text: COMPLETE SATISFACTIONSECTION 1MY REFLECTIONSMy mind travels back to a place in time when my only desire in life was to be loved by someone. I never felt "love" neither as a child nor as a teenager. When I was just 1 years old, my father stripped the 3 of us from the arms of our mother and placed us in the care of our grandparents. Our father, decidedly, wasn't available mentally, physically nor spiritually to nurture his children. He wasn't sober long enough to introduce us to parental love. His daily course of life evolved around working, chasing women, and drinking. I remember searching for people to love me and not being able to find anyone that was sincere. I remember searching year after year, month after month, week after week, day after day, and the only thing I accomplished was the fact that I was getting older. The older I got I could tell quickly that that person didn't truly love me nor had they took the time to get to know me. Reflecting back, I searched so long and looked so passionately for something that I didn't realize I didn't even possess, I didn't even love myself. I had been searching for something that I had in the confines of my own heart. But I was doing the best I could to find completeness. To find what I needed and I didn't find it until I met him. SECTION 2MY PASTI searched for someone to fill the void that dwell deep inside the core of my heart and rested in the pit of my soul. My daily constant ritual, my consuming addiction, and my overpowering need consumed my life. I never got tired of searching for someone because I was so consumed with needing the emptiness in my inner being filled. The majority of my life I spent searching for the love I thought I needed. I realized that in my quest to find love that I had surrounded myself with people that didn't know how to love because they had the same void as I did. I was comfortable around these people because they loved only one thing, the moment. Whatever moment we were in, that's where we found contentment. If we were watching TV, we would look at something that would make us laugh, something happy, so that we would be happy for that moment. If we were shopping, we would window shop at the expensive stores and then spend our money in the bargain stores, laughing about how money we saved, and this made us happy for the moment. Our lives consisted of fleeting moments of happiness, but nothing was real neither was it lasting. I found contentment not thinking about tomorrow, because life's tomorrows made me sad. I didn't have anything to look forward to therefore my tomorrows were always filled with today's moments. SECTION 3MY FRIENDSMy today's moments were filled with people that were users, abusers, low lives; people that mistreated other people because they felt like somebody owed them something. These were the people that I called friends. I perceived in my own self-inflicted wisdom that other people were fake, self-centered, egoistic individuals with the capability of only loving themselves therefore I didn't like people that weren't sick. I surrounded myself with my sick friends because this allowed me the ability to feel well. I was accepted around them and was well liked. It was those fake people that I had a problem with, those people that had relationships, those people that seem to be happy, and those people that had stable employment. Those were the people that made me feel inadequate; they made me feel like an imposer and I couldn't relate to them anyway so I stayed away from the fake people. Now, my abusing, using, low life friend made it easier for me. They accepted me for who I was and what I was and how I lived my life. My friends didn't place any judgmental imprisoned sentences on me. They made is easy for me to find action. The action that I needed replaced the love that I had searched for, but the action always included a man, an excuse of a man; then another excuse of a man, and then another, and so on. I knew that the only thing; an excuse of a man cared about was what they wanted could get from me and what excuses they had to make up for their stupidity. But the sad fact of the matter is that I really didn't care, I really didn't care about them and I was in it to get what I wanted and that was to fill the void. SECTION 4MY MENMy void was filled with me doing some of the craziest things imaginable. One of the craziest things I would do to guys that would develop an attachment to me is; I would "use them," abuse him verbally, slap them on their firm cheeks, mess up their relationships with their mothers and children, if they had any. I would also go in their pockets and steal their money and use the power emotion of tears and lies to work my way around their anger. I knew that only men with low self-esteem would allow me to treat them like this, but those were the men that I wanted. I purposefully wouldn't answer my ringing phone when I knew one of them would be calling, unless I needed something. I laughingly would speak to them with disrespectfully, condescendingly and abrasively. I told so many lies that lying became my daily regurgitating state of conversation. These were the men that loved me and I needed to fill my void by any means possible. I was so lonely and ignorant that I didn't realize that these were the men that saw something in me that I didn't even see in myself. They knew that I was worthy to be treated with respect. They knew I was worthy to be treated like a lady. They knew that I was worthy, but it was hard to treat a voided woman like a real lady when she held no mental identity of who she was or what she was. The only thing that I possessed and held close to my heart was my void and no one could take that from me. I was comfortable with my void and I knew exactly how to live with it. My obsessions, my addictions, and my void deep in the core of my heart, allowed me to feel very comfortable in relationships that I knew weren't going to work.SECTION 5MY RELATIONSHIPSI became a self taught, self educated expert in dating the wrong man and entering into relationships that wasn't healthy. Blaming it on the man was a reality that I had drawn in the sand and I was happily walking on the beach in it. I was comfortable blaming my breakups on the man, that "no good man." That was the avenue that I took to release myself from accountability. I wasn't looking for any accountability, I didn't want to be accountable for a persons feeling, emotions, or life, nor was I prepared to be accountable; I was looking to fill the void in my heart and soul. But once I reached a level of conformability with a man, and he conformed to my ways, I would get bored and knew that the time was right for me to move on. I noticed that I would feel content for a while and then something inside me would inflict emptiness again. The men would get comfortable with the way thing were and that's when I would change. I was always expecting something to change. I needed things to constantly change in order to feel my life with excitement, a feeling of being wanted. I often wondered why men would start off exciting and then get comfortable and then they would leave me feeling empty again because of their inadequacies. They must have had as many issues as I did growing up. That is the only explanation as to why would they allow me to order them around like they were children, why would they allow me to act a fool, curse them out, and they keep forgiving me. They knew and I knew that I would be lying to them about changing, why would they accept garbage from me? These were men that were ridiculed when they were younger, men that were abused, beaten by parents, men that weren't successful by the populous standards, weak men that needed a woman like me help identify their self worth. Wow, I use to think to myself, what a waste of a perfectly good man.SECTION 6MY MARRIAGESIt's my wedding day, and I'm so excited, wedding number 5 and everybody knows that the number 5 means grace. I'm starting a new adventure with a new person and he'll be learning so many new things about me and himself. I'm determined to make this marriage work; after all he's really into me. I have great expectations that this is the right husband and that he will continue to meet my emotional, spiritual, psychological and physical needs. After all I'm a lady now and this husband showers me with the things that I favor most. The wedding was so beautiful. The homeless shelter had allowed me to decorate the dining room the night before. There were beautiful white and red carnations draping the windows and chairs. I had also put red plastic table cloths on the table and a single red rose resting in the middle of the tables surrounded by babies breath flowers. I was so thankful that the shelter had allowed us to have the wedding there because most of my friends had either fell on hard luck and lived on the streets close to the shelter or had a bed at the shelter. I was committed to having my friends there, so my soon to be handsome husband paid for new clothes and hair dos for them. I had to have my friends there because this could possibly be the most important day of my life; well I hope this one will be. The wedding was beautiful and I have to admit Reverend Jones from Jones and Sons Funeral Home look rather dapper. The wedding was just what I needed at that time in my life but the marriage was another story. I should have known that I had found another weak man. I went into the marriage with a determination to make it work and not to hurt anyone this time. After all, I did have some convictions and I wasn't a monster, I was just a woman that didn't know where to find what I was looking for. I have married another wrong man. This man was truly a piece of work. He had the nerve to attempt to tell me that I needed to change the way that I dress because I was now Mrs. Groomed. Are you serious! I knew after 2days of being Mrs. Groomed that I needed to return back into being Ms…. Um, well, Ms somebody. Now this fool has caused me to change my last name and now I need to think about whose name I would go back to using again. What a prime time jerk, to cause such confusion in my life. If I had of known that I had to change my name again, I would have left it the way it was, Ms. Hash. WOW, what was I thinking, I truly knew how to marry the wrong man.Now, let's see, do I want my first husband's name back, after all he had a body out of this world and I showed him how to strut his stuff. He was a heck of a guy, he really knew how to party, and he would make me laugh continuously. I loved the way he would make me laugh for hours. I stayed with him for 6 years and it was 6 years of fun until he ran out of money. He was tired of the bar scene and wanted to settle down. He had the nerve to think that I would actually have kids by him. I really needed to go after he tried to get me to stop going to parties and to become a "HOUSEWIFE." Well, I won't be using his name; I might get pregnant just by someone calling that name, Ms. Pumpernickel. Well my second and fourth husbands were a lot alike and two plus two is four and four rhythms with more so it seems like husband 4 name is it. After all I remember, oh how I remember. They both like traveling, even thought neither had a lot of money to travel. The second husband with his large muscles and his tiny …………. brain, loved to talk and talk for weeks about trips we would go on. He would talk me to death but I only saw one trip manifest. The fourth stallion of a husband, who knew how to kiss, but stuttered would say, "We're traveling." Thank God he was a man of a few words because his stuttering got on my nerves. But when he said, "We're traveling," the next thing I knew, we were on the road. Until I had gone on so many road trips that every city began to look the same. Plus I was so sick and tired of getting lost. Both of them, husband two and husband four had to go. Hopefully neither is traveling down the yellow brick road, lost. Well, I guess I don't want to be remembered as Ms. Jones nor Ms. Williams.Oh, wait a hot minute, Henry, my Harry Belafonte, my, my, my. My had a little money third husband was sexy and had a little money. He was handsome, built in all the right places and had a little money. He knew how to treat a lady and he knew how to give it to me. I was the lady of the hour and I enjoyed every lasting moment of it. He would give me money to shop and shop. I would love to go grocery shopping because I could spend money and buy whatever groceries I wanted and take it to my friends. He would also take me out to eat at different restaurants and then take me to my favorite ice cream spot, Dairy Dream Cone. Now when it came to clothes and shoes, oh my God, I thought that the angelic angels would be calling me to purchase certain items. I shopped in all the best discounted stores in Texas. I would go into the store singing time to make momma donuts and come out the stores singing, time to eat momma donuts. Henry Lockerby was a wonderful man but he lacked any intelligence, just stupid. How long can a person live with a stupid man? Well, I'm not going to be Ms. Lockerby the dull-witted woman. I guess I'll just go back to using my maiden name, Ms. Ocean, because I'm flowing free again.Now that I've been married five times, I'm going to have to really think about it before I marry another man. Maybe I should just live with them, get what I want, have my void filled and everyone will be happy and I won't have to see another judge. Plus why do I need to get married any more when everyone is living together. I know the difference between right and wrong and I didn't see anything wrong with me flowing with the flow of society. I would have my needs meet without the commitment and without complications. That way, when he starts acting like a fool I won't have to go through the exhaustive changes of getting a divorce, I can just slip away one evening without him ever knowing I'm gone, until he comes home.SECTION 7MY ENCOUNTERThen something unexpectedly decided to happen doing the span of time I've been contemplating what to do in this new relationship I'm in. I met another man! But not just any man, I encountered a man beyond my wildest imagination, beyond my perception of a man, he's a god. I had walked to the store without mentally focusing on any one particular thing, to purchase some cool water drink boxes and when I was coming out of the store this gorgeous man approached me. He looked into my mesmerized eyes with his glowing eyes and spoke meticulous words that arrested my attention. His eye was piercing, he was gentle, his stance was captivating, and I could feel my heart pounding from deep within me. I could tell by his behavior that He possessed qualities that I hadn't known in a man before. His mannerism was calm, his movement was slow and powerful, and his spirit was precious. Something deep inside me knew that he was too powerful and precious for me not to stop and listen to what he had to say. I was mesmerized by him. Normally the first thing I notice about a man is his looks, his butt and if his pants is tight. But this time was different. I didn't look at him that way, because his heart immediately spoke volumes of compassion to my heart. He asks me for one of my drink boxes and the only thing that released from my lips were, "You're talking to me?" I can tell that you're a spiritual man and you're asking me for a drink. In the back of my mind, I'm thinking that I have died and gone to heaven, but I'm also thinking that this man would never want a woman like me. Yes, can I share a drink box with you? I answer, ok, who's playing a game, where's the hidden cameras, I know that I'm not the type of woman that you're use to being around. But the humble man didn't answer me as I thought he would, he said, I can give you a drink that will cause you to never thirst again. Being mesmerized by the quality of speech, I said, what? Are you still really speaking with me attempting to start a conversation? The amazing man begins walking and I start following his footsteps. He kind and gentle and says, "I wish to give you a drink, if you're thirsty?" I shouted, "I'm thirsty, let go, I can use a drink right now." My heart and mind was in total agreement with this man because his eyes, his words and his spirit was so comforting, so real, so commanding that all I wanted to do was to go have a drink with him.My desire and my thirst said, "Sir, let's go and have this drink that I might not thirst any more and one that you're paying for. Then in my moment of anticipation; in a quick moment of silence, he decides to change the conversation from water to my male companions. Walking slowly he wanted to converse about who I was with and wanted me to call my husband. By now, I'm really confused, why does this powerful man want me to talk about other men when I thought him and I was going for a drink. Why would he want me to put myself on open display and tell him about my husband or the lack of having one? But somehow this wonderful man knew that I didn't have a husband and I had to tell him the truth. I have no husband! He immediately responded, "I know that you don't have a husband and I know that you've been married five times and that the lonely man you're with now is not your husband. WOW! JUDY! She had to be the one spreading my business all over town. I'm going to kill her! Well, sir you're correct, I guess you know Judy? He replies, "No, I don't know Judy." Then it had to be Angela, Maria, Sylvia or Brenda. He replies, "No one told me your business, I know because I know." Now I'm finding this man beautiful but strange and here we go again, I get all the nuts. Wonderingly, I am curious as to how you know my business. Are you a reader, a prophet, or just a nut? Then I looked into his eyes and I knew that there was something powerful and spiritual about this man.SECTION 8DIVINE ENCOUNTERSomething inside me knew that I was experiencing a divine encounter, something I had never encountered before. My heart felt free to communicate with him, my mind was ready to receive what he had to say to me, and my body was not going to move from this spot until I received what I had. I felt like this was what I've waited my whole life for and what my life needed now. He began his spiritual and motivational teaching. He told me that I was more precious than gold, and that I needed to forgive my father and forgive myself and that I needed to believe in something greater than myself, God. He continued to feed me words of wisdom until I wanted no more. I could feel the tears streaming down my face as they fell on my dress. I could feel my heart beat racing as the flow of this man's care flowed through my veins. I could feel that emptiness filling with forgiveness, filling with love for myself, filling with grief as I allowed my old life to die. His words created satisfaction, happiness and peace. It must have been God there all the time, watching over me in my stupidity. It was because of this divine encounter that my heart began to leap with joy, my mind began to be transformed and my life had changed immediately. Then this gracious man speaks into my life just what the doctored order, "peace." It was right at that moment that my life changed. My heart believed him, and my mind received him and from that moment on, I was given something that I had never received before, a full glass. I had received the gift of love. This man didn't want anything from me, except for me to know my worth and to believe again. I began to dance in the streets. To promenade around in a childish laughter and I knew that I could now be what God had created me to be from the beginning. My life was given back to me because God sent an amazing man to speak love, peace, direction, and wisdom into my life. I am full and after forgiving myself and my father, I have COMPLETE SATISFACTION. What a wonderful change that has come over me.


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As commonly used forced convection air cooling devices in electronics, cooling fans are crucial for guaranteeing the reliability of electronic systems. In a cooling fan assembly, fan bearing failure is a major failure mode that causes excessive vibration, noise, reduction in rotation speed, locked rotor, failure to start, and other problems; therefore, it is necessary to conduct research on the health assessment of cooling fan bearings. This paper presents a vibration-based fan bearing health evaluation method using comblet filtering and exponentially weighted moving average. A new health condition indicator (HCI) for fan bearing degradation assessment is proposed. In order to collect the vibration data for validation of the proposed method, a cooling fan accelerated life test was conducted to simulate the lubricant starvation of fan bearings. A comparison between the proposed method and methods in previous studies (
The integration level and energy consumption of electronic circuits is increasing, resulting in increased heat flux densities and temperatures in electronic devices. In addition, the recent trend toward super-light and super-thin electronics has imposed further challenges on system thermal design. According to [
As a commonly used thermal solution for most electronic devices, cooling fans have simple structures with low cost. According to [
A cooling fan is composed of both electronic and mechanical parts. The mechanical parts include the bearings, shaft, fan blades, and fan housing; out of these, bearing failure is the top contributor to fan failure. The types of bearings used in cooling fans can be categorized as sleeve bearings, ball bearings, fluid bearings, and magnetic bearings. The selection of bearings should consider parameters such as performance, durability, cost, size, weight, and noise. Ball bearings have the advantage of a good balance between these factors, and so they are widely used in cooling fans. Specifically, ball bearings have a longer lifespan at higher temperatures (63,000 hours at 50 °C) than sleeve bearings (40,000 hours at 50 °C) [
As a typical rolling-element bearing, a ball bearing is the fundamental rotating part in a mechanical system, and numerous studies have been conducted on bearing fault diagnosis [
The purpose of this research is to investigate cooling fan bearing health assessment methods and develop a prognostics and health management (PHM) solution for fan degradation assessment. However, the literature on fan bearing health assessment is limited. The Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, has conducted research on fan bearings, including fan bearing fault identification [
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the fundamentals of the comblet filter. In Section 3, a new health indicator for fan bearing degradation assessment is proposed. In Section 4, the fan bearing accelerated life test rig is introduced, and then vibration data collected from this test rig are used for validation of the proposed method. Conclusions are presented in Section 5.
Time-domain synchronous averaging (TSA) is a useful technique for rotating machinery fault diagnosis. It can extract fault-related periodic information from complicated signals and eliminate extraneous periodic components and noise. In TSA, the measured signal is synchronously averaged over the rotational period of the target of interest. The nonsynchronous vibration from other sources and noise are averaged out by applying this procedure. After a large amount of averaging in the time-domain, the averaged signal gradually approximates the expected periodic signal, and the signal to noise ratio is improved.
Given a piece of signal
Taking the Z-transform on
Thus, the transfer function of the time-domain averaging is obtained as:
The frequency response of
The corresponding amplitude response and phase responses are described as:
Therefore, TSA can be seen as a comb impulse train filter which implements signal filtering in the frequency domain. It keeps the information around the main frequency and its harmonics and suppresses other unrelated frequency components. However, good performance of the TSA technique requires many averages and long signal lengths, and these may not be available due to cost and other technical restrictions in data collection. Furthermore, the underlying assumption of the constant rotation speed is not always met in rotating systems because the rotation speed fluctuates according to working conditions, such as load and electrical supply. If the rotation speed is fluctuating, synchronous sampling is necessary, which collects vibration at a rate related directly to the rotation speed of the target. Another solution is to record the vibration signal at an arbitrary sampling rate and do resampling through interpolation. However, the implementation of these techniques is difficult due to the higher cost of hardware and increased computational burden.
The wavelet transform provides a time-frequency representation of a signal through a set of wavelet basis functions [
The wavelet function
The equivalent frequency-domain representation can be expressed as:
Accordingly, the continuous wavelet transform can be treated as a band-pass filter. The bandwidth and central frequency of the filter is determined by the scale parameter
The wavelet coefficient
Due to its property of time-frequency localization, the Morlet wavelet has been widely used in signal processing. It is defined as:
The Fourier transform of the Morlet wavelet is:
As seen in Section 2.1, TSA can be treated as a comb filter that extracts fault-related information from a complicated vibration signal. To overcome the aforementioned limitations of TSA, a new wavelet function is designed which possesses the properties of both the exponential decay of the Morlet wavelet and the flat passband of the harmonic wavelet. The new wavelet is called a comblet, and the mathematic definition of this wavelet is given by:
The half central bandwidth is defined as:
In bearing fault diagnosis, the comblet central frequency,
Thus, the maximum number of comb teeth in a comblet filter is obtained by:
For example, a comblet filter with
A vibration signal collected from a cooling fan involves the integration of several components, including shaft, bearing, motor, blade, and noise. If there is a local defect on a certain part of a bearing, an impulse is generated when a mating element encounters the local defect. Since the local defect iteratively contacts with other parts of the bearing, it generates low-frequency vibration components. The frequency of the vibration signal is related to the rotation speed and the geometrics of the bearing; it is called the bearing characteristic frequency (BCF). Typical failures of ball bearings include local defects on the rolling element, inner race, outer race, and cage. The corresponding bearing characteristic frequencies are defined as follows [
Ball spin frequency (BSF):
Ball pass frequency, inner race (BPFI):
Ball pass frequency, outer race (BPFO):
Fundamental train frequency (FTF):
It should be noted that the bearing characteristic frequencies are non-integer multiples of the rotation speed. In practice, since the rolling motions are accompanied by a degree of sliding which occurs in the contact areas [
As previously mentioned, vibrations produced by a cooling fan can be complex and can result from many different sources including the shaft, bearing, motor, blade, and noise. These different vibration sources interact with each other, which makes it almost impossible to identify the frequency of interest from the vibration spectrum without any data manipulation methods. In particular, vibration generated by a local defect in a bearing is usually very weak at the initial failure stage, and fault-related information, such as BCFs, is masked by other vibrations. It is therefore advantageous to remove the irrelevant information before proceeding with bearing health assessment.
A wavelet transform can be seen as a kind of bandpass filtering operation on a signal. The central frequency and bandwidth of the wavelet are tuned by the scale parameter
As stated in Section 2.3, the comblet is a new wavelet defined on the basis of some classical wavelet functions. Thus, the comblet transform can be described as the filtering operation on the signal
Before discussing methods for fan bearing degradation assessment, it is important to have an understanding of how the vibration signal changes as bearing failures develop. In general, bearing failure progresses through pre-failure, early failure, near failure, and near catastrophic failure stages [
Given the filtered signal
Assume the spectrum energy of the filtered signal is
In order to detect the occurrence of fan bearing incipient failures, an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) is utilized to define the health indicator. The exponentially weighted moving average is very effective in detecting small shifts in the process [
We chose the spectrum energy
After that, the remaining observations are used to evaluate the fan bearing health condition. The length of the observation sequence for evaluation is
Generally, the lifespan of a cooling fan can be several years, and it is uneconomical to conduct a life test under nominal working conditions. For a cooling fan working under its nominal load, lubrication degradation leads to wear in the bearing and shortens the lifespan of the cooling fan. Therefore, it is reasonable to choose the lubrication level to simulate lubrication degradation and accelerate the fan bearing life test. Fan bearing lubrication usually includes grease and oil from the manufacturing process. Assuming that the nominal amount of grease is at the 100% level, a certain lubrication level p% represents the percentage of grease being added to the bearing.
The cooling fan used in this research was an axial type brushless direct current (BLDC) fan with dimensions of 92 × 92 × 38 mm. The fan has two ball bearings to support the shaft, whose overall diameter is 8 mm.
In the experiment, a cooling fan with bearings containing only residual oil and no added grease (0% lubrication level) was used in the life test. To measure the vibration data, an in-situ monitoring system was established with a PCB 352C42 accelerometer attached to the fan housing near the bearing. Since a higher temperature reduces the film thickness between mating surfaces, thus accelerating localized deformation and friction on the bearing mating components, the fan was stressed in a chamber at a temperature of 70 °C. The rotation speed of the fan was 4800 rpm, corresponding to a frequency,
The cooling fan was in a good health condition before the experiment. The accelerated life test started at 09/09/2010 10:14 and ended at 09/22/2010 0:47, when the acoustic noise measured by the microphone increased 3dB from its initial value. In this period, the experiment paused occasionally. The vibration signal was collected in blocks of 10 seconds every 15 minutes, and the sampling frequency,
To validate the proposed fan bearing health assessment method, the comblet filters were designed first. The central frequency
After the design of the comblet filters, the proposed health indicator is validated using the collected data set. The first 10 data files are used to calculate the initial health condition indicator, HCI0. The remaining 377 data files are used for the fan bearing health assessment and are numbered as 1 to 377.
In order to verify that the fan bearing incipient failure started at file numbers 98–99, Fourier spectrum analysis was conducted on data files 97, 98, and 99 after filtering.
In this section, a comparison study is conducted between the proposed HCI and other methods. In vibration analysis, the root mean square (RMS) and kurtosis are two popular statistics of the time-domain signal
Another health indicator is fault growth parameter 1 (FGP1) [
Cooling fans are commonly used in microelectronics. In order to ensure high reliability in air-cooled electronic systems, it is necessary to conduct research on the life expectancy and health assessment of cooling fans. Fan bearing failure is a major failure mode that causes excessive vibration, noise, reduction in rotation speed, locked rotor, and failure to start, among other problems, which may result in an electronic system's malfunction and lower the electronics reliability.
This paper presents a coherent solution for the health assessment of cooling fan bearings. The method utilizes the comblet concept. A health indicator was proposed based on the techniques of comblet filtering and exponentially weighted moving average. An accelerated life test was conducted on a cooling fan to simulate fan bearing degradation. The recorded vibration data were used to validate the proposed method. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed method, a comparative study was conducted between the proposed HCI and the commonly used methods of RMS, kurtosis, and FGP1. Based on the analysis results, the HCI can detect incipient fan bearing failures, and the bearing degradation process can be captured by the proposed method.
The work presented in this paper provides a promising method for cooling fan bearing health evaluation and prognosis. With this method, the critical failure of a cooling system can be avoided, and the reliability of electronic systems can be guaranteed. Furthermore, the proposed solution may also be used in generic bearing health evaluation and prognosis, which is currently the focus of prognostics and health management of mechanical systems.
This research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50905028, 51275554), and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Grant No. NCET-11-0063). We would like to thank Hyunseok Oh at CALCE PHM Group, University of Maryland, for his work on the experiment and discussion to improve this research.
Frequency-domain plot of a comblet with one tooth.
The frequency-domain plot of a comblet filter with
The time-domain plot of a comblet filter with
Flow chart of the proposed cooling fan bearing health assessment method.
The BLDC cooling fan tested in this experiment.
Fan bearing health assessment using the proposed HCI with different BCFs: (
The spectral analysis of vibration data files: (
Comparison results of RMS, kurtosis, and FGP1 in fan bearing health assessment: (
The geometric specifications of the fan bearing in this experiment.
|Number of rolling elements,
|Mean diameter of rolling element,
|1.59 mm
|Pitch diameter of bearing,
|5.5 mm
|Contact angle,
The bearing characteristic frequencies.
|Ball spin frequency (BSF)
|127.178 Hz
|Ball pass frequency, inner race (BPFI)
|308.242 Hz
|Ball pass frequency, outer race (BPFO)
|171.758 Hz
|Fundamental train frequency (FTF)
|28.626 Hz
The parameters of each comblet filter with
|Comblet filter: BSF
|127.178 Hz
|1.272 Hz
|Comblet filter: BPFI
|308.242 Hz
|3.082 Hz
|Comblet filter: BPFO
|171.758 Hz
|1.718 Hz
|Comblet filter: FTF
|28.626 Hz
|0.286 Hz

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Nick Cox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Re: st: Fwd: stata question
Thu, 30 May 2013 11:21:42 +0100
Maarten gave a good guess at what i wanted here, but
1. If the distribution is really skew, fitting a normal remains a bad
idea, even when you have
done your best to account for truncation.
2. Something like number of employees is clearly bounded below,
regardless of what is reported, and to that extent no normal
distribution is right in principle. Whether it in practice gives a
rough approximation that is not too lousy for the researcher's purpose
is naturally too difficult to judge by remote sensing.
On 30 May 2013 08:58, Maarten Buis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> ---Bernard Alex wrote me privately:
>> I found your contact on Statalist, read about you on your
>> website and thought you can easily help me get through
>> an exercise I need to perform.
> That is not the way Statalist works. Questions should not be sent to
> its individual members but to the list. There are very good reasons
> for that that are listed here:
> <http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/#private>
>> I have the size distribution of a group of firms. I know size
>> is not normally distributed; the distribution is skewed and
>> both left and right truncated (50-499 employees).
>> Now, what I would like to get is the underlying data of size
>> assuming it was normally distributed (the green line in the graph).
>> Accordingly I tried to get the normal distribution given the true
>> mean and SD: gen normala=invnorm(uniform())*97.27415+146.2396
>> 97.27415 is the standard deviation and 146.2396 the mean.
>> Question: is it possible to impose the support of the distribution?
>> I would like to have the normal distribution between the two
>> extremes 50 and 499.
> That would mean you want to fit a truncated normal distribution to
> your data and sample from that distribution. You can fit the
> parameters of that distribution (for fixed truncation points, in your
> case ll(50) and ul(499)) using -truncreg-. Than you san sample from
> that distribution like in the example below:
> *------------------ begin example ------------------
> sysuse nlsw88, clear
> // find the mean and standard deviation for the
> // non-truncated normal
> truncreg wage, ll(2) ul(40)
> tempname mu sigma alpha beta diff
> scalar `mu' = _b[_cons]
> scalar `sigma' = [sigma]_b[_cons]
> scalar `alpha' = normal(( 2 - `mu') / `sigma')
> scalar `beta' = normal((40 - `mu') / `sigma')
> scalar `diff' = `beta' - `alpha'
> // create 19 simulated variables from this distribution:
> forvalues i = 1/19 {
> gen sim`i' = invnormal( ///
> `alpha' + runiform()*`diff' ///
> )*`sigma' + `mu'
> }
> // compare observed distribution with simulated distribution
> local opts "sort lpattern(solid) lcolor(gs8)"
> forvalues i = 1/19 {
> cumul sim`i', gen(c`i')
> local graph "`graph' line c`i' sim`i', `opts' ||"
> }
> cumul wage, gen(c)
> twoway `graph' scatter c wage, msymbol(oh) ///
> legend(order(20 "observed" 1 "simulated"))
> *------------------- end example -------------------
> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
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Concern at Manchester's failure to win the right to run a Bar training course has prompted one London college to consider opening a branch training centre there.
Manchester, which supports the second largest Bar in the country, was conspicuous by its absence from the list of regional cities which will host training courses when the London-based Bar School loses its monopoly next year.
But the College of Law, which is one of the institutions to have won the right to run a course, has already announced plans to plug the gap.
Nigel Savage, incoming chief executive, said he would look into providing a course at its centre in nearby Chester for students from Manchester and Liverpool.
The Bar Council agreed last week that the Bar Vocational course, currently only available at the Inns of Court School of Law, should be taught by seven teaching institutions across the country.
The approved bodies are London-based BPP Law School, the College of Law and the Inns of Court School of Law, plus Nottingham Law School, the University of Northumbria, the University of the West of England and Cardiff Law School. They will provide a total of 1,430 places compared with the 1,100 offered now.
Manchester Metropolitan University, which failed to win a contract, and the Bar's Northern Circuit committee are both concerned that the largest Bar centre outside London will not be training barristers.
Professor Patricia Leighton, head of the law school at Manchester Metropolitan University, said she had been given no indication as to why it had failed to get the contract but that the law school and the committee were already working together to bid for the 1998 contract.
The purpose of the course expansion was to provide a greater geographical spread of trained barristers and to ensure the profession was open to people of all backgrounds, while keeping quality high.
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For decades, members of the elite media have told Americans to trust that their political coverage is objective and fair. A new poll released today indicates that most of the people simply do not believe that.
The good news is that 46 percent of Americans agree with the correct statement that the media are "excessively sympathetic" to President Obama and that only 17 percent believe the media are fair. The bad news is that 28 percent maintain the delusion that the press "deliberately tries to hurt Obama."
Those results were among several questions posed to likely voters on behalf of The Hill newspaper. Another interesting fact shown by the poll is that people seem more inclined to believe that Obama has exaggerated the impact of the budget sequester that just recently went into effect:
Obama has since toned down his rhetoric, admitting that the cuts won't be "an apocalypse." But voters are not letting the president off easy: The Hill poll shows that a strong plurality of voters, 48 percent, said Obama and his team exaggerated the negative effects of the sequester cuts, while just 31 percent said the White House did not overplay its hand.
A plurality of the American public also believes the political news media are too soft on the administration. According to the Hill Poll, a solid 46 percent of respondents said the news media are excessively sympathetic to the president, while 28 percent said the press deliberately tries to hurt Obama and just 17 percent said they offer unbiased coverage.
Voters were mostly split along party lines on the question, but those who identified themselves as "Other" tended to agree with a strong majority of Republicans who said the news media are overly sympathetic to Obama.
The three options on the media choice only add up to 91 percent so presumably the other 8 percent were unsure. One wonders just how many of the 28 percent who imagine the media are trying to hurt Obama think that conservative talk radio and a handful of cable news shows equate to the entire national press.
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Edward Averill
Dr. Averill, Professor Emeritus (Ph.D., M.S., University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A. Harvard), has been at Texas Tech since 1980. His areas of specialization are philosophical psychology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Professor Averill's publications include: "The Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction," Philosophical Review (1982), "Color and the Anthropocentric Problem," Journal of Philosophy (1985), "The Relational Nature of Color," Philosophical Review (1992), and "Towards a Projectivist Account of Color," Journal of Philosophy (2005).
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Howard Curzer
Dr. Curzer, Professor (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin; M.A., B.A. in Mathematics, Wesleyan University), came to Texas Tech in 1985. His current areas of interest are ancient philosophy, virtue ethics, existentialism, and Confucian philosophy. His publications include a book entitled, Aristotle and the Virtues (Oxford University Press, 2012), a textbook/anthology entitled, Ethical Theory and Moral Problems (Wadsworth Press, 1999), and 50 articles including: "When Bad Thoughts Happen To Good People: A Thought Experiment," American Philosophical Quarterly (2013) and "Do Ethics Classes Teach Ethics?" Theory and Research in Education (2014). He is a co-recipient of an NSF grant to study and teach wildlife research ethics, a recipient of an NEH grant to study and teach Confucian virtue ethics, and a co-editor of a special issue of the ILAR Journal (2013), a journal of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs for the Huffington Post.
Francesca di Poppa
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Joseph Gottlieb
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Darren Hick
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BELLFLOWER - With visiting Ocean View sinking shots from the parking lot and beyond Friday night, St. John Bosco High's basketball team needed every one of Isaac Hamilton's 43 points.
The senior McDonald's All-American and UTEP signee turned in a remarkable performance to lead the Braves to a thrilling 89-87 CIF Southern Section Division 3A semifinal victory.
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Nettleton pitcher Shelby Wise might as well have walked onto Gilliam Field in Beebe with a target painted on her back Thursday afternoon. The junior hurler was the biggest reason the Lady Badgers missed last years state finals, but found shutting out Beebe again next to impossible, as they swept both games of a 5A-East doubleheader 6-0 and 4-3 in the nightcap.
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To want to get married in a pair of jeans(33 Posts)
My mum is terminal ill and does not have long. My partner and I have been engaged for over a year and decided that we would like to get married ASAP, so my mum will be well enough to attend.
We don't have much money so decided on Registry office, very immediate family only, followed by a meal in the High Street. A very simple, cheap as possible affair, as it has be arranged in 6 weeks.
Anyhow told my mum and dad, who then insisted on paying for cars, photographer, flowers and the meal. My dad said he would like to invite more family and make it a bigger affair and suggested an evening reception too. My mum told me to phone a nice local hotel and find out the price for meal and evening reception. I told her that would be really expensive and she said just find out the price and let us know.
I was planning on buying a very cheap simple outfit, no cars etc, just registry office, then a 5 minute walk to the meal in the High Street. However, as it was being made a more grander affair, with wedding venues and reception a wedding dress would be more appropriate (and I loved the idea too) and managed to buy a lovely (very cheap) dress.
Anyhow I found out the price and it was really expensive, so I phoned round a few more places and managed to find a really nice place for a fraction of the price and I was really excited to tell my mum and dad.
I told them yesterday, their response was almost how dare I arrange an evening affair, they couldn't possibly attend an evening function and only wanted a meal, which I was instructed must be at 1pm! They would pay for and attend a meal and if anyone wanted to do something after, then they should put their hands in their own pockets!!
I felt extremely embarrassed, upset and a bit gobsmacked. I will go back to my original plan of us paying for the meal etc, however I am now left with a wedding dress and wont be able to afford anything else. And I am going to feel a right idiot, walking down a busy high street to a normal restaurant, in a wedding dress!
AIBU to think sod it and wear my jeans?
Zipzap, no its not the expense at all, they are pretty well off. Its hard to explain without sounding really ungrateful. I got the impression that because they wouldn't be attending (despite telling me to look at a evening function and giving the impression beforehand that they would attend an evening function) they didn't see why they should pay for it, if they now couldn't attend.
I thought I was doing the right thing by doing this ASAP, so my mum could be there and enjoy the day and its almost as though they feel I have forced this upon them and attending is a inconvience. Its like we will attend on our terms ie registry office is booked for 12.30, meal is at 1pm, if the rest of you want to do something after, then put your hands in your own pockets.
I just felt highly embarrassed as if I was asking them to pay for something which was my idea, my expectation of them, as if the previous conversation we had with them didn't take place.
Anyhow I am sure they have their reasons, its not the change of venue or plans that I found upsetting, just their change of attitude. I feel like I have done something wrong or upset them in some way.
Thanks everyone and at some of your comments and experiences.
I will get over it and wear my dress even my eldest son said to me its not like you to worry about what you look like, cheers son, I think there was a compliment in there somewhere!
Do what you need to do and let your parents fall in line. If you try to compromise and meet half way, it will use up vast quantities of energy, time and sanity that you sound like you need.
I think wandering around the streets in a dress is the least of your worries. It might be really good fun - get some pictures of you wandering, waving, pretending to be a member of the Royal Family, popping into Greggs, using the ATM - the possibilities are endless.
WRT your DP's outfit - what does he actually want to wear? That should be paramount. My DH did wear jeans for our wedding (very expensive fitted Diesel ones - only thing he could find that fit properly and made him feel confident). He does look a bit odd on our photos, but it doesn't matter, because he's MY skinny scruffy funny-looking DH and the memories are all good.
Perhaps your parents thought that once you got caught up in it all, that you would suddenly change your mind about what you wanted and would suddenly be willing to pull out all stops - and pay for it yourself. So they pushed you just to make you go and have a look.
I had a friend who was insistent on just a plain simple dress, and the first time she tried a proper wedding dress on she fell in love with it and then completely changed her mind as to what sort of wedding she wanted.
Walk down the street wearing a wedding dress! When are you EVER going to get another chance to do this thing? Do it, and enjoy the admiring looks! And then tell us about it, so we can live vicariously.
I wonder if they have realised that it is a lot more expensive than they were expecting so embarrassed about not being able to afford to pay for as much as they thought they would?
Or they wanted you to go to the place they suggested and do what they wanted you to do for the wedding, the fact you're not maybe they feel like it's a snub - albeit completely unintended by you? Maybe she wants you just to do what they say and have complete control over it
like lots of mums and mils want to do rather than just be in at the fringes so to speak - maybe she always dreamed of her dd getting married at the hotel and having a big do and her being the gracious mother of the bride hostess, doing all the things she wanted to do for her wedding but her mum didn't let her do... and if it's suddenly going to be in an inn that she doesn't know rather than the local hotel - it's the straw that breaks the camel's back and she can't cope with any of it as it's so far removed from what she has spent lots of time thinking would be your wonderful wedding...
Or if your mum is so ill and was originally thinking that it would be a way of seeing lots of people before she dies... (sorry to put it so bluntly, can't think of a nice way to say it ) but maybe the reality of that has hit her in the last 24 hours and she's not sure that she can cope with it but doesn't want to say so because it's admitting it's another step down the road towards her end? Not saying this very well, but hopefully you get the idea.
I hope you enjoy wearing your dress on the day and have a fantastic day that everybody is happy about, particularly given the circumstances.
Wear the dress! I had to hang around in Waitrose carpark on a Saturday afternoon (hiding from my DH's bunny-boiling ex, who was working inside) while my DM popped in for more soft drinks on the way to our reception, then thought "sod it" and spent the evening sitting on the grass at an enormous free music festival with my wedding dress and tiara still on. It was fun .
Sorry about your family situation, though - it must be very hard for all of you .
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
Yes ZZZ it is. I don't think she has forgotten what she said to me, just a change of heart. As you say maybe in the grander scheme of things, it all just seemed a bit irrelevant to her and more important things to worry about.
I have tried to include her and talk wedding arrangements with her, maybe she has seen this as being a bit insensitive of me. I will try to stick to the bare essentials from now on and as you say, thanks very kind of you, but don't want you worrying about details etc. Maybe I am expecting too much, as they obviously have enough to worry about.
My parents will get a cab there and back and my sister will be there too to keep an eye.
Thanks everyone has helped me to get things into perspective.
You'll be ok walking down the street in a wedding dress.
Still, if you are worried could you ask a friend to drive you?
Remember, you can still sell off your dress after the wedding.
And the groom could rent (is that still too expensive?)
I was going to say YWBU, as preferably you'd want to wear a top too, not just the jeans
I saw Rush last night, and in one of the wedding scenes, the bride was wearing jeans, a beautiful blouse, and a power blazer. I turned to my friend next to me and said "that's the best wedding outfit I've seen in AGES"
Wear whatever you feel comfortable and happy in, you have enough on your plate.
are your parents far away? I think do what you originally planned to do, just what you can manage. Wear the dress since you have it now and see what you can do to make your parents feel welcome and included. I think they meant well but I don't know maybe your mum has forgotten what she said to you originally? I think they are probably so overwhelmed with the pain, worry and so on involved with her illness that they cannot cope with much.
I'd tell my mum she has a heart of gold for wanting to help and you really appreciate it but you won't have her worried or troubled so you are going to go with what you can afford and you really hope it will be a special day for her because it is very important to you that she is there when you get married. You just want her and your dad to relax and enjoy it. Something like that.
If the registry office near you is already booked , go with that. Is there any kind soul who would drive round and pick up your parents? Could you ask a relative or good friend to keep a special eye out for your parents the whole time and make sure your mum is comfortable and they're alright?
Sorry to hear about your mum. How horrible for her and all of you. Is it cancer?
Yes Larry, im feeling a bit deflated I suppose, I wanted them to feel happy for me and for this to be a happy occasion, which is maybe asking a bit much given the circumstances. Im probably on that emotional rollercoaster too at the thought of losing my mum. I just need to relax a bit and take it as it comes, rather than trying to force my happiness, at a sad time onto everyone else.
I love the idea of jeans and flowers in my hair, maybe with my wedding shoes, that would be pretty cool!
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
I wore jeans to my wedding, and flowers in my hair! It was lovely, but if you want to wear your wedding dress, you absolutely should.
This isn't really about the dress, though, is it? Don't let your parents' attitude sap all joy from the occasion. Take back some control if you need to, and congratulations!
Iris, im not sure they actually feel comfortable with paying for anything, at the moment they seem to be treating it as if its an inconvenience to them. I am booking the registry office in a few days and my partner has already given his notice, paid for it and named the registry office, locally to me (they were aware of this). They asked could I go to a registry office near to them yesterday after my partner had named Registry office. Then they don't mind travelling to us as long as I book the registry office for 12.30 and meal for 1pm.
At the moment my mum is still pretty able ie getting on a bus to go and do her shopping, visiting my sister by train who lives the same distance as me etc, etc. Although she does get more tired and has good and bad days and is on morphine. We wanted to get married literally now, so my mum could still enjoy the day.
Maybe they felt they had to offer to pay for the meal, so they could have some say and control over it.
I would feel more comfortable just paying for what we can afford and incorporating as many allowances for my mum as poss.
ZZZ the groom has an old suit, shirts and a tie he could wear at a push, if we really cant afford anything else.
The hotel that my mum told me to enquire about, was £7,000 plus drinks for the meal, dj for the evening and other extras etc
The place I found was a quaint little Inn, all inclusive £2,400 (drink package, dj etc) with x amount of bedrooms, if my mum needed to rest etc.
So definitely not the price that was the problem. They just seemed to go from excited to how dare you literally over night. I assume they are on an emotional rollercoaster, so its no big deal.
If you like the dress go ahead and wear it wherever you are - seeing a bride in the high street is a lovely sight - don't be embarrassed! One of the best weddings I went to was one where the whole bridal party walked along a busy high street from the wedding venue to the reception venue, followed by all the guests - it made for a marvelous carnival feeling and the bride had so many wishes of congratulations from passers by it made her feel elated. Let your parents pay for whatever they feel comfortable paying for, and if you can't afford any extras that's fine - leave it at that or find a local pub with a function room which you can go to after the lunch to continue the party without any further expense (apart from your own drinks!).
True friends are delighted to be at a wedding with you and don't care what quality and quantity of food and drink there are afterwards, because what matters is being with you and your new DH on your special day. Anyone who gets sniffy about any arrangements you choose to make or not make does not deserve to be there.
Princess, it was a very strange conversation, it was as if the previous conversation didn't happen at all. I felt really awkward being asked to explain why I had done that, with me stuttering I thought that is what you wanted to invite more family, only to be told don't be silly we couldn't possibly cope with that!
Still never mind!
Can't the groom rent a suit for the day? Can't cost that much and maybe his family would help him out with that. The two of you do need to match a bit. As for the children, they can just be spruced up with whatever they have already. Girls maybe with a flower in their hair. They don't all have to match or anything. Most girls will have a nice outfit for parties or similar, boys probably have a shirt.
that's strange that they first told you to find about a meal and evening reception and then asked how you could dare arrange an evening affair.
Perhaps it was more expensive than they thought it would be even if the one you found was less expensive than most. I think they meant well and your mum in particular wanted it to be a special goodbye gift to you. Perhaps if your mum is so ill , she really couldn't stay up for an evening function and felt she'd be paying for something she and your dad wouldn't even be able to attend? Still strange if it was her suggestion in the first place.
Definitely wear your dress, you have it now. You don't need cars, photographers and flowers but I am not sure what to do about the lunch. You will be fine walking down a busy high street to a normal restaurant in a wedding dress. You won't be on your own remember. Honestly people will love it. Get someone to take plenty of photos for you. You' ll want something to remember it by.
Wear your dress! It's lovely you're moving things for your mum and but it YOUR wedding and you can do whatever you want.
I would personally go for the cheap option and not take a penny from anyone if it meant avoiding others input! In fact I am doing this and looking forward to it.
Good luck and enjoy your day
I wore jeans to mine. But it was registry office with my Dad, DD and our admin lady none of whom knew until the day. Followed by a meal in a pub.
Wear what you want.
Thanks Littleprincess that is nice to hear and makes me feel better. Although I feel a little guilty, as the money we would have saved on the meal would have gone on kitting out the groom and kids too. So I have a lovely dress due to the brief change of plan and everyone else will be in 'casual' clothes! (as this was the original plan, all casual)
wear your wedding dress, I think it will be lovely and I am sorry your parents gave a bad reaction. I can only imagine that the stresses of this difficult time are catching up x
It makes me so sad that you're making these plans with them at the heart & they've pulled the rug out from under you. I understand there might be good reason but there's better ways to do it than that.
As everyone has said: it's your day, do exactly what you want.
If you want a registry office and chips on a park bench, go for it. If you want to eat your chips in a beautiful wedding gown, do so. If you want an evening do, how about a house party - everyone bring a bottle and something to eat, set a dress code if you like! Get drunk, dance, celebrate!
It's all about you & your DP committing to each other for the rest of your lives and that's honestly the bit you will remember & treasure it's a beautiful thing (not just a piece of paper at all IMO!).
Have a wonderful day
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