introduction: note taking while attending a ppt requires high activity of memory and writing process which ultimately leads to what is called “death by power point” referring to boredom and fatigue. to overcome this we planned to evaluate the impact of utilisation of uncompleted handouts given prior to ppt presentations. methods: final year mbbs students were divided in 2 batches, batch a and b...

In this paper diierent algorithms for training multi-layer perceptron architecture are applied to a signiicant discrimination task in High Energy Physics. The One-Step Secant technique is compared with On-Line Backpropagation, the \Bold Driver" batch version and Conjugate Gradient methods. In addition, a new algorithm (AAne Shaker) is proposed that uses stochastic search based on function value...

Additive bias compensation is a simple and effective technique to overcome the performance degradation caused by acoustic mismatch in speech recognition systems. Bias is usually estimated in a batch mode, assuming that its parameters are constant for the whole utterance. This paper develops a new sequential algorithm for additive bias estimation, which can potentially track time varying mismatc...

This paper proposes the procedure to find out the total average cost in terms of crisp values for /M/1/BD/MV with fuzzy parameters. In which arrival rate, service rate, batch size, setup, vacation, breakdown, repair rates, and the start up ,build up, holding, setup, dormant, breakdown costs and cost for busy and vacation periods are all considered as trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. As ranking techni...

We describe a method for determination of barbiturates, amphetamines, opiates, and methadone by the “enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique” (EMIT) applied to the centrifugal analyzer. This method gives results that agree well (92% for barbiturates, 97% for opiates, 94% for methadone, and 96% for amphetamines) with those obtained by the same technique with the SyvaGilford EMIT instrumentation,...

Domain filtering is a powerful technique for reduction of the search space during solving combinatorial problems like scheduling. In this paper we present several filtering algorithms designed specifically for scheduling in batch processing environments with sequence dependent setup times. We extend two known algorithms, namely edge finding and not-first/not-last technique, and we present a new...

A novel heating technique, electromagnetic induction heating (EMIH), uses electromagnetic radiation, ranging in frequency from a few megahertz to tens of gigahertz, to volumetrically heat silicon above 1000 C in only a few seconds. Typical power requirements fall between 900 to 1300 W for silicon wafers 75 to 100 mm in diameter. This technique has successfully produced direct silicon wafer-to-w...

This paper presents a comparison between batch and three different sets of fed batch fermentations forrhamnolipid production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The batch run was performed with 500 ml of culturemedium having the initial glycerol and sodium nitrate concentrations of 30 and 8.3 g/l, respectively. For a fedbatch run with nitrogen source in feed, 250 ml of the nitrogen exc...

Motivated by applications in porcelain-making companies, we consider a type of optimization problems for batch-processing operations. In production, single machine with fixed capacity is used to process jobs. Several jobs can be processed together if their total size no more than the capacity. Batch-position-based learning effects are considered because workers become skillful gradually after t...