Out of 39 abstracts submitted, 20 Papers were selected for presentation. In addition, two invited papers and two keynote presentations were given. This technical evaluation report summarizes the core ideas and results presented in this wide variety of valuable contributions from NATO countries, PfP nations, and invited nations by capturing the main ideas in the flow of the symposium and connect...

This Special Issue consists of selected papers from the annual international Sustainable Asia Conference (SAC) 2016, held on Jeju Island, South Korea, from 28 June to 2 July 2016. SAC 2016 is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in sustainable development issues for Asia. In this special issue, most of the papers emphasize the importance of ...

The introduction of vanishing moment recovery (VMR) functions in our recent work (also called “fundamental functions” in an independent paper by Daubechies, Han, Ron, and Shen) modifies the so-called “unitary extension principle” to allow the construction of compactly supported affine frames with any desirable order of vanishing moments up to the order of polynomial reproduction of the given as...

In concrete structures such as road facilities, harbor facilities, sediment control dams, and others, impact loads sometimes act directly on members. Load bearing capacity, toughness and displacement recovery properties are important, and should be evaluated appropriately. Recently, to prevent the spalling of concrete portions is also one of the important requirements for concrete structures. T...

Other papers presented at this conference have documented the substantial recent decline in real estate prices and the impact of this decline on financial institutions. This paper will take the decline in bank capital as a result of exposure to real estate as given, and address how banks have responded to their deteriorated financial condition. The paper will show that real estate losses, combi...

Preface BalticSTERN (Systems Tools and Ecological-economic evaluation – a Research Network) is an international research network with partners in all countries around the Baltic Sea. The research focuses on costs and benefits of mitigating eutrophication and meeting environmental targets of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan. Case studies regarding fisheries management , oil spills and invasive ...

After years of research and with completion in sight, the final year of the PhD often represents the most challenging time of a student’s career, in which the ultimate reward is the PhD honor itself. A large investment in time, energy, and motivation is needed, with many tasks to be completed; concluding experiments must be carried out, results interpreted, and a research story mapped out in pr...

This paper reviewed over 100 articles on the subject of the mechanism of catalyst layer (CL) degradation and the effect of various contaminations in the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Also the recovery of PEMFC via different types of methods, the causes and fundamental mechanisms of cell degradation and their influence on long- term performance of PEM fuel cell were discussed i...

Recovery Factor is an important parameter in determining commercial viability of the oil Reservoirs. Wettability is a major factor that affects oil Recovery. Therefore, changing rock wettability may enhance oil recovery. In this paper, the effect of polysilicon nanoparticles on wettability change of Iranian carbonate reservoir is investigated. To assess this, hydrophilic changes of carbonate ro...