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Linear model of a closed three-shaft Brayton cycle
(IEEE, 2004)A linear model of a closed three-shaft Brayton cycle is developed. The model is intended to give an understanding of the dominant dynamic behavior in a nuclear power system that utilizes a closed three-shaft Brayton cycle. ... -
Status of international interconnections and electricity deregulation in Africa: an overview of the current status in Southern Africa
(IEEE, 2004)The Southern African power system is in a state of flux. The grid is expanding and more interconnections are being made. However, vastness of the area and the low power consumption density in most African countries makes ... -
Data acquisition system for capturing dynamic transients in a control valve
(IEEE, 2004)This work presents the development of a data acquisition (DAQ) system to be used in conjunction with fuzzy modelling to derive a dynamic mathematical model of a control valve. Characterising the behaviour of a control valve ... -
Gamma‐ray pulsar visibility
(AIP, 2005)PSR J0437‐4715 is a millisecond pulsar (MSP) thought to be “pair formation starved” (having limited pair cascades due to magnetic photon absorption). Fortunately the general relativistic (GR) electrodynamical model under ... -
Action evolution for intelligent agents
(IEEE, 2005)This paper introduces an alternative method of reinforcement learning for intelligent agents. The aim with this method is to closer emulate the natural thought processes of problem solving. This paper only provides a ... -
The global galerkin finite element method as applied to the 1d beam equation: a systems approach
(SAAM, 2006)The paper focuses on the finite element solution of the fourth-order differential for an EulerBernoulli beam. In this approach the point point loads and concentrated moments are treated in a natural way as part of the ... -
Email security awareness: a practical assessment of employee behaviour
(Springer, 2007)Email communication is growing as a main method for individuals and organizations to communicate. Sadly, this is also an emerging means of conducting crime in the cyber world, e.g. identity theft, virus attacks etc. ... -
A comparative study on fault detection and correction techniques on active magnetic bearing systems
(IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2007)In this paper, the authors distinguish between three real-time fault detection, correction and identification schemes for vibration forces on the rotor of a rotational active magnetic bearing (AMB) system. Historical fault ... -
A qualitative assessment of the insulation systems of medium voltage induction motors
(IEEE, 2007)The research was an attempt to understand the condition of the insulation system and to classify the data according to its condition. Data mining processes was used to create a model to gain insight into the data and the ... -
Data mining: a technique used to extract information from tan delta measurements on medium voltage induction motors
(IEEE, 2007)The study attempted to understand the condition of the insulation system and to classify the data according to its condition. Data mining processes were used to gain insight into the data and the condition of the insulation ... -
Estimates for very high energy gamma rays from globular cluster pulsars
(AIP, 2008)Low‐Mass X‐ray Binaries (LMXRBs), believed to be the progenitors of recycled millisecond pulsars (MSPs), occur abundantly in globular clusters (GCs). GCs are therefore expected to host large numbers of MSPs. This is also ... -
Constraints on the lepton content of PWN from the local CR positron spectrum
(ICRC, 2008)Geminga is a nearby pulsar with an age of 3.42×105 yr and a spindown power of 3.2×1034 erg/s at present. B0656+14 has comparable spindown power, with an age of 1.11×105 yr and a distance of 290 pc. The winds of these ... -
Search for pulsed VHE gamma-ray emission from young pulsars with H.E.S.S.
(ICRC, 2008)We present the results of a search for pulsed very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from young pulsars using data taken with the H.E.S.S. imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope system. Data on eleven pulsars, selected ... -
Regenerator for Varshamov-tenengolts-like synchronisation error correcting codes
(IEEE, 2008)Synchronisation errors, that is, the insertion of additional or deletion of valid symbols, are the most difficult class of errors to correct - containing the class of additive errors as a subset. A regenerating algorithm, ... -
Improving QoS for real-time multimedia traffic in ad-hoc networks with delay aware multi-path routing
(IEEE, 2008)A Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) is a wireless network in which nodes, in the absence of fixed access points, communicate via single or multi-hop paths. Each node in a MANET should thus be able to perform necessary routing ... -
Efficient packet erasure decoding by transforming the systematic generator matrix of an RS code
(IEEE, 2008)We consider the erasures-only decoding of Reed-Solomon codes. One class of erasure decoders of algebraic codes can be viewed as a transformation of the systematic generator matrix, as first noticed by Berlekamp. We extend ... -
Unraveling the emission geometry of the Fermi millisecond pulsars
(Fermi, 2009)The nine millisecond pulsars (MSPs) that have now been detected by Fermi-LAT are providing an excellent opportunity to probe the emission geometry of these ancient compact objects. As they are radio-loud, one may use the ... -
Modeling of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar light curves revealed by Fermi-LAT
(Thê Giói Publishers, 2009)Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently detected 8 gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs), providing an unprecedented opportunity to probe the magnetospheres of these lowspin-down pulsars. We performed 3D emission ... -
Using an effective viscosity to account for the effect of the walls on the pressure drop through an annular packed bed
(ASME, 2009)The question arose whether the correlation for the pressure drop prescribed for cylindrical pebble bed reactors by the Nuclear Safety Commission (KTA) of Germany could still be applied to the proposed annular configuration ... -
Evaluating methods to binarize historic cosmic-ray recordings
(IEEE, 2009)Three adaptive image binarization approaches are evaluated to find the method best suited for the binarization of historic cosmic-ray data. The methods are optimized by fine tuning their parameters and they are then ...
