIR spectroscopy. The performance of the samples were tested by CO2 adsorption at pressure range between 6-900 mmHg and 298 K. The preparation parameters were determined via hydrothermal method at calcination temperature of 673 K, pH 9 and ceria/surfactant ratio 2. These parameters were then applied to sol-gel method and the prepared mesoporous adsorbent produced high surface area (76.0 m2 g-1), large pore size (0.100 cm3 g-1), large pore volume (5.3 nm) and high CO2 uptake (213.8 prnol g-1). The adsorbent also shows high thermal stability because it can retain up to 1171 K. The proposed CO2 adsorption mechanism was elucidated from the CO2 adsorbed FTIR spectroscopy. For MCN-2S, CO2 was adsorbed onto oxygen basic, oxygen vacancy and hydroxyl site on MCN which formed monodentate, bidentate, polydentate and hydrogen carbonate. In addition to these carbonate species, the adsorption of CO2 on APTMS/MCN-2S also occurred through the formation of carbamate species. Low CO2 adsorbed on the APTMS/MCN-2S might be due to the utilization of available oxygen basic sites by APTMS molecules. This study exhibited that MCN adsorbent prepared by sol-gel method showed a potential to be applied at industrial scale due to the rapid preparation method, high thermal stability and high CO2 uptake capacity

The relationship between physical work environment and employees’ work performance at Digi Store Danga Bay Johor Bahru / Ahmad Nur Aiman Othman

This study attempts to shows the relationship between physical work environment and employee work performance at Digi Store Danga Bay, Johor Bahru. The independent variables used in this research was physical work environments consist of office lighting, office furniture, office noise and office air quality. Meanwhile the dependent variable was employees’ work performances. The problems statement is this research was attempts to identify the factor of physical work environment and employees’ work performance. In addition, to investigate the relationship between physical work environment and employee’s work performance at Digi Store Danga Bay, Johor Bahru. The researcher used the questionnaire to collect the data in this research. Therefore, the questionnaires were distributed to all employees according to the sampling technique choose at Digi Store Danga Bay, Johor Bahru. The respondents that answer the questions was 32 from 34 respondents. This research has shown the result of factors and relationship between physical work environment and employees’ work performance. All the result is using the SPSS softwar

Factor that influence public satisfaction on towards local government services: An empirical study in Majlis Daerah Kubang Pasu (MDKP)

This paper aims to identify the factors that influence public satisfaction towards Majlis Daerah Kubang Pasu (MDKP) services. The study was held among the residents that reside within MDKP territory. The population size of this research is among 220,700 residents that live in 21 sub-districts under MDKP administration and the researchers had choose 385 respondents using convenience sampling. The variables have been tested in this study are public participation, service quality and service delivery. The type of analyse used in this research include descriptive analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. The study found that, there is a significant relationship between all independent variables; public participation, service quality and service delivery towards public satisfaction with local government services in Majlis Daerah Kubang Pasu (MDKP

Effect of a Training Program on the Development of Writing Skills Among Special Education Students

The present study aimed to build a training program and knowing its effect on developing the writing skills of special education students. The study sample consisted of (12) students in the fourth year in the specialty of special education. The researcher used the experimental design of one group, a note form was used to measure the writing skill. The instrument was verified by presenting it to a group of competent arbitrators, but the Reliability was calculated in a way that the observers Reliability. A second observer was trained on the use of the two forms, and then the ratio of the agreement between the observers was found. The final form of the writing skill consisted of (16) paragraphs, and the training program consists of two parts: The first part included the theoretical content of the writing skill while the second part included the practical training of the skill using the mini-teaching technique to train the applying students. The results showed that there are no statistically significant differences between the post and field tests for writing skills because the averages were close. DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-11-09 Publication date: April 30th 201

Understanding level about zakat distribution among society in AEON Bukit Tinggi, Selangor / Muhammad Nabil Aiman Ahmad Akhial

This research is aimed to analyses the understanding level about zakat distribution concept among society who are work at Aeon Bukit Tinggi,Selangor. The design of this study is quantitatively. 16 number of staff from the Aeon Bukit Tinggi,Selangor has been used as respondents for this research. The instrument used is a survey and set of questionnaires. Based on the set of questionnaire analysis, such as basic knowledge about zakat and understanding zakat distribution.The results of this study will show that the about the knowledge and understanding of society about zakat distribution

Mechanical Properties of Palas Fiber Reinforced Composite

Recently there is a rapid growth in research and innovation in the natural fiber composites area. This is because natural fiber gives some advantages compared to other synthetic fibers such as low density, environmental friendly, low cost and good mechanical properties. The purpose of this project is to study the mechanical behaviour of palas leaf reinforced composite. The experiments of tensile, impact and flexural tests were carried out on composites made by reinforced palas leaf or licuala grandis as its scientific name as a new natural fiber into polypropylene homopolymer resin matrix. All of the tests were carried out according to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard. This project will focus on the matrix-fiber compositions which are, 80/20, 70/30 and 60/40. These three composition will also be compared with a neat polypropylene. There are two processes involved to produce this composite which are compounding process and injection moulding process. The palas leaf and polypropylene will be mixed together by using the compounding process and will produce a pellet size composite. This pellet will then put into the injection moulding process to produce a desired shape of composite such as dog-bone shape. The tensile, impact and flexural test will be carried out once the injection moulding process is done

DRUG UTILIZATION STUDY IN THE OUTPATIENT PEDIATRIC DEPARTMENT OF A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL OF DISTRICT LUCKNOW

 Objective: Irrational prescribing of drugs in pediatric age group is very common. In order to be rational, the drug therapy should be safe, efficacious,affordable & need based. Drug utilization studies are useful tool to facilitate rational prescribing of drugs. The present study was designed with theaim to assess prescribing trends in the pediatric department of a tertiary care teaching hospital.Methods: The drug utilization pattern was carried out in the pediatric outpatient department of career institute of medical sciences, Lucknow. Thestudy period was September 2014 to February 2015 (six months). A prospective study was carried out on the prescriptions, selected randomly with atotal of 249 prescriptions. The data obtained were analyzed by MS-excel software. The results were expressed as percentage or proportion.Results: Majority of the pediatric patients (40.12%) were suffering from acute respiratory infections (ARI) followed by diarrhea (18.66%). A total of922 drugs were prescribed to the total of 249 patients. 63.11% of drugs were antibiotics, whereas the NSAIDS were15.65%. Average number of drugsper prescription was 3.7. Paracetamol was the most common drug prescribed followed by cefixime. Antibiotics were prescribed without investigationon empirical basis with an average of 2.11 per prescription. Cefixime was the leading antibiotic prescribed followed by cefpodoxim. Among theparenteral antibiotics, ceftriaxone followed by cefotaxim was prescribed in highest number of patients. Orally administered drugs contributed thehighest proportion of drugs prescribed with 78.16% of total drugs. Parenteral drug preparations were 14.99%. Combinations of antibiotics wereprescribed to 65.66% of patients of which ceftriaxone with sulbactam was at the top (35.10%) followed by amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid (25.33%)Conclusion: Our study highlighted some of the common prescribing trends in the hospital. These trends were polypharmacy, higher rate of antibioticprescribing & prescribing by brand names. The study highlighted some rational prescribing practices in the hospital like less use of injectable, costeffectiveness of drug therapy & no use of banned drugs.Keywords: Drug utilization study, Pediatric patients, prescribing trend

CHARACTERIZATION OF WAXY COOLED CRUDE OIL USING ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY (ERT)

Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) is one of the most common, widely implemented and promising method in production cross-sectional image displaying the distribution of electrical conductivity for a particular multiphase flow. The method includes measurement of electrical resistance characteristics converting it to image mixtures when the continuous phase is conductive. ERT is well suited in monitoring gas-liquid flow, whereby the liquid is in a continuous phase whereas the gas is in a disperse phase. Other type of tomography sensors which involves measurement of electrical characteristics includes electrical capacitance tomography (ECT), electromagnetic tomography (EMT) and electrical impedance tomography (EIT). The mentioned electrical tomographies are safe without any radiation hazard and low cost comparing to nuclear based methods. ERT has the advantage among others for its excellent time resolution produced from very fast measurements of electrical resistance. Multiphase flow is of great importance in various industrial processes. As the most important characteristic of a multiphase flow, the flow regime not only characterizes the flow condition in an explicit way, but also determines the measurement model in each measuring method. The main focus for this project is to implement ERT for detection and measurement of gas void fractions in waxy cooled crude oil. Measurement of void fraction of two-phase flows remains a challenging area. Thus, the report which consists of an introduction, problem statement, objectives, literature review and methodology is used to get a better understanding, set targets and solve the issues in hand