Sailing the Archipelago in a Boat of Rhymes Pantun in the Malay World

The extremely popular poetic form from Insular Southeast Asia, the pantun, travelled from its unknown source throughout the Malay Archipelago, first in Malay, then in the languages of Southeast Asia. In the ports and states where they were received, local colour, other idiosyncrasies, references, and linguistic characteristics have been added, and in fact, special forms with special names developed. This basic form is known, composed, and loved in at least 40 dialects of Malay, and 35 non-Malay languages, in the Peninsula and many of the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia. It spread through trade routes, ports, and also via diasporas and colonial economic projects which caused numerous peoples to move, who in turn brought the pantun along with them. It is now the most dynamic single literary form and has the longest history

The effects of absorber attachment location on vibration response of simply supported plate

Vibration analysis of thin walled structure has been an active research in engineering fields. This paper proposed to investigate the application of vibration absorber (VA) attached to the simply supported plate (SSP) in order to suppress the structural vibration. Two major factors influence on vibration reduction of late are investigated in term of the attachment location of vibration absorber and the number of absorber applied on structural dynamic of the plate. Finite element software of ANSYS APDL was performed to measure the dynamic response of plate. The results found that the best positioning vibration absorber are at the location of 0.35 m of x-axis and 0.40 m of y-axis which can attenuate the vibration along the frequency band. Numerical result also presented that when attached multiple absorber, the vibration reduction of plate provide larger suppression to SSP which average reduction almost 80% over the frequency modes. This study conclude that right position and number of absorber can be the major contribute to suppress vibration on a plate structure more effectively

Sailing the Archipelago in a boat of rhymes

The extremely popular poetic form from Insular Southeast Asia, the pantun, travelled from its unknown source throughout the Malay Archipelago, first in Malay, then in the languages of Southeast Asia. In the ports and states where they were received, local colour, other idiosyncrasies, references, and linguistic characteristics have been added, and in fact, special forms with special names developed. This basic form is known, composed, and loved in at least 40 dialects of Malay, and 35 non-Malay languages, in the Peninsula and many of the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia. It spread through trade routes, ports, and also via diasporas and colonial economic projects which caused numerous peoples to move, who in turn brought the pantun along with them. It is now the most dynamic single literary form and has the longest history.KEYWORDSDiaspora, pantun, poetry, trade routes, early kingdoms of Nusantara

An Enhanced Malay Named Entity Recognition Using Clustering and Classification Approach For Crime Textual Data Analysis

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is one of the tasks undertaken in the information extraction. NER is used for extracting and classifying words or entities that belong to the proper noun category in text data such as the person's name, location, organization, date, etc. As seen in today's generation, social media such as web pages, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and online newspapers are among the major contributors to information extraction. These resources contain various types of unstructured data such as text. However, the amount of works done to process this type of data is limited for Malay Named Entity Recognition (MNER). The deficiency on Malay textual analytic has led to difficulties in extracting information for decision making. This research aims to present a Malay Named Entity Recognition technique that focuses on crime data analysis in the Malay language that extracted from Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) news web page. This Malay Named Entity Recognition (MNER) technique is proposed by using multi-staged of clustering and classification methods. The methods are Fuzzy C-Means and K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm. The methods involve multi-layer features extraction to recognize entities such as person name, location, organization, date and crime type. This multi-staged technique is obtained 95.24% accuracy in the process of recognizing named entities for text analysis, particularly in Malay. The proposed technique can improve the accuracy performance on named entity recognition of crime data based on the suitability selected features for the Malay language

Blood Seeker Mobile Application

This report discusses the research done on the chosen topic, which is Blood Seeker. This project shows that Blood Seeker is one of the technology methods for patients in Malaysia. The objectives of this project are to provide a platform for individual to search for blood request and also to save lives through a simple and quick blood donors search application. The problem statements of this project are difficult to locate blood donors with a certain blood types in a designated area and thhere is a huge gap between blood donors to interact between themselves in emergency situation The scope of study for this project is searching donors in immediate need of blood with the target users; android users. The literature review component talks about using mobile technology as method to improve healthcare sector are further discussed in detail. In the methodology section, it is discussed about the software development methodology applied in developing this project which is Rapid Application Development combine with Waterfall Model. The project phases are also being discussed in detail. The preliminary findings consist of the findings from literature review research and the storyboard of the Blood Seeker. In the recommendations section, all the related recommendations and some improvements that can be done for the future of this project are listed and elaborated. The conclusion section concludes the overall project

HEAT EXCHANGER FOULING MITIGATION BY BLENDING AND ULTRASONIC

Fouling is a major economic problem faced in petroleum industry. The presence of paraffin wax deposition causes ineffective heat transfer and cost increment, since it creates a new resistance to the heat flow. Many people keeps thinking and moving forward in their effort to reduce the fouling, which encourages them to focus on the mitigation and cleaning techniques. The objective of this study is to investigate the fouling characteristics of pure and mixed crude oil on heat exchanger surface. In addition, the study also investigated the effect of ultrasonic application for fouling mitigation. The specified parameters were varied in each set of experiment, followed by monitoring the rate of deposition for 3 hours. The experiments were mainly carried out using cold fmger unit, cooling bath circulation system and ultrasonic bath unit. Besides, the effects of each run were observed by varying 3 different crude oil samples (TAPIS, MASSA and MIRl), wall temperatures, crude oil temperatures and ultrasonic application. Ultrasonic wave was generated at the lowest frequency (28kHz) and highest power (600W), since this condition is proved to give the highest mitigation. TI1e result shows that the deposition increases as times increases. In addition, deposition favors at low crude oil and wall temperature, because it depends on the temperature differences and amount of crude oil temperature below the cloud point. Apart from that, it was found that the amount of deposition is directly dependant to the amount of paraffin wax in each sample. However, after introducing the blending options, deposition of higher paraffin wax content sample was lowered down because the wax content has been reduced. Finally, the combination of ultrasonic and blending was proved to give very high and effective reduction of deposition for all samples namely TAPIS-MASSA (50%), MASSA-MIRI (50%) and TAPIS-MIRl (60%). In short, crude oil blend and ultrasonic application were proved as an effective method of fouling mitigation

Design and implementation of output current source circuit for neuromuscular fes device / Muhammad Aiman Abd Salleh

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) causes a great discomfort and misery to human life. Loss of communication between the brain and the muscles is the main reason of such misery and discomfort. Functional electrical stimulator (FES) device is typically used to restore the muscle function by producing stimuli in the form of current through electrodes which are strapped on the patient‟s skin. The FES device mainly consists of a digital controller, a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), an interface circuitry and electrodes. The digital controller (Microcontroller/ FPGA) processes the stimulus parameters to generate arbitrary stimulus pulse. The DAC converts the digital output data from the controller into an analogue signal before it is transferred to the interface circuit. Constant Voltage Source (CVS) and Constant Current Source (CCS) are the two main types of interface circuits. However, the CCS is preferred over the CVS due to safety and easy maintenance. For the CCS, an output current source circuit is required to amplify and transfer the generated current from the DAC to the electrodes. In the simulation circuit, the DAC0800 was used while the Digilent PmodR2R DAC was used for hardware measurement. A few types of CCS output source circuits were focused in this project such as Monophasic, Howland current pump and Improved Howland output source. Proteus Design Suite software was used to design and simulate the output source circuits. The, hardware circuitries were developed and connected to an FPGA board for output current generation and measurement purpose. Several output currents were measured across three ranges of resistive output loads (500, 1k and 2k ohm). In the simulation, it was found that lower resistive load produces higher output current. Improved Howland circuit generated output current in the range of 7 – 15mA. Howland charge pump circuit generated output current in the range of 5 -15mA. The monophasic circuit produced output current around 4 – 11mA. In the hardware measurement, the monophasic output current source circuit generated output current in the range of 21 – 26mA while the improved Howland output circuit generated output current around 1mA only. The Howland charge pump circuit was observed and could not produce any output current at all during the hardware measurement. Additionally, the designed CCS circuits were also used to validate the digital controller (FPGA) functionality in generating a few arbitrary stimulation waveforms

UUM ePSYCH Solutions System

The purpose of this study is to provide the faster solutions of specific problems facing by UUM students without meeting the counselors. Using this system, the student doesn't have to meet the counselors face-to-face to solve their problems. The approach that has been used in this study is problem solving approach and also the electronic concept. This study starts with requirement analysis to determine the requirement or components that can be used to develop the system. The methodology have been used in this study is Rapid Application Development that consists of several phase which are analysis, prototyping cycles, testing and implement. There are two techniques in analysis; interviewing and literature study technique. The components that have been discovered is used to develop a prototype. Next, the interface of the system is design is designed using Unified Modeling Language (UML) that consists of Use Case Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Collaboration Diagram and also Class Diagram. The purpose of this phase is to provide a better understanding on how the system is worked

Performance of Geopolymer Concrete in Aggressive Environment

The consumption of cement had caused pollution to the atmosphere. The cement industry is responsible for significant CO2 emissions because of its production. The carbon dioxide gas production is based from the process of burning large quantities of fuel and inherent to the basic process of calcinations of limestone. The process of making Portland Cement basically produce a large amount of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases