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The paper shows the influence of nonbearing masonry walls for medium rise framed buildings placed at higher stories but not at the ground floor. The building studied here is a hotel that will be built in Bucharest, Romania. This is a high seismic area according to the seismic codes in force. The structure is composed…

This paper showed visualization of technics about cardiopulmonary resuscitation contributed to acquiring the skills and understanding them. Especially, this system is focused on the individuality in each object (men, women, and babies) There are problems of a general cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training because learners are generally taught by instruction based on a subjective judgment. Because…

This paper deals about an application of optimal power flows (OPF) constrained with synchronous generator capability curve for power market analysis (SGCC). OPF main features gather in its mathematical formulation non-convexity, non-linearity, and it shows to be a hard to solve optimization problem. In some operational scenarios, SGCC can limit power flows bringing the theoretical…

This is a study on non-bearing masonry walls, in a high, reinforced concrete walls building. It will be built in Bucharest, Romania. This is a high seismic area. The building will be used as a dwelling. The structure is composed of a ground floor and 10 stories above. It is interesting to see the interaction…

Climate change, increasing fuel oil prices and new international regulation on ship emissions lead to more focus on shipping fuel consumption and energy efficiency. There are various solutions for improving the ship energy efficiency. In this manuscript, we aim to present a real case of energy saving by adopting the central cooling system with box…

There are high expectations for commercial cloud services as an economical computation resource when executing scientific computing workflows, for which the computation is increasing on a daily basis. However, no method has been developed for determining whether a scientific computing workflow can be executed at a low usage cost, and thus scientists have difficulty in…

This article discusses IoT security in situations whereby devices do not share the same security domains, which raises security, privacy and safety concerns. It then presents an Access Control and Privacy infrastructure for addressing these concerns in the context of distributed environments. IoT deployments allow billions of connected physical devices to collect, process and share…

In this paper a chemical substance reporting system is presented to enable industry to assess the impacts of increasing chemical regulations. Chemical regulations impose the need to monitor, control and restrict the use of hazardous substances. As chemical substances become more regulated, industry requires mechanisms to identify potential business continuity risks, posed by increased regulation.…

Usually, after properly biasing an analog circuit we need to linearize its transistors in order to linearize the entire circuit for performance analysis and design. This linearization is done through modeling of devices, which is becoming more and more complicated as the electronic technology advances. This is not of course a major issue for circuit…

In most industrial high-power applications, the brushless DC (BLDC) motor is connected to multi-level inverters specially the three-level NPC inverters (B12). Torque ripple is a critical issue in BLDC motor drives. Accordingly, minimizing the ripple produced in the torque is necessary to enhance the BLDC motor drive performances. This paper aims to develop two direct…

Nd:YAG laser has shown some potential to be used in dental practice replacing the conventional method. In particular, it can be used to modify the tooth surface by the ablation process. The laser provides an ability to accurately deliver a significant amount of energy into a confined region. Thus, alteration of the sample surface and…

A design of elliptical printed dipole antenna based on neural network approach is presented in this paper for recent WiMAX, Bluetooth, WLAN, LTE, and future 5G applications. The dipole patch is printed on top of substrate which has relative permittivity of 2.2 and 0.787mm of thickness. The elliptical dipole antenna is single band and the…

The physically-based environmental model is a crucial tool used in many scientific inquiries. With physical modeling, different models are used to simulate real world phenomena and most environmental scientists use their own devices to execute the models. A complex simulation can be time-consuming with limited computing power. Also, sharing a scientific model with other researchers…

A sequential pre-treatment of demineralization and torrefaction, was carried out on palm empty fruit bunches (EFB). EFB and demineralized EFB (DEFB) were torrefied in a vertical tubular reactor in the temperature range of 200 to 280 °C for 30 mins under nitrogen (flow rate:100 mL/min. The pretreated samples were characterized using proximate and ultimate analyses,…

This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable nature and the involvement of low cost. In this critical survey, a thorough analysis of various intelligent techniques is carried…

This survey paper deals with the structural health monitoring systems on the basis of methodologies involving intelligent techniques. The intelligent techniques are the most popular tools for damage identification in terms of high accuracy, reliable nature and the involvement of low cost. In this critical survey, a thorough analysis of various intelligent techniques is carried…

The proposed solution is intended for virtual universities wishing to improve their distance learning platforms. These enhancements include the instructional content model, how to deliver courses to students, and how to evaluate students’ knowledge. With this solution that improves the functionality of Moodle, virtual classes now include new features such as the transfer of heavy…

Nowadays, many companies and organizations use various encryption techniques to secure their private data before send it through the unsecure network. However, many attackers try to store private data by using various attacks. Most of the organizations use password based encryption algorithm (PBE) to protect their private data. However, the existing PBE methods are vulnerable…

The effect of rotation and translation of an electromagnetic (EM) scatterer upon the scattered field is studied for the case of TM polarization. The Franklin and Lorenz transformations are used to analyze the phase and the magnitude of the backscattered field during the movement of the scatterer. Also, a new model is presented that simulates…

This paper is an extension of work originally presented in the 19th International Conference on Computer Supported Education and Information Technology. This paper identifies motivational factors that ensure the initiation and effective implementation of mathematical activity. These factors are in subordination to each other, forming a hierarchical dependence. At the heart of this hierarchy is…

Recently, several studies focus on a GaN material system that exhibits a significant probability of use in power devices including wide-gap semiconductors. However, the GaN-HEMT is also a structure that easily leads to crystal defects in AlGaN and i-GaN heterojunction. The aim of the study involved investigating the cause of the current collapse in GaN-HEMT…

An experimental investigation of reconfigurable ultra-wideband (UWB) modified octagonal microstrip monopole patch antenna with switchable and tunable band-notched characteristic is presented in this paper. Notched-bands are obtained by connecting or disconnecting the open shunt stubs. The switching is achieved by using PIN diodes. Additionally, more notch-bands are created by adding additional stubs to the original…

With the increasing need for effective storage management due to ever-growing content-generation over the Internet, Distributed Storage Systems (DSS) has arisen as a valuable tool. Although DSS has considerably improved in the past years, it still leverages legacy techniques in its networking. To cope with the demanding requirements, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has revolutionized the…

Industrial estate firms have important roles in national development through the industrial development. In the course of their life, industrial estate firms ought to follow the firm life cycle pattern. The common pattern shows that the period, in which the firm experiences profit increase, will be directly followed by consistent profit and profit decrease. Should…

This work presents new pipeline-parallel, generic and configurable parallel hardware architectures for the Direct/Inverse Wavelet Packet Transform (DWPT/IDWPT) independent of any specific family of wavelets, implemented in FPGA technology using a parallel architecture of direct FIR filter. We propose in the following paper, new P-parallel structures for the DWPT and IDWPT transforms based on the…