Liya Jin, Professor

Lanzhou University, China

Topic: Asian Summer Monsoon Climate Duringthe Holocene in Simulations and Reconstructions and a Comparison with that in Inland Central Asia

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2015 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Earth Sciences

Dec. 12-13, 2015

Multi-paleoclimate proxy records show variable trends in boreal summer precipitation during the Holocene in the Indian and East Asian summer monsoon regions. To investigate the mechanisms behind Holocene climatic change and the evolution of Asian summer monsoon (ASM), equilibrium simulations for time slices of 9.5 ka BP (thousand years before present, ka BP) and 0 ka BP as well as transient simulation from 9.5 ka BP to 0 ka BP were performed by using a coupled climate model. The transient simulation tests the response of climate change in Asian summer monsoon area to changes in orbital parameters in terms of eccentricity, obliquity and precession. Model results show regional different precipitation patterns in the Indian and East Asian summer monsoon regions during the Holocene. A shifting of the Asian summer precipitation belt during the Holocene is closely related to the south/northward movement of the Inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which resulted from the response of a coupled tropical and subtropical monsoon system to the orbitally forced change in insolation.

Mr. Liya Jin was born in Qinghai, China. He successively completed his B.Sc. (Meteorology, 1985), M.Sc. (Atmospheric Science, 1991) and Ph.D. (Physical Geography, 2006) from Lanzhou University, China. Dr. Liya Jin presently works as a Professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He conducts researches in the area of climate dynamics, paleo-climate simulation and climate changes in Asian monsoon region and inland central Asia, and visited and collaborated with many international/national institutes (e.g. National center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), USA), Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany) over the last 10 years. More than 60 research articles in his research have been published. He is as a reviewer of many international/national journals (such as Climate Dynamics, Nature Communications, International Journal of Climatology), and a member of sub-commission on Arid Environmental Change in Commission of Chinese Association for Quaternary Research (CHIQUA).

Bhagwanjee Jha

Gujarat Technological University, India

Topic: Value Addition of Coal Fly Ash as Absorbent for Environmental Clean up

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2015 International Conference on Energy, Environment and Earth Sciences

Dec. 12-13, 2015

Coal fly ash has been serious threat to cleaner environmental for last many decades after the growing demand of energy and thermal power plants. In order to reduce such issues, fly ash has been profoundly used and established as a construction material. However, much of the fly ash produced still remains unused in the ash lagoons, situated in the thermal power plants, which faces problems of land scarcity and contamination of soil of water sources, all leading to serious public health problems. In order to open up new areas of specific application of fly ash, several latest researchers suggest value addition to the silica enriched fly ash as potential material for synthesis of fly ash zeolites, comparable to the conventional zeolites, used in heavy metal up take processes (viz., waste water decontamination and soil remediation). Accordingly, fly ash zeolites have been synthesized by adopting alkali activation of the fly ash, by resorting to various techniques for activation of fly ash (viz., hydrothermal, fusion and microwave irradiation). Out of all sequential activation of fly ash under hydrothermal technique has been ascertained to be more effective, in terms of the characteristics (viz., cation exchange capacity, pores, hydroxylation, mineral transition, morphological transition and chemical transitions) of the synthesized fly ash zeolites. Sequential hydrothermal activation of fly ash with Na(OH) has yielded higher grade fly ash zeolites, as composites of polycrystalline Na-P1 and Na-Y zeolites having cation exchange capacity up to 840 meq/100g. Such improved fly ash zeolites can be used as effective absorbent for various environmental cleanup projects related to soil and water decontamination.

Dr. Bhagwanjee Jha was born in 1966 at Vill-Bangaon, Dist.-Saharsa, State-Bihar, India. His early education was completed in Kalawati High School in his village and after school, got intermediate level education from Science College, Patna (1982-1984). He has been an alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra University, Haryana after completion of B. Sc. (Civil Engg) and M. Tech. (Structures Construction Techniques) degrees in 1989 and 1991, respectively. Afterwards, he preferred to start his career as a faculty member of Civil Engineering and continuing in the same profession from 1992 to till date. In the beginning of his academic career, he worked in the then Bokaro Institute of Technology (a self financed institution), Bokaro Steel City up to Aug’ 2000. Later, he continued his career in Dr. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Polytechnic, Karad (D.P.), Dadra and Nagar Haveli since October 2000. Till today, he possesses a teaching experience of 23 years. In addition to his regular teaching responsibilities, he engaged in various researches as a part of academic requirements. During his M. Tech. dissertation, he had worked for establishing fly ash as an alternative to conventional cement by using mixtures of fly ash and hydraulic lime. In the recent past, during his Ph. D. program (2009-2013) of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay he explored much for further value addition of fly ash as zeolites. Based on his research findings, he could successfully publish several research papers (> 12 Nos.) in many referred international journals of repute with his Ph. D. supervisor, Dr. D. N. Singh, Institute Chair Professor, Geotechnical Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Cheng Haili, Associate Professor

North China University of Technology, China

Topic: Composite Activation of High Alumina Coal Gangue and the Analysis on Its Pozzolanic Effect

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2015 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Dec. 12-13, 2015

On the purpose of developing new activity admixture for cement base material and broadening the comprehensive utilization way for High Alumina Coal Gangue(HACG) from Inner Mongolia, the activated effect of mechanically, thermally and chemically composite activation on HACG was studied by testing the strength of cement mortars with activated HACG，the relationship between its micro-structure under different calcining temperature and activated effect was studied using SEM, XRD and FT-IR. Taking the Strength Activity Index (SAI) and Contribution Rate of Pozzolanic Effect (CRPE) as the inspected object, the pozzolanic effect of the HACG being activated with different ways above was analyzed. The results show that the HACG can be activated to some extent by mechanical grinding, but the effect is limited. The HACG can be effectively activated by calcining, and the optimal calcining temperature is 800℃, at this temperature the kaolinite in HACG can be decomposed into high activated SiO2 and AI2O3, thus, the SAI and CRPE of cement mortars with HACG can reach to 126.5% and 44.7% respectively at 28d. The SAI and CRPE are further increased to 142.6% and 50.9% respectively while being calcinated with Ca(OH)2. After being calcinated with Ca(OH)2, 2% Na2SO4 being added, the compressive strength is up to 78.9 MPa, SAI up to 157% and CRPE up to 55.5% at the same age.

Haili Cheng is currently an associate professor and director in Architectuure Engineering Experiment Center in College of civil engineering, North China University of Technology (NCUT). She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Hebei Teacher’s University and M. E. degree Wu Han University of Technology China, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. She joined Beijing Building Materials Academy of Sciences Research in 1990 and then joined NCUT in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. Her current research focuses on resource recovery of solid waste, such as coal gangue, construction waste (waste concrete, waste clay brick) and so on. She took charge of and participated in over 10 national or provincial level projects, won 3 authorized patents of invention, one utility model patent, one monograph, and issued nearly 40 academic theses.

Joniarto Parung, Professor

University of Surabaya, Indonesia

Topic: Future World Challenges: Conscious Collaboration for Food Supply Chain

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2015 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Dec. 12-13, 2015

The world population is about 7.349 billion people and it is expected to grow by 32% to 9.725 billion by 2050. Food demand will roughly double in the next 35 years time and at the same time more land is being converted to housing and infrastructure facilities. Famine or lack of food is happening nowadays to almost 900 million starving because some of food are wasted or cannot be given just because of the supply chain problem. Supply Chain's challenges are increasing food availability, fixing food supply chain including decreasing damage, loss and wasting in supply chain. Food is a fundamental requisite for human existence. However, food chains are increasingly becoming complex and multi tiered. Therefore, one of the most needs of the world is collaboration for providing enough food purpose. What is needed is a conscious collaboration which is collaboration with a depth of awareness of partners and depth respectful for the similar purpose. Collaboration that is needed is a collaboration based on humanitarian purposes.

Joniarto Parung is a Professor at the University of Surabaya (Ubaya). Currently he is working as a lecturer of Industrial Engineering and Postgraduate School (MM) Ubaya, Indonesia. He took his Bachelor degree on Hasanuddin University, Makassar, studied Master degree on ITB Bandung, Indonesia and PhD from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has published and presented some of his research on Supply Chain Management field, and has delivered seminars in Glasgow, Singapore, Budapest, Fontainebleau, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Allahabad/India and around Indonesia. As an operation management consultant, he has over 20 years experience with some national companies in Indonesia. As an academic and professional he is currently University of Surabaya (Ubaya) Rector for the period of 2011-2015 and 2015-2019.

Lei Cui

Curtin University, Australia

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2015 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Dec. 12-13, 2015

Lei Cui is a roboticist who designs and develops novel robots for various applications. His research has been motivated by the belief that rigorous mathematical results will enable engineering advancements while the practical aspects of implementation would drive theoretical progress. The goal of his work is to create sophisticated robotic systems by looking into nature for inspiration and applying computational robotics.

Shazia Kousar, Assistant Professor

Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Pakistan

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2015 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Dec. 12-13, 2015

Shazia Kousar is serving as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology (KFUEIT) Rahim Yar Khan. In 2000-2002, she received her BSC and MSc degree in Chemistry from Islamia University Bahawalpur, respectively. She did MSc thesis on Pyrazole ipso substitution. In 2004, joined HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, (ICCBS) in the MS leading to PhD Program under and found potent inhibitors of α-Glucosidase enzymes did pioneer work on the Solid Phase Synthesis. University of Karachi, Pakistan. In 2006, she joined the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Guy Bertrand and derived the mechanism of entirely new reaction for the formation of allene from enamine and terminal alkynes published in PNAS 2007. Continuation of work published in Chem.Eur.J. Based on this work a big literature is increasing day by day for scientific community. In 2009, as postdoctoral fellow work on Harmine, Harmaline, Menthol projects. Some of her work is published in RSC advances 2015. In 2011-2013 worked as assistant professor in GCUF and supervise graduate and undergraduate students in Suzuki coupling reactions, Metal Complexes synthesis and synthetic modification of Tryptamine and Glycyrrhetinic acid, biologically active compounds. Supervise two MPhil students. She has excellent expertise in Glove Box, UV, IR, 1D, 2D NMR, MS, Schlenk Techniques, Handling of air sensitive compounds, structure elucidation. SAR studies, Chromatography.

Jun Zhu, Associate Professor

University of South Carolina, USA

Topic: Impact of Prefrontal MicroRNA-221: Vulnerability to Nicotine Dependence

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2015 International Conference on Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Dec. 10-11, 2015

Environmental enrichment alters susceptibility in developing drug addiction. We have demonstrated that rats raised in an enriched condition are more sensitive than rats raised in an impoverished condition to nicotine-induced activity, and this is associated with alterations of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (pERK1/2) within the prefrontal cortex (PFC). This study determined the impact of microRNA-221 in the prefrontal on pERK1/2 and the enriched environment-dependent behavioral changes in response to nicotine. A microRNA array was conducted to profile microRNA expression in the PFC of these animals in response to repeated nicotine (0.35 mg/kg, s.c.) administration. microRNA-221 in the PFC, nucleus accumbens, and striatum was further verified by quantitative real-time PCR. Lentiviral-mediated overexpression of microRNA-221 in PC12 cells and the medial prefrontal cortex was performed to determine the effects of microRNA-221 on nicotine-mediated pERK1/2, phosphorylated cAMP response element-binding protein (pCREB), and locomotor activity.microRNA-221 was profoundly upregulated in the PFC but not in nucleus accumbens and striatum of enriched condition rats relative to impoverished condition rats following repeated administration of nicotine. Overexpression of lentiviral-microRNA-221 attenuated nicotine-induced increase in pERK1/2 in PC12 cells. Lentiviral-microRNA-221 overexpression in the medial prefrontal cortex further increased locomotor activity in impoverished condition but not in enriched condition rats in response to repeated nicotine administration. Accordingly, lentiviral-microRNA-221 attenuated nicotine-induced increases in pERK1/2 and pCREB in the medial prefrontal cortex of impoverished condition but not enriched condition rats. These findings suggest that environmental enrichment, via upregulation of prefrontal microRNA-221 expression, suppresses the nicotine-induced activation of ERK and CREB signaling pathways, which provides new mechanistic insights into understanding how, at both the neurobiological and behavioral levels, environmental enrichment reduces nicotine addiction. This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Health (DA035714, DA024275, and DA026721) and the Award of the South Carolina INBRE Bioinformatics Pilot Project Program.

Dr. Jun Zhu received his PhD from Fukui Medical University, Japan in 1998 and completed his postdoctoral training at University of Kentucky in 2006. Dr. Zhu began his tenure-track appointment as an Assistant Professor in department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences (DDBS), College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina (USC) in August 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with tenure in the DDBS at the USC.

Liju Yang, Associate Professor

North Carolina Central University, USA

Topic: Label-free Impedance for Cellular Analysis: From 2D to 3D Cell Cultures

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2015 International Conference on Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Dec. 10-11, 2015

Electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) enables direct analysis of cellular activities occurring on an electrode surface by measuring the induced capacitance and/or resistance changes by cells attached on the electrode. Particular, the technique enables the analysis of cellular activities of living cells in a label-free and non-invasive manner. This paper summaries the research activities in our group using the label-free impedance technique for cellular analysis for applications in cancer cell study and drug screening, as well as the potential of incorporation of 3 dimensional (3D) cell cultures in such technique.

Dr. Liju Yang is currently an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise (BRITE) at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Hangzhou Teachers College and M.S. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Hangzhou University, China, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from the University of Arkansas in Dec. 2003, and did her postdoctoral research at University of Arkansas and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She joined BRITE at NCCU as an Assistant Professor in Feb. 2006, and promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2012.

Shao Zhou

South Australian Health Medical Research Institute, Australia

Topic: Nutrition in Pregnancy and Growth and Development of Offspring

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2015 International Conference on Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Dec. 10-11, 2015

Since the ‘Fetal origin of adult disease’ was hypothesized (Barker’s hypothesis) in the 1980s, there has been extensive research in the area of early life nutritional programming. Although the mechanisms by which nutrition during pregnancy programs health later in life are not fully understood, it is well recognized that nutrition during preconception and pregnancy has profound impacts on the growth and development of the fetus and the long term health of the offspring. The development of the fetus and placenta during pregnancy, as well as the need for expansion of the blood volume to facilitate nutrient transfer from the mother to the fetus, results in additional nutritional requirements. Deficiencies in key micronutrients such as iron, folate, iodine and long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids have been linked to impaired growth and neurodevelopment in the offspring. The consequences of nutrient deficiencies during pregnancy vary depending on the role of the specific nutrients and the timing of the deficiencies. The first trimester is generally the most critical period of fetal development due to the rapid cell differentiation and the development of the embryonic system. Deficiencies which occur during a critical period of the development of certain organs and tissues can lead to irreversible changes to their structure and function, and may result in an increased risk of non-communicable disease in the offspring. Other factors such as maternal obesity and weight gain in pregnancy can also impact on the long term health of the offspring. This paper provides an overview of the effect of maternal nutritional and health status in pregnancy on the growth and development of the offspring.

Dr Zhou leads the Pregnancy and Early Childhood Nutrition Research Program at the School of Agriculture, Food & Wine, University of Adelaide and is an affiliate Senior Research Fellow at the Women's & Children's Health Research Institute and the South Australian Health Medical Research Institute, Australia. Dr Zhou received her PhD in Nutrition and Health from the University of Adelaide in 2005. Prior to completing her PhD, she was an obstetrician (qualified in China) and a clinical Dietitian (qualified in Australia). Dr Zhou’s research has been focused on nutritional interventions in pregnancy and early childhood with the aim of improving pregnancy outcomes and the long term health of mothers and children. Her special research interests include: 1) Micronutrients and fatty acid in reproductive health and childhood growth and development; 2) Strategies to enhance the nutritional quality of foods and improve population health; 3) Translation of research findings to clinical practice and public health policy. Dr Zhou has secured more than $10 million in funding as a chief investigator over the last 5 years including three grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.

Chen Bin, Professor

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Topic: Monte Carlo Method for the Laser-tissue Interaction with Application in Laser Dermatology

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2015 International Conference on Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

Dec. 10-11, 2015

Predicting light propagation in skin tissues is of theoretical importance to improve the clinical efficacy in laser treatment of dermatosis, for example, port wine stains (PWS). The Monte Carlo (MC) method is a versatile and easy-to-parallel approach that has great potential in biomedical optics. In this method, features of a sizeable number of photon packets are collected to build the statistical behavior of light transportation. With regard to light propagation in geometrically complex biological tissue, voxel-based Monte Carlo (VMC) has attracted much attention, in which the model geometry is represented by a group of 3D stacked hexahedron voxels. Currently, researchers believe that VMC exhibits good adaptability for complex tissue models. However, tissue interface (especially curved boundary, such as vessel wall) is approximated by artificial serrated polygonal boundary, leading to the deviation of photon reflection and refraction.

Dr. Chen Bin is now a full professor and vice director in State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D in 2002 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Afterwards, he worked at the National Maritime Research Institute of Japan as Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2002 to 2004.

Sonia Chikh M’hamed, Associate Professor

Angers Economics and Management Research Group, France

Topic: Clustering and Inter-Clustering Strategies: What Makes Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) Typically Different

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2015 International Conference on Economics, Management and Social Sciences

Dec. 8-9, 2015

The development of interclustering strategy in response of today’s economic challenge which is far more dynamic, have resurged as a key issues in the current research agendas in various fields. Up to now, clustering strategies have already been proven to be an efficient territorial strategies allowing strengthening both regional and national competitiveness. Nowadays, this phenomenon has attracted renewed interest from both politicians and researchers. For political authorities in support of clusters, interclustering strategy is more needed to enhance dynamic relationships between clusters and doing so, to improve the cluster growth and the competitiveness. For scholars, the emergence of the interclustering strategies provides a renewing of the research agendas in different fields. The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (CS-SIP) is widely acknowledged as one of the successul cluster in China. The project idea was conceived in 1992 and and has undergone different stages of development till now. Although the CS-SIP has been a subject of several studies in various field, little is known about its creation as collaborative interclustering cross-border strategy between Singapore and China. It is evident that there is a need of investigating the development and the implementation of this special interclustering cross-border strategy which gave birth to a new cluster, the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).

Dr. Sonia Chikh M’hamed is currently an Associate Professor of Management at Sino-French Institute of Renmin University of China and she is also an Associate Researcher at Granem UMR MA n°49 (the Angers Economics and Management Research Group) in France.