In this talk a self-adaptive, swarm-based control model for real-time part routing in a flexible flow shop environment is presented.. The proposed control model is a multi-agent system that exhibits adaptive behaviour, which has been inspired from the natural system of the wasp colony. The production problem, which was first introduced by Morley et al. (Morley and Schelberg 1993, Morley 1996, M...

this study aimed to estimate microsatellite based genetic diversity in two lines (the selected rirs and control line rirc) of rhode island red (rir) chicken. genomic dna of 24 randomly selected birds maintained at central avian research institute (india) and 24 microsatellite markers were used. microsatellite alleles were determined on 6% urea-page, recorded using geldoc system and the samples ...

The interline power flow controller (IPFC) is a concept of the FACTS controller for series compensation which can inject a voltage with controllable magnitude and phase angle among multi lines. This paper proposes a novel IPFC-Based Damping Neuro-control scheme using PSO for damping oscil‌la‌t‌i‌o‌ns in a power system to improve power system stability. The add‌i‌tion of a supplementary controll...

Objective(s):Perovskia abrotanoides Kar., from family Lamiaceae, is a little known medicinal plant growing in various regions of Iran. In the present study, cryptotanshinone (CT), tanshinone 2A (Tan2A), and hydroxycryptotanshinone (HCT) were isolated and purified from the roots of P. abrotanoides. In addition, cytotoxic and apoptotic effects of total root extract (TE) and three purified tanshin...

sophora pachycarpa schrenk ex c.a.mey. belongs to the family fabaceae. some species of the genus sophora have shown to possess anti-proliferative and apoptosis-inducing activites in cancer cells. however, there is no available information addressing this effect in s. pachycarpa. here, we investigated the cytotoxic effects of methanol extract and different fractions obtained from s. pachycarpa r...

Hospital congestion and the many associated healthcare delivery cost and quality issues are caused or exacerbated by decisions made without understanding system-level patient flow. Without patient flow models, decisions that affect the entire system are made considering only the effect on a small subsection of the system. This paper presents a flexible simulation framework as a powerful tool fo...

Dynamics of flexible non-Brownian fibers in shear flow at low-Reynolds-number are analyzed numerically for a wide range of the ratios A of the fiber bending force to the viscous drag force. Initially, the fibers are aligned with the flow, and later they move in the plane perpendicular to the flow vorticity. A surprisingly rich spectrum of different modes is observed when the value of A is syste...

This study investigates the unsteady flow phenomena generated from plunging wings with varying flexibility. The experiments were conducted in a wind tunnel with forward flight conditions at a chord based Reynolds number of 5300. The wings are fabricated out of homogeneous isotropic materials with values of 55 and 1702. The conditions of these experiments are matched to previous studies in a wat...

In the context of an airship development programme, inviscid flow behavior and its coupling with structure flexibility are investigated. For this purpose, we have chosen a nonlinear analysis tool relying on the unsteady Euler model for the flow part and the classical elastodynamic equations for the structure. The numerical model for the flow is based on a Mixed Element Volume discretization der...

We present a combined theoretical and experimental investigation of two systems in which flexible bodies are induced to oscillate by steady flows. The first system we study consists of multiple thin sheets of paper in a steady flow, clamped at the downstream end, which we call the "clapping book". Pages sequentially lift off, accumulating in a stack of paper held up by the wind. When the elasti...