Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) is one of the popular algorithms of using the intelligence of swarm bees. The ABC algorithm mimics foraging and dance behaviors of real bee colonies. It has high performance and success for numerical optimization problems. Although the exploration of solution of ABC algorithm is good exploitation to found food sources is very bad. The aim of this work is to stabilize double inverted pendulum system by selection of pole placement parameters using bio-inspired optimization technique of ABC by tuning closed loop poles to specified location. The application of ABC to the pole placement controller imparts it the ability of tuning itself automatically in an on-line process. Simulation is done and compared with pole placement to show the efficiency and feasibility of proposed approach.

FTIR transmission and DRIFT spectroscopy were used for the examination of the clay samples obtained from Turgutlu-Manisa (Turkey) study area situated in the Gediz Graben in Western Anatolia region. The FTIR spectra of the standard clay minerals “The World Source Clay Minerals”, being illite, illite-smectite mixed layer, kaolinite, montmorillonite, Ca-montmorillonite, Na-montmorillonite, palygorskite, chlorite (ripidolite), were first taken, following which the spectra of gypsum, anhydrite, quartz+feldspar, illite+quartz+feldspar were taken along with the standard clays. The identification of the minerals, which were included in the samples obtained from the study area, was performed as a result of the comparison of their FTIR spectra with the FTIR spectra of the standard clay minerals and XRD results. The presence of the O-H, Al-Al-OH, Al-Mg-OH, and Si-O-Si groups has been determined in the FTIR spectrum measurements of the samples of the lower, middle and upper levels of Turgutlu-Manisa clay profiles. Moreover, a T-O-T (tetrahedral-octahedral-tetrahedral) smectite structure has been identified in these clay samples including illite, calcite, illite-smectite mixed layer, feldspar, Na-montmorillonite, quartz, gypsum and these silicate samples.

Information technology has been implementing in every industry including the palm oil industry as means to meet all demand of stakeholders. The palm oil industry is one of the sources of non-oil and gas foreign exchange of Indonesia. This study aims to determine the readiness of palm oil industry in the implemented Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is not easy. It not only requires a large cost but also a great resource. So, it should really fit the needs. By using the Critical Success Factors (CSF) method, this study will investigate the readiness of palm-oiled industry in implementing ERP based on five dimensions: management, process, technology, data, and personnel. The data onto this study obtained from questionnaires with 19 items of gap aspect statements. Respondents involved randomly selected for 30 people from four oil palm companies located in Banyuasin and Musi Banyuasin regency. This study used gap analysis between existing conditions and predictions for future conditions. The results show that the palm oil industry is ready to implement ERP for three dimensions of management, process and personnel. The technology dimension is in the very ready category. The data dimension is in the less ready category.

Loss of limb is not only a physical or a health problem because it may affect the psychological and social functioning of the individual. Successful rehabilitation is not only good medical and prosthetic care, but complete psychosocial reintegration of the individual. Success of reintegration is usually evaluated through involvement in everyday life, which implies adequate physical, psychological and social functioning. Psychological practice shows that, regardless of the severity of the problems they face, the conditions and the context, different people react to different, sometimes unexpected ways and develop more or less adaptive patterns of behavior. So far little attention has been paid to this problem, in the sense to examine certain features and resources of personality that can affect the level of reintegration and general satisfaction with life defined as emotional and cognitive evaluation of person´s own life.\nThe aim of the research is to investigate the relationship between self concept that represents a global sense of self, stress overcoming strategies and optimism as one of the basic personality traits with self assessed degree of reintegration in normal life and general life satisfaction.\nThe study involved 88 men who experienced amputation of one or both lower extremities as consequence of injuries in combat or as mine victims.\nThe results show that there is a statistically significant correlation between individual subdomains of self concept; a competition, domestic and physical as well as the degree of optimism among level of reintegration and life satisfaction. A statistically significant negative relationship between the degree of reintegration and life satisfaction was found to emotional response as a way of overcoming stress.\nThese results give us guidelines for work with persons with amputation in the sense that in addition to psychological support should be implement individual education programs aimed at better psychosocial rehabilitation and increase life satisfaction among persons with amputations

This study of longitudinal and mixed methods focused on the nature and modification of the second or foreign language (L2) by reading the self-concept among international students studying on a pre-master course. The study is based on previous research in the area of reading the autoconcept, but considers the self as a framework for the discourse of reflexive self-beliefs. A framework has been developed that shows how L2 reading self-perceptions can be linked in important ways to personal histories, motivational processes and situational context. The results included insights into how reading self concepts differed based on skill perceptions and skill levels of the English language, as well as an analysis of the ways in which these personal opinions had changed during the course. It is hoped that the study will provide insights into how students in international education situations experience reading and learning through simultaneous reading so that educators can support them more effectively.

Abstract\nThe aim of this study is to describe the connotations of animal names in Jordanian colloquial proverbs; Animals play a very significant role in different cultures containing Jordanian culture. The study showed that Jordanian colloquial proverbs including the animal words particularly dog , cat ,donkey and snake, have both positive and negative human values. Positively, they reveal the values of strength, strong vitality, innocence, hard-work, patience, friendship and devotion to duty, Negatively, they exemplify aggression, ungratefulness, insignificance, bad behavior, weakness, stupidity, ignorance and hostility.

Nowadays, for search engines, queries related to specific geographic locations are quite common. Moreover, location enabled devices are frequently used to launch queries. The results reported for such queries need to be specific to a geographical area. Hence, spatio-textual indexing and ranking has gained lot of attention. IR tree, is a frequently used spatio-textual hybrid index which integrates the textual and spatial information about documents. It uses the tf-idf scheme for text relevance. As language models are known to perform better than the tf-idf scheme, these have been used by researchers to improvise the IR tree model. However, partial match for text relevance between query keywords and document terms has not been addressed effectively in the existing formulation. In this paper, we attempt to propose a modified IR tree model with a new formulation of the text relevance. The proposed model gives due importance to the number of keywords from a query that may be present in a document and therefore it handles partial match in a better way. We have tested our work on a subset of the Wikipedia dataset consisting of 1000 files. 50 location aware queries were formulated and top 5 results for each of these queries were manually annotated. The proposed system shows an improvement of about 21% in terms of the MAP of the system (Mean Average Precision) over the existing model on this dataset. We have also compared our work with some other existing techniques for retrieval of relevant spatial objects. We find that the our work performs better than the existing techniques.

Groundwater is a vital natural resource that plays significant function in sustainability of living things on earth. Its exploration requires special skill for optimum exploitation. Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) were used to detect the stratigraphy and subsurface structures controlling the groundwater system around Iju – Ota, Ogun State, Southwestern Nigeria. Nineteen (19) VES points were carried out where there were dense concentrations of lineaments and interconnected to establish the connection of the observed lineaments with groundwater occurrence in the study area using Schlumberger array, with electrode spacing of AB/2 varying from 180 to 320 m. The analysis of SRTM data revealed that the lineaments observed were of high dominance in western and eastern part of the study area and these lineaments were interconnected (fractures). The fractures trend in NE – SW and NW – SE direction, which indicate the groundwater control system around Iju – Ota axis. The geoelectrical parameters from the VES results were used to map the stratigraphic sequences in the study area. Six (6) stratigraphic sequences which comprise the topsoil, lateritic clay, clayey sand, mudstone, sand (main aquifer), and shale or clay were identified in the study area. The aquiferous unit around Iju – Ota axis ranged from 30 to 80 m. The integrated approach of SRTM and VES revealed that the thickness of the aquifer is as a result of interconnectivity of the lineaments observed in the SRTM data suggesting that the groundwater occurrence in the study area is chiefly controlled by these fractures.