Aristotle's Rethoric is the most ancient work exposing a technique to persuade, to promote adhesion by means of reason that could be more or less logical or credible. In order to argue in favour or against something, it ...

Partial discharges (PDs) are one of the most important classes of ageing processes that occur within electrical insulation. PD detection is a standardized technique to qualify the state of the insulation in electric assets ...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) based on electromechanical impedance (EMI) measurements has been extensively studied in recent years and stands out as an effective damage detection approach. The EMI method commonly uses ...

In this Letter, we present a method for chromatic compensation in numerical reconstruction of digitally recorded holograms based on Fresnel-Bluestein propagation. The proposed technique is applied to correct the chromatic ...

The chromate conversion treatment is widely used, but it requires highly toxic chromic acid solutions with the consequent effluent disposal and ecological problems. The removal of these toxic chemicals is considered a ...