Environmental policies, including the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), generally rely on measurement of indicators to assess good environmental status (GES) and ensure protection marine ecosystems. However, depending available scientific knowledge monitoring programs in place, quantitative GES assessments are not always feasible. This is specifically case for turtle species,...

The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) required Member States to define the concept of Good Environmental Status (GES) their marine waters in quantitative terms and achieve it through assessment 11 descriptors by 2020. ISPRA (Italian Institute for Protection Research), on behalf Ministry Environment, carried out Initial Assessment (2012) evaluation first cycle MSFD (2012–2018) ...

Due to the lack of natural water resources and high consumption in industries, desalination systems are good options supply demands, especially regions with a crisis. If these wastes used thermal cycles, addition improving efficiency reducing energy consumption, production environmental pollutants can also be reduced. In this paper, multi-stage flash brine recirculation (MSF-BR) system Abadan r...

When applied to multi-image computational photography such as flash/no-flash imaging, multiple exposure high dynamic range imaging, multi-flash imaging for depth edge detection, color imaging using active illumination, and flash matting, an image sensor that can capture multiple time-interleaved images would provide a dramatic advantage over capturing and combining a burst of images having diff...

Using photographic flash for candid shots often results in an unevenly lit scene, in which objects in the back appear dark. We describe a spatially adaptive photographic flash system, in which the intensity of illumination varies depending on the depth and reflectivity of features in the scene. We adapt to changes in depth using a single-shot method, and to changes in reflectivity using a multi...

This paper introduces three popular analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures to readers: the flash ADC, the multi-step flash ADC, and the pipeline ADC. The fundamental operating principles of these three architectures are described. The specific topic of interest of this paper is methods of improving ADC accuracy. For the flash ADC, the concept of 2X interpolation to increase ADC resolut...

Traditional knowledge distillation uses a two-stage training strategy to transfer from high-capacity teacher model compact student model, which relies heavily on the pre-trained teacher. Recent online alleviates this limitation by collaborative learning, mutual learning and ensembling, following one-stage end-to-end fashion. However, fail construct an teacher, whilst ensembling ignores collabor...