Since the 21st century, with the development of complexity science and the advancement in computer information technology, there are unprecedented vision and technological means for mankind: the most advanced product of biological evolution on this planet. The success of the Human Genome Project opens up a new way for a more comprehensive understanding of modern medicine and the treatment of hu...

Textile waste water treatment for industrial reuse remains as a complicated problem due to several reasons. Among them are: 1) Higher levels of Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) content of the waste water; 2) Non-biodegradable nature of organic dye stuffs present in the effluent. Thus, any adopted treatment system, especially with resp...

Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors, formed using silicon dioxide and silicon, have undergone four decades of staggering technological advancement. With fundamental limits to this technology close at hand, alternatives to silicon dioxide are being pursued to enable new functionality and device architectures. We achieved ferroelectric functionality in intimate contact with silicon...

Abstract . The technological advancement in the computer controlled systems and other areas in the process industries makes available continuous stream of data to be exploited utilizing on-line systems environment. This paper presents a procedure for on-line learning with wave-nets with the aid of such a stream of data. Wave-nets are wavelet-based neural networks with localized and hierarchical...

With technological change and advancement, attackers are increasingly becoming more sophisticated in their attack strategies and techniques. Other global factors and developments also impact the line of attack. This paper provides an introduction to the most current, pertinent attack strategies and trends. It aims to create an awareness of emerging areas that should be better studied and unders...

The first applications for smart environments targeted well-scoped spaces and appliances. These applications were strong drivers to advance Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT). With the evolution of the technological base, more complex environments became the new targets. The concept of cooperating objects (CO) enables further advancement of IoT and helps to grasp th...

Simulation devices have grasped the attention of almost all industries worldwide and the medical field has not been exempt. With technological advancement, it becomes important to assess whether medical simulators are the way forward as an adjunct or as a replacement to traditional training approaches by assessing their safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and whether they should be made ma...

The scholarly thrust of urban planning is its use of, as well as its contribution to, social science. As a discipline bordering with civil engineering, furthermore, urban planning has always carried also an important cross-disciplinary message beyond social science. Yet the association of urban planning with humanistic disciplines and the fine arts has been undervalued or ignored altogether. At...

This article presents a short history and the recent advancement of the development of chemical vapor deposition technologies to form thin film gas barrier coatings on PET bottles and other plastic containers in food and beverage containers. Among different gas barrier enhancement technologies, coating can show unique performance where relatively high gas barrier enhancement is possible to vari...