Abstract Rehabilitation is an important branch of biomedical engineering specializations that is exceedingly related to the healthcare delivery and its improvement, one of the most important topics of rehabilitation is prosthesis that is related to resolving the problems of the amputations and artificial joints. The later has been widespread recently due to the bone diseases and traumas. Subsidence, stress shielding, fatigue fracture, stiffness mismatching and expensive prices are the most c...
Abstract 95 ECG signals were collected from MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database in Physionet bank in Physionet website. 25 of these samples are said to be abnormal and the rest 70 sample are normal sinus rhythm ECG. These samples were processed to remove baseline wonder and high frequency noise using Fast Fourier Transform and Discrete Wavelet Transform. The Matlab program was also developed to extract the main feature of the ECG signal during a set period of time. Starting with segmenting the signa...
Abstract This study proposes the usage of enhanced activation function to improve the performance of deep learning models used in MRI brain tumour segmentation. Activation function has a significant role in deep network stability, learning rate and accuracy of the resultant solution. The main advantage of this new activation function is the ability to provide more accurate results solving the problem of vanishing gradient in comparison to the common activation functions “ReLU”. Vanishing...
ABSTRACT The construction industry is considered one of the most hazardous industries, not only in developing countries but also throughout the world due to its unique nature. This makes more attention to construction safety to improve the safety performance of construction companies. This research aims to identify the factors affecting the construction safety and to establish rules to assess and improve the construction safety of construction companies. The questionnaire design is composed ...
ABSTRACT The production of concrete as a civil engineering material is highly dependent on the availability of its constituent materials. However, most of these materials are no more readily available. In order to solve this problem, many researches has been carried out on the use of agricultural waste as construction material, one of this material is Empty Palm Oil Fruit Bunch Ash (EPO - FBA). (EPO - FBA) is an agricultural waste material which is gotten after burning empty palm oil fru...
ABSTRACT This research project aims at classifying and determining the strength characteristics of soils along Faculty of Engineering road, Federal University Oye Ekiti, lkole campus. The road spans about 338m. The relevant soil tests include; particle size analysis, consistency limits (liquid, plastic, and shrinkage limits), natural moisture contents, specific gravity, compaction test, consolidation and shear strength tests. Liquid limit (LL) is defined as the moisture content, in perc...
ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to develop a model to study the performance of Kaplan turbine of unit number four in rosiers hydro power station .To achieve this aim , a model was develop using simulation soft ware matlab/simulink based on the dynamic equations of Kaplan turbine , then the simulation results were compared with the results of the real system in case of loading and idling mode .The simulation results showed very good agreement with the results of the real system , with smal...
ABSTRACT Most people living in rural communities, have no access to good domestic water for consumption. The inhabitants depends on rain water, well water and sometimes surface water for consumption. Improper treatment of water gotten from these sources, can lead to the spread of water borne diseases, because, sometimes the water gotten from these sources are turbid. Although, some inhabitants use alum to treat the water so as to make the water clear. But excessive usage of alum to trea...
ABSTRACT This piece of research work will analyze the type of geotechnical properties of Ekiti state soil and the study area in lkole Ekiti local government area. Samples of soil were obtained at some location within the study area and it will carried to laboratory for some test. This project work will involve sample collection, sample preparation and detailed laboratory analysis on the geotechnical and properties of the collected samples. The geotechnical analysis of the research deals...
Abstract This paper presents a preliminary map of average annual runoff of Tanzania using a conceptual rainfall runoff model to predict the amount of water directed to base flow of the rivers with the application of Geographic Information System (GIS). Average annual runoff is a fundamental hydrological variable which serves many purposes in hydrological research particularly in stream flow estimation for hydropower plant allocation and development. Still the runoff data can serve during irri...
ABSTRACT This work present the design, construction and testing of a simple burglar alarmactivated by light, break beam and pressure sensor. The principle of operation of this burglar alarm is simple. When the ray of light falls on the light sensor the alarm is triggered and the siren begins to operate, the speaker beeps and the flasher (light) flashes. When an intruder walks through the break beam sensor the alarm is triggered and the siren begins to operate, the speaker beeps and...
ABSTRACT Recently, in most of the developing countries like Tanzania, life expectancy and the inherent costs of caring for an aging population are increasing. These have put an enormous demand on the health care systems and have driven the advancement of technology-based sensor devices that can remotely monitor key vital life signs. These advancements enabled proliferation of wireless sensor networks. These sensor networks are capable of monitoring and controlling environments remotely, ther...
ABSTRACT Achieving seamless homogeneous handover in mobile WiMAX due to its low cost and state of the art technology will enable ubiquitous broadband access to high volume applications especially with the high global increase in mobile subscribers. Extending this seamless handover across network technologies-heterogeneous handover- like WiFi will further lower cost, improve battery life and enable high productivity for end users. In this project, ways of optimizing handover in mobile WiMAX n...
ABSTRACT This study on the integrated solar and hydraulic jump enhanced waste stabilization pond (ISHJEWSP) is aimed at determining the effect of variations in solar radiation, hydraulic jump, hydro-kinematic factors and pond geometry, on the treatment efficiency of wastewater in the ISHJEWSP. An equation to account for these effects was derived, calibrated and verified. An empirical regression model for the prediction of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) in the ISHJEWSP for sewage treatm...
ABSTRACT This thesis “Short Messaging System(SMS) Based Information Search and Retrieval System” describes a technology facility that will enable local information to be collected and put in a repository system (Database) such that a mobile user using the facility will be able to search for such information from any location where Global System for Mobile Communications(GSM) services are available. The work concentrates on developing the server-side program that will run as the search pro...