Crane payloads are frequently subject to oscillations induced through movement and external disturbances. These oscillations degrade performance and can be dangerous. Input shaping is an effective method to move cranes without creating oscillation, however it is not effective on initial swing. This paper develops a feedback control system, with two operation modes based on input shaping, that a...

Automatic trace analysis is an effective method for identifying complex performance phenomena in parallel applications. However, as the size of parallel systems and the number of processors used by individual applications is continuously raised, the traditional approach of analyzing a single global trace file, as done by KOJAK’s EXPERT trace analyzer, becomes increasingly constrained by the lar...

This paper demonstrates a conceptually simple but effective method of increasing the accuracy of QA systems on factoid-style questions. We define the notion of an inverted question, and show that by requiring that the answers to the original and inverted questions be mutually consistent, incorrect answers get demoted in confidence and correct ones promoted. Additionally, we show that lack of va...

ever, experience suggested that these measures in the field were able to achieve only a partial control of plague infection which continued to reappear in such village during the favourable plague season. The use of D.D.T. seems to have changed this state of affairs as observed from the recent field experience in various districts of the province. With a view to finding out the most effective m...

In the field of smart space, due to the development of technology for remote sensing, monitoring, a vast volume of spatial data is accumulated. However, there have many problems of discovering meaningful knowledge from the spatial data. Consequently, in this paper, a scientific and effective method that spatial information is intelligently processed in smart space by BI was put forward. It desc...

Road traffic accidents comprise 20% of the total burden of injury among elderly. Evidence based good practices show that it is possible to reduce injuries in elderly people by relatively cost effective methods. Integrated strategies including alternative public transport options, new technology in vehicle design and regulations. Road infrastructure and maintenance measures, such as those below ...

Virial relations for the Dirac equation in a central field and their applications to calculations of H-like atoms are considered. It is demonstrated that using these relations allows one to evaluate various average values for a hydrogenlike atom. The corresponding relations for non-diagonal matrix elements provide an effective method for analytical evaluations of infinite sums that occur in cal...

The digital resources construction of college library is important for the development of college, therefore it is necessary to evaluate it base on an effective evaluation method, and the application of fuzzy analytic hierarchy process on it is studied in depth. Firstly, the meaning of performance evaluation of digital construction of college library is discussed; Secondly, the digital resource...

While some situations clearly may require bringing in highly skilled resources to test systems, a sound basis for good security would be to develop in-house expertise in vulnerability testing by the system administrators, and to develop an effective method of performing testing. The challenge for this effort, then, is to combine freeware tools with a methodology for using them that effectively ...

It is extremely important to make a scientific evaluation on enterprise’s strategic capability. Focusing on the power supply enterprise, this paper designs a “five-force” mode composed by strategic capabilities and advances a complete strategic capability evaluation system. In addition, this paper proves the system’s feasibility and practicability by case study. To sum up, this paper provides w...