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Census data show wealth of whites is 20 times that of blacks, widest US gap in quarter-century
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WASHINGTON — The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It offers the most direct government evidence yet of the disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older whites who are more likely to have 401(k) retirement accounts or other stock holdings.
"What's pushing the wealth of whites is the rebound in the stock market and corporate savings, while younger Hispanics and African-Americans who bought homes in the last decade — because that was the American dream — are seeing big declines," said Timothy Smeeding, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who specializes in income inequality.
The median wealth of white U.S. households in 2009 was $113,149, compared with $6,325 for Hispanics and $5,677 for blacks, according to the analysis released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. Those ratios, roughly 20 to 1 for blacks and 18 to 1 for Hispanics, far exceed the low mark of 7 to 1 for both groups reached in 1995, when the nation's economic expansion lifted many low-income groups to the middle class.
The white-black wealth gap is also the widest since the census began tracking such data in 1984, when the ratio was roughly 12 to 1.
"I am afraid that this pushes us back to what the Kerner Commission characterized as 'two societies, separate and unequal,'" said Roderick Harrison, a former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, referring to the 1960s presidential commission that examined U.S. race relations. "The great difference is that the second society has now become both black and Hispanic."
Stock holdings play an important role in the economic well-being of white households. Stock funds, IRA and Keogh accounts as well as 401(k) and savings accounts were responsible for 28 percent of whites' net worth, compared with 19 percent for blacks and 15 percent for Hispanics.
According to the Pew study, the housing boom of the early to mid-2000s boosted the wealth of Hispanics in particular, who were disproportionately employed in the thriving construction industry. Hispanics also were more likely to live and buy homes in states such as California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona, which were in the forefront of the real estate bubble, enjoying early gains in home values.
But those gains quickly shriveled in the housing bust. After reaching a median wealth of $18,359 in 2005, the wealth of Hispanics — who derived nearly two-thirds of their net worth from home equity — declined by 66 percent by 2009. Among blacks, who now have the highest unemployment rate at 16.2 percent, their household wealth fell 53 percent from $12,124 to $5,677.
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Publicado el 26 julio, 2011 26 julio, 2011 por majfud	Deja un comentario
Latinos Fuel Growth in Decade
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In a demographic shift touching every corner of the U.S., the Hispanic population grew faster than expected and accounted for more than half of the nation's growth over the past decade, with the group's increase driven by births and immigration.
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The Census Bureau—in its first nationwide demographic tally from the 2010 headcount—said Thursday the U.S. Hispanic population surged 43%, rising to 50.5 million in 2010 from 35.3 million in 2000. Latinos now constitute 16% of the nation's total population of 308.7 million.
The Census Bureau has estimated that the non-Hispanic white population would drop to 50.8% of the total population by 2040—then drop to 46.3% by 2050. This demographic transformation—Latinos now account for about one in four people under age 18—holds the potential to shift the political dynamics across the country.
"The Hispanic population is under-represented in the electorate and politically because of demographic factors," including the high share under age 18 and the high number of immigrants, said Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center. "Their presence in the electorate will increase over time."
Nearly 92% of the nation's population growth over the past decade—25.1 million people—came from minorities of all types, including those who identified themselves as mixed race. Nine million people, or 3%, reported more than one race.
In addition to the 16.3% of people who identified as Hispanic or Latino of any race, 63.7% identified as white; 12.2% identified as black; 4.7% as Asian; and 0.7% as American Indians or Alaska Natives. Other races made up the rest.
States in the South and West posted the sharpest growth rates during the decade, with the population of the West surpassing the Midwest for the first time. More than half the U.S. lived in the 10 most populous states, with about a quarter in the three largest states: California, Texas and New York.
The Census Bureau said the population continued shifting toward the South and West, which together accounted for 84% of the decade's population growth. The nation's center of population—the balancing point if all 308 million people weighed the same—moved about 25 miles south to just outside Plato, Mo. In 1790, the year of the first Census, the population center was near Chestertown, Md.
The Census data also showed blacks moving out of big cities in the North and into suburbs and the South, marking more black-white integration.
Two cities, New York and Washington, saw their black populations decline. The District of Columbia notched its first decennial population increase since the 1940s, rising to 601,700 despite an 11% drop in blacks. But the non-Hispanic black population in the nation's capital was just 50% in 2010, as the non-Hispanic white population jumped almost a third to 209,000.
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New York City's population inched up 2.1%, bringing the 2010 total to 8.2 million. The city's non-Hispanic black population declined for the first time since 1860, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. While not substantial, the 5.1 % decline is in line with other urban centers that posted declines, Mr. Frey said. New York City's growth was fueled by increases in its Asian and Hispanic populations. The city's white population fell slightly, by 2.8%.
"We've moved to an African-American population that, at least for a lot of young people, is becoming much more mainstream than 20 years ago in terms of where they want to live and how they see themselves in American life," Mr. Frey said. "It's affecting the way suburbs are growing. It's changing the way the South is growing."
The increasing racial diversity among U.S. children underscored a shift that is likely to make whites a minority in the early 2040s. Of the entire Hispanic population, children make up about one-third, compared with one-fifth among whites.
The total number of people under age 18 rose by nearly two million over the decade. But the number of white children fell, while the number of Hispanic children rose sharply. During the decade, Texas alone added 979,000 individuals under age 18, of which 931,000 were Hispanic.
"That can tell you as much as anything how important Hispanics are for the future of children in the United States," Mr. Frey said. Of the states gaining people, "they owe it to Hispanics."
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Hispanic population exceeds 50 million, firmly nation's No. 2 group
By Michael Martinez and David Ariosto, CNN
March 24, 2011 4:08 p.m. EDT
(CNN) — The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday.
"Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," said Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch.
Several trends emerged from the 2010 census, according to Robert M. Groves, director of the Census Bureau, and Marc J. Perry, chief of the population distribution branch.
The country is growing at a smaller rate. Growth is concentrated in metropolitan areas and in the American West and South. The fastest-growing communities are suburbs such as Lincoln, California, outside Sacramento. And standard-bearer cities such as Boston, Baltimore and Milwaukee are no longer in the top 20 for population, replaced by upstarts such as El Paso, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina, the officials said.
The most significant trend, however, appeared to be the nation's new count of 50.5 million Latinos, whose massive expansion accounted for more than half of the nation's overall growth of 27.3 million people, to a new overall U.S. population of 308.7 million, officials said.
The Hispanic population grew 43% since 2000, officials said.
In stark contrast, all other populations together grew by only about 5%, officials said. The nation as a whole expanded by 9.7%.
Bureau officials declined Thursday to say how much illegal immigration has spurred growth among Latinos and other minorities, saying the sources of the growth are still being studied.
"Those are actually very excellent questions," said Roberto Ramirez, chief of the bureau's ethnicity and ancestry branch. "We are actually in the middle of the process of investigating that."
D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer at the Pew Research Center in Washington, said the birth rate, rather than immigration, is the primary driving factor in the Latino boom.
Hispanics now account for nearly one-quarter of children under the age of 18, Cohn said.
"Hispanics are a younger population, and there are just more women of a child-bearing age," she said.
Although immigration remains a major contributor to Hispanic population growth, the recent recession and high employment rates may have prompted a tapering off in the rate of foreign-born nationals seeking U.S. residence, analysts said.
Intensified border patrols may have reduced illegal immigration, but those measures "remain at the margins," said William Frey, a demographer at The Brookings Institution.
He added that America's overall undocumented immigrant population — estimated at between 10 million and 11 million people — may have even declined in recent years, though accurate numbers are difficult to acquire.
While the white population increased by 2.2 million to 196.8 million, its share of the total population dropped to 64% from 69%, officials said.
The Asian population also grew 43%, increasing from 10.2 million in 2000 to 14.7 million in 2010, officials said. Asians now account for about 5% of the nation's population.
The African-American population, which grew by about 4.3 million, is now about 40 million, or 12.6% of the population, a slight increase over 12.3% in 2000, officials said.
Persons reporting "some other race" grew by 3.7 million, to 19 million, or 5.5% of the nation, figures show.
The vast majority of Americans, 97%, reported only one race, with whites as the largest group, accounting for about seven out of 10 Americans.
The remaining 3% of the population reported multiple races, and almost all of them listed exactly two races. White and black was the leading biracial combination, figures show.
"The face of the country is changing," said Jeffrey Passel, demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center.
Demographic data had already been released for all states except New York and Maine and for the District of Columbia.
In fast-growing states where whites and blacks dominated past growth, Hispanics are now the greatest growth engine, Frey said.
The significance of the numbers to the United States is more than just an increase of an ethnicity. Research shows that along with the changing demographics, the country has become more diverse in other ways, Passel said. For instance, there is a substantial mixing of the American population through interracial marriage, he said.
Another change is the concentration of the growing populations.
Previously, the Hispanic population was concentrated in eight or nine states; it is now spread throughout the country, Passel said.
Meanwhile, most of the data released so far show decreases in the population of white children, Frey said.
Minorities will have a greater presence among future generations, he said. For example, in Nevada, 61% of children are minorities, compared with 41% of adults.
In border states like Texas, demographers say, Hispanic populations are expected to surpass non-Hispanic populations within the next decade.
"Without question, we are becoming a Hispanic state," said Texas state demographer Lloyd Potter.
"I live in San Antonio, and there you see Spanish advertisements, television shows and newspapers everywhere," he said.
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Oroho and other champions of the gas tax have attempted to cast the increase in a light of an overall tax reduction that benefits the majority of New Jerseyans.
In truth, however, the tax increase affects everyone who not only drives a car, but also takes buses or taxis, or purchases goods transported within the state) while the massive estate tax cut (and eventual elimination) saves money for the top 4 percent of people who leave estates: i.e., only the wealthiest residents. The increased in the Earned Income Credit, which affects the state's poorest of the working poor, was miniscule.
In Sussex County, where 22,000 people commute to work outside the county, and 30 percent of households are considered struggling, the impact will be particularly severe. Not to mention that making it more expensive for middle class families to travel could have a negative impact on the tourist industry, which brought in more than $500 million in direct sales last year.


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Climate divestment in the Council's pension fund
We are in a climate emergency, time to divest from fossil fuels
Since 2015 a group of Lambeth staff have been asking the council to stop investing in fossil fuels with Lambeth Council staff pension funds. The council has a pension pot fund of £1.3billion and approximately £60million of this is invested in fossil fuels. This is a strategy which is in complete juxtaposition to the council's standpoint on climate change and on human rights in general.
By investing in fossil fuels, the council essentially undoes all of the great gains that Lambeth makes every year in terms of investing in cycle lanes, food waste collection and energy upgrades.
In December 2018, the Labour group made a commitment to:
sell over £200m of global equities investments and reinvest the money in a low carbon alternative.
sell down its remaining global equities investments and reinvest the proceeds as soon as a suitable alternative becomes available within the London Pension Collective Investment Vehicle framework (the collective pensions body for London councils).
sell down its remaining equity investments (these are in emerging markets), and reinvest the proceeds as soon as a suitable alternative becomes available within the London CIV framework. A suitable alternative has been identified, and we will lobby the London CIV to include it or a similar fund within its framework.
This is a really positive step and council officers are delighted. However, eight months on since that commitment was made, we have not yet seen any commitment from the council formally, nor any progress updates on how things are moving along. While it is certainly promising, it remains to be seen what will happen to our pension funds.
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Joan Miró (1893-1983) Joan Miro is known for his playful art. His emblematic images make a naive, childlike impression at first sight. In contrast to the image of his art, he was a solid, hard-working man who preferred to come to gallery exhibitions in dark business suits.
Born April 20 in Barcelona, Spain, Miro studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. Born as the son of a goldsmith and jewelry maker in Barcelona in Northern Spain Miró studied arts at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and at the Academia Gali. His parents would rather have seen him taking a job as a serious businessman. He even took business classes in 1907 parallel to his art classes. Miró worked as an accountant for nearly two years until he had some kind of a nervous breakdown. His parents finally accepted their son's choice of a career as an artist without giving him too much support.
As a young man, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris. There, under the influence of Surrealist poets and writers, he developed his unique style: organic forms and flattened picture planes drawn with a sharp line. Generally thought of as a Surrealist because of his interest in automatism and the use of sexual symbols.
Miró's style was influenced in varying degrees by Surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods and his desire to abandon them (in his words "murder" and "assassinate" and or "rape" them) in favor of more contemporary means of expression.
By not becoming an official member of the Surrealists, Miró was free to experiment with any artistic style that he wished without compromising his position within the group and being accused of not being a "true" Surrealist. He pursued his own interests in the art world, both within and between groups which politicked and jockeyed for prominence. Miró's artistic autonomy, in that he did not adhere to any one particular style, is reflected in his work and his willingness to work with several media.
André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, described him as "the most Surrealist of us all." Breton was known for his affinity to automatism and promoted using starvation, sleep deprivation, and drugs for inducing hallucinogenic states conducive to create art that reveals the subconscious. Miró confessed to creating one of his most famous works, Harlequin's Carnival, under similar circumstances:
These dreamlike visions often have a whimsical or humorous quality, containing images of playfully distorted animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric constructions. The forms of his paintings are organized against flat neutral backgrounds and are painted in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black. Amorphous amoebic shapes alternate with sharply drawn lines, spots, and curlicues, all positioned on the canvas with seeming nonchalance.
Miró later produced highly generalized, ethereal works in which his organic forms and figures are reduced to abstract spots, lines, and bursts of colors. Miró also experimented in a wide array of other media, devoting himself to etchings and lithographs for several years in the 1950s and also working in watercolor, pastel, collage, and paint on copper and masonite. His ceramic sculptures are especially notable, in particular his two large ceramic murals for the UNESCO building in Paris (Wall of the Moon and Wall of the Sun, 1957-1959).
Miró married Pilar Juncosa in Palma de Mallorca on October 12, 1929; their daughter Dolores was born July 17, 1931. Shuzo Takiguchi published the first monograph on Miró in 1940. In 1959, André Breton asked Miró to represent Spain in The Homage to Surrealism exhibition together with works by Enrique Tábara, Salvador Dalí, and Eugenio Granell.
In an interview with biographer Walter Erben, Miró expressed his dislike for art critics, saying, they "are more concerned with being philosophers than anything else. They form a preconceived opinion, then they look at the work of art. Painting merely serves as a cloak in which to wrap their emaciated philosophical systems."
Miró died at his home in Palma, Mallorca on December 25, 1983. Today, his paintings sell for between US $250,000 and US $8 million.
Joan Miró won several awards in his lifetime. In 1954 he was given the Venice Biennale printmaking prize, in May 1959 the Guggenheim International Award, and in 1980 he received the Gold Medal of Fine Arts from King Juan Carlos of Spain.


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Today I had the pleasure of meeting Ricou Browning, the man who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon in all of the underwater scenes (which were filmed not all that far from where I live). He wore a diving belt to help him stay underwater and had to hold his breath for long periods of time because scuba equipment could not fit in the suit. He is the only actor to play one of the Universal movie monsters that is still alive and I noticed that he enjoys egg salad sandwiches.
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Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is an Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University New Delhi and Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University UK. Dr. Bansal obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU New Delhi he worked as an Assistant Professor at ABV- Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His Primary area of interest is Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He has published more than 70 research papers in various international journals/conferences. He is the Section Editor (editor-in-chief) of the journal MethodsX published by Elsevier. He is the series editor of the book series Algorithms for Intelligent Systems (AIS), Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing (SADIC), and Innovations in Sustainable Technologies and Computing (ISTC) published by Springer. He is also the Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is the general secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.
Research Specialization:
Optimization; Computational Intelligence; Swarm Intelligence; Soft Computing
Selected Journal Publications
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Gupta, Shubham ; Singh, Shitu ; Su, Rong; Gao, Shangce ; Bansal, Jagdish Chand, Multiple Elite Individual Guided Piecewise Search-Based Differential Evolution, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, In Press. | Impact Factor: 7.847 | Q1
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Nikhil Sethi, Ogbonnaya Anicho and Atulya Nagar, Drone Flocking Optimization using NSGA-II and Principal Component Analysis, Swarm Intelligence, In Press | Impact factor: 3.727 | Q2
Probhat Pachung, Jagdish Chand Bansal, An improved Tangent Search Algorithm, MethodsX (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2022.101839 .
Shitu Singh, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Mutation-driven Grey Wolf Optimizer with Modified Search Mechanism", Expert Systems With Applications, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116450 | Impact factor 8.665 | Q1
Sakshi Shringi, Harish Sharma, Pushpa Narayan Rathie, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Atulya Nagar, Modified SIRD Model for COVID-19 Spread Prediction for Northern and Southern States of India, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 148, 2021, 111039, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111039 | Impact Factor- 9.922 | Q1
Vishal Chaudhary, Hari Mohan Dubey, Manjaree Pandit, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Multi-area economic dispatch with stochastic wind power using Salp Swarm Algorithm, Array, Volume 8, 2020, 100044, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.array.2020.100044.
Joshi, S.K., Gopal, A., Singh, S. et al. A novel neighborhood archives embedded gravitational constant in GSA. Soft Comput 25, 6539–6555 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-05648-x | Impact Factor 3.732 | Q2
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Shitu Singh: "A better exploration strategy in Grey Wolf Optimizer", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 12, 1099–1118 (2021 | Impact factor 3.662 | Q1
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02153-1
Susheel Kumar Joshi, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Parameter Tuning for Meta-heuristics", Knowledge-Based Systems, 189 (2020): 105094 | Impact Factor 8.139 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105094
Anshul Gopal, Mohammad Mahdi Sultani, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "On Stability Analysis of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 45, 2385–2394 (2020) | Impact Factor: 2.807 | Q1
Soniya Lalwani, Harish Sharma, Suresh Chandra Satapathy, Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "A Survey on Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 44, 2899–2923 (2019) | Impact Factor: 2.807 | Q1
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Anshul Gopal, Atulya K Nagar: "Analysing convergence, consistency and trajectory of Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm", IEEE Access vol. 6, pp. 73593-73602, 2018 | Impact Factor: 3.476 |Q1
Sandeep Kumar, Basudev Sharma, Vivek Kumar Sharma, Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Plant Leaf Disease Identification using Exponential Spider Monkey Optimization", Sustainable Computing-Informatics and Systems, 2018 | Impact Factor: 4.923 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2018.10.004
Nirmala Sharmaa, Harish Sharma, Ajay Sharma, and Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Grasshopper inspired artificial bee colony algorithm for numerical optimization", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 2018 | Impact Factor: 2.296 | Q3
Pushpa Farswan, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Fireworks-inspired biogeography-based optimization", Soft Computing, 23, pages7091–7115(2019) | Impact Factor: 3.732 | Q2
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Pushpa Farswan, Atulya Kumar Nagar: "Design of wind farm layout with non-uniform turbines using fitness difference based BBO", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Volume 71, Pages 45-59, 2018 | Impact Factor: 7.802 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2018.02.007
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Anshul Gopal, Atulya Kumar Nagar: "Stability Analysis of Artificial Bee Colony Optimization Algorithm", Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 41, Pages 9-19, 2018 | Impact Factor: 10.267 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2018.01.003
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Susheel Kumar Joshi, Atulya Kumar Nagar: "Fitness Varying Gravitational Constant in GSA", Applied Intelligence, 48, pages3446–3461(2018) | Impact Factor: 5.019 | Q2
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Susheel Kumar Joshi, Harish Sharma: "Modified global best artificial bee colony for constrained optimization problems", Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 67, Pages 365-382, 2018 | Impact Factor: 4.152 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2017.10.021
Shimpi Singh Jadon, Ritu Tiwari, Harish Sharma and Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Differential Evolution", Applied Soft Computing, Volume 58, Pages 11-24, 2017 | Impact Factor: 8.263 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2017.04.018
Jagdish Chand Bansal and Pushpa Farswan: "Wind farm layout using Biogeography Based Optimization", Renewable Energy (2017), Volume 107, Pages 386-402 | Impact Factor: 8.634 | Q1
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.01.064
Kavita Sharma, Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Improving the local search ability of Spider Monkey Optimization algorithm using Quadratic Approximation for unconstrained optimization, Computational Intelligence (2017), Volume33, Issue2, 2017, Pages 210-240 | Impact Factor: 2.142 | Q2
https://doi.org/10.1111/coin.12081
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Pushpa Farswan, A novel Disruption in Biogeography-Based Optimization with application to optimal power flow problem, Applied Intelligence, 46, pages 590–615(2017) 46: 590 | Impact Factor: 5.019 | Q2
Ajay Sharma · Harish Sharma · Annapurna Bhargava · Nirmala Sharma · Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Optimal placement and sizing of capacitor using Limacon inspired Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm", Memetic Computing, 9, pages311–331(2017) | Impact Factor: 3.577 | Q1
Shimpi Singh Jadon, Jagdish Chand Bansal and Ritu Tiwari: "Escalated convergent Artificial Bee Colony", Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 28.1-2 (2016): 181-200. | Impact Factor: 2.296 | Q3
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma, K V Arya, Kusum Deep, Millie Pant: "Self-adaptive artificial bee colony Optimization", Optimization, Volume 63, Issue 10, 1513--1532 (2014) Taylor & Francis. | Impact Factor: 2.456 | Q1
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma, Shimpi Singh Jadon, Maurice Clerc: "Spider Monkey Optimization algorithm for numerical optimization". Memetic Computing 6(1): 31-47 (2014). | Impact Factor: 3.577 | Q1
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma, Shimpi Singh Jadon: "Artificial bee colony algorithm: a survey". International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms 5(1/2): 123-159 (2013).
10.1504/IJAIP.2013.054681
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma, Atulya Nagar, K. V. Arya: "Balanced artificial bee colony algorithm". International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing 3(3): 222-243 (2013).
10.1504/IJAISC.2013.053392
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya: "Opposition based lévy flight artificial bee colony". Memetic Computing 5(3): 213-227 (2013). | Impact Factor: 3.577 | Q1
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma, K. V. Arya, Atulya Nagar: "Memetic search in artificial bee colony algorithm". Soft Computing. 17(10): 1911-1928 (2013). | Impact Factor: 3.732 | Q2
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya: "Power law-based local search in differential evolution", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, Inderscience Publishers, 2(2), 90-112 (2013).
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Kusum Deep: "A Modified Binary Particle Swarm Optimization for Knapsack Problems". Applied Mathematics and Computation 218(22): 11042-11061 (2012). | Impact Factor: 4.397 | Q1
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya, Kusum Deep: "Dynamic Swarm Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm". IJAEC 3(4): 19-33 (2012).
DOI: 10.4018/jaec.2012100102
Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Solving Economic Dispatch Problems with Valve-point Effects using Particle Swarm Optimization". J. UCS 18(13): 1842-1852 (2012). | Impact Factor: 1.056
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Harish Sharma: "Cognitive learning in differential evolution and its application to model order reduction problem for single-input single-output systems". Memetic Computing 4(3): 209-229 (2012). Impact Factor: 3.577 | Q1
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya: "Fitness based Differential Evolution". Memetic Computing 4(4): 303-316 (2012). Impact Factor: 3.577 | Q1
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya: "Self balanced differential evolution", Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier, (2012). | Impact Factor: 3.817 | Q1
Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Hybridization of Particle Swarm Optimization with Quadratic Approximation", OPSEARCH (Springer Publication), 46(1): 3-24 (2009)
Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "Mean Particle Swarm Optimization for Function Optimization", Int. J. Computational Intelligence Studies, 1(1): 72–92 (2009)
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K. V. Arya: "Power Law based Local Search in Artificial Bee Colony", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Inderscience, 4(2): 164-194, 2014.
Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, K.V. Arya, Xin-She Yang: "Levy Flight Artificial Bee Colony", International Journal of system sciences, Taylor and Francis 2016 Impact Factor 2.285 | Q2
Madhuri Arya, Kusum Deep, Jagdish Chand Bansal: "A Nature Inspired Adaptive Inertia weight in Particle Swarm Optimization", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Inderscience., 2014
Shimpi Singh Jadon, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Ritu Tiwari, Harish Sharma: "Artificial bee colony algorithm with global and local neighborhoods", International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-014-0286-6
Jagdish Chand Bansal, Shimpi Singh Jadon, Ritu Tiwari, Deep Kiran, B K Panigrahi: "Optimal Power flow Analysis using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Global and Local Neighborhoods", International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, (2017) 8(Suppl 4): 2158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-014-0321-7
Shimpi Singh Jadon, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Ritu Tiwari, Harish Sharma: "Accelerating Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Adaptive Local Search", Memetic Computing, (2015) 7: 215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12293-015-0158-x | Imapct Factor: 5.9 | Q1
Kavita Sharma, Varsha Chhamunya, P C Gupta, Harish Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Fitness based particle swarm optimization, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2015, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp 319-329
Ajay Sharma, Harish Sharma, Annapurna Bhargava, Nirmala Sharma, Jagdish Chand Bansal, Optimal Power Flow Analysis using Levy Flight Spider Monkey Optimization Algorithm" International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC), Jan 2016, Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 320-352
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Two Guys Recreate 'Dumb and Dumber' Mini Bike Road Trip and Have the Time of Their Lives
Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this … and totally redeem yourself!
The fellas from RevZilla went ahead and accomplished a feat that only two other geniuses on the planet ever dared: tandem riding their "hog" from the plains of Nebraska to Aspen, Colorado, on a pull-start mini bike.
The era of the mid-budget comedy has sadly been choked down to a trickle in the past decade or so, with too many such movies losing too much money for studios to confidently bankroll them anymore. "Dumb and Dumber" represents a high point in the '90s when the genre was at its best. Jim Carry was all the rage, alongside other funnymen such as Adam Sandler and Chris Farley.
As for RevZilla, their trip to Aspen was no less dramatic than the one portrayed in "Dumb and Dumber." From severe weather to frequent police stoppages, the journey was closer to the cinema version than perhaps even they expected.
"The rider triangle is more accommodating than it looks, thanks to Ari stretching the frame to match the movie bike," wrote co-rider Zack Courts about the journey. "The seat, on the other hand, is worse than it looks and the paint-shaker vibration rattled our joints to numbness. Ari had predicted that the novelty of the bike and the journey would wear off after about 15 minutes on the road, but I'm not sure it even lasted that long."
"It's dumb, sure, that's the point. Then again, anyone who rides likely has a grudging respect for the absurdity and ambition of setting off across the western United States with no plan and no suspension. Urinating on another person takes a lot of emotion. Doing it to a friend, well, that's got to be love," Courts said.
The end result? 3 days of riding, 382-miles, and 7 gallons of gas: that's what it takes to make the trip of a lifetime (and a pretty awesome video, too).
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Michele Thomson, the top Scot on last season's Ladies European Tour, has lined up a busy start to her 2018 campaign in Australia over the next couple of months.
The 29-year-old Aberdonian used Twitter to reveal the opening phase of her schedule and will be hoping to take up from a top-10 finish in the Omega Dubai Ladies Classic in December. Thomson's first outing is in the Ballarat Pro-Am, an event on the ALPG circuit, on 28 January, warming her up for the Oates Vic Open (1-4 February) and ActewAGL Canberra Classic (9-11 February), both of which are on the LET schedule.
Next up for the former Curtis Cup player will be an appearance in the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open, having earned that opportunity at Kooyonga Golf Club on 15-18 February on the strength of finishing in the top 20 on the LET Order of Merit in 2017.
She will then complete her trip with two more events being co-sanctioned by the LET with the ALPG – the Australian Ladies Classic at Bonville on 22-25 February then the NSW Women's Open, which takes place at Coffs Harbour on 1-4 March.
"I love Australia and can't wait to get 2018 started," said Thomson, whose strong finish to last season included claiming second spot in the Hero Women's Indian Open.
Meanwhile, Russell Knox, still the highest-ranked Scottish male professional despite slipping to 80th, starts his 2018 campaign in this week's Sony Open in Hawaii, where a star-studded field is headed by Open champion Jordan Spieth and US PGA title holder Justin Thomas. For the second week running, Thomas is the defending champion.