Design and manufacturing of a high performance micro-hydro-kinetic turbine is discussed in the present paper. The main goal is manufacturing an equipped experimental model of hydro-kinetic turbine with highest energy absorption from water current. A multi-shape ducted turbine comprised of a multi-part diffuser was manufactured that can be converted to many experimental models for studying vario...

The relationships between coupling and external quality factors of object-oriented software[1] have been studied extensively for the past few years. For example, a clear empirical relationship between class-level coupling and the fault-proneness of the classes have been identified by several studies. A number of statistical techniques, principally Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) ana...

In this paper, we consider the problem of controlling an underactuated manipulator with less actuators than passive joints. The control methodology consists of dividing the passive joints in several groups, and of controlling one group at a time via its dynamic coupling with the actuators. Among the many possible control sequences for a given robot, we choose the optimal one based on the dynami...

Quadrupolar coupling constants of 170 kHz result from reduced motional averaging in biological polymers. The decay rates of Zeeman and quadrupolar order are direct measures of the spectral densities of motion. Information on the orientation-dependence of relaxation rates of Zeeman and quadrupolar order, Tlz and Tlq respectively, assists in understanding the dynamics of molecules. Sensitivity an...