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12th Annual Symposium of the School of Science, Engineering and Health
Welcome to the 12th Annual Symposium of the School of Science, Engineering and Health! This event continues a strong tradition showcasing student an faculty innovation, creativity and productivity in academic departments largely from within the School of Science, Engineering and Health
Light Microscopy: An ongoing contemporary revolution
Optical microscopy is one of the oldest scientific instruments that is still
used in forefront research. Ernst Abbe's nineteenth century formulation of the
resolution limit in microscopy let generations of scientists believe that
optical studies of individual molecules and resolving sub-wavelength structures
were not feasible. The Nobel Prize in 2014 for super-resolution fluorescence
microscopy marks a clear recognition that the old beliefs have to be revisited.
In this article, we present a critical overview of various recent developments
in optical microscopy. In addition to the popular super-resolution fluorescence
methods, we discuss the prospects of various other techniques and imaging
contrasts and consider some of the fundamental and practical challenges that
lie ahead.Comment: 37 pages, 13 figure
RFID Technology in Intelligent Tracking Systems in Construction Waste Logistics Using Optimisation Techniques
Construction waste disposal is an urgent issue
for protecting our environment. This paper proposes a
waste management system and illustrates the work
process using plasterboard waste as an example, which
creates a hazardous gas when land filled with household
waste, and for which the recycling rate is less than 10%
in the UK. The proposed system integrates RFID
technology, Rule-Based Reasoning, Ant Colony
optimization and knowledge technology for auditing
and tracking plasterboard waste, guiding the operation
staff, arranging vehicles, schedule planning, and also
provides evidence to verify its disposal. It h relies on
RFID equipment for collecting logistical data and uses
digital imaging equipment to give further evidence; the
reasoning core in the third layer is responsible for
generating schedules and route plans and guidance, and
the last layer delivers the result to inform users. The
paper firstly introduces the current plasterboard
disposal situation and addresses the logistical problem
that is now the main barrier to a higher recycling rate,
followed by discussion of the proposed system in terms
of both system level structure and process structure.
And finally, an example scenario will be given to
illustrate the system’s utilization
TopX : efficient and versatile top-k query processing for text, structured, and semistructured data
TopX is a top-k retrieval engine for text and XML data. Unlike Boolean engines, it stops query processing as soon as it can safely determine the k top-ranked result objects according to a monotonous score aggregation function with respect to a multidimensional query. The main contributions of the thesis unfold into four main points, confirmed by previous publications at international conferences or workshops:
• Top-k query processing with probabilistic guarantees.
• Index-access optimized top-k query processing.
• Dynamic and self-tuning, incremental query expansion for top-k query
processing.
• Efficient support for ranked XML retrieval and full-text search.
Our experiments demonstrate the viability and improved efficiency of our approach compared to existing related work for a broad variety of retrieval scenarios.TopX ist eine Top-k Suchmaschine fĂĽr Text und XML Daten. Im Gegensatz
zu Boole\u27; schen Suchmaschinen terminiert TopX die Anfragebearbeitung,
sobald die k besten Ergebnisobjekte im Hinblick auf eine mehrdimensionale
Anfrage gefunden wurden. Die Hauptbeiträge dieser Arbeit teilen sich in
vier Schwerpunkte basierend auf vorherigen Veröffentlichungen bei internationalen
Konferenzen oder Workshops:
• Top-k Anfragebearbeitung mit probabilistischen Garantien.
• Zugriffsoptimierte Top-k Anfragebearbeitung.
• Dynamische und selbstoptimierende, inkrementelle Anfrageexpansion für Top-k Anfragebearbeitung.
• Effiziente Unterstützung für XML-Anfragen und Volltextsuche.
Unsere Experimente bestätigen die Vielseitigkeit und gesteigerte Effizienz unserer Verfahren gegenüber existierenden, führenden Ansätzen für eine weite
Bandbreite von Anwendungen in der Informationssuche
Shortest Route at Dynamic Location with Node Combination-Dijkstra Algorithm
Abstract— Online transportation has become a basic
requirement of the general public in support of all activities to go
to work, school or vacation to the sights. Public transportation
services compete to provide the best service so that consumers
feel comfortable using the services offered, so that all activities
are noticed, one of them is the search for the shortest route in
picking the buyer or delivering to the destination. Node
Combination method can minimize memory usage and this
methode is more optimal when compared to A* and Ant Colony
in the shortest route search like Dijkstra algorithm, but can’t
store the history node that has been passed. Therefore, using
node combination algorithm is very good in searching the
shortest distance is not the shortest route. This paper is
structured to modify the node combination algorithm to solve the
problem of finding the shortest route at the dynamic location
obtained from the transport fleet by displaying the nodes that
have the shortest distance and will be implemented in the
geographic information system in the form of map to facilitate
the use of the system.
Keywords— Shortest Path, Algorithm Dijkstra, Node
Combination, Dynamic Location (key words
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