The Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate General of the European Commission, operates the International Measurement Evaluation Program (IMEP). IMEP organises inter-laboratory comparisons in support of European Union policies. This paper presents the results of two proficiency tests (PTs): IMEP-116 and IMEP-39, organised for ...

The Temporally-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) is a highly adaptive distributed routing algorithm used in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) that is able to provide multiple loop-free routes to a destination. TORA is very dependent on the services provided by the Internet MANET Encapsulation Protocol (IMEP) to effectively carry out its three main functions: Route Creation, Route Maintenance, and R...

P.D.P. Taylor Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, European Commission – JRC, Retieseweg, 2440 Geel, Belgium Abstract The International Measurement Evaluation Programme (IMEP) attempts to shed light on the current state of the practice in chemical measurements. The main tool, which assists this attempt and also differentiates IMEP from similar projects, is the establishment of SI...

Spark timing of an Internal Combustion (IC) engine is often limited by engine knock in the advanced direction. The ability to operate the engine at its advanced (borderline knock) spark limit is the key for improving output power and fuel economy. Due to combustion cycle-to-cycle variations, IC engine combustion behaves similar to a random process and so does the engine performance criteria, su...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the treatment outcomes of ifosphamide, mesna, etoposide, and prednisolone (IMEP) combination regimen as a front-line chemotherapy in patients with peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs). METHODS Clinical data of 38 newly diagnosed PTCLs patients who underwent IMEP at Busan Paik Hospital from January 2002 to December 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. RESU...

The homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) and the exploitation of ethanol as alternative fuel is one way to explore new frontier of internal combustion engines and towards maintaining its sustainability. Misfire and partial burning can cause several serious problems in the HCCI engines fuelled with ethanol. Novel methods for identification of misfire play important roles in HCCI engine...

Abstract Internal combustion engines suffer from high cyclic variations that result in higher emissions, lower efficiency, fuel consumption and poor drivability. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Argemone mexicana biodiesel (AGB)/diesel blended fuels affect the variability parameters such as maximum cylinder pressure (Pmax) indicated mean effective (IMEP) a four-cylinder turbochar...

Correlations between the coefficient of variations (COV) of ion current integrals and COV of indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) are investigated. The investigations are made to see if there is a possibility to use ion sense technique for closed loop combustion control to maximize Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) level with remaining combustion stability. The engine studied in this thesis i...