Information and communication technology is part of the existing technological development in globalization era. Relating to the high mobility, the usage of mobile phone is increasing and mobile phone based applications are also emerging. Gunadarma University has a mobile phone application, that is UG in Your Hand. It is a Java-based student access mobile application for students at the University of Gunadarma. This application contains academic information, courses information and workshops organized by the University of Gunadarma. In addition, the application provides information of students’ portfolio, news info on student site, services to register the seminar, and support services for students at the University of Gunadarma as well. This research was conducted with the aim of measuring the quality of UG in Your Hand application on the level of satisfaction based on users’ perception as well as to determine any factors of the application that should be improved. The WebQual 4.0 method used in this study was designed to measure the quality of UG in Your Hand application. WebQual 4.0 method consists of three dimensions, namely usability, information quality and interaction quality. Multiple linear regression analysis is used to measure the impact of UG in Your Hand application quality on user satisfaction. This study used dependent and independent variables. The independent variables were taken from WebQual dimensions of the usability, information quality, and interaction quality. Meanwhile, the dependent variable was the user satisfaction. The results of this research, based on descriptive analysis, show that the highest average value is owned by the dimensions of information quality. Based on the multiple linear regression analysis consisting of f significance tests, t significance tests, and the coefficient of determination, variables of usability, quality of service interaction, and information quality have effects on the user’s satisfaction variables.

An over-riding factor in the operation of the power system is the desire to maintain security and expectable reliability level in all the sectors- power generation, transmission and distribution. Steady state power system insecurity such as generator outage causes transmission elements cascade outages which may lead to complete blackout. The security assessment is an essential task as it gives the knowledge about the system state in the event of a contingency. Contingency analysis technique is being widely used to predict the effect of outages like failures of equipment and to take necessary actions to keep the power system secure and reliable. In this paper, the effects of double generator (N-2) outage contingency and simultaneous transfer were considered in Nigerian 330-kV network. The results show that double generator outages can result in an infeasible operating condition (system collapse) of major parts of the Nigerian 330-kV power grid. Also the capacity and major factors affecting electricity generation in Nigeria were highlighted.

The rising in popularity of Korean entertainment contents in Asia has created a boom in the entertainment industry. TV drama series in Korea have become the most favorite media genre. As consequences, Malaysian viewers are prone to Korean dramas compared to other Asian dramas. The purpose of this study is to understand the Koreans media strategies to continuously gaining and sustaining the popularity of Korean's drama in Malaysia. The success of the Korean drama industry can provide inspiration and motivation as well as encouragement to propel the Malaysian drama industry to emulate the glorious future as what the Korean Wave has achieved. The strategy and approach of the Korean drama industry then could be applied and exploited for the Malaysian drama industry to success globally.

Hazardous gases detection became a concern after the effects of harmful gases on human health were discovered. Gas detectors can be used to detect combustible, flammable and toxic gases and oxygen depletion. This type of device is used widely in industry and can be found in locations such as oil rigs. They may be used in firefighting.

This device detects the amount of gas in the environment and displays the readings and alerts the user.

Upgrading a human brain to blue brain is the first made global effort to reverse-engineer the brain of mammalian, in order to understand the function of brain through detailed simulation. BLUE BRAIN is the name acknowledged as the world’s prime virtual brain which means, a machine that can function as human brain. Nowadays scientists are in research to build an artificial brain that can guess, react , take decision and keep anything in memory. The main objective is to upload human brain into machine with the help of  nanobots. So that, man can take decisions without any effort. After the mortality of the body, the virtual brain will act as the man. So that, even after the mortality of a person we will not lose the knowledge, Intelligence, feelings, and memories of that man that can be further  used in the development of human society.

Block or group replacement model is developed to the objects that fail completely on utilization. Industrial item/equipment gets worn with time and usage and it functions with decreasing efficiency. The increasing repair and maintenance cost demands the replacement of items. In the present work an intermediate state called repairable state in between working and breakdown state is taken into consideration and Higher Order Hidden Markov Model (HMM) concept is applied in generating the probabilities of items falling in different states. Replacement decision is made considering macroeconomic variable, “inflation”.

A Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a self-configuring network without using any established infrastructure. The nodes are battery operated and therefore energy is a scarce resource in MANET. Many routing algorithms are proposed in literature and evaluated under different scenarios. The Performance of MANETs not only depends upon the routing mechanism but also on mobility model chosen. Mobility model is used to represent the mobility of individual node and it plays a crucial role when evaluating the performance of routing protocols. The energy being limited is crucial for MANET operations. Although both mobility and energy issues have been addressed so many times but mobility based energy consumption studies are not performed that much.

The aim here is to study the impact of mobility model on the energy consumption in MANET routing protocols. The energy consumption under different mobility models like Random Waypoint, Reference Point Group Mobility, Manhattan Grid and Gauss Markov is evaluated through simulation using NS2 with varying number of nodes for different modes of operation. The well known DSR protocol is taken as the candidate protocol for performing experiments under different scenarios

The present work reports the calculations for differential cross sections as a function of secondary and or ejected electron energy in the ionization of SiF₄ by electron collision corresponding mto the production of various cations viz. singly charged ions SiF_n⁺ (n=0-4) and F⁺ and doubly charged ions SiF₃⁺² and SiF₂⁺² through direct and dissociative ionization processes at a fixed incident electron energy of 200 eV. The modified Jain-Khare semi-empirical formalism based on oscillator strength has been employed for evaluation of cross sections. In absence of the experimental and/ or theoretical data for comparison of the differential cross sections, the corresponding derived partial integral cross sections in terms of the partial ionization cross sections for these cations in the energy range varying from ionization threshold to 1000 eV, revealed a reasonably good agreement with the available data. In addition to the differential and integral ionization cross sections, we have also calculated the ionization rate coefficients using the evaluated partial ionization cross sections and the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution as a function of electron energy.

Field operations figures collected from three pipeline segments showed that most of the data generated in different measurement units are inconsistent. Therefore, these raw figures lead to complexity in stock accounting, reconciliation and inconsistency in pipeline delivery figures. The objective of this work is to establish a simplified procedure that will proffer solution to the discrepancies and aid in quick resolution of the inconsistencies in petroleum and petroleum products delivered through the pipeline. Figure 1 has the percentage difference in volume and weight as 0.16% and 0.37% respectively, Figure 2, has the percentage difference in volume and weight as 9.5% and 9.46. Figure 3 has the percentage difference in volume and weight as 0.62% and 0.58%. The rule of thumb to check the conversion was established as 7.31. This procedure can be applied to other petroleum products delivered through the pipeline. This procedure no doubt would help to minimize overblown losses, instill professional checks, and present reliable figures to end users.

The railway system is the most effective and safest means of transport for heavy goods movement in the economy with the additional advantage of lower cost per person per load as the train load increases. These factors notwithstanding the service delivery of the Nigeria Railway Corporation which played a significant role in the development and growth of the Nigeria economy deteriorated sharply with time leading to an inefficient, unreliable and uncompetitive transport system. Although a lot of studies have been carried out on the revitalization of the Nigeria railway industry, most of them concentrated on funding, rail line and wagon refurbishment, and management issues without much consideration given to core technical issues bothering on local capacity acquisition in the building of locomotives and rolling stocks, maintenance, spare parts sourcing, and other technical issues that will make the Nigeria Railway System economically viable and self-sustaining. In conjunction with the views of other stakeholders a rational plan was devised that will facilitate local capacity acquisition in the process planning, manufacture and maintenance of rail system components and equipments with Concurrent Engineering and Computer Integrated Manufacture under a Memorandum of Understanding  with reputable railway operators and manufacturers. The paper concluded that the implementation of the local content capacity drive in technical competence in the operation of the Nigeria railway system will reposition the Nigeria Rail System to compete with other modes of transportation on both price and quality of service.

Our Earth is the only Planet in our Milky Way galaxy which is a perfect blend of each ingredient essential for existence of life. It has approximately an area of 510 million Sq Km. Ninety-seven percent of the water on the earth is salt water. Salt water is filled with salt and other minerals, and humans cannot drink this water. Although the salt can be removed, it is a difficult and expensive process.

Two percent of the water on earth is glacier ice at the North and South Poles. This ice is fresh water and could be melted; however, it is too far away from where people live to be usable.

Less than 1% of all the water on earth is fresh water that we can actually use. We use this small amount of water for drinking, transportation, heating and cooling, industry, and many other purposes.

The fresh water used by per capita per day is 20 percent and rest 80 percent gets wasted. This waste water must be treated so as to reuse of waste water. Thus Sewage Treatment Plants are constructed to get clean water out of the waste water. Sewage Treatment can be done by different several technologies. But the latest technology nowadays used is Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR).

The object of this project is to represent the information regarding Sewage Treatment Plant integrated with latest treatment technology named as Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR). We will discuss about Planning, Designing, Construction, Management as well as Result of SBR Technology.

This paper aims to reexamine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Algeria over the period of 1980–2014. We employ three different measures of financial development to build an indicator of financial development using principal component analysis (PCA). Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds test technique, the empirical results show that financial development index has a negative and significant effect on economic growth in Algeria