For the estimation of the autocorrelation and the auto-spectral density from irregularly sampled laser Doppler data sets three types of estimators are known, the slotting technique, the direct spectral estimation and the interpolation with filter correction. In this paper similar estimation techniques are discussed for the cross-correlation and the cross-spectral density case of two randomly sa...

fn(x) ( 1 /n)h,71K((x ~= X,)/h) where the kernel K is a bounded probability density on Rd and {h} n is a sequence of positive numbers. We are concerned here with the conditions of f, K and {h} n which insure the L 1 convergence offn to f, namely, (1) f Rdlfn(x) f(x)I dx -n0 in probability (or w.p.1) . This concern is motivated by the observation (Schef fe (1947)) that THE Ll CONVERGENCE OF KERN...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of electrocoagulation technology using iron electrodes on phenol removal in aqueous solutions. The removal of phenol was investigated in terms of various parameters, namely, current density, phenol and NaCl concentration, pH, and alginic acid concentration. The results showed that the removal efficiency of phenol increased with increasing the cu...

We study eigenvibrations for inhomogeneous string consisting of two parts with strongly contrasting stiffness and mass density. In this work we treat a critical case for the high frequency approximations, namely the case when the order of mass density inhomogeneity is the same as the order of stiffness inhomogeneity, with heavier part being softer. The limit problem for high frequency approxima...

In this paper we propose two sets of metrics to measure complexity and criticality of large software systems designed and integrated using the principles of Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE). From the Component Interface Definition Language (CIDL) specification [32], we derive two suites of complexity metrics, namely, Component Packing Density (CPD) metrics and Component Interaction D...

We emphasize that standard quantum theory (SQT) is incomplete because it doesn’t describe what is experimentally observed, namely events, nor does it satisfactorily define the circumstances under which events may occur. Simple models are given (all of which have the same density matrix evolution) to illustrate schemes which claim to complete SQT. It is shown how the model based upon the Continu...

We study eigenvibrations for inhomogeneous string consisting of two parts with strongly contrasting stiffness and mass density. In this work we treat a critical case for the high frequency approximations, namely the case when the order of mass density inhomogeneity is the same as the order of stiffness inhomogeneity, with heavier part being softer. The limit problem for high frequency approxima...

this study is concerned with the viability of producing biodiesel from waste beef bone fat and evaluate this product according to the quality requirements defined by astm d- 6751. accordingly, beef bone fat was heated to remove the moisture under vacuum at 60 . alkaline catalysed transesterfication was carried out by  using 6:1 molar ratio of ethanol to fat in the presence of 1% w/w sodium hydr...

This study introduces a novel titanium dioxide carbon nanofiber (TiO2-CNF) support for anodic catalyst in direct methanol fuel cell. The catalytic synthesis process involves several methods, namely the sol-gel, electrospinning, and deposition methods. The synthesized electrocatalyst is compared with other three electrocatalysts with different types of support. All of these electrocatalysts diff...

ÐWe propose a method for text retrieval from document images without the use of OCR. Documents are segmented into character objects. Image features, namely, the Vertical Traverse Density (VTD) and Horizontal Traverse Density (HTD), are extracted. An n-gram based document vector is constructed for each document based on these features. Text similarity between documents is then measured by calcul...