The recent progress in artificial intelligence is allowing assistive systems like the voice-based assistant, virtual agents to become more personalized and adaptable. The role of these systems is also shifting from being a mere assistant to a personal companion. However ‘personal companionship’ being a subjective term lies open to interpretation, thus posing a challenge for the creators of thes...

Despite all theoretically and empirically motivated criticism of GDP as a social welfare and progress indicator, its role in economics, public policy, politics and society continues to be influential. To resolve this paradox, one has to recognize that many economists accept the criticism of the GDP indicator but deny its relevance. This paper evaluates the reasons for denial. This entails five ...

This paper describes an efficient yet accurate methodology for estimating system damping. The proposed technique is based on linear dynamic system theory and the Hilbert damping analysis. The proposed technique requires capacitor switching waveforms only. The detected envelope of the intrinsic transient portion of the voltage waveform after capacitor bank energizing and its decay rate along wit...

This article presents progress and challenges in the development of photocatalyst sheets for scalable efficient production renewable hydrogen via water splitting reaction.

The complexation of NiCl2 with 2,2?-Bipyridine was followed using quasielastic neutron scattering to observe reaction progress. Water adsorption in chabazite time resolution observed strain induced the aluminosilicate framework a high-resolution engineering diffractometer. These reactions illustrate recent progress and possibilities probes realistic catalytic as they

The use of colored semiconductor oxide like copper (II) oxide and nickel (II) oxide for photocatalytic bleaching of rose bengal was investigated in detail. In order to harness the solar energy, the effective wavelength of the photocatalyst is to be expanded into the visible region and that increases the rate of photocatalytic bleaching of the dye. Progress of the reaction was observed spect...

The spatial distribution of a reaction through a lithium-ion battery electrode has been resolved using micro-beam high-energy X-ray scattering measurements coupled with Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis. The electrochemical reaction was most advanced at the interface between the electrode and electrolyte-soaked separator, with linear variation in reaction progress with distance from thi...

A [3+2] cycloaddition (32CA) reaction among a thiocarbonyl ylide (TCY 2) with (E)-4,4,4-trifluoro-4-phenylbut-3-en-2-one (TFB 4) as an electron-deficient enone in tetrahydrofuran (THF) were studied within the Molecular Electron Density Theory (MEDT), at the DFT-B3LYP/6-31G(d) computational level to analysis energetics, selectivities, and mechanistic aspects. The reaction can progress in four co...