Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.339
Fatmir Prekupi
{"title":"Exploratory Research to Recycling Potential in Kosovo","authors":"Fatmir Prekupi","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115631482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.365
A. Erindi, E. Spahiu
{"title":"Increased Risk of Falling of Elderly Men","authors":"A. Erindi, E. Spahiu","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124131351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.346
S. Ukaj, H. Rizani, Elgadaf Bakalli, Viser Sylejmani, Mehdi Ukaj
{"title":"Aromatic and Medical Plants of the Nerodime Area","authors":"S. Ukaj, H. Rizani, Elgadaf Bakalli, Viser Sylejmani, Mehdi Ukaj","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.346","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124140686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.368
Dafina Gexha Bunjaku, Edona Deva, L. Gashi, Pranvera Kaçaniku Gunga, F. Emmanuel
{"title":"Mapping and Size Estimation of Key Populations in Kosovo, 2016","authors":"Dafina Gexha Bunjaku, Edona Deva, L. Gashi, Pranvera Kaçaniku Gunga, F. Emmanuel","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124241847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.337
Zemerart Asani, Selvet Rexhepi
With Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers being widely used in industry for optimum solutions. Optimization of the PID controller is an important problem in Control Engineering. Therefore, in this paper work we have implemented Simulated Annealing to tune the controller parameters. Optimizing the controller parameters on the basis of the Simulated Annealing algorithm, based on criteria defined using an objective function, allows us to find optimal solutions for the controller parameters that give us minimum error. In terms of performance, the PID controller designed with Simulated Annealing gives us great results with regard to the rise time, settling time, overshoot and steady-state error. Simulated Annealing (SA) is a meta-heuristic method which is used to find solutions in a large search space. It is inspired by a physical process, specifically based on annealing in metallurgy. In annealing the slow cooling of the material increases the size of its crystals and thus reduces defects. SA is dependent on internal thermodynamic energy. When it is implemented for the PID controller problem the algorithm searches for the minimal energy, respectively the minimal error. The case study of tuning the PID for the Mechatronics system verifies that this method can be used for this purpose and great performance of the system can be achieved.
{"title":"Designing a controller via Simulated Annealing","authors":"Zemerart Asani, Selvet Rexhepi","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.337","url":null,"abstract":"With Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers being widely used in industry for optimum solutions. Optimization of the PID controller is an important problem in Control Engineering. Therefore, in this paper work we have implemented Simulated Annealing to tune the controller parameters. Optimizing the controller parameters on the basis of the Simulated Annealing algorithm, based on criteria defined using an objective function, allows us to find optimal solutions for the controller parameters that give us minimum error. In terms of performance, the PID controller designed with Simulated Annealing gives us great results with regard to the rise time, settling time, overshoot and steady-state error. Simulated Annealing (SA) is a meta-heuristic method which is used to find solutions in a large search space. It is inspired by a physical process, specifically based on annealing in metallurgy. In annealing the slow cooling of the material increases the size of its crystals and thus reduces defects. SA is dependent on internal thermodynamic energy. When it is implemented for the PID controller problem the algorithm searches for the minimal energy, respectively the minimal error. The case study of tuning the PID for the Mechatronics system verifies that this method can be used for this purpose and great performance of the system can be achieved.","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124374309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facility and Engineering Building Management","authors":"Ida Mimoza Kurteshi","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124428218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.233
Bujar Hoxha
{"title":"Challenging communication processes through recent semiotic paradigms","authors":"Bujar Hoxha","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114677775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-27DOI: 10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.279
Bernard Dosti, Elena Polo
Monetary and fiscal policy constitutes principal macro-policies, even though they are usually designed and implemented with quite different sometimes even contrary goals. Although they have a certain degree of independence mostly in the institutional basis, there is also a considerable level of interdependence between them. This one is usually found in the literature with the term “interaction” and then “harmonization” when the country operates within a monetary union. The first objective of this paper is to shortly identify main elements of the interaction between macro-policies. The second objective is to evaluate this mutual interaction among them for the Albanian case with historical data using each policy reaction function in a non-simultaneous way. Related to the methodology, there will be a descriptive comparative analysis of various economic variables indicating ways of interaction between monetary and fiscal policy also with revisiting their instruments and coordination after the crisis. Following this theoretical approach, there will be an evaluation on the mutual interaction, where the methodological approach of the latter relates to game theory generally analyzing decision situations. The first results of this work relate to the stabilizing effects of monetary and fiscal policy. The other results will rely on the changes of one policy as a response of changes in the other. If this one is statistically approved, we can confirm a presence of strategic interaction between the two macro-policies. All above mentioned elements will shed light on some first theoretical and empirical findings for Albania contributing to a further research debate and work in the field.
{"title":"An Initial Key Evaluation of The Strategic Interaction Between Macroeconomic Policies in Albania","authors":"Bernard Dosti, Elena Polo","doi":"10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/UBT-IC.2018.279","url":null,"abstract":"Monetary and fiscal policy constitutes principal macro-policies, even though they are usually designed and implemented with quite different sometimes even contrary goals. Although they have a certain degree of independence mostly in the institutional basis, there is also a considerable level of interdependence between them. This one is usually found in the literature with the term “interaction” and then “harmonization” when the country operates within a monetary union. The first objective of this paper is to shortly identify main elements of the interaction between macro-policies. The second objective is to evaluate this mutual interaction among them for the Albanian case with historical data using each policy reaction function in a non-simultaneous way. Related to the methodology, there will be a descriptive comparative analysis of various economic variables indicating ways of interaction between monetary and fiscal policy also with revisiting their instruments and coordination after the crisis. Following this theoretical approach, there will be an evaluation on the mutual interaction, where the methodological approach of the latter relates to game theory generally analyzing decision situations. The first results of this work relate to the stabilizing effects of monetary and fiscal policy. The other results will rely on the changes of one policy as a response of changes in the other. If this one is statistically approved, we can confirm a presence of strategic interaction between the two macro-policies. All above mentioned elements will shed light on some first theoretical and empirical findings for Albania contributing to a further research debate and work in the field.","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114954875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable Urban Development Management System: What about Albania!","authors":"Gelina Maliqi","doi":"10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276348,"journal":{"name":"2018 UBT International Conference","volume":"168 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116406305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}