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Dental and Oral Health Education for Elemetary School Students through Patient Hygiene Performance Index Indicator

10.11591/ijere.v7i4.14856
Septian Emma Dwi Jatmika , Muchsin Maulana
Caries is a problem that often occurs in school-age children. Special Region of Yogyakarta is a province that has a high DMF-T index by 5.9 and exceeds the national DMF-T index. One of the efforts to improve dental and oral health of school-age children is the health education method using simulation methods, as well as simple techniques that may attract children's attention and be understood. The aim of the current study is to knowing the influence of oral and dental hygiene education intervention on dental and oral hygiene level at SD Negeri 3 Sleman students. This research used a kind of quasi experimental research with one group pretest posttest design. The research was done in SD Negeri 3 Sleman, the sample used was the 3rd graders from 57 students in 2017. The intervention was done by dental and oral hygiene education. Respondents were examined related to their dental and oral hygiene levels. It was measured by the PHP Index (Patient Hygiene Perfomance) before and after the intervention. According to results, The average score of respondents’dental and oral hygine pre test was 0.0823 and the average post test score of respondents’dental and oral hygiene was 1.4830. There is the difference of 1.4007. This shows an increament in oral hygiene of the respondent before and after the education. The results of statistical analysis show that there is an influence of oral and dental hygiene which pvalue 0,000 <0.05. Thus, there is a need for dental and mouth hygiene education to be conducted regularly and delivered with an interesting method.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 259-263
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Smart Home Automation System based on Arduino

10.11591/ijra.v7i4.pp215-220
Bouzid Mohamed Amine , Chaib Fatima Zohra , Hamani Ilyes , Aid Lahcen , Allaoui Tayeb
Intelligent home environments are environments that attempt to ease the user's life in different ways and make it more comfortable using the technology. This paper present the principle of realizing a home control interface based on an. Arduino UNO R3 board equipped with a programmable ATmega328 microcontroller. The sketch to be uploaded to the Arduino is written in C language. A desktop application was created in C # language to communicate with the Arduino via the serial port, thus facilitating repetitive tasks such as lighting control, opening / closing doors. A temperature / humidity sensor, an alarm (motion sensor + buzzer), garden lighting and automatic control of the TV via an IR receiver + IR transmitter have been added without forgetting manual control
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 215-220
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Orientation to Happiness as a Predictor of University Students’ Engagement

10.11591/ijere.v7i4.15446
Maria Fernanda Durón-Ramos , Fernanda García Vázquez
There is empirical evidence for a close link between positive personal components and students' engagement in academic activities. Personal well-being is a construct that can be studied from a variety of angles. Recent studies point to the relevance of orientation to happiness examining three types of well-being. The main objective of this study is to test the relationship that orientation to happiness has with university students' engagement at a public institution in northern Mexico. A stratified probabilistic sample of 266 students was used. The internal consistency of the scales was analyzed using the SPSS package and a model of structural equations in the EQS program. Results indicate is a direct and significant relationship between the orientation to happiness and the students' engagement. This supports the importance of promoting positive factors in students to improve their academic and personal development.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 294-298
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Design of Robust Controller for Higher Order Interval System using Differential Evolutionary Algorithm

10.11591/ijra.v7i4.pp232-250
D. Srinivasa Rao , M. Siva Kumar , M. Ramalinga Raju
This paper describes the design of the robust PI/PID controller for the higher order interval system via its reduced order model using the differential evolution (DE) algorithm. A stable reduced interval model is generated from a higher order interval system using the DE in order to minimize the cost and reduce the complexity of the system. This reduced order interval numerator and denominator polynomials are determined by minimizing the Integral Squared Error (ISE) using the DE. Then, using reduced order interval model, a robust PI/PID controller is designed based on the stability conditions for determining robust stability of interval system. Finally, using these stability conditions, a set of inequalities in terms of controller parameters is obtained from the reduced order closed loop characteristic polynomial. Then these inequalities are solved to obtain robust controller parameters with the help of a DE algorithm. The designed, robust controller from the reduced order interval model will be attributed to the higher order interval system. The designed PI/PID controller from our proposed method not only stabilizes the reduced order model, but also stabilizes the original higher order system. The viability of the proposed methodology is illustrated through the numerical example of its successful implementation. The efficacy of the proposed methodology is also evaluated against the available approaches presented in the literature and the results were successfully implemented.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 232-250
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Hope as a Unique Agent of Resilience in Socio-economically Disadvantaged Adolescents

10.11591/ijere.v7i4.15354
Zeynep Aydın Sünbül , Ferah Çekici
The aim of this study was to explore the predictive effect of hope for resilience in socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents. Participants of the study were 692 (395 female, 297 male) students attending to 9th, 10th and 11th grades. The age range of the sample was 14-19 (M = 16.24, SD=.89). A convenient sampling was used to select the participants who are picked from four high schools located in low income regions. In order to collect data, The 14-Item Resilience Scale (Wagnild, 2010) and Dispositional Hope Scale (Snyder et al., 1991) were used as data collection instruments. The predictive effect of hope on resilience was analyzed through linear regression. Regression analysis yielded that hope explains 48% of the variance in the resilience scores of participants. This result indicates that hope is a powerful significant predictor of resilience for socio-economically disadvantaged adolescents.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 299-304
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Intelligent Information System for Suspicious Human Activity Detection in Day and Night

10.11591/ijict.v7i3.pp117-123
J L Mazher Iqbal , S. Arun
The detection of human beings in a camera attracts more attention because of its wide range of applications such as abnormal event detection, person counting in a dense crowd, person identification, fall detection for care to elderly people, etc. Over the time, various techniques have evolved to enhance the visual information. This article presents a novel 3-D intelligent information system for identifying abnormal human activity using background subtraction, rectification, morphology, neural networks and depth estimation with a thermal camera and a pair of hand held Universal Serial Bus (USB) camera to visualize un-calibrated images. The proposed system detects strongest points using Speed-Up Robust Features (SURF). The Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) algorithm match the strongest points detected by SURF. 3-D object model and image stitching from image sequences are carried out in the proposed work. A series of images captured from different cameras are stitched into a geometrically consistent mosaic either horizontally/vertically based on the image acquisition. 3-D image and depth estimation of un-calibrated stereo images are acquired using rectification and disparity. The background is separated from the scene using threshold approach. Features are extracted using morphological operators in order to get the skeleton. Junction points and end points of the skeleton image are obtained from the skeleton. Data set of abnormal human activity is created using supervised learning such as neural network with a thermal camera and a pair of webcam. The feature vector of an activity is compared with already created data set, if a match occurs the classifier detects abnormal human activity. Additionally the proposed algorithm performs depth estimation to measure real time distance of objects dynamically. The system use thermal camera, Intel computing stick, converter, video graphics array (VGA) to high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) and webcams. The proposed novel intelligent information system gives 94% maximum accuracy and 89% minimum accuracy for different activities, thus it effectively detects suspicious activity during day and night.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 117-123
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Reactive Power Tracing Index LQP_LT for Voltage Unstable Load Bus Identification in Power Systems

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i3.pp889-898
Renuga Verayiah , Azah Mohamed , Syahirah Abd Halim
Existing power systems are significantly susceptible to voltage instability problem since such systems are stressed with the huge power transfers across the grids. To guarantee power system stability during stressed conditions, it is important to first identify the voltage unstable load buses to determine appropriate locations for under voltage load shedding. In this study, a new method is proposed for determining weak load bus locations by using reactive power tracing to develop a novel reactive power tracing capable index, named as LQP_LT.  The reactive power tracing algorithm is integrated with the LQP_LT index formulation to generate priority ranking list of weak load buses. The LQP_LT index was tested on the 57 bus system and the resulting priority ranking list is found to have successfully determined the weak load buses for load shedding in the test system. Comparison with other stability indices revealed that the LQP_LT has better sensitivity and response towards determining the location of the weakest load bus for under voltage load shedding implementation.
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Page: 889-898
Publish at: 2018-12-01

An Efficient Framework to Improve QoS of CSP using Enhanced Minimal Resource Optimization based Scheduling Algorithm

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i3.pp1179-1186
Ravi Mahadevan , Neelamegam Anbazhagan
Online Nowadays, the enterprises & individuals are contributing their workloads on cloud service providers which are going to increase on daily basis. There are   large amount CSP are available to offer virtualized and dynamic resource on pay and use basis. However, there are almost CSP failed to maintain quality of service (QOS) and minimal resource optimization. Some of the existing approaches are highly dedicated on scheduling policy but, it does not considered reliable services with optimized QOS. To offer best solution of above problem, the framework proposes Enhanced Minimal Resource Optimization based Scheduling Algorithm to minimize the resources and maintain the QOS.  The method avoids delay in Request-Response model in cloud environment. To avoid overload for resource allocation, the proposed design utilized optimized scheduling policy.  Proposed mechanisms utilized optimized service brokering policy to reduce the delay response in cloud environment. The framework also help cloud user to prefer best CSP according to their prior services. The method offers rising trend of resource based structure to reduce the placement churn extensively. Proposed system utilized efficient scheduling policy to transmit data request to CSP with minimal data processing time. The entire utilization is to improve the QOS of cloud service provider in the features of multi-dimensional resource. Based on experimental evaluations, proposed technique improves the CPT (Computation Processing Time) 301.72 milliseconds, BU (Bandwidth Utilization) 20 Mbps, CPUU (CPU Utilization) 5% & MRU (Memory Resource Utilization) 3% on given input parameters compare than existing methodology.
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Page: 1179-1186
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Using Partial Credit Model to Improve the Quality of an Instrument

10.11591/ijere.v7i4.15146
Saras Krishnan , Noraini Idris
In using the Rasch model to improve the quality of an instrument, analysis purports to determine if the sample collaborates well with the items in the instrument such that the results are measuring a single underlying variable. The relevant properties of Rasch analysis are reliability and validity which are key indicators of the quality of a measurement instrument. This paper discusses the use of one type of Rasch model that is the Partial Credit Model to investigate reliability and validity of an instrument. By removing or changing items in the instrument when conditions of reliability and validity are not met, the quality of the instrument is improved.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 313-316
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Item Analysis for the Adapted Motivation Scale Using Rasch Model

10.11591/ijere.v7i4.15376
Sar Ee Ng , Kee Jiar Yeo , Azlina bt Mohd Kosnin
The aim of this study was to measure the validity and reliability of an adapted motivation scale used in second language learning.  The Integrative and Instrumental motivation (IIM)  was developed based on two orientations of motivation, which were integrative motivation and instrumental motivation.  IIM was used to identify students’ level of motivation towards learning Chinese language as a second language (CLSL) in national school.  The study presented empirical evidence of validity and reliability using the Rasch Model.   Pilot study was conducted in a national school which has students enrolled for the CLSL class.   There were 29 students in this pilot study.  Data was  analyzed using WINSTEPS version 3.72.3.  The result showed the reliability of the motivation scale is 0.87 based on Cronbach’s alpha.  The construct validity was determined by PT-measure correlation value (PMC) range from 0.71 to 0.86, infit and outfit MNSQ  between 0.53 to 1.43 and ZSTD range from -1.1 to 1.2. In unidimensional measure, raw variance explained was at 66.4%  with the unexplanined variance in the first factor was at 13.6%.  Finally the fit statistics showed that person separation index, 2.79 was considered good and item separation index, 1.81was in acceptable range (Linacre,2012).  Person and item reliability were at 0.89 and 0.77 respectively.  The result indicated that the new instrument with 15 items-IIM after eliminated unfit items was a reliable and valid instrument to measure the motivation in learning CLSL in the context of national school.
Volume: 7
Issue: 4
Page: 264-269
Publish at: 2018-12-01

A New Frequency for Offshore Wind-farm Based on Component Loss Calculation

10.11591/ijape.v7.i3.pp227-234
Koganti Srilakshmi , P. Aravindhababu , P. Ravi Babu
Offshore wind power plants are gaining importance in recent years, as there is adequate space available for its installation, high wind speed, no restriction on the size of turbine blades (no transportation and construction problem) and blades can be allowed to rotate at higher speed without any noise constraint, thereby increasing the rated power. However, the existing offshore wind farms face greater cost related challenges than those of onshore plants. The integration of offshore wind farm with onshore power grid is a complex issue. Feasible solutions for power transmission through cables from offshore wind farms to onshore are HVAC, line commutated HVDC  and  VSC-HVDC.  This paper analyses the various schemes for integration of offshore wind farm with onshore power grid and suggests that LFAC with submarine cable operating at 0.7 Hz is an optimal choice in obtaining better performances. 
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 227-234
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Interleaved Flyback Converter with Embedded Grid Interacting PV Cascaded MLI

10.11591/ijape.v7.i3.pp277-283
Jaikrishna V , Subhranhsu Sekhar Dash , Linss T Alex , R. Sridhar
The importance of extracting power from renewable energy sources are increasing in the modern world as the power demand is increasing day by day and the non renewable energy sources are getting dried up. Solar power is a domestic source of energy and its availability throughout the year makes it a primary target to solve this crisis. It will never produce any hazardous waste or pollution. But various issues like Power quality problems and Harmonic distortion seep in due to the intermittent nature of PV system. This paper proposes a cascaded H–bridge multilevel inverter for grid connected PV system with a flyback converter. This helps to achieve maximum power point tracking and also provides isolation which will further help to increase system efficiency. The DC–DC flyback converters are cascaded to generate multilevel output voltage. Then this multilevel dc output is given to H bridge inverter to generate multilevel output. A new control algorithm is used in this paper which combines voltage–hold Perturb and observe method and modified PWM algorithm which helps to achieve the best MPPT. The proposed topology is implemented in PSIM. The Simulation and Hardware results reveal that the suggested technique is highly.
Volume: 7
Issue: 3
Page: 277-283
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Light Control and Watering System in Greenhouse for The Cultivation of Chrysanthemum Sp

10.11591/ijeecs.v12.i3.pp950-957
Adam Faroqi , Muhammad Ali Ramdhani , Muhammad Fahmi Amrillah , Lia Kamelia , Eneng Nuraeni
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum Sp) is sensitive to temperature and humidity. The greenhouse is an appropriate planting medium since temperature and humidity can be engineered there. This article presents the design of systems using DHT-22 and SEN0057 sensors. Real Time Clock (RTC) is used for providing timing input and functions as an extra light intensity timer. Arduino Mega 2560 is used as a microcontroller functioning to receive the results of sensor measurement and to give output instructions to condition the temperature and humidity. The testing on chrysanthemum Sp placed inside the greenhouse equipped with the system for 7 days shows an increase of height of 3.7 cm. As for chrysanthemum Sp placed outside the greenhouse equipped with the system for 7 days, there is an increase of height of 0, 2 cm. These greenhouse light control and Watering systems can engineer the temperature and humidity in accordance with the needs of chrysanthemum Sp cultivation in the greenhouse. 
Volume: 12
Issue: 3
Page: 950-957
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Performance Investigation of Grid Connected Photovoltaic System Modelling Based on MATLAB Simulation

10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp4847-4854
Adnan Hussein Ali , Hassan Salman Hamad , Ali Abdulwahhab Abdulrazzaq
Photovoltaic (PV) systems are normally modeled by employing accurate equations dealing with a behavior the PV system. This model has Characteristic of PV array cells, which are influenced by both irradiation and temperature variations. Grid-connected PV system is considered as electricity generated solar cell system which is connected to the grid utilities. This paper characterizes an exhibiting and simulating of PV system that executed with MATLAB /Simulink. The impact of solar irradiances as well as ambient temperature performances of PV models is investigated and noted that a lower temperature provides maximum power higher so that the open circuit voltage is larger. Furthermore, if the temperature is low, then a considerably short circuit current is low too.
Volume: 8
Issue: 6
Page: 4847-4854
Publish at: 2018-12-01

Accelerating Compression Time of the standard JPEG by Employing The Quantized YCbCr Color Space Algorithm

10.11591/ijece.v8i6.pp4343-4351
Trini Saptariani , Sarifudin Madenda , Ernastuti Ernastuti , Widya Silfianti
In this paper, we propose a quantized YCbCr color space (QYCbCr) technique which is employed in standard JPEG. The objective of this work is to accelerate computational time of the standard JPEG image compression algorithm. This is a development of the standard JPEG which is named QYCBCr algorithm. It merges two processes i.e., YCbCr color space conversion and Q quantization in which in the standar JPEG they were performed separately. The merger forms a new single integrated process of color conversion which is employed prior to DCT process by subsequently eliminating the quantization process. The equation formula of QYCbCr color coversion is built based on the chrominance and luminance properties of the human visual system which derived from quatization matrices. Experiment results performed on images of different sizes show that the computational running time of QYCbCr algorithm gives 4 up to 8 times faster than JPEG standard, and also provides higher compression ratio and better image quality.
Volume: 8
Issue: 6
Page: 4343-4351
Publish at: 2018-12-01
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