Thin walled cylindrical shell structures are widespread in nature: examples include porcupine quills, hedgehog spines and plant stems. All have an outer shell of almost fully dense material supported by a low density, ...

The evolution of the distribution network from a passive grid with unidirectional power flows to, in the presence of distributed generation (DGs), an active grid with bidirectional power flows can lead to some technical ...

The paper describes an experimental survey of flow separation on backward facing steps having different heights at a Mach number of 2.4. Reattachment and critical points are found for three regimes, laminar, transitional, ...

It is all about spectrum, the electromagnetic communication frequency spectrum characterizes the distribution of all the different wireless technologies approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and their ...

In recent times, FSO (Free Space Optics) technology placed itself as a powerful means to transport data in communication systems. Its great potential to provide relatively high data rates services amongst many other ...

In today‟s modern world it is very important to wirelessly track assets whether small items such as bananas, patients in hospital, to massive mining machines. Radio Frequency Identification(RFID) was recognized as a very ...

Higher data rates have always been the main demand ever since the emergence of telecommunications. This quest for faster and more reliable communications has led to the evolution of numerous generations of wired and wireless ...

Strategic planning (SP) is the process of aligning an organization’s activities with its own vision and mission. Several strategic planning frameworks and tools were developed such as SWOC, Porter’s five forces and PEST ...

Controlling a plant and automatically driving its output to track a user-defined reference trajectory with sufficiently small error has been an important problem in control theory and application. This problem is referred ...

Large seismic events have historically occurred in the Middle East and particularly in Lebanon causing severe deterioration and destruction of historical monuments. In 1202 and 1759, Lebanon experienced two of the strongest ...