With the rapid and sharp rise in energy prices in Jordan, energy cost is becoming a value that cannot be ignored in the Jordan’s industrial sector. However, there are still many practices adopted in industry that do not take energy efficiency as a prime consideration, but rather focus on immediate and direct savings in materials and machinery. This study examines potential opportunities of elec...

Joint diagonalisation (JD) is a technique used to estimate an average eigenspace of a set of matrices. Whilst it has been used successfully in many areas to track the evolution of systems via their eigenvectors; its application in network analysis is novel. The key focus in this paper is the use of JD on matrices of spanning trees of a network. This is especially useful in the case of real-worl...

We calculate the surface-plasmon dispersion relations for a periodic chain of spherical metallic nanoparticles in an isotropic host, including all multipole modes, in a generalized tight-binding approach. For sufficiently small particles (kd!1, where k is the wave vector and d is the interparticle separation!, the calculation is exact. The lowest bands differ only slightly from previous point-d...

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Johne's disease (JD) infection, caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis, represents a major disease problem in farmed ruminants. Although JD has been well characterized in cattle and sheep, little is known of the infection dynamics or immunological response in deer. In this study, typing of M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis isolates from intestinal lymphatic tissues from 74 JD-infe...

The Jacobi-Davidson (JD) algorithm recently has gained popularity for finding a few selected interior eigenvalues of large sparse polynomial eigenvalue problems, which commonly appear in many computational science and engineering PDE based applications. As other inner–outer algorithms like Newton type method, the bottleneck of the JD algorithm is to solve approximately the inner correction equa...

This paper studies the problem of blind separation of convolutively mixed source signals on the basis of the joint diagonalization (JD) of power spectral density matrices (PSDMs) observed at the output of the separation system. Firstly, a general framework of JD-based blind source separation (BSS) is reviewed and summarized. Special emphasis is put on the separability conditions of sources and ...

The rotational properties of the visible and dark components of low-mass disk galaxies (vrot ≤ 100 km/s) are investigated using the Swaters sample. The rotational parameter λ = λ(jd/md) is determined, where λ is the dark halo spin parameter and jd/md is the ratio between the specific angular momentum of the disk and that of the dark halo. The distribution of λ is in excellent agreement with cos...

Protein misfolding and aggregation in intracellular and extracellular spaces is regarded as a main marker of the presence of degenerative disorders such as amyloidoses. To elucidate the mechanisms of protein misfolding, the interaction of proteins with inorganic surfaces is of particular relevance, since surfaces displaying different wettability properties may represent model systems of the cel...

A successful cross-linked polymer flooding has been implemented in JD reservoir, an ordinary heavy oil reservoir with high permeability zones. For all that, there are still significant volumes of continuous oil remaining in place, which can not be easily extracted due to stronger vertical heterogeneity. Considering selective plugging feature, polymer enhanced foam (PEF) flooding was taken as fo...