Prolonged administration of oxygen in high concentrations to premature infants is now being abandoned in most countries, thanks to the studies on retrolental fibroplasia which have shown its harmful effects on the eyes. These studies have led to a revision of the indications for oxygen therapy and prompted renewed interest in its physiological bases in the neonatal period (Engle and Levine, 195...

Bayesian methods are a kind of data-driven methods developed in recent years and have played an important role in fault detection and diagnosis. Nevertheless, traditional Bayesian fault detection methods cannot deal with the case where some underlying modes are ambiguous in the historical data. To cope with this problem, a new method is presented in this paper. The modes with uncertainty in his...

a Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, University of Rome, ‘‘La Sapienza’’, Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy b Special Service for Diagnosis, Prevention and Care of Cancer, ‘‘Palazzo Baleani’’, ‘‘La Sapienza’’ University of Rome, Italy c O.U. Orthognathic Surgery, ‘‘G. Eastman’’ Hospital, Rome, Italy d O.U. AnatomoPathology and Histology, ‘‘S. Giovanni-Addolorata’’ Hospit...

From the end of the 19th century, the development of a process for manufacturing thin plastic films was tightly linked to the emerging industry for movies and photographic films. 5 mil (125 micron) film was produced using a discontinuous device with a caster moving over 200 feet long glass plates at Eastman KODAK [1]. Soon, first patents were issued to cast celluloid films on a moving surface b...

The objective of the current paper is to present an intelligent system for complex process monitoring, based on artificial intelligence technologies. This system aims to realize with success all the complex process monitoring tasks that are: detection, diagnosis, identification and reconfiguration. For this purpose, the development of a multi-agent system that combines multiple intelligences su...

In the May 2002 Issue of this Magazine, Late Lester F. Eastman and Umesh K. Mishra made case for what was then a long-shot technology in world power semiconductors: gallium nitride (GaN). They presented an optimistic outlook powerful, rugged radio-frequency amplifiers then-nascent broadband wireless networks radar, as well power-switching applications electric grid. called GaN devices “the toug...