This paper presents a comparison of six plant biofilter designs for urban stormwater quality improvement and reports on their performances.Thirty-six columns were populated with the endemic South African plant Dehydrators Prionium serratum, representing plant biofilter designs that incorporate different pollutant removal mechanisms in the biofiltra

This paper introduces a multi-robot coordinated parallel system for sea towing.Due to the force and direction of the floating-base are spinner seat constantly changing, it is easy to overturn the crane.Firstly, the system is divided into two parts: floating robot and suspended system, and the dynamic model of the two are analyzed by using hydrodyna

The pandemic crisis has forced the development of teaching and evaluation activities exclusively online.In this context, the emergency remote teaching (ERT) process, which raised a multitude of problems for institutions, teachers, and students, led the authors to consider it important to design a model for evaluating teaching and evaluation process

The conflict of evolutionary interests between the sexes is commonly imprinted in social dynamics and physical asymmetries between the sexes.In species that live in polygynandrous groups, male-biased sexual size dimorphism often allows males to socially dominate and sexually coerce females.Yet, smaller female size might allow females to escape from