This paper presents a robust instrument fault detection (IFD) scheme based on modified immune mechanism based evolutionary algorithm (MIMEA) that determines on line the optimal control actions, detects faults quickly in the control process, and reconfigures the controller structure. To ensure the capability of the proposed MIMEA, repeating cycles of crossover, mutation, and clonally selection a...

Supply chain excellence has a real huge impact on business strategy. Building supply chains (SCs) as flexible system represents one of the most exciting opportunities to create value. This requires integrated decision making amongst autonomous chain partners with effective decision knowledge sharing among them. The key to success lies in knowing which decision has more impact on the supply chai...

The aim of this study is to measure the ischiofemoral distance (IFD) in the normal hip with healthy surrounding soft tissues and describe its variations caused by gender, age and proximal femoral anatomy so that this could serve as a reference for future studies on this subject. This is a retrospective study in which we reviewed the CT scans of 149 patients (298 hips) who had a CT of their pelv...

The present investigation presents a stochastic model for a flexible manufacturing system consisting of flexible machine, loading/unloading robot and an automated pallethandling device. We consider unreliable flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) wherein machine and robot operate under individual as well as common cause random failures. The pallethandling system is completely reliable. The pallet o...

BACKGROUND Given the predominance of invasive fungal disease (IFD) amongst the non-immunocompromised adult critically ill population, the potential benefit of antifungal prophylaxis and the lack of generalisable tools to identify high risk patients, the aim of the current study was to describe the epidemiology of IFD in UK critical care units, and to develop and validate a clinical risk predict...

times after the incubator doors had been opened and closed (45 minutes to 45 hours), and in the centre of the highest and lowest shelf positions. The CO2 concentration varied between 31 % and 7-2 % and in practice a rate of between 20 and 60 ml per minute was found to support the growth of carbon dioxide requiring organisms such as newly isolated strains of N. gonorrhoeae and Br. abortus (inclu...

In this paper, we propose a new clustering algorithm, IFD1, based on a cluster model of data coefficients D and feature coefficients F . The coefficients denote the degree (or weights) of the data and features associated with the clusters. Clustering is performed via an iterative optimization procedure to mutually reinforce the relationships between the coefficients. The mutually reinforcing op...