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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Zinc Deficiency of Paddy Soils
Zinc deficiency has been reported in tropical and temperate soils for many crops(1,2). In paddy soils, zinc deficiency has been reported in India(3),Philippines(4) and in other parts of Asia(3).
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Verification of the Tip Position of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Catheter by Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography
Coronary artery disease can now be treated with drugs or with surgery. In some patients with advanced disease, low cardiac output may develop after coronary bypass graft surgery (CABG). Appropriate measures ar...
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Development of a Computer-Aided Tolerancing System in CAD Environment
Although mechanical designers can take the advantage of computer-aided tools to assist their tasks, yet tolerance design is still based on experience or trial and error methods. This paper is an effort to deve...
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Minimizing Interference in Mobile Communications Using Genetic Algorithms
There is a continuously growing demand for mobile communication. With the limited frequency spectrum, the problem of channel assignment becomes increasingly important. This problem is known to belong to a clas...
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The Optimal Profit Distribution Problem in a Multi-Echelon Supply Chain Network: A Fuzzy Optimization Approach
A multi-product, multi-stage, and multi-period production and distribution planning model is formulated for a typical multi-echelon supply chain network to achieve multiple objectives such as maximizing profit...
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Improving Concurrency Control in Mobile Databases
In this paper, we enhance the conventional Optimistic Concurrency Control algorithm (OCC) with an early termination mechanism on conflicting transactions. With the use of invalidation reports, conflicting tran...
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New Operators for Faster Convergence and Better Solution Quality in Modified Genetic Algorithm
The aim of this paper is to study two new forms of genetic operators: duplication and fabrication. Duplication is a reproduce procedure that will reproduce the best fit chromosome from the elite base. The intr...
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Evolving Case-Based Reasoning with Genetic Algorithm in Wholesaler’s Returning Book Forecasting
In this paper, a hybrid system is developed by evolving Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) with Genetic Algorithm (GA) for reverse sales forecasting of returning books. CBR systems have been successfully applied in se...
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Fuzzy Back-Propagation Network for PCB Sales Forecasting
Reliable prediction of sales can improve the quality of business strategy. In this research, fuzzy logic and artificial neural network are integrated into the fuzzy back-propagation network (FBPN) for printed ...
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A New Constrained Texture Map** Method
The validity of texture map** is an important issue for point or mesh based surfaces. This paper provides a new constrained texture map** method which is capable of ensuring the validity of texture map**...
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Mining Sequential Patterns in Large Datasets
A novel algorithm FFSPAN (Fast Frequent Sequential Pattern mining algorithm) is proposed in this paper. FFSPAN mines all the frequent sequential patterns in large datasets, and solves the problem of searching fre...
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Synthesizing Variational Direction and Scale Texture on Planar Region
Traditional 2D texture synthesis methods mainly focus on seamlessly generating a big size texture, with coherent texture direction and homogeneous texture scale, from an input sample. This paper presents a met...
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Fuzzy Logic Based Mobility Management for 4G Heterogeneous Networks
Next-generation wireless networks will provide information transmission in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. It not only offers a variety of wireless access services for integrating different wireless networks,...
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Combining SOM and GA-CBR for Flow Time Prediction in Semiconductor Manufacturing Factory
Flow time of semiconductor manufacturing factory is highly related to the shop floor status; however, the processes are highly complicated and involve more than hundred of production steps. Therefore, a simula...
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A Database for Prediction of Unique Peptide Motifs as Linear Epitopes
A linear epitope prediction database (LEPD) is designed for identifi- cation of unique peptide motifs (UPMs) as specific linear epitopes for all protein families defined by Pfam. The UPMs in LEPD are extracted...
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Object Class Recognition Using SNoW with a Part Vocabulary
In this paper we present a novel method for object class recognition. A vocabulary of object parts is automatically constructed from sample images of the object class by AdaBoost. Images are then represented u...
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A Hybrid ARCH-M and BP Neural Network Model For GSCI Futures Price Forecasting
As a versatile investment tool in energy markets for speculators and hedgers, the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) futures are quite well known. Therefore, this paper proposes a hybrid model incorporating ...
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Data Clustering and Evolving Fuzzy Decision Tree for Data Base Classification Problems
Data base classification suffers from two well known difficulties, i.e., the high dimensionality and non-stationary variations within the large historic data. This paper presents a hybrid classification model ...
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A No-Reference Blocking Artifacts Metric Using Selective Gradient and Plainness Measures
This paper presents a novel no-reference blocking artifacts metric using selective gradient and plainness (BAM_SGP) measures for DCT-coded images. A boundary selection criterion is introduced to distinguish th...
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Detecting Violent Scenes in Movies by Auditory and Visual Cues
To detect violence in movies, we present a three-stage method integrating visual and auditory cues. In our method, those shots with potential violent content are first identified according to universal film-ma...
