...Engineering & Management (IJCEM) Volume 1, Issue 9, December 2014 Fault Analysis of a Bearing Archit Upadhyay Bachelor of Engineering- Mechanical Engineering Acropolis Institute of Technology & Research, Indore, (M.P), India Contact Number: +91-9993099957 E-maid ID: architupadhyay2192@gmail.com Abstract The performance of a bearing which is dynamic in nature is very crucial to the working of a machine. The presence of defects in a bearing results in reduced efficiency or in some cases severe damage to the machine which is under consideration. Rolling element bearing is an indispensable part of any machine which finds widespread domestic and industrial applications. Different methods are used for detection and diagnosis of the bearing defects. This research is intended as a tutorial overview of bearing fault detection using vibration analysis. The advent of the microprocessor has enormously advanced the process of vibration data acquisition and analysis in recent years. Measurement that took hours only two decades ago can now be completed in minutes and better decisions made because of better data acquisition and presentation. However, the basic process of measurement and analysis have remained essentially unchanged, just like the machines from which vibrations is measured. The results of the measurement and data analysis need to be compared with known standards or guidelines and decisions made as to whether the machine is acceptable for service or maintenance should be planned. Increasingly...
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...The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells was born an English writer in Bromley, Kent, England in 1866. After he attended school his early years he was educated at Midhurst Grammar School and soon after he attended the School of Science in London. Once there he studied biology, which could be one reason why he started to write science fiction novels such as, “The Time Machine.” Around the time he wrote this work, there was a huge shift of technological breakthroughs that would have influenced his writing also. At that time, from his schooling at the School of Science in London, he would have been exposed to the works of Jules Verne, (20,000 Leagues under the sea), T. H. Huxley’s, (Theory of Biogenesis), and Charles Darwin’s, (The Descendant of Man) [Novel Guide]. These works would account for the large amount of description that the time traveler uses throughout the book. With H. G. Wells’ novella, “The Time Machine,” this book has been a huge influence over the science fiction society of the recent century. This book was a large stepping-stone for thousands of stories and films. The mood of this book is a serious one, but it is not all dark and gloomy, the Time Traveler often makes many jokes in order to lighten the setting of his situation and for his readers enjoyment. He offers realistic details of what is happening to entice the readers to get more into the story. In the novel the main character is nameless, and often powerless, which leads me to believe that...
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...terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion. The telephone call initiated by Morpheus prompts the police to visit Mr. Anderson’s home with the offer of deliverance and the awakening. Morpheus is known to the government as a legendary computer hacker and a terrorist. Morpheus meets up with Mr. Anderson and offers him a choice of a blue pill or a red pill. The choice that is offered will afford Mr. Anderson to either wake up in a world beyond his imagination or to continue to exist in his current state existence. The “real world” * 2. Analysis of The conversation between Morpheus and Smith, The Battle between the humans and the machines. “Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet Cross cutting with Neo and Trinity trying to save Morpheus, testing Neo‟s powers and the length he will go to save Morpheus. * 3. Semiotic Analysis * 4. Semiotics and Structuralism• The war between man and machines.• Humans compared to a virus.• The five...
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...replacing the human element. Sure jobs are lost, but is this a bad thing? One would have to really dive into the question and do some in-depth research and analysis to figure out the answer, but maybe there is not a right answer? Whether greater technology advances are better or not, one thing is for certain; people will lose jobs because of it. Auto plant workers, factories, coal miners, farming, telephone operators, cashiers, tollbooth collectors, and bankers: These are just a few examples of jobs that are being replaced by greater technology in our present day, even some earlier on. Yes, this is a bad thing for the people employed by those jobs, but maybe for the “greater good,” whatever that term, used by many optimistic people, is really supposed to mean, the same technology that ended those jobs will create more jobs or even better jobs--who knows? Maybe the advances in technology aren’t needed, but created because of corporate greed, to minimize a company’s cost to employees and fatten the wallets of the suits on the top floor? These are, of course, assumptions with nothing more than common knowledge, life experiences, and a little research from years of reading and watching the news. Is technology always necessary in the work place? Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Ageism as: “prejudice or discrimination against a particular age-group and especially the elderly.” Companies are dealing...
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...University of Ballarat | Industry Analysis Report Gaming Industry in US | BUMKT 5922 Competitive Analysis Individual Assignment | | Carolina Dos Santos (ID: 30058334) | 9/4/2011 | Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Introduction 4 3. Marco Environmental Analysis 5 4. Industry Analysis 7 5. Strategic Options and Recommendations 10 6. References 13 7. Appendices 14 1. Executive Summary It is expected that US gaming will not be the world number one casino region in the world due to the rapid growth of other casino regions. With its long lasting history and reputation, it is still a very profitable industry because of its large domestic and foreign market share. The well known brand and large portion of market share maintain its global competitive advantage over competitors and substitutes. 2. Introduction Casino gambling becomes very popular around the world and it is one of the most common types of entertainment in US and many other countries. According to Investopedia, A casino has been defined as houses or accommodates that provide facilities for certain types of gambling activities. Casino is usually built in combine with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping and other tourist attractions. It also provides facilities for hosting live entertainment events and sporting events (Investopedia 2011). The industry has been growing very fast in the past few decades in relate to its size worldwide. It has a large impact to the...
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...Today we will come to understand how to find, interpret, and explain the materials released by major antivirus vendors about new malware threats. In addition we will show how you will be able to document the malware lifecycle; in addition to explaining the threats that the malware creates both at the current time and how they may change. One of the sites that we have taken a look at is McAfee.com, the portion of information we are looking at today is the virus definition, what it is a how it will affect you the consumer. One virus we will be looking at will be RDN/BackDoor-FBSA!a!EFA0D651938C. This is a Trojan detection. Unlike viruses, Trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include e-mail, malicious or hacked Web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc. The indication of having this infection would mean your machine would have the files, registry, and network communication referenced in the characteristics section. However not to worry the following is a plan of attack as per instructions of McAfee: Please use the following instructions for all supported versions of Windows: 1. Disable Windows System Restore. For instructions, please refer to: http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/disabling-system-restore...
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...AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving No computer can yet pass the 'Turing test' and be taken as human. But the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazz • Comments (109) • Marcus du Sautoy • The Observer, Saturday 31 March 2012 • Article history [pic] Marcus du Sautoy with one of Luc Steels's language-making robots. Photograph: Jodie Adams/BBC 'I propose to consider the question "Can machines think?"' Not my question but the opening of Alan Turing's seminal 1950 paper which is generally regarded as the catalyst for the modern quest to create artificial intelligence. His question was inspired by a book he had been given at the age of 10: Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster. The book was packed with nuggets that fired the young Turing's imagination including the following provocative statement: "Of course the body is a machine. It is vastly complex, many times more complicated than any machine ever made with hands; but still after all a machine. It has been likened to a steam machine. But that was before we knew as much about the way it works as we know now. It really is a gas engine; like the engine of an automobile, a motor boat or a flying machine." If the body were a machine, Turing wondered: is it possible to artificially create such a contraption that could think like he did? This year is Turing's centenary so would he...
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...Introduction “We are surrounded by food. We're constantly bombarded by it. We're consuming larger portion sizes and more calories than ever before…” (Moore, CDCTV, 2010). This quote aptly encapsulates the area of my interest – obesity. In my research paper I will discuss some of the causes of obesity, its effects and the health concerns related to obesity and finally offer suggestions as to how obesity can be treated or prevented. Obesity can be defined as “having excess body fat” whereas being overweight is defined as “having excess body weight for a particular height from fat, muscle, bone, water, or a combination of these factors” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). Obesity is the result of eating too many calories without sufficient physical exercise to offset the intake. Children today are exposed to many deterrents to eating healthy foods. Factors in the environment home, school, social circles, neighborhood and community all contribute, in different ways, to eating unhealthy, often more affordable, supersized foods. It is difficult for children to make healthy choices and be physically active when exposed to many unhealthy options which are easily available to them. Although overeating and lack of activity are the major factors causing obesity, genetics also plays an important role in obesity. In this paper, I will discuss some of these factors including environmental and socioeconomic conditions that affect obesity. In addition, the consequences of...
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...27695–8206 Email: ⇤ pyang3@ncsu.edu, † robertsd@csc.ncsu.edu Abstract—When doing post-competition analysis in team games, it can be hard to figure out if a team members’ character attribute development has been successful directly from game logs. Additionally, it can also be hard to figure out how the performance of one team member affects the performance of another. In this paper, we present a data-driven method for automatically discovering patterns in successful team members’ character attribute development in team games. We first represent team members’ character attribute development using time series of informative attributes. We then find the thresholds to separate fast and slow attribute growth rates using clustering and linear regression. We create a set of categorical attribute growth rates by comparing against the thresholds. If the growth rate is greater than the threshold it is categorized as fast growth rate; if the growth rate is less than the threshold it is categorized as slow growth rate. After obtaining the set of categorical attribute growth rates, we build a decision tree on the set. Finally, we characterize the patterns of team success in terms of rules which describe team members’ character attribute growth rates. We present an evaluation of our methodology on three real games: DotA,1 Warcraft III,2 and Starcraft II.3 A standard machine-learning-style evaluation of the experimental results shows the discovered patterns are highly related...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix E Critical Analysis Forms Fill out one form for each source. |Source 1 Title and Citation: Disclaimer: You have requested a machine translation of selected content from our databases. This | |functionality is provided solely for your convenience and is in no way intended to replace human translation. Neither Gale nor its | |licensors make any representations or warranties with respect to the translations. | |Black Women Are Too Often Singled Out as the Ones Who Oppose Interracial Dating | |Nadra Kareem, "Interracial Dating: Black Women Aren't the Only Foes of Interracial Romance," Racialicious, June 12, 2009. | |www.racialicious.com | | | |Black women are often singled out as the ones who are against interracial | |1 |Identify the principal issue presented by the |dating when it’s actually a factor in the white race too. | | |source. | | | | |The author is biased because she feels that if she is having problems with | |2 |Identify any examples of bias presented...
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...Diagnostic Imaging Centers 2267 West Medical Parkway Suite # 111 Chicago, IL 60610 February 20th 2013 Dr. John Stockton 3329 Airfield Lane Miami, Florida 44342 Dear Dr. Stockton: My name is Emad Hafiz and I am the CEO of Clarity Diagnostic Imaging Centers (CDIC). From one physician to another I am confident that you too see the changes in demand in the last decade in diagnostic imaging services in outpatient and inpatient procedures. This demand is exceeding our supply of diagnostic imaging capabilities and the demand will only rise as more of the population is requiring medical attention than ever. I would like to personally extend an invitation to come in and visit our franchise model diagnostic medical imaging center that we have setup in Chicago, Illinois. This standard imaging center model is a very easy setup, with a guaranteed net income of approximately $150-200k depending on the geographical location and demand of the center. With initial startup investment costs as low as $300k (includes a onetime $100k franchising fee, royalty fee, setup fee and operations support) your investment is very well protected and return in seen within 2 years. Generating a stable income in the healthcare field, possibly close to your own practice and helping patients increase their quality of health care is every physicians dream and I believe you should be a part of it. Please revise the business plan attached and contact me personally if you have any questions, concerns...
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...Introduction Adidas is a company that manufactures shoes and sport apparel. The founder is Adolf Dassler who is German. The name created by combination of the name and surname Adi Dassler, who started producing shoes in 1920s with the help of his brother Rudolf Dassler. That make costumer, to recognize Adidas is three parallel stripes of the same color. Slogan: “IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING” 1. History 1949-2005 Due to the death of Adolf’s son (Horst Dassler), the Company was bought in 1990 by Bernard Tapie. Back then Tapie was specialist of rescuing bankrupt companies. Next step was to change the place of production to Asia and make a promotion campaign by using a famous person as Madonna (famous singer). In 1992 economical problems lead Tapi to sell Adidas to Lyonnais bank. Lyonnais sold Adidas to Robert Louis-Dreyfus who was also the president of the Olympique de Marseille football team. In 1997, Adidas AG acquired the Salomon Group, and its corporate name was changed to Adidas-Salomon AG. Seven years later, top English fashion designer Stella McCartney launched a joint-venture line with Adidas. This line was a sports performance collection for women called "Adidas by Stella McCartney". After 2 years, Adidas introduced the Adidas 1, the first ever production shoe to utilize a microprocessor. In August 2005, Adidas bought rival Reebok. At the same time sales had been closer to those of Nike in North America. The acquisition of Reebok would also allow Adidas to compete with...
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...Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Humanity Artificial intelligence is the human-like intelligence demonstrated by machines and man made software. The artificial intelligence field is interdisciplinary meaning that it combines two or more academic disciplines or fields of study, in which a number and professions mesh together, including computer science, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and neuroscience, as well as other specialized fields such as artificial psychology. Major artificial intelligence researchers and textbooks define this field as the study and design of intelligent agents, where as an intelligence agent is a system that checks out its environment and takes the necessary actions that maximizes the chances of success(Artificial Intelligence, A.G. Cohn, R. Dechter). Now, this person John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defined it as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. Artificial intelligence research is very highly technical and specialized, and is deeply divided into sub fields that usually often fail to communicate with each other. Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors meaning that it will or will not function because of our multicultural race. Some sub fields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. Artificial intelligence research is also divided by several technical issues. Some sub fields focus on the solution of specific problems. Others focus on one...
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...The Theological Background of Christian Zionism: Part I - Reflection By Mikael Knighton on Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 11:39am The Theological Background of Christian Zionism Part I - Reflection By: Mikael Knighton Christians Standing with Israel, Founder The Theological Background of Christian Zionism is a three part series authored by Mikael Knighton, founder of Christians Standing with Israel. The series consists of three installments: Reflection, Reconciliation, and Reconsideration. The series has been published in both the US and in Israel, where it was translated to Hebrew and published in the NATIV, a Jewish magazine facilitated by the Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR). Synopsis Over the centuries, Christian support of the state of Israel has been looked upon with a suspicious and vigilant eye. In fact, history will clearly show that the essence of pure evil, operating under the guise of “Christianity”, has facilitated a complete and justifiable collapse in Judeo-Christian relations. Only recently has the relationship between the Jewish people and Christians become fruitful, and the "mending" process, albeit positive, continues to evolve. Even so, the question remains: “Why do Christians support the state of Israel?” Christian Zionism, a theological belief that identifies the restoration of the Jewish people to their biblical homeland as the literal fulfillment of biblical prophecies foretold thousands of years ago, may arguably exist as the most...
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...Portugal June 2012 SUMMARY This paper analyzes three types of discrimination (age, sexual orientation, gender and race) in the labor market in the different countries all over the world. The results show that the skin color discrimination is the most widespread type of discrimination followed by the sexual orientation discrimination. Unexpected result was about gender discrimination which is the least likely in the EU but the evidence indicates that sex discrimination remains a possible explanation of the unexplained gender pay gap between men and women. Key words: labor market, discrimination, women, skin color, sexual orientation. JEL: J71 Introduction It’s all about the money, isn’t it nowadays? We need to buy our food, pay our bills and educate our children. Money is the “necessity bad” today. But even in our modern, global, without barriers world, world in which they teach us that everything is possible, there is still big inequity. The chance for some people to achieve job and to feed their families is much lower than to the others. Even nowadays not only dream and ambitions are enough. When it comes for having a job and building career there is also comes the problem with discrimination in the labor market. This topic is one of the most difficult for researches and usually is hard to be proved that this still exists nowadays. In the following paper we will discuss discrimination in the labor market in different countries and areas. Some nations are more tolerant than...
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