Desalination of brackish groundwater (BW) is an effective approach to augment water supply, especially for inland regions that are far from seawater resources. Brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) desalination is still subject to intensive energy consumption compared to the theoretical minimum energy demand. Here, we review some of the BWRO plants with various system arrangements. We look at h...

Investigations were carried out with the aim of producing L-glutamic acid from Brevibacterium sp. by utilizing a locally available starchy substrate, cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Initial studies were carried out in shake flasks, which showed that even though the yield was high with 85-90 DE (Dextrose Equivalent value), the maximum conversion yield (~34%) was obtained by using only partia...

Most training algorithms for HMMs assume that the whole batch of observation sequences is given ahead of time. This is particularly the case for the the standard EM algorithm. However, in many applications such as speech, the data is generated by a temporal process. Singer and Warmuth developed online updates for HMMs that process a single observation sequence in each update. In this paper we t...

The research on computational advertising so far has focused on finding the single best ad. However, in many real situations, more than one ad can be presented. Although it is possible to address this problem myopically by using a single-ad optimisation technique in serial-mode, i.e., one at a time, this approach can be ineffective and inefficient because it ignores the correlation between ads....

SUMMARY Residue-based diagrams of proteins are graphical representations that can be used in protein information systems. These diagrams make it possible to visually integrate different types of biological information. The approach has been used successfully for membrane proteins. We developed the Residue-based diagram generator to (i) make it possible to generate residue-based diagrams of prot...

Dynamic mapping (matching and scheduling) heuristics for a class of independent tasks using heterogeneous distributed computing systems are studied. Two types of mapping heuristics are considered: on-line and batch mode heuristics. Three new heuristics, one for batch and two for on-line, are introduced as part of this research. Simulation studies are performed to compare these heuristics with s...

Immobilized cell reactor of the bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum entrapped into carrageenan gel beads was constructed and used for the investigation of batch, fed-batch and continuous production of L-glutamic acid from nutritionally enriched sugarcane molasses. High final L-glutamic acid concentration (>93 g l ) was achieved, in batch fermentation, but with low productivity of 3.8 g l h . R...

In this paper, we propose an active learning technique for solving multiclass problems with support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. The technique is based on both uncertainty and diversity criteria. The uncertainty criterion is implemented by analyzing the one-dimensional output space of the SVM classifier. A simple histogram thresholding algorithm is used to find out the low density region i...

Active learning has been proven to be quite effective in reducing the human labeling efforts by actively selecting the most informative examples to label. In this paper, we present a batch-mode active learning method based on logistic regression. Our key motivation is an out-of-sample bound on the estimation error of class distribution in logistic regression conditioned on any fixed training sa...