Fuzzy Automatic Guitar Tuner Kourosh Rahnamai‚ Brian Cox‚ Kevin Gorman Department of Electrical Engineering Western New England College Springfield‚ MA 01119‚ USA {krahnama‚bcox0‚kgorman}@wnec.edu receive of the other PC’s serial connection and visa versa. This allows the controller to be downloaded to the target PC and provides a two-way communications between the host and target PCs. Abstract – An automatic guitar tuner was successfully designed and developed using a fuzzy logic controller
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Strings: For a common acoustic guitar‚ there are six strings. These strings‚ either made of nylon or steel string acoustics‚ are tuned low E‚ A‚ D‚ G‚ B‚ and high E respectively. Subsequently‚ four factors determine the pitch when the strings are plucked: mass‚ tension‚ length‚ and mode of vibration. For instance‚ if you were to have a heavy string‚ it would take a longer time to vibrate‚ thus‚ giving it a lower frequency. And vice versa. However‚ frequency is not only limited to string
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Diamond Foods 1. How did weaknesses in Diamond Foods’ internal controls contribute to the accounting scandal? The audit committee of Diamond’s board was conducting an investigation of Diamond’s accounting for certain crop payments to walnut growers. This is where the scandal sort of took off. Filings done to approve the accounting practices were signed off by the companies CEO and CFO. Then there was an independent audit committee who was assigned to probe the company’s practices. The committee
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Guitar Highway Rose explores the difficulties of growing up as well as the complications of being an adult; discuss Guitar Highway Rose takes us on a long journey exploring what its like to be a teenager as well as life as an adult that has to cope with a teenager who wants freedom like all teenagers‚ how teenagers rebel and want their own independence‚ wanting more experience and their problems with their family. It also discusses how the parents have difficulty
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message needs to aim mass influencers in order to generate word of mouth and gain popularity. Apart from this‚ the video needs to appeal to the viewer’s emotions‚ this way the receptor will feel part of the event. On the specific case of “United Breaks Guitar” (UBG)‚ we will analyze the type of message it is conveying‚ the people who first caused an impression on and the repercussions this video brought. The message that UBG conveyed “empowered” the viewers with information and an idea that they could
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DIAMOND MINING AND ITS IMPACT ON ENVIROMENT * Diamond is the strongest natural mineral known by a man. It is a crystalline form of carbon. * Composed primarily individual crystals of a cubic appearance. * There are three main uses for Diamonds * Industrial * Fashion (only 5% of diamonds) * Investment Approximately 130‚000‚000 carats (26‚000 kg) of diamonds are mined yearly‚ with a total value of nearly US$9 billion‚ and about 100‚000 kg are
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mineralogy‚ diamond (from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas "unbreakable") is an allotrope of carbon‚ where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities‚ most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms. In particular‚ diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any bulk material. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE: - . Diamond is less
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Ryan Conde QU301 Skyers Blood Diamonds Conflict diamonds are most commonly found in Africa‚ and are mined by slaves. The diamonds mined in this area were coined “blood diamonds” because enabled violence and destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives. I believe that as a global community we allowed‚ and sometimes encouraged the trade of conflict diamonds. Conflict diamonds derived from war zones and were sold to fuel insurgencies and guerilla groups. The lack of care was especially apparent
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Diamond Impact Mining has had both a negative and a positive effect on many societies; it has created conflict‚ higher quality of living‚ a higher economy and a higher environmental risk. In this essay I will focus mainly on the impact of diamonds in Africa‚ as this country is one of the main supplier of diamonds worldwide. Two-thirds of the world’s diamonds are exported from Africa; they are mined in these countries; Angola‚ Botswana‚ Tanzania‚ The Congo and Zimbabwe. For many of these countries
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leadership module - achieved 65% The Leadership of Bob Diamond at Barclays Bank MBA Leadership Module final essay. Introduction The former CEO of Barclays Bank Bob Diamond was recently elected as one of the top ten ‘worst business leaders’ in 2012 by several respected international polls. However‚ Diamond had been an extraordinarily good leader over the years and had many business successes. He started
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