Co-processing of formic acid or carbon dioxide with CH4 (FA/CH4 = 0.01-0.03 and CO2/CH4 = 0.01-0.03) on Mo/H-ZSM-5 catalysts at 950 K with the prospect of kinetically coupling dehydrogenation and deoxygenation cycles results instead in a two-zone, staged bed reactor configuration consisting of upstream oxygenate/CH4 reforming and downstream CH4 dehydroaromatization. The addition of an oxygenate...

Visual Understanding is an increasing field of research thanks to the advances in image processing, object detection, classification, and advanced computational intelligence techniques. Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are one of these techniques which have been used extensively for this problem. This paper will introduce a new type of HMM, called Evidence Feed Forward Hidden Markov Models, that not ...

Although lots of research work has been done for human pose recognition, the view-point of cameras is still critical problem of overall recognition system. In this paper, view-point insensitive human pose recognition is proposed. The aims of the proposed system are view-point insensitivity and real-time processing. Recognition system consists of feature extraction module, neural network and rea...

Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing uses short, high-voltage electrical pulses and a specially designed treatment chamber to permeabilize cellular membranes. There are at least two distinct applications of PEF to algal growth and processing – extraction of intracellular material and microalgae predator population control. PEF processing has the potential to provide lower costs and higher pro...

Propose a neural-network based size and color invariant character recognition system using feed-forward neural network. Our feed-forward network has two layers. One is input layer and another is output layer. The whole recognition process is divided into four basic steps such as pre-processing, normalization, network establishment and recognition. Pre-processing involves digitization, noise rem...

Seasonal variability impact on livestock production and management stems from poor pasture quality and quantity as well as shortage of water. During wet season, there is usually sufficient quantity of pasture in good quality for animal consumption; but during dry season, there is always insufficient pasture as well as shortage of water for livestock consumption. As a result of these, exploratio...

Segmentation of patterns in images is usually based on the processing chain ”segmentation – feature extraction – classification”. It will be described, how for an arbitrary application an automatic processing stream can be generated with an initial feed back from an expert. The core of this new method is an automatic generator of optimized classifications and an example based interactive featur...

Cereal grains are the primary energy source in swine diets. Therefore, not only must producers be concerned about the composition of the grain, but also how it is processed so the pig can fully utilize the nutrients. Because feed represents 65 to 75 percent of overall production costs in a swine operation, improving the efficiency of feed utilization will have a tremendous impact on the cost of...