A brief review is provided of the use of the Square Wave Method (SWM) in the field of signal and image analysis and it is specified how results thus obtained are expressed using the Square Wave Transform (SWT), in the frequency domain. To illustrate the new approach introduced in this field, the results of two cases are analyzed: a) a sequence of samples (that is, measured values) of an electro...

0022-1694/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.07.039 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +41 (0)21 693 8024. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Coutu). 1 Present address: Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for ogy, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switz 2 Address: Institute of Environmental Engineering Technology Zürich (ETHZ), 8093 Zürich, Swi...

In the era of big data, unprecedented growth data has been regarded as an important asset and commercial application acquisition markets emerged accordingly. With advancement vehicle manufacturing sensor technologies, a large amount can be collected stored in electric vehicles (EV), making scenario gradually extend to Internet Vehicles (IoV), thus corresponding operational rules economic feasib...

Indonesia is in the top 5 country that generates solid waste. It 14th largest world managing waste, but unfortunately, not known for its diligence to waste management. In 2019, coordinating minister Maritime Affairs and Investment of Republic Indonesia, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, stated it a priority national agenda keep improving management due growing number people living urban areas estimated ...

The problem of Solid Waste Management (SWM) has gained recent attention in developing countries. city Jammu being a major Union Territory (UT) J&K, prominent tourist and pilgrim site is facing massive upheaval the waste generation rates. sharp contrast between increasing rates on one hand inadequacy funds other hand. observed to generate 350-400 Tons per Day (TPD) with capita 550 grams day....

To investigate how time perception may contribute to the symptoms of self-harming Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) patients, 19 self-harming BPD inpatients and 39 normal controls were given measures of time perception, impulsivity, personality, emotion, and BPD characteristics. A test sensitive to orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function ("Frontal" Behavior Questionnaire) was also administered,...

BACKGROUND Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) that is characterized by markedly defiant, disobedient, and disruptive behavior in younger children has been regarded as disruptive behavior disorder (DBD), together with conduct disorder (CD). However, in contrast to CD, ODD does not include severe aggressive or antisocial behavior. AIM This study aimed to examine executive function (EF) feature...

Testicular sperm extraction is a common procedure used to find spermatogenic cells in men with nonobstructive azoospermia. The laboratory processing of biopsied testicular tissues needs to be performed meticulously to acquire a high yield of cells. In this study, the effectiveness of mincing the tissues after testicular biopsy was assessed using histological evaluation, as was the possible adve...

The maintenance of social/emotional information in working memory (SWM/EWM) has recently been the topic of multiple neuroimaging studies. However, some studies find that SWM/EWM involves a medial frontal-parietal network while others instead find lateral frontal-parietal activations similar to studies of verbal and visuospatial WM. In this study, we asked 26 healthy volunteers to complete an EW...