The air quality modeling community widely acknowledges that there are considerable uncertainties in the emission inventories used for modeling. Nonetheless, these uncertainties are typically ignored in air quality modeling applications. Three reasons for ignoring these uncertainties are (1) uncertainties in model inputs typically are not well quantified, (2) emissions and air quality modeling c...

Separators are used to protect cathodes from biofouling and to avoid electrode short-circuiting, but they can adversely affect microbial fuel cell (MFC) performance. A spray method was used to apply a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) separator to the cathode. Power densities were unaffected by the PVA separator (339±29mW/m(2)), compared to a control lacking a separator in a low conductivity solution (1m...

Kloks, Kratsch, and Spinrad showed how treewidth and minimum-fill, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems related to minimal triangulations, are broken into subproblems by block subgraphs defined by minimal separators. These ideas were expanded on by Bouchitté and Todinca, who used potential maximal cliques to solve these problems using a dynamic programming approach in time polynomial in ...

Air distribution in commercial airliner cabins is very important for the comfort and health of passengers and crew. Experimental measurements, CFD simulations, and inverse modeling are state-of-the-art methods available for studying the air distribution. This paper gave an overview the different experimental models, such as scale models, simplified models, full-scale mockups, and actual air cab...

Multilayering microelectrode techniques have been developed to construct large-area travelling-wave dielectrophoresis (TWD) separators. Novel electrode designs have enabled arrays with up to 25 000 electrodes to be constructed. The separation capacity of a 1000 electrode (20 mm) array has been demonstrated by separating components of whole blood. The development of sophisticated bio-particle se...

The control of flow balance at the die exit is key for successful extrusion polymers. complex cross-sectional variation in real-world hollow profiles intrinsically promotes imbalance cavity. Special considerations are required designing dies such profiles. design a door frame profile was computationally optimized this study with aid commercially available software package. velocity distribution...

This papers shows that using separators, which is a pair of two complementary contractors, we can easily and efficiently solve the localization problem of a robot with sonar measurements in an unstructured environment. We introduce separators associated with the Minkowski sum and the Minkowski difference in order to facilitate the resolution. A test-case is given in order to illustrate the prin...

Separators in graphs are instrumental in the design of algorithms, having proven to be the key technical tool in approximation algorithms for many optimization problems. In the geometric setting, this naturally translates into the study of separators in the intersection graphs of geometric objects. Recently a number of new separator theorems have been proven for the case of geometric objects in...