Cellular manufacturing system is the formation of optimised machine cells, which forms part families with similar processing requirements and associates machines into machine cells in order to optimise the overall production process. To effectively solve this problem a hybrid novel approach is demonstrated in this paper, which is based on weighted average linkage clustering algorithm and fuzzy-...

U.S. direct investment in Asia has almost doubled from 1990 to 1995. U.S. investment in China alone has increased sixfold during this period. Further, today about $1 in every $5 invested abroad by U.S. investors is invested in Asia (Department of Commerce, 1996). Obviously, Asia is more and more becoming an attractive target for U.S. investors. The predominant method for U.S. business to enter ...

Using MRI to diagnose mental disorders has been a long-term goal. Despite this, the vast majority of prior neuroimaging work has been descriptive rather than predictive. The current study applies support vector machine (SVM) learning to MRI measures of brain white matter to classify adults with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and healthy controls. In a precisely matched group of individuals wit...

In response to DNA damage, the Fanconi anemia (FA) core complex functions as a signaling machine for monoubiquitination of FANCD2 and FANCI. It remains unclear whether this complex can also participate in subsequent DNA repair. We have shown previously that the FANCM constituent of the complex contains a highly conserved helicase domain and an associated ATP-dependent DNA translocase activity. ...

Daubert JP, Eldar M, Gold MR, Goldberger JJ, Goldenberg I, Lichstein E, Pitschner H, Rashtian M, Solomon S, Viskin S, Wang P, Moss AJ. Effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy by QRS morphology in the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial-Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT). Circulation 2011;123:1061–1072. 14. Fang F, Chan JY, Yip GW, Xie JM, Zhang Q, Fung J...

Los tumores odontogénicos son lesiones relativamente raras y poco frecuentes, pero relevantes debido a que pueden desarrollar un comportamiento agresivo, comprometiendo la vida del paciente. El tumor odontogénico primordial (TOP) es descubrimiento reciente dentro de esta clasificación. Su diagnóstico definitivo histopatológico, existen neoplasias tejidos embrionarios con características similar...

In this work, we specifically solve the Chan-Vese active contour model by multiphase level set methods. We first develop a fast algorithm based on calculating the variational energy of the Chan-Vese model without the length term. We check whether the energy decreases or not when we move a point to another segmented region. Then we draw a connection between this algorithm and the topological der...