A commercial 2024 aluminum alloy was heat treated at 280 °C for 48 h and then slow cooled in a furnace to obtain minimum hardness. This material friction stir processed (FSP) using three sets of processing conditions. To study the effect on microstructure high temperature mechanical properties, materials were tested tension an initial strain rate 10−2 s−1 range 200 450 °C. Processing severity s...

Flow-shop scheduling problem (FSP) deals with the scheduling of a set of jobs that visit a set of machines in the same order. The FSP is NP-hard, which means that an efficient algorithm for solving the problem to optimality is unavailable. To meet the requirements on time and to minimize the make-span performance of large permutation flow-shop scheduling problems in which there are sequence dep...

Autosomal dominant familial spastic paraplegia (AD-FSP) is a genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive spasticity of the lower limbs. Three loci on chromosome 14q (SPG3), 2p (SPG4), and 15q (SPG6) were shown to be responsible for AD-FSP. Analysis of recombination events in three SPG3-linked families allowed us to narrow the critical interval from 9 to 5 c...

This paper presents a non-linear control scheme to deal with dead-time (DT) processes where small rise times are required. The control scheme is based on the combination of two strategies appeared in the literature to deal with DT processes, the Filtered Smith Predictor (FSP), which is a Smith Predictor (SP) including a filter to improve the robustness, and the PI+CI, a PI with a partial reset ...

In order to provide QoS in group communications for real time applications such as video conferencing, reliable multicasting is used. Miscellaneous efforts have been undertaken to provide reliability on top of IP multicast. In this paper, we present a new fair share policy (FSP) that utilizes Differentiated Services to solve the problems of QoS and congestion control when reliable FEC/ARQ multi...