The development of chemical sensors for environmental analysis based on fluorescence, phosphorescence and chemiluminescence signals continues to be a dynamic topic within the sensor field. This review covers the fundamentals of this type of sensors, and an update on recent works devoted to quantifying organic pollutants in environmental waters, focusing on advances since about 2005. Among the w...

Size resolved mass concentration and elemental composition of atmospheric aerosols over the eastern Mediterranean area J. Smolik, V. Ždimal, J. Schwarz, M. Lazaridis, V. Havránek, K. Eleftheriadis, N. Mihalopoulos, C. Bryant, and I. Colbeck Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic Nuclear Physics Institute AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic Technical University of Cre...

The Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the ASCR, v. v. i. (ICPF) is one of six institutes constituting the Section of Chemical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR). In cooperation with several Czech universities, the Institute serves as a centre for fundamental research in the fields of chemical, biochemical, catalytic and environmental engineering, and it...

The world is deluged with various kinds of data-scientific data, environmental data, financial data and mathematical data. Manually analyzing, classifying, and summarizing the data is impossible because of the incredible increase in data in this age of net work and information sharing. This research investigates the fundamentals of data mining and current research on integrating uncertainty int...

This paper addresses the objective of including induced technological change (ITC) in research and policy models of energy, environment, and climate change. Theoretical foundations, fundamentals, and current methodologies for ITC models are reviewed. In addition, limitations and possible extensions to ITC models are explored. Current approaches to energy-environmental modeling that neglect tech...

This chapter describes the fundamentals of the processes used by National Semiconductor to assemble IC devices in electronic packages. Electronic packaging provides the interconnection from the IC to the printed circuit board (PCB). Another function is to provide the desired mechanical and environmental protection to ensure reliability and performance. Three fundamental assembly flow processes ...

Using a State-space model, this paper investigates the contribution of both observed and unobserved fundamentals to nominal exchange rate movement in Iran for the period 1991:2-2011:4. To this end, we follow Engel and West (2005) and Balke et al. (2013) and use an asset-pricing approach to develop a rational expectations present value exchange rate model. In order to examine the role of fun...

This chapter is an introduction to the subject of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling in environmental and resource economics. CGE models are a widely-used tool for the quasi-empirical analysis of environmental externalities—and policies for mitigating them—which are large enough to influence prices across multiple markets in the economy. We provide a simple, rigorous, and practically...