OBJECTIVE To investigate the efficacy of the solar water disinfection (SODIS) method for inactivating Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in turbid waters using 1.5 l polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles under natural sunlight. METHODS All experiments were performed at the Plataforma Solar de Almería, located in the Tabernas Desert (Southern Spain) in July and October 2007. Turbid water sample...

Several innovative filtration technologies have been developed in the last two decades to decrease the backwash requirements, to increase the water production efficiency, and to improve the operational and design conditions. The Compressible Medium Filter (CMF) also known as the “Fuzzy Filter” involves the use of a synthetic compressible fiber (polyvaniladene) porous material as the filtering m...

With this short essay, we aim to raise awareness of the NTU Institute Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH) initiative invite our colleagues partake in research programs h...

Outdoor mobile robots have potential applications in industries such as seaport container transportation, passengers’ transportation and entertainment etc. Autonomy of mobile robots requires integration of many enabling technologies such as localization, mobility, perception, path planning and obstacle avoidance, and health monitoring techniques. This presentation describes some of our mobile r...

In this paper, we propose a system to deal with the Chinese textual entailment problem for NTCIR-9 RITE task. The RITE task consists of four subtasks, simplified Chinese binary classification (CS_BC), simplified Chinese multi-way classification (CS_MC), traditional Chinese binary classification (CT_BC), and traditional Chinese multi-way classification (CT_MC). According to the definitions of th...

In the past years, we attended the 250-bytes group. Our main strategy was to measure the similarity score (or the informative score) of each candidate sentence to the question sentence. The similarity score was computed by sums of weights of cooccurred question keywords. To meet the requirement of shorter answering texts proposed in this year, we adapt our system, and experiment on a new strate...