The inadequacy of mechanization in the production, processing and storage ginger Nigeria has caused its market price to be among lowest international trade. This study examined selection optimal number impeller speed for an improved slicing machine. research was conducted Department Agricultural Bio-Environmental Engineering at Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi during April 2...

One of the alternative generators in supplying electrical energy is a 3-phase generator made from slip ring induction motor, after which rotor winding supplied with DC source and rotated using prime mover. The problem arises because large % voltage regulation when it under load. This has relatively larger loss loaded certain load compared to synchronous generator. To overcome these conditions, ...

Energy plays an important role globally. Industrial growth, coupled with high system losses, has resulted in a major demand-supply imbalance resulting energy shortage devastating effect on the economies of countries. The pollution brought by combusting source and price-increasing-motion fuel tends people to explore use greener cheaper alternatives. Combining solar sources Thermoelectric Generat...

The exploration in many scientific disciplines (e.g., High-Energy Physics, Climate Modeling, and Life Sciences) involves the production and the analysis of massive data collections, whose archival, retrieval, and analysis require the coordinated usage of high capacity computing, network, and storage resources. To obtain satisfactory performance, these applications require the availability of a ...

We consider a tournament between two workers of different abilities who choose both human capital investment and effort. The employer can influence the workers’ behavior by determining the sequence of human capital investments, i.e. the training design. The workers can either invest simultaneously or sequentially with the favorite being the first mover or sequentially with the underdog as first...

We develop linear sketches for estimating the Earth-Mover distance between two point sets, i.e., the cost of the minimum weight matching between the points according to some metric. While Euclidean distance and Edit distance are natural measures for vectors and strings respectively, Earth-Mover distance is a well-studied measure that is natural in the context of visual or metric data. Our work ...

Recently,“dot-com” startups relied on the well-known concept of “first-mover advantage” to justify huge marketing expenses and large financial losses. The idea was that once the firm had gathered customers, it would keep those customers because it had a first-mover advantage. But was that assumption valid? We analyzed whether first-mover advantage actually occurred in 19 Information Technology ...

There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the determinants of a firm’s decision to become a first mover or a follower in innovation strategies. Much of theoretical and empirical work has focused on whether first mover strategies pay o...

let r be a g-graded ring and m be a g-graded r-module. in this article, we introduce the concept of graded weakly classical prime submodules and give some properties of such submodules.

Owing to the fast growth in smart phones and tablets as well as increasing number of downloading apps, it makes commercial sense to use the smart phones as another platform for advertising. While many advanced location-based service (LBS) apps have been proposed, the study of analysing their impacts on the marketing strategies is still little. In this paper, we study the issues of the promotion...