Thirty-five years ago, B.F. Skinner (1976) lamented a decreasing trend in the prevalence of cumulative records in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( JEAB). The editorial began with the two memorable lines, ‘‘Evidently we have not long to wait for an issue of JEAB without a single cumulative record! I shall not miss the records so much as the kinds of experiments that could s...

Triboelektrostatická separácia minerálnej substancie zo slovenského uhlia V článku sú diskutované niektoré technické aspekty triboelektrostatickej separácie a výsledky aplikácie tohto postupu pri úprave troch typov uhlia, konkrétne energetického uhlia z Cígľa, Handlovej a Novák. Bolo zistené, že účinnosť separácie veľmi úzko závisí na druhu separovan uhlia. Prvé výsledky preukázali súvislosť me...

Several processes take place within vegetated buffer strips that affect their performance. To better understand these processes, a runoff study was conducted to evaluate vegetated buffer strips performance in reducing atrazine, metolachlor, and chlorpyrifos transport as affected by the drainage area to buffer strip area ratio. The simulated runoff water mixed with pesticide–treated soil was dis...

Supervisory control usually involves timely switching among different courses of action over multiple time scales. In this work, intelligent process supervision is addressed in the context of semi-Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning. Temporally extended actions that represent a way of behaving together with a termination condition are used to achieve a set of operational goals/...

Thermal energy storage (TES) is widely used in district heating and cooling systems (DHCS) to act as a buffer between the supply demand schedules. The adequate control of charging discharging modes TES may improve overall performance DHCS and, this end, an effective regulation its state-of-charge (SoC) required. However, calculation SoC depends on availability accuracy temperature measurements....

This paper proposes the adaptation of Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) to the multiple kernel case (MK-SVDD), based on SimpleMKL. It also introduces a variant called Slim-MK-SVDD that is able to produce a tighter frontier around the data. For the sake of comparison, the equivalent methods are also developed for One-Class SVM, known to be very similar to SVDD for certain shapes of kernels....

Impact of the satellite data assimilation on the naval undersea capability is investigated using the ocean hydrographic data without and with satellite data assimilation. The former is the Navy’s Global Digital Environmental Model (GDEM) providing the monthly mean; and the latter is the Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS) proving the synoptic data. The two environmental datasets are ...

Rainwater harvesting attracts growing interest from the field of municipal planning. When considering a rainwater system as design object, questions include whether is designed for single property or local water network serving multiple properties, what allows inclusion buffer tanks and resource balancing among participants in network, how to size tanks, robust face changing demands. Knowledge-...

Life support systems (LSSs) are autonomous integrating various generation, recycling, and consumption subsystems with storage capability to maintain the balance of key system compounds. A novel hierarchical control is proposed in this paper operate an exemplary controlled ecological LSS. The study focuses on O2 concentration crew compartment, as main consumer a LSS, while coordinating network b...