Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming wiser, even surpassing human performances in some fields, such as image classification, chess, and Go. However, most high-performance AI systems, deep learning models, black boxes (i.e., only system inputs outputs visible, but the internal mechanisms unknown) and, thus, notably challenging to understand. Thereby a with better explainability is n...

water quality assessment provides a scientific basis for water resources development and management. this case study proposes a factor analysis- hopfield neural network model (fhnn) based on factor analysis method and hopfield neural network method. the results showed that the factor analysis (fa) technique was introduced to identify important water quality parameters. results revealed that bio...

cost of quality analysis is emerged as an effective tool for the industrial managers for pinpointing the deficiencies in the system as well as for identifying the improvement areas by highlighting the cost reduction opportunities. however , this analysis will be fully effective only if it is further extended to identify the cost incurred in ensuring quality in all areas of the supply chain incl...

the constitutive relationships of the rubber materials that act as the main spring of a hydraulic engine mount are nonlinear. in addition to material induced nonlinearity, further nonlinearities may be introduced by mount geometry, turbulent fluid behavior, temperature, boundary conditions, decoupler action, and hysteretic behavior. in this research all influence the behavior of the system only...

Alison Beaney is regional quality assurance specialist based at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, Anne Black is quality assurance pharmacist and Clare Dobson is a basic grade pharmacist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Steve Williamson is lead pharmacist for cancer services at Northumbria Healthcare Trust. Mark Robinson is a pre registration trainee at Sunderland R...

 Designing and implementing agro-ecosystem intervention decisions is a complex undertaking, outcomes are uncertain and risk of project failure and cost overruns are large.  Sub-optimal intervention decisions are resulting from failure to consider uncertainty, omission of important variables that are difficult to measure, and a lack of frameworks for combining diverse types of information.  W...

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been succes...

Background Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is recognised as the gold standard technique for the assessment of cardiovascular function in adults. In children, image quality is dependent on compliance with motion control and breath-hold instructions. Inability to maintain repeated breath-holds in a consistent phase of respiration can result in respiratory misregistration errors. There is ...