The introduction of quality, risk, safety, health and environmental management philosophies has significantly changed industry's view of company organization and controlling processes. Quality, risk, safety, health and environmental programs and systems, such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, process safety, and risk management are impacting the way industry will meet the challenges of safety and environ...

Automated fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) systems have the potential to reduce equipment downtime, service costs, and utility costs. However, very few commercial products exist and the ones that do exist are very specialized. This may be surprising to some, considering that FDD is very well developed for other applications such as for nuclear power plants, aircraft, chemical process plants...

A new technique is presented to identify intervals for parameters and initial conditions for nonlinear dynamic systems based on an imprecise mathematical model and measurements of system variables. This technique employs a fuzz interval qualitative simulator for interval dynamical models and a qualitative description of measured signals, the episodes. These are based on the sign of the variable...

This is the first study to report the use of infusion fluids for particle-mediated gene delivery with DNA-immobilized calcium phosphate (CaP) nanoparticles (NPs). In conventional CaP systems, CaP NPs are fabricated in labile supersaturated CaP solutions which are prepared from chemical reagents. In the present study, we fabricated CaP NPs via coprecipitation in labile supersaturated CaP solutio...

A new technique is presented to identify intervals for parameters and initial conditions for nonlinear dynamic systems based on an imprecise mathematical model and measurements of system variables. This technique employs a fuzz interval qualitative simulator for interval dynamical models and a qualitative description of measured signals , the episodes. These are based on the sign of the variabl...

Comprehensive mapping of transcription factor binding sites is essential in postgenomic biology. For this, we propose a mining approach combining noisy data from ChIP (chromatin immunoprecipitation)-chip experiments with known binding site patterns. Our method (BoCaTFBS) uses boosted cascades of classifiers for optimum efficiency, in which components are alternating decision trees; it exploits ...