Spectral properties inspired image enhancement for crystalline polymer powder impurity detection.

Crystalline polymer powder inevitably incorporates certain impurities, including decomposed polymers or foreign particles. An essential criterion for assessing the quality of polymers is the quantity of contaminants in the powder. However, it is challenging to discern powder contaminants through machine vision due to the poor quality of images taken at production sites.

Design and Implementation of Real-Time Localization System (RTLS) Based on UWB and TDoA Algorithm.

Nowadays, accurate localization plays an essential role in many fields, such as target tracking and path planning. The challenges of indoor localization include inadequate localization accuracy, unreasonable anchor deployment in complex scenarios, lack of stability, and the high cost. So, the universal positioning technologies cannot meet the real application requirements scarcely.

Multivariate Statistical Analysis for the Detection of Air Pollution Episodes in Chemical Industry Parks.

Air pollution episodes (APEs) caused by excessive emissions from chemical industry parks (CIPs) have resulted in severe environmental damage in recent years. Therefore, it is of great importance to detect APEs timely and effectively using contaminant measurements from the air quality monitoring network (AQMN) in the CIP. Traditionally, APE can be detected by determining whether the contaminant concentration at any ambient monitoring station exceeds the national environmental standard.

Topology Density Map for Urban Data Visualization and Analysis.

Density map is an effective visualization technique for depicting the scalar field distribution in 2D space. Conventional methods for constructing density maps are mainly based on Euclidean distance, limiting their applicability in urban analysis that shall consider road network and urban traffic. In this work, we propose a new method named Topology Density Map, targeting for accurate and intuitive density maps in the context of urban environment.

Amino functionalized Zn/Cd-metal-organic frameworks for selective CO adsorption and Knoevenagel condensation reactions.

Two amino functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), {[Zn(Py2TTz)(2-NH2-BDC)]·(DMF)}n (1) and {[Cd(Py2TTz)(2-NH2-BDC)]·(DMF)·0.5(H2O)}n (2) (where Py2TTz = 2,5-bis(4-pyridyl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole, 2-NH2-BDC = 2-amino-1,4-benzenedicarboxylate, and DMF = N,N-dimethylformamide), were synthesized and characterized using the primary ligand 2-amino-1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid (2-NH2-H2BDC) and the auxiliary ligand 2,5-bis(4-pyridyl)thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (Py2TTz). They possess similar 2-fold interpenetrated three-dimensional bipillared-layer framework structures composed of typical binuclear metal nodes, 2-NH2-BDC two-dimensional layers and Py2TTz bipillars.

Dimethyl[(E)-(2-nitromethylidene-1,3-dithiolan-4-yl)methyl]amine.

In the title compound, C(7)H(12)N(2)O(2)S(2), the conformation of the dithia-cyclo-pentane ring is a half-chair, with a total puckering amplitude Q(T) = 0.473 (5) Å. Inter-molecular C-H⋯N and C-H⋯O inter-actions help to establish the packing.

1,4-Ditosyl-1,4-diazepane.

In the title compound, C(19)H(24)N(2)O(4)S(2), the dihedral angle formed by the benzene rings is 82.88 (7)°, and the mol-ecular conformation is enforced by weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O contacts. Two C atoms of the 1,4-diazepane ring are disordered over two sets of sites with a refined occupancy ratio of 0.

Analysis of control interval for foundation fieldbus-based control systems.

Fieldbus-based control systems (FCS) have been increasingly used in process automation. Some processes and dynamic specifications need higher control frequencies to avoid instability. The aim of this paper is to analyze the temporal characteristics of communication and computation tasks and the configuration of the function blocks in a FCS and to allow the control interval to be shortened.