This work considers various techniques to extract information from the vast amount of data collected at a modern wastewater treatment plant. If the information extracted is to be considered reliable is highly dependent on the data screening. Data screening includes validation and quality improvement of data. Adequate methods for validation, noise reduction and other forms of quality improvements o

Recent work in hydrocarbon reservoir monitoring has focused on developing coupled geomechanical/fluid-flow simulations to allow production-related geomechanical effects, such as compaction and subsidence, to be included in reservoir models. To predict realistic time-lapse seismic signatures, generation of appropriate elastic models from geomechanical output is required. These elastic models should

We propose a modified layered structure for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the layer detection order is fixed and the data rate for each layer is allocated based on the detection order and channel statistics. With Gaussian approximation of layer capacities, we derive the optimum data rate allocation and the amount of backoff from mean layer capacity is proportional to the sta

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The extinction cross section integrated over all frequencies is shown to be related to the electric and magnetic polarizability dyadics by exploiting the analytic properties of the forward scattering dyadic. This identity can be used threefold: 1) in scattering theory to bound the total scattering properties of an arbitrary scatterer, 2) in antenna theory to derive new physical limitations on ante

Air traffic control is a highly spatial work. However, there are currently no three-dimensional tools used in the education of air traffic controllers or in the operational work of air traffic control. This paper presents results from some pilot studies aiming to: -Find new techniques for visualization and editing of trajectories in air traffic control. -Investigate how Virtual Reality (VR) can co

The present work was initiated based on an industrial demand for designing a high-bandwidth hexapod of an advanced large optical telescope. In this dissertation, we have generalized this industrial problem to fully-parametric models of the hexapod vibrations as well as analytical studies on dynamic isotropy in parallel robots, which can be directly used in any hexapod application. Hexapods (also k

Beta-decay half-lives and delayed-neutron emission probabilities of the neutron-rich noble-gas isotopes 94-99Kr and 142-147Xe have been measured at the PSB-ISOLDE facility at CERN. The results are compared to QRPA shell-model predictions and are used in dynamic calculations of r-process abundances of Kr and Xe isotopes.

The thesis is written within the project Strengthening Legal Education in Vietnam.