This article employs adaptive rank-order morphological filter to develop a pattern classification algorithm for fault diagnosis in benchmark chemical process: Tennessee Eastman process. Rank-order filtering possesses desirable properties of dealing with nonlinearities and preserving details in complex processes. Based on these benefits, the proposed algorithm achieves pattern matching through a...

Purpose: This study investigates how a quality profile can evolve over time and how different interventions can develop and change an existing quality profile. Methodology/approach: Data was collected over a five-year period, including a literature review, interviews, a document study and observations to capture the quality profile and associated interventions. The study was carried out in a se...

In this paper, we seek to analyse specific types of bilateral electronic communication processes, namely such processes where there is a distinction between individual goals of the communicating parties and their joint goals. We argue that there exists a distinction between successful and unsuccessful processes. This distinction is manifest in the communication patterns used by the participants...

the understanding soil erosion processes and the development of accurate erosion prediction models require understanding of detachment, deposition and sediment transport in rills. to evaluate the effect of soil type and flow stream power on the relative importance of flow driven processes of sediment transport, and on the boundary between the processes regarding to particle size, experiments we...

Introduction This study examines the spatial pattern of older and newer vehicle ownership rates by using aggregated census and non-census data for small geographic units. Although there is considerable research on how overall ownership varies among neighborhoods, there is a paucity of research on how the age composition of personal vehicles varies across space. While we expect disadvantaged nei...

The Urban spatial structure is affected by spatial interactions among various activity locations, and land uses in the city over the transportation system. Each city has its unique circulation pattern of passengers and freight due to its unique geographic conditions and the distribution of locations of economic activities. In that sense, it is claimed in this chapter per the authors that urban ...

The purpose of this project was to observe the amount of apical and mid-curve transportation produced by a range of nickel titanium (NiTi), titanium alloy and stainless steel (SS) files. Tests were carried out in simulated curved root canals produced in epoxy resin blocks. Seven commercially available file types were tested using sizes 15 to 40. Instrumentation was carried out to 1 mm beyond th...

rapid urban growth is resulting into increase in travel demand and private vehicle ownership in urban areas. in the present scenario the existing infrastructure has failed to match the demand that leads to traffic congestion, vehicular pollution and accidents. with traffic congestion augmentation on the road, delay of commuters has increased and reliability of road network has decreased. four s...

The present work sought to determine if the type of visual pattern and presence of texture applied to transportation tunnel walls differentially affected driving performance. Choice of speed and speed control were measured with 32 participants who drove through a simulated transportation tunnel environment. Participants experienced three visual patterns consisting of vertical segments that decr...