Background: Machining using vertical CNC end mill is popular in the modern material removal industries because of its ability to remove the material at a fast rate with a reasonably good surface quality. Methods: In this work, the influence of important common machining process variables like feed, cutting speed and axial depth of cut on the output parameters such as surface roughness and amplitude of tool vibration levels in Al-6061 workpieces has been studied. With the use of experimental result analysis and mathematical modelling, correlations between the cutting process conditions and process outputs are studied in detail. The cutting experiments are planned with response surface methodology (RSM) using Box-Behnken design (BBD).

In the application of remote cardiovascular monitoring, the computational complexity and power consumption need to be maintained in a considerable level in order to prevent the limitations introduced by the computationally constrained equipment’s that perform the process of continuous monitoring and analysis. In this paper, a Circulant Matrix-based Continuous Wavelet Transform (CM-CWT)-based feature extraction mechanism is contributed to minimizing the computational complexity incurred during the process of feature extraction from the input ECG signals. This proposed CM-CWT mechanism derives the advantages of the Circulant Matrix-based Continuous Wavelet Transform and Gradient-based filtering design for achieving excellent feature extraction from ECG signals with low computational complexity. The experimental investigation of the proposed CM-CWT mechanism is conducted using the factors of computational complexity, sensitivity, prediction accuracy and error rate for estimating its predominance over the compared DWT-HAAR and HIFEA approaches used for ECG feature extraction. The experiments of the proposed CM-CWT mechanism on an average is estimated to reduce the error rate to the maximum of 21% compared to the existing DWT-HAAR and HIFEA approaches used for ECG feature extraction.

Cantilevered shaft-rotor systems consisting of multi disks and multi profiled shafts are considered. In this paper the procedures for the determination of the deflection, slope, shear force and bending moment at the extremities of the shaft are employed. Critical speeds or whirling frequency conditions are computed using transfer matrix method (TMM). For particular shaft-lengths, rotating speeds and shaft-profiles, the response of the system is determined for the establishment of the dynamic characteristics. A built-in shaft-rotor system consisting of two disks and two different profiled shafts is investigated for illustration purposes. Step response of the multi profiled shaft-rotor system is also found out.

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Smile is one of the important emotions that is essential in computer vision tasks. The greatly influenced part due to it is the lips. By encountering the changes in lips of smile images with respect to no smile, a smile detecting model can design for the computer vision tasks. In this paper, the approach is to evaluate the spread of lips. The lips movement distance is evaluated with respect to the eyes. 68 landmark points of dlib are used for this purpose. The left and right corners of lips are evaluated with the left and right eyes respectively using the count of landmark points (l and r). The secondary parameters - average, Maximum, and maxavgsum of l and r are used for evaluating the lip expansion variation. For each value of these parameters that can attain from l and r, the count of no smile images below it and count of smile images above it is considered and calculated the attainable efficiency. The value of secondary parameter having the maximum efficiency is defined as the threshold. The maximum efficiency that is attained due to average, Maximum and maxavgsum are 80.06, 67.3 and 78.54 respectively at the thresholds 2, 3 and 4.5 respectively.