One of the major concerns in fossil fuel, nuclear, and geothermal power plants is the formation of deposits of corrosion products in various areas of the water steam cycle. This process causes overheating and rapture of boiler tubes, loss of efficiency of turbines, damages other segment of power units and, in the case of nuclear plants, it can cause radioactive contamination in cooling-water sy...

In the area of information processing one fundamental issue is how to measure the statistical relationship between two variables based only on their samples. In a previous paper, the idea of Information Potential which was formulated from the so called Quadratic Mutual Information was introduced, and successfully applied to problems such as Blind Source Separation and Pose Estimation of SAR (Sy...

Electrodeposition of CuInSe2 (CIS) and CuInAlSe2 (CIAS) from aqueous solution has been systematically investigated by cyclic voltammetery implementing different scan rates. It has been shown that electrodeposited CIS and CIAS have been formed on the substrate through electrochemical-chemical interaction of reduces species on the substrate.  From the obtained results, it could be inferred that I...

[1] The key geological observations and structural interpretations associated with the current plume hypothesis for Venusian crustal plateau formation are that (1) shortwavelength, spatially periodic tectonic structures originated as mechanical instabilities in a regionally extensive surface brittle layer whose basal boundary was thermally generated and controlled; (2) characteristic wavelength...

The advancement of fabrication and lithography techniques of semiconductors have made it possible to study bi–layer systems made of two electronic layers separated by distances of several hundred Angstroms. In this situation the electrons in layer 1 are distinguishable from those in layer 2, and can communicate through the direct inter–layer Coulomb interaction. In particular, if a current is a...