136 research outputs found
Transkrip temu bual bersama Puan Kamariah binti Abdul Hamid Mantan Ketua Pustakawan Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad Universiti Putra Malaysia mengenai pengalaman beliau sebagai alumni dalam bidang Kajian Sains Perpustakaan/ Muhammad Syazwan Rolee & Nur Auni Athirah S. Rosli
No full textTranskrip ini adalah mengenai Puan Kamariah binti Abdul Hamid, seorang mantan Ketua Pustakawan di Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) dan juga seorang alumni dari Kajian Sains Perpustakaan, Institut Teknologi MARA (ITM). Beliau merupakan figura utama yang membentuk kewujudan transkrip ini dengan perkongsian menerusi temu bual yang dijalankan selama 2 jam 11 minit 19 saat. Temu bual terse.but diadakan secara atas talian dengan menggunakan aplikasi Skype yang dikendalikan oleh Muhammad Syazwan bin Rolee dan Nur Auni Athirah binti S. Rosli. Temu bual ini dibahagikan kepada tiga bahagian soalan yang merangkumi soalan-soalan orientasi, soalan umum dan juga soalan spesifik. Bahagian pertama iaitu soalan orientasi menjurus kepada maklumat berkaitan tokoh yang meliputi maklumat diri tokoh, keluarga, kehidupan tokoh semasa kecil, kehidupan tokoh dalam berumah tangga, anak-anak tokoh dan juga latar belakang awal pendidikan tokoh. Seterusnya, bahagian kedua iaitu soalan umum yang menjustifikasikan tentang pandangan tokoh terhadap perpustakaan. Manakala untuk bahagian ketiga telah menginterpretasi soalan-soalan spesifik yang mengupas tentang zaman pengajian tokoh semasa di ITM serta perjalanan karier tokoh sebagai seorang pustakawan. Di akhir temu bual, tokoh telah memberikan kata-kata nasihat kepada generasi masa kini khususnya kepada pelajar-pelajar yang menceburi bidang Pengurusan Maklumat. Transkrip ini bertujuan untuk memberi pengetahuan tentang sejarah awal penubuhan kursus sains perpustakaan di ITM. Selain daripada itu, transkrip ini juga bertujuan untuk menonjolkan kejayaan seorang tokoh alumni Fakulti Pengurusan Maklumat (FPM), ITM dalam bidang pengurusan maklumat dan seterusnya dapat mewujudkan sebuah rekod tentang sejarah dan pengalaman hidup tokoh sebagai seorang alumni. Diharapkan dengan kewujudan transkrip ini dapat memberi kupasan kepada pembaca tentang sejarah Sains Perpustakaan yang belum pernah diketahui dan juga memberi pengetahuan kepada semua masyarakat tentang dunia kepustakawanan
Development of six degree of freedom SCARA robot / Syazwan Ab Rahim Halimi
No full textSCARA Robot is one of the types of robot that exist today. The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm. By virtue of the SCARA's parallel-axis joint layout, the arm is slightly compliant in the 'X-Y' direction but rigid in the 'Z' direction. Regarding this project, the author has designed the actuators, also known as servo motors for the SCARA robot that has been initially designed by students from the previous year. The strength of the SCARA robot has been determined analytically using Finite Element Analysis via CATIA. The actuators are designed not just to move the SCARA arms in the appropriate order but to determine the most efficient cost that should be spent on them. The process of designing the actuators involved the calculations of inertia, voltage, current, speed, torque and etc. Most of the calculations are based on calculations provided by Maxon Motor Company; a company that has been so tremendous in robotics and plays a major part in supplying this project. However, the results from the machine-human interface provided by Maxon depend on manual calculations of equation of motion. Every aspect must be considered so that the actuators, which going to be selected at the end of the research shall work as expected and the programming process may run smoothly. In term of control system, transfer functions that relate the torque constant, rotor inductance and terminal resistance are produced. These transfer functions are manipulated in order to obtain stability for each actuator respectively. The study on the stability is then conducted using Simulink of MATLAB. Simulink would enable the system to be controlled appropriately by bounding some characteristics such as settling time, rise time and peak time within specified value that would make it dynamically stabl
Challenges in developing a new regional road safety strategy for ASEAN
No full textIn 2011, more than 75,000 people died in road crashes in the ten member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and many times this number sustained long term injuries. Improving road safety outcomes in ASEAN is not only important for the welfare and economic benefit of these countries, but given that a significant proportion of the world's population lives in ASEAN, it will strongly influence whether the aims of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety and the Sustainable Development Goals are reached. Following the ASEAN Senior Transport Officials Meeting in May 2011, the Secretariat requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide assistance to improve road safety in ASEAN. In response, ADB, funded by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, has funded a package of action to improve road safety in ASEAN, including the development of a new regional road safety strategy. The diversity of the member nations of ASEAN poses significant challenges for the development of the strategy. For example, the road fatality rates per 100,000 population in Malaysia and Thailand are about 5 times greater than in Singapore. In addition, the importance of particular road safety issues varies across the ASEAN countries and for countries which are undergoing rapid motorization, the order of importance may change over the life of the strategy. The development of the ASEAN Regional Road Safety Strategy has adopted the five pillars of road safety of the UN Decade of Action but focused on those aspects which are most relevant at the regional level and where a regional approach will support and facilitate actions taken by individual countries. A draft ASEAN Regional Road Safety Strategy document has been prepared and consultation will further refine its directions and contents. The paper will describe the processes undertaken to identify issues and solutions, the measurement of road safety maturity and behavioural risk factors, and the overall structure and themes of the strategy
Effect of anodizing voltage and annealing temperature on the growth of titanium dioxide nanotube
No full textUpgrading bandwidth of conventional rectangular patch antenna using metamaterial / Ahmad Syazwan Nasaruddin
No full textThis project proposed the use of a unit metamaterial in constructing the rectangular patch antenna. It is done by implementing the unit metamaterial as the substrate and cover of the antenna. The newly created antenna should be operating at X-band frequency which is from 8GHz to 12GHz. These designs can reduce the size of the antenna while maintaining or provide better performance in terms of the return loss, bandwidth, gain and directivity. The unit metamaterial is realized by having the Symmetrical Ring structure with a combination of several materials such as Copper and Flame Retardant 4 (FR-4). Lots of effort has been put into conversion of the S-data into the electromagnetic properties. It is to verify the metamaterial itself whether to exhibits negative permittivity. The metamaterial antenna is surely good news for the telecommunication industries as antenna can now be produced at smaller size without compromising the performance. This metamaterial antenna has positive future in helping the telecommunication industries to move one step further in enhancing the technology thus providing satisfaction to the customers
Upgrading bandwidth of rectangular patch antenna using metamaterial / Ahmad Syazwan Nasaruddin
No full textThis paper is proposed a metamaterial in constructing a patch antenna. It is done by implementing a metamaterial as substrate of the antenna. The study is concentrating on X-band frequency at 11.28 GHz. This design can reduce the size of the antenna as well as maintaining the return loss response and able to increase the bandwidth. The newly invented metamaterial antenna maintained return loss of less than -20dB and 300MHz wider bandwidth if compared to the conventional antenna. The size of the metamaterial antenna is reduced by a factor of 2. The metamaterial is obtained by combining two materials which are the Flame Retardant 4 (FR-4) and the Copper in the structure of Symmetrical- Ring. The S-paramcter obtained from simulation of the metamaterial is ensured to be negative in order for it to be a metamaterial. This metamaterial antenna is surely good news for communication industries as antenna can now be produced at smaller size but still can response similarly or even better than the conventional antenna nowadays. This metamaterial antenna has positive future in helping the telecommunication industries to move one step further in enhancing their technology thus giving satisfaction to the customers
Automated underwater vision system for detection and classification of marine life using CNN YOLO-based model / Mohamed Syazwan Asyraf Rosli
No full textThe exploration of underwater ecosystems requires thorough observation and investigation for different marine habitats leads to the usage of an underwater vision system. This method is superior as a non-destructive approach for video monitoring technique that takes advantage from the advancement of camera vision technology. However, manual processing of real-time or recorded video is a time-consuming, laborious, and highly possible for fatigue errors during analysis. This is due to the water murkiness and low-light projection that yield low visibility, hence limits the ability to precisely explore the underwater environments. Driven by these challenges, there is a need for an automated real-time method that can replace the manual analyzing process and be able to work under constraints environments. Recently, the integration of computer vision and machine learning has given solutions to improve the underwater detection system by using intelligent classifier algorithm in real-time computer vision to detect underwater animals with challenging environments. Therefore, this study is proposed to develop an automated underwater object detection model based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) by using You Only Look Once (YOLO). In this research, several single-stage detectors of YOLO models namely as YOLOv3, YOLOv4, YOLOv5 including their subset models were evaluated for benchmarking and comparison purpose. All models were trained and tested using three open-source datasets for assessing the models’ performances based on quantitative metrices and image processing speed. Hence, the proposed YOLO model is further improved based on the model optimization using a challenging The Brackish Dataset. The Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam) optimizer and Learning Rate on Plateau are employed to optimize the model's training regime. Significantly, the comparison results show that YOLOv5s outperformed others in terms of mean average precision (mAP) up to 97.7% and inference speed of up to 125 Frame Per Second (FPS). Meanwhile, the Adam optimizer with a detailed learning rate and momentum fine-tuning provides sufficient convergence rate and assisting YOLOv5s achieve better performance of mAP which is 0.6% higher than SGD implementation and 13.72% better than original author for The Brackish Dataset implementation. As a conclusion, the proposed YOLO model is successfully improved with high precision performance for detecting underwater object in a challenging underwater environment. Thus, the model also provides sufficient image processing and speed capability at real-time which will help marine biologists in elevating underwater research for analyzing underwater video with minimal human intervention
Introduction of water footprint assessment approach to enhance water supply management in Malaysia
No full textEducational visit of Zhejiang Medical University delegates: A valuable summer experience / Muhammad Syazwan Mazlan and Associate Prof. Dr. Mahmathi Karuppannan
No full textOn 2nd August 2023, the Faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM welcomed 17 students and 1 lecturer from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Medical University (ZMU). This visit was organised by the National Council of Professors (Majlis Profesor Negara) as part of ZMU’s Summer Camp Programme in Malaysia, making it a significant academic and cross-cultural exchange event. The host, represented by the respected Deputy Dean(s) and lecturers as well as representatives from students’ association SOPHYS and SMF, welcomed the delegation with a vibrant sharing session, that began with an insightful introduction to the faculty, including its rich history, academic outline, and diverse range of programs offered. The students from both institutions engaged in lively discussions, fostering a sense of closeness and a deeper understanding of their respective educational systems
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