bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
SINTESIS NANOKOMPOSIT POLIANILIN/ZnO DENGAN METODE POLIMERISASI ANTARMUKA DAN UJI AKTIVITAS FOTODEGRADASINYA TERHADAP RHODAMIN B PADA CAHAYA TAMPAK
Authors: Nugroho Muhamad Wisnu , Riapanitra Anung , Iswanto Ponco 
Published: April 2016

Sintesis nanokomposit polianilin/ZnO (PANI/ZNO) secara polimerisasi antarmuka dan uji fotodegradasinya pada senyawa Rhodamin B telah dilakukan. Garam Emeraldine dari PANI dan nanokomposit PANI disintesis secara polimerisasi antarmuka menggunakan dua fase pelarut organik/air. Hasil sintesis dikarakterisasi transisi elektronnya secara spektroskopi UV-Vis dan gugus fungsi yang terbentuk secara spektrofotomeri FT-IR. Karaktersisasi menggunakan UV-Vis DRS menunjukkan bahwa PANI, PANI/ZnO 5% dan PANI/ZnO 10% memiliki nilai energi band gap sebesar 2,0 eV. Analisis secara SEM menunjukkan berkurangnya ukuran partikel seiring penambahan ZnO. Penentuan berat molekulPANI adilakukan menggunakan viskosimeter Ostwald menunjukkan berat molekul PANI sebesar 2835,03 g/mol. Uji fotodegradasi pada lampu tungsten selam 240 menit mendapatkan hasil penurunan konsentrasi Rhodamin B berturut-turut sebesar 67.9% 85.09% and 80.24% untuk PANI, PANI/ZnO 5% dan PANI/ZnO 10%
Factory Tour to ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd.
Authors: Yamafuji Kazuo ,   University of Electro-Communications
Published: April 2016

The ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., predecessor, Kawanishi Aircraft Ltd., was famed for its high-performance World War II planes, including the Type II Flying Boat, codenamed “Emily” by the Allied Forces, and the Interceptor Siden-Kai, codenamed “George.” Following defeat, Kawanishi Aircraft Ltd. was renamed ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., founded officially in 1949. The new company, which started out producing dump trucks, but resumed aircraft manufacture in 1960.
ShinMaywa now holds a high market share among Special Purpose Trucks such as dump trucks and in aircraft business exemplified by the STOL (Short Take Off Landing) Amphibian. It also manufactures Automatic Wire Terminating Machines, Thin Film Coating System, Aircraft Passenger Boarding Bridges, Car Parking System, and Water Treatment Equipment.
In fiscal 2008 business, industrial machinery accounted for 37%, special purpose truck 35%, aircraft 19%, and others 9% in the company’s ¥127.7 billion sales (US$1.277 billion). Current employees based on consolidated accounts number 3,883.
The enterprise philosophy is “contributing to society through outstanding technology and service.” Concretely, harmonization with society should be achieved in daily activities of an enterprise, and enterprise value should be raised by management taking stake holders into account.
Development of a Desktop Machine Tool for Mirror Surface Grinding
Authors: Ohmori Hitoshi ,   Materials Fabrication Laboratory, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, Uehara Yoshihiro 
Published: April 2016

This paper is a report on the process of developing a desktop machine tool to be used in “Micro Workshops.” It incorporates emerging technologies for the production of “micro parts and components” as a newMonotsukuriThe resultant desktop machine tool was developed after designing structures which simultaneously meet both requirements of lighter weight and sufficient rigidity and which prove to be capable of producing mirror quality finish using the electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID) grinding .system.In order to verify the successful achievement of mirror surface grinding, a fine grain (#8000) abrasive grinding wheel used in the ELID grinding system was employed to generate an aspherical surface by cross grinding technique after completion of development on the aforementioned simultaneous achievement of lightness and rigidity for mainframe structure of the machine.The grinding wheels used in this experiment were a grinding wheel of #1200 diamond abrasive grain bonded with cast iron and another type of grinding wheel of #8000 cerium oxide abrasive grain bonded with metal resin.As the basic experiment, a silica-glass workpiece was ground and finished using the cross-grinding technique. The result showed that stable grinding and finishing operations can be achieved without burning during grinding even by using a very fine abrasive grain of #8000 or higher.
Special Issue on Process Machine Interactions
Authors: Shamoto Eiji 
Published: April 2016

Machining, such as cutting, grinding and polishing, is involved in the production of many industrial parts as one of manufacturing’s most important processes. Some of the parts are made directly by machining, and many other parts are mass-produced indirectly by machining through dies and molds. The accuracy of these components thus depends strongly on the machining process.
Machining is not an easy process, of course, since it generates large force and heat. Although machine tools are controlled to move precisely, the force and heat cause practical problems such as vibration, the displacement and deformation to mechanical structures, failure and wear in tools, errors of machining, measurement and control, etc. In many cases, these problems adversely affect or even change the process, which may cause further problems.
It is difficult but necessary to understand these mutual interactions to solve the problems and improve the machining process itself.
This special issue contains interesting papers that help answer important questions in machining, including the control, monitoring, simulation, and development of new fabrication processes. These papers promise to help improve machining accuracy and efficiency and to realize fully automated machining in the future.
We thank the authors for their insightful contributions and the reviewers for their invaluable advice that have made this special issue both fascinating and worthwhile.
Implementation of in Process Surface Metrology for R2R Flexible PV Barrier Films
Authors: Elrawemi Mohamed ,   Mechanical Engineering Department, Elmergib University, Blunt Liam , Muhamedsalih Hussam , Gao Feng , Fleming Leigh ,   Centre for Precision Technologies, University of Huddersfield
Published: April 2016

Thin functional barrier layers of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) that are used particularly in photovoltaic (PV) modules to prevent the possibility of water vapor ingress should be applied over the entire PV surface without any defects. However, for barrier layer thicknesses within the sub-micrometer range (up to 50 nm) produced through the atomic layer deposition (ALD) method, it is common for defects to occur during the production process. To avoid defective barriers from being incorporated in the final PV unit, defects need to be detected during the barrier production process.In this paper, the implementation of in process inspection system capable of detecting surface defects such as pinholes, scratches, or particles down to a lateral size of 3 µm and a vertical resolution of 10 nm over a 500 mm barrier width is presented. The system has a built-in environmental vibration compensation capability, and can monitor ALD-coated films manufactured using roll-to-roll (R2R) techniques. Ultimately, with the aid of this in process measurement system, it should be possible to monitor the coating surface process of large-area substrates, and if necessary, carry out remedial work on the process parameters.
Special Issue on Laser Metrology for Precision Measurement and Inspection in Industry
Authors: Aketagawa Masato 
Published: April 2016

Industrial production processes are becoming more difficult and complex because of the need to accept or react to global requirements for ecology, energy saving, downsizing, short lead times, information technology, etc. Metrology and inspection play very important roles in production processes because these must decide the final quality of manufactured industrial goods. Laser/optical metrology is widely used in industry to maintain meter definition traceability because it is, in principle, nondestructive. This makes laser metrology a candidate for use in final industrial inspection.
This special issue originated in Laser Metrology for Precision Measurement and Inspection in Industry 2014 (LMPMI2014), also the 11th IMEKO symposium. LMPMI2014 covers a very wide area, including precision engineering, dimensional measurement, shape measurement, micro/meso/nano metrology, interferometry, and standards and calibration technology. This IJAT special issuefeatures papers selected from LMPMI2014. Advanced papers in this issue present the latest achievements in laser metrology ranging from basic research to actual industrial application. These papers should prove useful to readers seeking to share their industrial R&D knowledge and experience.
The important contributions of the authors and reviewers are most deeply appreciated and make this issue both fascinating and its ideas far-reaching.
Informatics to Support Tactics and Strategies in Curling
Authors: Masui Fumito ,   Department of Computer Science, Kitami Institute of Technology (KIT), Hirata Kohsuke , Otani Hiromu , Yanagi Hitoshi , Ptaszynski Michal ,   ,,   High Performance Committee, Japan Curling Association (JCA)
Published: April 2016

This paper presents game information analysis by utilizing a digital scorebook system, as the first tool for curling informatics, which supports coaches and players in realizing smart tactics and strategies in the sport of curling. Our research project, called “Curling Informatics,” aims to develop an environment to support curling strategies and tactics by realizing methods to record game information, perform analysis, and provide visualization and sharing of the information.We found a significant correlation between the differences in shot accuracies and scores from game information collected by our digital scorebook system for more than 200 games played by the Japanese national class. The results suggest that the difference in shot accuracies is related to the difference in game scores. This is valuable new knowledge to support strategic/tactical planning in curling games. However, the correlation for games involving world-class teams becomes weaker than for the Japanese national class because there is scarcely any difference in shot accuracies.
Selected Papers from SCIS & ISIS 2006 – No.2
Authors: Nobuhara Hajime ,   Assistant Professor,
Published: April 2016

As mentioned in the editorial for the special issue on selected papers from SCIS & ISIS 2006 (No.1) by Dr. Naoyuki Kubota, the 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and the 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS) have been highly successful with 464 original papers accepted for presentation and participants numbering 526. We have selected approximately 50 quality papers to be published in extended form in the Special Issue of the Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, following publication of the first volume (Vol.11, No.6) comprising 23 papers. This second volume of the SCIS & ISIS 2006 special issue includes 19 papers covering the cutting edge of computational intelligence, and the guest editors believe that readers will be inspired by the highly interesting contents containing clues to the new frontier of the computational intelligence. linebreak Related areas include image processing, control, sensor fusion, data/context/
network analysis, genetic algorithms, ontology, VHDL, game theory, and robotics among others.smallskip I would like to thank all the authors and reviewers for their valuable contributions in making this volume possible. I am also grateful to Editors-in-Chief Prof. Toshio Fukuda of Nagoya University and Prof. Kaoru Hirota of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Toshiaki Murofushi who served as general chair of SICS & ISIS 2006, Dr. Naoyuki Kubota who was the SCIS & ISIS 2006 program chair, and the SCIS & ISIS 2006 conference staff for inviting me to serve as Guest Editor of this Journal. Last, I would like to thank the Fuji Technology Press staff, especially Dr. Kazuki Ohmori.
Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Torra Vicenç ,   Institut d'Investigaci'o en, Narukawa Yasuo ,   Toho Gakuen
Published: April 2016

In August 2007, the 4th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI1) was held in Kitakyushu, Japan. This special issue has its origins in the conference. We present nine papers related to soft computing tool applications. The first paper, by Honda and Okazaki, presents an axiomatization of a generalized Shaply value. The second paper, by García-Lapresta, also related to decision-making, introduces a multistage decision procedure in which decision-makers opinions are weighted by their contribution to an agreement. The third paper, by Torra and Miyamoto, concerns the problem of loading a container, outlining a system for loading nonorthogonal objects. The fourth paper, by Sakai, Koba, and Nakata, is devoted to rule generation based on rough sets. The fifth paper by Hiramatsu, Huynh, and Nakamori, deals with a fuzzy-based model applied to weather information. The sixth paper, by Inokuchi and Miyamoto, discuss fuzzy clustering algorithms for discrete data. The seventh paper, by Miyamoto, Kuroda, and Arai, studies an algorithm for the sequential extraction of clusters compared to mountain clustering. In the eighth paper, Miyamoto formulates fuzzy clustering using the calculus of variations. The ningth and final paper treats fuzzy clustering, in which Endo et al. discuss fuzzy c-means for data with tolerance. In closing, we thank the referees for their work on reviews and Prof. Hirota for editing this special issue. We also thank the Fuji Technology Press Ltd. staff for its advice.
1Work partially funded by Spanish MEC (projects ARES – CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00004 – and eAEGIS – TSI2007-65406-C03-02)
Effective Image Mining by Representing Color Histograms as Time Series
Authors: Aghbari Zaher Al ,   Department of Computer Science, University of Sharjah, UAE
Published: April 2016

Due to the wide spread of digital libraries, digital cameras, and the increase access to WWW by individuals, the number of digital images that exist pose a great challenge. Easy access to such collections requires an index structure to facilitate random access to individual images and ease navigation of these images. As these images are not annotated or associated with descriptions, existing systems represent the images by their extracted low level features.In this paper, we demonstrate two image mining tasks, namely image classification and image clustering, which are preliminary steps in facilitating indexing and navigation. These tasks are based on the extraction of color distributions of images. Then, these color distributions are represented as time series. To make the representation more effective and efficient for the data mining tasks, we have chosen to represent the time series by a new representation called SAX (Symbolic Aggregate approXimation) [14]. SAX based representation is very effective because it reduces the dimensionality and lower bounds the distance measure. We demonstrate by our experiment the feasibility of our approach.
Automatic Acquisition of Image Filtering and Object Extraction Procedures from Ground-Truth Samples
Authors: Rahnamayan Shahryar ,   Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada, Tizhoosh Hamid R. , Salama Magdy M.A. ,   Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
Published: April 2016

Knowledge- and sample-based learning approaches play a pivotal role in image processing. However, the acquisition and integration of expert knowledge (for the former) and providing a sufficiently large number of training samples (for the latter) are generally hard to perform and time-consuming tasks. Hence, learning image processing tasks from a few gold/ground-truth samples, prepared by the user, is highly desirable. This paper demonstrates how the combination of an optimizer (e.g., genetic algorithm) and image processing tools (e.g., parameterized morphology operations) can be used to generate image processing procedures for image filtering and object extraction. For this purpose, the approach receives the original and the user-prepared image (filtered image or image with extracted target object) as a gold sample which reflects the user's expectations. After carrying out the training or optimization phase, the optimal procedure is generated and ready to be applied to new images. The feasibility of our approach is investigated for two individual image processing categories, namely filtering and object extraction, by well-prepared synthetic images. The proposed architecture and the employed methodologies are explained in detail. Experimental results are provided as well.The subject matter in this work is covered by a US provisional patent application.
Special Issue on Recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Authors: Ogawa Yujiro 
Published: April 2016

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 revealed the vulnerability of modern cities to earthquakes, not in the damage to structures but also to the lives of people, local communities, and the economy. As a result, recovery and reconstruction have become indispensable to all aspects of modern cities. With the earthquake almost 12 years in the past and recovery and reconstruction almost completed, it is time for us to look back on the process.
This issue (JDR Vol.2 No.5) features a roundup of post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction, including viewpoints on the challenges faced in the wake of massive damage and injury, destruction of over 400,000 damaged houses and infrastructure lifeline facilities such as water, electricity, and gas, and the collapse and rebuilding of local communities and the economy.
This issue follows recovery and reconstruction and provides information on processes that could be useful in the case of a large earthquake in the future.
Effects of Global Warming on Heavy Rainfall During the Baiu Season Projected by a Cloud-System-Resolving Model
Authors: Nakamura Masaomi ,   Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, Kaneda Sachie , Wakazuki Yasutaka , Muroi Chiashi , Hashimoto Akihiro , Kato Teruyuki , Noda Akira , Yoshizaki Masanori , Yasunaga Kazuaki ,   Advanced Earth Science and Technology Organization, Tokyo, Japan,   Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan,   Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Published: April 2016

Under the Kyosei-4 Project, unprecedented high resolution global and regional climate models were developed on the Earth Simulator to investigate the effect of global warming on tropical cyclones, baiu frontal rainfall systems, and heavy rainfall events that could not be resolved using conventional climate models.For the regional climate model, a nonhydrostatic model (NHM) with a horizontal resolution of 5 km was developed to be used in the simulation of heavy rainfall during the baiu season in Japan. Simulations in June and July were executed for 10 years in present and future global warming climates. It was found that, due to global warming, mean rainfall is projected to increase except in eastern and northern Japan, the frequency of heavy rainfall events would increase and its increment rate become higher for heavier rainfall, and return values for extreme rainfall would grow.Experiments using an NHM with a horizontal resolution of 1 km were conducted to study the effects of resolution. Compared to 5 km resolution, it expresses the organization of rainfall systems causing heavy rainfall and the appearance-frequency distribution of rainfall for variable intensities more realistically.
Special Issue on Japan’s Advanced Technology for Building Seismic Protection
Authors: Kasai Kazuhiko 
Published: April 2016

Modern buildings have more complex, important functions than ever before, and damage to these functions adversely impacted on socioeconomic activity during and after the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake that leveled much of Kobe, Japan. Although many such buildings protected the lives of occupants, their impaired functioning required costly structural and nonstructural repair.
Questions have been raised about conventional building structure performance enabling inelastic deformation or considerable damage during a major earthquake, as shown in Fig. 1a. Advanced technology such as building base isolation, shown in Fig. 1b, and passive control by dampers, shown in Fig. 1c, was developed prior to the Kobe disaster and became rapidly accepted after it, in line with a strong desire to better protect structural and nonstructural components. In base isolation, a building is placed on a flexible isolator that absorbs lateral ground movement, preventing vibration in the upper parts of the structure, as shown in Fig. 1b. In passive control, dampers connected to the structural frame dissipate seismic input energy, reducing kinetic energy and vibration of the building, as shown in Fig. 1c.
Such advanced technology is currently used for all major buildings and even for small residences in Japan to better protect buildings and their contents. Japan has produced a large number of buildings with the technology, and is believed to have conducted the most extensive research in realizing base isolation and passive control schemes.
This special issue of JDR addresses the present and future of Japan’s advanced technology with special reference to major activities related to design, construction, and research. Its purpose is to globally disseminate and share knowledge on promising schemes to help protect lives and social assets against catastrophic earthquakes.
This issue covers the current status of base isolation and passive control schemes, unique projects promoting technology for structurally challenging cases, building requirements necessitating the use of advanced technology, the status of current codes and specifications, and new directions in technology.
Papers in this issue were authored by leading structural designers and researchers in Japan, to whom we hereby express our deepest gratitude for their invaluable efforts.