An enormous dissipation of the order of 2 kJ/L takes place during the natural mixing process of fresh river water entering the salty sea. “Capacitive mixing” is a promising technique to efficiently harvest this energy in an environmentally clean and sustainable fashion. This method has its roots in the ability to store a very large amount of electric charge inside supercapacitor or battery elec...

In this paper we present a framework for secure identification using deep neural networks, and apply it to the task of template protection for face authentication. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn a mapping from face images to maximum entropy binary (MEB) codes. The mapping is robust enough to tackle the problem of exact matching, yielding the same code for new samples ...

I briefly review some of the micro and macro theory of corruption and relate it to various socio-economic and political variables. To quantify the burden of corruption I use Harrison and Vinod's (1992) 95% confidence interval for the marginal excess burden (MEB) of taxation. In developing countries, one dollar of corruption is estimated to impose a burden of $1.67, which becomes very large when...

Functionalized alkenes were successfully synthesized via a clean procedure in short time by using new recycled heterogeneous catalyst prepared from Moroccan oil shale, this is characterized different technics such XRD, BET-BJH, MEB-EDS, and TGA, before it’s has been used the Knoevenagel condensation between aldehydes active methylenes. The results showed that coupling with ultrasound irradiatio...

In this paper, we propose a novel memory-enabled non-uniform sampling-based bumblebee foraging algorithm (MEB) designed for optimal channel selection in distributed Vehicular Dynamic Spectrum Access (VDSA) framework employed platoon operating environment. Given how behavioral models are to support adaptation complex and highly time-varying environments, these can be by connected vehicles enable...

In this contribution dedicated to kidney stones containing Whitlockite (Wk), we addressed three questions, namely, the presence of iron in Wk, relationship between bacterial imprints and finally crystal size Wk-bearing infection. The complete dataset indicates that is not present our Wk stoichiometry. We also note for with a high, but sometimes low content, Wk. Finally, propose FE-SEM as diagno...

In this paper, we consider the hedging of portfolio loss derivatives using single-name credit default swaps as hedging instruments. The hedging issue is investigated in a general pure jump dynamic setting where default times are assumed to admit a joint density. In a first step, we compute default intensities adapted to the global filtration of defaults. In particular, we stress the impact of a...