Review of 'emerging' organic contaminants in biosolids and assessment of...
A broad spectrum of organic chemicals is essential to modern society. Once discharged from industrial, domestic and urban sources into the urban wastewater collection system they may transfer to the...
View ArticleDNA damage signaling assessed in individual cells in relation to the cell...
Reviewed are the phosphorylation events reporting activation of protein kinases and the key substrates critical for the DNA damage signaling (DDS). These DDS events are detected immunocytochemically...
View ArticleHollywood Nomad: Andrew Dominik's Aussiewood
Australian director Andrew Dominik has three feature films to his credit: Chopper (2000), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and Killing Them Softly (2012). Having...
View ArticleA study of cognitive strategies for an autonomous search
Cognitive search is a collective term for search strategies based on information theoretic rewards required in sequential decision making under uncertainty. The paper presents a comparative study of...
View ArticleSmall wonders-the use of nanoparticles for delivering antigen
Despite the discovery of many potential antigens for subunit vaccines, universal protection is often lacking due to the limitations of conventional delivery methods. Subunit vaccines primarily induce...
View Article(In Press) Achieving equivalence: a transnational curriculum design framework
Transnational education is now essential to university international development strategies. As a result, tertiary educators are expected to engage with the complexities of diverse cultural contexts,...
View ArticleMicrowave dielectric properties of La4Ti3O12 ceramics
Ceramic powders with a chemical formula of La4Ti3O12 were fabricated using the sol-gel method. Primrose-yellow homogeneously mixed sot and gel were prepared and transformed into a resin intermediate...
View ArticleModelling Stakeholder-Associated Risk Networks in Green Building Projects
This research aims to model the interactive networks of the risks associated with different stakeholders in green building projects and to gain an understanding of the key risk networks. Case studies...
View ArticleCrystal Structures of New Compounds Na0.5Sm4.5Ti4O15 and Na0.5Eu4.5Ti4O15
New compounds of sodium samarium titanate Na0.5Sm4.5Ti4O15 and sodium europium titanate Na0.5Eu4.5Ti4O15 were synthesized successfully by solid state reaction at 1300 degrees C and 1200 degrees C,...
View ArticleSonication synthesis of micro-sized silver nanoparticle/oleic acid liquid...
All rights reserved. Liquid marbles are entities made of a small amount of liquid encapsulated by micro/nano scale particles. The functionality of liquid marbles depends on both the core liquid and...
View ArticleTarget classification with imprecise likelihoods: Mahler's approach
In our recent paper [1] we demonstrated that the standard Bayes classifier, when applied to a problem characterised by imprecise likelihood functions, produces results which are inconsistent with our...
View ArticleMultilayer metallized ceramic composites: LTCC processing and thermal simulation
Thermal performance of metallized low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) composites was investigated in this paper. Seven metallized LTCC composites with different structures were designed and...
View ArticleEnhanced energy storage properties of barium titanate ceramics made from...
Surface modification of barium titanate particles has been carried out using a wet chemical method. The microstructural and dielectric properties of the ceramics made from surface modified particles...
View ArticleMicrostructure and electrical properties of lead-free piezoelectric Ba-excess...
Microwave sintering was applied to manufacture fine-grained Ba-excess (Ba0.85(1+0.7%) Ca-0.15)(Ti0.9Zr0.1)O-3 (BCTZ) lead-free piezoceramics from nanometer grinded 0.20m particles. The sintering...
View ArticleA metric for performance evaluation of multi-target tracking algorithms
Performance evaluation of multi-target tracking algorithms is of great practical importance in the design, parameter optimization and comparison of tracking systems. The goal of performance evaluation...
View ArticleEnhanced thermal conductivity of low-temperature sintered borosilicate...
The effects of beta-Si3N4 whiskers on the thermal conductivity of low-temperature sintered borosilicate glass-AlN composites were systematically investigated. The thermal conductivity of borosilicate...
View ArticleThermal conductivity of low-temperature sintered calcium aluminosilicate...
A new type of low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) composite, comprising beta-Si3N4 whiskers and calcium aluminosilicate (CAS) glass, is introduced in this paper. We show that the CAS-Si3N4...
View ArticleBayesian estimation with imprecise likelihoods: Random set approach
In many practical applications of statistical signal processing, the likelihood functions are only partially known. The measurement model in this case is affected by two sources of uncertainty:...
View ArticleHigh light-directing micrometer-sized parabolic mirror arrays
Excellent light-directing abilities are demonstrated by well-designed three-dimensional micrometer-sized parabolic mirrors that are fabricated by direct laser writing and subsequent surface coating of...
View ArticleBernoulli forward-backward smoothing for joint target detection and tracking
In this correspondence, we derive a forward-backward smoother for joint target detection and estimation and propose a sequential Monte Carlo implementation. We model the target by a Bernoulli random...
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