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Measuring Quality of Service in Retail Outlets Using Fuzzy Numbers
The measurement of quality of service in any service providing organisation has been a very complex process to deal with. Most of the attributes here are intangible; largely depend upon customers’ expectations and perceptions. The quality of service may be poor, average, good, and so on depending upon the performance of the service provider. The linguistic terms like poor, average and good could be vague (fuzzy) unless various attributes of a particular service are understood precisely. In order to avoid the ambiguity of the concept associated with customers’ expectations and perceptions of service quality fuzzy numbers are widely used in many complex management issues. In this paper we focus on quantifying the quality of service in retail outlets based on some specific characteristics using fuzzy numbers. Key words: Quality of service; Retail outlets; linguistic terms; fuzzy number
Real Time Wireless Air Pollution Monitoring system
Air pollution has
significant influence on the concentration of
constituents in the atmosphere leading to effects like global warming
and acid rains. To avoid such adverse imbalances in the nature, an
air pollution monitoring system is utmost important. This paper
attempts
to develop an effective solution for pollution monitoring
using wireless sensor networks (WSN) on a real time basis namely
real time wireless air pollution monitoring system. Commercially
available discrete gas sensors for sensing concentration of gases l
ike
CO
2
, NO
2,
CO and O
2
are calibrated using appropriate calibration
technologies. These pre
-
calibrated gas sensors are then integrated
with the wireless sensor motes for field deployment at the campus and
the Hyderabad city using multi hop data aggregatio
n algorithm. A
light weight middleware and a web interface to view the live pollution
data in the form of numbers and charts from the test beds was
developed and made available from anywhere on the internet. Other
parameters like temperature and humidity w
ere also sensed along
with gas concentrations to enable data analysis through data fusion
techniques. Experimentation carried out using the developed wireless
air pollution monitoring system under different physical conditions
show that the system collects
reliable source of real time fine
-
grain
pollution data
A new crystal plasticity framework to simulate the large strain behaviour of aluminum alloys at warm temperatures
The final publication is available at Elsevier via https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2018.04.020 © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/To improve metal formability, high temperature forming has become a desired manufacturing process. Phenomenological plasticity models are widely used in this application, however lack good predictive capability concerning microstructure evolution during forming. Many crystal plasticity hardening models have been developed to predict deformation phenomena of metals during high temperature forming; however, few have thermodynamic self-hardening formulations based on deformation mechanisms. This work presents a crystal plasticity based analysis with a Taylor polycrystal averaging scheme of warm forming employing a new microstructure and dislocation based strain hardening model to simulate deformation behaviour. The hardening model is derived from energy balance between dislocation storage, dislocation accumulation, and dislocation recovery, based on remobilization of immobile dislocations, due to thermal activation. The constitutive formulation is extended to include alloying effects due to solute strengthening of Mg. The material hardening properties of AA5754 are characterized for a range of temperatures at constant strain-rates. A formulation for the kinematics of dynamic strain aging is presented and employed for room-temperature simulations. The hardening characterization is then used to predict stress-strain behaviour of AA5182 for similar conditions. The model shows excellent predictability of experimental results. An analysis on the microstructural connection between temperature and stress-strain response is presented.Canada (NSERC) [no. APCPJ 441668-12]General Motors of Canad
Forward Neutron Production at the Fermilab Main Injector
We have measured cross sections for forward neutron production from a variety
of targets using proton beams from the Fermilab Main Injector. Measurements
were performed for proton beam momenta of 58 GeV/c, 84 GeV/c, and 120 GeV/c.
The cross section dependence on the atomic weight (A) of the targets was found
to vary as where is for a beam momentum of
58 GeV/c and 0.540.05 for 120 GeV/c. The cross sections show reasonable
agreement with FLUKA and DPMJET Monte Carlos. Comparisons have also been made
with the LAQGSM Monte Carlo.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. This version
incorporates small changes suggested by referee and small corrections in the
neutron production cross sections predicted by FLUK
Mining of diverse short non-coding RNAs from transcriptome of milk somatic cells of Murrah buffalo
The non-coding RNAs (ncRNA) are known to regulate expression of genes at the
transcription, translation and processing levels. The present study was conducted to identify diverse
short ncRNAs from milk somatic cells of lactating Murrah buffaloes. Elucidating the molecular
drivers of lactation in dairy animals will help understand the process of lactation, eventually leading
to improvement in milk production and quality. In order to discover the ncRNA, the transcriptome
data of 12 samples of somatic cells from buffalo milk were analyzed. A web based pipeline,
exceRpt was used to perform the analysis. The most abundant short ncRNA molecules discovered
in buffalo milk were the miRNAs, followed by snRNAs. Least number of rRNAs was discovered in
the investigated samples. The total number of rRNAs, tRNAs, snRNAs, snoRNAs and miRNAs
were 12, 23, 72, 51 and 229 respectively, in the entire dataset. On matching with miRBase v22.1, a
total of 1724, 897, 211 and 4 miRNAs were observed to be common to human, bovine, caprine and
ovine genomes. The results provide information on the bioavailability of short ncRNAs in buffalo
milk somatic cells, most of which are largely uncharacterized. The generated information is a step
towards developing a database for ncRNAs in buffalo species
Measurement of Charged Pion Production Yields off the NuMI Target
The fixed-target MIPP experiment, Fermilab E907, was designed to measure the
production of hadrons from the collisions of hadrons of momenta ranging from 5
to 120 GeV/c on a variety of nuclei. These data will generally improve the
simulation of particle detectors and predictions of particle beam fluxes at
accelerators. The spectrometer momentum resolution is between 3 and 4%, and
particle identification is performed for particles ranging between 0.3 and 80
GeV/c using , time-of-flight and Cherenkov radiation measurements. MIPP
collected events of 120 GeV Main Injector protons striking a
target used in the NuMI facility at Fermilab. The data have been analyzed and
we present here charged pion yields per proton-on-target determined in bins of
longitudinal and transverse momentum between 0.5 and 80 GeV/c, with combined
statistical and systematic relative uncertainties between 5 and 10%.Comment: 15 pages, 13 figure
Search for bottom squarks in pbarp collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV
We report on a search for bottom squarks produced in pbarp collisions at
sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV using the D0 detector at Fermilab. Bottom squarks are assumed
to be produced in pairs and to decay to the lightest supersymmetric particle
(LSP) and a b quark with branching fraction of 100%. The LSP is assumed to be
the lightest neutralino and stable. We set limits on the production cross
section as a function of bottom squark mass and LSP mass.Comment: 5 pages, Latex. submitted 3-12-1999 to PRD - Rapid Communicatio
Search for Squarks and Gluinos in Events Containing Jets and a Large Imbalance in Transverse Energy
Using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 79 pb-1, D0 has
searched for events containing multiple jets and large missing transverse
energy in pbar-p collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron
collider. Observing no significant excess beyond what is expected from the
standard model, we set limits on the masses of squarks and gluinos and on the
model parameters m_0 and m_1/2, in the framework of the minimal low-energy
supergravity models of supersymmetry. For tan(beta) = 2 and A_0 = 0, with mu <
0, we exclude all models with m_squark < 250 GeV/c^2. For models with equal
squark and gluino masses, we exclude m < 260 GeV/c^2.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to PRL, Fixed typo on page bottom of
p. 6 (QCD multijet background is 35.4 events
Limits on Anomalous WWgamma and WWZ Couplings
Limits on the anomalous WWgamma and WWZ couplings are presented from a
simultaneous fit to the data samples of three gauge boson pair final states in
pbar-p collisions at sqrt(s)=1.8 TeV: Wgamma production with the W boson
decaying to enu or munu, W boson pair production with both of the W bosons
decaying to enu or munu, and WW or WZ production with one W boson decaying to
enu and the other W boson or the Z boson decaying to two jets. Assuming
identical WWgamma and WWZ couplings, 95 % C.L. limits on the anomalous
couplings of -0.30<Delta kappa<0.43 (lambda = 0) and -0.20<lambda<0.20 (Delta
kappa = 0) are obtained using a form factor scale Lambda = 2.0 TeV. Limits
found under other assumptions on the relationship between the WWgamma and WWZ
couplings are also presented.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Physical Review
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