We consider the multiple time period short-term production scheduling problem for a network of multiple open-pit mines and ports. Ore produced at each mine, in each period, is transported by rail to a set of ports and blended into products for shipping. Each port forms these blends to a specification, as stipulated in contracts with downstream customers. This problem belongs to a class of multi...

Extraction of coupling of modes (COM) parameters from the manufacturing process of a surface acoustic wave device (SAW) is important in practice. In this study, we employed an inverse algorithm to recover the COM parameters from the measured admittance of a one-port SAW resonator. For completeness, the COM equations, the P-matrix representation and the related COM parameters have been summarize...

The demand for a high transmission data rate in 5G leads to the wide application of multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) technique. However, narrow design space mobile phone causes severe unexpected coupling between antenna units and deteriorate system performance dramatically. In this paper, we focus on within MIMO system. Some decoupling techniques are summarized, such as neutralization line, net...

Over the past decade, characteristic mode analysis (CMA) research has grown from a niche topic to mainstream topic, warranting tutorial-style special issue survey significant progress that been made in this field. In introductory article, focus is on providing big picture. We start with simple description of modes (CMs). Next, we examine trends field and provide further insights into CMA’s hist...

The high potential for implementing demand management approaches across multiple objectives has been significantly enhanced. This study proposes a cooperative energy strategy based on the end-user sharing of energy. proposed method promotes intelligent charging and discharging EVs to achieve vehicle-to-anything (V2X) anything-to-vehicle (X2V) operating modes both integrated nonrenewable residen...

Our aim was to assess the impact of motor activity and of arousing stimuli on respiratory rate in the awake rats. The study was performed in male adult Sprague-Dawley (SD, n=5) and Hooded Wistar (HW, n=5) rats instrumented for ECG telemetry. Respiratory rate was recorded using whole-body plethysmograph, with a piezoelectric sensor attached for the simultaneous assessment of motor activity. All ...