Manuscript Id	::	15075
Manuscript Type	::	Research
Manuscript Title	::	Graphics Processor Unit Hardware Acceleration of Levenberg-Marquardt Artificial Neural Network Training
Country	::	UK
Authors	::	David Scanlan|| David Mulvaney
Pages No.	::	01-07
Paper Index	::	: 07.4721/0270107
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This paper makes two principal contributions. The first is that there appears to be no previous a description in the research literature of an artificial neural network implementation on a graphics processor unit (GPU) that uses the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) training method. The second is an initial attempt at determining when it is computationally beneficial to exploit a GPU's parallel nature in preference to the traditional implementation on a central processing unit (CPU). The paper describes the approach taken to successfully implement the LM method, discusses the advantages of this approach for GPU implementation and presents results that compare GPU and CPU performance on two test data sets

Key words: Artificial Neural Networks, Graphics Processor Unit, Levenberg-Marquardt Networks

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Manuscript Id	::	22065
Manuscript Type	::	Research
Manuscript Title	::	Pitch Attitude Control of a Booster Rocket Mr.
Country	::	India
Authors	::	Mr. Debabrata Roy || Prof. Raghupati Goswami || Dr. Sourish Sanyal || Prof. Amar Nath Sanyal
Pages No.	::	8-12
Paper Index	::	: 07.4721/02708012
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There are three important variables for a rocket moving through air and then through space. These are its yaw, pitch and roll. These variables are to be precisely controlled in order to reach the target and produce the desired effect. The paper deals with pitch attitude control of a booster rocket for launching a space-ship. Starting from its block diagram, the mathematical model has been developed and the analytical treatment has been made by indigenously made computer program and also by using MATLAB-tools for getting the desired results. Fulfillment of the specifications could be made suitably choosing the forward path gain and the coefficient of rate feedback.

Keywords –Feedback, Overshoot, Phase margin,Pitch attitude, Rocket

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Manuscript Id	::	23025
Manuscript Type	::	Research
Manuscript Title	::	The Effects of Soret and Dufour on an Unsteady MHD Free Convection Flow Past a Vertical Porous Plate In The Presence Of Suction or Injection
Country	::	India
Authors	::	K. Sarada || B. Shanker
Pages No.	::	13-25
Paper Index	::	: 07.4721/027013025
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of Soret and Dufour on an unsteady magneto hydrodynamic free convective fluid flow of a viscous incompressible and electrically conducting fluid past a vertical porous plate in the presence of suction or injection. The non – linear partial differential equations governing the flow have been solved numerically using finite difference method. The effects of the various
parameters on the velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are presented graphically and values of skin – friction coefficient, Nusselt number and Sherwood number for various values of physical parameters are presented through tables.


Keywords –Soret number, Dufour number, Unsteady, MHD, Free convection flow, Vertical porous plate, Suction or Injection, Finite difference method.

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In a variable-speed wind energy conversion system (WECS), the mechanical frequency of the generator varies, and in order to keep the stator voltage and frequency constant, the rotor voltage and its frequency have to be varied. Thus the system requires a power conversion unit to supply the rotor with a variable frequency voltage that keeps the stator frequency constant irrespective of the wind speed. The rotor of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) driven by a wind turbine needs rotor excitation so the stator can supply a load or feed the grid. In the scheme proposed, the rotor of the DFIG draws power either from three-phase ac mains or from a set of photo voltaic (PV) panels depending on the availability of the solar power. Maximum power point tracking techniques can be used for power extraction. A neutral point clamped multi-level inverter is used to convert the rectified voltage from ac mains and dc voltage from PV panels to a variable frequency voltage to supply the rotor.


Keywords –doubly fed induction generator; boost regulator; NPC multilevel inverter; photovoltaic panel; wind turbine

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Groundwater is required for continuity of life and sustainability of ecosystem. Hence, this study aimed at assessing the groundwater quality Hot corrosion is the degradation of materials caused by the presence of a deposit or ash, predominantly sodium sulfate. Hot corrosion is observed in marine and aircraft engines. It is very well established that sodium sulfate alone causes accelerated oxidation of super alloys and coatings at high temperatures, where Na2SO4 is in liquid form. In marine environments, because of low power operation the alloys are maintained at lower temperature i.e., below the melting point (m.p) of Na2SO4, the predominant form of attack is due to Low temperature hot corrosion. To establish a suitable mechanism of low temperature hot corrosion, in this study, the low temperature hot corrosion behavior of Mar-M 509 at 750oC in static air, under thermal cyclic conditions has been studied. Salt-coating technique was employed, in which alloy samples were coated with approximately 2.5 mg/cm2 of salt. The mixture of Na2SO4 and NaCl salt is applied to alloy samples to investigate mechanism of Low temperature hot corrosion. Hot corroded samples of Mar-M 509 have been analyzed using SEM, EDS, X-ray mapping, XRD, correlated with corrosion kinetics. The results indicated that Na2SO4 +25%NaCl were very aggressive compared to that of either pure Na2SO4 or Na2SO4 + 1%NaCl. Sulfidation-Oxidation mechanism has been proposed for low temperature hot corrosion of Mar-M 509.
Keywords –Hot corrosion, Mar-M 509, Low temperature hot corrosion

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Several low cost biomaterials such as rice husk,saw dust and eucalyptus bark (EB) were tested for removal of chromium. All the experiments were carried out in batch process with real effluents collected from several industries. The adsorbent, which had highest chromium (VI) removal was EB. Influences of chromium concentration, contact time on removal of chromium from effluent was investigated. The adsorption data were fitted well by Langmuir isotherm..The results indicated that eucalyptus bark can be used for the removal of chromium.

Keywords –tannery effluent, eucalyptus bark, adsorption.

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In this paper, we propose a vaccine-dependent mathematical model for the treatment of tuberculosis epidemics at the population level. We formulate a theorem on existence and uniqueness of solution and establish the proof of the theorem. In addition, we show that the infection is cleared from the population if

Keywords: Tuberculosis; mathematical model; existence and uniqueness of solution; basic reproduction number; vaccine

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An efficient privacy preservation scheme named Pseudonymous Authentication-based Conditional Privacy for providing anonymous and conditional communication to the vehicles in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET'S). The Pseudonymous Authentication based Conditional Privacy scheme provides pseudonym-based anonymity to vehicles in VANETs. The Conditional Privacy in this scheme is that the vehicles in VANET must follow certain conditions to operate, communicate and transfer messages between vehicles in order to provide privacy to the vehicles in VANET. By all means the privacy and anonymity of the vehicles in VANET must be preserved, which is the primary goal of the Pseudonymous Authentication-based Conditional Privacy scheme.

Keywords: CA, ECPP, OBU, Pseudonym, RSU, VANET

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The heart sound signal recorded from normal adults usually contains two distinct tones S1 and S2 that occur in each heartbeat. Their respective and relative time latencies are important parameters for the monitoring of cardiac functions, diagnosis, and improved treatment. In this paper, we propose a method to locate S1 and S2 heart sound features effectively using a multi-scale wavelet transform and a threshold decision to increase the precision of the detection process. The effectiveness of the framework to extract the features is evaluated in our experiments on 35 patients presenting various cardiac conditions. The proposed algorithm reaches an accuracy of about 92% on abnormal heart sounds and 100% on control cases with respect to the ground truth established by the clinicians
Keywords: feature extraction, heart sound, multi-scale wavelet transform, reuse

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Present day climatic circumstances seem to be accountable for accelerating the recession of most of the Himalayan glaciers. In the present study, the rate of retreat in the Milam glacier (Higher Central Himalaya, India) is calculated for the first time by using Global Positioning System (GPS) in kinematic mode survey. The GPS measurements during 2004-2005 reveal a maximum retreat of 28 m/yr in the central part of the snout. The western side of the snout recedes at a rate of about 1.7 m/yr, whereas, the northeastern side is retreating at a rate of 6.7-13.2 m/yr. Based on mean values of all points, average recession rate is calculated as 9.54±1.3 m/yr for this glacier.

Keywords: Global Positioning System (GPS); Milam glacier; Recession rate; Central Himalaya.

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