In recent years, smart homes have become the center of interest for IT companies and construction companies and various types of smart homes have been made currently available on the market. Yet, these equipment are costly and it is not easy to convert existing equipment for smart home application as they may require additional resources which could also inflict much costs. The extra costs invo...

Purpose: This study evaluated the problems and challenges associated with school nursing in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States of Nigeria in terms of coverage, services rendered, adequacy of equipments and supplies, and involvement of other relevant professionals in school health programmes. Materials and methods: A descriptive design was adopted, and sixty schools were randomly selected from the...

This paper presents a digital signal processing tool developed using Matlab TM , which provides a very low­cost and effective strategy for analog­to­digital conversion of legated paper biomedical maps without requiring dedicated hardware. This software­based approach is particularly helpful for digitalizing biomedical signals acquired from analogical devices equipped with a plottingter. Albeit ...

People use sketches to express and record their ideas. Free-hand sketches are usually drawn by non-artists using touch sensitive devices rather than purpose-made equipments; thus, making them often highly abstract and exhibit large intraclass deformations. This makes automatic recognition of sketches more challenging than other areas of image classification because sketches of the same object c...

Maintenance is one of the important activities in any industry. In a large industry, in order to prioritize the maintenance action, we need to identify the critical equipments. The present paper has explored to identify the critical equipments of a coal based power plant and rank them accordingly. Multiple criteria like: environmental impact (EI), customer inconvenience (CI) and maintenance cos...

This paper describes a micro-grid system and its monitoring system. This micro-grid system consists of generation systems, consumer electrical equipments, auxiliary equipments and the monitoring system. All the equipments have 485 communication interfaces. In order to monitor and manage this micro-grid system, we built a monitoring system, which contains modular instrument system and industrial...

The purpose of the proposed research is to design and implement a LabVIEW-based remote lab client to run on a TCP/IP enabled PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) device, thus teaching using this wireless m-learning system will not be limited by time and location. In addition, resources and equipments can be integrated and shared to the extent that critically events can be monitored and handled in t...

nowadays using new technologies in education is one of important challenges of educational associations. using new technologies cause increase of efficiency in education. in this paper, the place of it in education of 4 language skills has analyzed and difficulties of arabic language students in related courses have discussed. using computer, educational software, internet and other equipments ...