A methodology is outlined for equipment selection the extraction of secondary deposits, supported by Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and applied to evaluate its impact mining system’s performance viability rock project. The analysis affords us means explore selected options, taking technological economic parameters into account, ope...

With augmenting security concerns and decreasing costs of surveillance and computing equipment, research on automated systems for object detection has been increasing, but the majority of the studies focus their attention on sequences where high-resolution objects are of interest. The main objective of the work reported here is the detection and extraction of information of low-resolution objec...

In a complex field environment for modern mechanical equipment, how to identify all kinds of operational status of the rolling element bearings fastly and accurately is very important and necessary. A novel approach to automated diagnosis is introduced, which is based on feature extraction with the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT), then attribute reduction with rough set theory and ...

1THE ACCURATE MEASUREMENT of oxalate concentration in urine presents considerable difficulties. The methods available in the literature are based upon either the direct formation of calcium oxalate precipitate and subsequent oxidimetric titration (1-3) or upon a preliminary ether extraction followed by a titrimetric procedure (4, .5). In a more elaborate method, the extraction with ether is com...

Volatiles are extracted from aromatic plants for commercial products of premium quality and price. Why not synthesize these? Are we quite ready for such tasks? The answer is a yes and no. Some of these are amenable to chemical synthesis but others are not. Those that are, still have a cost associated that outweigh the commercial utility. We still primarily depend on conventional extraction meth...

Solid-phase extraction permits the parallel processing of samples in large numbers. We have applied this technique to the isolation of retinol isotopomers from plasma of humans participating in a study of vitamin A stable isotope dilution. The isotopomers were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The extraction involves the separation of retinol from its aqueous matrix with a C18 s...

This paper reviews the application of various modes of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) for the analysis of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables. SPME is a simple extraction technique that eliminates the use of solvent, and it is applied for the analysis of both volatile and nonvolatile pesticides. SPME has been successfully coupled to both GC and LC. The coupling with GC has been stra...

Visual recognition for object grasping is a well-known challenge for robot automation in industrial applications. A typical example is pallet recognition in industrial environment for pick-and-place automated process. The aim of vision and reasoning algorithms is to help robots in choosing the best pallets holes location. This work proposes an application-based approach, which ful l all require...

We have created a synchronous corpus of acoustic and 3D facial marker data from multiple speakers for adaptive audio-visual text-tospeech synthesis. The corpus contains data from one female and two male speakers and amounts to 223 Austrian German sentences each. In this paper, we first describe the recording process, using professional audio equipment and a marker-based 3D facial motion capturi...