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Underground coal extraction at Coal Mine Velenje occasionally gives rise to odour complaints from local residents and irritates and disturbs the miners at work in the mine. This work describes a robust quantification of odorous emissions of mine sources and a model-based analysis aimed to establish a better understanding of …

This dissertation combines academic research and the application of its results to a real benchmark process. With the emerging electro-energetic systems that have a large share of renewable sources, hydrogen is becoming an important energy carrier that contributes to the storage and usage of surplus green energy and thus reduces …

Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is a versatile analytical method widely used in the field of surface science and thin films. Although it gives elemental, molecular, and isotopic information, it has a very low detection limit and high lateral resolution, is fast and works with all the vacuum-compatible samples, …

The sputtering yield, the spatial distribution of the sputtered atoms, the energy distribution and the average energy of the sputtered atoms are important for numerous deposition techniques, as they determine the microstructure and the physical properties of the thin films. Using SRIM (Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter) simulations, …

A paradigm shift is occurring in the assessment of exposure to urban environmental stressors. Improved accuracy of personal monitors has enabled researchers to study exposure at the individual level. Monitoring stations are the primary reference point for air quality in urban environments, although there is a need to assess exposure …

The pursuit of autonomous robot learning is aimed at enabling robots to seamlessly integrate into our daily lives, enhancing our efficiency and convenience. On the other hand, in the industrial sector, autonomous robot learning plays a vital role in keeping up with the rapidly evolving market demands. As products and …

Of our main interest in this work is the stabilization of assemblies of topological defects (TDs) in liquid crystals (LCs). Due to the topological origin of TDs, the physics of defects is of interest for all branches of physics, including condensed matter systems, particle physics, and cosmology. LCs represent an …

One of the prevailing tendencies in science is research over-specialization, resulting in deep but relatively isolated islands of knowledge. Due to the huge amounts of scientific information produced at an increasingly fast pace, it has become difficult to follow even the specific literature limited to a single domain of specialization. …

This dissertation addresses the problem of parameter estimation of stochastic, discrete-time, state-space models from input and output data. This class of problems can be found in many modern engineering applications, where the relationships in the real world processes have to be inferred from the observed data and available prior knowledge. …

We investigate the dynamics in one-dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) mesoscopic superconductors in an external magnetic field using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations. We analyze the different transitions between metastable states and describe the creation of topological defects that occur as the phase of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameter makes finite …