Anti-pollution flashover of insulator is important for power systems. In recent years, haze-fog weather occurs frequently, which makes discharge occurs easily on the insulator surface and accelerates insulation aging of insulator. In order to study the influence of haze-fog on the surface discharge of room temperature vulcanized silicone rubber, an artificial haze-fog lab was established. Based...

Fog is often considered as a mere nuisance rather than a hazard. However, reduced meteorological visibility conditions cause accidents and transportation delays, with substantial financial consequences. The visibility loss results from minute airborne droplets which scatter light, causing drastic alterations in the image of the environment perceived by vision systems, both human and artificial....

The wetting and the self-cleaning properties (the latter is often called the "Lotus-Effect") of three types of superhydrophobic surfaces have been investigated: silicon wafer specimens with different regular arrays of spikes hydrophobized by chemical treatment, replicates of water-repellent leaves of plants, and commercially available metal foils which were additionally hydrophobized by means o...

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), etc. have become widespread and can achieve high statistical performance. However their accuracy decreases significantly in energy-constrained mobile and embedded systems space, where all computations need to be completed under a tight energy budget. In this work, we present a field of gro...

OBJECTIVES To study whether 60-Hz stimulation, compared with routine 130 Hz, improves swallowing function and freezing of gait (FOG) in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) who undergo bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS). METHODS We studied 7 patients with PD who experienced FOG that persisted despite routine 130-Hz stimulation and dopaminergic medication. Each pa...

Knowledge representation and reasoning plays a central role in Artificial Intelligence. Research in Artificial Intelligence (henceforth AI) started off by trying to identify the general mechanisms responsible for intelligent behavior. However, it quickly became obvious that general and powerful methods are not enough to get the desired result, namely, intelligent behavior. Almost all tasks a hu...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. History of the problem 3. Physical basis for artificial modification of clouds and precipitation 4. The enhancement and redistribution of precipitation 5. Hail suppression 6. Fog dispersal 7. Dispersal of super cooled low-level clouds and precipitation 8. Other weather modification experiments 9. Conclusions Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketches

This paper addresses an aspect of social environments comprising a series of processes that begin with an artificial agent (the “author-agent”) producing surprising products (objects, events, etc.), continue with other artificial agents (the “jury-agents”) appraising those products with respect to surprise (manifested, for instance, by the focus of their attention on those products), and end wi...