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Determination Of The Global Heat Transfer Coefficient Of A Double Heat Exchanger Battery In A Dry Mode., B. Dieng, G. Jaw, A. Kane, I. Diagne, M. Dieng, G. Sissoko Dec 2015

Determination Of The Global Heat Transfer Coefficient Of A Double Heat Exchanger Battery In A Dry Mode., B. Dieng, G. Jaw, A. Kane, I. Diagne, M. Dieng, G. Sissoko

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The cold battery is a heat exchanger between two fluids, air (secondary fluid) and iced water (primary fluid).The cold battery is composed of two heat exchangers in series, one of which is made up of flat-plate in galvanized steel serving as a reservoir for the iced water and the other one a copper shelland-tube exchanger with aluminum cooling blades. The two heat exchangers a connected pipe of the same diameter. These pipes will permit the transit of the iced water coming from the flat-plate exchanger by gravitation towards the tubes of the second exchanger. These two heat exchangers are incorporated …


Non-Linear Spectral Unmixing Of Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 ) Data, Keshav Dev Singh, Ramakrishnan Desikan Dec 2015

Non-Linear Spectral Unmixing Of Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 ) Data, Keshav Dev Singh, Ramakrishnan Desikan

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Most of the approaches to solve the unmixing problem are based on the Linear Mixing Model (LMM) which is questionable. Therefore, nonlinear spectral model is generally used to study the effects of multiple scattering in the complex surfaces. In this paper, we have demonstrated the application of Radiative Transform Equation (RTE) based Hapke multi scattering model. The Hapke model based non-linear spectral unmixing is carried out on a Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3 ) data. The values of six non-linear Hapke's model parameters are estimated using a MATLAB based algorithm after optimizing the Hapke corrected M3-Endmembers and modeled spectra through minimum …


Prevalence And Knowledge Of Brucellosis In Dairy Cattle In Makuyu Division, Murang’A County, Kenya, Dr. Michael N. Gicheru, Dr. Eric Mwangi, Mwangi Rachel Mbaire Dec 2015

Prevalence And Knowledge Of Brucellosis In Dairy Cattle In Makuyu Division, Murang’A County, Kenya, Dr. Michael N. Gicheru, Dr. Eric Mwangi, Mwangi Rachel Mbaire

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Brucellosis is a cosmopolitan zoonotic disease that affects man, domestic animals and wildlife. The bacteria Brucella abortus is the principle cause of brucellosis in cattle. The incidence of the disease in humans, and which directly relates to that in other animals, is highly dependent on animal husbandry practices, the interaction between humans and animals, living standards, hygiene, food customs, and animal and human population density. Makuyu Division where the study was undertaken experiences hot and dry climate, the area has no permanent rivers and domestic water is obtained from boreholes. Most families live in congested homes and are provided with …


Transforming Growth Factor Betas Induce Mmp-2 And Mmp-9 Secretion Via Smad-Dependent Signaling In Human Endometrial And Endometriotic Cells, Ezekiel O. Mecha, Cong Sui, Charles O.A . Omwandho, Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg, Lutz Konrad Dec 2015

Transforming Growth Factor Betas Induce Mmp-2 And Mmp-9 Secretion Via Smad-Dependent Signaling In Human Endometrial And Endometriotic Cells, Ezekiel O. Mecha, Cong Sui, Charles O.A . Omwandho, Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg, Lutz Konrad

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Transforming growth factor-betas (TGF-βs) are elevated during menstruation and are involved in endometriosis. Similarly, matrix metalloproteinases like MMP-2 are also highly expressed in patients with endometriosis. Expression of gelatinases, MMP-2 and MMP-9, is increased by TGF-βs. TGF- βs bind and activate receptor-mediated Smad proteins to mediate gene expression, however, also non-Smad signaling pathways participate in signal transduction of the TGF-βs. In this study, we found that of MMP-2 and MMP-9 is higher in stromal cells especially in endometriotic cells compared to epithelial cells. Treatment of endometrial and endometriotic stromal and epithelial cells with TGF-β1 or TGF-β2 decreased cell numbers, induced …


Control Method For Dc-Dc Boost Converter Based On Inductor Current, Van Bao Chau Nov 2015

Control Method For Dc-Dc Boost Converter Based On Inductor Current, Van Bao Chau

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This paper introduces a new control method for DC-DC Boost converter that is the control method based on inductor current on the basis of balance of power. The simulation results have proven to be that: proposed control method ensured the accuracy and output voltage ripple is within the required limit.


An Effectual Breakthrough For Concord Relentless Itemset Exhuming Based On Map Reduce, Ahilandeeswari G.,, Dr. R. Manicka Chezian Nov 2015

An Effectual Breakthrough For Concord Relentless Itemset Exhuming Based On Map Reduce, Ahilandeeswari G.,, Dr. R. Manicka Chezian

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Relentless Itemset Exhuming (RIE) is a archetypal data Exhuming topic with many authentic world applications such as market basket analysis. In authentic world the dataset size grows, researchers have prophesied Map Reduce version of RIE contrivance to meet the immensely colossal data challenge. Subsisting relentless itemset contrivance cannot distribute data equipollent among all the nodes and MR Apriori contrivance paper utilize manifold map/reduce procedures and engender an inordinate extent of key-value pairs with value. In this paper present a novel collateral, distributed contrivance which addresses these quandaries. We prophesis an ameliorated collateral contrivance and discuss its applications in this paper. …


Design Of A Reading Recommendation Method Based On User Preference For Online Learning, Yanling Li,, S. C. Ng,, Felermino M. D. A. Ali Nov 2015

Design Of A Reading Recommendation Method Based On User Preference For Online Learning, Yanling Li,, S. C. Ng,, Felermino M. D. A. Ali

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A design of reading recommendation method based on user preference for online learning namely, RMUP is proposed. The aim of this study is to design an online learning recommendation system to support automatic information extract, dynamic user preference analysis and conduct an accurate recommendation of reading materials to relevant users.


Moodle Data Retrieval For Educational Data Mining, Felermino M. D. A. Ali, S. C. Ng Nov 2015

Moodle Data Retrieval For Educational Data Mining, Felermino M. D. A. Ali, S. C. Ng

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This study aims to incorporate a new service into existing Moodle Core Services for student's usage data retrieval. This service can ease the pre-processing in EDM and provide a generic mechanism for data portability. The proposed method expects to reduce the data pre-processing time and enhance the interoperability in Moodle.


Pulse Width Modulated Ac Voltage Controller Filter Design By Optimization Technique, N. Murali,, Dr.V. Balaji Nov 2015

Pulse Width Modulated Ac Voltage Controller Filter Design By Optimization Technique, N. Murali,, Dr.V. Balaji

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The AC voltage controller plays a vital role in many of the industries. In this paper the multiple pulse width modulated AC voltage controllers is designed for analyzing the different loads. The performance of AC voltage controller is analyzed with and without filter. The performance parameters are output voltage and total harmonic distortion. The performance analysis is done for pulse width modulated AC voltage controller with resistive load and combination of resistive and inductive load. The design of passive filter components is obtained using particle swarm bacterial foraging optimization technique. The effect of filter requirements is analyzed using the Matlab …


An Energy Proficiency Positioned Dynamic Threshold Approach To The Migration Of Virtual Machines In Dvs Empowered Green Cloud Data Centers, C. Saranya.,, Dr. R. Manicka Chezian Nov 2015

An Energy Proficiency Positioned Dynamic Threshold Approach To The Migration Of Virtual Machines In Dvs Empowered Green Cloud Data Centers, C. Saranya.,, Dr. R. Manicka Chezian

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The furthermost eco-amicable challenge nowadays is ecumenical warming. Energy disaster conveys green computing. Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) has been a crucial procedure in exploiting the hardware characteristics of cloud datacenters to preserve energy by lowering the supply voltage and operating frequency. The study presents modified power consumption can be reduced by live migration of the virtual machines (VM) as required and by switching off idle machines. So, proposed a dynamic threshold predicated approach DMM CPU utilization for host at data center. This consolidation will work on dynamic and capricious workload evading nonessential power consumption. It will meet energy efficiency requisite …


Experimentally Study The Effects Of Fins Height And Width H\W Ratio To The Fin Thermal Performance By Natural Convections, Hazim A.M. Al-Jewaree, Osama A.M. Alhamil Nov 2015

Experimentally Study The Effects Of Fins Height And Width H\W Ratio To The Fin Thermal Performance By Natural Convections, Hazim A.M. Al-Jewaree, Osama A.M. Alhamil

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The industry revolution in thermal engineering started with fixed the extended surface area named a fin. Therefore, a lot off research work done in this field to enhance the performance of heat transfer . All, previous work reach to that any increase of heat transfer coefficient and the fin surface area will increase the heat transfer rate by natural convection. The research work summarized in this paper presents an experimental investigation on the effect of fin heights –width (H/w) ratios on the fin performance using rectangular plate type fins. The steady-state natural convection heat transfer from vertical rectangular fins extending …


Experimentally Investigate The Heat Transfer Performance Of Annular Fins, Hazim A.M. Al-Jewaree, Osama A.M. Alhami Oct 2015

Experimentally Investigate The Heat Transfer Performance Of Annular Fins, Hazim A.M. Al-Jewaree, Osama A.M. Alhami

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Performance of annular fins of different shapes subject to locally variable heat transfer coefficient is investigated experimentally in this paper. The performance of the fin expressed in terms of fin efficiency, effectiveness and thermal resistance as a function of the ambient temperature and fin geometry parameters has been presented in the literature in the form of curves known as the fin-efficiency curves for different types of fins without use the diamond shape, but in the present work, we study this shape with others. However, for cases in which the heat transfer from the fin is dominated by natural convection, the …


Text Stream Mining Using Suffix Trees, Pamela Vinitha Eric,, Kusum Rajput,, Veda .N Oct 2015

Text Stream Mining Using Suffix Trees, Pamela Vinitha Eric,, Kusum Rajput,, Veda .N

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Information explosion has resulted in the need for more advanced methods for managing the information. Text stream mining, is very important as people and organizations are trying to process and understand as much of information as possible. Generalised suffix tree is a data structure which is capable of solving a number of text stream mining tasks like detecting changes in the text stream, identifying reuse of text and detecting events by identifying when the frequencies of phrases change in a statistically significant way. An efficient method with polynomial time complexity that uses suffix trees to analyse streams of data in …


M-Learning System Based On Ontology, Dr Leelavathi Rajamanickam,, Chen Woon Choong Oct 2015

M-Learning System Based On Ontology, Dr Leelavathi Rajamanickam,, Chen Woon Choong

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Information and communication Technology is a gateway through which large population of students has been addressed. Mobile learning technology the latest arrival highly changing the way the students learn, interact, access up to data information. It mainly satisfies the current and future generation which needs information at the earliest rather than later few touches. The World Wide Web acts as an interface in E- learning as well as in mobile learning (Mlearning) environments. It supports and facilitates the delivery of teaching and learning materials. M - l e a r n i n g provides quality educational content with the …


Review On The Suitability Of Conceptual Performance Measurement Systems For Lean Manufacturing, Dilanthi M. G.S Oct 2015

Review On The Suitability Of Conceptual Performance Measurement Systems For Lean Manufacturing, Dilanthi M. G.S

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Lean manufacturing is implemented to improve any organizational performance so that its performance should be measured to assure the organizational goal attainment. But the past studies have not yet suggested any specific performance measurement system for lean manufacturing. Therefore this paper reviews the conceptual performance measurement systems and their suitability to measure the lean performance and hence argues that a new performance measurement framework should be developed.


Science Behind The Magnetic Field Therapy, D. B. Thombre,, Megha D. Thombre Oct 2015

Science Behind The Magnetic Field Therapy, D. B. Thombre,, Megha D. Thombre

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Magnetic therapy is the use of magnets to relieve pain in various areas of the body. It is the simplest, cheapest and entirely painless system of treatment with no side effects. In present article, discussion of fundamental aspect about the application of magnetic field (Natural and artificial) and how it apply to the human body with suggestions. Magnetic field is produce by magnet or electromagnetic generating devices are able to penetrate the human body because human body is magnetic hence magnetic field affect the functioning of human body. Suggestions are, High blood pressure person sleep with foots towards west and …


Improving Community Resilience Using Bamboo Emergency Sheltering In The Face Of Disasters, Najmeh Karami, Saeed Nazari, Amir Ali Karami Sep 2015

Improving Community Resilience Using Bamboo Emergency Sheltering In The Face Of Disasters, Najmeh Karami, Saeed Nazari, Amir Ali Karami

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Disaster Recovery Planning is a crucial step towards catastrophic events. It encompasses a range of activities, but using a sustainable material for temporary reconstruction is fundamental. Thus, we aim to introduce a practical model to construct bamboo-made sheltering in the case of natural disaster in the north of Iran.


Consequence Analysis Of Bleve Scenario In The Propane Tank: Acase Study At Bandar Abbas Gas Condensate Refinery Of Iran, Saeed Nazari, Najmeh Karami, Hojjat Moghadam, Parvin Nasiri Sep 2015

Consequence Analysis Of Bleve Scenario In The Propane Tank: Acase Study At Bandar Abbas Gas Condensate Refinery Of Iran, Saeed Nazari, Najmeh Karami, Hojjat Moghadam, Parvin Nasiri

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The occurrence of incidents resulting from chemical releases requires preparatory measures. Despite special layers of protection in chemicalindustries to avoid such releases and subsequent consequences, human errors still occur and negatively contribute to failures in different activities include maintenance practices and operating control and so on. It is proven that one of the most devastating risk in the oil and gas companies is explosion, particularly BLEVE. Thus, the study of this phenomena and analysis of its consequences at various stages is necessary. Recent studies claimed that the predictionof damaging effectafter the explosion by mathematical models is necessary for its effective …


Non Parametric Trend Analysis Of Climate Change In Lower Bagmati River Basin In Northern India, M. .P Akhtar, Amrendra Kumar, Deepak Khare Sep 2015

Non Parametric Trend Analysis Of Climate Change In Lower Bagmati River Basin In Northern India, M. .P Akhtar, Amrendra Kumar, Deepak Khare

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This study is conducted to observe the temporal variability of rainfall and temperature for 102 years (1901- 2002) in the Lower Bagmati River Basin in Northern India. Annual and monsoon rainfall time series is considered to investigate the trend using non parametric methods. Trend in 102 years span indicates reduced basin water potential in


Use Of Coconut Shell As An Aggregate In Concrete: A Review, Sourav Ghosal, S. C. Moulik Sep 2015

Use Of Coconut Shell As An Aggregate In Concrete: A Review, Sourav Ghosal, S. C. Moulik

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Now-a-days, the rising cost of building materials for construction purposes is a factor of great concern. The price of building materials is rising day by day. Now, most of the researchers are paying much attention on the suitable materials which can reduce the cost of construction as well as increase the strength properties of concrete. Mainly gravel and sand are used in the preparation of conventional concrete. While the use of an agricultural by-product i.e. coconut shell as a partial replacement with conventional coarse aggregates is expected to serve the purpose of encouraging housing developers in building construction. Environmental impact …


Creep Properties Of Local Variety Of Lime (Lemun Tsami) Under Quasi-Static Loading, Dakogol F. A, Obetta, S. E, Ijabo O. .J Sep 2015

Creep Properties Of Local Variety Of Lime (Lemun Tsami) Under Quasi-Static Loading, Dakogol F. A, Obetta, S. E, Ijabo O. .J

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Local variety of lime (Lemun tsami) was subjected to quasi-static compressive loading using Instron Universal Testing Machine at three levels of time after harvest; freshly harvested, one and two weeks after harvest. Creep parameters were determined by fitting the experimental data to the Burger’s Model and the obtained model equation for freshly harvested was: 𝑱 𝒕 = 𝟏. 𝟖𝟒𝟑 + 𝟐. 𝟓𝟗[ 1 – е (-t/2.933) ]+ 𝒕 𝟏𝟏𝟔𝟎.𝟎𝟗𝟑 , R 2 = 0.98. The instantaneous creep compliance (Jo) was; 1.843, 3.137 and 4.116 1/MPa for freshly harvested, one and two weeks after harvest respectively while the corresponding instantaneous elasticity …


Strengthening Of Rc Beam And Column Joint By Using Cfrp & Gfrp, M .A Nawale, A. J. , Mehetre, . S. B. Kandekar Sep 2015

Strengthening Of Rc Beam And Column Joint By Using Cfrp & Gfrp, M .A Nawale, A. J. , Mehetre, . S. B. Kandekar

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This paper will give the information about strengthening of different parameter by using CFRP & GFRP. Strengthening of existing structures has become a major part of construction activity in our country. Many civil structures are no longer safe due to increased load specifications in the design codes. The beam column joint is the crucial zone in a reinforced concrete moment resisting frame. It is subjected to large forces during severe ground shaking and its behaviour has a significant influence on the response of the structure. The assumption of joint being rigid fails to consider the effects of high shear forces …


Relaxing Weighted Clustering Algorithm For Reduction Of Clusters And Cluster Head, Vijayanand Kumar Sep 2015

Relaxing Weighted Clustering Algorithm For Reduction Of Clusters And Cluster Head, Vijayanand Kumar

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Adhoc clustering in MANET is to divide mobile nodes into different virtual groups. Mobile nodes are allocated geographically adjacent in the cluster. Clustering is done by some rule specific in the network. In this paper, we have concentrated to modify weight based clustering algorithm to improve the performance in this wireless technology. By slight improvement in existing weight based clustering algorithm [1] reduction in cluster as well as cluster head can be observed through experiment. Proposed Algorithm specifies relaxing the weight criteria for isolated cluster head nodes in range of other cluster head as well as reconsidering the nodes in …


Supercapacitors Energy Storage Based Dstatcom Modeling And Simulation For Distribution System (Smart Grid), M. Abbas Khan, Haider Ali, Nouman Shah, Dr.M Tariq Aug 2015

Supercapacitors Energy Storage Based Dstatcom Modeling And Simulation For Distribution System (Smart Grid), M. Abbas Khan, Haider Ali, Nouman Shah, Dr.M Tariq

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DSTATCOM is a custom power device that is used to regulate the voltage sags/swells in the distribution system for maintaining the rated voltage level at the terminal of load/sensitive loads. The DSTATCOM can inject three-phase voltages at point of common coupling whose magnitude and phase angle can be regulated with PI controller, while the super capacitors are used to meet the instantaneous power demand since they can store and quickly release significant amounts of energy. This paper explores the use of Super capacitors in DSTATCOM in place of battery for control of load terminal voltage


A Study On Garments Dyeing With Direct Dyes And Pigments In Bangladesh, Tanushree Saha, Rasheda Begum Dina Aug 2015

A Study On Garments Dyeing With Direct Dyes And Pigments In Bangladesh, Tanushree Saha, Rasheda Begum Dina

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Garment dyeing has been practiced for many years, both commercially and as a home procedure. Recently, interest in this technique has increased since it makes possible to give rapidest response to consumer demand, reduces lead times and inventory. To establish a profitable garment dyeing plant, all manufacturing steps must be carefully controlled. In this paper, we have tried to give an idea about the process of using different types of dyes in garments dyeing and their fastness properties.


Transient Analysis Of Second-Order Charge Pump Pll For Phase Step Input, Mohammad Vafadar, Habib Adrang Aug 2015

Transient Analysis Of Second-Order Charge Pump Pll For Phase Step Input, Mohammad Vafadar, Habib Adrang

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This paper presents the analysis and simulation of second-order charge pump phase-locked loop by applying the phase step at the entrance and calculates the fast lock and transient time and the effects of loop parameters such as capacitor, resistor, loo filter current, control voltage oscillator at the at the fast lock investigated and plotted in the diagram at transition time. All simulation was performed by matlab software.


Optimal Design And Feasibility Study Of Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems, Sayantani Dey, Samrat Malakar Aug 2015

Optimal Design And Feasibility Study Of Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems, Sayantani Dey, Samrat Malakar

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Of the 1.24 billion people in the country, more than 450 million people do not have access to electricity as well as over 95,000 villages still remain dark after sunset. Even the electrified villages suffer power cuts of 15 hours or more on a daily basis. These problems compel us to resort to other energy sources that are inexhaustible. The paper proposes analysis and comparative study of Hybrid Renewable Electric System, especially Photovoltaic-Fuel cell hybrid system, Wind-Fuel cell hybrid system and Photovoltaic-Wind-Fuel Cell hybrid system with Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable (HOMER) software for distributed generation system. The model …


An Efficient Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter For Reducing Thd With Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation (Shepwm), M. Abbas Khan, Haider Ali, Syed Nouman Shah, Dr.M Tariq Aug 2015

An Efficient Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter For Reducing Thd With Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation (Shepwm), M. Abbas Khan, Haider Ali, Syed Nouman Shah, Dr.M Tariq

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Selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHEPWM) technique is applied to diode clamped multi-level inverter (DCMLI) to reduce total harmonic distortion (THD) and improve the quality of output power. The modulation technique is implemented centered on dog leg optimization method to find the optimized values for switching angles (θ) of switches (IGBTs) employed. Twelve level diode clamped inverter is implemented in Matlab and the results are compared with non-optimized switching angles also 5-level DCMLI using SHEPWM is compared with other modulation techniques.


Traveling Wave Solutions For The Foam Drainage Equation And The Enhanced ( G/G )-Expansion Method, S. M. Rayhanul Islam, M. Shuzon Ali, M. Shaiful Islam, Kamruzzaman Khan Aug 2015

Traveling Wave Solutions For The Foam Drainage Equation And The Enhanced ( G/G )-Expansion Method, S. M. Rayhanul Islam, M. Shuzon Ali, M. Shaiful Islam, Kamruzzaman Khan

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In this paper, the enhanced ( G/G )-expansion method is used to assemble the traveling wave solutions involving parameters of the Foam Drainage equation, where G  G() satisfies a second order linear differential equation. The traveling wave solutions are expressed by the hyperbolic functions and the trigonometric functions. When some arbitrary functions included in these solutions are taken as some special functions, these solutions possess profuse structures. This method is direct, concise elementary and effective and can be used for many other nonlinear evolutions equations.


Mcu—Based Robotic Elbow Movement Control, Angelo A. Beltran Jr., Roselito E. Tolentino, Nicomedes C. Javier, Haihang Zhang Aug 2015

Mcu—Based Robotic Elbow Movement Control, Angelo A. Beltran Jr., Roselito E. Tolentino, Nicomedes C. Javier, Haihang Zhang

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This paper proposes an MCU based robotic elbow movement control. In recent years, a lot of research has been developed in alignment with mimicking body movement especially in the field of medical and industrial applications. Robotic movement has different implementations. The usual method is through PID controller. However, implementation is complicated, response is slow, and movement control is delayed. Speed is also a problem causing the human arm and robotic arm not synchronized with their movement. In this paper, the fuzzy logic method is substituted to PID control. The MCU is used in the implementation of robotic elbow movement. The …