The international Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) research program is an attempt to systematize and make operational world-wide knowledge of advanced manufacturing systems as a basis for new paradigms. This paper gives an overview of the IMS objectives, the six test cases to date, and the proposed future research activities. It describes the coordination of the IMS GNOSIS test case, con...

Simulation modelling is an important tool for exploring and reasoning about complex systems. Many supporting languages are available. Commonly occurring features of these languages are constructs capturing concepts such as process, resource, and location. We describe a mathematical framework that supports a modelling idiom based on these core concepts, and which adopts stochastic methods for re...

BACKGROUND Sarcomatoid carcinoma (SARC) of the lung is a very rare and aggressive type of nonsmall cell lung cancer. It belongs to a group of poorly differentiated carcinomas with partial sarcomatoid differentiation or with a direct sarcoma component. Characteristic findings include a large tumor with an invasive tendency, early recurrence and systemic metastases. CASE The authors present a c...

hydronephrosis was not demonstrable by ultrasonoIntroduction graphy, we elected not to perform a transplant puncture for antegrade pyelography or drainage tube Urological complications are the most common type insertion. The patient underwent an MRT of the of post-transplant surgical problems [1]. Delay in transplant and this clearly demonstrated a distal transaccurate diagnosis and an inapprop...

Background And Objectives – to assess accuracy of modified Alvarado score along with aid of ultrasonography in the pre-operative diagnosis of acute appendicitis to decrease the negative appendicectomy rate. Methods-A consecutive series of 100 patients who came to emergency opd with provisional dia gnosis of acute appendicitis was evaluated with modified Alvarado score and subjected to ultrasono...

BACKGROUND Renal oncocytoma is an uncommon tumor, classified as a benign renal neoplasm in the World Health Organisation classification of renal tumours. Despite it there were described several reports with invasive histopathologic features. CASE REPORT We describe a case of renal oncocytoma with bizzare cells and invasion of renal sinus fat tissue. We performed immunohistochemical analysis o...

Face recognition is considered as an important phenomenon in our everyday life. In 19th century cognitive science got introduced with a new term ‘prosopagnosia’ (face disorder) for the first time by Joachim Bodmer. The derived from Greek word prosopon (face) and gnosis (knowledge), refers to condition which was observed consequence of brain lesions (acquired prosopagnosia). Initially it believe...