In Malaysia, on-site technical personnel manually inspect power transformers. Some vital condition indicators, such as oil and winding temperatures, are not monitored in real-time. This can be hazardous if the transformer gets overheated. Overheating cause mechanical deformation insulation degradation regularly. Thus, an online monitoring system that meets industry standards is needed to enhanc...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial dysfunctions in the various psychosocial areas in chronic schizophrenic patients predict the long-term course, outcome, and quality of life of these patients, which always varies with years of treatment. OBJECTIVE To know the influence and compare the level of psychosocial dysfunctions and severity of disability burden in chronic schizophrenic patients who are in remis...

The STAR experiment is one of two large detectors which will take data in 1999 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA. The major focus of the experiment is the investigation of heavy ion collisions (up to Au-Au) at p s = 200 GeV/nucleon pair. The detector readout rate of 100 Hz leads to a data rate of the order of 10 GByte/sec, which will be ...

The use of a personal computer together with a Data Acquisition System (DAQ) as the processing tool in optical tomography systems has been the norm ever since the beginning of process tomography. However, advancements in silicon fabrication technology allow nowadays the fabrication of powerful Digital Signal Processors (DSP) at a reasonable cost. This allows this technology to be used in an opt...

Many modern applications deal with exponentially increasing data volumes and aid business-critical decisions in near real-time. Particularly in exploratory data analysis, the focus is on interactive querying and some degree of error in estimated results is tolerable. A common response to this challenge is approximate query processing, where the user is presented with a quick confidence interval...

The CBM readout controller board (ROC) was developed to control nXYTER-based [1] front-end electronics and deliver data from the nXYTER to a PC via Ethernet. A first version of PC software libraries (ROClib [2]) for communication with the ROC was implemented. Then a significant redesign of this software was required because new ROC firmware will support various kinds of front-end electronics an...

The non-intercepting Beam Induced Fluorescence (BIF) monitor for transverse beam profile measurements was successfully tested for different ion species and energies from 5 to 750 MeV/u at the GSI accelerators [1]. Starting from its first implementation [2] we systematically investigated technical aspects such as the proper choice of optics and gain factors, as well as physical aspects like the ...

Recently, a significant amount of research has been devoted to soft robots. Artificial muscles belong the most important components Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) represent technology that comes closest capabilities natural muscle, making them best candidates for artificial in robotics and prosthetics applications. To develop these applications, an analysis DEAs test bench must be possib...