Abstract The wear state of the punch in sheet-metal stamping processes cannot be directly observed, necessitating use indirect methods to infer its condition. Past research approaches utilized a plethora machine learning models from suitable process signals, but have been limited by lack industrial-grade setups and sample sizes as well their insufficient interpretability. This work seeks addres...

Thin films of -MoGe show progressively reduced Tc’s as the thickness is decreased below 30 nm and the sheet resistance exceeds 100 / . We have performed far-infrared transmission and reflection measurements for a set of -MoGe films to characterize this weakened superconducting state. Our results show the presence of an energy gap with ratio 2 0 /kBTc=3.8 0.1 in all films studied, slightly highe...

Spreading resistance analysis on ultrashallow structures is complicated by the interaction of bevel rounding with geometric effects associated with lateral boundaries. When a spreading resistance probe is stepped from the original sample surface, across the rounded region at the bevel edge and onto the bevel, the resistance increases. Some of the increase is the result of approaching the latera...

We address the problem of statistical machine translation from highly inflective language to less inflective one. The characteristics of inflective languages are generally not taken into account by the statistical machine translation system. Existing translation systems often treat different inflected word forms of the same lemma as if they were independent of each other, although some interdep...

Multi-stakeholder distributed systems (MSDS) are distributed systems in which subsets of the nodes are designed, owned, or operated by distinct stakeholders. New computing paradigms such as service-oriented computing mean that challenges posed by MSDS will be more dominant in the future. These challenges have particular implications for requirements engineering (RE). For example, in MSDS decisi...

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Preliminaries In this chapter we give some preliminaries. The main intention is to introduce some notation. The reader can take the risk and skip this chapter if he is in a hurry. In this section we define the concepts of order, well-order, and ordinal number. An order is a relation that specifies how to line up the elements in a set: Definition 1.1.1 An order ≺ is a relation with the following...

BACKGROUND Skin graft is one of the commonly done procedures by plastic surgeons, dermato surgeons and general surgeons. Pain at the donor area is a common complaint by the patient. The skin graft donor site area is usually covered with petrolatum dressing dermatosurgeons. AIM This study was done to compare collagen dressing with petroleum gauze dressing in control of post-operative pain on s...