Transactions on Engineering Technologies, 2014 Special Volume of the World Congress on Engineering 2013

Viscous Fingering of Reversible Reactive Flows in Porous Media; H.Alhumade, J.Azaiez. Prediction of Thermal Deformation for a Ball Screw System Under Composite Operating Conditions; A.S.Yang, et al. Shear Strength and Fracture Surface Studies of Ball Grid Array (BGA) Flexible Surface-Mount Electronics Packaging Under Isothermal Ageing; S.Mallik, A.Z.El Mehdawi. Optimum Parameters for Machining Metal Matrix Composite; B.Boswell, et al. Base Isolation Testing via a Versatile Machine Characterized by Robust Tracking; S.Strano, M.Terzo. Active Vibration Isolation via Nonlinear Velocity Time-Delayed Feedback; X.Gao, Q.Chen. Project of Mechanical VVA Systems for Motorcycle Engines; C.Abagnale, et al. Performance Evaluation of the Valveless Micropump with Piezoelectric Actuator; C.H.Cheng. Role of Offset Factor in Offset-Halves Bearing; A.Chauhan. Relative Position Computation of Links in Planar Six-Bar Mechanisms with Joints Clearance and Complex Chain; M.Younes, A.Potiron. Flutter Analysis of an Aerofoil using State-Space Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling; R.Kurniawan. WRS-BTU Seismic Isolator Performances; R.Brancati, et al. A CFD Study of a PMDI Plume Spray; R.F.Oliveira, et al. Harmonic Decomposition of Elastic Constant Tensor and Crystal Symmetry; C.Dinçkal. DLC Coated Piston Skirts Behavior at Initial IC Engine Start Up; Z.U.Rehman, et al. Mineralogical and Physical Characterisation of Qwaqwa Sandstones; M.P.Mubiayi. Spatial Prediction of a Pre-Curved Bimetallic Strip Under Combined Loading; G.D.Angel, et al. Development of a Glass-Fibre Reinforced Polyamide Composite for Rotating Bands; A-S.M.Eleiche, et al. Design and Development of the Ultrasound Power Meter with a Three Axis Alignment System for Therapeutic Applications; S.Umchid, K.Prasanpanich. Mass Transfer Properties for the Drying of Pears; R.dePinho Ferreira Guine,M.J.Barroca. The Application of Negative Hamaker Concept to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Blood Interactions Mechanism; C.H.Achebe, S.N.Omenyl. Modeling and Analysis of Spray Pyrolysis Deposited SnO2 Films for Gas Sensors; L.Filipovic, et al. SISO Control of TITO Systems: A Comparative Study; Y.A.Sha’aban, et al. Fuzzy-Logic Based Computation for Parameters Identification of Solar Cell Models; T.Bendib, F.Djeffal. An ANFIS Based Approach for Prediction of Threshold Voltage Degradation In Nanoscale DG MOSFET Devices; T.Bentrcia, F.Djeffal. A Novel Feedback Control Approach for Networked Systems with Probabilistic Delays; M.S.Mahmoud. A Probabilistic Method for Optimal Power Systems Planning with Wind Generators; M.Dadkhah, B.Venkatesh. Four Quadrant Operation of Field Weakened FOC Induction Motor Drive Using Sliding Mode Observer; G.K.Nisha, et al. The Investigation of the Optical and Electrochemical Characteristics for the PANI Thin Film by Cyclic Voltammetry and Potentiostatic Methods; C-Y.Liu, et al. Influence of Titanium Dioxide Layer Thicknesses and Electrolyte Thicknesses Applied in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells; J-E.Hu, et al. Fabrication of Real-Time Wireless Sensing System for Flexible Glucose Biosensor; J-T.Chen, et al. Gate-Passing Detection Method using WiFi and Accelerometer; K.Kaji, N.Kawaguchi. Extended Performance Studies of Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 A, B, G Laboratory WPA Point-To-Multipoint and Point-To-Point Links; J.A.R.Pacheco de Carvalho, et al. An Experimental Study of ZIGBEE for Body Sensor Networks; J.Augusto Afonso, et al. Closed Form Solution and Statistical Performance Analyses for Regularized Least Squares Estimation of Retinal Oxygen Tension; G.Gunay, I.Yildirim. Identification of Multistorey Building’s Thermal Performance Based on Exponential Filtering; V.V.Abdullin, et al. DC-Image for Real Time Compressed VideoMatching; S.Bekhet, et al. Automated Diagnosis and Assessment of Dysarthric Speech using Relevant Prosodic Features; K.L.Kadi, et al. Parallelization of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms using Distributed Memory Architectures; V.Lončar, et al. Experiments with a Sparse Distributed Memory for Text Classification; M.Mendes, et al. CO₂ Purify Effect on Improvement of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Through Indoor Vertical Greening; Y-M.Su. Eliciting Usability from Blind User Mental Model for Touch Screen Devices; M.Fakrudeen, et al. Numerical Solution and Stability of Block Method for Solving Functional Differential Equations; F.Ishak, et al. Semi Supervised Under-Sampling: A Solution to the Class Imbalance Problem for Classification and Feature Selection; M.Mostafizur Rahman, D.N.Davis. Claims-Based Authentication for an Enterprise that uses Web Services; W.R.Simpson, C.Chandersekaran. Multilevel Verification and User Recognition Strategy for e-mail Clients; A.Luma, et al. Securing Information Sharing Through User Security Behavioral Profiling; S.A.Fernando, T.Yukawa. Filtering of Mobile Short Messaging Service Communication Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Social Network Analysis; A.Modupe, et al.

Professor Gi-Chul Yang is a professor in the Department of Multimedia Engineering, College of Engineering, Mokpo National University, South Korea, and has been the director of School of Information Engineering of the university.

Dr. Sio-Iong Ao finished his doctoral research in The University of Hong Kong and postdoctoral researches in the University of Oxford and Harvard University, and is a former visiting professor of Cranfield University, UK, and University of Wyoming, USA.

Professor Len Gelman is the Chair in Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring and Director of Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue, Cranfield University, and is a Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and UK Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Chairman of the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology Committee of the BINDT and Director of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (USA).