Flight Dynamics Nonlinearity Assessment Across a New Aerodynamic Attitude Flight Envelope

A new asymmetric level aerodynamic attitude flight envelope is introduced in this dissertation. The aerodynamic attitude envelope is an angle of attack vs. sideslip angle region which describes the extent of where an aircraft can sustain a steady slipping horizontal flight condition. The new envelope is thus an extension of the more common speed-altitude symmetric level flight envelope. This new envelope can be used for design requirements, dynamic analysis, control synthesis, or performance comparison. Moreover, this envelope provides enhanced insight into trimability-controllability limitations within the aircraft design model. The aerodynamic attitude flight envelope is constructed for a six degree of freedom nonlinear simulation model of a high-performance aircraft. The constructed envelope is found to be asymmetric with respect to positive vs. negative sideslip values, due to the inherent asymmetry in the aerodynamic model database. Asymmetry and offset in the force and moment coefficient data could originate from experimental error, from model fabrication imperfections, from vortex-dominated flow, from data reduction flaws, or from other sources. The literature shows that vortex-dominated flow can cause significant side force, rolling moment, and yawing moment coefficient asymmetries. Details concerning the removal of asymmetry and offset in the aerodynamic data are given. The purpose behind removing the asymmetry and offset is to facilitate analysis of the new aerodynamic attitude flight envelope with an ideal aircraft model so that fundamental relationships can be more easily observed, and to provide a comparison with the non-ideal case previously computed. Based on the adapted and symmetrized aerodynamic data, a new aerodynamic attitude asymmetric level flight envelope is constructed and introduced. Further, the six degree of freedom aircraft simulation model is analyzed with nonlinear index theory across this nontraditional flight envelope. Aircraft dynamic properties often change in a nonlinear way across operating conditions. Nonlinear index theory provides a new concept for measuring the strength of these changes for a given set of coordinates and is applied to the asymmetric aerodynamic attitude envelope with the original and the adapted and symmetrized aerodynamic data. This analysis provides new methodology and new insights into aircraft dynamics and control. The index analysis exposes certain flight condition regions in which nonlinearity strength is high. These regions are further investigated with both linear and nonlinear simulations. Because the nonlinearity index is based on the matrix two-norm, the index can sometimes overestimate the nonlinear strength. To circumvent this behavior, indices based on system matrix partitions and normalized state formulations are explored. Nonlinearity is a function of the coordinates used to express the dynamic system. Therefore, the nonlinearity index is also applied to the aircraft model, expressed with three different frame of reference sets for kinetics and kinematics, in order to determine the best, or most linear, coordinates among the three investigated sets

An automatic diacritization algorithm for undiacritized Arabic text

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is used today in most written and some spoken media. It is, however, not the native dialect of any country. Recently, the rate of the written dialectal Arabic text increased dramatically. Most of these texts have been written in the Egyptian dialectal, as it is considered the most widely used dialect and understandable throughout the Middle East. Like other Semitic languages, in written Arabic, short vowels are not written, but are represented by diacritic marks. Nonetheless, these marks are not used in most of the modern Arabic texts (for example books and newspapers). The absence of diacritic marks creates a huge ambiguity, as the un-diacritized word may correspond to more than one correct diacritization (vowelization) form. Hence, the aim of this research is to reduce the ambiguity of the absences of diacritic marks using hybrid algorithm with significantly higher accuracy than the state-of-the-art systems for MSA. Moreover, this research is to implement and evaluate the accuracy of the algorithm for dialectal Arabic text. The design of the proposed algorithm based on two main techniques as follows: statistical n-gram along with maximum likelihood estimation and morphological analyzer. Merging the word, morpheme, and letter levels with their sub-models together into one platform in order to improve the automatic diacritization accuracy is the proposition of this research. Moreover, by utilizing the feature of the case ending diacritization, which is ignoring the diacritic mark on the last letter of the word, shows a significant error improvement. The reason for this remarkable improvement is that the Arabic language prohibits adding diacritic marks over some letters. The hybrid algorithm demonstrated a good performance of 97.9% when applied to MSA corpora (Tashkeela), 97.1% when applied on LDC’s Arabic Treebank-Part 3 v1.0 and 91.8% when applied to Egyptian dialectal corpus (CallHome). The main contribution of this research is the hybrid algorithm for automatic diacritization of undiacritized MSA text and dialectal Arabic text. The proposed algorithm applied and evaluated on Egyptian colloquial dialect, the most widely dialect understood and used throughout the Arab world, which is considered as first time based on the literature review

Women’s rights in the practice of polygamy in Malaysia / Noordura Mohamed Din, Muhammad Ayman Zaharin and Suhaili Sapun.

Our main research deals with how Polygamy is affecting Muslim women in a multicultural society in Malaysia. We do our research by focusing on the Muslim Family Law, a law that only applies to Muslims. We will look at the complexities of implementing a law based on the Qur 'an in a modern multicultural society. Dealing with the complexities means touching upon or going into detail about subjects such as human rights, modernisation, patriarchy and identity. The aim is to understand the contemporary debate about the Polygamy by interviewing people in the debate and ask them to think about, what are the problems? What causes these problems? And how can we solve them? We are focusing on the law because it is a way to understand how women are affected in a basic and practical way. With polygamy our aim is not only to study the impact of the law and the problems women in polygamous marriages are faced with, but the whole idea of forbidding or allowing polygamy in Malaysia. The debate about the Muslim family law will be put into a bigger theoretical framework. This means analyzing the debate and our interviews in a discussion between universal and relativistic values, between a modern interpretation and a traditional interpretation of Islam. Most of all, we want to show how the Muslim family law is affecting women

Impact of Study Anxiety Sources on the Grade Achievements of University Students

Anxiety is a common phenomenon among all kind of learners and university students. Study anxiety has been recognized by students of all educational institutes as they face new atmosphere and people in the campus. The objective of this study is to recognize the sources of study anxiety and then determine the impact of these sources on the grade achievements among university students. The results showed that exam anxiety, subject anxiety, language anxiety, library anxiety, social anxiety and presentation anxiety are sources of study anxiety. All of the sources have a great impact on grade achievements except presentation anxiety. The results proved that anxiety put a high impact on the grade achievements of students and those students who had more anxiety get low marks

Stents and stent mimickers in endovascular management of wide-neck intracranial aneurysms

Subarachnoid hemorrhage due to a ruptured cerebral aneurysm is a disastrous event accounting for approximately 5%-15% of all stroke cases and has a high mortality rate. One of the major goals in the management of these patients is to prevent rebleeding by securing the aneurysm either surgically or by endovascular means. Endovascular treatment is considered the first line of treatment for intracranial aneurysms; however, wide-neck aneurysms (WNAs) are specifically difficult to treat by endovascular means due to the difficulty in achieving a stable coil mass inside the aneurysm sac. To overcome this problem, assisted endovascular treatment techniques and devices have evolved over the years. Amongst these, stent-assisted coiling (SAC) techniques provide a scaffold for coil embolization. The concept of the stent-assisted technique inspired creative pioneers to invent new tools like the PulseRider (Pulsar Vascular, Inc. CA, USA) and the pCONUS (Phenox GmbH, Germany), which are a great help in managing wide-neck and bifurcation aneurysms. The concept of stent within stents and its related hemodynamic effect has led to the novel development of flow diverters for reconstructing the arterial wall and correcting the hemodynamic disturbances. In this article, we review the stents and stent-like devices currently in practice for the endovascular management of wide-neck and branch intracranial aneurysms