Bread product quality is highly dependent to the baking process. A model for the development of product quality of bread products has been calibrated by experiments at a fixed baking temperature of 200°C and in combination with 100 W of microwave powers. The parameters in this model were estimated in sequence procedures: heat and mass transfer, then product transformations and finally product q...

It is known that the incompleteness of asset markets causes inefficiency in almost every equilibrium. Yet unexplored is the ”size” of this inefficiency. The size of a Pareto improvement is the total willingness to pay for it, out of current consumption. Inefficiency is the maximum size of any Pareto improving reallocation. Inefficiency of US consumption in middle age is computed to be 10-11% of...

A new method for direction finding with partly calibrated uniform linear arrays (ULAs) is presented. It is based on the conventional estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT) by modeling the imperfections of the ULAs as gain and phase uncertainties. For a fully calibrated array, it reduces to the conventional ESPRIT algorithm. Moreover, the direction-of-arriv...

Introduction Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast has been widely used in fMRI study to investigate neuronal functionality. While the amplitude of BOLD contrast during the brain activation (commonly called β) is widely used to monitor neuronal activity in group analyses, β usually varies over subjects because BOLD contrast depends on a number of physiological and biophysical parame...

This paper focuses on the benefits of using computer vision to control a Gough-Stewart parallel robot. Namely, it is recalled that observing the legs of such a mechanism with a calibrated camera, thus following the redundant metrology paradigm, simplifies the control law. Then, we prove in this paper that such a control law depends on a reduced set of kinematic parameters (only those attached t...

Automated monitoring and control of the weld pool surface has been one of the goals of the welding industry. This paper presents a technique which uses a calibrated charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor and structured light to extract the surface information as depth of pool from captured images. It projects a laser line from a pre-determined position onto the specular weld pool surface. A reflect...