effects of sound on Aquatic life Current expansion of offshore industrial activities has led to concern about the impact of man-made sounds upon marine animals (Southall et al., 2007; Hastings, 2008; Popper and Hawkins, 2012, 2014). Offshore oil and gas exploration and developments, wind farm construction and operations, other renewable energy sources, dredging, construction activities, naval s...

Surgical robotics is an evolving field with great advances having been made over the last decade. The origin of robotics was in the science-fiction literature and from there industrial applications, and more recently commercially available, surgical robotic devices have been realized. In this review, we examine the field of robotics from its roots in literature to its development for clinical s...

The problem of object recognition in images is a hard problem frequently found in industrial and academic application. This work presents the application of an extension of the Compact Genetic Algorithm (emCGA) to three problems of object recognition in real images. Results are compared with an exhaustive search algorithm and another CGA. Results suggested the efficiency of emCGA for this probl...

Laboratory evolutionists continue to generate better enzymes for industrial and research applications. Exciting developments include new biocatalysts for enantioselective carbon–carbon bond formation and fatty acid production in plants. Creative contributions to the repertoire of evolutionary methods will ensure further growth in applications and expand the scope and complexity of biological de...

In this paper, we propose a method to compare and visualize spectrograms in a low dimensional space using manifold learning. This approach is divided in two steps: a data processing and dimensionality reduction stage and a feature extraction and a visualization stage. The procedure is applied on different types of data from a hot rolling process, with the aim to detect chatter. Results obtained...

Using an aircraft fuel tank as an industrial case-study, the paper describes some recent research developments at BAE SYSTEMS that allow the airframe and systems life-cycles to become better aligned. In particular, the paper demonstrates that the design and analysis of the fuel system can be integrated with the airframe structure. This will reduce qualification times in the future and enable Si...

Nowadays developments in Wireless Sensor and Actuators Networks (WSAN) applications are determined by the fulfillment of constraints imposed by the application. For this reason, in this work a characterization of WSAN applications in health, environmental, agricultural and industrial sectors are presented. A case study for detecting heart arrhythmias in non-critical patients during rehabilitati...

Less than six years ago, thermal cooling in the electronics arena was mainly an issue for highperformance, high-end applications, such as, military, aerospace and large-scale industrial and medical applications. Outside these sectors, thermal cooling was just a premature notion. In the short span of a few years, technological and other developments have made thermal cooling necessary for many a...

The design and analysis of computer experiments as a relatively young research field is not only of high importance for many industrial areas but also presents new challenges and open questions for statisticians. This editorial introduces a special issue devoted to the topic. The included papers present an interesting mixture of recent developments in the field as they cover fundamental researc...

Krebs Swiss has been engaged in developing unconventional and innovative processes that are inexpensive, yet achieve highest levels of salt purity. This article examines the nature of impurities in salt and explains the unit operations employed in the Krebs Swiss SALEX salt purification process. It describes the prediction methods of the process performance and presents results obtained in indu...