A Similarity Ratio Analysis (SRA) method is proposed for early-stage Fault Detection (FD) in plasma etching processes using real-time Optical Emission Spectrometer (OES) data as input. The SRA method can help to realise a highly precise control system by detecting abnormal etch-rate faults in real-time during an etching process. The method processes spectrum scans at successive time points and ...

Factors that can limit the effective resolution of an imaging system may include aliasing from under-sampling, blur from the optics and external factors, and sensor noise. Image restoration and super-resolution (SR) techniques can be used to improve image resolution. One SR method, developed recently, is the adaptive Wiener filter (AWF) SR algorithm. This is a multi-frame SR method that combine...

The characteristics of a new Polyvinylacetate/Povidone based excipient, Kollidon® SR were evaluated for application in extended release matrix tablets. The effects of the following formulation and process variables on tablet properties and drug release were tested: Kollidon® SR concentration in the tablet, addition of external binder for wet granulation, presence of an enteric polymer in the ma...

The absence of the scavenger receptor A (SR-A)-I/II has produced variable effects on atherosclerosis in different murine models. Therefore, we examined whether SR-AI/II deficiency affected atherogenesis in C57BL/6 mice, an inbred strain known to be susceptible to diet-induced atherosclerotic lesion formation, and whether the deletion of macrophage SR-AI/II expression would modulate lesion growt...

This paper proposes an unsupervised approach to automatically interpret noun compounds using semantic similarity. Our proposed unsupervised method is based on obtaining a large amount of robust evidence for NC interpretation. In order to obtain evidence sentences for semantic relations (SRs), we first acquired sentences containing both a head noun and its modifier in the form of SR definitions....

Prostate cancer is a prevalent disease among adult men. One in seven Canadian men diagnosed with this their lifetime. Super-Resolution (SR) can facilitate early diagnosis and potentially save many lives. In paper, robust accurate model proposed for prostate MRI SR. For the first time, MSG-GAN CapsGAN are utilized simultaneously high-scale medical The trained on Prostate-Diagnosis PROSTATEx data...

Recently, significant research has been done in Super-Resolution (SR) methods for augmenting the spatial resolution of Magnetic Resonance (MR) images, which aids physician improved disease diagnoses. Single SR have drawbacks; they fail to capture self-similarity non-local patches and are not robust noise. To exploit intrinsic sparsity MR this paper proposes use Cluster-Sparse Assisted Super-Res...

AIMS It is important to know how far smokers' attempts at using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking 'harm reduction' (reducing harm from continued smoking) promote or undermine cessation. To contribute to that goal, this study aimed to assess whether smokers' reports of smoking reduction (SR) and the use of NRT for SR and temporary abstinence (TA) predicted subsequent attempts to qui...