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"Thepavement of the nailed-slab system has been proposed as analternative solution for addressing the rigid pavement problem in soft soils.This system is used for developing a rigid pavement. The simple method of using an equivalent modulus of subgrade reaction (k?) in nailed-slab system analysis wasproposed by a previous researcher. This modulus consists of the modulus of subgrade reaction from a plate load test(k) and an additional modulus ofsubgrade reaction due to pile installing (Dk). Theadditional modulus of subgrade reaction has been proposed by some authors. Thedisplacement factor was used in determining the additional modulus of subgradereaction. This factor is difficult to define. In this research, the prototypetest of a nailed slab with single-pile installation was conducted to learn thevalidation of the theory of the additional modulus of subgrade reaction on afull-scale dimension. The prototype was constructed on soft clay, and theconnection between the pile and slab was perfect monolithically. This systemwas loaded by centric load. A new curve of the displacement factor is proposed.Calculated deflections based on thiscurve were compared to the observed deflection andresulted in good agreement with the observation. Hence, it can be used in preliminary design."

"The pavement of the nailed-slab system has been proposed as an alternative solution for addressing the rigid pavement problem in soft soils. This system is used for developing a rigid pavement. The simple method of using an equivalent modulus of subgrade reaction (k’) in nailed-slab system analysis was proposed by a previous researcher. This modulus consists of the modulus of subgrade reaction from a plate load test (k) and an additional modulus of subgrade reaction due to pile installing (k). The additional modulus of subgrade reaction has been proposed by some authors. The displacement factor was used in determining the additional modulus of subgrade reaction. This factor is difficult to define. In this research, the prototype test of a nailed slab with single-pile installation was conducted to learn the validation of the theory of the additional modulus of subgrade reaction on a full-scale dimension. The prototype was constructed on soft clay, and the connection between the pile and slab was perfect monolithically. This system was loaded by centric load. A new curve of the displacement factor is proposed. Calculated deflections based on this curve were compared to the observed deflection and resulted in good agreement with the observation. Hence, it can be used in preliminary design."

"In this special edition, we have selected 15 papers from the 4th SEANES International Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in South-East Asia 2016, which discussed the application of human factors and ergonomics to current local and global needs."

"An efficient Region-Based Image Retrieval (RBIR) system must consider query region determination techniques and target regions in the retrieval process. A query region is a region that must contain a Region of Interest (ROI) or saliency region. A query region determination can be specified manually or automatically. However, manual determination is considered less efficient and tedious for users. The selected query region must determine specific target regions in the image collection to reduce the retrieval time. This study proposes a strategy of query region determination based on the Region Importance Index (RII) value and relative position of the Saliency Region Overlapping Block (SROB) to produce a more efficient RBIR. The entire region is formed by using the mean shift segmentation method. The RII value is calculated based on a percentage of the region area and region distance to the center of the image. Whereas the target regions are determined by considering the relative position of SROB, the performance of the proposed method is tested on a CorelDB dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the Average of Retrieval Time to 0.054 seconds with a 5x5 block size configuration."

"The aim of this studywas to examine and compare the psychological factors influencing driverspeeding behavior in 3 cities in Southeast Asia, focusing on developingcounties, using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Data was collected from570 respondents in the urban areas of Khon Kaen in Thailand, Vientiane in Laosand Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The psychological factors of TPB include attitude(AT), subjective norm (SN) and perceived behavioral control (PBC). Thesefactors were employed to explain speeding intentions in urban roadenvironments. The Structural Equation Models (SEM) was used to examine andexplain speeding intentions. The results indicated that the TPB could explainthe variance by intentions of drivers in Khon Kaen, Vientiane and Phnom Penh at33%, 46%, and84%, respectively. The most significant of the psychological factors for KhonKaen drivers was determined by AT, while the speeding intentions of Vientianedrivers and Phnom Penh drivers were determined by PBC. From this data, theauthorities of each city should create and implement safety policies that canimprove these psychological factors, which could have a positive effect ondrivers?speeding intentions in urban road environments. The outcome of thisstudy could be useful for understanding the speeding attitudes of drivers inthree different countries and would be beneficial for the development andintroduction of preventative safety measures in these countries as well."

"Telecommunication technology is very fast developing.One of them is mobile phone technology.The question is how to detect mobile phone position when it is used,especially in emergency....."

"The routine dailyactivities that tend to be sedentary and repetitive may cause severe healthproblems. This issue has encouraged researchers to design a system to detectand record people activities in real time and thus encourage them to do morephysical exercise. By utilizing sensors embedded in a smartphone, many researchstudies have been conducted to try to recognize user activity. The most commonsensors used for this purpose are accelerometers and gyroscopes; however, wefound out that a gravity sensor has significant potential to be utilized aswell. In this paper, we propose a novel method to recognize activities usingthe combination of an accelerometer and gravity sensor. We design a simplehierarchical system with the purpose of developing a more energy efficientapplication to be implemented in smartphones. We achieved an average of 95% forthe activity recognition accuracy, and we also succeed at proving that our workis more energy efficient compared to other works."

"An effective and real-time traffic information network is highly important and could contribute to decreasing traffic volume and costs by reducing fuel consumption and saving time for drivers in reaching their destinations. This study provides an extensive analysis regarding the drivers? acceptance levels of the current implementation of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS) in Kuala Lumpur. A proposed model from the literature review based on the known Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is introduced. The ITS system characteristics, information quality, system quality, and service quality were investigated as external variables. The resulting analysis showed that information quality is the highest influential factor followed by system quality. The results also revealed that service quality had no effect on acceptance levels."

"In any heterogeneous system, porting reconfigurable computing is often a highperformance platform for a broad range of computationally challenging issues.However, efficiently utilizing the maximum potential of these reconfigurablesystems is a difficult job without understanding their performancecharacteristics. This work proposes an analytic performance model using PetriNets (PN) for a Reconfigurable OR1200 (ROR1200) soft-core processor with modelvalidation and verifications. By modeling the ROR1200 system using Petri Nets,both behavioral and structural properties existing in parallel systems wereanalyzed. The Bound Level Analysis with respect to the dependency level of datais also performed on Soft Core Processors (SCP) like the ROR1200, the OR1200and the MicroBlaze."

"Avacuum drying system is being designed and developed at National Institute ofVacuum Science & Technology (NINVAST) to dry various materials under vacuumconditions. Its performance and capabilities are tested by carrying outdifferent experiments on green (freshly cut) wood samples of Poplar andEucalyptus with dimensions of 990.6 mm x 76.2 mm x 25.4 mm and 469.9 mm x 50.8mm x 25.4 mm, respectively. These samples were dried from green moisturecontent (MC) 78% to 10% by this system at ultimate vacuum of about 1.6 x 103pascal and at a temperature ranging from 35oC to 55oC forabout 20 hrs. Drying quality tests included: prong test, warp measurement,surface checking and moisture content measurement, which were all performed.The resulting wood samples showed no dislocation and no excessive stressbuildup. If compared to ordinary drying process, the vacuum drying is rapid andthe drying rate increases with rise in temperature. The designed system isbeneficial for commercial use."