gas hydrate formation in production and transmission pipelines and consequent plugging of these lines have been a major flow-assurance concern of the oil and gas industry for the last 75 years. gas hydrate formation rate is one of the most important topics related to the kinetics of the process of gas hydrate crystallization. the main purpose of this study is investigating phenomenon of gas hyd...

The Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec algorithm has been selected for wideband speech coding in wireless and wireline services by both 3GPP and ITU-T. This paper describes an implementation of floating point Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) codec that was approved by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for multimedia applications.

As a result of the impairments generated by the consumer electronic devices on power line channel extensive research has been carried out to mitigate the deteriorating effects. In this work the performance of an OFDM based power line communication system is evaluated under OPERA [1] proposed power line channel. An adaptive modulation system is designed and the performance advantages of the syst...

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have carried out development and standardisation of a wideband speech codec for GSM and the third generation mobile communication WCDMA system since 1999. The Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) codec algorithm was selected in December 2000, and the corresponding specifications were appr...

Energy efficient protocol design is the aim of current researches in the area of sensor networks where limited power resources impose energy conservation considerations. In this paper we care for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols and after an extensive literature review, two adaptive schemes are discussed. Of them, adaptive-rate MACs which were introduced for throughput enhancement show the...

The wavelet transform-domain least-mean square (WTDLMS) algorithm uses the self-orthogonalizing technique to improve the convergence performance of LMS. In WTDLMS algorithm, the trade-off between the steady-state error and the convergence rate is obtained by the fixed step-size. In this paper, the WTDLMS adaptive algorithm with variable step-size (VSS) is established. The step-size in each subf...

Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs) are rooted, directional and labeled graphs that abstract away from morpho-syntactic idiosyncrasies such as word category (verbs and nouns), word order, and function words (determiners, some prepositions). Because these syntactic idiosyncrasies account for many of the cross-lingual differences, it would be interesting to see if this representation can serv...

The potential for wine production as an economic development driver is of interest to a growing number of states throughout the country. Following this trend, Colorado is a growing presence in the Intermountain West’s wine industry, with over $11 billion in sales in 2005, leading to over $21 in induced economic activity, or over $41 million when affiliated tourism and event activities are taken...