The paper shows a test results of single cylinder, direct injected, self ignited dual fuel engine. One has analysed a combustion parameters calculated on base of recorded indicator diagrams. The comparison included: the ignition delay period, the cylinder pressure, the rate of pressure rise, the average medium temperature, the heat release rate, the total combustion time and the indicated effic...

This paper investigates mental workload assessment using statistical features derived from electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Mean, root mean squared, and correlation-based features are extracted from data including EEG signal recordings of five participants performing a reading task with three difficulty levels of low, medium, and high and a baseline condition. Results reveal that for the g...

We design an efficient on-line approach, FlowMate, for partitioning flows at a busy server into flow groups that share bottlenecks. These groups are periodically input to congestion coordination, aggregation, load balancing, admission control, or pricing modules. FlowMate uses inband packet delay measurements to the receivers to determine shared bottlenecks among flows. Packet delay information...

A scalable parallel algorithm especially for large-scale three dimensional simulations with seriously non-uniform particles distributions is presented. In particular, based on cell-block data structures, this algorithm uses Hilbert space filling curve to convert three-dimensional domain decomposition for load distribution across processors into one-dimensional load balancing problems for which ...

Background: Globally, hot cooked refined rice is consumed in large quantities and is a major contributor to dietary glycaemic load. This study aimed to compare the glycaemic potency of hot and cold stored parboiled rice to widely available medium grain white rice. Method: Twentyeight healthy volunteers participated in a three treatment experiment where postprandial blood glucose was measured ov...

Problem statement: This study showed the results of an experimental investigation on the strengthening of corrosion damaged reinforced concrete beams with unidirectional cloth glass fiber reinforced polymer (UDCGFRP) laminates. Approach: All the beam specimens 150×250×3000 mm were cast and tested for the present investigation. One beam specimen was neither corroded nor strengthened to serve as ...

Distributed generation (DG) are critical components for active distribution system (ADS). However, this may be a serious impact on power system due to their volatility. To this problem, interactive load and battery storage may be a best solution. This paper firstly investigates operation characteristics of interactive load and battery storage, including operation flexibility, inter-temporal ope...

An exciting application of Multi-hop Packet Radio Networks (MPRNet) is to provide communication services in environments without suitable infrastructure. One key design issue in MPRNet is the formulation of Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. In this paper, the performance of two MAC protocols, Slotted ALOHA (S-ALOHA) and Spatial TDMA (S-TDMA), are investigated. In many MPRNet, the traffic l...

This paper describes an experiment that compared learners with contrasting learning styles, Active vs. Reflective, using three different strategies for learning programming via worked-examples: Pairedmethod, Structure-emphasising, and Completion. The quality of the learners’ acquired cognitive schemata was assessed in terms of their post-test performance. The experiment investigated variations ...