Guangzhou is the central city in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, and is one of the most polluted cities in the world. To characterize the ambient falling dust pollution, two typical sampling sites: urban (Wushan) and suburban (University Town) areas in Guangzhou city were chosen for falling dust collection over 1 year at time intervals of 1 or 2 months. The flux of dry deposition was calcul...

Boron is a widely occurring element in minerals found in the earth’s crust. It is the 51 most common element found in the earth’s crust and is found at an average concentration of 8 mg/kg (approximately 0.0008%). It is found in the environment primarily combined with oxygen in compounds called borates. Common borate compounds include boric acid, salts of boric acid (e.g., sodium tetraborates, w...

In this paper a control scheme is proposed for anticipatory and discrete event sensory motor driven. The control system elaborates a sensorymotor program based on its internal data and a high level objective. The global system implements several biological models in each one of its subsystems. One of the novelties of this work is the structure of the sensory-motor algorithms which are based on ...

The spatially resolved thermoelectric power is studied on epitaxial graphene on SiC with direct correspondence to graphene atomic structures by a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) method. A thermovoltage arises from a temperature gradient between the STM tip and the sample, and variations of thermovoltage are distinguished at defects and boundaries with atomic resolution. The epitaxial graphe...

Technical skills, even for technical positions, are insufficient for subsequent success beyond an entry-level position, since it usually requires proficiency in soft-skills areas such as: communication, leadership, conflict resolution and self-management, amongst others. Hence, helping technical students to develop and improve such soft-skills areas is of real need, and that is why generic comp...

Hazardous industrial operations are highly stochastic, still human-dependent, and risky. Operators working in such an environment must understand the complex interrelation between several factors contributing to safe effective operations. Therefore, being able predict effects of their actions on provoking or mitigating possible accidents is crucial. This study aims utilize fuzzy cognitive maps ...

The hydrocyclone is a tool used in different fields but mostly in mining industries to separate minerals. The minerals are put in a liquid or in a stable suspension of a chosen density which must be less than the density of the heavier minerals and greater than that of the lighter minerals [1,2,3]. Nowadays there is a strong interest for such tools, mostly in the processes where is possible to ...

After the Stuxnet security event in Iran, the security issues on industrial Internet are very serious. Besides, there are many flaws existing in the modern traffic modelling approaches to the industrial field network. Aiming at these problems, the traffic characteristic map-based intrusion detection model for industrial Internet was proposed. Firstly, information entropy method was adopted to s...