Hydro-induction sediment discharge technique (HSDT) aims to prevent reservoir sedimentation by withdrawing the discharge water from the reservoir bottom to suck up and discharge sediments, and by inducing vertical vortexes and undercurrents in the reservoir bay to keep sediments agitated and moving. The technique is facilitated with an innovative discharge conduit system having bottom intakes t...

hydro-induction sediment discharge technique (hsdt) aims to prevent reservoir sedimentation by withdrawing the discharge water from the reservoir bottom to suck up and discharge sediments, and by inducing vertical vortexes and undercurrents in the reservoir bay to keep sediments agitated and moving. the technique is facilitated with an innovative discharge conduit system having bottom intakes t...

The benefits of using Intrinsic Plasticity (IP), an unsupervised, local, biologically inspired adaptation rule that tunes the probability density of a neuron’s output towards an exponential distribution – thereby realizing an information maximization – have already been demonstrated. In this work, we extend the ideas of this adaptation method to a more commonly used nonlinearity and a Gaussian ...