Ocean Energy

Until the middle of 20th century, there was a strong conviction that the next century would be the age of renewable and nuclear energy resources. However, at present, the whole world is dependent on fossil fuels to satisfy their energy need. Environmental pollution and global warming are the main issues associated with the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation. As per the report of US Energy Information IE Outlook 2016, coal, natural gas, and petroleum share nearly 67.2% of global electricity generation whereas renewable energy shares only 21.9%. This share is only one-fifth of the global electricity demand. According to the IEA 2016 Medium Term Renewable Energy Market Report, worldwide power production capacity of marine was only 539 MW in 2014, and to reach at a level of 640 MW, it will take 2021. The oceans cover about 70% of the Earth and acts as the largest thermal energy collector. A recent study reveals that global development capability of ocean energy is approximated to be 337 GW, and more than 885 TWH of electricity can be produced from this potential.

Synthesis and Comparison of Improved Edge Detection Technique Based on Metaheuristic and Intelligent Algorithm Optimization

The edge is the most significant information in image processing applications. Moreover, and the accurate and continue edge commonly leads to accurate related steps like object tracking and region clustering. In fact, it is the first step of image analysis and understanding. The accuracy edge detection results have an impact on the comprehension machine system. In this paper we present various improved edge detection techniques by our research team, of similar color and grey level images, using the information theory approach based on other energy information inspired from Shannon entropy and utilizing as well the metaheuristic and intelligent method combined with multilevel thresholding approach in various color spaces, and like the ant colony optimization with the graph cut approach for indexing images before the segmentation step. In addition, particular swarm optimization is done, and finally the fuzzy technique is used. The effectiveness and accuracy of these approaches are evaluated by many metric measurements and compared with the common operators. The PR metric, has a significant mean value (about 20) than PR of Canny operator (about 9). And also, we can denote that all improved techniques achieve significant results with ameliorated running time.

INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF EFFICIENCY OF MANAGING INFRASTRUCTURE OF ENTERPRISES AT MICRO AND MACRO LEVELS OF ECONOMY

The article deals with one of the key concepts of the theory of organization, namely the effectiveness of management, which is understood as an economic category that reflects the contribution of management activities to the end result of the organization. The theoretical aspects of formation of industrial and logistical infrastructure are considered in the article. A functional-structural approach to the formation of infrastructure security is presented. The concepts of "infrastructure" as an economic category are considered, an approach adequate for its analysis is defined. The methodological foundations of defining the concept of infrastructure as one of the most important components of the production system are investigated. It is noted that it is necessary to consider its constituent elements from the point of view of a unified system that fulfills the condition of functional necessity and ensures the interconnection of production processes at the micro and macro levels of the economy. Three groups of tasks are considered in the process of interaction of the external environment of direct influence and the external environment of indirect influence on the logistics and production system. It is concluded that diversity, problem character and ambiguity of the final vector of the development of logistic processes to the changing market conditions, necessitate the activation of scientific research, theoretical rethinking and stabilization of the ongoing transformations. The necessity for a reasonable construction of an integrated system that would perform the functions of managing, controlling and regulating the processes of movement of material resources, personnel, energy, information and other flows for the effective operation of industrial production is considered. The necessity of further theoretical understanding of the strategic aspects of the security of logistics infrastructure at the micro and macro levels of the economy is proved.

Development and Demonstrational Instantiation of a Method for the Structured Content Analysis of Smartphone Apps

The publication discusses the adaptation of dedicated known methods for structured content analysis for the usage of smartphone apps, taking into account the specifics of these dynamic media types and resulting consequences for the procedure and content rating. The background is the increasing popularity of apps and the growing demand for precise analysis of the status quo regarding the content and functions of apps on the market, esp. within design-oriented business informatics. Within the literature, no uniform, comparable and systematic approach to this could be identified so far. Therefore, an existing standard for the evaluation of apps from the medical context has been adapted for general application to apps. This provides a helpful procedure for researchers, practitioners, and students and ensures consistency across studies. The feasibility of the proposed method and assessment standard were confirmed by a successful demonstrational instantiation based on an app review of energy information systems for private customers.

How the Theory of Intelligent Relativity Increases Ferroelectric and Quantum Properties of Brain and Spinal Cord Specialized Cells in Advanced Craniosacral Therapy!?

Dear Editor, As mentioned before, mass, energy and information appearances are all different appearances of consciousness. That is mass, energy, information and consciousness are different appearances of one single thing. I think all of them are different appearances of vibrating strings vibrations that in each of them, different geometric links and order exist between vibrating stings vibrations. When there is a specific and different geometric system between vibrating strings vibrations which are main components of time-space dimensions, different appearances of mass, energy, information and consciousness will be appeared [1, 2].