Oily wastewater poses a significant impact on both environments and human societies. Especially, the treatment of oil/water emulsions for separating oil from water is challenging due to high stability emulsions. Smart membranes, known as stimuli-responsive are one emerging technologies that have been paid wide attention in recent years. membranes possess unique features switchable wettability b...

This revolutionary technology provides an impressive list of advantages. It provides a venue for trading (a single web site), so users need not search for trading partners. The computer models vet all transactions simultaneously to ensure satisfaction of all relevant environmental constraints such as stream flows. Trading can be done on a weekly, daily, or even hourly basis. Price data is immed...

Inserting remote control valves in a water distribution system allows the implementation of the “divide and conquer” paradigm that consists in dividing a large network into smaller subsystems, also called water network partitioning (WNP), for applying water balance, pressure control and water quality protection. Some heuristic procedures, based on different techniques (graph theory, clustering,...

Most dental materials are designed to have a relatively 'neutral' existence in the mouth. It is considered that if they are 'passive' and do not react with the oral environment they will be more stable and have a greater durability. At the same time, it is hoped that our materials will be well accepted and will cause neither harm nor injury. This is an entirely negative approach to material tol...

Cyber Physical System (CPS) is a system where cyber and physical components work in a complex co-ordination to provide better performance. By exploiting the communication infrastructure among the sensors, actuators, and control systems, attackers may compromise the security of a CPS. In this dissertation, security measures for different types of attacks/ faults in two CPSs, water supply system ...