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Open Education Resources and Mobile Technology to Narrow the Learning Divide

Ally, Mohamed; Samaka, Mohammed ( Athabasca University Press , 2013 , Article)

As the world becomes more digitized, there will be an increasing need to make available learning resources in electronic format for access by information and communication technologies. The question education will face is ...

Open education resources and mobile technology to narrow the learning divide

Ally, Mohamed; Samaka, Mohammed ( Athabasca University , 2013 , Article)

As the world becomes more digitized, there will be an increasing need to make available learning resources in electronic format for access by information and communication technologies. The question education will face is ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) for Control Systems Engineering: Development Case with LabVIEW, Simulink, and Camtasia

Abdulwahed, Mahmoud; Nagy, Zoltan K; Crawford, Adam ( International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) in cooperation with Kassel University Press GmbH , 2012 , Article)

The aim of this paper is to report on the development of control systems open educational resources. The paper reports on two control systems education software: 1- A LabVIEW based Control Systems Analysis Toolkit (CSAT) ...

Open IoT Ecosystem for Sporting Event Management

Kubler, Sylvain; Robert, Jérémy; Hefnawy, Ahmed; Främling, Kary; Cherifi, Chantal; ... more authors ... less authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)

By connecting devices, people, vehicles, and infrastructures everywhere in a city, governments and their partners can improve community well-being and other economic and financial aspects (e.g., cost and energy savings). ...

Open loop V/f control of multiphase induction machine under open-circuit phase faults

Morsy, A. S.; Abdelkhalik, A. S.; Abbas, A.; Ahmed, S.; Massoud, Ahmed ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)

One of the main advantages of multiphase induction machines is their higher fault-tolerant capability. Under phase(s) loss, the machine currents can be optimally controlled to satisfy certain optimization criteria. In this ...

An open-loop technique for angle determination from position encoders

Benammar, M.; Ben-Brahim, L.; Alhamadi, M.A.; Al-Emadi, N.; Al-Hitmi, M. ( IEEE , 2008 , Conference Paper)

The paper presents a novel technique for the determination of the angle from low-frequency quadrature cosinusoidal signals produced, for example, by position sensors. In the presented scheme applied to a resolver, the ...

Operation failure of risk analysis on floating storage and offloading

Silvianita ( IOP Publishing , 2023 , Conference Paper)

The need for petroleum in daily life is increasing. The oil comes from the seabed, so it is necessary to have adequate facilities during the exploration and exploitation of crude oil. The process of distributing crude oil ...

Operation of three-phase modular multilevel converter (MMC) with reduced number of arms

Elserougi, Ahmed; Ahmed, Shehab; Massoud, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)

Conventional three-phase MMC consists of six-arms, each arm is controlled to generate unipolar voltage ranging from zero to Vdc where Vdc is the input DC voltage. Each arm voltage has two components (DC and AC components). ...

Operational modeling of multistream heat exchangers with phase changes

Hasan, M. M. Faruque; Karimi, I. A.; Alfadala, H. E.; Grootjans, H. ( Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company , 2009 , Article)

Multistream heat exchangers (MSHE) enable the simultaneous exchange of heat among multiple streams, and are preferred in cryogenic processes such as air separation and LNG. Most MSHEs are complex; proprietary and involve ...

Operational neural networks

Kiranyaz, Mustafa Serkan; Ince T.; Iosifidis A.; Gabbouj M. ( Springer , 2020 , Article)

Feed-forward, fully connected artificial neural networks or the so-called multi-layer perceptrons are well-known universal approximators. However, their learning performance varies significantly depending on the function ...

Opportunistic routing and data dissemination protocol for energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

Bouachir, Ons; Ben Mnaouer, Adel; Touati, Farid; Crescini, Damiano ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)

Recent advances in environmental sources harvesting technologies is a promising solution to provide sustainable energy sources for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Renewable energy sources such as solar, thermal and ...

Opportunistic spectrum sharing in relay-assisted cognitive systems with imperfect CSI

Hamdi, Karama; Hasna, Mazen O.; Ghrayeb, Ali; Letaief, Khaled Ben ( IEEE , 2014 , Article)

In this paper, we consider spectrum sharing between cognitive radio (CR) users and a licensed primary user (PU) to enhance the spectrum efficiency. In the considered scenario, the PU is not able to successfully transmit ...

Opportunity analysis for enterprise collaboration between networks of SMEs

Naeem, Muhammad; Moalla, Néjib; Ouzrout, Yacine; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( CEUR-WS , 2015 , Conference Paper)

The competitive environment within the corporate have forced the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be more dynamic in adapting new business strategies. To achieve this objective, SMEs resort to enterprise collaboration ...

Optical absorption enhancement in polymer BHJ thin film using Ag nanostructures: A simulation study

Khalil A.; Ahmad Z.; Touati F.; Masmoudi M. ( Bentham Science Publishers , 2020 , Article)

Background: The photo-absorption and light trapping through the different layers of the organic solar cell structures are a growing concern now-a-days as it affects dramatically the overall efficiency of the cells. In fact, ...

Optical character recognition on heterogeneous SoC for HD automatic number plate recognition system

FarhatA.; HommosO.; Al-ZawqariA.; Al-QahtaniA.; BensaaliF.; ... more authors ... less authors ( Springer International Publishing , 2018 , Article)

Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems are becoming vital for safety and security purposes. Typical ANPR systems are based on three stages: number plate localization (NPL), character segmentation (CS), and optical ...

Optical characterization of tip bended Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes array

Asyraf M.R.M.; Saleh T.; Islam S.; Rana M.; Muthalif A.G.A. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)

Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube arrays (also termed as VACNTs or CNT forest) have recently found to be transformable to a reflective mirror from a naturally black absorber. The feature of improved reflectance can be ...

Optical investigation of a long throated Venturi conveying inert spherical particulate with size range similar to pulverised coal

Giddings, D.; Azzopardi, B. J.; Aroussi, A.; Pickering, S. J. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2011 , Article)

This experimental and numerical calculation work demonstrates the behaviour of a two-phase gas-solid Venturi. The type of two-phase flow studied is that encountered in conveying coal to the furnaces in power stations - a ...