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This study uses a genetic algorithm to optimize awind farm layout considering the engineering challenges and the ecosystem services as constraints to the turbine siting. Included is an analysis of how wake effects influence the power produced using a simple wake model called the WAsP model. The current ...
Background Dengue is highly endemic in Chennai city, South India, in spite of continuous vector control efforts. This intervention study was aimed at establishing the efficacy as well as the favouring and limiting factors relating to a community-based environmental intervention package to control the ...
Location is the fey factor in defining context information of today's mobile applications and services. As a matter of fact, location is increasingly used to stimulate collaboration in various ways and location-aware applications experienced a wide-spread usage. However, existing mobile services, even ...
Coastal development in Malaysia poses immense pressure on the water quality and aquatic ecosystem along our coastline. The ubiquitous phenomenon of chaotic mixing reveals the insufficiency of conventional simplified averaging model for pollutant dispersion. This paper considers chaotic advection as ...
In this paper we show our approach to make two steps towards integration of modeling and simulation and intelligent tutoring for game-based learning environments. The first step is to construct a framework for developing game-based (and also non-game-based) learning systems, which is based on fundamentals ...
Frequent Item set Mining (FISM) attempts to find large and frequent item sets in bag-of-items data such as retail market baskets. Such data has two properties that are not naturally addressed by FISM: (i) a market basket might contain items from more than one customer intent(mixture property) and (ii) ...
In this paper the hydro potential suitable for electrical power generation available in coastal area of Bangladesh is investigated and developed a model for total possible electrical power generation using tidal barrage and low head water turbine. The result shows that the possible generation would ...
Conservation genetics of endangered species has primarily focused on using neutral markers to determine units of conservation and estimating evolutionary parameters. Because the endangered Sonoran topminnow can be bred in the laboratory and has a relatively short generation length, experiments to examine ...
Observed patterns of genetic variability among marine populations are shaped not only by contemporary levels of gene flow, but also by divergences during historical isolations. We examined variability at 15 SNP loci and in mtDNA sequences (COI, 665 bp) in red king crab from 17 localities in the North ...
Two grading criteria used in determining shrimp product quality and value by the shrimp industry are: 1. Presence or percentage of black spot, measured as a percentage of the total body surface. 2. Shape quality referring to whole shrimp and broken pieces. Black spots (melanoma) on the shrimp surface ...
The objective of this research is to develop a reliable non invasive method to measure fat content in beef and fish fillet using ultrasound A-Mode scan. The results of the fat measurement from this non invasive method were then compared to the results of fat measurement using a proven method. The Soxhlet ...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus are the major pathogenic Vibrio species which contaminate ready-to-eat seafood. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk of human illness resulting from consumption of ready-to-eat seafood such as sashimi and raw oyster meat due to the presence ...
Donor cell leukaemia (DCL) is a rare complication of allogenic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We report the case of a female patient with acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), FAB type M3, who developed acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) type M5 of donor origin 17 years after allogenic bone marrow ...
In this article we will introduce an antenna structure with reconfigurable pattern, which comprising an active antenna and current draggers. We treat the antenna ground as a part of the radiator. Therefore, controlling the Rf current on antenna ground can manipulate the radiation pattern of the antenna. ...
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Increasing fuel costs and a stronger focus on both energy efficiency and environmental competitiveness have created a large interest world-wide for using lightweight materials in shipbuilding. One of the major emerging global challenges affecting shipping is environmental protection and sustainability, ...
Nowadays, travelling has been a way of relaxing. But we always can't get the fully and timely information about the objective attractions. Meanwhile, social media services and web sites, such as Flickr and YouTube, provide plenty of photos, most of which are taken during the journeys. And every photo ...
This paper reviews recent developments in the prediction of the likely future corrosion losses and of the maximum pit depth for steels exposed to marine environments. A robust mathematical model based on corrosion science principles and calibrated for immersion conditions to an extensive range of literature ...
This paper discusses a novel idea for transmission of voices in real time, underwater so that the system can be used by the deep sea divers for both lightning and data transfer applications simultaneously. Experiments were performed using white light, green and blue light respectively to transfer voice ...
Mytilus species are used as sentinels for the assessment of environmental health but sex or stage in the reproduction cycle is rarely considered even though both parameters are likely to influence responses to pollution. We have validated the use of a qPCR assay for sex identification and related the ...