257 research outputs found
Open innovation and social media use towards informatics reporting: a systematic literature review
In the realm of technology development, open innovation paradigm and social media have both acquired massive attention in extensive researches since past several years. Social media, as the key medium has abundant to offer to support open innovation, thus successful innovation is the key to business rapid growth. This research provides a systematic literature review to identify, classify and summarize the factors of open innovation and social media use towards informatics reporting. Informatics reporting through this dynamic channel have been realized by many organizations nowadays, nonetheless greater number still confine with the traditional reports and are not ready to have linkage with social media platforms. Social media has been absolutely recognized as a powerful communication resource to engage stakeholders in virtual community. Hence, the result from the review suggests that there were six factors impacted open innovation and social media use towards informatics reporting, with transparency being the dominant factor. Eventually, these findings may ease the process of developing a model for open innovation paradigm implementing online platforms in organizations informatics reporting. All in all, this research shall assist organizations to plan and strategize the implementation of open innovation in social media platform for the advantage of their succeeding triumph
Adaptive memory-based single distribution resampling for particle filter
The restrictions that are related to using single distribution resampling for some specific computing devices’ memory gives developers several difficulties as a result of the increased effort and time needed for the development of a particle filter. Thus, one needs a new sequential resampling algorithm that is flexible enough to allow it to be used with various computing devices. Therefore, this paper formulated a new single distribution resampling called the adaptive memory size-based single distribution resampling (AMSSDR). This resampling method integrates traditional variation resampling and traditional resampling in one architecture. The algorithm changes the resampling algorithm using the memory in a computing device. This helps the developer formulate a particle filter without over considering the computing devices’ memory utilisation during the development of different particle filters. At the start of the operational process, it uses the AMSSDR selector to choose an appropriate resampling algorithm (for example, rounding copy resampling or systematic resampling), based on the current computing devices’ physical memory. If one chooses systematic resampling, the resampling will sample every particle for every cycle. On the other hand, if it chooses the rounding copy resampling, the resampling will sample more than one of each cycle’s particle. This illustrates that the method (AMSSDR) being proposed is capable of switching resampling algorithms based on various physical memory requirements. The aim of the authors is to extend this research in the future by applying their proposed method in various emerging applications such as real-time locator systems or medical applications
Assessment of power plant emission and its health impact in Gaza
The aim of study was to investigate the concentrations of the ambient air pollutants (i.e PM2.5, CO, CO2) and to examine the health impacts on the residentials living surrounding the power plant in Gaza City-Palestine.The pollutants were monitored several distance surrounding the plant for a period of four months during both summer and winter seasons using a portable laser particle counter and gaseous monitor. A public health questionnaire was also distributed on the residents living around the power plant in order to assess the impact of air pollution on their health status.The results showed that the concentration of particulate matter exceeded the WHO standard where the highest level was 79 ?g/m3 and the lowest level was 49?g/m3. However the concentration of carbon monoxide was lower than the WHO standards where the highest level was 2.18 ppm and lowest level was 0.1 ppm. Moreover, the concentration of carbon dioxide oscillated from 254 ppm to 514 ppm. The health assessment results showed that 50% of the study sample suffered of breathing difficulties.This study concluded that the concentration of particulate matter and carbon dioxide were high, while the level of carbon monoxide was low, furthermore the level of public awareness was good. Meanwhile 40% of population sample visited the hospital because of a disease that infects the respiratory tract
Observation of Enhanced Transformer Ratio in Collinear Wakefield Acceleration
One approach to future high energy particle accelerators is based on the
wakefield principle: a leading high-charge drive bunch is used to excite fields
in an accelerating structure or plasma that in turn accelerates a trailing
low-charge witness bunch. The transformer ratio R is defined as the ratio of
the maximum energy gain of the witness bunch to the maximum energy loss of the
drive bunch. In general, for configurations in which the two beams traverse the
accelerator along the same trajectory (collinear wakefield acceleration). A
number of techniques have been proposed to overcome the transformer ratio
limitation. We report here the first experimental study of the ramped bunch
train (RBT) technique in which a dielectric loaded waveguide was used as the
accelerating structure. A single drive bunch was replaced by two bunches with
charge ratio of 1:2.5 and a separation of 10.5 wavelengths of the fundamental
mode. An average measured transformer ratio enhancement by a factor of 1.31
over the single drive bunch case was obtained in this experiment.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figs, accepted by Phys Rev Let
Theory of Tunneling for Rough Junctions
A formally exact expression for the tunneling current, for its separation
into specular and diffuse components, and for its directionality, is given for
a thick tunnel junction with rough interfaces in terms of the properties of
appropriately defined scattering amplitudes. An approximate evaluation yields
the relative magnitudes of the specular and diffuse components, and the angular
dependence of the diffuse component, in terms of certain statistical properties
of the junction interfaces.Comment: 4 page
Development of automotive air-conditioning system test rig for hybrid electric vehicles
Introducing nanoparticles in liquid-based mixtures began to gain attention in various industries. This is supported by previous studies to improve the performance and provide energy saving for the system. Among its uses is in the VCRS and automotive air conditioning (AAC) system. The lubricant used in this system has the potential to have a good effect on the performance. Before testing the nanolubricant enhancement performance, an automotive air conditioning (AAC) system test rig based on hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) AC system has to be developed; therefore, this paper presented the development process of AAC test rig specific for the HEV. In order to analyze the performance, 11 thermocouples, a digital pressure gauge with data logger, and AC/DC power clamp were assembled and used. After that, the experiment was conducted with five different initial refrigerant charges and three different compressor speeds. This method was applied to both pure POE lubricant and SiO2/POE nanolubricant. Then, the heat absorbs, compressor work, and coefficient of performance (COP) were evaluated. The highest average COP for SiO2/POE nanolubricant was achieved at a 40 % duty cycle (2520 RPM) speed with a value of 2.84. The highest enhancement of the COP is 25.1% at 60% duty cycle (3180 RPM) speed with 160 grams of initial refrigerant charged an average enhancement of the COP is 13.16%
Quality of life satisfaction among converted Kelantan Chinese Muslims
This article investigates the quality of life of the Kelantan Chinese Muslim community before and after conversion to Islam, focusing on their level of satisfaction in term of economic aspect. This research was carried out using the sequential explanatory mixed method design involving 75 respondents selected for quantitative and five respondents for qualitative. The sampling method adopted was convenience and snowball samplings. The research data was collected using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that respondents were moderately satisfied before conversion and satisfied after conversion. Besides that, there is no significant difference of quality of life before and after conversion to Islam (F = 0.868, p = 0.355) and it was not influenced by the period of conversion to Islam (F = 0.832, p = 0.589). This analysis indicates numerous respondents are still moderately satisfied in their quality of life even though the average data shows they are satisfied after conversion
Quasiparticle Liquid in the Highly Overdoped Bi2212
We present results from the study of a highly overdoped (OD) Bi2212 with a
K using high resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
The temperature dependent spectra near the () point show the presence of
the sharp peak well above . From the nodal direction, we make comparison
of the self-energy with the optimally doped and underdoped cuprates, and the
Mo(110) surface state. We show that this OD cuprate appears to have properties
that approach that of the Mo. Further analysis shows that the OD has a more
-independent lineshape at the Fermi surface than the lower-doped cuprates.
This allows for a realistic comparison of the nodal lifetime values to the
experimental resistivity measurements via Boltzmann transport formulation. All
these observations point to the validity of the quasiparticle picture for the
OD even in the normal state within a certain energy and momentum range.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Application of Ikaz and direct quadrature for solving leakage in pipeline distribution by using transmission line modelling
A new transient-based advance towards single leak detection is proposed which requires a measurement station with an end at the pipe system. The method use the frequency response and gives adequate results using low frequency bandwidth. This research apply Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) as the method denoising the noisy pressure transient signal before the signal further analyze using instantaneous frequency analysis. Therefore EMD is the way to decompose into Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) from the signal. However it is difficult to select suitable IMF. Thus the paper proposed the implementation of Integrated Kurtosis-based algorithm Z-filter technique for that allows automatic selection of relevant and appropriates IMF. This work demonstrated the synthetic pressure transient signal generates using transmission line modelling (TLM) in order to test the effectiveness of Ikaz as the autonomous selection of IMF. This paper implement the Direct Quadrature as the instantaneous frequency analysis. A straight fluid network was designed using TLM fixing with higher resistance at some point act as a leak and connecting to the pipe feature (junction, pipefitting or blockage). The analysis results using Ikaz revealed that the method can be utilized as an automatic selection of intrinsic mode function (IMF) although the noise level ratio of the signal is lower. Ikaz-kurtosis ratio is recommended and advised to be implemented as automatic selection of intrinsic mode function (IMF) through DQ analysis
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