Steam turbines consist essentially of a casing to which stationary blades are fixed on the inside and a rotor carrying moving blades on the periphery. The rotor is fitted inside the casing with the rows of moving blades penetrating between the rows of fixed blades. Thus steam flowing through the turbine passes alternately through fixed and moving blades with the fixed blades directing the steam...

This paper describes the winning entry to the ALTA Shared Task 2013. The theme of the shared task was recovery of casing and punctuation information from degraded English text. We tackle the task as a sequential labeling problem, jointly learning the casing and punctuation labels. We implement our sequential classifier using conditional random fields, trained using linguistic features extracted...

Preliminary process design in 1997 for a new grass roots polymer unit in the Gulf Coast raised the possibility of using a single centrifugal pump instead of two reciprocating compressors to feed ethylene into the reactors. The objectives of this change were lower capital cost, energy consumption, and maintenance expense. Discussion of the possible application led finally to the design, manufact...

Temperature affects both the stability of nucleic acid detectors and efficiency DNA amplification. In this study, temperature flow inside a detector were simulated results used to design vents for instrument casing. A test platform was constructed collect experimental data that simulation validation. The showed error less than ±3 K. total two heat-dissipation schemes designed based on new casin...

A Blade Tip Timing (BTT) system enables the measurement of turbomachinery blade vibrations by means of contactless sensors mounted in the casing. In addition, the so-called Blade Tip Clearance (BTC) measurement system ensures the monitoring of the existing running gaps between the blade tip and the casing. This paper focuses on the results achieved so far using a novel magnetoresistive sensor f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We describe a miniaturized lightweight high-refractive-index panretinal contact lens for diagnostic and therapeutic visualization of the peripheral retina. INSTRUMENT DESIGN The miniaturized high-resolution wide-field contact lens includes three optical elements in a light (15 g) and miniaturized (16 mm footplate, 24 mm external aperture, and 21 mm vertical height) ca...