The electromagnetic radiation of a handset antenna to a human head model is rigorously analyzed by a new hybrid approach. In the analysis, human head is modeled by a double layered prolate spheroid with complex permittivity. A hybrid Null Field Method/Method of Moments (NFM/MoM) approach is proposed for the first time. The method is general and capable of dealing with multiple scatterers and ra...

Application of aromatic compounds has dramatically increased as raw materials in various industries and different factories have been established to produce aromatic compounds. The current research aims at characterizing industrial waste generation in aromatics production process in petrochemical industries and determining the best feasible alternative for waste disposal. For this purpose, the ...

Abstract An exemplar of nature-based solutions (NBS) is natural flood management (NFM), for which interest growing worldwide. As with many NBS, implementing NFM requires the participation support multiple stakeholders. However, we lack understanding about views and expectations stakeholders who might be expected to enable or implement it. Understanding such may offer insights regarding whether ...

1 Description of the Benchmark In this case study we applied PARAM 2.0α [2] on a randomised shared coin protocol by Aspnes and Herlihy [1], based on an existing PRISM model [3]. The setting consists of N processes sharing a counter c, which initially has the value 0. In addition, a value K is fixed for the protocol. Each process i decides to either decrement the counter with probability p i or ...

Natural flood management (NFM) methods work with natural processes to reduce risk, while often providing additional benefits such as water quality improvement or habitat provision. Increasingly, the activity of an animal—beavers—is recognised potentially provide flow attenuation, along multiple for environment and society, but there can also be associated challenges. We use Q-Methodology elicit...

Research revolving social media and democracy has exploded. For almost two decades, scholarship offered new theories, revisited some old ones, provided empirical evidence that helped cast a strong light on effects over people’s life, at large. Thanks to media, citizens consume news, express their political views, discuss matters, participate in activities. However, also cultivates the dissemina...

This study aims to address the gap in Natural Flood Management (NFM) evidence base concerning its implementation potential groundwater-dominated catchments. We generated a typology of 198 chalk catchments using redundancy analysis and hierarchical clustering. Three catchment typologies were identified: (1) large catchments, (2) headwater with permeable soils, (3) impermeable soils surfaces (urb...

Acoustic energy is difficult to capture and utilise in general. The current work proposes a novel nanofibrous membrane-based (NFM) triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) that can harvest acoustic from the environment. device ultra-thin, lightweight, compact. electrospun NFM used TENG contains three nanocomponents: polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), multi-walled carbon nanotube...

The main objective of this work is the preparation nano-fibrous mats (NFM) from polyamide 6 (PA6) reinforced and functionalized by renewable proteinic waste examining their potential use for sorption heavy metal ions dyes wastewater textile plants. Two biopolymers; namely keratin (from wool combing) sericin degumming natural silk) were extracted regenerated. NFM prepared electro-spinning PA6/ b...