Nonconventional Materials (NOCMAT) for Ecological and Sustainable Development

MRS Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (53) ◽  
pp. 3553-3564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khosrow Ghavami ◽  
Arash Azadeh
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Natural Fibers ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Vegetable Fibers ◽  
The People ◽  
Important Challenge

ABSTRACTFour decades of advanced research about Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies (NOCMAT) such as bamboo and composites reinforced with natural fibers have shown that it is now possible to produce and use high performance NOCMAT. Bamboo and composites reinforced with vegetable fibers are capable, meeting most engineering demand in terms of strength, stiffness, toughness and energy absorption capability. The greatest challenge of the 21st century is the need for cost-effective, durable and eco-friendly construction materials that will meet the global needs of infrastructure regeneration and rehabilitation which alone can enhance the quality of life for all the people of the world. This paper summarizes some results of judicious combination of different matrix reinforced with vegetable fibers, especially bamboo. These sustainable ecological materials are strong, ductile and capable of absorbing large amounts of energy. They could find extensive applications in the engineering particularly in developing countries. Specifically, the development of durable composites reinforced with vegetable fibers and bamboo poses an important challenge to the science and skills of engineering. This challenge could create the most useful, eco-friendly construction materials backed by an endless supply of renewable natural resources. In addition the paper presents results of some ongoing research concerning bamboo and how vegetable fibers such as hemp plant, before the invention of Nylon was the most used materials in all aspects of human life around the globe and why it was banned.

scholarly journals SUKUK WAQF FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syamsuri Syamsuri ◽  
Eka Risana Putri ◽  
Anisa Rosdiana Zein ◽  
Resi Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
The People ◽  
Asset Development ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Research Types ◽  
Agent Of Change

Education becomes an urgency in improving the quality of human life. Improving the quality of education is one of the goals of maqashid shariah, waqf as the property of the people whose benefits are intended for the continuity of the benefit of the people becomes one of the potential to be associated as a source of provision of educational institutions to improve the quality of human resources, considering that man is the caliph fil ardl and as an agent of change. The purpose of this study will explain about sukuk waqf in the development of Islamic education. In this study, the authors used qualitative research types using descriptive analysis. Information and data obtained from various sources from related aspects related to research issues with the source of books, journals, or other sources relevant to the discussion with the aim to reach conclusions about the benefit of sukuk waqf in the development of Islamic educational institutions. Waqf and sukuk integrated will be two phenomenal financial instruments by combining modern schemes of waqf asset development with securities that produce sukuk waqf. In integrating sukuk wakaf, educational institutions can use innovative product waqf models by using sukuk issued by waqf institutions as nadzir, as well as istitusi as third parties. This paper is limited by the scope of discussions related to waqf and Islamic educational institutions, as well as sukuk waqf that can be used as one of the innovations in the development of waqf assets in educational institutions. This research is expected to be used by practitioners of waqf, wakif, nazir, to be used as material in the management and development of productive waqf, especially in Islamic educational institutions.

Humanitarian Demining Action Plan

2010 ◽  
pp. 114-131
Author(s):  
Maki K. Habib
Keyword(s):  
Technological Development ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Buried Objects ◽  
Humanitarian Demining ◽  
The People

The presence of landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) in a place represents a major threat to civlian and affects the rebuilding process and the life of the people at that place. Hence, one of the fundamental goals of humanitarian demining is to detect and clear all forms of danger from infected areas efficiently, reliably and as safely and as rapidly as possible while keeping cost minimized. Although demining has been given top priority, currently mine’s clearing operation is a dangerous, complex, time consuming, slow, labor-intensive, and costly operation. The currently available technologies are not suited to achieve the objectives of humanitarian demining. In the context of humanitarian demining it is essential to have a reliable and accurate sensor and/or an integration of heterogeneous/ homogeneous sensors with efficient and reliable data fusion and processing technique that can quickly discriminates mines from innocuous buried objects. In addition, it is necessary to overcome the constrain on the resources by developing innovative, cost effective and practical technology inspired by locality and real minefield needs to help in speeding up the demining process and enhance accuracy, productivity, operation and personnel safety, achieve higher quality of the service, and contribute to local economy.This chapter presents the facts and problems associated with landmines and their impact on health, economy, land and environment along with the difficulties in detecting and removing them. It highlights the main requirements for humanitarian demining action plan and list up solutions and priorities.Then, it presents the challenges facing technological development in different directions and concludes with the suitable actions to save human and environment from such complex problem facing humanity.

Future Research Trends in High-Performance Concrete: Cost-Effective Considerations

1997 ◽  
Vol 1574 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Lung Hwang ◽  
Long-Sherng Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cycle Length ◽  
High Performance ◽  
High Performance Concrete ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Ordinary Concrete ◽  
High Rise

High-performance concrete (HPC) prepared on the basis of eugenic considerations (cost-effectiveness and life-cycle length) is proposed to resolve actual concrete problems. HPC is safe, durable, workable, economical, and ecologically sound. Concrete in Taiwan is always designed with large amounts of water and paste (even though it is generally accepted that the concrete will tend to crack and deteriorate). Therefore, HPC with fewer problems is the target of ongoing research. Eugenic HPC is produced from ordinary concrete, superplasticized concrete, pozzolanic concrete, and high-flowing concrete. Without the drawbacks of past forms of concrete, eugenic HPC is a better construction material on the basis of individual material characteristics. The characteristics of eugenic HPC are presented and illustrated by two high-rise buildings in Taiwan constructed with high-flowing HPC.

scholarly journals Strategy for Improving the Level of Community Health Through Rural Innovation Program (Case Studies in Center Bangka and Banyuwangi)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Andini Putri Titasari
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
The People ◽  
Oxygen Enhancement

The health sector is an important part and must be considered by the Government of Indonesia. The people who really need health are the people, both rural and urban. Public health is an indicator of the quality of human life which is strongly influenced by environmental conditions in an area. One sign of low environmental health is air pollution. Air pollution is defined as the presence of foreign materials or substances in the air which causes changes in the composition (composition) of the air from its normal state, which can cause several diseases such as respiratory diseases. Tuberculosis (TB) infection is a disease whose spread is influenced by environmental and behavioral factors. In addition, reduced levels of oxygen in the environment are also caused by air pollution. For that we need innovations that can improve environmental health so that people's welfare can increase. For this reason, a rural innovation program related to the health of rural communities, especially in the health of respiratory diseases, in this case is TB, was created, which can improve the quality of environmental health and also the welfare of the community. In addition, it also identifies the influence of innovative oxygen enhancement programs by planting trees in rural communities. This research was conducted to identify rural innovation programs related to rural public health, especially on respiratory disease health, and also to identify the effects of innovative oxygen enhancement programs by planting trees in rural environments. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method. As a result, there was an increase in the percentage of TB sufferers because of the Ketok Pintu Sekaput program. In addition, the Shodaqoh Oxygen program, which was carried out in villages in Banyuwangi Regency, succeeded in planting 7,444,764 trees in 2018. Suggestions for the future, it is better for the community to always practice clean and healthy living, and better prevent preventive and make tree planting programs. at the RW level so that they can provide seeds according to the needs of each area.

scholarly journals IoT Based Automation and Blockchain for Medical Drug Storage and Smart Drug Store

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S S Suryakrishna ◽  
K Praveen ◽  
S Tamilselvan ◽  
S Srinath
Keyword(s):  
Work Stress ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Rfid Tag ◽  
Monitoring Model ◽  
The People ◽  
Drug Storage ◽  
Patent Life ◽  
Smart Drug ◽  
Medical Drug

The increase in the work stress and decrease in the time for oneself has led to the rise in the dependency on the medicines and drugs. The drugs and medicines are the key sources for saving the human life when the patient is in the danger. In order to maintain regular and quality supply of the drugs and medicines has to monitor on the regular basis. There are numerous medicines and drugs brought in the store but usually drugs and medicines are stolen to satisfy one’s greed, get expired or placed at unknown locations in the store. So to prevent such situation and saving the life of the patient Drug and Medicine Monitoring Model can be used. The model uses the RFID and IoT technology in order to monitor the drugs and medicines in the store. In medical and drug using systems which are increasing work stress and decreasing the time for oneself that has risen in dependency. The danger situation drugs and medicine is the main source for saving human life when the people are in danger. A daily regular basis to maintain a quality supply of the drug and medicine has been monitored. While traveling and transportation time is numerous medicines and drugs brought from the store but usually it is stolen to one’s greed and the medicines and drugs or placed at unknown locations. To prevent and save a patent life and monitoring model can be used to check the medicine and drug. In our model RFID tag and IoT technology can be used to monitor medicine and drug storage with the help of hospitals and how having a knowledge of the system and chemist of the medical and drugs available, the medicines and drugs quality of location and their safety.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATIONS ON THE GEOMETRIC QUALITY OF CAMERAS FOR UAV APPLICATIONS USING THE HIGH PRECISION UAV TEST FIELD ZOLLERN COLLIERY

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W13 ◽  
pp. 531-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-J. Przybilla ◽  
M. Gerke ◽  
I. Dikhoff ◽  
Y. Ghassoun
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Camera System ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Geometric Quality ◽  
Definition Of

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The geodetic-photogrammetric test field at the industrial monument Zollern colliery in Dortmund offers a scenario for carrying out geometric and radiometric tests of UAV systems. The foundation for this builds a geodetic precision network (position and height accuracy approx. 2&amp;thinsp;mm) with a total of 45 ground control points, distributed over an area of approx. 7 hectares. Within the scope of a campaign carried out in autumn 2017, various UAV sensor systems were tested under comparable conditions. Within this paper geometric investigations of two current DJI cameras, Zenmuse X4S (20 Mpix) and X5S (20.8 Mpix), as well as a Phase One IXU 1000 (100 Mpix) are presented. While the Zenmuse cameras reflect the current state of development of the manufacturer DJI, the medium format camera system from Phase One is primarily settled in the classic aerial segment. However, the desire for increased measurement accuracy (e. g. for engineering applications) also makes such a high-performance sensor interesting for UAV applications.<br />In addition to the configuration of the test field, the system comparison requires identical parameters for flight planning, in particular image overlapping, a complete cross flight configuration at different flight altitudes and the definition of a uniform ground resolution (GSD&amp;thinsp;=&amp;thinsp;14&amp;thinsp;mm).</p><p>The investigations show clear differences in the achievable quality of the cameras. Though the high-priced Phase One system shows the best results, the most cost-effective system, the Zenmuse X4S, delivers only slightly worse results. In contrast, the Zenmuse X5S performs significantly worse than the other systems, mainly resulting from the mechanically unstable camera concept with interchangeable lenses. Finally, the comparison of the software products Pix4D Pix4Dmapper, Inpho UASMaster by Trimble and Agisoft PhotoScan partly shows significant differences in the results of image orientation. In particular in settings with sparse GCP usage the results vary considerably, indicating different strategies on how the residuals are distributed and the datum is defined, mostly Pix4Dmapper outperforms the others. In better GCP configurations there is no significant difference between Pix4mapper and Agisoft PhotoScan, while UASMaster does never deliver the best results.</p>

scholarly journals On the design of Remote Health Monitoring System

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Mohanad Abdulhamid ◽  
Muchisu Albert
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
The People ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
Health Progress ◽  
Hospital Equipment ◽  
Remote Viewing

With improvement in technology and miniaturization of sensors, there have been attempts to utilize the new technology in various areas to improve the quality of human life. One main area of research that has seen adoption of the technology is the healthcare sector. The people in need of healthcare services find it very expensive, this is particularly true in developing countries. With improvement in technology previously expensive hospital equipment have been redesigned using current technology. The developments have seen a trend known as remote healthcare or previously known as Telemedicine. As a result, this paper is an attempt to solve a healthcare problem facing the society. The main objective of the paper is to design a remote healthcare system. It is comprised of three main parts. The first part being detection of a fall, second being detection of electrocardiogram commonly referred to as ECG or EKG( heartbeat detection) and the last part is providing the detected data for remote viewing. Remote viewing of the data enables a doctor or health specialist to monitor a patient’s health progress away from hospital premises.

scholarly journals SLEEP PATTERN ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MUSIC THERAPY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. M. Durai Pandian
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Pattern Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sleep Pattern ◽  
The People ◽  
Communication Interaction

The rapid growth in the population and the changes endured in the lifestyle of the people increases the demand for the healthcare segments that does a continuous monitoring of the heath. The artificial intelligence that has been engaged in the numerous of real-life applications, has caused a greater impact in the very basic facet of the human life such as the communication, interaction, education, driving, entertainment and has been limited to the heath monitoring. For decades it is the artificial intelligence is been utilized in the health care for the analysis and the diagnosis of the disease, for assisting the surgical methodologies etc. has also been utilized in the improving the health of the person by monitoring the quality of the sleep they have. The paper puts forth a sleep pattern analysis using the artificial intelligence and the therapy based on the music for improving the sleeping time and reducing the stress according to the quality of the sleep evaluated.

scholarly journals Using Nutrition Based Therapy for Improving Sleep Quality

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Deep Sleep ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Quality Of Sleep ◽  
Hormonal Profile ◽  
Sleeping Pills ◽  
The People ◽  
Improve Sleep Quality

Sleep is an important factor in human life cycle. Many of the people are struggling from sleep disorders that may range from sleep deprivation to insomnia. Other major factor with respect to sleep is quality of sleep. It tends to happen with many of the people now a days that they get sleep for 6 to 8 hours but still they feel fatigue or sleepy throughout the day or even they are not satisfied with their sleep. Many people move towards the clinical/medical way to get good deep sleep like sleeping pills or tablets having alprazolam [1]. This may have seductive side effects throughout the day. Here in this paper we focus to improve sleep quality by maintain efficient hormonal profile of tryptophan i.e. melatonin through food based therapy to improve quality of sleep [2-4].

scholarly journals “Testing of High-Performance Concrete using Recycled Aggregates”

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 495-498
Author(s):  
Ms. Sakshi Harish Gaidhane
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
High Performance Concrete ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Concrete Strength ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Recycled Aggregates ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Aggregates ◽  
Local Store

Abstract: Tons of waste is produced in the world on every day basis which sometimes gets really hard to manage and. The waste from demolished structures is one of them. Recycling waste consume energy and produces pollution that can lead to many adverse effects on the environment and human life. The disposal of waste is also very dangerous for the environment. Using waste materials like waste aggregates, broken bricks, stones and other material in concrete can help in eliminating the waste and save the environment getting polluted. It is also very much economical and encourages green concrete industry. The literature study consists of testing of high-performance concrete using waste aggregates by replacing 100 % natural aggregates. Also, silica fume and plasticizer are used as admixture to obtain more effective results. The tests were carried out on 3, 7 and 21 days of curing. The results were tallied using graphs between comparison of compressive strength and tensile strength of natural and recycled aggregates. The cement and natural aggregates and sand was obtained from a local store in a nearby market. The recycled aggregates were obtained from a nearby demolished building. The quantities were taken in a proper proportion according to IS codes to avoid any defects while constructing the cubes and while curing and performing various tests. Keywords: Recycled Aggregates, Natural Aggregates,Concrete Strength, High Performance Concrete, Properties of Concrete, Cost Effective

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