K. M. Hyie, Wan Normimi Roslini Abdullah, Nor Azrina Resali
{"title":"Electrodeposited cobalt and its alloys nanocoating: A brief review","authors":"K. M. Hyie, Wan Normimi Roslini Abdullah, Nor Azrina Resali","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226099","url":null,"abstract":"Nanocrystalline materials have gained importance to be developed due to their significantly enhanced properties compared to the polycrystalline materials. Electrodeposition has a special role in synthesizing the nanocrystalline materials. In current review, the superiority of electrodeposition technique in producing various nanocyrstalline materials that exhibit improved characteristics compared to materials produced by conventional techniques are discussed. The nanocrystalline cobalt and its alloys have been recognized as one of the capable materials to replace the hard chrome coating. This coating is known to be carcinogenic on the tissue and toxic to human beings, plants and animals. The approaches taken in designing the efficient nanocrystalline cobalt and its alloys coatings which provide superior resistance to corrosion are outlined. The mechanical properties of various nanostructured coating materials using the nanoindentation testing are also described. The understanding obtained from the review will offer guidelines for future researches, thus providing new structured coatings which can be utilized in various applications such as corrosion and wear resistance applications.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127120350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Property development: The influence of demographic changes on the actors and the Malaysian housing demand (preferences) — Preliminary findings (housing consumers)","authors":"Hafiszah Ismail, A. H. Nawawi, Z. M. Saat","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226078","url":null,"abstract":"The property market was perceived “as an interaction between three (3) main functional components of market activities” (Keogh, 1994). Those market activities are the User Market, the Investment Market and the Development Market. Ratcliffe and Stubbs (2001) stressed that property development today may determine in many respects how people will live in the future. Numerous models of property development process have been developed with the attempt of further explaining how the property market and property development work and interact. In relevance, one of the important factors that feed the success delivery of property development is the role of the actors (agents) involved. In further discussing the matters concerning the property development and the process it is important to include the demographic factors in the study as it was found to be relevant. For instance, studies found that changing demographic trends namely birth and death rates, fertility, mortality, immigration and emigration and their impact on the property market especially on the housing demand. In addition to this especially on the housing study, there is a vital need in including categories of population (according to age or ‘generation’) as different population reflects different housing needs and preferences. Thus, this paper intends to give brief summary on a pilot study findings (preliminary findings) on the research currently undertake as part of a doctoral thesis. This particular research is a study that tries to link property development, demographic changes and Malaysian housing demand (preferences) in one specific context. This research was done by using Malaysian demographic data for example; the Malaysian population by rate and age group, birth rate, life expectancy rate and age at first marriage.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"3 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127466319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation based process improvement in palm oil industry: A case study at palm kernel department","authors":"N. Mohd-Lair, J. Lee, W. Liew, R. Sarbatly","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226037","url":null,"abstract":"Palm oil industry contributes significantly to Malaysian economy. However, there seem to be very few studies conducted on improving the palm oil production process. Specifically, there is seemed to be lacked of studies on the application of simulation modelling in improvement activities conducted on palm oil mills. This study addressed this gap by demonstrating the application of simulation modelling in improving or evaluating potential improvements before the improvements are being carried out in the palm oil mill. In order to conduct this research, a palm kernel plant production process in a local palm oil mill had been studied. Two models representing the existing and improved process had been developed and compared. The comparison indicated that the new improved model of the kernel plant does increase the system throughput by 26.7%.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126828229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic short distance estimation using ultrasonics","authors":"H. Abdulqader, B. Varghese, N. Nabhani","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226109","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the practical implementation of a dynamic distance indication system using ultrasonic waves. The distance is measured using pulse echo method, in which the signal is transmitted by an ultrasonic transducer, reflected by an obstacle and received by another transducer where the signal is detected. The time delay between the transmitted signal and the received one is measured using Microchip PIC16F877A microcontroller which controls the signal transmission, reception and distance estimation. The code for calculation of the distance is developed using PIC ASM and the code is programmed into the microcontroller using MPLAB IDE. The accuracy of the distance depends on the environmental temperature as the speed of sound in air varies with temperature.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126875434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaos issues on communication in Agile Global Software Development","authors":"Nina Kamarina Kamaruddin, N. Arshad, A. Mohamed","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226091","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, the distance related to time and location between distributed software development teams is considered contributing to the chaotic environment of Global Software Development (GSD). Furthermore, when it involves using Agile method where communication is crucial between developers and customers. This paper aim to discussed the issues that have occurred related to the communication in Agile Global Software Development (AGSD). Literature survey has been carried out to gather information from the previous works as well as from forum feedback by practioners globally. The chaos issues are then illustrated using conceptual model, tabulated based on authors and then discussed. Identification of chaos issue is important in order to highlight the real problems that had happened in AGSD. Based on the identified chaos issues related to communication, it will somehow help the researchers and practitioners to acknowledge the real problems that had occurred in AGSD.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130574293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumers' E-commerce acceptance model: Antecedents of trust and satisfaction constructs","authors":"Afshan Azam, Pro. Fu Qiang, M. Abdullah","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226086","url":null,"abstract":"Are trust and satisfaction important in consumers' electronic commerce acceptance procedure? What are the antecedents of trust and satisfaction in this context? How do trust and satisfaction affect the Internet consumer's purchasing decision? To answer these questions, we develop a theoretical framework describing the trust-satisfaction based decision-making process a consumer uses when making a purchase from the internet, testing the proposed model using a correlation matrix and multiple regression technique on the Internet consumer purchasing behavior data collected from 450 respondents via questionnaire and considering the limitations of the model. The results of the study show that the Internet consumers' trust and satisfaction have strong impacts on their purchasing decisions. Security, privacy, and fulfillment/reliability have strong effects on the Internet consumers' trust and satisfaction from e-purchasing. Interestingly, disposition to trust, non-deception and third party seal did not strongly influence consumers' trust and satisfaction in ecommerce acceptance.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126361230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A design for Fuse IC inbuilt memory saving element","authors":"Shashank Bhatnagar, V. Khare","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226052","url":null,"abstract":"The paper emphasis on the simulation of Fuse IC with inbuilt memory element. The fuse IC is designed to prevent damages from external electrical fluctuations. The Fuse IC is integrated with multiple level of fuses which comes action one after another as fuses goes off one by one. The working of Fuse IC is a hybrid characteristics of MCB and wired fuse. The Fuse IC works as wire fuse i.e. the connection breaks in the same manner as for the wire fuse breaks itself when current of more than a specified amount flows through it and, it has a characteristic of MCB as it set itself again in fuse on condition when a fuse goes off after a fluctuations. The Fuse IC is integrated with memory part also in which comprises of flip flops. The memory element used when Main IC suffers, off condition due to the burning of fuse and it suffers power off. In such condition System suffers data lost conditions means the data which is coming to processing purpose to Main IC will be lost due to power drop to Main IC, so for solving this problem lets presume that the delay between switch off to switch on the Main IC after a fluctuation be 1 bit time so after burning of each level 1 flip flop comes in to the working condition to work as memory element.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131944577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heat transfer in thermal boundary layer flow over a stretching plate with radiation effect","authors":"S. N. A. Azeman, Anuar Ishak","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226096","url":null,"abstract":"A steady laminar boundary layer flow over a stretching plate in an incompressible viscous fluid is considered. The stretching velocity is assumed to vary linearly with the distance along the surface. The governing partial differential equations are reduced to ordinary ones using a similarity transformation. These equations are then solved numerically using Maple Software which based on the Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. Besides, the solution for the thermal field is also given in terms of Kummer's function. The effects of the radiation parameter and the Prandtl number on the heat transfer characteristics are obtained and discussed. It is found that the heat transfer rate at the surface decreases as the radiation parameter increases, but it increases with the Prandtl number.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127671821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The activated carbon as anti-odour coated and pigment printed fabric","authors":"T. S. M. Eza, W. Ahmad, M. N. Ahmad","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226054","url":null,"abstract":"The different amount of activated carbon of 5%, 10% and 15% from coconut and oil palm shells in powder form were applied to the polyester and cotton fabrics by pigment printing and coating technique to investigate their anti-odour properties. The treated fabrics were exposed to onion odour for 24 hours before the odour tests were conducted. The odour tests were conducted to measure the effectiveness of treated fabric according to ISO Standards and making use of Portable Electronic Nose 3 (PEN 3) device. The results showed that, fabrics containing activated carbon are able to reduce odour that was picked up by the fabrics. The coated activated carbon fabrics gave better result than the printed activated carbon fabrics. The higher concentration of activated carbons on the fabrics generated lower rating of odour intensity and odour annoyance which also lower the odour of onion on the fabrics.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131466807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. C. Haw, O. Saadatian, A. H. Baharuddin, S. Mat, M. Y. Sulaiman, K. Sopian
{"title":"Case study of wind-induced natural ventilation tower in hot and humid climatic conditions","authors":"L. C. Haw, O. Saadatian, A. H. Baharuddin, S. Mat, M. Y. Sulaiman, K. Sopian","doi":"10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BEIAC.2012.6226047","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of a wind-induced natural ventilation tower through an empirical analysis in hot and humid climatic conditions. There are mainly two methods for inducing natural ventilation; namely stack ventilation and wind-induced ventilation. Due to the relatively lower difference between the indoor and outdoor temperature in hot and humid conditions, stack ventilation method alone is rendered insufficient to create desirable air flow between outdoor and indoor building environment to achieve comfort and indoor air quality for the building occupant. Hence, wind-induced ventilation method can be used to achieve the desired air flow rates and improve the indoor air quality for the building. This study revealed that at external wind speed of 0.1m/s, the aerodynamic inverted airfoil roof geometry on the wind-induced natural ventilation tower is able to generate extraction air flow rate of 10,000m3/h with average of 57 ACH to provide comfort and indoor air quality to the internal building environment in hot and humid climatic conditions.","PeriodicalId":404626,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium (BEIAC)","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}