To reduce the ship wave-making resistance, the lines of the bulbous bow of a hull are optimized by an automatic optimization platform at the ship design stage. Parametric modeling was applied to the hull by using non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS). The Rankine-source panel method was used to calculate the wave-making resistance. A hybrid optimization strategy was applied to achieve the o...

For the purpose of wideband operations, a bow-tie slot antenna fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) is investigated. The design was realized using a tapered metal stub introduced in the middle of the bow-tie slot. The modified structure shows wider bandwidth over the conventional bow-tie slot antenna. Parametric study of this new antenna results in a design procedure that helps design this class o...

We present hydrodynamical simulations, using a 2-D two component model (ambient medium and pulsar wind have different specific heat ratios), of bow shocks in a representative regime for pulsar wind driven bow-shock nebulae. We also investigate the behaviour of a passive toroidal magnetic field wound around the pulsar velocity direction. Moreover we estimate the opacity of the bow-shock to penet...

Social scientists who do not have specialized natural language processing training often use a unigram bag-of-words (BOW) representation when analyzing text corpora. We offer a new phrase-based method, NPFST, for enriching a unigram BOW. NPFST uses a partof-speech tagger and a finite state transducer to extract multiword phrases to be added to a unigram BOW. We compare NPFST to both ngram and p...

A mathematical model of the flight of the arrow during its discharge from a bow was proposed by Pekalski (1990). His description of the model was incomplete. In this paper, I give a full description of the model. Furthermore, I propose some improvements that make his model more consistent with reality. One achievement is the modelling of contact of the arrow and grip; the pressure button is mod...

A broadband printed bow-tie antenna with a simplified balanced feeding network and modified tapering is presented. Microstrip and parallel-strip transmission lines printed on the substrate with high dielectric permittivity realize the proposed feeding network. The ground-plane transition between the microstrip line and the parallel-strip line is exponentially tapered so as to reduce the reflect...

The process monitoring and mechanics of fixed abrasive diamond wire saw machining are investigated in this study. New techniques to affix diamond particles to a steel wire core have advanced to make this process feasible for the machining of ceramics, wood, and foam materials. Developments in fixed abrasive diamond wire machining are first reviewed. Advantages of using fixed abrasive diamond wi...

Most text categorization algorithms represent a document collection as a Bag of Words (BOW).The BOW representation is unable to recognize synonyms from a given term set and unable to recognize semantic relationships between terms. In this paper, we apply the topic-model approach to cluster the words into a set of topics. Words assigned into the same topic are semantically related. Our main goal...

Most sentiment analysis approaches rely on machine-learning techniques, using a bag-of-words (BoW) document representation as their basis. In this paper, we examine whether a more fine-grained representation of documents as sequences of emotionally-annotated sentences can increase document classification accuracy. Experiments conducted on a sentence and document level annotated corpus show that...

With the rapid advances in sensors of remote sensing satellites, a large number of high-resolution images (HRIs) can be accessed every day. Land use classification using high-resolution images has become increasingly important as it can help to overcome the problems of haphazard, deteriorating environmental quality, loss of prime agricultural lands, and destruction of important wetlands, and so...