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Solar power plays a significant and sometimes primary role in the energy budgets of many terrestrial sensor systems due to its reliability, power density, and simplicity. More importantly, photoelectric generation can be accurately predicted for a given terrestrial location. This knowledge of expected harvested power is critical for both provisioning in design and scheduling of activities in operations...
Kotenseki is a collection of classical and ancient Japanese literature. It is comprised of image books that express Japanese stories by using comic drawings of different characters, such as humans, nature, and animals. To effectively store them for posterity, a search system is important. We propose an efficient CBIR system to assist the users in easily accessing the information and have an enjoyable...
Educational use of mobile robots is among the most explored subtopics of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), given the potential attention calling possibilities drawn by its novelty aspect. In educational environments is expected that social robots enhance learning, such as virtual agents that have been used. However, the real effect of applying a physical robot has not been well exploited. This paper...
The recognized significance of rumen microbiome has inspired efforts to examine the composition of rumen microbial communities in a large scale. One of the key research areas is to infer association and dependencies between members of rumen microbial communities through correlation analysis. However, it has been found that due to the compositional nature of data, simply applying correlation-based...
Multi-level ‘OMICS’ data integration for multiple organisms has been one of the major challenges in the era of advanced next generation sequencing and high performance technologies. However, these data are often stored individually across different web resources based on data type and organism making it difficult to find and integrate them. There are many websites which stores different data types...
The current animal sperm morphology analysis is mostly achieved through computer vision technology. By using image processing technique, the parameters of each sperm such as ellipticity, elongation of the head, mid-piece angle and percentage of acrosome can be calculated, then the quality of sperm can be evaluated. This system uses K-means algorithim to segment the sperm images, thinning algorithm...
Identification of the conserved non-coding sequences (CNSs) for plants is a challenging problem because the plants have small CNSs compared to animals. The existing alignment based methods are neither efficient nor sensitive to smaller CNSs when the number of species is large. In this paper, we propose an alignment-free approach that can process any number sequences simultaneously. Our approach uses...
Techniques of long-term in-vivo electrophysiological recording play important roles in brain research and neural rehabilitation. To avoid interruption of experiment and risk of infection, use of wireless power transfer (WPT) technique has recently been suggested to eliminate cumbersome wires and batteries attached to the animals in rodent electrophysiological applications. This paper presents a holistic...
Wolf pack algorithm is one of the group intelligence algorithms, which has advantages in convergence rate and objective function solving precision. But there still exists deficiency: slow convergence speed, easy to fall into the local extremum, the searching precision is not ideal and so on. In this paper, The Tent chaotic mapping strategy is used to make the population distribution even more uniform...
Play is all around us, an essential and innate phenomenon that serves as an important mediator in creativity, interest, learning, and drive. Though play is thought to be universal, the way in which it materializes is situationally-dependent and not well-understood, particularly in software engineering. To understand how programmers express the concept of play, we conducted a qualitative study on the...
Nowadays, loss of biodiversity and biodiversity conservation issues became an important issues that concerned by the world. The loss of biodiversity in particular region is mainly caused by low public awareness on the biodiversity. Awareness about biodiversity among people need to be raised, so that people can pay more attention on the biodiversity issues. With the raised of biodiversity awareness,...
This article shows the effects of various parameters like modulation or the radio channel conditions on sea turtles trajectory estimated by terrestrial localization algorithms. This work is part of wireless sensors networks domain in the marine and terrestrial environment in the world of living beings. It allows to identify and understand the parameters that lead to inaccuracies over the sea turtles...
This electronic puppet is an assistive educational technology designed especially for non-oralized children. The purpose of this is article is present a project of assistive educational technology named Electronic Puppet. In order to do this, we use the electronic puppet, that fits in the concept of internet of things, connecting himself to the multimedia system with images, sound, animations and...
Implementing the neural mechanism of animal cognition in mobile robots control is a natural way to make the development of bio-inspired autonomous robots with more robust functionality. The neuroscience researches confirm that grid cells play a special role in animals' spatial navigation. This paper presents a design scheme that implements the continuous attractor neural network model of grid cells...
The methodology aims to develop print and electronic contents culturally contextualized, adapted and available according to the literacy level of farmers. This methodology adopts Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing approaches, providing the lexical and syntactic simplification, using analogies and family vocabulary. Studies were carried out with experts, extension workers, students...
Several studies have shown the use of digital games in education and their contributions to the teaching-learning process. However, many of these educational games do not have mechanisms to monitor the learner's performance and/or to reconfigure the game to new situations. This article aims to present a digital game environment for support teaching mathematics, integrated with a management tool that...
In this article we study the combustion characteristics of animal fats mixed with diesel and the main emissions produced. Hypodermic tissue is the one that contains fatty substances, they are eliminated during processing. The processing of high-fat skins necessarily implies its recovery. The animal skin is subjected to a very large number of chemical but also mechanical operations to be able to turn...
Pollutants inside at houses are smoking, gas combustion, use of solvents, household cleaning chemicals, emissions from building materials, and contamination of the exterior aggravates the inside of the house. In this article, we conducted a study to select the best air purifier equipment for an urban house. The selection was carried out by applying the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methodology...
This paper considers the antagonistic formation problem of second-order multi-agent systems with addictive noises and multiplicative noises over directed signed graph. Firstly, a distributed protocol is proposed, and a time-varying consensus gain is introduced to attenuate the effect of communication noises. Then, by using the tools of matrix theory and stochastic differential equation, the necessary...
We report first results on developing smart sensor systems for the automatic and frequent collection of animal weight and gait data, under the hostile conditions of a livestock farm. The novelty in our approach is to sense frequently the animals' floor contact, in suitably chosen locations, under natural and unobtrusive conditions. We demonstrate a pilot low profile rubberized mat sensor heads, delivering...
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