The evaluation of control performance by means of performance indices from large amounts of measurement data is investigated. The focus is twofold: Firstly to assess information that can be deduced from many data sets and secondly to investigate the usefulness of simple performance measures. Established methods and some useful new ideas are evaluated on many industrial data sets and the results...

An integrated analysis of multiple instruments measuring concentrations of aerosol particles in the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) chamber at CERN obtains size and time dependent growth rates. A matrix inversion is performed twice: first to get size distributions from measured concentrations using instrument transfer functions; secondly to get growth rates from size distributions usin...

Software engineering is forecast to be among the fastest growing employment field in the next decades. The purpose of this investigation is two-fold: Firstly, empirical studies on the personality types of software professionals are reviewed. Secondly, this work provides an upto-date personality profile of software engineers according to the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. r 2002 Elsevier Science L...

A study was made pertaining to the variations in sensitivity to inhibitors that may be encountered in industrial deterioration problems. The results indicate that at least three types of variations are involved: first, the variation in sensitivity of different strains, secondly, the variation in sensitivity of an individual strain, and finally, the variation produced by the particular environme...

Ca(2+)-uptake into intracellular stores is mediated by the sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)ATPases (SERCAs). This review deals first with the gene structural and the characterization of the tissue-specific SERCA2 transcript processing. Secondly, the two different protein isoforms and their regulation are described. Finally, this review ends with a discussion on the possible physiological role...

This paper presents a new classiication tool | based on evolutionary computing and competitive learning | and applies it for classiication of real radiation spectra. The algorithm is able to nd those bands of spectrum (or features) that are meaningful for the classiication, and secondly, it is able to present the mapping as an ordered collection of competitive simple linear classiiers.

Dynamics of point vortices is generalized in two ways. Firstly by allowing complex strengths which allows for sources and sinks in combination with the the usual vorticity, and secondly by allowing the strengths to be functions of position. We describe several exact solutions with optical analogues, notably Snell’s law and law of reflection off a mirror.

Hard scattering in a strongly absorptive regime requires a novel nonlinear k ⊥ – factorization. Here we discuss two recent developments: firstly the evaluation of radiative corrections to single particle spectra, and secondly an extension of the formalism to address topological cross sections and unitarity cutting rules.

In this paper, firstly, a generalized subconvexlike set-valued map involving the relative algebraic interior is introduced in ordered linear spaces. Secondly, some properties of a generalized subconvexlike set-valued map are investigated. Finally, the optimality conditions of set-valued optimization problem are established.

This part of the book covers liability in ubiquitous computing (UC). The term liability was deliberately chosen for two reasons. Firstly, due to the established understanding of common terms like information assurance, dependability, accountability and the like. Secondly, to provide a superseding term for security for ubiquitous computing, which—unlike traditional IT security—encompasses the fo...