Quantification of Industrial Wastewater Discharge From the Major Cities in Sichuan Province (China) from 2003 to 2018

Wastewater discharge is produced as a side effect of socio-economic activities and exerts severe pressure on the environment, its characteristics depend on the rate of urbanization and industrialization. We used spatial autocorrelation, environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), and logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) model to study the spatial characteristics and driving factors of industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province (2003–2018). We showed that the amount of industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province for the period was reduced from 116580 to 42064.96 million tons as observed from the Moran index ranging from -0.31 to 0.30. We identified five types of the EKC (monotonically decreasing, N, inverted N, U, and inverted U shape) in 18 major cities of Sichuan province. The technical effect (from -0.28 to -16.37) can reduce the discharge of industrial wastewater, while structure effect (0.05–3.83), economy effect (0.19–7.79) and population effect (from -0.08 to 0.46) can promote the industrial wastewater discharge. Our findings suggest that industrial wastewater discharge was reduced and showed a scattered distribution characteristic in Sichuan Province from 2003 to 2018. It is necessary to strengthen technical management measures to reduce industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province.

Quantification of Industrial Wastewater Discharge From The Major Cities in Sichuan Province (China) From 2003 To 2018

Wastewater discharge is produced as a side effect of socio-economic activities and exerts severe pressure on the environment, its characteristics depend on the rate of urbanization and industrialization. We used spatial autocorrelation, environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), and logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) model to study the spatial characteristics and driving factors of industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province (2003–2018). We showed that the amount of industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province for the period was reduced from 116580 to 42064.96 million tons as observed from the Moran index ranging from -0.31 to 0.30. We identified five types of the EKC (monotonically decreasing, N, inverted N, U, and inverted U shape) in 18 major cities of Sichuan province. The technical effect (from -0.28 to -16.37) can reduce the discharge of industrial wastewater, while structure effect (0.05–3.83), economy effect (0.19–7.79) and population effect (from -0.08 to 0.46) can promote the industrial wastewater discharge. Our findings suggest that industrial wastewater discharge was reduced and showed a scattered distribution characteristic in Sichuan Province from 2003 to 2018. It is necessary to strengthen technical management measures to reduce industrial wastewater discharge in Sichuan province.

Design of an Adaptive Near Field Communication Technology using Finite State Machine within Web Services

The ongoing Web success can be related to its scalability and sustainability. Web Services (WSs) can provide different patterns for delivering software application abilities and the models by which enterprises and associated parties will trade. WSs represent a flexible way to offer existing components available to applications through the Internet. WSs are a new trend that shares ubiquitous systems with others. The popularity of Web is increasing with their associated systems. These systems play a significant key role as their compromise has a technical effect, and their need is rising. One of these systems is called Technology wireless (NFC). NFC is becoming an active area nowadays. The complexity of setting the NFC increases as the application, system architecture, and associated parts must satisfy various requirements of ever involving project scenarios. Several organizations are getting the benefit from the NFC. This paper will explore and develop an approach of developing a technique that will permit to exchange by technology wireless (NFC) data between the parties within a Web services environment. This technique has an advantage that facilitates the possibility of adopting such a system to decrease the time-cost and effort for staff and customers. Several means of mobile payments technique have been entitled and adopted this service in many countries, e.g., Europe, USA, Asia, and in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia. Many users of these countries using a smartphone to pay services via their mobile phones for a wide range of activities. Consequently, this paper involves an agile technique of validating Finite State Machine (FSM) and JFLAP tools.

Polymer Fibers in Foam Concrete Application Efficiency

The urgency of improving the performance properties of concrete, as the most common building materials, is noted. The reasons for the increased demand for products made of high-strength gas-filled concrete are stated. It is shown that the current volume of polymer fibers production makes it possible to predict the possibility of their widespread use in construction. The information on the physical and mechanical properties of synthetic fiber, which is important for its successful use as dispersed reinforcement of foam concrete mixtures, is presented. The technology of manufacturing experimental samples and methods of their testing are described. It has been established that the introduction of any synthetic fiber into the foam mixture formulation improves the structural properties of foam concrete, however, the measure of efficiency depends on the ratio between the concrete moduli of elasticity and fiber. The greater the value of the elastic modulus of the fiber used, the higher the technical effect of its use in fiber-reinforced concrete for structural purposes can be.

Decision G 1/19 and the Messy Misconception of the COMVIK Approach

Decision G 1/19 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) answers the question whether computer simulations can be protected under the EPC. It was decided that these simulations in principle could solve a technical problem by producing a technical effect going beyond the simulation’s implementation on a computer. The result of the decision is rather non-spectacular and obvious, since it simply states that simulations can be protected under EPC law when they solve a technical problem. Nevertheless, the decision casts an extensive light on the general and established criteria to be used for assessing technicality. In this context a misconception of the COMVIK approach becomes apparent. The COMVIK approach is based on distinguishing technical from non-technical features. All technical features must be considered when assessing inventive step of an invention over prior art, while non-technical features have no significance for this purpose. In this view it is assumed that all information provided by a claim can be either classified as a technical or a non-technical feature. Further it is assumed that features exist that are inherently technical, i.e. technical per se. However, this concept of an inherent technical character is misleading. Basically, all information should first be distinguished as to whether it has a substantial effect on the design of the claimed subject-matter. Information that does not influence its ‘appearance’ must be seen a ‘non-feature’, whereas all other information describing a characteristic of the claimed subject-matter forms a ‘feature’. Secondly the so determined features are to be divided into technical or non-technical features, solely depending on whether they contribute to the solution of the concrete technical problem of the invention. In this way, the non-feature concept avoids many classification problems associated with the former COMVIK approach and constitutes the only admissible way to assess technicality correctly, consistently and non-sophistically.

The Way of Entropy: from Lagrangian Modelling to Thermal Engineering

<p>This article discusses the concept of entropy in an alternative thermodynamic view, demonstrating dialectically that the reversibility illustrated in common laboratory practice is only a local technical effect resulting from anthropic processes that slow down the irreversible advance of the disorder. Then, negative entropy is only a fiction stemming from the imaginationist idealism. The Lagrangian formalism is applied from the introduction of the idea of temporal confinement of thermal energy states, with time being interpreted as the basis of an evolutionary variable. The acceleration of entropy is formally presented independently of statistical mechanics.</p><p><br /><strong>Key words</strong>: thermodynamics, entropy, entropy acceleration, irreversibility.</p><p>=================================================================</p><p>O presente artigo discute o conceito de entropia numa visão termodinâmica alternativa, demonstrando dialeticamente que a reversibilidade ilustrada na prática laboratorial comum é apenas um efeito técnico local decorrente de processos antrópicos que desaceleram o avanço irreversível da desordem. Dessa forma, entropia negativa é uma ficção decorrente do idealismo imaginacionista. O formalismo Lagrangeano é aplicado a partir da introdução da ideia de confinamento temporal dos estados de energia térmica, com o tempo sendo interpretado como base de uma variável evolutiva. A aceleração da entropia é formalmente apresentada de modo independente da mecânica estatística.</p><p><br /><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: termodinâmica, entropia, aceleração da entropia, irreversibilidade.</p>

MEASURING OF CONSULTING ENGINEER EFFICIENCY WHEN USING CONSTRUCTIVE-TECHNOLOGICAL TEMPLATES

Modern innovations in public administration of construction provide significant modernization of the industry on the basis of engineering and project management - the introduction of the role of consulting engineer. This role involves a wide range of communications between all stakeholders in the investment and construction process. It may be relevant to use an information tool for modeling the product and construction processes - design and technological templates - to measure the effectiveness of these communications and, accordingly, to measure the effectiveness of the consulting engineer. The article contains the analysis of reserves of optimization of investment and construction process and the description of possibilities of these reserves realization by means of constructive-technological templates. The main provisions of the concept of " constructive technological template in construction" were described and presented as information tool for construction management. The scheme of software interaction within the concept of "constructive-technological template in construction" and the scheme of knowledge management by the consulting engineer were developed. Indicators and ways to increase the efficiency of interaction between the consulting engineer and stakeholders were shown. The indicators of efficiency of the consulting engineer under the condition of using constructive-technological templates were substantiated. The developed concept and schemes allowed to investigate the interactions of stakeholders in construction production. It is shown that when using the concept of "constructive-technological template in construction" the consulting engineer can perform a triple managerial role at a qualitatively new level. As a BIM manager, he must manage the knowledge of investment and construction activities. As a commercial specialist - must meet the requirements of participants during construction. As a construction project manager, he carries out strategic leadership and operational organization and control of construction production. On this basis, the indicators of economic and technical effect of the consulting engineer as a manager of the investment and construction process were substantiated.

13. The emergence and forms of intellectual property law

Systems of intellectual property law date back many centuries and play a very important role in the information technology field. The main forms of intellectual property law are patents, copyright and trade marks. All play important roles and are considered in this section of the book. Patents and copyright have been applied in an IT context from the early days of the computer whilst trade marks have come to assume more significance with the commercialization of the Internet and its use by major manufacturers who typically own many trade marks developed for use in the course of their activities in the physical environment. As with many areas, the connection between the real and virtual words is not exact. The application of the law of copyright to software has seldom been in doubt. It is clear that the unauthorized copying of all of a work is unlawful. What is not clear is the extent of the protection. The famous scientist Isaac Newton is quoted as saying “If I have seen further, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants”. Most later works build to some extent on their predecessors and there is a difficult dividing line between fair and unfair use of such works. Somewhat different issues apply in relation to patents – a branch of the law which offers the strongest protection but does require that works be innovative and produce a technical effect – that they should do something. This can be difficult to assess in respect of very fast-moving technologies.

15. Software patents

This chapter focuses upon the somewhat complex manner in which the patent system has operated in respect of so-called software-related inventions. For a variety of reasons, the United Kingdom’s Patents Act and the European Patent Convention both exclude programs for computers from eligibility for protection. The prohibition extends only to protection for the program “as such” and as interpreted by the patent and judicial authorities applications for inventions that produce a technical effect are considered acceptable even where these are based on programs. This chapter will consider how this situation has arisen and will consider the application of software related patents in key sectors such as that of mobile phones in which products and network technologies make very extensive use of patented technologies. The concept of standard essential patents has attained considerable prominence and requires the owner of such a patent to make its use available to others upon fair and reasonable licence terms. As well as possessing a degree of ambiguity as to what terms might be fair and reasonable, the situation is highlighting the problems of trying to apply national patents in the context of a global industry.