New discoveries in biological, biomedical and health sciences are increasingly being driven by our ability to acquire, share, integrate and analyze, and construct and simulate predictive models of biological systems. While much attention has focused on automating routine aspects of management and analysis of "big data", realizing the full potential of "big data" to accelerate discovery calls fo...

A new quasi-Newton updating formula for sparse optimization calculations is presented. It makes combined use of a simple strategy for fixing symmetry and a Schubert correction to the upper triangle of a permuted Hessian approximation. Interesting properties of this new update are that it is closed form and that it does not satisfy the secant condition at every iteration of the calculations. Som...

In this paper, we construct a model for prediction of fatigue crack initiation based on the material’s microstructure. In order to do so, the energy of a persistent slip band (PSB) is monitored and an energy balance approach is taken, in which cracks initiate and the material fails due to stress concentration from a PSB (with respect to dislocation motion). These PSBs are able to traverse low-a...

Abstract An effective method for reducing the effect of load latency in modern processors is data prefetching. One form of hardware-based data prefetching, stream buffers, has been shown to be particularly effective due to its ability to detect data streams and run ahead of them, prefetching as it goes. Unfortunately, in the past, the applicability of streaming was limited to stride intensive c...

This paper presents the DC voltage control design of D-STATCOM when the D-STATCOM is used for load voltage regulation. Although, the DC voltage can be controlled by active current of the D-STATCOM, reactive current still affects the DC voltage. To eliminate this effect, the control strategy with elimination effect of the reactive current is proposed and the results of the control with and witho...

In this paper a new interactive simulation environment is proposed for protective algorithm design and evaluation as well as for protective relay testing. Dedicated software packages for simulation of particular events in power system, MATLAB's Power System Blockset (PSB), Alternative Transient Program (ATP), EUROSTAG, NETOMAC and PSS/E, can be used for detailed modeling of network components a...

In this paper, we propose the Modified Synchronous Detection (MSD) Method for determining the reference compensating currents of the shunt active power filter under non sinusoidal voltages conditions. For controlling the inverter switching we used the PI regulator. The numerical simulation results, using Power System Blockset Toolbox PSB of Matlab, from a complete structure, are presented and d...

† School of Computer and Information Technology, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China Summary The purpose of annotation for 3D model is that it can automatically list the best suitable labels to describe the 3D models; it is an important part of the text-based 3D model retrieval. The existence of the semantic gap makes the result based on the similarity matching techniques needs to be ...

Steady-state analysis of a three phase induction motor can be carried out by using computer simulation software such as MATLAB. From Simulink/Power system block set (PSB) library, the induction motor model can be effectively used to simulate the effects of DC resistance, no-load and blocked rotor tests. These tests are performed on a machine to estimate the values of stator and rotor resistance...

Industrial waste is one of the most essential sources of contamination in the surface environment. Among different industries, tannery industry releases huge amount of pollutants into the ecosystem. Long term disposal of the tannery wastes has resulted in wide contamination of agricultural land and water sources in different parts of India. An attempt was made to study the diversity status of d...