G. De Groof, M. Verhoye, A. Leemans, M. Eens, V. M. Darras, and A. Van der Linden Bio-Imaging Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Vision Lab, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Ethology Research Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Animal ...

One of the big concerns of big cities is facing with the increase of fossil fuel vehicles in the roads. The cars intensify greenhouse gas emission in civic centers. One approach to reduce the emission is replacing the cars by Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEVs). In spite of reducing the emission, PEVs have some adverse effect on electric distribution networks. Technical challenges such as load and...

In this context, a novel structure has been proposed for simple Differential Evolutionary (DE) algorithm to solve optimal recloser placement. For this, an operator is added to DE algorithm to adapt concept of the problem. Other contribution of this work is formulating a novel objective function. The proposed objective function has been formulated to improve four reliability indices which consis...

In this context, a novel structure has been proposed for simple Differential Evolutionary (DE) algorithm to solve optimal recloser placement. For this, an operator is added to DE algorithm to adapt concept of the problem. Other contribution of this work is formulating a novel objective function. The proposed objective function has been formulated to improve four reliability indices which consis...

Cosmetics are now mandatory for most women. Various natural ingredients have been used as basic beauty treatments. This study aimed to formulate and determine the effectiveness of body scrub cream preparations containing ethanolic extract N. sativa coffee grounds antiaging. The skin antiaging was divided into five formulas: F0 (cream base), F1 (coffee ground 5%), F2 [coffee 5% + Ethanol Extract...

Objectives: The goals of this investigation are to determine whether commercially available dose calibrators can be used to measure the activity of -emitting radionuclides used in pain palliation and to establish whether manufacturer-supplied calibration factors are appropriate for this purpose. Methods: Six types of commercially available dose calibrators were studied. Dose calibrator response...

In this paper, a multi-objective reconfiguration problem has been solved simultaneously by a modified ant colony optimization algorithm. Two objective functions, real power loss and energy not supplied index (ENS), were utilized. Multi-objective modified ant colony optimization algorithm has been generated by adding non-dominated sorting technique and changing the pheromone updating rule of ori...

In this paper, effect of the islands number variation in restoration process is investigated and a graph based method for determination of optimum islands boundaries is presented. Also, the effect of number and location of black-start units on the restoration process is evaluated. In optimization process, objective function is minimizing Energy Not Supplied (ENS) and constraints are voltage mar...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a wide range of potential applications, a majority of which may be required to survive for a pre-configured lifetime since it is hard or costly to re-deploy sensor nodes to where a sensing hole has taken place. A sensing hole may occur when specific nodes suffer more traffic load than others and thus exhaust initially supplied energy. We propose an adaptive ...