2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)最新文献

{"title":"A new approach to teach molecular biology in high school using Python","authors":"Sanchita Sarkar, Santu Sarkar","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906784","url":null,"abstract":"Teachers' role in 21st century is undergoing a transition from the orthodox ‘chalk and talk’ method to a student-centered, activity-based approach that maximizes students' active-learning opportunities and engages them to solve various problems. Teachers play an important role in today's technology-rich classrooms that significantly affect students' learning. For this reason it is time for the students, taking up biology in senior school, to realize that their responsibilities towards the subject have changed, since recent trends in information and communication are redefining biology and taking precedence over the traditional methods. The present study is designed to investigate the utility of Python programming language as a teaching material for high school students in learning biology. This paper also highlights the strengths in using Python Language in some selected topics of biology and establishes how there is a connection between student successes in learning biology with creative use of Python programs.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"494 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124042901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A study on monitoring of air quality and modeling of pollution control","authors":"Pratima Gupta, Ranjit Kumar, Shalendra Singh, A. Jangid","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906800","url":null,"abstract":"The most vulnerable global challenges faced today are of global warming and its effect on climate with deteriorating air quality. Air pollution is increasing and causing global warming, rise in sea level, change in seasonal patterns, rainfall pattern, extreme summer and winter temperatures, droughts and floods, etc. along with various endemic and epidemic diseases. There is a lack of understanding of air pollution and related health risk. The condition of air quality in India is poor. As many as 54% of Indians live in cities not meeting NAAQS standards on fine particulate matter and none of the cities meeting WHO standards. The whole world, including India, is worried about the degradation of air quality which is affecting every form of life and material; hence there is a need for extensive study on the causes, effects and mitigation of air pollution. A scientific model is proposed to control environmental pollution. The ultimate solution of global warming climate change problem is making the people aware about the causes, consequences, and control of energy consumption through environmental consciousness.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129000118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Techno-economic development of renewable energy sector in India","authors":"Digambar Singh, Y. Sood","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906832","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the recent scenario of the renewable energy and the opportunities in establishing a new renewable industry in India. A review of the plan and past research reveals that the ministry of new and renewable energy has already started building a developing scenario for the nation's renewable energy. It has announced an ambitious plan to install 175 GW of renewable energy capacities by 2022. Moreover, India has adequate wind speed that results in a good chance for expansion of wind energy generation. This paper presents the major constraints in a rational and incorporated way for the development renewable energy in India. An effort has been made to summarize the availability, current scenario, strategies, perspective and promotion of renewable energy sources. In addition, the major achievements and future potential of renewable energy have also been described.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115977882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of different microbial culture on biohydrogen production from Benincasa hispida waste","authors":"Minu Singh, D. Kumari, Pooja Chahar, Yogita Singhal, Radhika Singh","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906803","url":null,"abstract":"Biohydrogen production has gained attention in recent years using anaerobic degradation method. In the present study, Benincasa hispida (petha) solid waste generated from industries were used as substrate. Three different inoculum namely, cow dung (CD), goat dung (GD) and pretreated soil (SP) were used as a bacterial source. They were used separately and also in combination of two cultures in equal ratio. The cultures then mixed with petha waste slurry in 20:80 in batch reactor of 500 mL with a working volume of 400 mL under anaerobic conditions. Substrate used in the present study had chemical oxygen demand and glucose concentration of 3150 mg/L and 11 mg/L respectively. Biohydrogen was found to be maximum in GD+CD (87%) used as the bacterial inoculum. Acetic acid was also estimated and a maximum concentration of 2650 ppm was found in the reactor operated using GD as bacterial source. Degradation in various parameters was also studied in terms of COD, glucose.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114224893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Earth simulation for time domain GPR application using gprMax simulator","authors":"Sumona Chatterjee, A. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906830","url":null,"abstract":"gprMax simulator is used to perform the earth simulation for time domain Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) application. gprMax is an open source software that simulates electromagnetic wave propagation. Point source and antenna fields are used as source of excitations. Responses of the simulations are evaluated and corresponding results are validated using the data generated from the in-house GPR experiments. Responses of single layered dispersive media to Gaussian pulse excited antenna are studied using gprMax simulator.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"52 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131289512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review on work environment quality in shop floor: Impact of aerosols","authors":"Amandeep Singh, Deepu Philip, J. Ramkumar","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906802","url":null,"abstract":"Cutting fluids are primarily used for flushing away chips during machining operations while providing cooling, increasing lubrication, and reducing corrosion. Benefits of using cutting fluids in metal removal are increased tool life, better machine life, effective chip management, and enhanced surface finish. Such benefits result in wanton consumption of cutting fluids in machine shops. Treatment and disposal of cutting fluids incur substantial costs, where at least two-thirds of used cutting fluids have to be treated and disposed each year. Usually cutting fluids are bases of chlorine, sulphur, and phosphorus, which gradually deteriorate air quality in shop floor, thereby incurring health and safety concerns. Worker health problems like rashes, eye or lung irritations, etc. occur due to prolonged cutting fluids exposure. Usage of environmentally friendly and safe cutting fluids combined with effective fluid application methods helps to mitigate these issues. This paper reviews the state of the art research in this area, focusing particularly on eco-friendly cutting fluids, and application techniques that minimizes cutting fluid usage. Additional emphasis is also given to researches on aerosol size and concentration resulting in pollution of manufacturing environment.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125527302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Error detection and concealment algorithm for compressed video transmission","authors":"Ketki C. Pathak, Shubhi Singh, J. Patel","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906862","url":null,"abstract":"Video communication through wireless channel has always been a challenging issue. Transmitting the compressed video through erroneous channel may lead to packet loss, eventually degrading the image quality. Thus an error detection and concealment scheme is applied at the decoder. This paper presents the error detection and concealment technique. The research work includes the spatio-temporal error detection which is combined with different error concealment methods such as copy paste, Block Matching Algorithm and Boundary Matching Algorithm (BMA). The paper presents the comparison of different existing error concealment methods which is combined with spatio temporal error detection. The spatio-temporal error detection method improves the error detection probability and the Error Concealment method improves visual quality of reconstructed video and reduces retransmission delay.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"146 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134323532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AquaPredicto — Freshwater quality management system for lakes","authors":"Apratim Haider, A. Roy, Rahul Sharma, Veena N. Hegde, S. Kumuda","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906810","url":null,"abstract":"Lakes are important part of urban ecosystem. They are small aquatic bodies, but perform significant environmental, social and economic functions. Their contribution ranges from being a source of drinking water, recharging groundwater, acting as sponges to control flooding, supporting biodiversity and providing livelihoods. Many economic sectors such as agriculture, domestic applications consider lakes as easily available source of water for their day to day needs. Lakes may be man-made or natural, fresh water or brackish; but they play a very vital role in maintaining environmental sustainability particularly in urban environments. In today's urbanization, especially in contexts when the cities are facing the challenges of enhanced traffic and pollution, lakes and freshwater bodies are the hopes for restoring the ecosystem. At present, in India, lakes and wetlands are in extremely bad shape and are suffering from varying degrees of environmental degradation. Despite knowing their environmental, social and economic significance, city planners have given least importance to protect them and have even destroyed these water bodies. Due to unplanned industrialization, much of the landscape around the lakes in urban area and their surroundings has been covered by impervious surfaces. As a result, instead of rainwater, it is the sewage and effluents that are filling up urban water bodies. Once the known sponges of urban area, today urban lakes have turned into hazards needing utmost attention, that get choked even with low rainfall and overflow into the blocked canals during high rainfall. In recent times, during the rainy season, the lakes and fresh water bodies have become reasons for causing floods in the city. The cities are witnessing eventual disappearance of these sponges that has exacerbated floods and sharpened the pain of droughts. In an attempt to provide a solution to this complex problem, our paper presents a model and testing mechanism towards bringing the awareness about the lake water health monitoring. Our system consists of sensors including temperature, Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and pH sensor to calculate the water quality index and create the mathematical model to predict the variation of the parameters in the future. The system will help the stakeholders and public to be aware of the condition of the lakes and take corrective actions to prevent further degradation.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green and hybrid microgrid for rural electrification","authors":"S. Jha, P. Stoa, K. Uhlen","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906841","url":null,"abstract":"Green power generation technologies' interconnection to form hybrid Microgrids are seen as promising option for rural electrification in developing countries like Nepal. The use of distributed energy resources like micro-hydropower plant (MHP), Wind Turbines (WT) and photovoltaic (PV) systems are common for rural communities and there are possibilities of interconnection of these sources to form Green and Hybrid Microgrids. The paper presents the viable options and technical aspects of Green and Hybrid Microgrid. The paper also presents two cases of Green and Hybrid Microgrid installed for rural electrification in Nepal.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128668973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hybrid neural network approach for predicting signal propagation loss in urban microcells","authors":"J. Isabona, V. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC.2016.7906853","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years, the need for connectivity far and wide, coupled with the continuous increase in the number of cellular network subscribers globally, has stirred the development and evolution of diverse cellular communication standards. This in turn has led to speedy installations of base station transmitters, thus making the process of planning and fine-tuning the location of these BS transmitters very difficult. To plan and optimize mobile cellular networks for acceptable level of service coverage and quality at the mobile station terminals, radio network engineers rely on propagation loss prediction models. This research work investigates the application of a neural hybridized model for field signal strength attenuation prediction. The hybridized model combines a conventional Log-distance model and an adaptive neural network model. The adaptive neural model employs a multilayer Levenberg Marquardt back propagation algorithm to reimburse for the prediction errors obtained by means of using only the conventional model in urban microcellular environment. After applying a number of first order statistical indicators such standard deviation and root mean square error for a comprehensive performance evaluation, the hybrid — based algorithm provides more accurate prediction results with measured values compared to the conventional approach. The computationally effective prediction technique of the hybrid based neural network model can be used for standardization and enhancement of the conventional field strength propagation loss prediction methods.","PeriodicalId":174678,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134231013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}