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The acquisition of psychomotor skills is a key competency in engineering field. In manufacturing courses, engineering workshop practices and laboratory work provide students with practical skills (hands-on activities) thus enhance knowledge prior to their future career. This paper discuss the current levels of practical skills acquired by students' in engineering workshop machining classes with reference...
In this work, a structure for an active mechatronics orthosis of right hand is presented. The mechanism was designed to help to patients with neuromuscular injuries who cannot grasp heavy objects. The Integration Definition for Function Modeling provides activities, functional requirements and anthropomorphic parameters to define the materials and components. Currently, the first prototype allows...
Increasingly biomaterials for the repair of abdominal wall defects are used. The aim of this study was to evaluate adhesion formation of prosthetic meshes after intraabdominal implantation to repair a surgical defect in the anterior abdominal wall. This anatomical defect was repaired by one of the three types of previously sterilized meshes: 1) fibroin 2) fibroin with polyethylene glycol and 3) commercial...
Worldwide over one billion people live with some kind of disability; many of them require the use of prosthesis to compensate the absence of a functional limb. In seeking the use of new technologies to meet this demand, the rapid prototyping with 3D printer, is presented as a viable solution, since the economic factor is critical. A new prosthesis model using two types of plastic is proposed based...
Non-metallic chemical components (silicate, sulfide, alumina, globular oxide) originated from production process cause inclusions in steel. These inclusions are one of the important factors that directly affect quality of steel. Before raw steel is used, the detection and classification of the inclusions according to international standards ASTM E45 will prevent faults that may occur during or after...
In this paper, we explore the possibility of using Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) materials for wideband millimeter-wave helix antenna applications. Nickel-titanium (NiTi) alloys are the most commonly used shape memory alloy (SMA) and have been widely used for bio-medical, electrical and mechanical applications. The proposed NiTi based antenna can be placed across the width of the handset chassis, which...
Digital forensic investigation process is about identifying and tracing the cause of the incident, whereby traceability is very important process during the investigation by searching for the evidence. However, the traceability model of digital forensic investigation process is enhanced based on scenario with proven literature and justification.
In response to the nation-wide call for reform in STEM education, a number of universities are introducing non-traditional experiences in their engineering curricula as early as the freshman year. Although many of these experiences can be characterized as “project-based,” they vary widely in their implementation. These variations hamper meaningful research on the relative impact these pedagogies have...
In this paper, we investigate various possibilities of applying an integrated approach to Concept Inventory (CI) in statistics classes. The paper defines Concept Inventory, states the basic principles and goals of the CIs and respective tests, and outlines current state of related research. The paper sketches possible uses of CIs in various Statistics classes and discusses introduction of the concept...
In the last few years, it has become common for organizations to document work practices by means of business processes diagrams. An analysis of the assumptions underlying process modeling, shows that this procedure pursues two seemingly contradictory goals: on the one hand, it aims at formalizing work practices into diagrams that set out a defined sequencing of activities, on the other, it seeks...
Devising a system requirements specification is a challenging task. Even after several decades of system development research, specifications for large-scale, widely-used systems remain difficult. In this paper, we suggest a first step toward a requirements specification through a stakeholder involvement approach with game elements. We report preliminary findings from a practice case in which our...
The recent nationwide audit of graduate programmes offered at public universities by the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) has, in a way, opened up a can of wriggly worms! Albeit the admittedly onerous process of gathering and compiling the evidence in preparation for the audit, a substantial number of issues, either previously overlooked or unforeseen, has been ascertained. One of these in UTHM...
The Free Open Source Software is a growing concern for Massive Open Online Courses. The Spoken-Tutorial is a program for the literate people who belong to the Information system environment. Spoken Tutorials Organize workshops focusing on “MOOC”. The Massive Open Online Course is a response to the challenges faced by organizations in order to collect related information of several matters. Spoken-Tutorial...
Concepts in Formal Languages and Theory of Computation remain to be vague and complicated for students undergoing undergraduate computer sciences programmes. Moreover, the volume of learning content delivered as mere lectures in a course semester also causes disinterest among students studying these courses in tier-3 engineering institutions. Considering the present generation students and their learning...
In today's social context, the role of designers has been shifting gradually with design evolution. Along with the proposition of design thinking, service design and transformation design, designers work more with people than merely for people. And that makes designers play the role of facilitators more in the design processes to promote co-design with various stakeholders for solutions and strategies...
E-Learning becomes widely spread in the past few years because it enables learner to participate in anytime, anyplace personalized training. Designing rich E-Learning environment is an important factor to enhancing the effectiveness of web based education. Therefore the necessity of evaluating the web based E-Learning content is arising. The evaluation of E-Learning content is beneficial for learner...
The paper deals with the identification and interpretation of “unconscious” cognitive images, patterns and ideas according to some remarkable synchronistic phenomena in the acausal mostly unconscious “relationship” of Carl Gustav Jung and Wolfgang Ernst Pauli at the period of 1947–1956 on the basis of Pauli's “observation” related to Jung's past “experiences.”
Using a sentiment lexicon for German translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, Tumblr URL names for blog archives are inspected with regard to the category of the content. Across the five languages, where the content would be of concern to anyone who would be inclined to filter offensive content, the URLs are constructed with negative sentiment expressions more often than positive sentiment...
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