Two physical models of the human vocal tract have been successfully developed for producing English /l/ and /r/ and Japanese /r/. The first model was originally designed for the alveolar lateral approximant and the retroflex approximant, while the second model was designed to produce English “bunched /r/.” With these models, we observed that different configurations of the vocal tract can produ...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from conventional coal-based power plants is a growing concern for the environment. Chemical looping combustion (CLC), pre-combustion and oxy-fuel combustion are promising CO2 capture technologies which allow clean electricity generation from coal in an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant. This work compares the characteristics of the above thr...

Reference process models are templates for common processes run by many corporations. However, the individual needs among organizations on the execution of these processes usually vary. A process model can address these variations through control-flow choices. Thus, it can integrate the different process variants into one model. Through configuration parameters, a configurable reference models ...

In this paper we will present the results of research into the semantics of modeling constructs for the process-oriented perspective for the conceptual modeling of enterprise subject areas. We will distinguish 3 conceptual process types that will be the building blocks for any enterprise process base. The definition of these conceptual process types will be anchored in existing processand decis...

Rivers in tropical climates are characterized by highly variable flows which becoming more due to climate change. In conditions, most hydropower plants designed as run-of-river with limited water storage. The aim of this study is the selection and sizing a plant for flows, using Sebeya River case study. As often case, flow data was incomplete, also demonstrated use machine learning predict rate...

Certain species of Hermetia illucens, also known as the Black Soldier Fly(BSF), were found in a compost plant in Roorkee located in Northern India. Its larvae arevoracious eaters of organic waste, hence can play an ecologically-important role in solidwaste management. Morphological analysis of various stages of BSF life cycle by SEMshowed that its body along with its wings is densely covered wi...