New aligned-rank test procedures for the composite null hypothesis of no interaction effects (without placing restrictions on the two main effects) against appropriate composite general alternatives are developed for the standard two-way layout with a single observation per cell. Relative power performances of the two new aligned-rank procedures and existing tests due to Tukey (1949) and de Kro...

TV show structuring consists in breaking down a program into several sequences (interviews, musical performances, film excerpts, etc.) and in retrieving for each of these segments high-level knowledge often refered to semantic content. The focus here is on two particular tasks: the detection of musical performances, i.e. the segments where artists are performing live music, and the identificati...

This paper discusses performance prediction of clock generation PLLs using a ring oscillator based VCO (RingVCO) and an LC oscillator based VCO (LCVCO). For clock generation, we generally design PLLs using RingVCOs because of their superiority in tunable frequency range, chip area and power consumption, in spite of their poor noise characteristics. In the future, it is predicted that operating ...

The bandwidth performance of a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL) is roughly defined to be 100 MegaBytes (10 bytes) per second. Furthermore, FCAL is capable of a theoretical peak of 40,000 I/O operations (transactions) per second., These performance levels, however, are largely not realized by the applications that use Fibre Channel as an interface to disk subsystems. The bandwidth and transa...

The conductor Helmuth Rilling documented his views on Bach’s B minor Mass in two different media: in addition to his three recordings, he wrote a monograph on this work, containing detailed analyses and performance instructions for each movement. Surprisingly, the recording that seems most consistent with the conductor’s verbally-stated views is his 1999 version – the one most chronologically d...

Assessment of performance in tracking set-point changes for single loop systems is presented. In contrast to the works that used stochastic performances, the current assessment uses a deterministic performance measure, i.e. the integration of absolute tracking errors (abbr. IAE). A benchmark system that has an open loop transfer function (abbr. OLTF) comprised of one LHP zero, one integrator, a...

In general, the objective of distillation control is to maintain the desired products quality. In this paper, the performances of different one point control strategies for an aromatic distillation column have been compared through dynamic simulation. These methods are: a) Composition control using measured composition directly. This method sufferes from large sampling delay of measuring de...

Radar Signal Processing has been an interesting area of research for realization of programmable digital signal processor using VLSI design techniques. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms have been an integral design methodology for implementation of high speed application specific real-time systems especially for high resolution radar. CORDIC algorithm, in recent times, is turned out to...

In development of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines, simultaneous control of combustion phasing and power output has been a major challenge. In this study, a new strategy is developed to control the engine power output and combustion phasing at any desired operating condition. A single zone thermodynamic model coupled to a full kinetic mechanism of Primary Reference Fuels (...