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Utilization of solar energy in developing countries: Identifying some potential markets
The potential use of solar electricity generated from photovoltaic cells is examined for nineteen developing nations. Energy and economic profiles are summarized for each country. A comparison is made between the use of autogeneration and photovoltaics in a rural area of Haiti
A Short Comment on the use of R_adj^2 in Social Science
It is a common practice to prefer , over to assess the explainability power of a statistical regression model among social scientists, especially for one having more than one independent variables. However, this preference is not advantageous at all times because the usage of may end up in negative coefficients making them non-interpretable. A Monte Carlo simulation experiment is used to appraise the behavior of these adjusted versions of for different numbers of independent variables. It has been found that almost all of the selected adjusted version of produces negative coefficients
A unified approach for composite cost reporting and prediction in the ACT program
The Structures Technology Program Office (STPO) at NASA Langley Research Center has held two workshops with representatives from the commercial airframe companies to establish a plan for development of a standard cost reporting format and a cost prediction tool for conceptual and preliminary designers. This paper reviews the findings of the workshop representatives with a plan for implementation of their recommendations. The recommendations of the cost tracking and reporting committee will be implemented by reinstituting the collection of composite part fabrication data in a format similar to the DoD/NASA Structural Composites Fabrication Guide. The process of data collection will be automated by taking advantage of current technology with user friendly computer interfaces and electronic data transmission. Development of a conceptual and preliminary designers' cost prediction model will be initiated. The model will provide a technically sound method for evaluating the relative cost of different composite structural designs, fabrication processes, and assembly methods that can be compared to equivalent metallic parts or assemblies. The feasibility of developing cost prediction software in a modular form for interfacing with state of the art preliminary design tools and computer aided design (CAD) programs is assessed
Aeroacoustic and aerodynamic performances of an aerofoil subjected to sinusoidal leading edges
This paper presents the preliminary results on the aeroacoustic and aerodynamic performances of a NACA65-(12)10 aerofoil subjected to 12 sinusoidal leading edges. The serration patterns of these leading edges are formed by cutting into the main body of the aerofoil, instead of extending the leading edges. Any of the leading edges, when attached to the main body of the aerofoil, will always result in the same overall chord length. The experiment was mainly performed in an aeroacoustic wind tunnel facility, although a separate aerodynamic type wind tunnel was also used for the force measurements. These sinusoidal leading edges were investigated for their effectiveness in suppressing the laminar instability tonal noise (trailing edge self-noise) and turbulence–leading edge interaction noise. The largest reduction in aerofoil noise tends to associate with the sinusoidal leading edge of the largest amplitude, and smallest wavelength. However, noticeable noise increase at high frequency is also observed for this combination of serration. In terms of the aerodynamic performance, increasing the serration wavelength tends to improve the stall angles, but the lift coefficient at the pre-stall regime is generally lower than that produced by the baseline leading edge. For a sinusoidal leading edge with large serration amplitude, the effect of the reduction in “lift-generating” surface is manifested in the significant reduction of the lift coefficients and lift curve slope. The sinusoidal leading edge that produces the best performance in the post-stall regime belongs to the largest wavelength and smallest amplitude, where the lift coefficients are shown to be better than the baseline leading edge. In conclusion, large amplitude and small wavelength is beneficial for noise reduction, whilst to maintain the aerodynamic lift a small amplitude and large wavelength is preferred
Quantum Fluctuations in the Chirped Pendulum
An anharmonic oscillator when driven with a fast, frequency chirped voltage
pulse can oscillate with either small or large amplitude depending on whether
the drive voltage is below or above a critical value-a well studied classical
phenomenon known as autoresonance. Using a 6 GHz superconducting resonator
embedded with a Josephson tunnel junction, we have studied for the first time
the role of noise in this non-equilibrium system and find that the width of the
threshold for capture into autoresonance decreases as the square root of T, and
saturates below 150 mK due to zero point motion of the oscillator. This unique
scaling results from the non-equilibrium excitation where fluctuations, both
quantum and classical, only determine the initial oscillator motion and not its
subsequent dynamics. We have investigated this paradigm in an electrical
circuit but our findings are applicable to all out of equilibrium nonlinear
oscillators.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
An RF-Driven Josephson Bifurcation Amplifier for Quantum Measurements
We have constructed a new type of amplifier whose primary purpose is the
readout of superconducting quantum bits. It is based on the transition of an
RF-driven Josephson junction between two distinct oscillation states near a
dynamical bifurcation point. The main advantages of this new amplifier are
speed, high-sensitivity, low back-action, and the absence of on-chip
dissipation. Pulsed microwave reflection measurements on nanofabricated Al
junctions show that actual devices attain the performance predicted by theory.Comment: 5 Figure
Parallel Algorithms for Look-Up Table (LUT) Inverse Halftoning
The Look-Up Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is fast and computation-free technique employed to obtain good quality images. In this work we propose six algorithms to parallelize the LUT method so that more pixels can be concurrently inverse halftone using minimum additional hardware. The proposed algorithms partition the single LUT of serial LUT method into N smaller Look-Up Tables (s − LUTs) such that the total number of contents in all s−LUTs remain equal to the number of contents in the single LUT of serial LUT method. The proposed parallel algorithms have image quality equal to the serial LUT method when gain in clock cycles over the serial method is less and have lesser image quality comparetively to serial LUT method when gain in clock cycles over the serial method is very high. The parallel algorithms can be implemented on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) devices with external CAM (Content Addressable Memories) and ROM (Read Only Memories)
Parallel Algorithms for Look-Up Table (LUT) Inverse Halftoning
The Look-Up Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is fast and computation-free technique employed to obtain good quality images. In this work we propose six algorithms to parallelize the LUT method so that more pixels can be concurrently inverse halftone using minimum additional hardware. The proposed algorithms partition the single LUT of serial LUT method into N smaller Look-Up Tables (s − LUTs) such that the total number of contents in all s−LUTs remain equal to the number of contents in the single LUT of serial LUT method. The proposed parallel algorithms have image quality equal to the serial LUT method when gain in clock cycles over the serial method is less and have lesser image quality comparetively to serial LUT method when gain in clock cycles over the serial method is very high. The parallel algorithms can be implemented on FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) devices with external CAM (Content Addressable Memories) and ROM (Read Only Memories)
Dynamic priority-based efficient resource allocation and computing framework for vehicular multimedia cloud computing
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In intelligent transportation system, smart vehicles are equipped with a variety of sensing devices those offer various multimedia applications and services related to smart driving assistance, weather forecasting, traffic congestion information, road safety alarms, and many entertainment and comfort-related applications. These smart vehicles produce a massive amount of multimedia related data that required fast and real-time processing which cannot be fully handled by the standalone onboard computing devices due to their limited computational power and storage capacities. Therefore, handling such multimedia applications and services demanded changes in the underlaying networking and computing models. Recently, the integration of vehicles with cloud computing is emerged as a challenging computing paradigm. However, there are certain challenges related to multimedia contents processing, (i.e., resource cost, fast service response time, and quality of experience) that severely affect the performance of vehicular communication. Thus, in this paper, we propose an efficient resource allocation and computation framework for vehicular multimedia cloud computing to overcome the aforementioned challenges. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated in terms of quality of experience, service response time, and resource cost by using the Cloudsim simulator
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