Ultimate limits of an open pit, which define its size and shape at the end of the mine’s life, is the pit with the highest profit value. A number of algorithms such as floating or moving cone method, floating cone method II and the corrected forms of this method, the Korobov algorithm and the corrected form of this method, dynamic programming and the Lerchs and Grossmann algorithm based on grap...

A programming technique for controlling the floating gates (FG) in ultra low-voltage (ULV) floating-gate circuits is presented. Simple ultra low-voltage floatinggate current scaling and level shifting circuits are discussed. The current scaling and level shifting are accomplished using only minimum sized transistors and floating capacitors. Floating-gate current multiplier and divider circuits ...

determining the responses of floating structures at sea are the most important concerns in shipbuilding industry. in physical and dynamical principles a ship can be analyzed as a free elastic beam floating in sea without any supports. the analysis of corresponding dynamic equations are difficult and time- consuming, thus investigation on the behavior of floating structures can be done numerical...

In the public discourse and research literature, signifier “religious-Zionism” is usually viewed as denoting a specific group located midway between secular ultra-Orthodox Jews. This location does not turn religious-Zionism into residual category including whoever part of two others. Quite contrary. Religious-Zionism used to be with unique characteristics, values normative fullness its own. I a...

GOALS Low-power systems often find the power cost of floating-point hardware prohibitively expensive. This research explores ways of reducing floating-point power consumption by minimizing the bitwidth representation of floating-point data. Analysis of several floating point programs that manipulate low-resolution human sensory data shows that these programs suffer no loss of accuracy even with...

The purpose of the present study was to develop an optimized gastric floating drug delivery system (GFDDS) containing domperidone as a model drug. Box-Behnken design was employed in formulating the GFDDS with three polymers: hydroxypropyl methylcellulose K4M (HPMC K4M) (X1), Carbopol 934P (X2) and sodium alginate (X3), as independent variables. Floating lag time (FLT), total floating time (TFT)...

Six diesel-degrading bacterial strains were isolated from oil-polluted sites located in central Taiwan. The floating activity of the isolates in an oil-supplemented liquid medium was monitored. Cell-surface hydrophobicity as well as cell-free and cell-residue emulsification activities were also investigated. Three isolates, identified as Gordonia alkanivorans CC-JG 39, Rhodococcus erythropolis ...

The floating photovoltaic system is a new concept in energy technology to meet the needs of our time. The system integrates existing land based photovoltaic technology with a newly developed floating photovoltaic technology. Because module temperature of floating PV system is lower than that of overland PV system, the floating PV system has 11% better generation efficiency than overland PV syst...