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THUNDERTM (thin-layer composite unimorph ferroelectric driver and sensor) represents a new class of piezoceramicbased actuators capable of generating significant displacements and forces in response to input voltages. The performance capabilities of THUNDERTM actuators are due to the component materials and process used in their construction. A typical THUNDERTM actuator is composed of metallic...

In situations where there is a shortage of trained teachers, language teaching is very closely tied to the textbook. This does not mean, of course, that the method demonstrated in the textbook is always faithfully reflected in the method as practised by the teacher. It is ironical that those teachers who rely most heavily on the textbook are the ones least qualified to interpret its intentions ...

The utilization of a specific priority rule in scheduling operations flexible job shop systems strongly influences production goals. In context control real practice, performance indicators are evaluated always en bloc. This paper addresses the multi-criteria evaluating five selected conflicting objectives via scalar simulation-based optimization related to applied rule. It is connected discret...

We consider the concept of a local set of inference rules. A local rule set can be automatically transformed into a rule set for which bottom up evaluation terminates in polynomial time. The local rule set transformation gives polynomial time evaluation strategies for a large variety of rule sets that can not be given terminating evaluation strategies by any other known automatic technique. Thi...

A rule quality measure is important to a rule induction system for determining when to stop generalization or specialization. Such measures are also important to a rule-based classification procedure for resolving conflicts among rules. We describe a number of statistical and empirical rule quality formulas and present an experimental comparison of these formulas on a number of standard machine...

To solve the power allocation problem of multiple relays in cooperative communication, a sparrow improvement algorithm based on small habitats is proposed. First, small-habitat rule increases diversity energy classification communication nodes. The premature convergence solved. Subsequently, joint jump designed to replace local search rule, and modified avoid wandering phenomenon. improved meth...

Abstract We present an integrated market model which considers the dependencies between wholesale and highly regulated balancing power markets. This fosters understanding of mechanisms these markets and, thus, allows evaluation designs their interplay. In contrast to existing literature, in our prices on different are interdependent endogenously determined, also applies switch from inframargina...

Knowledge discovery is an important process in data analysis, data mining and machine learning. Typically knowledge is presented in the form of rules. However, knowledge discovery systems often generate a huge amount of rules. One of the challenges we face is how to automatically discover interesting and meaningful knowledge from such discovered rules. It is infeasible for human beings to selec...