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Factors of Adoption Intention for Near Field Communication Mobile Payment
No full textNear field communication mobile payment (NMP) is simple to use and beneficial to consumers, yet its adoption among consumers in Malaysia is still at the beginning stage and the adoption rate is relatively lower compared to other countries in the world. The aim of this study is to identify factors that affect the adoption intention of NMP among consumers in Malaysia, by using Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FSKM), UiTM Shah Alam as the case study for this research. The quantitative data analysis approach is used in this study. There were 150 questionnaires analyzed using the SPSS. This research identified three factors that affect the adoption intention of NMP which are perceived usefulness, perceived cost and compatibility. By understanding the factors affecting the intention to adopt NMP, financial technology companies can focus to provide the solutions according to market interest, needs and readiness
Changing the Electrical Safety Culture
No full textElectrical wellbeing - Where were we yesterday? Where are we today? Where will we be later on? The wellbeing society is proceeding to advance to give a more secure workplace to individuals working around electrical hardware. To enhance electrical security, it takes sense of duty regarding consistent change of the electrical wellbeing society. New musings and thoughts to enhance electrical wellbeing are basic. This paper addresses how function hones have changed after some time and prescribes thoughts to overhaul the current electrical culture. To change the current security culture new thoughts should be produced to cause higher execution in electrical wellbeing for all individuals presented to electrical risks. New circuit testers take in great and unfortunate propensities from more experienced circuit testers. Human execution depends on a mix of information, abilities, and educated practices. Convictions can be affected through perceptions and collaborations with different experts. The estimation of value mentorship conveys a high level of obligation to guarantee legitimate wellbeing rehearses is taken after. Almost no exertion has been given to preparing the nonelectrical labourers that are presented to electrical risks. Preparing for non-electrical labourers is a missing component in the present electrical security culture. A principal contention in this paper is that culture speaks to the entirety of what is regularly adequate without examination. The way of life is likewise determined by regular perception and experience. With a specific end goal to change the way of life there must be a redefinition of what is satisfactory, trailed by noticeable changes that everybody can understanding and watch. Administration possesses culture since it sets what is passable and satisfactory. Accordingly, the fate of electrical wellbeing will rely upon how well administration comprehends the hazard and results of electrical work and their duty in moulding and owning electrical security strategies. Enter components tended to in this paper incorporate human execution, innovation changes, adjusting to change, actualizing new thoughts to enhance security and how staff changes inside an enterprise can influence wellbeing execution.
Location of Eyes in Images of Human Faces through Analysis Variance Shine Intensity
No full textExtraction of facial features is an important step in automatic visual interpretation and recognition of human faces. Among the facial features, the eyes play a major role in the recognition process. In this article, we present an approach to detect and locate the eyes in frontal face images. Eye regions are identified using the technique of voucher detection based on mathematical morphology. After this identification is made a comparison between the variances of three different portions of each candidate region to eye (set of pixels belonging to the candidate region as a whole, set of pixels contained in a minimum rectangle circumscribed to the candidate region and set of pixels of the candidate region belonging to a horizontal band that crosses the center of mass of this region). The calculation of these variances also considers the R, G, and B channels, as well as the gray version of the input image
Identifying the Breakdown Voltages of Vegetable Oils with Silicone Carbide Nanoparticle Additive as Insulating Oil for Transformers
No full textThis paper discusses on the breakdown voltage of vegetable oils with nanoparticles added to be used as insulating oil for transformers. Raw samples of Palm Oil (PO) and Coconut Oil (CO) were used in this research. Different percentages of silicone carbide (SiC) nanoparticles was added into the samples of the vegetable oils. The different parameters of the vegetable oil mixtures were investigated through the breakdown voltage tests to analyse the effect of the additive on the dielectric strength of the oils. The performance of insulating oils varies according to the percentage of nanoparticles added through viscosity test and partial discharge (PD) measurement. The initial results for vegetable oils showed that the percentage of additives influenced the value of breakdown voltage of the oils highly. Furthermore, the result shows that PD measured became very low after the addition of silicone carbide nanoparticles
Decentralized Energy Resource Management Problems of Multi Agent Negotiation Framework
No full textThis paper proposes the idea of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) management, in light of dynamic bunching of energy assets for better coordination of free market activity. An audit on load profiling and estimating components is given which to be used in building information, required for nearby and worldwide coordination. To stay away from substantial scale complexities, a decentralized control approach with Multi Agent Negotiation Framework (MANF) is conveyed. An audit on MANF innovations and their application in power framework is displayed. With MANF we give a system to planning maker, shopper and group specialists. These specialists additionally negotiate Service Level Agreements for overseeing free market activity and ideally using the energy assets
Trash Basket Sensor Notification Using Arduino with Android Application
No full textThe protection of society and environment from garbage accumulation and its polluting effects is carried by waste management companies, the services provided by these companies are improving life overall quality. By preserving raw materials, proper collecting and elimination of trash have reduced pollution and environmental impact. On the other hand, areas which are suffered from inappropriate negative service appreciate the garbage collector’s valuable efforts. Appropriate garbage collection and management facilities have made a recycling process improvement which caused a reduction in waste generation. Also controlling the released contaminators and pollutants has decreased the impact on landfills and protected the environment from the pollution negative effects. Using mobile and electronic technology to enable waste management companies to finish its work and make it easier for collecting trash in a simple and an easy way. We introduce Trash Sensor Android Application to help waste management companies detect trash levels to collect it and help citizens from undesired odours
Automated Detection of Microaneurysmsusing Probabilistic Cascaded Neural Network
No full textThe diagnosing features for Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) comprises of features occurring in and around the regions of blood vessel zone which will result into exudes, hemorrhages, microaneurysms and generation of textures on the albumen region of eye balls. In this study we presenta probabilistic convolution neural network based algorithms, utilized for the extraction of such features from the retinal images of patient’s eyeballs. The classifications proficiency of various DR systems is tabulated and examined. The majority of the reported systems are profoundly advanced regarding the analyzed fundus images is catching up to the human ophthalmologist’s characterization capacities
Energy Management in Current Fed Switched Inverter Based Propulsion Motor for Marine Application
No full textIn this paper the super capacitor and battery based current fed switched converter produce high voltage gain and the performance of motor is improved. The fuel based renewable energy produce the less dynamic performance of the motor and life time is reduced so the proposed paper use the super capacitor based energy production. The permanent magnet synchronous based motor has high performance. The permanent magnet synchronous motor vector control strategy is adopted. The proposed method the inverter and motor are interconnected. The motor functioning is used in the marine based electric device. The proposed method use the space vector control method is used. The possibility of the system and the control methods are established by MATLAB/ simulink environment
A Novel Hydro Powered Online Power Converter for Marine Lighting Applications
No full textThis paper presents a new hydro energy based dc-dc PFC sepic based buck converter for marine lighting applications. The major advantage of the proposed power converter is high power factor and low THD with higher efficiency. SEPIC converter produces continuous smooth ripple free current because of two inductors in series in line in its circuit. Sepic converter produces lower switching losses because of lower voltage stress on power switch employed compared to other buck-boost converter topologies. Tidal wave energy is converted into mechanical energy with the help of a hydro turbine which drives a permanent magnet synchronous generator to produce three phase ac output voltage. It produces a low ac voltage which is converted into DC using passive diode rectifier and fed to sepic converter for voltage regulation as well as to improve quality of power supply such as high power factor, low THD. The proposed sepic based power converter for marine lighting application is simulated in MATLAB/Simulink environment for verifying the performance of proposed scheme
Vehicle Accident Report Application for Solving Traffic Problems and Reduce the Ratio of Pollution using Case Study: Kuwait City
No full textMinor traffic accidents have become a major problem facing the road users in the recent years, according to the statistics from the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in Kuwait there were recorded 80,388 accidents by the year 2014. Accidents not only affect the mobility but also contribute to air pollution and slow down economic growth. These effects are the result of the seriously extended trips travel time due to accumulated vehicles queue. In some accidents cases, the lost time waiting for the arrival of the traffic officers and filling up the accident report could take up to 45 minutes. The new idea of Vehicle Accident Report application (I-VAR) concept developed by the research team would reduce the waiting time up to 3 minutes (93% savings), which would increase the level of service of the segment of a roadway. In addition, the study will be discussed four major situations on some of the busiest roads in Kuwait. Specifically, gas emissions and cost estimation. Improve the pollution obviously, by using the (I-VAR) application for the minor accidents there is an amount of 360,776,460 K.D would be saved yearly from the Kuwait government funds. It is a consequence of the huge savings in alleviating traffic congestion and generally produces more saver and efficient travel conditions