{"title":"Ecological Effect of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Marine Microalgae Pseudo-Nitzschia Pungens and Isochrysis Galbana","authors":"K.S. Golokhvast , V.L. Kuznetsov , V.V. Chaika , S.A. Razgonova , T.Yu. Orlova","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper presents the results of studies of the effect of multiwalled carbon nanotubes 18-20<!--> <!-->nm in concentrations of 1 and 10<!--> <!-->mg / ml for diatoms Pseudo-nitzschia pungens (clone PP-07) and golden alga Isochrysis galbana (clone TISO). The toxic effects of multiwalled nanotubes on both types of algae is revealed, which results in a decrease of the linear dimensions of cells, chloroplasts, and a reduced number of cells when incubated over 24<!--> <!-->h (Pseudo-nitzschia pungens) and 36<!--> <!-->hours (Isochrysis galbana).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 125-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81099763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.029
Juan C. Santamarta , Jorge Naranjo , M. Paz Arraiza
{"title":"Challenges for Future of Natural Spaces of Canary Islands, Spain","authors":"Juan C. Santamarta , Jorge Naranjo , M. Paz Arraiza","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The preservation of biodiversity is a fundamental objective of all policies related to a more sustainable development in any modern society. The rain forest and pine forests are two unique Canarian ecosystems with high importance to global biodiversity, holding a large number of endemic species and subspecies that is a priority to preserve. In this work the challenges that will face the natural areas of the Canary Islands are studied, as well as their fundamental value for economic and environmental development of the islands.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"8 ","pages":"Pages 176-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89648052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hidden Markov Random Fields and Swarm Particles: A Winning Combination in Image Segmentation","authors":"El-Hachemi Guerrout, Ramdane Mahiou, Samy Ait-Aoudia","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Segmenting an image, by splitting this latter into distinctive regions, is a crucial task in many nowadays ubiquitous applications. Several methods have been developed to perform segmentation. We present a method that combines Hidden Markov Random Fields (HMRF) and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) to perform segmentation. HMRF is used for modelling the segmentation problem. This elegant model leads to an optimization problem. The latter is solved using PSO method whose parameters setting is a task in itself. We conduct a study for the choice of parameters that give a good segmentation. The quality of segmentation is evaluated on grounds truths images using Misclassification Error criterion. We use the NDT (Non Destructive Testing) image dataset to evaluate several segmentation methods. These results show a supremacy of the HMRF-PSO method over threshold based techniques.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79667308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.096
Shin-ichiro Kaneko , Genci Capi
{"title":"Human-robot Communication for Surveillance of Elderly People in Remote Distance","authors":"Shin-ichiro Kaneko , Genci Capi","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we present a tele-operated mobile robot system for old age surveillance. The robot operates in autonomous mode in which the robots navigates in the environment and search for unusual situation of elderly people. If a patient is lying on the floor, the robot informs the user. The user switches the control mode from autonomous to haptic based user control. In the autonomous mode, the robot utilizes the visual sensor and landmarks to monitor the entire environment. The robot is equipped microphone, speaker and monitor making it possible to communicate with the user in remote place. In addition, the robot utilizes the vital sensors to check the patient's condition. The preliminary surveillance experiments show a good performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 92-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81770066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.042
Suqin Li , Suzhen Fang , Sai He , Yingjun Hao , Guohong Xiong
{"title":"The Application of PFZSSB in Advanced Wastewater Treatment from Landfill Leachate","authors":"Suqin Li , Suzhen Fang , Sai He , Yingjun Hao , Guohong Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The refractory landfill leach ate has characteristics about complicated composition and high content pollutants of micro-nanometer particles. At present it was treated by biochemical process, but it was difficult to meet the effluent water discharge standards and recycling because of difficult degradable organic matter. A new inorganic polymer flocculant---poly-silicate zinc ferric sulfate with boric acid radical, named PFZSSB, was developed. And it was especially suitable for removal of micro-nanometer particles of organic pollutants. The study focused on removing these pollutants in landfill leachate advanced treatment. The results illustrated that the treatment effect of PFZSSB was suitable, and the removal rate of NH<sub>3</sub>-N, COD and turbidity were up to 13.68%, 51.09% and 59.09% respectively. This disposing process was highly efficient, simple and the cost was reduced greatly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 64-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81969803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-06-07DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.03.004
Rinkaj Goyal, Pravin Chandra, Yogesh Singh
{"title":"Suitability of KNN Regression in the Development of Interaction based Software Fault Prediction Models","authors":"Rinkaj Goyal, Pravin Chandra, Yogesh Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Accurate fault prediction is an indispensable step, to the extent of being a critical activity in software engineering. In fault prediction model development research, combination of metrics significantly improves the prediction capability of the model, but it also gives rise to the issue of handling an increased number of predictors and evolved nonlinearity due to complex interaction among metrics.</p><p>Ordinary least square (OLS) based parametric regression techniques cannot effectively model such nonlinearity with a large number of predictors because the global parametric function to fit the data is not known beforehand. In our previous studies<span>[1]</span>, <span>[2]</span>, <span>[3]</span>, we showed the impact of interaction in the combined metrics approach of fault prediction and statistically established the simultaneous increment in the predictive accuracy of the model with interaction.</p><p>In this study we use K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) regression as an example of nonparametric regression technique, otherwise well known for classification tasks in the data mining community. Through the results derived here, we empirically establish and validate the hypothesis that the performance of KNN regression remains ordinarily unaffected with increasing number of interacting predictors and simultaneously provides superior performance over widely used multiple linear regression (MLR).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 15-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.03.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81497334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.080
Artem M. Chirkin , Sergey V. Kovalchuk
{"title":"Towards Better Workflow Execution Time Estimation","authors":"Artem M. Chirkin , Sergey V. Kovalchuk","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Authors highlight the importance of estimating workflow execution time in the scheduling problem and in pricing models in Clouds. Claim that better approaches need to be developed to obtain precise estimates of execution time. Describe straightforward regression for stochastic execution time estimation. Propose a combination of Chebyshev-like distribution-free inequalities and distribution-based approaches to calculate better confidence bounds on runtime based on results of statistical tests. Finally, authors explain the need of developing better algorithm to compute workflow execution time based on stochastic estimates of tasks’ execution time. Explain the need of developing better workflow runtime estimation algorithm. Finally, authors present an approach to estimating workflow execution time based on stochastic estimates of tasks’ execution time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 216-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84281976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.094
Bandit Suksawat
{"title":"Diameter Error Prediction Using Fuzzy Logic for Cast Nylon 6 Turning Operation","authors":"Bandit Suksawat","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A prediction model using fuzzy logic system for cast nylon 6 turning work piece diameter error forecasting was developed. The cutting parameters consisting of feed rate, depth of cut and cutting speed were determined as input variable of 75 fuzzy rules of input membership function. The diameter error values from 11 levels of fuzzy rules of output membership function were arranged as prediction outputs. Turning was carried out at 3 levels of turning speed and 5 levels feed rate then depths of cut were accomplished. Both experimental and predicted work piece diameter errors were used for validation. After that factors affecting on diameter error, precision and accuracy of the prediction values were statistically analyzed. The experimental results revealed that length of work piece and cutting speed did not effect on diameter error. However, depth of cut and feed rate affected on diameter error with total causal effect values at 0.6553 and 0.3085, respectively. Prediction of diameter error by the developed fuzzy system has an average absolute error at 0.535<!--> <!-->μm and R<sup>2</sup> at 0.988 compared with the experimental data. The precision of prediction was not significantly different from the experimental data at 95% of confidence interval. Therefore, the developed fuzzy system can predict diameter error in turning operation with high accuracy and precision.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 76-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86611875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of Neural Controllers for Exploration of Dynamic Environments","authors":"MengZe Li, Genci Capi, Takayuki Oshima, Endri Rama","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environment exploration of dynamic unknown environments is an attractive research issue. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary based method to deal with this issue. We evolved a neural controller that uses the laser data and information of unexplored environment to generate the robot best action. The map of the environment is generated by the robot in a form of a binary matrix. The explored are is used as fitness function of the genetic algorithm. The experimental results show a good performance of the proposed method for exploration of unknown dynamic environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 85-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.095","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72842650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IERI ProcediaPub Date : 2014-01-01Epub Date: 2014-09-26DOI: 10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.061
Shu Zhang, Yijie Liu, Hong Nie
{"title":"Geographical Feature based Research on Urban Color Environment – Taking Wuhan as an Example","authors":"Shu Zhang, Yijie Liu, Hong Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Urban environment refers to those landscapes that demonstrate the features and cultural deposits of a city. The design of color, in terms of urban environment planning, actually refers to the applied research of color design in urban environment planning. In the field of urban environment design, the application of color is a decisive factor critical to the effect of the overall environment. China's regulatory planning also takes it as a reference control indicator for a city with its own features. In this article, the author mainly gives an analysis on the most employed and effective means of application of color to urban environment, points out color's positive and guiding impact on human life in urban environment and how to better solve the realistic problems of succession and innovation in urban environment planning by taking Wuhan as an example because it has promulgated a Color Control Guideline for color control in the city of Wuhan, and lastly, proposes three suggestions for the management of color in urban environment, hoping a wide common consensus be reached for a better urban environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100649,"journal":{"name":"IERI Procedia","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 190-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ieri.2014.09.061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73934985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}