Computational cost of metaheuristic based optimum design algorithms grows excessively with structure size. This results in computational inefficiency of modern metaheuristic algorithms in tackling optimum design problems of large scale structural systems. This paper attempts to provide a computationally efficient optimization tool for optimum design of large scale steel frame structures to AISC...

  The unprecedented growth of competition in the banking technology has raised the importance of retaining current customers and acquires new customers so that is important analyzing Customer behavior, which is base on bank databases. Analyzing bank databases for analyzing customer behavior is difficult since bank databases are multi-dimensional, comprised of monthly account records and daily t...

This paper proposed a control method for output and circulating currents of modular multilevel converter (MMC). The current are controlled with the help arm currents, which contain DC, fundamental frequency, double frequency components. is transformed into stationary reference frame (SRF) to isolate DC AC component conventional proportional resonant (PR) controller, while by controller. effecti...

We describe the design of modules in the current version of the TINA stereo based 3D vision system responsible for the recovery of geometric descriptions and their subsequent integration into partial wire frame models. The approach differs considerably from that described in an earlier version of the TINA system [2, 3]. Our strategy for the construction of partial wire frame descriptions is bro...

We describe the design of modules in the current version of the TINA stereo based 3D vision system responsible for the recovery of geometric descriptions and their subsequent integration into partial wire frame models. The approach differs considerably from that described in an earlier version of the TINA system [2, 3]. Our strategy for the construction of partial wire frame descriptions is bro...

OBJECTIVES We assessed the comparability of self-reported smoking prevalence estimates from a dual-frame survey with those from two large-scale, national surveys. METHODS The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) obtained self-reported current smoking status via a dual-frame methodology in the fall of 2010. One frame used random digit dialling procedures and consisted of household...