This paper proposes a new sliding mode control (SMC)  based model reference adaptive system (MRAS) for sensorless indirect field oriented control (IFOC) of a single-sided linear induction motor (SLIM). The operation of MRAS speed estimators dramatically depends on adaptation mechanism. Fixed-gain PI controller is conventionally used for this purpose which may fail to estimate the speed correctl...

The present study was carried out to know the rural livelihood sustainability of suicideprone farmers families of Vidarbha. Total 60 families of suicide victim farmers were selected randomly from 46 villages for this study it covers total 9 Tahsils of 6 distress districts of Vidarbha. The study revealed that the rural livelihood sustainability of majority (83.33%) of the families was found to b...

This paper considers ethical dilemmas associated with research with male sex offenders. It examines two particular areas in detail: dealing with the disclosure of previously undisclosed offences and managing the distress of research participants during interview. Within these areas there is discussion of ethical approaches to research. Principle-based approaches offer abstract guidelines that h...

The study proposes a model to investigate discontinuation of social networking site use based on gratification and distress factors. The model of two contrasting beliefs is founded on Social Exchange Theory (Homans, 1958). The study reviews past research of user motivations to participate in social networking sites, and identifies gratification factors of using the sites, however, uses methods ...

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The tier aspect model addresses Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in the context of database applications. It is a new technique of separation of concerns through tiers implemented as virtual object-oriented updatable views. The code of an aspect related to particular objects is encapsulated within a separate view that overrides all generic operations performed on the objects. Aspect tiers form...

The Model/View/Controller (MVC) paradigm, and its many variants, is a cornerstone of decoupling within object-oriented design. MVC leads to clear reuse benefits regarding the class hierarchies for the model and view elements. In practice, however, the controllers appear to defy reuse, most likely because they encapsulate specialized business logic. Within an effective product line, however, suc...

A novel indexing structure, join index hierarchy, is proposed to handle the \goto's on disk" problem in object-oriented query processing. The method constructs a hierarchy of join indices and transforms a sequence of pointer chasing operations into a simple search in an appropriate join index le, and thus accelerates navigation in object-oriented databases. The method extends the join index str...

This paper presents a novel mechanism for selforganization of structure among documents based on process-oriented relations. Process-oriented relations represent operations and temporal distance between uses of documents in users’ working processes. A complex network of process-oriented relations is rearranged as a multi-layered document network (MLDN) with a recursive hypergraph structure. The...