13 articles in this issue
Fouzia Benoudjit, Messaoud Hachemi
This paper investigates the combustion of the urban sewage sludge from 550 to 1000°C withthe aim of studying the evolution that occurs on the composition of the sewage sludge during theheat treatment process. Several analyses have been carried out: pH, X-... see more
Jiang Zheng
The forming of a structure is a process during the construction, and the loads are applied tothe structure step by step along with the construction sequence. The stress state and deformationmode of structure during construction stage are different than th... see more
xue-hua wu, Renjie Hu, Yu-Qing Bao
In order to improve the accuracy of the pedestrian traffic light detection in complex scene, animage detection method using AdaBoost with multi-layer features is proposed. In the proposedmethod, the multi-layer features are adopted to characterize the ped... see more
Suthir S., Janakiraman S.
Network coding has presently drawn marvelous attention and gifted enrichment of routing toimprove network throughput. In this paper, we propose a swift network transfer (SNT) algorithmand deduplication, caching, and security (DCS) protocols to enhance the... see more
U. Sultana, Azhar B. Khairuddin, Nadia Rasheed, Sajid Hussain Qazi, A.S. Mokhtar
With the increasing demand for electrical vehicles (EVs) in the existing distribution system dueto road traffic sustainability, fuel costs reduction, and environmental improvement by the promotionof low carbons in transportation, system planners need to m... see more
Saleh M. Bamasak, Sreerama R. Kumar, Yusuf A. Al-Turki
A Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS) can extend and effectively improve a controllers’capability of damping inter-area low-frequency oscillations in interconnected power systems. Thispaper presents an implementation of a Wide Area Fractional-Order Propor... see more
M. F. AlHajri, M. R. AlRashidi, K. M. EL-Naggar
This paper presents an efficient methodology for forecasting annual peak demands in electricalpower systems. The proposed approach is developed as an accurate alternative forecasting methodto other existing methods. The method is based on cuckoo search al... see more
Rashmi Deka, Jiten Ch Dutta
Years ago, in 1952 Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Andrew Huxley had carried out experiments on a single neuron membrane to study the electrophysiological nature of a neuron. Hodgkin and Huxley have developed a electronic circuit which describes the biophysical ... see more
Dhayalini K
This paper proposes a new method to select the optimal setting and sizing of distributed solarphotovoltaic generation (SPVG) in a radial electrical distribution systems (EDS) considering load/generation uncertainties. Here, distributed generations (DGs) a... see more
Tolgay Kara, Ali Hussien Mary
In this paper, a robust controller based on proportional-derivative control and sliding modecontrol for trajectory tracking problem of a nonlinear robotic manipulator is presented. Actuatordynamics is taken into account in tracking control simulations for... see more
Kerimcan ÇELEBI, Durmus YARIMPABUÇ, Tarik BARAN
Forced vibration analysis of cantilever rods is presented that have material properties and crosssectionareas that arbitrarily vary in the axial direction, solved using Laplace transform in timedomain and complementary functions method (CFM) in the spatia... see more
Baigang Mi, Hao Zhan, Baibing Chen
Using the effect of wingtip vortex from a leading aircraft, the formation flight of unmanned combataerial vehicles (UCAVs) can accomplish various tasks with much more efficiency. Combined withthe sliding mesh technique, this paper investigates a computati... see more
Yongge Liu, Jian Hou, Jingyao Liu, Qing Wang, Kai Dong
Heterogeneity affects the development performance greatly and, therefore, is an importantproperty of the reservoir. The conventional method mainly takes permeability, which often does notchange during the production process as the characterization paramet... see more