ESTIMATION OF ENTRY CONDITION INFLUENCE ON THE SHORT WALL PERFORMANCE

In this paper concept description of the operating short wall within the bounds of the justified risk approach is described. Analysis of the results of working process modeling are carried out. Engineering-and-economical performance of longwall panels at various values of probability of entry roof fall is studied.

Strategic Investment And Excess Capacity: The Case Of Malaysian Palm Biodiesel Industry

With the growing demand of palm biodiesel worldwide, the government has recently announced the implementation of palm biodiesel programme effective July 2014. The implementation will boost the palm biodiesel industry and heighten the demand for palm biodiesel in the domestic market as well as in the international market. This paper thus examines the relationship between the use of strategic investment in excess capacity and the industry entry condition, using logit model. This study covered study period from year 2006 to 2013. The results from this study will further help policymakers to develop policy that is parallel with the condition of the industry.

The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism: gender, militarism and collective action in the British Women’s Corps

Drawing on wartime press articles and photographs, post-war memoirs and oral history interviews, Krisztina Robert identifies two main strategies, both actual and discursive, through which the women constructed the meaning of their work in the British Women’s Corps. The first one, militarisation, entailed working under martial discipline at military sites, wearing service uniforms of khaki (controversial for some) and performing duties previously done by soldiers, sailors and airmen. The second strategy included a strong emphasis on occupational training and/or previous experience as an entry condition into the Corps, with emphasis on the mental and physical difficulty of the jobs and the use of modern technology in the work processes

Impact of Inter-eNodeB Handover Pameters on Performance Optimization of LTE Networks

<span>Handover, as a resource consuming process, is an important issue in mobile communications which can highly affect the overall performance of the LTE networks. Since the handover process mainly relies on four main entry condition parameters, optimizing these parameters will in turn improve the handover process. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of the four handover parameters by measuring the resulting downlink throughput and number of the required handovers. We furthermore determine the optimized values of the parameters through implementing different sets of experiments. Finally, by applying the obtained optimized parameters on two main LTE handover algorithms i.e. A3RSRP and A2A4RSRQ, their performance is compared regarding to different speeds of the mobile equipment. We determine how to accurately select the optimal settings for the parameters so that greater LTE performance can be achieved. </span>

Research on Severe Accident Mitigation Strategy of Injecting Into the OTSG of ACP100

The China multipurpose module small reactor named ACP100 is developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) of ACP100 reactor is necessary to be developed to mitigate the severe accident induced by in the multi-cause extreme conditions. Inject into the steam generators (SGs) is one of the most significant strategies, this strategy aims at protecting the SGs tubes from creep rupture, removing the heat from the reactor coolant system (RCS) and depressurizing the RCS. The entry condition of the severe accident guideline of injecting into the SGs, as usual, is low SG Water level in the most of the present pressurized water reactors that adopt the inverted U-tubes SGs. The integral reactor of ACP100 adopts the design of annular tube once-through SGs. In the normal conditions, the secondary side of the OTSGs is operating in a given steady pressure, any water level measure tool is impossibly set in the OTSGs. Therefore, on the basis of the design features of ACP100, the strategy of injecting into the OTSG at severe accident is studied, the potential entry condition of the corresponding guideline is discussed. And the validity and feasibility of the strategy is validated by the analysis of the integral systems analysis code.