Effectiveness of Modern Educational Games on Society

The study is about how modern education games are effecting the society. The authors have discussed different point of views published and working in the same domain after critically evaluating previous work in the same domain. The authors have covered how games are changing the way of learning new education trends

Computer Viruses, Attacks, and Security Methods

with the fast growth of the Internet, computer threats and viruses have become a very serious issue for us, which attract public attention. Therefore, the distribution of computer viruses and worms were discussed in this study. This paper focuses on the effects of computer viruses. The main area of this paperis a brief discussion on computer viruses and security or detection methods. This study is very useful and helpful for computer users to use the different methods, possible steps to protect their system and information from any kind of possible attacks on their system

A Matrix Iteration for Finding Drazin Inverse with Ninth-Order Convergence

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, a matrix iteration for finding approximate inverses of nonsingular square matrices is constructed. Second, how the new method could be applied for computing the Drazin inverse is discussed. It is theoretically proven that the contributed method possesses the convergence rate nine. Numerical studies are brought forward to support the analytical parts

A class of efficient high-order iterative methods with memory for nonlinear equations and their dynamics

[EN] In this paper we obtain some theoretical results about iterative methods with memory for nonlinear equations. The class of algorithms we consider focus on incorporating memory without increasing the computational cost of the algorithm. This class uses for the predictor step of each iteration a quantity that has already been calculated in the previous iteration, typically the quantity governing the slope from the previous corrector step. In this way we do not introduce any extra computation, and more importantly, we avoid new function evaluations, allowing us to obtain high-order iterative methods in a simple way. A specific class of methods of this type is introduced, and we prove the convergence order is 2(n) + 2(n-2) with n + 1 function evaluations. An exhaustive efficiency study is performed to show the competitiveness of these methods. Finally, we test some specific examples and explore the effect that this predictor may have on the convergence set by setting a dynamical study.Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad de Espana, Grant/Award Number: MTM2014-52016-C2-2-P; Generalitat Valenciana Prometeo, Grant/Award Number: /2016/089Howk, CL.; Hueso, J.; Martínez Molada, E.; Teruel-Ferragud, C. (2018). A class of efficient high-order iterative methods with memory for nonlinear equations and their dynamics. Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. 41(17):7263-7282. https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.4821S72637282411

A New Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Algorithm for Thermoelectric Generators with Reduced Voltage Sensors Count Control †

This paper proposes a new maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for thermoelectric generators (TEG). The new-presented method is based on implementing an indirect open circuit voltage detection and short circuit current estimation methods, which will be used to directly control the TEG interface power converter, resulting in reaching the maximum power point (MPP) in minimal number of steps. Two modes of operation are used in the proposed algorithm, namely the perturb and observe (P&O) method for fine-tuning and the transient mode for coarse tracking of the MPP during fast changes that occur to the temperature gradient across the structure. A novel voltage sensing technique as well is proposed in this work, to reduce the number of voltage sensors used to control and monitor the power converter. The proposed strategy employs a novel approach to sense two different voltages using the same voltage sensor. The input and output voltage information is collected from an intermediate point in the converter. The reconstructed voltages are used in the control loops as well as for monitoring the battery output or load voltages. Simulation and experimental results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and the sensing technique