The present works describe the design and initial performance study of a prototype airboat for riverine transportation, including mangrove habitat applications, with particular reference to Sarawak, East Malaysia. Many local rural riverine transportation and marine habitat studies are limited due to tide-line dependent and the limitation of conventional blade type marine engine. The use of airboat could ply at the local everglades areas and shallow waters; however the conventional airboat having flat bottom hall may at times not suitable in the narrow mangrove habitat which generally has extended roots. In the present study, our boat was custom designed with Shallow-Vee hall shape, employing a 2-stroke engine. Experimental results have shown that the new airboat built has good performance and balancing capability. Subsequent simulation study employing PROLINE software suggest that 2 passengers as the optimum number for the airboat overall performance (optimum performance and stability), coherent with the experimental trials. Compared with conventional air boats, the new boat design is likely to have two added advantages: (1) relative cheap cost and affordable in development, and (2) shallow-Vee shape design is more suitable then the wider flat bottom shape type due to narrow mangrove habitat, where the shallow mangrove trees generally having roots in the water and extended roots on the water surface.

It is assumed that most of organizations have critical positions and rooms and therefore require to be secured and/or monitored. A multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or monolithic system to solve. In this paper, we propose a novel system to secure and/or monitor the buildings and faculties of a University campus. The system is based on multi agents and wireless sensors.

Experimental and numerical study on lateral torsional buckling behaviour of steel section with trapezoid web is presented in this paper. Comparison is made with conventional beams with flat web. In the experimental work, sections with nominal dimension 200 x 80 mm and 5 m length were loaded vertically while the lateral deflection were unrestrained to allow for the lateral torsional buckling. In the analytical study, eigen-value buckling analysis in the finite element method was used to determine the critical buckling load. It is concluded that steel beam with trapezoidally corrugated web section have higher resistance to lateral torsional buckling compared to that of section with flat web. The result shows that corrugation thickness influence the resistance to lateral torsional buckling.

This paper proposes a novel signal scheme called “Hybrid BLAST STBC approach” this combines MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and STBC (space time block code) to generate a system functionally superior to MIMO and STBC systems. This paper compares and investigates the capacity of high data rate wireless local area network systems using MIMO techniques. In particular, two different algorithms-V-Blasts and STBC, are described. A third hybrid approach, which incorporates elements of both V-BLAST and STBC (Hybrid BLAST STBC), is also introduced. The focus of the study is to compare the information capacity of hybrid systems with V-BLAST and STBCs. Hybrid can balance transmit diversity gain and spatial multiplexing gain. All three techniques are compared using both theoretical Shannon capacity analysis and by simulation results for the bit error ratio and capacity performance of the three methods. The result of this study shows that hybrid method attains superior diversity gain performance to V-BLAST and can out form V-blast at spectral efficiencies of practical interest. Furthermore, at low SNRs and low outage probabilities, hybrid is more spectrally efficient. Thus, it is more suitable for low power high data rate wireless applications. Finally, we compare the performance of our proposed system with the conventional scheme by computer simulations which validate the analytical results.

The paper presents development of a utility interface solar power converter to supplement deficit in Grid power supply for a water pumping system used in rural home of Indian villages. The power supply system comprises of solar (PV) array, PWM converter incorporating PWM control strategy, energy storage battery devices, submersible pump and water storage tank(s) etc. The model of the system has been designed for its optimal operation and a prototype solar power converter unit has been developed to drive a ½ hp pump motor. The Life cycle cost evaluation of the solar power converter has been done and compared with conventional DG set. This has resulted in a cost effective system with a 60% - 70% grid power saving.

This paper presents control strategies for a PV- DG hybrid energy system for a remote village in Jharkhand, a state in India. The hybrid system designed for rural home with a combination of DG and PV consists of PV module, diesel generator, bidirectional inverter and energy storage battery device. A knowledge based soft computing Fuzzy control technique has been used as a tool to manage the 1kW load power sharing between PV and DG sources and optimize the cost of electricity against maximum household loads of 3600Wh/day. The objective is to run or draw power from the diesel fueled-engine generator for a short period of time to achieve the optimum point of operation and thus reducing the cost of the electricity. The simulation results indicate that the fuzzy control technique can perform well with a hybrid energy system proposed in this scheme for remotely located area studied.

Maintenance is an indispensable factor in the current manufacturing industries and Overall Equipment Effectiveness is a key performance indicator that provides the overall performance of a single piece of machinery, or for an entire factory. Three measurable components: Performance Rate (PR), Quality Rate (QR) and Availability(A) are working together to achieve an OEE and their combinations in each period are always different. The best tool to evaluate the contribution of these components or contributors is the Shapley value, proposed by Lloyd Shapley. This paper estimates how each component has contributed to OEE at the a decided period, and estimates during which period the activity was best performed using the Shapley value.

The MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems have gained popularity and attracted attention of late for their ability to enhance all areas of system performance. Inspired by the success of MIMO systems in communications, several publications have advocated the concept of new MIMO emerging active sensing radar technology from the system implementation point of view, as well as for signal processing techniques for target detection and parameter estimation. Reaping the full benefit of the superior performance enabled by the MIMO radar which exploits the special diversity of target scattering to improve detection performance over other types of array radars due to absence of target fades and analyse various topologies of multiple antenna systems in radars. In this paper, the present different digital arrays radar concepts are summarized, and performance is analyzed based on different modulation techniques to improve the resolution of the target parameters identifiability. This paper explores how transmit diversity can improve the direction finding performance of a radar utilizing an antenna array at the receiver and focuses on improving the performance of the signal detection.

The piece of investigation was carried out to study the ground water as well as surface water quality, nutrient status and physico-chemical characteristic of Bargarh district of Orissa, India. The study area is situated between 21o 36’’ E longitude and 176.362 mts above sea level and 59km to west of Sambalpur district. The present work has been conducted by monitoring two types of ground water i.e. dug well water and bore well water of 10 wards of the town as well as 3 types of ponds, viz. temple pond, small community pond & large community pond of the town. Attempts were made to study and analyze the physico-chemical characteristics of the water. Various parameters like Temperature, pH, Total suspended solids, and Total dissolved solids, Alkalinity, Dissolved oxygen, Chemical Oxygen Demand, Nitrate, Chloride, Sodium, Potassium, Phosphate, Fluoride, Total Coli forms(Pond water) etc. give a picture of quality parameter in both dug well and bore well water as well as pond water of the town. By observing the result it can be concluded that the parameters which were taken for study the water quality are below the pollution level for ground water which satisfy the requirement for the use of various purposes like domestic, agricultural, industrial etc. But incase of surface water, the water quality of small community pond are above the permissible limit.

This paper is based on a questionnaire survey that was conducted among public servants in Malaysia who have used information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace and have been involved in innovation activity. The objective of this research is to identify the knowledge captured from the use of ICT in the workplace. The findings show that the public servant captures knowledge as the result of using ICT applications at work place and uses that knowledge for innovation activity. It is found that the frequency of ICT usage in the workplace contributes to the innovation activities at work place. The knowledge captured that contributes to the increase of innovation capabilities is positively related to the length of experience of using ICT in the workplace.

This paper examines one aspect of usage-centered software development, modeling system requirement using USE_CASES. Usage-centered design is a systematic, model driven approach to visual and interaction design with an established record of effectiveness in a wide variety of settings and areas of application. To this end, a general approach to fairness conditions and timer concepts are developed with usage-centered engineering. As a case study, this modeling tool is applied to the well known generalized car hiring problem where a complete model is included. Designing and implementation of the tool allows monitoring of all components of car hiring process as a complete system since the modeling tool adequately convey the understanding of the system to the users. This will enhance the client experience and as in the case of software development can lead to lower costs for the organization.

There is no doubt that in the 21st century Malaysia had entered a new era of globalization. Among others, Malaysia is faced with the new challenge especially in adoption with new business marketing through internet. The terms formerly known as e-commerce, is become a popular platform for the company in marketing the product virtually. This study attempt to analyze the obstacles faces by Akapiman Enterprise, a bumiputera holder company that can be categories as successful company that selling fishing equipment in reality and virtual base. This paper will concentrate on the obstacles doing online business by Akapiman Enterprise, to identify the criteria in terms of marketing strategy that could affect the business flow, to relate the criteria with the obstacles in determine the successful of online business and to create a model from the findings. This study will involve in qualitative and quantitative method in order to see the two way feedback from the owner and also from customer side. The interview session was conduct with the owner with unstructured question while the survey will conduct among the customer and distribute by online. The number of customer will randomly choose and it will involve about 150 samples that actively purchasing fishing tools by online.

There is no denying of the reality that globalization will persuade the companies, almost in all the hues, to progressively embark on global operations. This paper discusses the worth of increasing the pervasiveness of multi-cultures in organizations as a way of facilitating varied advantageous developments in cultural progression. The paper portrays the vision of happy and enduring combination of Western Management techniques with practices of Eastern management. The combination can result in value – based holistic approach with specific reference to Indian Management in the new millennium. Recent research on psychological flexibility related to multi-cultural management suggests that helping people to accept, but not believe, their unpleasant thoughts and feelings contributes to people becoming more caring. This paper reviews this aspect also by assuming that cross cultural interactions being positive as well as negative, make the subject more challenging and interesting. The examples in the succeeding paragraphs will further signify the importance of the concept.