the present study sought to investigate the evidence for cross-linguistic transfer in a partial english immersion and non-immersion educational setting. to this end, a total of 145 first, third and fifth graders in a partial english immersion program and 95 students from the same grade levels in a non-immersion program were chosen. six different english and persian tests were administered: the ...

frying is an important unit operation used widely both in domestic and industrial cooking. reduced pressure (vacuum), microwave, deep fat and pan frying are the most important methods of food frying. final product has good organoleptic quality (colour, texture, and flavour). the accuracy of the knowledge of mass transfer parameters (effective diffusivity coefficient, dimensionless biot number a...

A quad inserted into a turbulent boundary layer of a flat plate and its effect on average heat transfer and the friction coefficient is studied. To optimize this effect, the edge sizes and distance of the quad from the flat plate are continually modified. In each case, simultaneously the heat transfer enhancement and reduction in skin friction are analyzed. For optimization, the genetic algorit...

-This paper studies deviations of open-loop properties in the presence of modeling uncertainties. Our aim is to gain insights into how open-loop properties and thus potentially closed-loop properties may vary in the face of a diagonally structured uncertainty. We give several estimates for the worst case deviations of the open-loop transfer function in terms of certain structured singular value...

We consider the construction of least squares pyramids using shifted polynomial spline basis functions. We derive the pre and postfilters as a function of the degree n and the shift parameter . We show that the underlying projection operator is entirely specified by two transfer functions acting on the even and odd signal samples, respectively. We introduce a measure of shift invariance and sho...

Computing environments have been increasingly complex, making managing them difficult. Self-Adaptive methods are used because these do not reveal internal structure and adapt to the environment. Our previous study uses an activation switch that determines components’ tasks. However, they may not work due to the external influences such as viruses because test cases do not contain all cases. If ...