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Optimal Adsorptive Bleaching of Palm Oil with Activated Beans Husks 活化豆皮对棕榈油吸附漂白的优化研究

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V13I2.630

B. Olufemi, Adedoyin T. Damola-Okesiji

引用次数: 3

Numerical Analysis of Combustion Dynamics for Single Stage Entrained Flow Gasifier 单级夹带流气化炉燃烧动力学数值分析

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V13I2.634

B. Hussain, Hafiz Waqar Azmat, M. Bashir, M. Umer

引用次数: 0

Automatic Fruits Classification System Based on Deep Neural Network 基于深度神经网络的水果自动分类系统

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V13I1.501

Khadija Munir, A. I. Umar, Waqas Yousaf

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引用次数: 2

Towards a Model for Work Distribution to Overcome Communication Barrier in Global software development 一种克服全球软件开发中沟通障碍的工作分配模型

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V13I1.274

Aleena Sunbalin, Y. Hafeez

{"title":"Towards a Model for Work Distribution to Overcome Communication Barrier in Global software development","authors":"Aleena Sunbalin, Y. Hafeez","doi":"10.24949/NJES.V13I1.274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24949/NJES.V13I1.274","url":null,"abstract":"According to competitive and complex market situation, to fulfill customer needs the companies required to provide more functionality and higher quality software faster. Companies should be used existing resources as efficiently as possible, and they also need to utilize resources on a global scale from different sites within the company as well as associate companies throughout the world. All these provide in GSD that increase the functionality and quality of software. The main problem that GSD team face are: communication, coordination and work distribution. A proper mechanism for work distribution and communication has overcome the challenges that effect the project goal. To solve the GSD issues. We proposed a model that helps to mitigate these problems. We use site/work dependency and work/site characteristics criteria for the work distribution model. We also implement phased base configuration and work distribution model that helps in the work distribution mechanism. And use NEOStation software to overcome the barriers of communication, coordination and project management. The model has been developed to provide reliable communication between team members and provide an approach to the distribution of work as support for managers.","PeriodicalId":338631,"journal":{"name":"NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124248594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Quorum Quenching Cell Entrapping Bead by Polyvinyl Alcohol Method for Biofouling Mitigation in Lab-scale MBR 聚乙烯醇法群体淬灭细胞包埋头在实验室MBR中的生物污染缓解研究

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V13I1.601

Z. Islam, J. Rose, Sadia Ahmed, Shinho Chung

{"title":"Quorum Quenching Cell Entrapping Bead by Polyvinyl Alcohol Method for Biofouling Mitigation in Lab-scale MBR","authors":"Z. Islam, J. Rose, Sadia Ahmed, Shinho Chung","doi":"10.24949/NJES.V13I1.601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24949/NJES.V13I1.601","url":null,"abstract":"Quorum Quenching (QQ) bacteria such as Rhodococcus sp. BH4 and Pseudomonas putida have excellent anti-biofouling potential as they disrupt Quorum Sensing (QS) system and inhibit biofilm formation on membranes. Cell Entrapping Beads (CEBs) in which the QQ bacteria are immobilized is one of the most effective methods to mitigate membrane biofouling in MBR. The CEBs are very crucial as they mainly protect QQ bacteria from harsh environment of the sludge for better QQ effect and help in physical cleaning of membranes in a submerged MBR. Previously simple sodium alginate (SA) beads were used but it was found that their durability was very low in real wastewater. Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) is a better alternative due to its higher durability, chemical stability and low cost. Several brands of PVAs with different polymerization degrees were used here and small amount of SA was added to avoid agglomeration of PVA beads. Concentrations of SA/PVA were varied and different temperature of cross-linking solution also was examined. Then quality of the beads was evaluated on physical and biological aspect. It was found that a PVA of 2,270 polymerization degree with 8% mixed in 1% SA makes the most stable CEBs. A certain brand of SA didn’t prevent agglomeration of CEBs while a specific brand of SA did even at lower concentrations. Temperature of cross-linking solution also was found to have significant effect on internal structure of beads. The quality of CEBs made by the best method found in this research was confirmed through series of tests, i.e. freeze drying, scanning electron microscopy, activity test after immobilization of QQ bacteria in the beads.","PeriodicalId":338631,"journal":{"name":"NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114586101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

A Survey on Distributed Information Systems using Semantic Web Techniques 基于语义Web技术的分布式信息系统研究综述

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V12I1.428

Syed Farhan Mohsin Mohsin, S. I. Jami

引用次数: 0

A multi-threaded communication architecture for networked control systems 网络化控制系统的多线程通信体系结构

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V12I1.403

Raazi M. K. Syed

引用次数: 0

Impact of urbanization on water resources of Pakistan: A review 城市化对巴基斯坦水资源的影响：综述

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V12I1.230

Mehreen Khan

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引用次数: 7

Contributory Factors of Traffic Accidents in Lahore Using Generalized Linear Models (GLM) 基于广义线性模型(GLM)的拉合尔交通事故成因分析

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V12I1.506

Hajra Slam, Yasar Mahmood

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引用次数: 0

Development and characterization of repeating macro and micro geometric surface features on plain carbon steel using chemical etching 化学刻蚀法在普通碳钢表面上重复宏观和微观几何特征的研究与表征

NUST Journal of Engineering Sciences Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.24949/NJES.V12I1.397

Isra Tariq, Fatima Maryum, Maheen Fazal, H. Shams, M. N. Qureshi

引用次数: 0