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Bio-Based Products
Communicating the related environmental benefits of bio-based products to consumers represents a key component of their market uptake. In this regard, the use of ecolabels ISO 14024 Type I play a crucial role. This article...
IT Policy & Standardization Computer Science and Information Technology IT Policy and Standardization
Published by: IGI Global
The Effect of Self-Service Technologies on Customer Experiences in Banking
The surge in self-service technologies (SSTs) adoption in the banking industries across the globe has changed customers' banking experiences. Customers have developed a passion for SSTs which has affects their intentions to save...
Published by: IGI Global
Tackling Uncertainty in the Bio-Based Economy
There is a clear overall consensus among international institutions and governments on the need to scale down the reliance of the global economy on fossil fuels. Yet, a sustainable transition from a long-established regime based...
IT Policy & Standardization Computer Science and Information Technology IT Policy and Standardization
Published by: IGI Global
Supportive Regulations and Standards to Encourage a Level Playing Field for the Bio-based Economy
A favourable regulatory and standardization framework is a prerequisite for establishing a cutting-edge bio-based economy in Europe. This article presents an overview of existing regulatory and standardization barriers that are...
IT Policy & Standardization Computer Science and Information Technology IT Policy and Standardization
Published by: IGI Global
Logistic Management in the Supply Chain Market Using Bio-Inspired Models With IoT Assistance
Hongyun Liu
Oct 01, 2022
The internet of things (IoT) is a modern generation of internet-associated embedded information and communication technology in an online environment to incorporate logistics and supply chain processes seamlessly. Automation in...
Published by: IGI Global
Bio-Inspired Data Mining for Optimizing GPCR Function Identification
GPCR are the largest family of cell surface receptors; many of them still remain orphans. The GPCR functions prediction represents a very important bioinformatics task. It consists in assigning to the protein, the corresponding...
Published by: IGI Global
Bio-dispersant produced by a Rhodococcus erythropolis mutant as an oil spill response
Bio-dispersants have been considered as superior alternatives of currently used dispersants as they are generally more biodegradable, less toxic, and better at enhancing biodegradation. However, the application of...
Cat Swarm Optimization Algorithm Tuned Multilayer Perceptron for Stock Price Prediction
Due to the non-linear and dynamic nature of stock data, prediction is one of the hard tasks in the financial market. Now, soft and bio-inspired computing algorithms have been used to forecast the stock price. This article...
Published by: IGI Global
Indirect serum biomarkers perform sub optimally in screening for significant liver fibrosis among HIV-infected and uninfected adults in Uganda.
INTRODUCTION: Indirect serum bio-markers present an acceptable noninvasive and cheap alternative for screening of significant liver fibrosis (SLF). Evaluation of their use in resource limited settings is important to determine...
Approaches to Work in Reducing Entrenched Patterns of Violent Behavior
Christina McLaughlin
Jan 10, 2017
In this chapter, the author will demonstrate the use of a peace intervention to increase children's self-identity, community attachments, and coping mechanisms. With correct training and awareness, this project could be...
Human Behavior & Psychology Social Sciences and Humanities Ethics and Social Responsibility Education
Published by: IGI Global
GEView (Gene Expression View) Tool for Intuitive and High Accessible Visualization of Expression Data for Non-Programmer Biologists
This article describes how the last decade has been characterized by the production of huge amounts of different types of biological data. Following that, a flood of bioinformatics tools have been published. However, many of...
Published by: IGI Global
Overcoming the Challenges of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
The study presents the results of a comprehensive review conducted between 2005-2020 to identify Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) challenges, discover the divisions in which these challenges can be clustered, and provide...
Published by: IGI Global
An Assessment of the Use of Electronic Databases by Academic Staff, Bowen University, Nigeria
The study assessed the use of electronic databases by academic staff of Bowen University, Nigeria. Descriptive analysis including percentage and frequency count was used to analyze the data. From the total population of 500...
Published by: IGI Global
TS and ACO in Hybrid Approach for Product Distribution Problem
In order to solve the transport problem, a set of bio-inspired meta heuristics are proposed, they are based on the natural behavior of swarms, bees, birds, and ants that had emerged as an alternative to overcome the difficulties...
Published by: IGI Global
Meta-Analysis of EMF-Induced Pollution by COVID-19 in Virtual Teaching and Learning With an Artificial Intelligence Perspective
Concerns about the health effects of frequent exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) emitted from mobile towers and handsets have been raised because of the gradual increase in usage of cell phones and frequent setting up of...
Published by: IGI Global
Sludge Blanket Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (SB-AnMBR) Treatment of Prehydrolysis Liquor from the Dissolving Pulp Industry
Performance of innovative sludge-blanket anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SB-AnMBRs) was evaluated at mesophilic (35oC for 400 days) followed by thermophilic (55oC for 330 days) temperatures for the treatment of the...
Advanced Object Detection in Bio-Medical X-Ray Images for Anomaly Detection and Recognition
The human vision system is mimicked in the format of videos and images in the area of computer vision. As humans can process their memories, likewise video and images can be processed and perceptive with the help of computer...
Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Diagnosis and Practice Medical Imaging Computer Science and Information Technology Media and Communications
Published by: IGI Global
Primary Mobile Image Analysis of Human Intestinal Worm Detection
One among a lot of public health concerns in rural and tropical areas is the human intestinal parasite. Traditionally, diagnosis of these parasites is by visual analysis of stool specimens, which is usually tedious and...
Published by: IGI Global
Analysis of Standards, Certifications and Labels for Bio-based Products in the Context of Sustainable Bioeconomy
Bioeconomy has been proposed as a pathway to sustainable development in many countries. However, the difficulties in defining the bioeconomy boundaries at the national level might necessitate the adoption of a sectoral approach...
IT Policy & Standardization Computer Science and Information Technology IT Policy and Standardization
Published by: IGI Global
Optimizing Connection Weights in Neural Networks Using Hybrid Metaheuristics Algorithms
The learning process of artificial neural networks is an important and complex task in the supervised learning field. The main difficulty of training a neural network is the process of fine-tuning the best set of control...
Published by: IGI Global
Embracing Polyphony
Lori F. Clarke
Dec 20, 2016
This paper theorizes at the intersection of practices of improvisation and the Hearing Voices Network (HVN) approach—two ways of being with others that embrace polyphonic identity, democratic participation, and polyculture. The...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Solving a Real Case of Seafaring Staff Scheduling Problem Using Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm
This work deals with Human Resource Scheduling Problem (HRSP) where fairness is a very important factor when assigning different shifts to the seafaring teams. This type of problem is part and partial of the NP-hard problems...
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Pretreatment on the Mechanical Properties of Orange Peel Particulate (Bio-Waste)-Reinforced Epoxy Composites
Effects of chemical treatments with benzoyl chloride, acetone and alkali on the physical and mechanical properties of Orange Peel Particulate (OPP) reinforced epoxy composite materials have been studied. Hand lay-up technique...
Published by: IGI Global
A Hybrid Hierarchical Heuristic-ACO With Local Search Applied to Travelling Salesman Problem, AS-FA-Ls
The combinatorial optimization problem is attracting research because they have a wide variety of applications ranging from route planning and supply chain optimization to industrial scheduling and the IoT. Solving such problems...
Published by: IGI Global
Advanced Object Detection in Bio-Medical X-Ray Images for Anomaly Detection and Recognition
The human vision system is mimicked in the format of videos and images in the area of computer vision. As humans can process their memories, likewise video and images can be processed and perceptive with the help of computer...
Published by: IGI Global
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