Wireless Networks are most appealing in terms of deployment over a wide range of applications. The key areas are disaster management, industrial unit automation and battlefield surveillance. The paper presents a study over inter-operability of MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) protocols i.e DSDV, OLSR, ZRP, AODV over WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) [10]. The review here covers all the prevailing prot...

In an environment of continuous and rapid evolution, software design methodologies must incorporate techniques and tools that support changes in software artifacts. In the FERUS project, we are developing a tool targeted at software designers that integrates a collection of operations on algebraic specifications written in the CASL language. The scope of FERUS includes not only modification of ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a common complication of congenital heart disease, and is now predominantly among patients with uncorrected left-to-right shunts. A growing population is characterized by persistent or recurrent PAH after surgical or interventional correction of left-to-right shunts; the latter having a worse prognosis than other forms of PAH associated with congenital h...

Fatty acid methyl esters prepared from canola, palm, soybean, and sunflower oils by homogenous basecatalyzed methanolysis were stored for 12 months at three constant temperatures ( 15, 22, and 40 C) and properties such as oxidative stability, acid value, kinematic viscosity, low temperature operability, and iodine value were periodically measured. Oxidative stability was significantly reduced u...

The development of a new system or process in nuclear field requires generally first to select structural material and coolant and identify associated critical issues, which are inherent in the design and safe operation of the system or process which has to be developed. The design of a system or process has to deal with neutronics, thermal hydraulics, mass and heat transfer, and their conseque...

A method is offered to estimate downtime (the time to restore a facility to operability, not total repair time) for second-generation performance-based earthquake engineering. It applies in cases where downtime is primarily controlled by nonstructural systems (although red-tagging and lifeline failure are addressed); restoration begins immediately after the earthquake; and components are repair...

The fusion of information from disparate sources of data is the key step in devising strategies for a smart analytics platform. In the context of the application of analytics in the process industry, this paper provides a framework for seamless integration of information from process and alarm databases complimented with process connectivity information. The discovery of information from such d...

Archaeological site park construction is the protection approach of large site which has the most realistic meaning and operability, in order to reduce the complexity of the construction; this paper puts forward a modeling scheme of Daming Palace archaeological site park k based on the 3 d modeling technology. Firstly, it sets up material point model of Archaeological site, and then forms a cul...

This article traces the strategic initiatives that Walmart undertook over the last decade to implement its ambitious vision of selling more sustainable products. This effort has been characterized by a gradual shift away from customer-facing initiatives aimed at labeling sustainable products toward supplier-facing initiatives targeted at improving environmental or social performance without rai...