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Hydrologic Soil Grouping Determination For Appalachian Minesoils, Anthony Willard Dec 2010

Hydrologic Soil Grouping Determination For Appalachian Minesoils, Anthony Willard

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The hydrologic soil group refers to the infiltration potential of the soil after prolonged wetting. This classification system separates soils into four hydrologic groups (A, B, C, and D), based upon the intake and transmission of water under conditions of maximum yearly wetness. Group A has the lowest runoff potential and D the highest. Several soil properties are used to determine the hydrologic soil groupings. In the study of the hydrologic soil nature, soil properties that affect infiltration, such as bulk density, porosity and texture, should be considered. Associated factors that affect infiltration in the field are slope and vegetation. …

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Subsurface Stratigraphy And Petrophysical Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Interval, Including The Marcellus Shale, Of The Central Appalachian Basin; Northwestern Pennsylvania, Anne Yanni Dec 2010

Subsurface Stratigraphy And Petrophysical Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Interval, Including The Marcellus Shale, Of The Central Appalachian Basin; Northwestern Pennsylvania, Anne Yanni

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In the central Appalachian basin, the multiple organic-rich intervals of the Middle Devonian, including the Marcellus Shale, are an emerging large resource play with high economic potential (estimated 1,307 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas). This resource play was evaluated by examining the patterns of organic-richness, lithology, stratigraphic distribution, and other depositional characteristics. Using logs from wells throughout northwestern Pennsylvania (940 wells) integrated with core data, the subsurface lithostratigraphic boundaries were defined and correlated for the Marcellus and associated units throughout the study area.;Past studies of the Middle Devonian interval have not rigorously defined the lithostratigraphic boundaries in the subsurface …

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Development And Evolution Of Higher Brain Centers In Insects, Xiangyi Zhao Dec 2010

Development And Evolution Of Higher Brain Centers In Insects, Xiangyi Zhao

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Brain structures within an individual can change during development through modification of individual neuron morphology together with alteration of neuron numbers. Differences in the same or analogous brain structures from different species can reflect behavioral pattern variation among these species fixed by natural selection. This study used insects from two different taxonomic groups to address such brain structure changes at these two time scales: developmental and evolutionary. Mushroom bodies, as an integrative sensory center involved in learning and memory in insects, were the main structure surveyed to illustrate changes in higher brain centers in both projects. In the developmental study, …

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Mechanisms Of Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt Nanoparticle-Induced Angiogenesis, Yingxue Zhu Dec 2010

Mechanisms Of Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt Nanoparticle-Induced Angiogenesis, Yingxue Zhu

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Hard metal or cemented carbide consists of a powder mixture of 80 to 90% of tungsten carbide (WC) and 5 to 10% of metallic cobalt (Co). Nanoparticles are engineered structures with one dimension of at least 100 nanometers or smaller. The small size results in properties that may be substantially different from particles of the same composition in the micrometer scale. It has been demonstrated that the inhalation of hard metal particles may cause an interstitial pulmonary disease and lung cancer, the mechanism of which involves an interaction between Co and WC particles, the generation of reactive oxygen species, and …

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Three Essays On Caps Market And Unspanned Volatility, Harumi Hattori Dec 2010

Three Essays On Caps Market And Unspanned Volatility, Harumi Hattori

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In this thesis we study the caps market. Caps are a contract where the interest rates are capped at some fixed value r¯. Caps consist of caplets which are European options on the forward rates called LIBOR (the London Inter-Bank Offer Rates). Caps are the derivatives of LIBOR. However, their relation is not so simple as the relation between a stock and its derivatives. One important difference is that the volatility in one market does not affect the volatility of the other market as much as in the stock and its derivative markets. This phenomenon is termed unspanned stochastic volatility …

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Three Essays On The Foreign Exchange And Equity Returns, Alina F. Klein Dec 2010

Three Essays On The Foreign Exchange And Equity Returns, Alina F. Klein

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This dissertation contains three essays dealing with current issues in the foreign exchange and equity exchange markets. The first essay observes that both markets display behaviors akin to momentum and mean reversion. This essay implements a trading strategy combining mean reversion and momentum in foreign exchange markets. The strategy was originally designed for equity markets, but it also generates abnormal returns when applied to uncovered interest parity deviations for five countries. I find that the pattern for the positions thus created in the foreign exchange markets is qualitatively similar to that found in the equity markets. Quantitatively, this strategy performs …

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Social Worlds Of Rock Climbers At Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, Katherine A. Thompson Dec 2010

Social Worlds Of Rock Climbers At Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, Katherine A. Thompson

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The purpose of this study was to provide management at Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, West Virginia, with an understanding of the social worlds of rock climbers at Seneca Rocks, to ascertain any management interventions that can improve access to climbing areas at Seneca Rocks, and to determine how permitted group sizes among guided and/or unguided climbers would affect the social worlds of climbers at Seneca Rocks. Between the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010 17 interviews with rock climbers of varying experience climbing at Seneca Rocks were conducted, then analyzed along with accident reports, internet forum discussions, …

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Mandatory Reporting In The Context Of Home Visitation Programs, Danielle Marie Davidov Dec 2010

Mandatory Reporting In The Context Of Home Visitation Programs, Danielle Marie Davidov

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Each year in the United States, 4.8 million physical assaults and rapes are committed against 1.5 million women by an intimate partner. An estimated 3.3 to 10 million children are exposed to some form of intimate partner violence (IPV) in their own homes annually. Although mandatory reporting laws regarding child abuse and/or neglect are implemented in all 50 U.S. states, the extent to which these laws are appropriate for IPV between adults and children exposed to IPV is undetermined. A comprehensive examination of the perspectives of those required to report abuse is critical, as their roles as mandated reporters often …

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Pulsar Populations In The Galaxy And Magellanic Clouds, Joshua P. Ridley Dec 2010

Pulsar Populations In The Galaxy And Magellanic Clouds, Joshua P. Ridley

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Pulsars are great tools for studying the Universe. From energetics to radio emission, many of the properties of pulsars can be used to understand other physical phenomena occurring throughout the Universe today. This dissertation examines pulsars and their properties through the use of computer simulations, describes the basic pulsar search procedure, and presents the results of a search for millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and fast radio transients in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).;Using Monte Carlo simulations, a working model of normal pulsars that accurately represents the observed population was created. These simulations allow for changes to be made to the initial …

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High Rank Tensor And Spherical Harmonic Models For Diffusion Mri Processing, Inas A. Yassine Dec 2010

High Rank Tensor And Spherical Harmonic Models For Diffusion Mri Processing, Inas A. Yassine

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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a non-invasive quantitative method of characterizing tissue micro-structure. Diffusion imaging attempts to characterize the manner by which the water molecules within a particular location move within a given amount of time. Measurement of the diffusion tensor (D) within a voxel allows a macroscopic voxel-averaged description of fiber structure, orientation and fully quantitative evaluation of the microstructural features of healthy and diseased tissue.;The rank two tensor model is incapable of resolving multiple fiber orientations within an individual voxel. This shortcoming of single tensor model stems from the fact that the tensor possesses only a single orientational …

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Sub-Surface Stratigraphy And Petrophysical Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Interval Of The Central Appalachian Basin; West Virginia And Southwest Pennsylvania, Matthew Louis Boyce Dec 2010

Sub-Surface Stratigraphy And Petrophysical Analysis Of The Middle Devonian Interval Of The Central Appalachian Basin; West Virginia And Southwest Pennsylvania, Matthew Louis Boyce

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In the central Appalachian basin, the Middle Devonian organic-rich shale interval, including the Marcellus Shale, is an important target for natural gas exploration. It has emerged as a giant unconventional resource play due to aerial extent and potential for individual wells to produce large volumes of gas. The Marcellus Shale is well studied on the surface without the incorporation of the subsurface stratigraphy. However, to fully understand the Marcellus economic potential it is important to investigate and map the related Middle Devonian sub-surface stratigraphic units. The interval studied includes the Onondaga Limestone (Eifelian), Marcellus Shale (Eifelian), Purcell Limestone (Eifelian), Mahantango …

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Correlating Simulated Surface Marks With Near-Surface Tornado Structure, Michael I. Zimmerman Dec 2010

Correlating Simulated Surface Marks With Near-Surface Tornado Structure, Michael I. Zimmerman

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Tornadoes often leave behind patterns of debris deposition, or "surface marks", which provide a direct signature of their near surface winds. The intent of this thesis is to investigate what can be learned about near-surface tornado structure and intensity through the properties of surface marks generated by simulated, debris-laden tornadoes. Earlier work showed through numerical simulations that the tornado's structure and intensity is highly sensitive to properties of the near-surface flow and can change rapidly in time for some conditions. The strongest winds often occur within tens of meters of the surface where the threat to human life and property …

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Pathophysiology And Clinical Implications Of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (Lrti) With Respiratory Enteric Orphan Virus (Reovirus): Background And Experimental Evidence, Maret E. Bernard Dec 2010

Pathophysiology And Clinical Implications Of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (Lrti) With Respiratory Enteric Orphan Virus (Reovirus): Background And Experimental Evidence, Maret E. Bernard

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Background. Respiratory viral infection early in life is a predominant factor in the inception of episodic wheezing and development of asthma amongst young children [1] and a serious health challenge. Previous studies of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in animal models have indicated that early life viral exposure results in dysregulated neuroimmune interactions and altered synthesis/release of pro-inflammatory neuropeptides generating increased airway reactivity and neurogenic-inflammation. Similar to RSV, respiratory enteric orphan virus (Reovirus) is a common respiratory pathogen associated with pulmonary infections in children. Also, reovirus pulmonary infection has been shown to induce increased collagen …

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Teacher And Administrator Perceptions Of Technology Use In Two West Virginia Middle Schools, Carrie E. Marcum Dec 2010

Teacher And Administrator Perceptions Of Technology Use In Two West Virginia Middle Schools, Carrie E. Marcum

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The "digital natives" that are sitting in today's classrooms live their lives surrounded by technology. "The current crop of learners differs in significant ways from previous generations because, unlike their predecessors, they have literally grown up 'digital'" (Simpson & Clem, 2008, p. 2). Teachers and administrators often struggle to keep up with the technological world that students are used to. This mixed-methods study included West Virginia teachers and administrators from two middle schools. Teachers and administrators at the two schools were given surveys that addressed the following: frequency of technology use for personal and professional use, confidence level with various …

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Process Model And Control System For The Glass Fiber Drawing Process, Songke Liu Dec 2010

Process Model And Control System For The Glass Fiber Drawing Process, Songke Liu

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Drawing of glass fibers is an important industrial process used for manufacture of a variety of materials ranging from optical communications cables to fiber filter media. A variety of machines exist for performing the drawing function, but all share similar problems with control of the fiber diameters and breakage of the fibers during the extrusion process. In many cases, control systems are not configured to monitor the most critical process variables-- temperature of molten glass in the furnace, but instead use only furnace crown temperature. Upsets in disturbance variables such as ambient temperature are compensated manually by operators, usually only …

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An Evaluation Of The Efficacy And Safety Of A Protocol To Premedicate Neonates For Elective Or Semi-Urgent Intubations In A Newborn Intensive Care Unit, Judith Dunmire Polak Dec 2010

An Evaluation Of The Efficacy And Safety Of A Protocol To Premedicate Neonates For Elective Or Semi-Urgent Intubations In A Newborn Intensive Care Unit, Judith Dunmire Polak

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Background. Intubation is a painful and stressful procedure frequently performed in the NICU, yet less than 1% of US preterm infants receive premedication. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an intubation protocol in the NICU to add one 2mcg/kg dose of fentanyl prior to the procedure.;Objectives. The primary outcome was to decrease the time to successful intubation. Secondary outcomes were to increase staff knowledge regarding procedural pain, to reduce the number of attempts and to decrease adverse physiologic events.;Design. Staff attended one educational session. Pre- and post-tests assessed knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes. Data pre- and …

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Computational Fluid Dynamic Studies Of Chemical Looping Combustion Systems, Kartikeya Krishnaji Mahalatkar Dec 2010

Computational Fluid Dynamic Studies Of Chemical Looping Combustion Systems, Kartikeya Krishnaji Mahalatkar

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Responsible carbon management will be required for the future utilization of fossil fuels for power generation. One technology that is showing tremendous potential for carbon capture is the chemical looping combustion (CLC). CLC involves combustion of fuels by heterogeneous chemical reactions with an oxygen carrier, usually a granular metal oxide, exchanged between two fluidized beds. In any regular combustion process the oxidizer for the fuel is air which essentially is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. This results in a flue gas stream which consists of primarily of relatively dilute CO 2 (15 -- 20%), mixed with steam and nitrogen. …

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Short Historical Overview And Comparison Of The Pitch Width And Speed Rates Of The Vibrato Used In Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin By Johann Sebastian Bach As Found In Recordings Of Famous Violinists Of The Twentieth And The Twenty-First Centuries, Tomislav Dimov Dec 2010

Short Historical Overview And Comparison Of The Pitch Width And Speed Rates Of The Vibrato Used In Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin By Johann Sebastian Bach As Found In Recordings Of Famous Violinists Of The Twentieth And The Twenty-First Centuries, Tomislav Dimov

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This doctoral research project explores the use of violin vibrato present in recordings of the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006 by Johann Sebastian Bach, made by forty prominent violinists during the last 100 years. It reports strictly on two of the most objectively measurable and characteristic parameters of the vibrato---its width and rate.;Forming an essential part of the violinist's central repertory for more than a century, Bach's cycle has received the highest levels of scholarly and artistic attention and the matter of vibrato has certainly been examined. However, to date there has been no systematic study …

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Dynamic Src Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Directs Invadopodia Formation And Function In Head And Neck Cancer: Novel Insights Into The Original Oncogene, Laura Catherine Kelley Dec 2010

Dynamic Src Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Directs Invadopodia Formation And Function In Head And Neck Cancer: Novel Insights Into The Original Oncogene, Laura Catherine Kelley

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Cancer cell invasion and motility is mediated through actin-rich protrusions that facilitate migration through extracellular matrix and degradation of tissue barriers. Src tyrosine kinase is an essential catalyst of motile actin networks and is a potent mediator of the metastatic program. The Src substrate cortactin is a critical scaffold that links kinase signaling to cytoskeletal dynamics. Both Src and cortactin are overexpressed in several human cancers and their expression is associated with poor prognosis. These proteins are not associated with the initiation of tumorigenesis, but are thought to play a vital role in the metastatic process. The overall aim of …

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The Power-Knowledge To Move Mountains: Subaltern Discourses Of Mountaintop Removal In Coal River Valley, West Virginia, Jen Osha Dec 2010

The Power-Knowledge To Move Mountains: Subaltern Discourses Of Mountaintop Removal In Coal River Valley, West Virginia, Jen Osha

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This research investigates the perspectives of local residents within the Coal River Valley, WV, who are concerned about the impacts of mountaintop removal (MTR) on themselves, their families and communities, and their environment. In this dissertation, the term 'subaltern' represents a heterogeneous community of resistance to MTR with multiple perspectives around intersections of gender, age, and livelihood. The objectives of my study are twofold: to illuminate how dominant legal discourse continues to subjugate the discourse of resistance to MTR, and to identify possible spaces of resistance within which the subaltern discourse can challenge the power relations that continue to permit …

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Where Independence Meets Its Match: The Intersection Of Musical Identity, Record Promotion And College Radio Programming, Aaron J. Hawley Dec 2010

Where Independence Meets Its Match: The Intersection Of Musical Identity, Record Promotion And College Radio Programming, Aaron J. Hawley

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College Radio has long been championed for being one of the last independent voices on a radio dial dominated by corporate for-profit stations. While corporate stations program their playlists towards whatever is on the charts, independent programming has long been part of the appeal of college radio. However, college radio music directors are in constant contact with record promoters whose sole goal is to get their clients' records played on-air. While a notion of independence is central to college radio's musical identity, these record promoters hold a great deal of power in the decision making process. Upon investigation at WVU …

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Procedures For A Long Term Retention Data For The Analysis And Design Of A Rudder For A Marine Vessel: Step Documentation, Franklin A. Montejo Dec 2010

Procedures For A Long Term Retention Data For The Analysis And Design Of A Rudder For A Marine Vessel: Step Documentation, Franklin A. Montejo

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The process of mechanical design involves many steps, starting from a customer need. Then the engineer estimates the possible solutions until an optimal product is achieved. Through these design steps, information is created and exchanged among different design activities. Currently the industry lacks a means to preserve this information flow for future use.;In the end, much of the information generated in the design process may not be available due to obsolete software used to create the design; one missing part of the process; a missing link between the design tasks; unknown context of the design, and some other possibilities.;The present …

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Assessing The Variation Of Driver Distraction With Experience--- Research Extension, Pradeep Thummala Dec 2010

Assessing The Variation Of Driver Distraction With Experience--- Research Extension, Pradeep Thummala

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Deviating attention from the complex task of driving can be distraction. Driving requires the scanning of the road environment (front, sides and back), as well as monitoring dashboard and navigational tools. Shorter eye glance durations away from road are used for better scanning of roadside hazards, compared to longer eye glances that are riskier and considered distraction.;Defining distraction as looking away from roadway for more than 2 seconds, this research analyses eye glances away from roadway for more than 2 seconds, 2.5 seconds and 3 seconds using variables such as total glance duration away from roadway, percentage glance duration away …

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Human Identification Using Normalized Energy Based Spectrum Eigenpalms, Hana'a M. Dec 2010

Human Identification Using Normalized Energy Based Spectrum Eigenpalms, Hana'a M.

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Biometrics, is defined as the since of Human recognition based on his/her physical or behavioral traits, is beginning to used as Human added computer method for determining an individual’s identity. The human hand presents the sorce for a numerous of physiological biometric features. Palmprint, hand geometry, finger geometry and the vein pattern on the dorsum of the hand, are mostly used in many fields for different applications. Lines and points are extracted from palms for individual identification in original image or frequency space. In this paper, the normalized energy based spectral eigenpalms is used for human identification. The correlation distance …

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Modeling Of Induction Heating Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks, A. K. Al-Shaikhli, Hanan A. R. Akkar, Mohammed Moanes Ezzaldean Ali Dec 2010

Modeling Of Induction Heating Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks, A. K. Al-Shaikhli, Hanan A. R. Akkar, Mohammed Moanes Ezzaldean Ali

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Induction heating system has a number of inherent benefits compared to traditional heating systems. Many analytical and numerical approaches have been applied to solve the problem of induction heating. Artificial Neural Networks possess many advantages and have the ability to tackle problems that cannot be accomplished by more analytical and numerical methods. This paper inVolves modeling many artificial neural networks, and training them based on the results of analysis induction heating systems, by using ANSYS package, to enable them to evaluate the heat distribution inside the workpiece of any induction heating system. Also neural networks are used to specify the …

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Cantor Fractal Linear Antenna Array With Koch Fractal Elements, Refat Talib, Mohannad Ahmad Dec 2010

Cantor Fractal Linear Antenna Array With Koch Fractal Elements, Refat Talib, Mohannad Ahmad

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Cantor fractal linear array, with ‘101’ generator from second stage of growth, is analyzed here with two types of current amplitude excitation coefficients (Dolph and Fractal). The Koch fractaldipole element with 2nd iteration and θ=60o will be used here as the array elements. Kaiser-Bessel window will be used as the generating function, to calculate the fractal amplitude excitation coefficients. The benefit from using fractal antenna element in the design of fractal antenna array will be clearly deduced from the results. The radiation pattern and impedance were calculated by using software package MATLAB version 7.6 (R2008a) and software package 4NEC2 respectively.

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Positively Invariant Sets In Sliding Mode Control Theory With Application To Servo Actuator System With Friction, Shibly Ahmed Dec 2010

Positively Invariant Sets In Sliding Mode Control Theory With Application To Servo Actuator System With Friction, Shibly Ahmed

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

In this paper two invariant sets are derived for a second order nonlinear affine system using a sliding mode controller. If the state started in these sets, it will not leave it for all future time. The invariant set is found function to the initial condition only, from which the state bound is estimated and used when determining the gain of the sliding mode controller. This step overcomes an arithmetic difficulty that consists of calculating suitable controller gain value that ensures the attractiveness of the switching manifold. Also, by using a differentiable form for the approximate signum function in sliding …

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A Lab View Based Data Acquisition System For Radial Temperature Distribution, Hazem I., Ali Farooq Lutfi, Ahmed Mudher Hassan Dec 2010

A Lab View Based Data Acquisition System For Radial Temperature Distribution, Hazem I., Ali Farooq Lutfi, Ahmed Mudher Hassan

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Lab VIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is gaining its popularity as a graphical programming language especially for data acquisition and measurement. This is due to the vast array of data acquisition cards and measurement systems which can be supported by LabVIEW as well as the relative ease by which advanced software can be programmed. One area of application of LabVEW is in the measuring and analyzing of radial temperature distribution. This paper describes a LabVIEW based data acquisition and analysis developed specifically for radial temperature distribution. The temperature is simultaneously measured and displayed.

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Aggregation Is One Of The Challenges In Learning Probabilistic Relational Models, Saleh M., Jane Jaleel Stephan, Lamia Abed Noor Dec 2010

Aggregation Is One Of The Challenges In Learning Probabilistic Relational Models, Saleh M., Jane Jaleel Stephan, Lamia Abed Noor

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

Aggregation is a tool used in presenting the multiple instances of an individual attribute in a single value that characterizes the groups represented. However, probabilistic relational models are constructed from relational data base; these data are interrelated with different cardinalities so it is needed for aggregation in some situations in order to convert the relation cardinality from “many” to “one”. This paper will shed light on the role of aggregation in learning probabilistic relational models through presenting two aggregate functions one is conventional and the other is proposed and compare their effects on the produced models. The results produced from …

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A Proposed 512 Bits Rc6 Encryption Algorithm, Ashwaq T., Janan A. Mahdi, Salma H. Abdullah Dec 2010

A Proposed 512 Bits Rc6 Encryption Algorithm, Ashwaq T., Janan A. Mahdi, Salma H. Abdullah

Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering

In this paper, a new secret-key block cipher called 512 bits RC6 is proposed which is an eVolutionary improvement of the 128 bits RC6 designed to meet the requirements of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to increase security and improve performance. The inner loop is based around the same round found in the 128 bits RC6. The proposed algorithm includes two things the first is doubling the pervious 128 bits RC6 to 256 bits RC6 and the second adapting a Feistal network which is iterated 256 bits RC6 20 times. A desirable property of an encryption algorithm is that a …

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