The walking beam furnace (WBF) plays a critical role in a steel production factory, and has complex nonlinear dynamic behaviour. Thus, using the conventional physical principles to build a model of the process leads to a time-consuming modeling procedure and when the number of operating set-points in walking beam furnace increases the conventional modeling problem difficultly will be solved, in...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of hospital diarrhea. Conventional CDI testing by enzyme immunoassays is fast yet shows poor sensitivity and specificity, whereas the ‘gold standard’ toxigenic culture is laborious and time consuming. Molecular tests for CDI are fast and highly sensitive and specific. Our laboratory has developed a molecular procedure that allows for r...

Orf virus infection has been prevalent continuously in the population of wild Japanese serows (Capricornis crispus), goat-like grazing cloven-hoofed mammal species that live mainly in mountainous areas of Japan. Currently, definitive diagnosis of infection requires time-consuming laboratory work. To diagnose rapidly on-site, we developed a field-friendly procedure for the detection of orf virus...

manual fingerprint classification algorithms are very time consuming, and usually not accurate. fast and accurate fingerprint classification is essential to each afis (automatic fingerprint identification system). this paper investigates a fingerprint classification algorithm that reduces the complexity and costs associated with the fingerprint identification procedure. a new structural algorit...

Using computer simulation, the authors assessed the accuracy of J. E. Hunter, F. L. Schmidt, and H. Le's (2006) procedure for correcting for indirect range restriction, the most common type of range restriction, in comparison with the conventional practice of applying the Thorndike Case II correction for direct range restriction. Hunter et al.'s procedure produced more accurate estimates of bot...

In this paper we describe in detail a new method for the single gate-level design error diagnosis in combinational circuits. Distinctive features of the method are hierarchical approach (the localizing procedure starts at the macro level and finishes at the gate level), use of stuck-at fault model (it is mapped into design error domain only in the end), and design error diagnostic procedure tha...