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In this paper, a new genetic algorithm (GA) method is presented to solve the optimization problem in coordination of overcurrent and earth fault relays. In addition to optimal coordination of overcurrent relays, earth fault relays are also coordinated by GA, considering critical fault condition for the relays located in two sides of network's transformers. The objective function is developed by adding new terms that are the constraints related to the coordination of overcurrent and earth fault relays in critical fault conditions considering different winding arrangements of transformers. The paper concluded by the results of a study carried out on a sample power network. The results... 

Micro motion stages are one of the essential components in field of micro robotics and ultra fine positioning systems. This research presents the optimum design of a 3-DOF micro motion stage and its position control using FEM simulation. This stage to be studied uses a 3 RRR flexure hinge base compliant mechanism driven by three piezoelectric stack actuators to provide micro scale planar motion. First of all parametric modeling of the stage will be fulfilled in ANSYS environment utilizing a commercial piezostack and different types of flexure hinges. Hence the Jacobian matrix will be achieved for each case. The optimum selection of the hinge form will be achieved upon results of the previous... 

This article presents a study on the capability of the time domain OMA method, NExT-ERA, to identify closely spaced structural dynamic modes. A survey in the literature reveals that few experimental studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of the NExT-ERA methodology in case of closely spaced modes specifically. In this paper we present the formulation for NExT-ERA. This formulation is then implemented in an algorithm and a code, developed in house to identify the modal parameters of different systems using their generated time history data. Some numerical models are firstly investigated to validate the code. Two different case studies involving a plate with closely spaced modes and... 

Micro motion stages are one of the essential components in field of micro robotics and ultra fine positioning systems. This research presents the optimum design of a 3-DOF micro motion stage and its position control using FEM simulation. This stage to be studied uses a 3 RRR flexure hinge base compliant mechanism driven by three piezoelectric stack actuators to provide micro scale planar motion. First of all parametric modeling of the stage will be fulfilled in ANSYS environment utilizing a commercial piezostack and different types of flexure hinges. Hence the Jacobian matrix will be achieved for each case. The optimum selection of the hinge form will be achieved upon results of the previous... 

The chaotic dynamics of roto-translatory motion of a triaxial Kelvin-type gyrostat satellite under gravity gradient perturbations is considered. The Hamiltonian approach is used for modelling of the coupled spin-orbit equations of motion. The complex Hamiltonian of the system is reduced via the extended Deprit canonical transformation using the Serret- Andoyer variables. Therefore, this reduction leads to the derivation of the perturbation form of the Hamiltonian that can be used in the Ricci curvature criterion based on the Riemannian manifold geometry for the analysis of chaos phenomenon. The results obtained from Ricci method as well as the values from the Lyapunov exponent demonstrate... 

IT Governance provides a business focus to enable alignment between business and IT objectives at high level COBIT framework and focused on IT operational levels, ITIL standard. COBIT and ITIL are not mutually exclusive and can be combined to provide a powerful IT governance, control and best-practice framework in IT service management. So ITIL business-IT strategic alignment perspective could be improved using COBIT framework. Focusing on COBIT processes which support (primarily and secondarily) strategic alignment, in this paper, first, we map COBIT 4.1 to ITIL v3 to identify how ITIL cover COBIT control objectives. Furthermore, based on control objectives which are not completely... 

Quasi-periodic and chaotic behavior, along with the control of chaos for a Gyrostat satellite (GS), is investigated in this work. The quaternion-based dynamical model of the GS is first derived, and then the influences of the reaction wheels in the GS structure, under the gravity gradient perturbation that causes a route to chaos through quasi-periodicity mechanism, is investigated. For the suppression of chaos in the system, a chaos control system with the quaternion feedback is designed for the GS based on the extension of the Ott-Grebogi-Yorke (OGY) method using the linearization of the Poincaré map. In the extended OGY controller, the Poincaré map is estimated using the Least Square... 

The quasi-static and strain-controlled fatigue characteristics of ZK60 extrusion have been investigated along three different directions: the extrusion direction (ED), the radial direction (RD), and 45° to the extrusion direction (45°). The quasi-static response showed symmetric behavior for the samples tested along RD and 45° whereas the ED samples manifested completely asymmetric behavior. Although the ED samples exhibited longer fatigue lives than the RD and 45° in the high cycle fatigue, the fatigue lives in the low cycle fatigue regime were similar. The texture measurement indicated a sharp basal texture along ED, explaining its asymmetric behavior. Higher tensile mean stress and less... 

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated malignancy remain a main cause of cancer in men and women. Cancer immunotherapy has represented great potential as a new promising cancer therapeutic approach. Here, we report Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a carrier for the delivery of oncolytic Newcastle disease virus (NDV) for the treatment of HPV-associated tumor. Methods: For this purpose, MSCs obtained from the bone marrow of C57BL mice, then cultured and characterized subsequently by the flow cytometry analysis for the presence of cell surface markers. In this study, we sought out to determine the impacts of MSCs loaded with oncolytic NDV on splenic T cell and cytokine immune... 

Let 1 < ti < t2 < ••• < th < n. A Toeplitz graph G = (V,E) denoted by Tn(tiy ..., f) is a graph where V = {1,. .. ,n} and E = {(m) I i-JI. • • >}}•this paper, we classify all regular Toeplitz graphs. Here, we present some conditions under which a Toeplitz graph has no cut-edge and cut-vertex  

Vivid banding pattern of the chromosome image is a crucial part for diagnosis in karyotype medical test. Furthermore, thriving computer aided segmentation and classification depend on the initial image quality. In this paper, we propose an adaptive and iterative histogram matching algorithm for chromosome contrast enhancement especially in banding patterns which is one of the most important information laid in chromosome image. Objective histogram, with which the initial image needs to be matched, is created based on processes on the initial image histogram. Calculation of statistical moments of image histogram and determination of parameters in each step of iteration based on these moments... 

Vivid banding patterns in medical images of chromosomes are a vital feature for karyotyping and chromosome classification. The chromosome image quality may be degraded by many phenomenon such as staining, sample defectness and imaging conditions. Thus, an image enhancement processing algorithm is needed before classification of chromosomes. In this paper, we propose an adaptive and iterative histogram matching (AIHM) algorithm for chromosome contrast enhancement especially in banding patterns. The reference histogram, with which the initial image needs to be matched, is created based on some processes on the initial image histogram. Usage of raw information in the histogram of initial image... 

The Newsboy problem has always been an important issue in inventory management. The multi-product newsboy problem with random yield and budget constraint named as the Gardener Problem is one of the novels and popular extensions of the newsboy problem. Different from the existing studies, this paper presents a multi-product gardener problem with reservation policy. Moreover, a discount rate is offered to those customers who are willing to make reservations. In addition to the demand from the original customers, extra demand is included in the model due to the motivation received by the discount rate. A solution algorithm namely the multi-product gardener problem with reservation policy... 

This paper presents design of a typical Guided Flying Vehicle (GFV) using the multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). The main objectives of this multi-disciplinary design are maximizing the payload’s weight as well as minimizing the miss distance. The main disciplines considered for this design include aerodynamics, dynamic, guidance, control, structure, weight and balance. This design of GFV is applied to three and six Degree of Freedom (DOF) to show comparison of simulation results. The hybrid scheme of optimization algorithm is based on Nelder-Mead Simplex optimization algorithm and Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA II), called Simplex-NSGA II. This scheme is... 

Results of recent studies on the effect of heat treatment after cold rolling on mechanical properties and transformation temperatures of the cast 52Ni48Ti alloys are described. It is seen that stress-induced martensite is formed when both the as-rolled and the low-temperature (≤400 °C) heat-treated samples are strained. Martensite reorientation due to the stress action occurs in samples heat treated at 500 °C and higher. Optimum recovery occurs below 600 °C resulting in hardness reduction. Recrystallization starts at 600 °C resulting in parent phase yield stress enhancement. Yield stress starts to decrease when grain growth and order-disorder transformation both occur above 700 °C. © 2006... 

In this article, an optimal maneuver structure is proposed to improve the cruise fuel consumption performance of a transport category aircraft. The maneuver is taken by analogy to the natural phenomena of fish movement in the water. By using fish-like locomotion and implementing it on a transport category aircraft, better performance economy has been realized in cruise flight. The maneuver structure and the required control actions are extracted using optimal control theory. The power required during a specified cruise time span is taken as the merit function in the optimal control formulation. The cost savings associated with this type of optimized periodic maneuver during cruise is... 

Experiments were conducted to investigate the behaviour of moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) receiving a mixture of toxic (phenolic) wastewater. The study was carried out on laboratory scale using two MBBR reactors fed with synthetic wastewater. The wastewater was prepared by mixing a solution of molasses with a known amount of phenol and nutrients. Two MBBR units were operated simultaneously at different hydraulic retention times (HRT) of 24, 20, 16, 12 and 8 h while phenol concentration was in the range of 200, 400, 620 and 800 mg/l. Throughout the experiments the ratio of phenolic chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentration to total COD was changed from a ratio of 0.2 to a ratio of 1. The... 

In this paper, we study the discriminative modeling of Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) using Conditional Random Fields (CRF) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) alignment models. Previous discriminative approaches to SLU have been dependent on n-gram features. Other previous works have used SMT alignment models to predict the output labels. We have used SMT alignment models to align the abstract labels and trained CRF to predict the labels. We show that the state transition features improve the performance. Furthermore, we have compared the proposed method with two baseline approaches; Hidden Vector States (HVS) and baseline-CRF. The results show that for the F-measure the proposed... 

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-products economic production quantity (EPQ) model is developed, in which the number of orders is limited and imperfect items that are re-workable are produced. The objectives of the problem are minimization of the total inventory costs as well as minimizing the required warehouse space. The model is shown to be of a bi-objective nonlinear programming type, and in order to solve it two meta-heuristic algorithms namely, the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) and multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) algorithm, are proposed. To verify the solution obtained and to evaluate the performance of proposed algorithms, two-sample t-tests... 

The economic production quantity (EPQ) model is often used in manufacturing environments to assist firms in determining the optimal production lot size that minimizes the overall production-inventory costs. While there are some unrealistic assumptions in the EPQ model that limit its real-world applications, in this research, some of these assumptions such as (1) infinite availability of warehouse space, (2) all of the produced items being perfect, and (3) the existence of one product type are relaxed. In other words, we develop a multi-product EPQ model in which there are some imperfect items of different product types being produced such that reworks are allowed and that there is a...