hydrogen peroxide is an important mild oxidant which is widely used in various applications including remediation of waste waters and drinking water resources. the safe level of h2o2 residue has to be controlled through accurate and precise measurement methods. a facile spectrophotometric method for the determination of hydrogen peroxide is based on the reaction of iodine solution with toluidin...

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely applied for low-level vision over the past five years. According to nature of different applications, designing appropriate CNN architectures is developed. However, customized gather features via treating all pixel points as equal improve performance given application, which ignores effects local power and results in low training effici...

Probabilistic solar power forecasting has been critical in Southern Africa because of major shortages due to climatic changes and other factors over the past decade. This paper discusses Gaussian process regression (GPR) coupled with core vector for short-term hourly global horizontal irradiance (GHI) forecasting. GPR is a powerful Bayesian non-parametric method that works well small data sets ...

A widely-used tool for binary classification is the Support Vector Machine (SVM), a supervised learning technique that finds the “maximum margin” linear separator between the two classes. While SVMs have been well studied in the batch (offline) setting, there is considerably less work on the streaming (online) setting, which requires only a single pass over the data using sub-linear space. Exis...

Corruption is a serious problem in Asia and elsewhere. Harrison and Vinod's (1992) confidence interval for the marginal excess burden (MEB) of taxation is used to estimates the economic harm arising from corruption. One dollar of corruption is estimated to impose a burden of $1.67, which becomes very large when compounded over time. After a brief review of economic theory, this paper uses data ...

This study investigates the role of emotional mediation in sound-color cross-modal correspondence, using two complementary sets of validated stimuli: the Montreal Affective Voices (MAV; Belin et al., 2008), and Musical Emotional Bursts (MEB; Paquette et al., 2013). These stimuli were presented to participants for color associations, emotional associations, and rated for arousal and valence. The...

An equilibrium multielectron bubble (MEB) in liquid helium is a fascinating object with a spherical two-dimensional electron gas on its surface. We discuss two ways in which they have been created. For MEBs that have been observed in the dome of a cylindrical cell with an unexpectedly short lifetime, we show analytically why these MEBs can discharge by tunneling. Using a novel method, MEBs have...

Fusarium sp. produces various bioactive pigments widely used in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and the food industry. This study investigated antimicrobial effect of pigment produced from highest pigment-producing strain determined optimum growth conditions agro-industrial residues to obtain maximum production. equiseti, graminearum, poae strains were tested terms their production levels. Pigment ...

Despite the continuing efforts to improve existing soil moisture retrieval algorithms, the ability to estimate soil moisture from passive microwave observations is still hampered by problems in accurately modelling the observed microwave signal. Due to the significant influence of both soil roughness and vegetation on the measured brightness temperatures, the parameterisation of these variables...