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Reliability Based Multi-Objective Thermodynamic Cycle Optimisation of Turbofan Engines Using Luus-Jaakola Algorithm

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Energy Engineering 2021年第4期118卷 1057-1068页

作者： Vin Cent Tai Yong Chai Tan nor faiza abd rahman Yaw Yoong Sia Chan Chin Wang Lip Huat Saw Centre for Modelling and Simulation Faculty of EngineeringBuilt Environment and Information TechnologySEGi UniversityPetaling JayaSelangor47810Malaysia Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty of EngineeringBuilt Environment and Information TechnologySEGi UniversityPetaling JayaSelangor47810Malaysia Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science Universiti Tunku Abdul RahmanKajangSelangor43200Malaysia

Aircraft engine design is a complicated process,as it involves huge number of *** design process begins with parametric cycle *** is crucial to determine the optimum values of the cycle parameters that would give a robust design in the early phase of engine development,to shorten the design cycle for cost saving and man-hour *** obtain a robust solution,optimisation program is often being executed more than once,especially in Reliability Based Design Optimisations(RBDO)with Monte-Carlo Simulation(MCS)scheme for complex systems which require thousands to millions of optimisation loops to be *** paper presents a fast heuristic technique to optimise the thermodynamic cycle of two-spool separated flow turbofan engines based on energy and probability of failure criteria based on Luus-Jaakola algorithm(LJ).A computer program called Turbo Jet Engine Optimiser v2.0(TJEO-2.0)has been developed to perform the optimisation *** program is made up of inner and outer loops,where LJ is used in the outer loop to determine the design variables while parametric cycle analysis of the engine is done in the inner loop to determine the engine ***-Hypercube-Sampling(LHS)technique is used to sample the design and model variations for uncertainty *** results show that optimisation without reliability criteria may lead to high probability of failure of more than 11%on *** thrust obtained with uncertainty quantification was about 25%higher than the one without uncertainty quantification,at the expense of less than 3%of fuel *** proposed algorithm can solve the turbofan RBDO problem within 3 min.

关键词： Multi-objective design optimisation reliability based design optimisation turbofan engines luus-jaakola algorithm

Long-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting for Malaysia Using Artificial Neural Networks in the Presence of Input and Model Uncertainties

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Energy Engineering 2021年第3期118卷 715-725页

作者： Vin Cent Tai Yong Chai Tan nor faiza abd rahman Hui Xin Che Chee Ming Chia Lip Huat Saw Mohd Fozi Ali Centre for Modelling and Simulation Faculty of EngineeringBuilt Environment and Information TechnologySEGi UniversityPetaling JayaMalaysia Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty of EngineeringBuilt Environment and Information TechnologySEGi UniversityPetaling JayaMalaysia Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science UTARKajangMalaysia Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknologi MARAShah AlamMalaysia

Electricity demand is also known as load in electric power *** article presents a Long-Term Load Forecasting(LTLF)approach for *** Artificial Neural Network(ANN)of 5-layer Multi-Layered Perceptron(MLP)structure has been designed and tested for this *** of input variables and ANN model were introduced to obtain the prediction for years 2022 to *** correlation was used to examine the input variables for model *** analysis indicates that Primary Energy Supply(PES),population,Gross Domestic Product(GDP)and temperature are strongly *** forecast results by the proposed method(henceforth referred to as UQ-SNN)were compared with the results obtained by a conventional Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average(SARIMA)*** R^(2)scores for UQ-SNN and SARIMA are 0.9994 and 0.9787,respectively,indicating that UQ-SNN is more accurate in capturing the non-linearity and the underlying relationships between the input and output *** proposed method can be easily extended to include other input variables to increase the model complexity and is suitable for *** the available input data,UQ-SNN predicts Malaysia will consume 207.22 TWh of electricity,with standard deviation(SD)of 6.10 TWh by 2030.

关键词： Long-term load forecasting SARIMA artificial neural networks uncertainty analysis Malaysia

Quran memorisation and heart rate variability:How do they correlate?

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World Journal of Clinical Cases 2024年第29期12卷 6275-6284页

作者： Ahmad Rohi Ghazali nor Malia abd Warif Noor Anisah A Yazit norsham Juliana Ismarulyusda Ishak Farah Wahida Ibrahim Arimi Fitri Mat Ludin Dzalani Harun Santibuana abd rahman Wan nor Atikah Che Wan Mohd Rozali Biomedical Science Programme Faculty of Health SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKuala Lumpur 50300Malaysia Center for Toxicology and Health Risk Studies Faculty of Health SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKuala Lumpur 50300Malaysia Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Universiti Sains Islam MalaysiaNilai 71800Malaysia Center for Healthy Ageing and Wellness Faculty of Health SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKuala Lumpur 50300Malaysia Center for Rehabilitation and Special Needs Studies Faculty of Health SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKuala Lumpur 50300Malaysia Occupational Therapy Programme Faculty of Health SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaKuala Lumpur 50300Malaysia Faculty of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine PerakIpoh Perak 30450Malaysia

BACKGROUND Heart rate variability(HRV)was shown to be affected by performing religious *** To examine the relationship between the level of Quran(the holy book of Muslims)memorisation and HRV among *** This experimental study included 16 Tahfiz students and 16 non-Tahfiz students(n=32).The HRV was measured in three tasks:Recalling familiar verses,memorising new verses,and recalling the newly memorised verses of the *** analysis was done using these parameters:Standard deviation of N-N(heartbeat peak)interval;low frequency(LF);high frequency(HF)and LF/HF *** There were significant differences between tasks for all parameters(P<0.05).However,between the groups,only the LF/HF ratio had significant differences,with F=5.04,P<*** correlation showed a moderate positive correlation between the number of pages memorised and the LF/HF ratio(r=0.61,P<0.05).CONCLUSION Quran memorisation increased the HRV and our results suggested that this activity could be developed as an effective sympathovagal modulation training activity.

关键词： Heart rate variability Autonomic nervous system Quran memorisation Tahfiz student Heartbeat

Phenolics-saponins rich fraction of defatted kenaf seed meal exhibits cytotoxicity towards cancer cell lines

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2016年第5期6卷 404-409页

作者： Latifah Saiful Yazan Napsiah abd rahman Kim Wei Chan Wan nor Hafiza Wan abd Ghani Yin Sim Tor Jhi Biau Foo Laboratory of Molecular Biomedicine Institute of BioscienceUniversiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Department of Biomedical Science Faculty of Medicine and Health SciencesUniversiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)

Objectives: To determine the cytotoxicity of crude ethanolic extract, n-butanol fraction and aqueous fraction on selected cancer cell lines, and to observe the morphological changes of the cancer cells treated with n-butanol ***: The cytotoxic effect of n-butanol fraction, crude ethanolic extract and aqueous fraction on breast cancer(MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231), colon cancer(HT29), lung cancer(A549), cervical cancer(He La) and normal mouse fibroblast(3T3) cell lines was determined using MTT assay. The morphological changes of the treated cells were observed under an inverted light ***: n-Butanol fraction was the most cytotoxic towards HT29 and MCF-7 cells in a dose-dependent manner compared to crude ethanolic extract and aqueous fraction(P < 0.05). The IC50 of n-butanol fraction for HT29 and MCF-7 was(780.00 ± 28.28)and(895.00 ± 7.07) mg/m L, respectively. Cell shrinkage, membrane blebbing and formation of apoptotic bodies were noted following treatment of HT29 cells with n-butanol ***: In conclusion, n-butanol fraction was more cytotoxic than crude ethanolic extract and aqueous fraction towards the selected cancerous cell lines and induced apoptosis in HT29 cells.

关键词： Defatted kenaf seed meal Phenolic-saponin rich fraction Cytotoxic Apoptosis

Epithelial Layer Estimation Using Curvatures and Textural Features for Dysplastic Tissue Detection

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Computers, Materials & Continua 2021年第4期67卷 761-777页

作者： Afzan Adam abdul Hadi abd rahman nor Samsiah Sani Zaid abdi Alkareem Alyessari Nur Jumaadzan Zaleha Mamat Basela Hasan Faculty of Information Science and Technology Center for Artificial Intelligence TechnologyUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaBangiSelangor43300Malaysia Faculty of Science and Technology School of Mathematical SciencesUniversiti Kebangsaan MalaysiaBangiSelangor43300Malaysia Department of Information Technology and Computing Faculty of Computer StudiesArab Open UniversityAmmanJordan

Boundary effect in digital pathology is a phenomenon where the tissue shapes of biopsy samples get distorted during the sampling *** morphological pattern of an epithelial layer is greatly ***,the shape deformation model can normalise the distortions,but it needs a 2D *** theory,on the other hand,is not yet tested on digital pathology ***,this work proposed a curvature detection to reduce the boundary effects and estimates the epithelial *** boundary effect on the tissue surfaces is normalised using the frequency of a curve deviates from being a straight *** epithelial layer’s depth is estimated from the tissue edges and the connected nucleolus ***,the textural and spatial features along the estimated layer are used for dysplastic tissue *** proposed method achieved better performance compared to the whole tissue regions in terms of detecting dysplastic *** result shows a leap of kappa points from fair to a substantial agreement with the expert’s ground truth *** improved results demonstrate that curvatures have been effective in reducing the boundary effects on the epithelial layer of ***,quantifying and classifying the morphological patterns for dysplasia can be *** textural and spatial features on the detected epithelial layer can capture the changes in tissue.

关键词： Digital pathology grading dysplasia tissue boundary effect

Glutathione (GSH) improves sperm quality and testicular morphology in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2021年第3期23卷 281-287页

作者： Fathiah abdullah Mohamed Noor Khan nor-Ashikin Renu Agarwal Yuhaniza Shafinie Kamsani Mastura abd Malek nor Salmah Bakar Aqila-Akmal Mohammad Kamal Mimi-Sophia Sarbandi nor-Shahida abdul rahman Nurul Huda Musa Maternofetal and Embryo Research Group(MatE) Faculty of MedicineUniversiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchSungai Buloh CampusSungai Buloh 47000SelangorMalaysia Faculty of Applied Sciences Universiti Teknologi MARAPerak BranchTapah CampusTapah Road 35400PerakMalaysia Faculty of Medicine Universiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchSungai Buloh CampusSungai Buloh 47000SelangorMalaysia School of Medicine International Medical UniversityBukit JalilKuala Lumpur 57000Malaysia Faculty of Health Sciences Universiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchPuncak Alam CampusBandar Puncak Alam 42300SelangorMalaysia Centre of Foundation Studies Universiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchDengkil CampusDengkil 43800SelangorMalaysia

Diabetes mellitus(DM)is known to cause reproductive *** men,it has been linked to altered sperm quality and testicular *** stress(OS)plays a pivotal role in the development of DM ***(GSH)is a part of a nonenzymatic antioxidant defense system that protects lipid,protein,and nucleic acids from oxidative ***,the protective effects of exogenous GSH on the male reproductive system have not been comprehensively *** study determined the impact of GSH supplementation in ameliorating the adverse effect of type 1 DM on sperm quality and the seminiferous tubules of diabetic C57BL/6NTac *** at the doses of 15 mg kg^(-1)and 30 mg kg^(-1)was given intraperitoneally to mice weekly for 6 consecutive *** mice were then weighed,euthanized,and had their reproductive organs *** diabetic(D Group)showed significant impairment of sperm quality and testicular histology compared with the nondiabetic(ND Group).Diameters of the seminiferous lumen in diabetic mice treated with 15 mg kg^(-1) GSH(DGSH15)were decreased compared with the D *** motility was also significantly increased in the DGSH15 *** in testicular morphology might be an early indication of the protective roles played by the exogenous GSH in protecting sperm quality from effects of untreated type 1 DM or diabetic *** investigation using different doses and different routes of GSH is necessary to confirm this suggestion.

关键词： diabetes mellitus glutathione mice sperm quality testis histology

Vitamin E supplementation may negatively affect preimplantation development and mitochondrial ultrastructure of vitrified murine embryos

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Asian pacific Journal of Reproduction 2021年第3期10卷 137-144页

作者： Mimi-Sophia Sarbandi nor-Ashikin Mohamed Noor Khan nor-Shahida abdul rahman Zolkapli Eshak Fathiah abdullah Mastura abd Malek Aqila-Akmal Mohammad Kamal Maternofetal and Embryo Research Group Faculty of MedicineUniversiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchSungai Buloh Campus47000 Sungai BulohSelangorMalaysia Faculty of Applied Sciences Universiti Teknologi MARAPerak BranchTapah Campus35400 Tapah RoadPerakMalaysia Faculty of Health Sciences Universiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchPuncak Alam CampusBandar Puncak Alam42300 Kuala SelangorSelangorMalaysia Faculty of Pharmacy Universiti Teknologi MARASelangor BranchPuncak Alam CampusBandar Puncak Alam42300 Kuala SelangorSelangorMalaysia

Objective:To observe the effects of vitamin E on post-vitrification preimplantation development,gross morphology as well as mitochondrial distribution and ***:Twenty-four female C57BL/6NTac mice,aged 12-16 weeks,were randomly divided into four *** A did not receive any treatment and served as the control *** B was treated with corn oil stripped of tocopherols and served as the vehicle *** C was treated with 60 mg/kg body weight of tocotrienol-rich-fraction with corn oil stripped of *** D was treated with 60 mg/kg body weight of alpha-tocopherol with corn oil stripped of *** treatments were administered orally for 7 consecutive *** superovulation and mating with fertile males,2-cell stage embryos were harvested for *** vitrification development in vitro,gross morphology and ultrastructure were compared between ***:The number of 2 and 8-cell embryo,and blastocysts in the treatment and control groups were not significantly different(P>0.05).Following vitrification,all 2-cell embryos had equal-sized blastomeres and intact zona *** aggregation toward the perinuclear region was seen in all of the treatment *** groups C and D had vacuolated mitochondria,which was reflected in the trend of preimplantation development ***:Vitamin E supplementation of 60 mg/kg body weight does not improve the viability of healthy embryos according to this *** a result,the most effective dose of vitamin E supplementation may be determined by the initial quality of the embryos.

关键词： Mitochondria Preimplantation Embryo Vitrification Vitamin E Alpha-tocopherol Tocotrienol-richfraction,Transmission electron microscopy

Screening the synergy of sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate and carboxymethyl cellulose for surfactant-polymer flooding

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Petroleum Research 2022年第3期7卷 308-317页

作者： Suriatie Mat Yusuf Radzuan Junin Mohd Akhmal Muhamad Sidek Augustine Agi Mohd Fazril Irfan Ahmad Fuad nor Roslina Rosli norazah abd rahman Effah Yahya nor Adilah Muhamad Soffian Wong Muhammad Hazim Mustaza Department of Petroleum Engineering School of Chemical and Energy EngineeringFaculty of EngineeringUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia81310Johor BahruMalaysia Institute for Oil and Gas Universiti Teknologi Malaysia81310Johor BahruMalaysia School of Chemical Engineering College of EngineeringUniversiti Teknologi MARA40450Shah AlamSelangorMalaysia

Carboxymethyl cellulose(CMC)has emerged in oil and gas industries as a superior substitution to the conventional HPAM and xanthan gum(XG)for high viscosity polymer flooding *** this study,the combined effect of conventional surfactant,sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate(SDBS)and CMC for potential surfactant-polymer(SP)flooding in enhanced oil recovery(EOR)has been ***,SDBS–CMC interaction and the functional groups present in CMC were appropriately *** presence of various C–O bonds signifies the existence of carboxymethyl group which greatly influence the rheological properties of CMC *** behaviour of SDBS–CMC was characterized by their viscosity,shear rate,solubilization,wettability,and surface *** flooding utilizing SDBS-CMC was performed and compared to commercial SDBS-XG SP *** results indicate several SDBS-CMC combinations are favourable for EOR *** viscosity shows direct relationship with CMC ***,at any given SDBS concentrations,significant increment was observed at 0.3 wt%and ***,the trend displayed inconclusive relation to SDBS *** of the SDBS-CMC combinations generate Winsor III emulsions particularly at CMC of 0.2 and 0.3 wt%,while Type II were observed in few *** CMC concentrations increased the contact angle,while gradual reductions were observed with SDBS *** gradual reduction in surface tension was highly influenced by the addition of CMC rather than SDBS.A novel combination of 0.3 wt%SDBS and 0.4 wt%CMC possessed an encouraging criterion in term of viscosity,solubilization,and surface tension reduction for EOR *** experiment from several SDBS-CMC combinations proved to recover additional oil ranging 16.4–20.2%of oil initially in place(OIIP).The trend in incremental oil recovery is similar to that of when utilising SDBS-XG.

关键词： Carboxymethyl cellulose Sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate Enhanced oil recovery Surfactant-polymer flooding

Morphological and molecular characterization of fungus isolated from tropical bed bugs in northern Peninsular Malaysia, Cimex hemipterus(Hemiptera: Cimicidae)

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2015年第9期5卷 684-690页

作者： abdul Hafiz Ab Majid Zulaikha Zahran abd Hafis abd Rahim nor Azliza Ismail Wardah abdul rahman Kartiekasari Syahidda Mohammad Zubairi Hamady Dieng Tomomitsu Satho Household and Structural Urban Entomology Laboratory School of Biological Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia Plant Pathology Laboratory School of Biological Sciences Universiti Sains Malaysia Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Department of Microbiology Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Fukuoka University

Objective:To investigate some morphological and molecular characteristics of fungal parasites isolated from wild tropical bed bug, Cimex ***: A series of culture methods were used to obtain fungal isolates from i eld-collected bed bugs. Characteristics of the isolates such as colony appearance, mycelial texture and pigmentation were studied to explore their morphology. Isolates were also subjected to a PCRbased genotyping ***: There were noticeable dif erences in morphological characteristics among the four isolates. Conidial areas of one isolate were dark green, whereas those of the remaining colonies were olive-green, black or dark brown. Conidia of the dark green isolate were globose, while those of olive-green, black and dark brown isolates were globose to subglobose, globose to spherical and globose to subglobose/i nely roughened, respectively. These morphological specii cities and the molecular analyses showed that the fungal internal transcribed spacer ribosomal region and β-tubulin gene sequences of the isolates shared clade with Trichoderma and Aspergillus ***: Overall, the new discovery of common pathogens in agricultural i eld developed in live bed bugs storage tank may initiate the use of biological agents in later years.

关键词： Cimex hemipterus Aspergillus Trichoderma β-tubulin Internal transcribed spacer Morphological characteristics