A new kind of low-cost syntactic adsorbent from bamboo charcoal and chitosan was developed for the removal of microcystin-LR from drinking water. Removal efficiency was higher for the syntactic adsorbent when the amount of bamboo charcoal was increased. The optimum dose ratio of bamboo charcoal to chitosan was 6:4, and the optimum amount was 15 mg/L; equilibrium time was 6 hr. The adsorption is...

The reverse link bandwidth efficiency of a spectrally overlapped CDMA system with fast transmit power control is evaluated to find the optimum overlapping, where the bandwidth efficiency is defined as the maximum aggregate bit rate of all subsystems per unit bandwidth (bps/Hz). Single and multiple cell environments are considered. Besides the rectangular chip pulse, the impact of a pulse-shapin...

In this paper, an optimum-efficiency control scheme of synchronous reluctance motors is presented. There exists a variety of combinations of dand q-axis current which provides a specific motor torque. The objective of the optimum-efficiency controller is to seek a combination of dand q-axis current components, which provides minimum input power, that is, minimum losses at a certain operating po...

Present study was performed to investigate the variables that influence the removal efficiency of malachite green (aniline) dye from aqueous solution by an electrochemical (EC) technique. The batch EC studies were performed using iron electrode to evaluate the effect of operating parameters such as pHo and processes parameters such as current density and initial dye concentration. Parameters pH...

The optimum noncoherent multiuser detector is obtained for generalized diversity symbol-synchronous communication systems that employ nonorthogonal multipulse modulation. A unified approach is adopted to simultaneously address various forms of diversity such as time, frequency, multipath, and/or receiver–antenna diversity. Upper and lower bounds on the average bit-error probability of the optim...

A Poisson-type equation arising in a commonly used numerical weather forecasting model is solved using an alternating direction implicit (ADI) method with Wachpress optimum parameters on a trapezoidal domain which coincides with the operational forecast domain. Various optimum parameter sequences were obtained for the corresponding squares which enclose the region under consideration, computati...

Nature-inspired search algorithms have proved to be successful in solving real-world optimization problems. Firefly algorithm is a novel meta-heuristic algorithm which simulates the natural behavior of fireflies. In the present study, optimum design of truss structures with both sizing and geometry design variables is carried out using the firefly algorithm. Additionally, to improve the efficie...

Fuzzy systems comprise one of the models best suited to function approximation problems, but due to the non linear dependencies between the parameters that define the system rules, the solution search space for this type of problems contains many local optima. Another important issue is the identification of the optimum structure for the fuzzy system. Depending on the complexity of the model, d...

A novel unit preselection criterion for concatenative speech synthesis is proposed. To reduce the computational cost for unit selection, units that are unlikely to be selected should be pruned as preselection before Viterbi search. Since the criterion is defined as the difference between the cost of the locally optimal sequence where a unit is fixed and that of the globally optimal sequence, no...