Abstract BBoxDB Streams is a distributed stream processing system, which allows the handling of multi-dimensional data. Multi-dimensional streams consist n -dimensional elements, such as position data (e.g., two-dimensional positions cars or three-dimensional aircraft). The software an enhancement BBoxDB, key-bounding-box-value store that big supports continuous range queries and spatial joins;...

Intuitively, light impinging on a spatially mirror-symmetric object will be scattered equally into mirror-symmetric directions. This intuition can fail at the nanoscale if the polarization of the incoming light is properly tailored, as long as mirror symmetry is broken in the axes perpendicular to both the incident wave vector and the remaining mirror-symmetric direction. The unidirectional exc...

A novel quantum mechanical energy band-pass filter (EBPF) using semiconductor superlattices is proposed. Such structures with a Gaussian superlattice potential profile allow the incident electrons to be nearly totally transmitted when the impinging electron energy is in the passband. On the other hand, a complete reflection occurs when the impinging energy is in the stopband. By adjusting the p...

background: hiv/aids control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. the aim of this study was to determine how hiv/aids control was initiated among policy makers' agenda setting in iran.   methods: a qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using kingdon's framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy entrepreneurs) to a...

Membrane Condenser (MC) is a novel membrane contactor operation recently investigated for the valorization of industrial waste gaseous streams. In particular, until now, it was applied for water recovery from flue gas, cooling tower plumes, etc. More recently, its effectiveness and flexibility in contaminants (such as, NH3 , HF, SO2 ) removal and control from waste gaseous streams was also prov...

It has been assumed for a long time that the ionization of atoms by ions must in one form or another play an important r6le in the phenomena of gas discharges. This assumption found its mathematical expression in the well-known theory of Townsend. Only recently, however, have the elementary effects of the ionization by ions been experimentally investigated. The ionization of noble gas atoms by ...

A phononic crystal (PC) consisting of a square array of cylindrical polyvinylchloride inclusions in air is used to construct a variety of acoustic logic gates. In a certain range of operating frequencies, the PC band structure shows square-like equi-frequency contours centered off the gamma point. This attribute allows for the realization of non-collinear wave and group velocity vectors in the ...

The iterative adaptive approach (IAA) can achieve accurate source localization with single snapshot, and therefore it has attracted significant interest in various applications. In the original IAA, the optimal filter is performed for every scanning angle grid in each iteration, which may cause the slow convergence and disturb the spatial estimates on the impinging angles of sources. In this ar...

The design of crystallization processes becomes more complicated when mixing affects the final crystal product quality (e.g., crystal size distribution and polymorphic form). Such mixing effects are more apparent in antisolvent and reactive crystallizations, which involve the blending of different fluids, and in large-scale crystallizers, where homogeneity cannot be easily achieved. In this pap...