Power plant process simulation software is well-suited for the modelling of energy systems and more importantly, tools for analysing the energy efficiency are often built into the software. This work presents the development of a simulation model for a sulphuric acid plant using a commercial software package for power plant process simulation. This will be of value to for instance small consult...

universal categories like text complexity and readability (Dimarco/Hirst 1988), two approaches to style checking, Writer's Workbench and EPISTLE, should be mentioned. Writer's Workbench (Cherry 1983 et al.) has influenced the development of commercial software such as Rightwriter, PC-Style and Grammatik. It does style critiquing, but it cannot do critiquing that reqmres a parser output, such as...

We address the problem of contrast enhancement for color images. Our method to enhance images is inspired from the retinex theory. We try to estimate the illumination and separate it from the reflectance component of an image. We use denoising techniques to estimate the illumination and while doing so achieve color constancy. We enhance only the illumination component of the image. The paramete...

A new organizational entity has emerged at research universities: the technology transfer office (TTO). TTOs were established to facilitate commercial knowledge transfers from universities to practitioners or university/industry technology transfer (UITT). Despite the potential importance of UITT in fostering technological diffusion and as a source of revenue to the university, there has been l...

Butterfly valve is a flow control device, which is used to regulate the fluid flowing through a piping system. Analysis and optimization are of special importance in the design and usage of butterfly valves. A proper selection of a Butterfly valve would require the knowledge of its characteristics and robustness. Normally this information used to be obtained from experimental tests. However the...

One of the key difficulties in a Signals and Systems course is the visualization of mathematically complex concepts presented. Thus, there is a need for graphica l too l s which enhance the s tudents ’ comprehension of these difficult concepts by allowing interactive learning. In this paper we present a software package to assist in the explanation and visualization of s ignal processing concep...

In machine learning, a bias occurs whenever training sets are not representative for the test data, which results in unreliable models. The most common biases in data are arguably class imbalance and covariate shift. In this work, we aim to shed light on this topic in order to increase the overall attention to this issue in the field of machine learning. We propose a scalable novel framework fo...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the extent and nature of healthy eating messages Australian consumers are currently exposed through magazine advertising. METHOD Analysis of healthy eating messages in advertisements found in the top 30 Australian magazines between January and June 2005 was conducted. Advertisements were analysed and classified by source, subject, food category, food type, food occasion,...

topical application with 100, 200 and 300 ng/ml phytohormone salicyclic acid on commercial traits was analysed in bivoltine csr2, csr4 and csr2xcsr4 crossbreed races of the silkworm, bombyx mori l. the results showed that there was significant increase in larval weight female cocoon weight, male cocoon shell weight, and hatching percentage with 100 and 200 ng/ml, silkgland weight, female cocoon...