The article discusses the issues of insufficient use organic and mineral resources peat deposits (substandard peat, mineralised sapropel, wood inclusions deposit, organomineral deposits, etc.). authors propose a structural scheme directions processing biogenic resources. It includes obtaining various types composite formed materials for their application in four main directions: energy, agricul...

Droplet-based microfluidic technologies are powerful tools for applications requiring high-throughput, for example, in biochemistry or material sciences. Several systems have been proposed for the high-throughput production of monodisperse emulsions by parallelizing multiple droplet makers. However, these systems have two main limitations: (1) they allow the use of only a single disperse phase;...

This thesis is motivated by the fact that the increasing presence of intermittent energy resources such as wind and photovoltaic power has raised many challenging questions to the electric energy system operations. Given that (1) most of these intermittent resources are geographically disperse, and (2) sensing and actuation devices are more affordable, a distributed decision-making framework be...

Predators can affect prey populations and, via trophic cascades, predators can indirectly impact resource populations (2 trophic levels below the predator) through consumption of prey (density-mediated indirect effects; DMIEs) and by inducing predator-avoidance behavior in prey (trait-mediated indirect effects; TMIEs). Prey often employ multiple predator-avoidance behaviors, such as dispersal o...

In present work a compound holographic system consisting of a diffraction grating and a holographic lens has been fabricated to disperse and focus different portion of solar spectrum on laterally arranged solar cells of different band gaps to achieve maximum efficiency operation. Such concentrators are light–weight, low-cost and do not require tedious processing for their mass production.

Species that depend on ephemeral habitat often evolve distinct dispersal strategies in which the propensity to disperse is closely integrated with a suite of morphological, behavioural and physiological traits that influence colonizing ability. These strategies are maintained by natural selection resulting from spatial and temporal variation in resource abundance and are particularly evident du...

Before the First World War, almost all dyes were applied from solution in an aqueous dyebath to substrates such as cotton, wool, silk and other natural fibres. However, the introduction of a man-made fibre, cellulose acetate, with its inherent hydrophobic nature, created a situation where very few of the available dyes had affinity for the new fibre. Water-soluble anionic dyes had little substa...