The paper deals with the problem of performance benchmarking of industrial plants by considering Best Available Techniques (BAT), as determined by the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive. A Fuzzy Logic Model, based on fuzzy set theory, was constructed for this purpose, in order to compare the performance of plants within a sector’s best standards, as expressed in the Reference...

Although the world's population is ageing and as a result of this an increasing number of patients are experiencing difficulty in swallowing, there remains a lack of commercially available oral liquids for both these older and paediatric patients. This presents a problem to health care professionals, especially the pharmacist in practice, who is often required to provide a solution for these pa...

One of the concepts in restructuring the electric power industry is the ability to accurately and rapidly quantify the power transfer so-called as the available transfer capability (ATC). Accurate identification of ATC provides vital information for both planning and operation of the bulk power market in reserving transmission services. There are various methods used to determine ATC such as th...

prosite database contains a set of entries corresponding to protein families, which are used to identify the family of a protein from its sequence. although patterns and profiles are developed to be very selective, each may have false positive or negative hits. considering false positives as items that reduce the selectiveness of a pattern, then, the more selective pattern we have, a more accur...

considering the circulation of bordetella pertussis clinical strains among populations with high vaccination coverage, it is necessary to have a proper understanding of this bacterium causing whooping cough. various techniques, which are available for studying b. pertussis, can facilitate a proper comparison between different populations. we genotypically analyzed a collection of two vaccine st...

In this paper, we consider the problem of joint segmentation and classification of sequences in the framework of conditional random field (CRF) models. To effect this goal, we introduce a novel dual-functionality CRF model: on the first level, the proposed model conducts sequence segmentation, while, on the second level, the whole observed sequences are classified into one of the available lear...

This contribution reports on the results obtained in mapping vegetated surfaces within the target site of Fascati/Tor Vergata, by the use of the CHRIS Proba images. In particular our purpose is to show how the use of multi-angular observations, properly elaborated and rectified, can provide further pieces of information for the vegetation identification with respect to those available consideri...