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Detecting ambiguity in requirements analysis using Mamdani fuzzy inference
Published 2017“…However, it is arguable that requirements gathered in natural language is free from error especially ambiguity. Ambiguity in requirements can cause requirement engineers or system analysts to perceive the requirements according to their understanding instead of stakeholders understanding. …”
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Conditioned Reverse Path method on frame structure for damage detection
Published 2017“…The system chosen is a 4 degree-of-freedom frame structure tested in laboratory environment. …”
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Crystallisation kinetics of cyclic and linear poly (butylene terephthalate)
Published 2017“…Further analysis of the kinetic data using the Hoffman–Lauritzen analysis yielded the nucleation constant (Kg) and the end surface free energies (σσe). The kinetic parameters obtained for cPBT were compared with a commercial sample of linear PBT. …”
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A study of roles of different valence of copper oxide interaction with electron beam irradiation in polyethylene composite
Published 2017“…This is due to the poorer effect of Cu2O in inducing the polymeric free radicals. Meanwhile, the application of low irradiation dosage (≤100 kGy) has significantly increased the crystallite size for crystallite peak (110) of all LDPE composites. …”
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The central subgroups of the nonabelian tensor squares of some bieberbach groups with elementary abelian 2-group point group
Published 2017“…Bieberbach groups are torsion free crystallographic groups. In this paper, our focus is on the Bieberbach groups with elementary abelian 2-group point group, C2 × C2. …”
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Effect of Polysulfone Concentration on the Performance of Membrane-Assisted Lead Acid Battery
Published 2002“…The best membrane, which retains the most electrolyte, will be chosen to be applied on the soon-to-be-developed “membrane-assisted maintenance- free batteryâ€?. This maintenance-free battery will need no topping up of deionized water every time the electrolyte level goes low.…”
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Real-time implementation of feed rate active force control of a syringe fluid dispenser
Published 2017“…The AFC is implemented by cascading its control loop with the outer PID controller loop to form a two degree-of-freedom (DOF) controller. The performance of the proposed PID with AFC control scheme was investigated considering both the theoretical simulation and experimental works. …”
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Magnetic field measurement from 132/275 KV overhead power lines
Published 2017“…Therefore, the main objective of this study is to measure the magnetic field radiated from 132/275kV power lines. EMDEX II, a free body meter is used to measure the magnetic field at 1 meter above ground level and the lateral profile was proven using MATLAB calculation. …”
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Implementation of robust composite nonlinear feedback for active front steering based vehicle yaw stability
Published 2017“…Meanwhile for vehicle model, 7 degree of freedom vehicle body with Pacejka Tire formula model for typical passenger car is used to simulate controlled vehicle. …”
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CDASA-CSMA/CA: contention differentiated adaptive slot allocation CSMA-CA for heterogeneous data in wireless body area networks
Published 2017“…Also, the Beacon-enabled Carrier-Sense Multiple Access/Collision-Avoidance (CSMA/CA) scheduling access scheme in WBAN, allocates Contention-free Period (CAP) channels to emergency and non-emergency Biomedical Sensors (BMSs) using contention mechanism, increasing repetition in rounds. …”
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Characterization and potential applications of a recombinant antifreeze protein from an antarctic yeast Glaciozyma antarctica produced in Pichia pastoris
Published 2017“…The cryoprotective effects of Afp1 on purified recombinant cutinase showed that Afp1 can retain enzymatic activity up to ~20% when subjected to several cycles of freeze thawing. These findings indicate that Afp1 might act as a cryoprotective agent and thus, has great potential in biotechnology applications.…”
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Effect of one step activation KOH modified carbon in dimethyl carbonate transesterification reactions
Published 2017“…This study shows, as the percentage of one step activation potassium doped carbon increases, the basic strength increases and followed by the increase in biodiesel production with leaching free reaction. The percentage conversion of biodiesel for 10% AC/KOH, 15% AC/KOH, 20% AC/KOH and 25% AC/KOH calculated were 35%, 45%, 63% and 67%, respectively.…”
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Effect of bore fluid composition on structural and performance of polyphenylsulfone hollow fiber membrane contactor for deacdification of crude palm oil
Published 2017“…The present work is aimed to study the influence of membrane internal structure on the extracting performance of hollow fiber membrane contactor system in removing free fatty acid (FFA) from crude palm oil (CPO). …”
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Understanding learners' persistence and engagement in Massive Open Online Courses: a critical review for Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Published 2017“…With the exponential growth of online learning courses in MOOCs, varieties of subjects can now be studied by anyone, for free. Even though MOOCs have attracted an abundance of learners to enroll, yet many have withdrawn from the courses, causing a great concern for MOOCs developers. …”
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Effect of deformation on the microstructure, transformation temperature and superelasticity of Ti–23 at% Nb shape-memory alloys
Published 2017“…Extensive research on the effect of spark-plasma sintering and free forging on the microstructure, transformation temperature, and superelasticity of Ti-23 at% Nb shape-memory alloys (SMAs) was undertaken. …”
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Association of cultured myotubes and fasting plasma metabolite profiles with mitochondrial dysfunction in type 2 diabetes subjects
Published 2017“…Among these features, 20 significant metabolites comprised primarily of branched chain and aromatic amino acids, glutamine, aminobutyric acid, hydroxyisobutyric acid, pyroglutamic acid, acylcarnitine species (acetylcarnitine, propionylcarnitine, dodecenoylcarnitine, tetradecenoylcarnitine hexadecadienoylcarnitine and oleylcarnitine), free fatty acids (palmitate, arachidonate, stearate and linoleate) and sphingomyelin (d18:2/16:0) were identified as predictive markers for mitochondrial dysfunction in T2D subjects. …”
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Graphene/graphene oxide-based ultrasensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensor
Published 2017“…Surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensing is an accurate and sensitive technique used to evaluate the biomolecular interactions in real time in a label-free environment. Several new approaches have been proposed to improve the sensitivity of SPR sensors. …”
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Tremor suppression for 4-DOFs biodynamic hand model using genetic algorithm
Published 2017“…A linear voice coil actuator (LVCA) is applied onto a four degree of freedom (4-DOF) human hand model represented in state space. …”
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Co-extruded dual-layer hollow fiber with different electrolyte structure for a high temperature micro-tubular solid oxide fuel cell
Published 2017“…The results showed that the most promising electrolyte layer with thin, dense, gas-tight, and defect-free properties was obtained by mixing 70% submicron-YSZ and 30% nano-YSZ in electrolyte suspension (E-0.7sub0.3nano). …”
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The estimation of fugitive gas emissions from hydrogen production by natural gas steam reforming
Published 2017“…Even though hydrogen is emission free in its end use; the production of hydrogen itself requires energy and may cause process emissions including fugitive emissions from various sources, mainly the piping equipment and fittings. …”
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