...Fast and Accurate Technique for Determination of Moisture Content in Oil Palm Fruits using Open-Ended Coaxial Sensor This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. 2005 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 5272 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1347-4065/44/7R/5272) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 134.7.89.216 This content was downloaded on 20/09/2015 at 12:31 Please note that terms and conditions apply. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Vol. 44, No. 7A, 2005, pp. 5272–5274 Brief Communication #2005 The Japan Society of Applied Physics Fast and Accurate Technique for Determination of Moisture Content in Oil Palm Fruits using Open-Ended Coaxial Sensor Zulkifly A BBAS, You Kok Y EOW, Abdul Halim SHAARI, Azmi ZAKARIA1 , Jumiah H ASSAN, Kaida K HALID1 and Elias S AION INSPEM, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia 1 Department of Physics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia (Received March 30, 2004; accepted September 3, 2004; published July 8, 2005) A simple, fast and accurate technique employing an open-ended coaxial sensor for the determination of the moisture content in oil palm fruit is presented. For this technique, a calibration equation has been developed based on the relationship between the measured moisture content obtained by the oven drying method and the phase of the reflection coefficient of the...
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...and security. This increase in complexity of an already complex software development process will only add to the already high rates of project failure. Middleware platforms have traditionally been designed as monolithic static systems. The vigorous dynamic demands of future environments such as large-scale distribution or ubiquitous and pervasive computing will require extreme scaling into large, small, and mobile environments. In order to meet the challenges presented in such environments, next-generation middleware researchers are developing techniques to enable middleware platforms to obtain information concerning environmental conditions and adapt their behavior to better serve their current deployment. Such capability will be a prerequisite for any next-generation middleware; research to date has exposed a number of promising techniques that give middleware the ability to meet these challenges head on. Adaptive and reflective techniques have been noted as a key emerging paradigm for the development of dynamic next-generation middleware platforms [1, 2]. These Middleware for Communications. Edited by Qusay...
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...BSB51407 - Diploma of Project Management Manage Project Time Assessment Activities & Exercises Candidate Details Assessment – BSB51407 - Time Please complete the following activities and hand in to your trainer for review. This forms part of your assessment. Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ Employer: _____________________________________________________________ Declaration I declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where I have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part of this assessment has been written for me by another person. Signed: ____________________________________________________________ Date: ____________________________________________________________ If activities have been completed as part of a small group or in pairs, details of the learners involved should be provided below; This activity workbook has been completed by the following persons and we acknowledge that it was a fair team effort where everyone contributed equally to the work completed. We declare that no part of this assessment has been copied from another person’s work with the exception of where we have listed or referenced documents or work and that no part...
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...experience of learning from reflection on giving intramuscular (IM) injections, using Gibbs's (1988) reflective model. I demonstrate how practice anxiety, as a student nurse, can be dealt with through effective mentoring. I chose the seminal theory of Gibbs reflection on practice, as it illustrates six significant stages; description, feelings, evaluation, analysis of the incident, conclusion and an action plan Ghaye and Lillyman (1997). Gibbs cycle is used throughout the process of reflecting on the incident to help me make sense of my practice and understand what l could do differently to enhance good practice. I use my experience from a placement simulation as I could not be on actual placement due to unforeseen circumstances. Reflection is a process through which healthcare practitioners and students can learn from experience and use the knowledge to inform and improve practice Schon, (1983). The ability to reflect on one's actions is particularly imperative in clinical practice and discourse. As Jarvis (1992) asserted, there is no consensus on the definition of reflection as it is a broad concept. Reid (1993, p305.) define reflection as; “a course of action reviewing an occurrence of practice to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice” Schon (1983) identified two types of reflection which are; reflection in action, which takes place during the event where the practitioner may not be aware that it is happening and reflection on action, which takes place...
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...How to Guide for REFLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Guide for REFLECTION The National Service-Learning Cooperative ServeAmerica K-12 Clearinghouse Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center Compiled by Lorraine Parrillo Cooperative/Clearinghouse Coordinator Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center December 5, 1994 Used with their permission INTRODUCTION This module includes a summary of materials currently used to support reflection in the service learning movement. Crucial information presented includes: 1. Introductory materials on Reflection by Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad 2. Reflective teaching techniques using eleven different forms of reflection rather than just using journals and asking how participants feel about service 3. Basic critical thinking skills that may be used in reflection sessions 4. Bibliography Reflection Reflective learning techniques are not the lone providence of service activities. All thinking and dialogue requires some form of reflection if learning is to take place. Individuals need time and reconsideration of events to put facts and ideas into sequence and eventually into a better understanding as to what happened during a specific event. Everyone in their life-time will be required to repeat this process endlessly. Nevertheless, schools do little...
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...MGT 3302 Interactive Skills Workshop for Business – S02 Name: LIU Ling Chun SID: 52572903 Action Plan 1. Self-awareness First of all, I would like to increase my self-awareness. In order to achieve this, I plan to actively participate in more extra-curricular activities. I expect myself to join at least five activities before my graduation from university. Meanwhile, I would like to nurture a new habit which is writing self-reflection after participating in each activity. The content of the self-reflection will focus on my performance during the activity, such as whether I did well and if there were any rooms that I could improve. An action plan for each reflection will also be developed so that I can make improvement immediately. Also, I will take the initiative to ask different people to provide feedback after the activity. It is important to get feedback from others because it enables me to know where I am in terms of quality performance. Besides, I will try to have self-disclosure to the people that I trust. I will start with my best friends first by chatting with them during social gathering. In the meanwhile, I plan to spend more time with my friend from the university before my graduation. At least I will stay with them when I am in the campus. Therefore, our relationship should be enhanced and I can know more about myself from them. Most importantly, I can use the self-disclosure with them later on. 2. Listening skills By becoming a better listener, it...
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...radiographer and his patient. After reflecting over the therapeutic communication that’s shown in this video, it has helped me developed different techniques that are used with this communication and how to approach these techniques in the best way. Using Discolls reflection cycle, the ‘what’ comes first, describing what has happened in the situation. The therapeutic communication in this video starts with the Radiographer Peter, abruptly entering the room of pregnant patient Sally, who has seemed to have had a stroke. Not realizing that Sally can’t talk, Peter immediately starts to ask her questions before Sally’s husband has to step in and explain what her situation is. Peter then carry’s on asking Sally’s husband questions about herself and explains that he needs to do a CT scan of her brain. Peter then makes it clear that because a CT scan requires them to use radiation that there is harm to the baby. Sally’s husband becomes concerned and tries to sort out with Peter if this is really the best way to do this scan. With some explaining by Peter of why they need to do this scan, Sally’s husband then understands that they need to make the diagnoses of Sally first. Discolls cycle of reflection then follows up with the ‘so what’, where the analyzing of this event occurs. By using the summary of therapeutic communication techniques by Julia Balzer Riley...
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...The Study on Stealth Design Technology Abstract—In this report we study some basic ideas on stealth technology. Loosely speaking, the stealth technology can be divided into two categories: the study on target shape design and the study on radar absorbing materials. In this report, we explain the basic principles of these two categories, and give some simulations by CST Microwave Studio and Feko to show the effects of stealth technology. I. I NTRODUCTION The purpose of stealth design is to protect the target from being detected by the enemy’s radar and to increase the target survivability. Ideally, for an object to be ”stealth”, it needs to have a low optical visibility in addition to being low observable in the infrared spectrum and at all radar frequency bands, also the emission of acoustic noise should be low. However, this goal is difficult to achieve, and the recent research is mainly focus on the low observability in a certain radar bandwidth. In some degree, the term ”stealth design” is equivalent to the technology of reducing target’s the Radar Cross Section (RCS). RCS is the parameter to characterize the strength of backward scattering of the target, the formal definition is σ = lim 4πR2 R−>∞ Fig. 1: B-2 stealth bomber |Es |2 , |Ei |2 (1) Fig. 2: F117 stealth fighter plane where, R is the distance from target to radar, |Es | is the scattered electric field intensity and |Ei | is the incident electric field intensity. Radar equation can be used to estimate...
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...Claude Monet “Champ d’avoine (Oat Field)” Date created: 1890 Oil on canvas 26 x 36 7/16 in Monet's use of color along with use of intricate brush strokes and composition is outstanding. The vast variations of brush strokes and color placement techniques are what make his work so unique and individual. Grand Canal, Venice, 1908 is a prime example of Monet's talents in these areas. The structure of the painting is very loose. There are few hard lines in the composition that represents solid structure. The curves in conjunction with the shades of color as well as light usage give the piece a mirage-like effect. It is easy to imagine Monet's vantage point while he was painting the picture by the way the composition is set up. One can tell he was looking towards the buildings on the other side of water because it's obvious that the building are being reflected as well as the wooden poles sticking out of the water. It is quite evident that Monet is observing a sunset and that he is painting quickly to capture the full effect of light during this short period of the day with the study of light being the main focus in this work. Shadow also plays a large part in the make up the painting. Monet uses an even tonality of blues, lavenders, oranges and pinks to create the buildings across the water, thus showing the sunlight reflecting off the sides of them. It's quite amazing how he uses many different colors to create one large color. For instance, in the sky he uses...
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...nature of text. Such algorithms need some characters to be frequently appearing in the text and randomness in the characters present distorts the consistency to a large extent. This paper brings in the idea of using an art form called ambigram to compress text with consistency in the efficiency of the compression. Keywords Ambigrams, lossless compression, steganography, stego key, embedded algorithms, encryption. 1. Introduction When so many algorithms are available for compressing text, they hamper the readability of the text once compressed. Compressing the text using ambigrams also reduces the text to nearly 50% of its size. When most of the other compressing techniques depend on the nature of the text to be compressed, this technique is independent of the type of the text and requires only the corresponding data set. Hence, this method is consistent in performance. Ambigrams though known to many, has not found major applications in the field of technology. Probing further into this unravelled art form, it can be substantiated that ambigrams can be used to compress text. 1.1 Ambigram- Definition The word ambigram was coined by Douglas R. Hofstadter, a computer scientist who...
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...Critical Reflections on Teaching What is reflective teaching? Reflection defined | |[pic]|recognising |[pi| | | | |+ |c] | | |Reflection means | |examining | |the way we teach. | | | |+ | | | | | |ruminating over | | | This involves more than just describing what we do or what we have done. As individuals, each with our own background and experience, we bring certain beliefs, assumptions, knowledge, attitudes and values to teaching. Our teaching takes place in a social setting that has its own unique characteristics, opportunities and constraints. Reflective teaching means exploring the implications of all these complex factors with the intention of understanding and improving our practice. A good place to start is by considering our own pasts, as learners and teachers and reflecting on the beliefs, knowledge and values that we have developed from our experiences. Levels of reflection In a sense, we reflect constantly as we teach, responding to ongoing situations in the classroom as they arise. This is sometimes called reflection-in-action. Reflection-in-action usually happens very fast, perhaps even intuitively...
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...Empathy is not the same as sympathy. Empathy is a way to experience an emotionally or painful situation together, helping the client to feel less alone and understood. Sympathy is a feeling sorry for a person or client’s situation. Empathy can help a person move beyond feelings of negativity and hopelessness about a situation so that they can start to focus on moving through the situation. Even though empathy can lead to too much self-disclosure, it is crucial for nurses to apply empathy towards fearful cancer patients because a better therapeutic relationship is created and the patients feel more at ease. Literature Review Arnold and Boggs define empathy as the ability to be sensitive to and communicate understanding of the client’s feelings (2011). Empathy is to understand what it is like to “walk in someone else’s shoes” or to know what it is like to understand how that person feels by going through a similar experience (Kirk, 2007). Brunero, Lamont and Coates states that empathy is the ability to understand the meaning and feelings of a person and communicate those feelings back to that person (2010). Empathy is a relationship that allows open and honest discussion about one’s feelings (Haraldsdottir, 2007). A nurse is able to show empathy by a number of ways. You can display empathy by explaining a medical procedure or test in non-medical terms so the client can understand and feel in control of...
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...PreFinal Requirement in Network Management Katherine Mae M. Ramilo 201010219 October 4, 2013 ii K.M.R-2010101219 Contents 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.10 0.11 0.12 0.13 0.14 0.15 0.16 0.17 0.18 0.19 0.20 0.21 0.22 0.23 0.24 0.25 0.26 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 d4 1.4.2.2: 1.5.1.2: 1.5.3.2: 3.1.1.5: 3.1.3.2: 3.1.4.3: 3.2.4.4: 3.3.3.2: 3.4.3.3: 5.2.2.3: 5.3.2.2: 5.3.4.2: 5.5.3.2: 6.1.1.4: 6.1.2.2: 6.1.3.2: 6.2.3.4: 6.2.5.3: 7.1.4.3: 7.2.2.3: 7.2.3.2: 7.2.4.2: 7.2.5.2: 7.3.2.3: 7.3.4.3: 8.1.2.3: Creating Topologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Observing and Recording Server Traffic . . . . . . . . . Using Redundant Links on Server Farm Devices . . . . Investigating Existing Network Devices . . . . . . . . . Creating Modular Block Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . Determining Network Strengths and Weaknesses . . . . Installing Cisco IOS Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Installing Option Modules on a Router . . . . . . . . . Placing Wireless Access Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecting Access and Distribution Layer Switches . . Installing Option Modules on a Router . . . . . . . . . Observing Static and Dynamic Routing . . . . . . . . . Implementing Access Control Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . Designing and Addressing a Topology . . . . . . . . . . Resolving Discontiguous Network Problems . . . . . . . Applying VLSM Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuring a Multirouter EIGRP Network...
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...to look relatively realistic and predictable under virtual lighting, the rendering software should solve the rendering equation. Features of Rendering SHADING * how the color and brightness of a surface varies with lighting. TEXTURE-MAPPING * a method of applying detail to surfaces. SHADOWS * the effect of obstructing light. REFLECTION * mirror-like or highly glossy reflection. CAUSTICS * (a form of indirect illumination) * reflection of light off a shiny object, or focusing of light through a transparent object, to produce bright highlights on another object. DEPTH OF FIELD * objects appear blurry or out of focus when too far in front of or behind the object in focus. Techniques in Rendering RASTERIZATION * geometrically projects objects in the scene to an image plane, without advanced optical effects. RAY CASTING * considers the scene as observed from a specific point of view, calculating the observed image based only on geometry and very basic optical laws of reflection intensity, and perhaps using Monte Carlo techniques to reduce artifacts. RAY TRACING * is similar to ray casting, but employs more advanced optical simulation, and...
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