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Online Psychological Testing System (Opts), Kien Leong Tan Jan 2002

Online Psychological Testing System (Opts), Kien Leong Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Online Psychological Testing System (OPTS) is an Internet-based system aim at provides a central place on the Internet to give information about the practice of psychology knowledge to the user. The system architecture for OPTS, which is developed in web-based can be divided into client (web browser), web server and database server. Before developing OPTS, researches have been done to understand various new concepts, which are relevant to this project. Among the topic are psychological questions, Internet, client/server concepts and other relevant topic. Questionnaire is used to get the feedback from the students in University of Malaya about their opinions …

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Sistem Pencarian Rumah, Mariot Major Maryo Jan 2002

Sistem Pencarian Rumah, Mariot Major Maryo

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Pencarian Rumah secara on-line adalah sistem yang membolehkan pengguna untuk mencari rumah atau mengiklankan rumah untuk disewa atau pun dijual. Bagi pencari rumah yang ingin mencari tempat tinggal, mereka boleh menggunakan enjin carian senarai yang dipaparkan berdasarkan penyusunan lokasi atau harga, samada untuk penyewaan atau penjualan dan nama negeri yang dikehendaki. Sistem ini memaparkan dua jenis paparan iaitu paparan senarai dan paparan maklumat tempat tinggal. Sistem ini juga menyenaraikan alamat tempat tinggal yang baru, dengan prosedur pendaftaran alamat tempat tinggal dan kemaskini maklumat pada paparan maklumat tempat tinggal. Akhir sekali, sistem pencarian rumah ini mempunyai proses untuk menghapuskan alamat …

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Sistem Pengagihan Pekerja Projek, Kamaruddin Afidah Jan 2002

Sistem Pengagihan Pekerja Projek, Kamaruddin Afidah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Melihatkan perkembangan syarikat-syarikat kejuruteraan di Malaysia memberikan idea untuk membangunkan satu sistem untuk membantu syarikat-syarikat ini. Sistem ini dinamakan Sistem Pengagihan Pekerja Projek (SPPP). Ia diperlukan oleh syarikat yang banyak mengendalikan projek-projek luar. Umpamanya syarikat kejuruteraan yang mengendalikan banyak projek-projek atau tender. Sistem ini membantu mengagihkan pekerja projek ke projek-projek tertentu dengan teratur dan sistematik. Disamping itu projek ini membenarkan pengguna melihat perjalanan sesuatu projek iaitu berapa lama projek ini berjalan dan siapakah pekerjanya serta siapa yang diperlukan oleh projek sedemikian rupa. Sistem ini juga memberi maklumat kepada bahagian pengarah projek atau pentadbiran jika sesuatu projek itu sudah hampir habis …

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Neodymium And Erbium Coordination Environments In Phosphate Glasses, Mevlüt Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, Ezzeldin Metwalli, Andrew K. Wittenauer, Richard K. Brow, C. H. Booth, D. K. Shuh Jan 2002

Neodymium And Erbium Coordination Environments In Phosphate Glasses, Mevlüt Karabulut, G. K. Marasinghe, Ezzeldin Metwalli, Andrew K. Wittenauer, Richard K. Brow, C. H. Booth, D. K. Shuh

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The local structures of Nd3+ and Er3+ ions in two series of rare-earth (RE) phosphate glasses with nominal compositions xR203-(1-x)P2O5, where R=Nd and Er and 0.05≤x≤0.28, have been characterized by LIII-edge extended x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy (EXAFS). The RE coordination number depends on the R2O3 content, decreasing from 9.0 (10) oxygen nearest neighbors in ultraphosphate compositions (x<0.15) to 6.4 (9) oxygen nearest neighbors for the metaphosphate (x∼0.25) compositions. The average Er-O bond distance decreases from 2.29 (1) to 2.23 (1) Å, and the average Nd-O bond distance decreases from 2.40 (1) to 2.37 (1) Å over the same compositional range. The changes in coordination environments are consistent with the conversion of isolated RE polyhedra to clustered RE polyhedra sharing common oxygens as the number of available terminal oxygens per RE ion decreases with increasing x.

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The Development Of A Methodology For Creating An Earthen Building Inventory, Margaret Lyn Ford Jan 2002

The Development Of A Methodology For Creating An Earthen Building Inventory, Margaret Lyn Ford

School of Art, Design and Architecture Theses

This thesis addresses the issue of cataloguing traditional earthen architecture. It proposes a methodology that will permit the systematic collection and analysis of objective and quantifiable data relating to historic earthen, or cob, buildings in a parish in mid Devon. The brief given for this project requhes a multi-disciplinary approach to be taken, one that considers the topographical surroundings and the historic context of the buildings as well as the architectural characteristics. A triangular concept is expounded, with the three elements providing a sound basis for the development of an holistic methodology for creating an earthen building inventory. To comply …

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Virtual Auctions, Han Chooi Louis Tan Jan 2002

Virtual Auctions, Han Chooi Louis Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Virtual Auctions is about developing an e-auction system for online auctioning off general merchandise to bidders in specialized auctions such as travel auction, computer auction, car auction, etc. The system will allow bidders to do online registration and bidding, which could be for auctioning off many interesting, bizarre and exciting items such as watches, antiques etc. In the development of this system, there are several stages involved, which we will see in the following chapters of this report. Firstly there will be an Introduction chapter where the objectives and scope of this project is determined. Also there is a part …

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Sistem Pengurusan Pelajar (Student Administation System-Sas), Mohd Jumari Masdianilavati Jan 2002

Sistem Pengurusan Pelajar (Student Administation System-Sas), Mohd Jumari Masdianilavati

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Pengurusan Pelajar berasaskan web untuk pelajar Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat merupakan aplikasi berasaskan web untuk kegunaan kakitangan dan pelajar FSKTM. Projek tesis ini diharapkan dapat membantu operasi, pengurusan dan pentadbiran fakulti. Ia juga diharapkan untuk meneruskan perkembangan maklumat di kalangan komuniti di mana ianya akan memudahkan akses dan capaian kembali maklumat dan juga pencarian maklumat. Dengan internet, maklumat boleh disebarkan dengan cepat, efektif dan efisyen mengatasi rintangan geografi. Tapak web FSKTM telah dibangunkan untuk membekalkan tapak web yang dinamik dengan fungsian untuk melaksanakan pengemaskinian secara atas talian di samping membekalkan maklumat yang diperlukan dan terkini dengan cara …

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Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (Sitp), Awangku Kasumajaya Awangku Fadzillah Jan 2002

Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (Sitp), Awangku Kasumajaya Awangku Fadzillah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Projek Ilmiah pada dasarnya adalah ditarifkan sebagai penyediaan projek tesis tahun akhir bagi pelajar Fakulti Sains Komputer Dan Teknologi Maklumat bagi tujuan memenuhi keperluan pengijazahan Sarjana Muda Sains Komputer. Matlamat utama projek ilmiah adalah untuk pelajar mengaplikasikan segala konsep dan skil yang telah dipelajari untuk menghasilkan projek yang benar-benar bermutu tinggi. Bagi tujuan ini saya telah memilih untuk membangunkan sistem yang berasaskan web iaitu Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (SITP). Sistem SITP ini dibangunkan secara projek berkumpulan. Seramai 3 orang pelajar akan membangunkan projek ini berdasarkan kepada submodul yang telah ditetapkan iaitu permohonan pinjman atas talian, penasihat pelajaR, FAQS, penyemakan penyata …

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A New Optimal Nonlinear Control Method And Its Application To Missile Guidance Law Design, Ming Xin, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2002

A New Optimal Nonlinear Control Method And Its Application To Missile Guidance Law Design, Ming Xin, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this paper, a new nonlinear control synthesis technique (q-D approximation) is discussed. By adding perturbations to the cost function this approach achieves a suboptimal solution to the Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman (HJB) equation. By manipulating the perturbation terms both asymptotic stability and optimality properties are obtained. An application to the design of missile guidance law is presented and is compared with a similar technique (State Dependent Riccati Equation technique) used in problems of this class. © 2002 by the author(s).

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State Dependent Riccati Equation Based Spacecraft Attitude Control, Ming Xin, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2002

State Dependent Riccati Equation Based Spacecraft Attitude Control, Ming Xin, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

We present a new optimal control approach to the robust spacecraft attitude control in the framework of State Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) technique. To treat this highly nonlinear control system, we formulate it as a nonlinear optimal regulator problem. SDRE technique was well applied to this class of attitude control problem. We also synthesize a neural network based extra controller to achieve the robustness in the presence of the parameter uncertainties. A general spacecraft attitude regulation problem was studied to show the effectiveness of SDRE approach and robust extra control design. © 2002. Published by the American Institute of Aeronautics …

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Accuracy And Efficiency In Fem Modeling Of Turbofan Acoustic Radiation, Eivind Listerud, Walter Eversman Jan 2002

Accuracy And Efficiency In Fem Modeling Of Turbofan Acoustic Radiation, Eivind Listerud, Walter Eversman

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

It is shown that there is an increase in efficiency of acoustic radiation finite element modeling with the incorporation of cubic rather than quadratic serendipity elements. Cubic serendipity elements produce a given level of accuracy for acoustic pressure using a coarser mesh than required using quadratic elements, thus decreasing the CPU time needed for accurate modeling. These elements have been applied to the near field inlet and aft acoustic radiation models for a turbofan engine with the result of considerable reduction in the dimensionality of the problem without sacrificing accuracy. Visual observations of the gain in computational efficiency is supported …

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Cfd Simulations Of Critical Components In Fuel Filling Systems, R. Banerjee, X. Bai, D. Pugh, Kakkattukuzhy M. Isaac, D. Klein, J. Edson, W. Breig, L. Oliver Jan 2002

Cfd Simulations Of Critical Components In Fuel Filling Systems, R. Banerjee, X. Bai, D. Pugh, Kakkattukuzhy M. Isaac, D. Klein, J. Edson, W. Breig, L. Oliver

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A comprehensive study is reported on the dynamics of critical components in the refueling process for passenger cars and light trucks. Nozzle, filler pipe, recirculation tube, tank, and canister are investigated. CFD simulations are conducted for flow rates of 4 liters/min (lpm) to 80 lpm for gasoline and up to 120 lpm for diesel fuel. Tank pressure, identified as a critical parameter controlling flow performance, is measured and utilized as a boundary condition. Flow simulation in a carbon canister, accomplished by treating the adsorbing carbon as a porous medium, indicates pressure drops which are in good agreement with published experimental …

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Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Optimal Control Design Of Heat Equation With Discrete Actuators Using Neural Networks, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2002

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Optimal Control Design Of Heat Equation With Discrete Actuators Using Neural Networks, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A new method is presented for the optimal control design of one-dimensional heat equation with the actuators being concentrated at discrete points in the spatial domain. This systematic methodology incorporates the advanced concept of proper orthogonal decomposition for the model reduction of distributed parameter systems. After deigning a set of problem-oriented basis functions an analogous optimal control problem in the lumped domain is formulated. The optimal control problem is then solved in the time domain, in a state feedback sense, following the philosophy of adaptive critic neural networks. The control solution is then mapped back to the spatial domain using …

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A Quantitative Similarity Metric For Design-By-Analogy, Daniel A. Mcadams, Kristin L. Wood Jan 2002

A Quantitative Similarity Metric For Design-By-Analogy, Daniel A. Mcadams, Kristin L. Wood

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

During the design and development of new products, design engineers use many techniques to generate and define new and "good" concepts. Inherent in this search for solutions is the conscious and unconscious reliance on prior experience and knowledge, or design-by-analogy. In this paper, a quantitative metric for design-by-analogy is developed. This metric is based on the functional similarity of products. By using this product-similarity metric, designers are able to formalize and quantify design-by-analogy techniques during concept and layout design. The methods, as developed in this paper, allow a designer with limited experience to develop sophisticated solutions that enhance the overall …

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A Functional Basis For Engineering Design: Reconciling And Evolving Previous Efforts, Julie Hirtz, Robert B. Stone, Daniel A. Mcadams, Simon Szykman, Kristin L. Wood Jan 2002

A Functional Basis For Engineering Design: Reconciling And Evolving Previous Efforts, Julie Hirtz, Robert B. Stone, Daniel A. Mcadams, Simon Szykman, Kristin L. Wood

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In engineering design, all products and artifacts have some intended reason behind their existence: the product or artifact function. Functional modeling provides an abstract, yet direct, method for understanding and representing an overall product or artifact function. Functional modeling also strategically guides design activities such as problem decomposition, physical modeling, product architecting, concept generation, and team organization. A formal function representation is needed to support functional modeling, and a standardized set of function-related terminology leads to repeatable and meaningful results from such a representation. We refer to this representation as a functional basis; in this paper, we seek to reconcile …

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Spouses Need Not Apply: The Legality Of Antinepotism And No-Spouse Rules, Timothy D. Chandler, Rafael Gely, Jack Howard, Robin Cheramie Jan 2002

Spouses Need Not Apply: The Legality Of Antinepotism And No-Spouse Rules, Timothy D. Chandler, Rafael Gely, Jack Howard, Robin Cheramie

San Diego Law Review

Over the last three decades, there have been significant increases in labor force participation by women. Initially, this increase was fueled by the entry of single, childless women into the labor market. Married women primarily dedicated their efforts to home care concerns. However, in recent years, a new trend has emerged as "the levels of market work undertaken by married women have increased relative to those of unmarried women."

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Ethnography And The Idealized Accounts Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill Jan 2002

Ethnography And The Idealized Accounts Of Science In Law, David S. Caudill

San Diego Law Review

n Part I, I confirm the idealizations of science in law and their implications for legal scholarship and practice. In Part II, I describe the ethnographic method used by science studies scholars, with reference to my own ethnographic analysis of interviews with three neuroscientists. I conclude Part II by identifying various social aspects of science that comprise a complex picture of scientific activity. In Part ill, I discuss the implications of ethnomethodology for trial practice, including deposition analysis, Daubert-type hearings, cross-examination techniques, and drafting jury instructions. Part IV addresses anticipated criticisms of my arguments.

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Introduction Jan 2002

Introduction

San Diego Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Purloined Personality: Consumer Profiling In Financial Services Jan 2002

The Purloined Personality: Consumer Profiling In Financial Services

San Diego Law Review

Although almost every sector of the U.S. economy practices consumer profiling,perhaps the most substantive challenge to consumer privacy is found in the activities surrounding the use and disclosure of consumer transaction data by the financial services industry. For that reason, this Comment focuses exclusively on consumer profiling in the context of the financial services sector, defined as banks, credit card issuers, brokerages, and insurance companies.

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Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (Sitp) Untuk Kegunaan Hal-Ehwal Pelajar Um, Zainal Abidin Zainul Azhar Jan 2002

Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (Sitp) Untuk Kegunaan Hal-Ehwal Pelajar Um, Zainal Abidin Zainul Azhar

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pandangan Pertama SITP, Sistem Informasi Tajaan Pengajian (SITP) adalah sebuah sistem atas talian yang akan dibangunkan untuk Bahagian Hal-Ehwal Pelajar Universiti Malaya. Sistem in akan; • merapatkan jurang komunikasi antara HEP dengan para pelajar • menjadi sumber pencarian maklumat berkaitan dengan penajaan pengajian • memudahkan segala urusan pelajar berkaitan dengan penajaan pengajian • memudahkan urusan Sahagian Hai-Ehwal Pelajar disamping menghasilkan operasian lebih efektif Laporan ini akan memberi pengenalan kepada projek pembangunan sistem ini dari aspek • penyelidikan • analisa • rekabentuk Sistem ini akan dibangunkan oleh tiga pelajar tahun akhir FSKTM jurusan Kejuruteran Perisian sebagai projek tesis (WXES3181) tahun akhir …

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Experimental Implementation Of Adaptive-Critic Based Infinite Time Optimal Neurocontrol For A Heat Diffusion System, Prashant Prabhat, S. N. Balakrishnan, Dwight C. Look Jan 2002

Experimental Implementation Of Adaptive-Critic Based Infinite Time Optimal Neurocontrol For A Heat Diffusion System, Prashant Prabhat, S. N. Balakrishnan, Dwight C. Look

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Recently the synthesis methodology for the infinite time optimal neuro-controllers for PDE systems in the framework of adaptive-critic design has been developed. In this paper, first we model an experimental setup representing one dimensional heat diffusion problems. Then we synthesize and implement an adaptive-critic based neuro-controller for online temperature profile control of the experimental setup.

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Motion Based Event Recognition Using Hmm, Gu Xu, Yu-Fei Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Shiqiang Yang Jan 2002

Motion Based Event Recognition Using Hmm, Gu Xu, Yu-Fei Ma, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Shiqiang Yang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Motion is an important cue for video understanding and is widely used in many semantic video analyses. We present a new motion representation scheme in which motion in a video is represented by the responses of frames to a set of motion filters. Each of these filters is designed to be most responsive to a type of dominant motion. Then we employ hidden Markov models (HMMs) to characterize the motion patterns based on these features and thus classify basketball video into 16 events. The evaluation by human satisfaction rate to classification result is 75%, demonstrating effectiveness of the proposed approach …

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Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Feedback Optimal Control Synthesis Of Distributed Parameter Systems Using Neural Networks, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan Jan 2002

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Based Feedback Optimal Control Synthesis Of Distributed Parameter Systems Using Neural Networks, Radhakant Padhi, S. N. Balakrishnan

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A new method for optimal control design of distributed parameter systems is presented in this paper. The concept of proper orthogonal decomposition is used for the model reduction of distributed parameter systems to form a reduced order lumped parameter problem. The optimal control problem is then solved in the time domain, in a state feedback sense, following the philosophy of ''adaptive critic'' neural networks. The control solution is then mapped back to the spatial domain using the same basis functions. Numerical simulation results are presented for a linear and nonlinear one-dimensional heat equation problem in an infinite time regulator framework.

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