The current research aims to identify: 1. The level of mathematical construct among the Department of Mathematics students in the colleges of education and basic education. 2. The level of effective mathematical operations in both sides of the brain at the Department of Mathematics students in the colleges of education and basic education. 3. The strength and direction of the correlation between the mathematical construct and effective mathematical operations on both sides of the brain at the Department of Mathematics students in the colleges of Education and Basic Education. To investigate the research objectives, the researcher formulated zero-main hypothesis for each aim and from the same hypothesis, three sub-zero hypotheses are derived. The current research community has included the fourth-year students (171 subjects) from the departments of mathematics students in the colleges of Education and Basic Education - Misan University (Morning Studies) for the academic year (2015-2016). Because the number of the community is small, the current research has included all fourth-year students in the mathematics department at the colleges of Education and Basic Education - Misan University except the students in the exploratory sample which are (30) subjects, were taken equally from the students of the Department of Mathematics in the two colleges. Therefore, the size of sample was (141) students; (63) students are from the College of Education and (78) students are from the College of Basic Education. The researcher had prepared a test of effective mathematical operations on both sides of the brain is composed of (34) items distributed among three fields. He proved its validity, reliability and to the statistical analysis of its items. He used a template test for mathematical construct, which was used before. He modified some its items linguistically, rearranged some of them and numbered in a different way, and check its validity, reliability and the statistical analysis to its items. The final draft of the test included (36) objective items, (23) multiple- choice items and (7) items of the pairing type (they included 55 sub-items). After the application of the two tools of the research on a sample of research and data analysis, the researcher obtained the following results: 1. The students of research sample have the mathematical construct at the required level. 2. The research sample students have effective mathematical operations on both sides of the brain at the required level. 3. Statistically, there is significant correlation between the mathematical construct and the effective mathematical operations on both sides of the brain among the students of the research sample. Based on the research results, the researcher formulated a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions
In the modern world, wind turbine (WT) has become the largest source of renewable energy. The horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) has higher efficiency than the vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT). The blade pitch angle (BPA) of WT is controlled to increase output power generation over the rated wind speed. This paper proposes an accurate controller for BPA in a 500-kw HAWT. Three types of controllers have been applied and compared to find the best controller: PID controller (PIDC), fuzzy logic type-2 controller (T2FLC), and hybrid type-2 fuzzy-PID controller (T2FPIDC). This paper has been used Mamdani and Sugeno fuzzy inference systems (FIS) to find the best inference system for WT controllers. Furthermore, genetic algorithm (GA) and particl
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This study investigates the performance of granular dead anaerobic sludge (GDAS) bio-sorbent as permeable reactive barrier in removing phenol from a simulated contaminated shallow groundwater. Batch tests have been performed to characterize the equilibrium sorption properties of the GDAS and sandy soil in phenol-containing aqueous solutions. The results of GDAS tests proved that the best values of operating parameters, which achieve the maximum removal efficiency of phenol (=85%), at equilibrium contact time (=3 hr), initial pH of the solution (=5), initial phenol concentration (=50 mg/l), GDAS dosage (=0.5 g/100 ml), and agitation speed (=250 rpm). Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis proved that the carboxylic acid, aromatic, alk
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