The present paper deals with development of a simulation model for the performance evaluation of feed water system of a thermal power plant using Markov Birth-Death process and probabilistic approach. In present paper, the feed water system consists of four subsystems. After drawing transition diagram for feed water system, differential equations are developed and then solved recursively using ...

R. Radhakrishnan K. Mark B. Powell High-availability service management (HASM) is defined as information technology (IT) service management that is designed to meet the business demand for availability of critical IT and IT-enabled business services. HASM requires the use of the Six Sigma method and analytical tools applied to key service management processes and services; event and incident mo...

Distributed database systems have become a phenomenon and have been considered a crucial source of information for numerous users. Users with different jobs are using such systems locally or via the Internet to meet their professional requirements. Distributed database systems consist of a number of sites connected over a computer network. Each site deals with its own database and interacts wit...

A real-time applicative software consists of both aperiodic and periodic tasks. The tasks have regular arrival times strict deadlines. irregular no deadline. objective an optimal task server is to guarantee minimal response for the violation hard deadlines We consider a energy harvesting system composed harvester, storage unit, uniprocessing unit introduce novel scheduler, namely SSP which exte...

Choropleth maps are the most widely used map type for mapping rates, such as those involving disease, crime, and socioeconomic indicators. The essential step of choosing a geographic unit to map is often made in an ad hoc manner. Among the desirable characteristics of choropleth mapping units are high degree of resolution, homogeneity of population size, homogeneity of land area, observation of...

Mobile systems become more and more important in the area of modern manufacturing. In order to handle an object with a manipulator mounted on an autonomous mobile system (AMS) within a changing environment, the object has to be identiied and its 3D pose relative to the manipulator has to be determined with suucient accuracy, because in general its exact position is not known a priori. The objec...

Since 1996 the Population Estimates Branch (PEB) of the Census Bureau has used a housing unit method to produce population estimates for subcounty areas. The distributive housing unit method uses data on building permits, mobile home shipments and housing unit loss to distribute county population to incorporated places and minor civil divisions within counties. The availability of Census 2000 d...

abstract a sub-sample of lentil (lens culinaris medik. cv. kimia) seeds was kept as bulk (s1) and another sample was separated to large (s2) and small (s3) seeds. a sub-sample of each size was kept as control or high vigor seed lot (a1) and the two other sub-samples were artificially aged for 2 and 4 days (a2 and a3, respectively). field performance and some physiological traits of plants from ...

Background: Patient flow from intensive care to acute care units is often problematic and many discharges from intensive care to acute care are unsuccessful on the first attempt. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the factors that influence intensive care patient discharge. Design, setting, and participants: This ethnographic study was undertaken in an Australian metropolitan tert...