This chapter describes the development and deployment of the credit assistant (CA), a knowledge-based system to support credit operations for Travel-Related Services (TRS) of the American Express Company. CA was developed using ART-IM, a rule-based programming environment from Inference Corporation. American Express developed this application under a UNIX environment (SUN and RS/6000) and deplo...

The development of grain size during commercial thermomechanical processing of 6000 series aluminium alloy components has been investigated by combining physical experiments and modelling techniques. A range of grain structures was generated by varying both deformation temperature and heat treatment practice. The different deformation conditions were simulated by finite element modelling, which...

In this paper, preliminary research results on a new algorithm for finding all the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a real diagonalizable matrix with real eigenvalues are presented. The basic mathematical theory behind this approach is reviewed and is followed by a discussion of the numerical considerations of the actual implementation. The numerical algorithm has been tested on thousands of mat...

In Central Europe, European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) wood has a high potential for the production of construction and decorative materials, with aim replacing Norway spruce, oaks, other traditionally used tree species. However, biological resistance wood—to decaying fungi, molds, insects—is low, in damp conditions its must be increased suitable preservatives or modification methods. present e...

In the present work electrochemical deposition of hydroxyapatite using simulated body fluid (SBF) as an electrolytic medium was carried out on Ta and Ta/TaN coatings BIOLINE stainless steel SS316LVM (SS). The performed each substrate for 3000 6000 s, at different potentials were determined from cyclic voltammetry. best conditions found −1.4 V bare SS −1.7 coating. structural characterization by...

Corrosion inhibitors are evaluated in the oil industry with electrochemical tests of resistance to linear polarization rotating cylinders following ASTM G170 and NACE 3T199 standards. With these tests, we can determine corrosion rate (CR) efficiency inhibitors. In this work, a test protocol used by hydrocarbon-producing companies for testing was used. This consists 1045 carbon steel working ele...

The article presents a comparative description of the effect metabolically active substances and their compositions on individual physiological biochemical parameters soft wheat in drought conditions. study involved use 7 options for seed treatment: control (untreated seeds + distilled water); vitamin E solution (10-8M) - E; ubiquinone-10 Q; methionine (0.001%) M; paraoxybenzoic acid (PОBA) P; ...

Methyl 1-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-3-(3-ethylvaleryl)-4-hydroxy-6,7,8-trimethoxy-2-naphthoate (S-8921) is a novel inhibitor of the ileal apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT/SLC10A2) developed for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. The present study investigated the hypocholesterolemic action of S-8921 glucuronide (S-8921G) in rats. The plasma concentration of S-8921G was higher ...

This investigation sought to establish the prevalence of hearing loss and hearing handicap in a population of 232 recreational firearm users. Hearing handicap was calculated based on four methods using pure-tone threshold data from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Hea...

The architecture and With the advent of fiber implementation presented distributed data interface in this paper are for the (FDDI) technology, Digital DEC FDDIcontroller 400, saw the need to define Digital's high-performance, an architecture for a XMI-to-FDDI adapter known high-performance adapter as DEMFA. This adapter that could transmit data provides an interface 30 times faster than between...