This paper reports a CFD modeling study to investigate the hydrogen-air mixture combustion in a micro scale chamber. Nine species with nineteen reversible reactions were considered in the premixed combustion model. The effect of operational and geometrical conditions including; combustor size, wall conductivity, reactant flow rates and hydrogen feed splitting on combustion stabilit...

A technique for the classification and understanding of child-like sketches of animals, using a live pen-based input device is demonstrated. A method of segmenting the sketch using curve differentials in addition to pen speed is shown. Once this stage is completed, an agent-based search of the resultant data begins in an attempt to isolate recognisable high-level features within the sketch. The...

Nowadays, prediction of corporate bankruptcy is one of the most important issues which have received great attentions among academia and practitioners. Although several studies have been accomplished in the field of bankruptcy prediction, less attention has been devoted for proposing a systematic approach based on fuzzy neural networks.  The present study proposes fuzzy neural networks to predi...

This longitudinal study investigated the impact of different Frequency Patterns (FP) on the syntactic production of a six-year-old EFL learner in a home context. Target syntactic constructions were presented using games and plays and were traced for their occurrence patterns in input and output. Following each instruction period, the constructions were measured through immediate and delayed ora...

Yorùbá being a tone language requires tone information for the correct pronunciation of words in Text-to-Speech synthesis. Based on standard Yorùbá orthography, such information is held in tone marks, which applied to vowels and syllabic nasals as diacritical markings. However, the tone marks are not always correctly applied in many Yorùbá documents because appropriate input devices for the acc...