Transactions on Engineering Technologies: Special Volume of the World Congress on Engineering 2013

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Viscous Fingering of Reversible Reactive Flows in Porous Media....Pages 1-15
Prediction of Thermal Deformation for a Ball Screw System Under Composite Operating Conditions....Pages 17-30
Shear Strength and Fracture Surface Studies of Ball Grid Array (BGA) Flexible Surface-Mount Electronics Packaging Under Isothermal Ageing....Pages 31-41
Optimum Parameters for Machining Metal Matrix Composite....Pages 43-57
Base Isolation Testing Via a Versatile Machine Characterized by Robust Tracking....Pages 59-71
Active Vibration Isolation Via Nonlinear Velocity Time-Delayed Feedback....Pages 73-86
Project of Mechanical VVA Systems for Motorcycle Engines....Pages 87-99
Performance Evaluation of the Valveless Micropump with Piezoelectric Actuator....Pages 101-115
Role of Offset Factor in Offset-Halves Bearing....Pages 117-128
Relative Position Computation of Links in Planar Six-Bar Mechanisms with Joints Clearance and Complex Chain....Pages 129-140
Flutter Analysis of an Aerofoil Using State-Space Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling....Pages 141-148
WRS-BTU Seismic Isolator Performances....Pages 149-162
A CFD Study of a pMDI Plume Spray....Pages 163-176
Harmonic Decomposition of Elastic Constant Tensor and Crystal Symmetry....Pages 177-194
DLC Coated Piston Skirts Behavior at Initial IC Engine Start Up....Pages 195-212
Mineralogical and Physical Characterisation of QwaQwa Sandstones....Pages 213-225
Spatial Prediction of a Pre-curved Bimetallic Strip Under Combined Loading....Pages 227-240
Development of a Glass-Fibre Reinforced Polyamide Composite for Rotating Bands....Pages 241-254
Design and Development of the Ultrasound Power Meter with a Three Axis Alignment System for Therapeutic Applications....Pages 255-269
Mass Transfer Properties for the Drying of Pears....Pages 271-280
The Application of Negative Hamaker Concept to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Blood Interactions Mechanism....Pages 281-293
Modeling and Analysis of Spray Pyrolysis Deposited SnO 2 Films for Gas Sensors....Pages 295-310
SISO Control of TITO Systems: A Comparative Study....Pages 311-326
Fuzzy-Logic Based Computation for Parameters Identification of Solar Cell Models....Pages 327-338
An ANFIS Based Approach for Prediction of Threshold Voltage Degradation in Nanoscale DG MOSFET Devices....Pages 339-353
A Novel Feedback Control Approach for Networked Systems with Probabilistic Delays....Pages 355-370
A Probabilistic Method for Optimal Power Systems Planning with Wind Generators....Pages 371-384
Four Quadrant Operation of Field Weakened FOC Induction Motor Drive Using Sliding Mode Observer....Pages 385-402
The Investigation of the Optical and Electrochemical Characteristics for the Pani Thin Film by Cyclic Voltammetry and Potentiostatic Methods....Pages 403-413
Influence of Titanium Dioxide Layer Thicknesses and Electrolyte Thicknesses Applied in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells....Pages 415-424
Fabrication of Real-Time Wireless Sensing System for Flexible Glucose Biosensor....Pages 425-437
Gate-Passing Detection Method Using WiFi and Accelerometer....Pages 439-453
Extended Performance Studies of Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11a, b, g Laboratory WPA Point-to-Multipoint and Point-to-Point Links....Pages 455-465
An Experimental Study of ZigBee for Body Sensor Networks....Pages 467-481
Closed Form Solution and Statistical Performance Analyses for Regularized Least Squares Estimation of Retinal Oxygen Tension....Pages 483-499
Identification of Multistorey Building’s Thermal Performance Based on Exponential Filtering....Pages 501-512
DC-Image for Real Time Compressed Video Matching....Pages 513-527
Automated Diagnosis and Assessment of Dysarthric Speech Using Relevant Prosodic Features....Pages 529-542
Parallelization of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms Using Distributed Memory Architectures....Pages 543-554
Experiments with a Sparse Distributed Memory for Text Classification....Pages 555-568
CO 2 Purify Effect on Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Indoor Vertical Greening....Pages 569-580
Eliciting Usability from Blind User Mental Model for Touch Screen Devices....Pages 581-595
Numerical Solution and Stability of Block Method for Solving Functional Differential Equations....Pages 597-609
Semi Supervised Under-Sampling: A Solution to the Class Imbalance Problem for Classification and Feature Selection....Pages 611-625
Claims-Based Authentication for an Enterprise that Uses Web Services....Pages 627-639
Multilevel Verification and User Recognition Strategy for E-mail Clients....Pages 641-654
Securing Information Sharing Through User Security Behavioral Profiling....Pages 655-670
Filtering of Mobile Short Messaging Service Communication Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Social Network Analysis....Pages 671-686
Back Matter....Pages 687-700