Sodium-ion batteries are a promising class of secondary power sources that can replace some the lithium-ion, lead–acid, and other types in large-scale applications. One critical parameters for their potential use is high efficiency wide temperature range, particularly below 0 °C. This article analyzes phase equilibria electrochemical properties sodium-ion battery electrolytes based on NaPF6 sol...

The roof matrix represents correlations among engineering characteristics (EC) in the house of quality (HoQ) Quality Functions Deployment (QFD). Correlations are usually measured qualitatively and omitted analysis. However, ignoring them may cause duplication effort, decreased product performance, unsatisfied customer requirements (CR). Hence, this paper intends to propose an approach consideri...

Electrochromic (EC) polymers such as polyviologens have been attracting considerable attention as wet-processable electrodes for EC displays, thanks to their brilliant color change accompanied with reversible redox reactions. To establish wider usage, achieving multicolor and high-resolution characteristics is indispensable. In this paper, we demonstrated that the introduction of substituents s...

As the science of building agents and agent based applications improves, agents are gradually making the transition from research laboratory prototypes to industrial applications. In an industrial setting pragmatic engineering issues related to the development and maintenance of agents come to the fore. In this paper a list of important engineering characteristics of agent architectures is pres...

In this paper, we consider the forbidden state problem in discrete event systems modeled by partially observed and partially controlled Petri nets. Assuming that the reverse net of the uncontrollable subnet of the Petri net is structurally bounded, we compute a set of weakly forbidden markings This work was supported in part by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), under NSF CNS ...

This paper is devoted to the non-symmetric channels. Here we will present t-EC-AUED codes. Böinck and van Tilborg gave a bound on the length of binary t-EC-AUED codes. A generalization of this bound to arbitrary alphabet size is given. This generalized Böinck van Tilborg bound, combined with constructions, is used to determine the length of some optimal binary and ternary t-EC-AUED codes. The s...

Studies examining the biochemical characteristics and pharmacological properties of extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC SOD) have been severely limited because of difficulties in purifying the enzyme. Recently EC SOD was found to exist in high concentrations in the arteries of most mammals examined and it is the predominant form of SOD activity in many arteries. We now describe a three-step,...

Decoding of 3D multi-view video coded bit-streams that are transmitted over noisy channels can suffer from error propagation in the space, time and view domains. To improve the quality of reconstructed 3D video, we propose adaptive Error Concealment (EC) algorithms to conceal the erroneous blocks of intra-coded and inter-coded frames. Our proposed algorithms adapt to the motion characteristics ...

awareness of the effects of fire on various aspects of an ecosystem after the fire,is important for range management. changes in soil physical and chemical propertiescaused by fire can be the cause of changes in the vegetation. in this study, effects of fire onphysical and chemical characteristics of soil were investigated. this research was carriedout in a randomized block design method in the...