Biological nutrient removal (BNR) technology can suffer poor performance or complete failure due to the fastidious nature of the bacteria used in the system. The bacteria involved necessitate strict operating conditions, multiple zones with one or more recycling lines, carbon source augmentation, and efficient aeration. For wastewater treatment plants receiving significant combined sewer overfl...

Ultra Wide Band (UWB) communications offers a radically different approach to wireless communication compared to conventional narrow band systems. Global interest in the technology is huge. This white paper reports on the state of the art of UWB wireless technology and highlights key application areas, technological challenges, higher layer protocol issues, spectrum operating zones and future d...

This paper seeks to analyse stability and dynamics of back EMF MRAS based approach used in sensorless control of induction motors. Stability analysis is investigated to show unstable zones and it is explored using a state representation. A new rotor speed estimator is designed to achieve the stability in the various operating modes except for the inobservability line. c ⃝ 2015 International Ass...

Indian Leishmania donovani isolates (n = 19) from regional zones representing various levels of antimony resistance displayed significantly (P < 0.01) correlated results with respect to in vitro susceptibility to the antileishmanial drugs sodium antimony gluconate, amphotericin B, and Miltefosine, raising the possibility of cross-resistance mechanisms operating in the field isolates. The result...

Parallel architectures and multiprocessor multithreaded operating systems have become widely available. In order to get maximum benefits from them, programmers must consider how many and which specific hardware and software resources are used by the application during its execution. In this report, we discuss some methods to parallelize the code and the data of a simple fractal generator, tryin...

Concern for the health of athletes and integrity of sport resulted in the banning of specific substances although many years passed before analytical testing took place. Soon doping control programmes became synonymous with urine tests and adverse analytical findings. This system has its limits due to the detection window of prohibited substances, the timing of sample collections and the sophis...

BACKGROUND To estimate the lifetime prevalence and address the attitudes and knowledge of using prohibited substances (doping) among sport players in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey carried out using systematic random sampling technique among Saudi players of variable sports attending the sport clubs, stadiums, and sport fields (70 sport clubs, 22 types of sports belong to 22 S...