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Volume 17 Number 2 Year 2016

15 articles in this issue 

Azlin Suhaida Azmi, Nurlisa Yusuf, Dzun Noraini Jimat, Noor Illi Mohamad Puad

Production of lactic acid and ethanol from inedible cassava starch and leaves was investigated. Prior to fermentation, hydrolysis of the starch and leaves was conducted. Hydrolysis was optimized by manipulating at three levels each four particular factors... see more

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Shiva Rowshanrad, Mohamad Reza Parsaei, Manijeh Keshtgari

In recent years many claims about the limitations of todays’ network architecture, its lack of flexibility and ability to response to ongoing changes and increasing users demands. In this regard, new network architectures are proposed. Software Defined ... see more

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Nurul Arfah Che Mustapha, A.H.M. Zahirul Alam, Sheroz Khan, Amelia Wong Azman

This paper presents a low power capacitance to voltage converter (CVC) circuit using two differential amplifier circuits, two Schottky rectifier diodes constructed in symmetrical manner and combined with instrumentation amplifier circuits. The differentia... see more

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Khan Bahadar Khan, Amir A Khaliq, Muhammad Shahid, Sheroz Khan

Retinal damage caused due to complications of diabetes is known as Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). In this case, the vision is obscured due to the damage of retinal tinny blood vessels of the retina. These tinny blood vessels may cause leakage which affect the... see more

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Shiva Rowshanrad, Vajihe Abdi, Manijeh Keshtgari

Software Defined Network is new network architecture. One of its components is the controller, which is the intelligent part of SDN. Many controllers such as Floodlight, Open Daylight, Maestro, NOX, POX and many others are released. The question is which ... see more

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Parisa Bazmi, Manijeh Keshtgary

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a new Internet architecture which has been proposed to eliminate TCP/IP Internet architecture restrictions. This architecture is abstracting away the notion of host and working based on naming datagrams. However, one of the ... see more

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Sajjad Ahmed Ghauri

Demodulation process without the knowledge of modulation scheme requires Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC). When receiver has limited information about received signal then AMC become essential process. AMC finds important place in the field many ... see more

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Emad Samadaei, Seyyed Asghar Gholamian, Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, Jafar Adabi

ABSTRACT:  Multilevel inverters have been introduced as useful devices to connect between DC-AC systems. They are high quality output and cost benefit systems with a wide range of applications. Asymmetric multilevel inverters are a type of multileve... see more

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Abul Hossain, Fahmida Gulshan, A. S. W. Kurny

This paper focuses the effect of Cu additions on tensile properties of Al-6Si-0.5Mg alloy at various strain rates and electrochemical corrosion behavior. The additions of Cu resulted in an increase in tensile strength and showed higher strength all over t... see more

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Mustafizur Rahman

In recent years, the trend in miniaturization of products has been pervasive in areas such as information technology, biotechnology, and the environmental and medical industries. Micro/Nano patterning is the key supporting technology that has to be develo... see more

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Muhammad Abid

Gasketed bolted flange joints are the most critical components in pipelines for their sealing and strength under operating conditions. Most of the work available in literature is under static loading, whereas in industry, cyclic loads are applied due to t... see more

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Iman Mansouri, Ali Shahri, Hassan Zahedifar

Solving systems of nonlinear equations is a difficult problem in numerical computation. Probably the best known and most widely used algorithm to solve a system of nonlinear equations is Newton-Raphson method. A significant shortcoming of this method beco... see more

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Reza Noroozian, G. B. Gharehpetian

In this paper, the configuration of the PV generation system, the dynamic model for PV modules and its power electronic interfacing have been presented. A novel control strategy for the DC-DC converter has been developed in order to extract the maximum am... see more

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Seied Yasser Nikoo, Behrooz Rezaie, Zahra Rahmani, Seied Jalil Sadati

In this paper, a neuro-fuzzy fast terminal sliding mode control method is proposed for controlling a class of nonlinear systems with bounded uncertainties and disturbances. In this method, a nonlinear terminal sliding surface is firstly designed. Then, th... see more

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