That Does Not Compute: Unpacking the Fembot in American Science Fiction.

M.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2017

A Review Paper on Improving Security of ATM System

Automated Teller Machine (ATM) is an expedient way to access a bank account from anywhere and at any time to perform transactions like cash withdrawal, make deposits & transfer of funds. The ATM has become insecure due to tremendous increase in the number of criminals and their activities. ATM systems today use an access card and Personal Identification Number (PIN) for identity verification. In this paper, security of ATM has been improved by using an embedded system with three levels of securities. First level is access card with PIN; second level is biometric technique and third is One Time Password (OTP). The biometric that we have used is fingerprint. A tilt sensor is also used to alert about the robbery of cash from the ATM. The main motive of these techniques is to diminish and stop the attacks on ATM. The development of such an ATM system would protect consumers and financial institutions from intruders and thieves. In addition to these, the system allows only one nominee user to access the account instead of the main user in case of emergency

The Effect of Process Parameters on Electro-coagulation Treatment of Paint Industrial Effluent

Number of electrodes, processing time and power supply were used as process parameters. The study conducted by preparing three electro-coagulation cells each having a volume of 1,800.0 mL, 6, 12, 18 aluminum electrodes (anode and cathode) with a respective dimensions of 8.0 cm, 9.0 cm and 2.0 mm of width, height and thickness, power supply of 5.0, 7.5, 10.0 V and 20.0, 40.0, 60.0 minutes of processing time. The distance between each plate of the anode and cathode electrodes were uniform for the three electro-coagulation cells. Between 20 and 60 minutes of processing time and increased supply of power from 5 to 12.5 V found to have a removal of 78.9% to 99.5% of white paint pigment Titanium Dioxide (TiO2); the anode and the power consumptions increased from 1.54 g/m to 4.32 g/m3 and 3.07 to 21.61 Wh/m3 respectively. The result obtained from response surface model was observed that the processing time, the power supply and their combined effect were significant on the removal percentage of white paint pigment TiO2; on the other hand the number of electrodes did not have significant effect. Based on the combined effect of treatment time and power consumptions, 99.44% of white paint pigment TiO2 removal was recorded at a lower power and anode consumption of 3.25 Wh/m3 and 1.63 g/m3 respectively, and with optimized parameters of 12 aluminum electrodes, power supply of 5 V and 60 minutes of processing time. Beside the successful removal efficiency of the white color pigment TiO2, COD, BOD5 and TSS were 98.01%, 96.97% and 95.68 % respectively; hence these values were below the permissible limit of Federal Environmental Protection Authority (FEPA).

Library Website Redesign: A Case Study on the Process at the UH West Oʻahu

Presentation slidesLibraries are fighting an uphill battle for our patrons’ attention, and are often losing to content sources that are worse in quality, but are easier to access or to navigate because of site design. The University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu Library began a redesign of its website in the beginning of summer 2014 to improve their users experience and to better present their information. Learn how the library staff went about developing their site using feedback from students and faculty, incorporating recent design techniques, and tying themes together with their discovery layer