In this chapter we focus on the Wisconsin breast cancer diagnosis (WBCD) problem, combining two methodologies—fuzzy systems and evolutionary algorithms—to automatically produce diagnostic systems. We present two hybrid approaches: (1) a fuzzy-genetic algorithm, and (2) Fuzzy CoCo, a novel cooperative coevolutionary approach to fuzzy modeling. Both methods produce systems exhibiting high classif...

Microsoft COCO [2] is a new annotated database in computer vision consisting of more than 200.000 images. There are currently more than one million annotated objects from 80 categories, with fully segmented masks. With respect to Pascal [1], the previous available dataset with semantic segmentation annotations, COCO has four times the number of categories and two orders of magnitude more images...

Coevolutionary algorithms have received increased attention in the past few years within the domain of evolutionary computation. In this paper, we combine the search power of coevolutionary computation with the expressive power of fuzzy systems, introducing a novel algorithm, Fuzzy CoCo: Fuzzy Cooperative Coevolution. We demonstrate the efficacy of Fuzzy CoCo by applying it to a hard, real-worl...

two trials were carried out to compare the effect of different levels of vitamin premix, in two raising systems of floor and cage, on performance and meat quality of broiler chicks. the chicks were fed with adjusted diets as based on wheat and barley for duration of 29 to 42 days. trial 1 was carried out through an employment of 288 male broiler chicks (ross 308) in 4 treatments and 4 replicate...

Morphological changes that take place in peat cultures of several species of rhizobia were examined. These changes seemed to be associated with enhanced survival of cells in peat and after inoculation onto plastic beads, which were used as a model system for seeds. Cell wall changes, in which the periplasmic space appeared to be occluded with electron-dense material, were observed in Rhizobium ...

Due to the econemic and envaironmental limitiation in the use of peat moss as a growth medium of ornamental plants, researchers seek an apporiate alternative in flower and plants industry. Zeolite because of the high capacity of water holding and cations enchange, has an ability in the replacement  of peat moss. At this research, the posibility subtitution of peat moss by zeolite as a growth me...

The aim of the present study was to develop and validate an inexpensive and simple high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method for the determination of colistin sulfate. Separation of colistin sulfate was achieved on a ZORBAX Eclipse XDB-C18 column using UV detection at λ=215 nm. The mobile phase was 30 mM sulfate buffer (pH 2.5): An excellent linearity (r=0.998) was found in the conc...

The effects of four types of tropical protein-rich trees on nutrient digestibility, nitrogen (N) balance, urinary purine derivative (PD) excretion and blood metabolites in four Thai Brahman cattle (290±2.5 kg) were studied. The animals were fed twice daily, with each feeding consisting of 1 kg (fresh weight) rice straw and one of the four dietary supplements: i) 1.98 kg oven-dried rain tree pod...

casing soil is one of the most important indicators of button mushroom production, which has a direct impact on the size and performance. due to the easy availability of resources for the production of vermicompost this mix can be used alternative of peat to button mushroom production. this study was conducted with nine treatments and three replications in¬¬ a completely randomized design at th...

Metal adsorption and surface charge determinations were performed previously on well-characterised Sphagnum and Carex peat samples. The aim of this investigation was to determine metal adsorption from complex wastewaters onto these peat samples and compare it to the adsorption onto peat granules, clinoptilolite, glauconite and a flue dust from steel production. A sulphide mine leachate, a landf...