Combining Stream Mining and Neural Networks for Short Term Delay Prediction

The systems monitoring the location of public transport vehicles rely on wireless transmission. The location readings from GPS-based devices are received with some latency caused by periodical data transmission and temporal problems preventing data transmission. This negatively affects identification of delayed vehicles. The primary objective of the work is to propose short term hybrid delay prediction method. The method relies on adaptive selection of Hoeffding trees, being stream classification technique and multilayer perceptrons. In this way, the hybrid method proposed in this study provides anytime predictions and eliminates the need to collect extensive training data before any predictions can be made. Moreover, the use of neural networks increases the accuracy of the predictions compared with the use of Hoeffding trees only

Gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon in doped cuprates

We develop a partial charge-spin separation fermion-spin theory implemented the gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon. In this novel approach, the physical electron is decoupled as the gauge invariant dressed holon and spinon, with the dressed holon behaviors like a spinful fermion, and represents the charge degree of freedom together with the phase part of the spin degree of freedom, while the dressed spinon is a hard-core boson, and represents the amplitude part of the spin degree of freedom, then the electron single occupancy local constraint is satisfied. Within this approach, the charge transport and spin response of the underdoped cuprates is studied. It is shown that the charge transport is mainly governed by the scattering from the dressed holons due to the dressed spinon fluctuation, while the scattering from the dressed spinons due to the dressed holon fluctuation dominates the spin response.Comment: 8 pages, Revtex, three figures are include

Critical behaviour of a spin-tube model in a magnetic field

We show that the low-energy physics of the spin-tube model in presence of a critical magnetic field can be described by a broken SU(3) spin chain. Using the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem we characterize the possible magnetization plateaus and study the critical behavior in the region of transition between the plateaus m=1/2 and m=3/2 by means of renormalization group calculations performed on the bosonized effective continuum field theory. We show that in certain regions of the parameter space of the effective theory the system remains gapless, and we compute the spin-spin correlation functions in these regions. We also discuss the possibility of a plateau at m=1, and show that although there exists in the continuum theory a term that might cause the appearance of a plateau there, such term is unlikely to be relevant. This conjecture is proved by DMRG techniques. The modifications of the three-leg ladder Hamiltonian that might show plateaus at m =1,5/6,7/6 are discussed, and we give the expected form of correlation functions on the m=1 plateau.Comment: RevTeX, 43 pages, 5 EPS figure

A Comparative Study of Two Upwind Schemes as Applied to Navier-Stokes Solutions for Resolving Boundary Layers in Hypersonic Viscous Flow. G.U. Aero Report 9120

Van Leer's flux vector splitting scheme and Osher's flux difference splitting scheme are compared for solving the Navier-Stokes equations governing the hypersonic viscous flow. The effects of the grid number, the grid stretching, and the strength of the hmiter on the solution are studied for both of the schemes. Sensitivity of the results to these parameters are then compared for the two schemes

A pQCD-based description of heavy and light flavor jet quenching

We present a successful description of the medium modification of light and heavy flavor jets within a perturbative QCD (pQCD) based approach. Only the couplings involving hard partons are assumed to be weak. The effect of the medium on a hard parton, per unit time, is encoded in terms of three non-perturbative, related transport coefficients which describe the transverse momentum squared gained, the elastic energy loss and diffusion in elastic energy transfer. A fit of the centrality dependence of the suppression and the azimuthal anisotropy of leading hadrons tends to favor somewhat larger transport coefficients for heavy quarks. Imposing additional constraints based on leading order (LO) Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) effective theory, leads to a worsening of the fit.Comment: v2, 4 pages, 3 figure

Performance comparison between planar and pyramidal microdiffuser for valveless micropump

This paper was presented at the 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2011), which was held at the Makedonia Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki in Greece. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute.The microdiffuser is the most important component of the valveless micropump and its design plays a role in the valveless micropump performance to direct the flow in a proper direction. A planar microdiffuser valveless micropump has been compared with a pyramidal microdiffuser valveless micropump using 3-D CFD simulations. Both planar and pyramidal microdiffuser has a throat hydraulic diameter of 0.6865mm and diffuser half angle of 6.65 degrees. The dynamic mesh was applied under different actuation frequency of the micropump diaphragm (8, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, and 2000Hz). The net flow rate and the rectification efficiency were calculated for the two valveless micropumps. The results showed that the pyramidal microdiffuser performance was better than the planar microdiffuser for frequency f ≥ 200Hz as the net flow rate generated by pyramidal microdiffuser was higher than that by planar microdiffuser. The highest net flow rate of 18.3μL/min was achieved by the pyramidal microdiffuser at rectification efficiency of 0.35% and actuation frequency of 2000Hz