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Shifting artificial data to detect system failures
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
Multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) is used for simultaneously monitoring several process variables. While small changes to normal operating conditions made by this system may not seriously affect the quality ...
An exact algorithm for the single machine problem with unavailability periods
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2015 , Article)
We investigate the single machine scheduling problem with job release dates and due dates, and multiple planned unavailability time periods. This problem arises in the context of machine scheduling with planned preventive ...
A comparison of physiological and transcriptome responses to water deprivation and salt loading in the rat supraoptic nucleus
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American Physiological Society
, 2015 , Article)
Salt loading (SL) and water deprivation (WD) are experimental challenges that are often used to study the osmotic circuitry of the brain. Central to this circuit is the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of the hypothalamus, which ...
A secondary voltage regulation approach for Hydro-Québec in transmission level
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
This paper presents a secondary voltage control that applies discrete controllers to regulate the voltage in the Hydro-Québec power network. Firstly, an artificial intelligence methodology is presented for partitioning the ...
Managing abnormal operation through process integration and cogeneration systems
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Springer Verlag
, 2015 , Article)
Flaring is a common industrial practice that leads to substantial greenhouse gas emissions, health problems, and economic losses. When the causes, magnitudes, and frequency of flaring are properly understood and incorporated ...
A Droop Control Design for Multiterminal HVDC of Offshore Wind Farms With Three-Wire Bipolar Transmission Lines
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IEEE
, 2015 , Article)
Converting existing ac transmission lines to an extended multiterminal three-wire bipolar HVDC system can be considered a cost-effective way to interconnect dispersed offshore wind farms to onshore ac grids instead of ...
Duplex Ni-P-ZrO2/Ni-P electroless coating on stainless steel
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
Duplex Ni–P–ZrO2/Ni–P coating was electroless deposited onto stainless steel substrates. High phosphorus Ni–P coating was plated as the inner layer to improve the corrosion resistance and low phosphorus sol-enhanced Ni–P–ZrO2 ...
Stochastic learning automata-based channel selection in cognitive radio/dynamic spectrum access for WiMAX networks
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
This paper proposes a cognitive radio-based dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme for secondary users in a cluster-based WiMAX network. It uses a learning automata-based algorithm to find the optimal transmission channel, ...
Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Abstract This is a sociocultural linguistic study on the ways whereby mobility is reflected upon in life narratives. An ethnographically informed sociolinguistic scale analysis shows that when residents narrate their life ...
Outlier robust nonlinear mixed model estimation
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
In standard analyses of data well-modeled by a nonlinear mixed model, an aberrant observation, either within a cluster, or an entire cluster itself, can greatly distort parameter estimates and subsequent standard errors. ...