Access to clean water is a key requirement for a good quality of life. However, due to climate change, population growth and lack of proper water treatment, the availability of clean water is in constant decline. Among the many waterborne contaminants, viruses present an increasing concern. Human waterborne viruses infect …
As urbanisation continues to be a trend, in which centralisation of the population into cities is still growing, the importance of intelligent solutions in mobility is in high demand. Likewise, with the integration of renewable energies into all levels of the electrical grid system and the increasing amount of heavy …
Integrating systems are commonly found in power and paper mills, aerospace control systems, storage tanks, distillation columns, chemical reactors, and petroleum industries. Due to their open-loop instability resulting in an unconstrained output for a constrained input, efficient control of integrating processes is challenging. Control of integrating processes has attracted the …
Robots that are supposed to perform human-like tasks must possess appropriate skills to carry them out. In unstructured environments and for complex tasks, these skills are difficult to pre-program due to the complexity of the real world. It is therefore advantageous if robots have the ability to acquire the necessary …
Bisphenols are a group of industrial chemicals increasingly recognized as contaminants of emerging concern because of their presence in the environment and endocrine disrupting effects. They are used in the production of polycarbonate plastic, epoxy resins and thermal paper, in most cases without restriction. The global exception is bisphenol A, …
The determination of genotoxicity is an important element in the safety assessment of various substances, with the purpose of preventing a number of chemicals from affecting human health. Genotoxicity testing is required for all classes of chemicals, drugs and biological agents, which can lead to a wide range of diseases, …
Recycling and reuse of waste by-products from steel industry is a common practice worldwide, which is in the last decade becoming more and more established also in Slovenia. Wastes from steel-making industry can be reused as alternative materials to successfully replace natural raw materials in asphalt mixes and in numerous …
The use of hydrogen peroxide as enviromentally benign oxidant for the oxidative iodination of organic molecules with iodine in the presence of halide ions as catalysts for the formation of iodine(I) species was investigated. The study of the reaction system iodine/ hydrogen peroxide/ acid revealed the formation of iodine(I) compound …
A 3-year systematic investigation (2007–2010) of water chemistry using conventional and stable isotope tracers helped us delineate hydro-biogeochemical processes in the karstic Krka River watershed. By mineralogical and stable isotopic examination of tufa deposits and combining the results with water chemistry, we were able to evaluate the suitability of tufa …
Many applications, including smart environments, surveillance, human-robot interaction, and ambient assisted living, involve the problem of learning patterns of agent behavior from sensor data. Deviant behavior is a pattern in the data that either does not conform to the expected behavior, that is, anomalous behavior, or matches previously defined unwanted …