Yield forecasting is critical to a semiconductor manufacturing factory. To further enhance the effectiveness of semiconductor yield forecasting, a fuzzy-neural approach with collaboration mechanisms is proposed in this study. The proposed methodology is modified from Chen and Lin’s approach by incorporating two collaboration mechanisms: favoring mechanism and disfavoring mechanism. The former h...

Burkholderia cepacia is an important pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF) and an infrequent cause of nosocomial infection in non-CF patients. This report describes a large hospital outbreak that appeared to involve both patient groups, a previously unrecognized phenomenon. Ribotype restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) profiles and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis-resolved macrochromosoma...

Research efforts toward effective e-Government infrastructures have gained momentum, motivated mainly by increasing demands to improve citizen participation in public processes, promote social e-Inclusion, and reduce bureaucracy. One of the biggest challenges is providing effective techniques to handle the inherent heterogeneity of the systems and processes involved, making them interoperable. ...

In this study, the authors examine the effects of information systems/technologies (IS/T) on the performance of firms engaged in growth strategies based on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). A model derived from a resource-based theory of the firm is developed to predict the influence of IS/T on performance of firms. Data on the financial performance of 133 firms are used to gauge the impact of IS...

This article examines the improvements provided when multimedia information in traditional SCADAS are included in electric facility management and maintenance. Telecontrol use in the electric sector, with the fundamental objective of providing increased and improved service to the operators who manage these systems, is also described. One of the most important contributions is the use of an age...

In order for speech recognizers to deal with increased task perplexity, speaker variation, and environment variation, improved speech recognition is critical. Steady progress has been made along these three dimensions at Carnegie Mellon. In this paper, we review the SPHINX-II speech recognition system and summarize our recent efforts on improved speech recognition. This research was sponsored b...

Applying information technology to teach students majoring in Geography pedagogy a university environment the direction of capacity development has contributed improving training efficiency and quality. By analyzing synthesizing documents combined with pedagogical experiments classroom, article introduces Google Earth application some geography modules for at An Giang University, Ho Chi Minh Ci...