The term weed is referring to plants used as culinary herbs and medicinal plants as well as ecologically adaptive and invasive segetal plants. In Europe, pollen of ragweed, mugwort, English plantain and pellitory are the main elicitors of weed pollen allergies. Presently, 35 weed pollen allergens have been identified. The most relevant belong to the protein families of pectate lyases, defensin-...

This paper sets out a framework for discussing operations whose cost can be made to approach zero by subdividing the operation into an increasing number (K) of stages. Examples of such processes include what thermodynamics books call quasistatic processes with wasted work as the cost. More generically, they include processes taking place with near-equilibrium conditions between the participants...

The medical image registration algorithm uses the mutual information measure function that has many local extremes. Therefore, we propose our medical image registration algorithm that combines generalized mutual information with PSO-Powell hybrid algorithm and uses the objective measure function based on Renyi entropy. The Renyi entropy can remove the local extremes. We use the particle swarm o...

Multi-objective optimization evolutionary techniques provide solutions for a specific problem using optimally concepts taking into consideration all the design criteria. In the last years, several multi-objective algorithms were proposed but usually the performance is measured at the end neglecting, therefore, the solution diversity along the interactions. In order to understand the evolution o...

In this work a basic Resource Allocation (RA) problem is considered, where a fixed capacity must be shared among a set of users. The RA task can be formulated as an optimization problem, with a set of simple constraints and an objective function to be minimized. A fundamental relation between the RA optimization problem and the notion of max-min fairness is established. A sufficient condition o...

The iterative Fourier technique (IFT) is a high efficiency method that was proposed in recent past for the synthesis of large planar thinned arrays with isotropic radiating elements. However, the selection mechanism of IFT cannot always include the most useful elements in the “turned ON” families, which make the method trap in some local minima. Therefore, in this paper, inspired by invasive we...

Forecasting the distribution patterns of invasive weed species under changing climate conditions is critical for early identification especially vulnerable regions and implementation effective preventive measures. In this study, current potential range stranglewort (Cynanchum acutum L.)—an alien (IAS) in certain regions—are predicted various scenarios, using maximum entropy algorithm. Species o...

in this paper, a multi-objective method is used to optimize a heat recovery steam generator (hrsg). two objective functions have been used in the optimization, which are irreversibility and hrsg equivalent volume. the former expresses the exergetic efficiency and the latter demonstrates the cost of the hrsg. decision variables are geometric and operational parameters of the hrsg. the results of...

For the particle swarm collaborative practicability algorithm, when extended from single objective to multiobjective problem, the storage and maintenance of the partial differential exact solution sets occurs. And the selection of global and personal exact solutions, balance between exploitation and exploration and other problems also occur. In this paper, the diversity and evolution state of p...