Properties Of Epoxy/Silica Thin Film Composite For Electronic Application.

In line with the miniaturization trends of the product designs in electronic industry, conventional packaging technology has been replaced

Transactivation by expression of the hepatitis B virus X protein with an inducible system

[[abstract]]We describe here the conditional expression of the hepatitis B virus X protein using the inducible system controlled by a tet-responsive promoter. Induction of the X protein in Rat-2 fibroblasts activated transcription from a heterologous gene promoter and stimulated the DNA-binding activity of NFkB. The ability to produce this biologically active X protein in a stable cell line will accelerate the elucidation of the function and mechanisms of X and eventually help us understand the role of X in natural viral infection and carcinogenesis

ASSESSING TOURIST SATISFACTION WITH THE FACILITIES PROVIDED AT LANGKAWI ISLAND GATEWAY JETTY TERMINALS

Kako bi povećala privlačnost i razinu zadovoljstva na turističkim destinacijama, vlada je osigurala brojne popratne sadržaje. Ti su popratni sadržaji smješteni na raznim lokacijama, uključujući lučke terminale koji imaju funkciju polazišta za turističke destinacije, posebno one smještene na otocima. Glavni cilj ove studije je ocjena razine zadovoljstva turista pruženim sadržajima na lučkim terminalima. Kako bi se taj cilj postigao, provedeno je istraživanje na 3 odabrana lučka terminala za otočje Langkawi. Kako bi se došlo do potrebnih podataka provedena je anketa gdje su turistima koji su posjetili otočje Langkawi podijeljeni upitnici. Zatim je 437 upitnika podvrgnuto metodi statističke analize. Rezultati pokazuju da je ukupna razina zadovoljstva turista pruženim sadržajima na lučkim terminalima niža od zadovoljavajuće. Ova je studija također pokazala da razina zadovoljstva kod turista ne utječe na njihovu odluku da ponovno posjete otočje Langkawi, ali utječe na njihovu odluku o odabiru alternativnih polazišta pri njegovoj posjeti

Pull-Out Resistance of Sand-Geosynthetics Reinforcement

Geosynthetics are widely used in earth retaining structures such as steep slope and earth retaining wall. The stability of the earth retaining structures depends on the interaction between geosynthetics and soil at the reinforced area known as reinforcement mechanism. The reinforcement mechanism of the soil reinforced structure usually difficult to be analysed thoroughly. It is because the preliminary study on the pull-out resistance and durability of the reinforcement material is not taking into account before it has been used to the site location especially in Malaysian practises. Less supervision and the assessment after the installation of the reinforcement materials also contributed to the failure of the soil reinforcement. In this paper, the laboratory model was used to imply the real condition of the soil reinforced structure using pull-out test. A standard pull-out test was carried out by using geotextile and geogrid reinforcing elements embedded into silica sand of size D50=1.357 mm and D50=0.571 mm subjected to normal pressures of 100 kPa, 150 kPa and 200 kPa. Comparative result and analysis showed that the geotextile reinforcement give more resistance rather than geogrid reinforcement under high normal pressure

Extraction of Morphological Features of Malaysian Rice Seed Varieties Using Flatbed Scanner

A high quality cultivated rice seeds are very important for Malaysian paddy industry to ensure a high yield of paddy production. Certified seeds that are mixed with other varieties and unwanted seeds such as weedy rice are considered as poor quality and faced rejection during a quality inspection by the Department of Agriculture. To ensure the seeds are cleaned from any foreign seeds, it is very important to develop a low cost and simple mechanism to classify the seeds according to its varieties. The use of a flatbed scanner is one of the alternative techniques for image acquisition of the seeds varieties. This study was carried out to evaluate morphological features of local rice seed varieties developed for Malaysian rice industry using image processing techniques. Image of four seed varieties, mainly are MR219, MR220, MR263, and MR269 were acquired and extracted using a normal desktop flatbed scanner. A LabVIEW program was developed to extract four main morphology features which are length, width, aspect ratio and rectangular aspect ratio. The extracted data were analysed in terms of its spread and variability. One-way ANOVA was done to compare the means of the morphological features. Further t-test analyses were done to distinguish between two seed varieties based on the variation in the morphological features of the seed kernel. The results indicated that seed length parameter extracted from the image acquired by the flatbed scanner is significant to differentiate the cultivated rice seed except for MR269 and MR220. Seed width can be used as a parameter to distinguish MR269 and MR220 pair. Thus, a combination of morphological parameters is necessary to classify the cultivated rice seed

Comparison of Performance based on Power of Energy Encryption in Medium Field for Wireless Power Transfer System

Encryption is a very important technique used to protect energy transmission channels from an unauthorized receiver. It can be utilized to transmit data securely over the wireless medium. Encryption techniques of wireless power transfer (WPT) are important in the research on the effects of security key for security of energy transfer to the authorized receiver. The energy encryption scheme of WPT is proposed to chaos theory. Chaos theory is applicable to the logistic map to propose as a security key to chaotically regulate the switching frequency. Furthermore, for chaos theory characteristic effect power and distance performance. Therefore, this paper investigates mainly effective power based on mobile charging application. This research is focusing on performance on power of energy encryption in medium field for wireless power transfer system. This research is dedicated to the comparison of performance in power based on mobile charging application. The optimization to transport the power in this research based on comparison of power is 10W. The research utilized MATLAB simulation to compare the performance

ASSESSING TOURIST SATISFACTION WITH THE FACILITIES PROVIDED AT LANGKAWI ISLAND GATEWAY JETTY TERMINALS

Kako bi povećala privlačnost i razinu zadovoljstva na turističkim destinacijama, vlada je osigurala brojne popratne sadržaje. Ti su popratni sadržaji smješteni na raznim lokacijama, uključujući lučke terminale koji imaju funkciju polazišta za turističke destinacije, posebno one smještene na otocima. Glavni cilj ove studije je ocjena razine zadovoljstva turista pruženim sadržajima na lučkim terminalima. Kako bi se taj cilj postigao, provedeno je istraživanje na 3 odabrana lučka terminala za otočje Langkawi. Kako bi se došlo do potrebnih podataka provedena je anketa gdje su turistima koji su posjetili otočje Langkawi podijeljeni upitnici. Zatim je 437 upitnika podvrgnuto metodi statističke analize. Rezultati pokazuju da je ukupna razina zadovoljstva turista pruženim sadržajima na lučkim terminalima niža od zadovoljavajuće. Ova je studija također pokazala da razina zadovoljstva kod turista ne utječe na njihovu odluku da ponovno posjete otočje Langkawi, ali utječe na njihovu odluku o odabiru alternativnih polazišta pri njegovoj posjeti

Numerical algorithm for solving second order nonlinear fuzzy initial value problems

The purpose of this analysis would be to provide a computational technique for the numerical solution of second-order nonlinear fuzzy initial value (FIVPs). The idea is based on the reformulation of the fifth order Runge Kutta with six stages (RK56) from crisp domain to the fuzzy domain by using the definitions and properties of fuzzy set theory to be suitable to solve second order nonlinear FIVP numerically. It is shown that the second order nonlinear FIVP can be solved by RK56 by reducing the original nonlinear equation intoa system of couple first order nonlinear FIVP. The findings indicate that the technique is very efficient and simple to implement and satisfy the Fuzzy solution properties. The method’s potential is demonstrated by solving nonlinear second-order FIVP