A Robotic Crack Inspection and Mapping System for Bridge Deck Maintenance

One of the important tasks for bridge maintenance is bridge deck crack inspection. Traditionally, a human inspector detects cracks using his/her eyes and marks the location of cracks manually. However, the accuracy of the inspection result is low due to the subjective nature of human judgement. We propose a crack inspection system that uses a camera-equipped mobile robot to collect images on th…

Beam Search Combined With MAX-MIN Ant Systems and Benchmarking Data Tests for…

In real-world cargo transportation, there are charges associated with both the traveling distance and the loading quantity. Cargo trucks must comply with a mandatory lower carbon emissions policy: the emissions of large-volume cargo truck/containers depend greatly on the cargo loading and the traveling distance. To address this issue, instead of assuming a constant vehicle loading from one cust…

Performance and Limitations of a Constant Power-Fed Supercapacitor

Analytical description of a constant power fed supercapacitor behavior is revealed in the paper. The derivation is based on a simple RC model with parameters taken from a manufacturer datasheet. Different power and energy-related figures of merit are obtained using the derived expressions. It is shown that some of the performance figures used in datasheets are strictly theoretical and cannot be…

Development of a Novel Power Curve Monitoring Method for Wind Turbines and It…

A novel power curve monitoring method for wind turbines was developed to prevent a turbine failure in a wind farm. Compared with the existing methods, this algorithm automatically calculates the power curve limits for power curve monitoring, even when a considerable number of abnormal data are included in wind speed-output power data measured at a wind turbine. In addition, the proposed algori…

Flicker Mitigation by Individual Pitch Control of Variable Speed Wind Turbine…

Dueto the wind speed variation, wind shear and tower shadow effects, grid connected wind turbines are the sources of power fluctuations which may produce flicker during continuous operation. This paper presents a model of an MW-level variablespeed wind turbine with a doubly fed induction generatorto investigate the flicker emission and mitigation issues. An individual pitch control (IPC) strat…

A Surface-Stress-Based Microcantilever Aptasensor

Biosensors based on microcantilevers convert biological recognition events into measurable mechanical displacements. They offer advantages such as small size, low sample volume, labelfree detection, ease of integration, high-throughput analysis, and low development cost. The design and development of a microcantilever-based aptasensor employing SU-8 polymer as the fabrication material is presen…

Spatial Density Patterns for Efficient Change Detection in 3D Environment for…

The ability to detect changes is an essential competence that robots should possess for increased autonomy. In several applications, such as surveillance, a robot needs to detect relevant changes in the environment by comparing current sensory data with previously acquired information from the environment. We present an efficientmethod for point cloud comparison and change detection in 3D envir…

Data Acquisition for Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Query

Management of uncertain data in spatial queries has drawn extensive research interests to consider the granularity of devices and noises in the collection and the delivery of data. Most previous works usually model and handle uncertain data to find the required results directly. However, it is more difficult for users to obtain useful insights when data uncertainty dramatically increases. In th…

A Robust Surface Coding Method for Optically Challenging Objects Using Struct…

Though the structured light measurement system has been successfully applied to the profilemeasurement of diffuse objects, it is still a challenge to measure shiny objects due to the mix of both specular and diffuse reflections. To this end, we propose a robust encoding and decoding method in this paper. First, the monochromatic stripe patterns are utilized to eliminate the effect of texture an…

Fast Entropic Profiler: An Information Theoretic Approach for the Discovery o…

Information theory has been used for quite some time in the area of computational biology. In this paper we present a pattern discovery method, named Fast Entropic Profiler, that is based on a local entropy function that captures the importance of a region with respect to the whole genome. The local entropy function has been introduced by Vinga and Almeida in [29], here we discuss and improve t…

Effect of Incomplete Lineage Sorting On Tree-Reconciliation-Based Inference o…

In the tree reconciliation approach to infer the duplication history of a gene family, the gene (family) tree is compared to the corresponding species tree. Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) gives rise to stochastic variation in the topology of a gene tree and hence likely introduces false duplication events when a tree reconciliation method is used. We quantify the effect of ILS on gene duplica…

Detecting Differentially Coexpressed Genes from Labeled Expression Data: A Br…

We review methods for capturing differential coexpression, which can be divided into two cases by the size of gene sets: 1) two paired genes and 2) multiple genes. In the first case, two genes are positively and negatively correlated with each other under one and the other conditions, respectively. In the second case, multiple genes are coexpressed and randomly expressed under one and the other…

Transformation-Based Monetary Cost Optimizations for Workflows in the Cloud

Recently, performance and monetary cost optimizations for workflows from various applications in the cloud have become a hot research topic. However, we find that most existing studies adopt ad hoc optimization strategies, which fail to capture the key optimization opportunities for different workloads and cloud offerings (e.g., virtual machines with different prices). This paper proposes ToF, …

Backward Path Growth for Efficient Mobile Sequential Recommendation

The problem of mobile sequential recommendation is to suggest a route connecting a set of pick-up points for a taxi driver so that he/she is more likely to get passengers with less travel cost. Essentially, a key challenge of this problem is its high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic programming based method to solve the mobile sequential recommendation problem…

Data-Driven Soft-Sensor Modeling for Product Quality Estimation Using Case-Ba…

Efficient operation of the integrated optimization or automation system in an industrial plant depends mainly on good measurement of product quality. However, measuring or estimating the product quality online in many industrial plants is usually not feasible using the available techniques. In this paper, a data-driven soft-sensor using case-based reasoning (CBR) and fuzzy-similarity rough set…

Numerical Analysis and Experimentation of a Novel Self-Excited and Liquid-Coo…

To overcome the serious thermal recession problem that has been associated with the braking torque of conventional eddy current brakes, and to conserve energy, this paper has proposed a novel self-excited eddy current retarder (S-ECR). The design includes a stator with an internally cooled channel, a rotor with double salient poles, and a built-in generator. The electromagnetic field analysis …

Obesity and overweight : a clinical guidebook

This book is designed to be a guide for the primary care clinician and the specialist who are interested in providing a comprehensive weight management program to their patients in need. We do not feel however, that this guidebook is all that is required to combat the nutritional glut this country seems to be in. Major changes in policy are required to modify the toxic environment we live i…

Design and installation of marine pipelines

The construction of marine pipelines is a relatively new field of engineering, having developed in the course of the last five decades. Yet, with more than 100 000 km of subsea lines installed worldwide it must be regarded as a mature technology, although advances continue in extending the limits as regards pipe dimensions, pressures, flow regimes, products, installation methods, water dept…

Handbook of communications technology : the next decade

The field of communications technologies is an extremely volatile one, with new technologies emerging even as I write this preface. This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the upcoming developments for those technologies that are expected to have a major impact in this field. The Handbook encompasses a broad spectrum of topics: RSVP, video transmission, JMAPI, electronic commerce, WDM,…

Corrosion in reinforced concrete structures

Reinforced concrete is a widely used construction material for bridges, buildings and platforms as well as for underground structures such as tunnels or reinforced concrete pipelines. In general, reinforced concrete is a very durable material capable of withstanding a large range of severe environments including marine, industrial and alpine conditions. Despite the fact that the majority o…

Construction equipment management for engineers, estimators, and owners

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners is intended to be a reference book for construction project managers, estimators, construction equipment fleet managers, and professional engineers. The book also contains information relevant to both the public and private sectors. It contains a great deal of ‘‘hands-on, how-to’’ information about equipment man…

Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems: Long-Term Effects of Climate and Nutri…

The research effort on which this book is based has involved continuous analyses of a series of riverestuarine and coastal systems in the southeastern United States that encompassed the period from 1970 to 2012. These long-term studies were carried out using a combination of field-descriptive and experimental (lab and field) approaches. The research team for this work included field personnel…

Civil Engineering: Supervision and Management

This book covers methods adopted for undertaking the design and construction of civil engineering projects. The options for separate design and construction are compared with design and build projects, construction management, and management contracting. The salient differences are shown between the various conditions of contract used. The roles of the engineer, employer's project manager or hi…

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning III

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978-1-138-00125-1

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xii, 544 Hlm.

Judul Seri

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL ENGINEERING AND URBAN PLANNING (CEUP 2014), WUHAN, CHINA, 20–22 JUNE 2014

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Civil engineering reference manual for the pe exam

As I mentioned in the preface to the thirteenth edition, I am chagrined to admit that I never read a single preface while I was in college. Out of the prefaces of 100 or so textbooks written by witty, clever, dedicated, and famous experts, I never read a single word. Since then, I’ve added hundreds of additional books to my library, and I’ve only read a few of their prefaces. I certainly ha…

Civil Engineering for Underground Rail Transport

Thirty-five years ago Bill Cassie (Professor William Fisher Cassie) used to tell his students in Newcastle that one of the tasks of civil engineers was to put services under the ground, including transport. The surface was for people on foot and, in future, the movement of vehicles would be underneath towns, as with the movement of water and sewage. He was ahead of his time; he had writt…

Chemical Grouting and Soil Stabilization

Over a decade has passed since publication of the second edition. During this time the major changes have been the movement of chemical grouting from remedial use to preventive use, and the development and growing use of other methods of ground improvement. Although new grouts have been developed, silicates and acrylics still dominate the domestic market. Increasing sophistication in grouting e…

Chemical Processes in Marine Environments

The marine analytical chemist must be aware that the constituents - dissolved and suspended - of sea water have a three-dimensional distribution pattern. In contrast to distribution patterns in a mineral resource or in a batch of ore, distribution patterns in the marine environment are influenced by chemical, biological and physical processes, resulting in pronounced variability of individu…

Use of quince seed mucilage edible films containing natural preservatives toe…

In this study quality changes of rainbow trout fillet wrapped with quince seed mucilage QSM film incorporated with 0–2% (V/V) thyme or oreganoessential oil, as natural preservatives, during storage of 18 d at 4◦C were investigated. The control and wrapped fillet samples were analyzed fortexture, lipid oxidation, and color characteristics. After 6 d of storage, a significantly increasing tre…

In vitro antioxidant, antimicrobial and anti-diabetic properties ofpolyphenol…

In the present study, anti-radical, anti-diabetic and antimicrobial activities of different solvent extracts of Passiflora ligularis fruits wereinvestigated. Among the various solvents, acetone extract displayed maximum total phenolic (640.70 mg GAE/g extract), tannin (214.30 mgGAE/g extract) and flavonoid contents (387.33 mg RE/g extract). Results of antioxidant studies revealed that the aceto…

Building materials in civil engineering

As one of the Programming Textbooks for New-century Higher Vocational and Professional Civil Engineering, this book is published by Science Press in August, 2001. This book has won the special prize of 2001-2003 Programming Textbooks for National IIigher Vocational and Professional Civil Engineering proposed by Textbook Construction Expert Committee of Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has gained…

Biogeochemistry of Marine Systems

Marine biogeochemistry is a broad, interdisciplinary subject overlapping a range of other disciplines such as marine chemistry, geochemistry, ecology, physiology and oceanography, but in its own right it has become pivotal to progress in marine research in recent years. As a key component of the ‘earth system’, marine biogeochemistry interfaces directly with terrestrial, atmospheric and…

Applications of Synchrotron Radiation

Physics and engineering governing the applications of synchrotron radiation is based on enormous achievements during more than one hundred years in the filed of X-ray physics and technology. The contents of this book, starting with the very general aspects of synchrotron radiation investigated, have been developed by numerous scientist and experimentalist in this field during the past 20 years.…

Effect of casein glycomacropeptide on subunit p65 of nucleartranscription fac…

Objective: The effect of casein glycomacropeptide (CGMP) on the expression of NF-B subunit p65 in human colorectal cancer HT-29 cellsinduced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was investigated to explore the therapeutic efficacy of CGMP for human colorectal cancer.Methods: HT-29 cells cultured in 96-well plates were stimulated with LPS for 30 min at the concentrations of 0, 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1 and 10…

A comparative study on antioxidant potentials, inhibitory activities againstk…

Momordica species are vegetable crops widely distributed in warmer regions of the world. In this work, we describe the antioxidant, enzymeinhibitory and anti-inflammatory effects of the leaves from three different species of Momordica. The present investigation was initially carried out toexplore the possible link between antioxidant, enzyme inhibitory property of Momordica leaf extract and the…

Anti-inflammatory effects of characterized orange peel extracts enrichedwith …

In view of the potential of polymethoxyflavones (PMFs) and hydroxylated PMFs (OH-PMFs) as bioactives against inflammation, we preparedsix different orange peel extracts (OPEs). The major compounds of these extracts were characterized and quantified by high performance liquidchromatography (HPLC). Effects on inflammation were analyzed by nutrigenomics using a human cell-based TPA-induced monocyt…

In vitro antioxidant, anti-diabetic, cholinesterase and tyrosinase inhibitory…

In the present study, antioxidant potential, α-amylase, α-glucosidase, cholinesterase and tyrosinase inhibitory activity of fresh juice fromindigenous fruits of Citrus hystrix and C. maxima (Red & White var.) were investigated using an in vitro model. The contents of total phenolics,tannins, and total flavonoids ranged between 836.90 and 909.52 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/L, 333.33 and 52…

Effects of Co-60 gamma-irradiation and refrigerated storage on the qualityof …

The effectiveness of Co-60 gamma irradiation in controlling citrus red mite (Panonychus citri McGregor) had been proved in our earlier work.However, whether it could be used as an alternative method to replace the current way of quarantine treatment against citrus red mites depends onthe performances of effective doses on citrus fruits. This study was conducted to explore the effects of Co-60 g…

In vitro modulation of TH1 and TH2 cytokine expression by edible tuber ofDios…

The underground tuber of Dioscorea alata is a palatable food and is also claimed to have therapeutic effects. Various groups of researchersdemonstrated different activities of this tuber such as antioxidant, hepatoprotective, anti-ulcer and anti-diabetic activities. Therefore, the aim of thepresent study was to evaluate the immunomodulatory potentialities of 70% hydro-methanolic extract of D. a…

Rheological aspects of dysphagia-oriented food products: A mini review

Dysphagia is a symptom, commonly found in healthcare residents and the elderly, may lead to undernutrition and negative effects on quality of life. Providing special food products that cannot only be swallowed by patients but also meet nutritional requirements is a challenge for food rheologists and healthcare staff. The purpose of this paper was to review the literature on rheological aspects …

Effect of Lactobacillus salivarius H strain isolated from Chinese dry-cured h…

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) on color stability of fresh pork. Of the seven LAB strains isolated from the Chinese dry-cured hams, H strain was identified as Lactobacillus salivarius (CCTCC M2010374) by serial biochemical tests and 16S rRNA analysis. The fresh pork samples were immersed in the H strain and Lactobacillus fermentum extracts fo…

In vitro antioxidant activity and in vivo hepatoprotective activity of aqueou…

The in vitro antioxidant and in vivo hepatoprotective effects of aqueous extract of Allium cepa (A. cepa) bulb were evaluated in male rats against ethanol induced liver damage in preventive and curative models. The antioxidant activity of A. cepa was assayed and activities were compared to standard antioxidant, ascorbic acid. The results revealed that the IC50 values of A. cepa bulb extract for…

Microbiota associated with type 2 diabetes and its related complications

Recently, it has been established that the human resident microbiota plays key roles in health maintenance. Therefore, it has become an emerging prevention and treatment target for metabolic syndrome. The resident microbiota associated with chronic inflammation has been shown to contribute to the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Moreover, the microbiota is altered in the development of…

Consumption of soybean, soy foods, soy isoflavones and breast cancer incidenc…

Breast cancer is one of the most lethal diseases world-wide. However, there is a large difference in breast cancer incidence among Caucasian,Hispanic, African and Asian (e.g. Chinese) women with Caucasian women being the highest and Asian women being the lowest. It has been suggested that the dietary factors may account for approximately 50% of the breast cancer. One of such dietary components …

Mini-review on edible mushrooms as source of dietary fiber:Preparation and he…

Dietary fiber and high-fiber food products have attracted great attention because of their significant health benefits to consumers. Mushrooms are valuable resources for food, medicine and nutraceuticals. Edible mushroom is considered as a novel source of dietary fiber. The dietary fiber content and composition in edible mushroom vary greatly with its morphological stages including fruit body, …

Study on prebiotic effectiveness of neutral garlic fructan in vitro

Garlic is traditionally believed to have many health benefits including prevention of gastrointestinal diseases. One of the major components,garlic fructan (GF), was evaluated for its prebiotic effectiveness on human intestinal microflora. Garlic fructans A (DP 16) and B (DP 21) were prepared by ethanol fractionation precipitation. Then, they were added to an in vitro fermentation system as the…

Optimization of genistein solubilization by κ-carrageenan hydrogel using res…

κ-Carrageenan was explored to improve genistein solubility by matrix retention. The corresponding maximum value in the efficiency of retention (Re) (50.48 mg/100 mg) was achieved when variables were set as: pH 4.76, temperature 52.12 ◦C and genistein concentration 0.27 mg/mL. The coefficient of determination (R2) of the response surface regression model presented in this study was 0.9848. Th…

Red onion extract (Allium cepa L.) supplementation improves redox balance in …

Onions, consumed worldwide, are a good source of dietary phytochemicals with proven antioxidant properties. Catechin and quercetin are the most common and widely consumed flavonoids. The present study aimed to investigate the possible protective effect of onion extract as well as flavonoids (catechin and quercetin) on rats subjected to oxidative stress by mercuric chloride (HgCl2) treatment. Ex…

Radical-scavenging activity, ACE-inhibiting capability and identification of …

Albumin derived from rapeseed was hydrolyzed sequentially using alcalase and flavorzyme to produce antioxidant peptides. To identify antioxidant peptides, rapeseed albumin hydrolysate (RAH) was fractionated using size exclusion chromatography (G-25). The antioxidant activity and angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibiting activity of rapeseed peptides (RSP) purified from RAH were evaluated…

Effect of pH, temperature and heating time on the formation of furan in sugar…

Furan (C4H4O) has been classified as a possible animal and human carcinogen by many international agencies. The formation of furan in three sugar–glycine models using glucose, fructose, and sucrose was investigated using headspace gas chromatography mass spectrometry method (HSGC–MS) with various dual combinations of three important heat processing conditions, i.e. pH, temperature, and heat…