Biomass offers a renewable carbon source that could be utilized as a raw material in the chemicals industry. A potential route for the conversion of biomass feedstock’s into industrial chemicals is through the catalytic conversion of biomass sugars (glucose) to furan based compounds through an aqueous reforming process. However, to accommodate the transport of these bulky sugars within the cata...

In this paper, distributed parameter process systems behavior is studied in frequency domain. Based on the dominant gain concept that is developed for such studies, a method is presented to control distributed parameter process systems. By using dominant gain concept, the location of open loop zeros, resulted from the time delay parameter in the process model, were changed from the right half p...

Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing awareness of, and interest in, the use of spatial moment techniques to provide insight into a range of biological and ecological processes. Models that incorporate spatial moments can be viewed as extensions of mean-field models. These mean-field models often consist of systems of classical ordinary differential equations and partial diffe...

1 Basic Concepts 3 1.1 Notions of equivalence of stochastic processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Sample path properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Properties of filtrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 Stopping times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The methods of assessing the individuals’ performance usually applied in practice are based on principles of the bivalent logic (yes-no). However, fuzzy logic, due to its nature of including multiple values, offers a wider and richer field of resources for this purpose. In this paper we use principles of fuzzy logic in developing a new method for assessing the performance of groups of individua...

Bivariate semi-logistic and Marshall-Olkin bivariate semi-logistic distributions are introduced. Some properties of these distributions are studied. First order autoregressive processes with bivariate semi-logistic and Marshall-Olkin bivariate semi-logistic distributions as marginals are introduced and studied.