Performance Analysis of Specification Computer and Mobile with Implementation Tawaf Virtual Reality using A* Algorithm and RVO System

High-Performance Computer (HPC) is computer systems that are built to be able to solve computational loads. HPC can provide a high-performance technology and short the computing processes timing. This technology was often used in large-scale industries and several activities that require high-level computing, such as rendering virtual reality technology. In this research, we provide Tawaf’s Virtual Reality with 1000 of Pilgrims and realistic surroundings of Masjidil-Haram as the interactive and immersive simulation technology by imitating them with 3D models. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to calculate and to understand the processing time of its Virtual Reality with the implementation of tawaf activities using various platforms; such as computer and Android smartphone. The results showed that the outer-line or outer rotation of Kaa’bah mostly consumes minimum times although he must pass the longer distance than the closer one.  It happened because the agent with the closer area to Kaabah is facing the crowded peoples. It means an obstacle has the more impact than the distances in this case.

“The Mandarins”: Simone de Beauvoir’s Artistic Method

Simone de Beauvoir is a representative of one of the leading philosophical schools in the middle of the 20th century. The article presents Beauvoir’s artistic method, applied in her novel The Mandarins, and examines the theoretical and biographical sources of the novel. The author demonstrates the place that the novel has in the Beauvoir’s literary and philosophical heritage and reveals the genre features of the work, introducing some special terms such as engaged, modern or philosophical novel and testimonial autobiographical project. The article also analyzes the novel’s literary form and the binary structure of the narrative. The study of the main characters, who are Henri Perron, Anne Dubreuilh and her husband Robert, allows to give a couple of narrative lines. First of them is the inner line that opens the reflective, contemplative and intimate life of one of the main characters – Anne. The second one is the outer line that means that the reader receives the information about characters from the Henry’s actions. Basing on this structure, we draw a conclusion about the modifications in the genre of existential novel in the postwar years. The new themes can be found in the literature. Authors introduce to readers the certain social reality through the inner life of some characters – intellectuals, novelists or philosophers. The thesis about the inner transformation of the genre is proved on Beauvoir’ and Jean-Paul Sartre’s works and on the prewar works of Sartre and Albert Camus. Beauvoir’s new literary methods and plots, which are the logical development of her work, made her novel one of the pioneers in the postwar literature.

Rest of Day, July 20

As Hardee's Corps and Stewart's Army of Mississippi assailed Thomas's Army of the Cumberland north of Atlanta, the rest of Sherman's army group continued to inch forward to the east and northeast of Atlanta. Schofield's Army of the Ohio and two divisions of Oliver O. Howard's Fourth Corps worked through tangled vegetation in their effort to link Thomas with McPherson's Army of the Tennessee. They made limited progress, essentially coming up to the developing Confederate position known as the Peach Tree Creek Line (which faced north) and the Confederate Outer Line (which faced east). Elements of Howard's and Schofield's commands skirmished with troops from Benjamin F. Cheatham's Corps (formerly commanded by Hood), which was responsible for holing the far right of the Peach Tree Creek Line and all of the Outer Line. But a gap continued to exist between Howard and John Newton's division. Fortunately for the Federals, the Confederates never became aware of this potentially dangerous hole in Sherman's formation. McPherson continued to move along the Georgia Railroad toward Atlanta, allowing a small force of Confederate cavalry under Joseph Wheeler to slow his pace. By July 20, he came within striking distance of the Outer Line.

July 21–22

Union and Confederate survivors evaluated the battle of Peach Tree Creek, commented on the performance of their enemy, and judged the conduct of their own officers. The Federals were jubilant over their victory and the Confederates admitted defeat. The battle increased the already high state of morale among Union soldiers and dimmed Confederate hopes. Hood also was frustrated by the failure of his first battle as army leader, believing a report that Hardee had warned his men before the battle to be wary of Union earthworks. There is no proof of this but Hood blamed Hardee for the defeat in his official report and his post-war memoirs. Hood also blamed Joseph E. Johnston for instilling a timid mood among the men through his constant retreats and refusal to take the offensive. Sherman continued to close up on Atlanta during July 21-22, advancing his men to follow up Hood's evacuation of the Peach Tree Creek Line and the Outer Line. Hood prepared to strike at Sherman's left flank, which resulted in the Battle of Atlanta on the afternoon of July 22. His men came much closer to tactical victory than they had two days before at Peach Tree Creek.

Impedance matching condition analysis of the multi-filar tape-helix Blumlein PFL with discontinuous dielectrics

In this paper, the characteristic impedance matching of the inner line and outer line of the multi-filar tape-helix Blumlein pulse forming line (BPFL) is analyzed in detail by dispersion theory of tape helix. Analysis of the spatial harmonics of multi-filar tape-helix BPFL shows that the integer harmonic numbers of the excited spatial harmonics are not continuous. In addition, the basic harmonic component still dominates the dispersion characteristics of the multi-filar tape-helix BPFL at low frequency band. The impedance mismatching phenomenon caused by the discontinuity of filling dielectrics in the inner line of BPFL is studied as an important issue. Effects of dielectric discontinuity on the coupled electromagnetic fields and the parameters of the outer line are also analyzed. The impedance matching conditions are both obtained under the situations of continuous filling dielectric and discontinuous dielectrics, respectively. Impedance characteristics of these two situations are analyzed by comparison, and effects of the thickness of support dielectric on the impedance are also presented. When the 6 mm-thickness nylon support of the multi-filar tape helix is used in the filling dielectric of de-ionized water, the characteristic impedances of the inner line and outer line of BPFL are 53 Ω and 14.7 Ω, respectively. After the improvement about substituting de-ionized water by castor oil, the relative permittivities of the support dielectric and filling dielectric are almost the same, and the impedances of the inner and outer line of BPFL become 80 Ω and 79 Ω, respectively. That is to say, the impedance mismatching problem caused by dielectric discontinuity is solved. Circuit simulation and experimental results basically correspond to the theoretical results, and the fact demonstrates that impedance analysis of the multi-filar tape-helix BPFL based on dispersion theory is correct.

Accessible Pedestrian Signals

Push-button–integrated accessible pedestrian signals (APSs) provide audible information from the push-button housing on both the location of the push button and the onset of walk intervals. APS systems must provide clear, unambiguous information on which crosswalk has the walk interval. Push buttons in the United States, including push-button– integrated APSs, are inconsistently located, and APSs do not use consistent sounds to convey the “Walk” indication. The present research (NCHRP Project 3-62) investigated the effects of push-button placement and the type of audible “Walk” indication on visually or cognitively impaired participants’ ability to determine which of two streets had the “Walk” signal. Participants performed this task most quickly and most accurately when each push-button–integrated APS was mounted on its own pole, the poles were placed along the outer line (farthest from the center of the intersection) of the associated crosswalk, each pole was located within a few feet of the curb, and the audible “Walk” indication from each APS was a fast tick (percussive sound) at 10 repetitions per second. The results further indicate that where two push buttons are installed on a single pole, verbal “Walk” messages (e.g., “Seventh; walk sign is on to cross Seventh”) result in greater accuracy than two different sounds (fast tick and cuckoo) to signal the two crossings.

Bright Features in the Intergranular Region

There are two kinds of bright threads in spectrograms of the Ca II II and K lines: the ones in the outer line wing are due to enhancements of the continuum inside granules, while the others in the inner wing are due to bright features in the intergranular regions.

Revolutionary War Archaeology at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

The Revolutionary War encampment at Valley Forge has been subjected to a number of excavations since the creation of the park in the late nineteenth century. This paper describes the important excavations conducted in 1972 and 1973 along the Outer Line Drive by the William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Seventeen huts and a number of artifacts dating from the Revolutionary War period were recorded and excavated. This information is discussed in relation to its importance for Revolutionary War studies.

The southern cold temperate zone

The fall of surface temperature towards the south across the southern ocean is not as uniform as it usually appears in mean annual or seasonal temperature charts. In about 40° S it falls rather sharply from 16 to 12 °C in summer or from 12 to 8 °C in winter, and some 10° farther south there is another abrupt fall from about 5 to 3 °C in summer and 3 to 1 °C in winter. The two lines are shown on a circumpolar chart in figure 3. Along the outer line water from the subtropical regions meets colder water from the south, and the contrast is usually greatest where the Brazil, Agulhas and East Australian currents carry warm water southwards. Along the inner line the mixture of water from north and south meets cold water more or less straight from the Antarctic.