It is important to understand the anatomical structures of the human brain in horizontal planes. Serially sectioned brain slices can easily be made with a meat slicer. The objective of this research was to enhance the educational value of serial brain slices made with a meat slicer through various applications. Two brains were taken out of two cadavers and embedded with gelatin solution to make...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a serious pathogenic corneal disease, with challenging diagnosis. Standard diagnostic methods include corneal biopsy (involving cell culture) and in vivo reflection corneal microscopy (in which the visualization of the pathogen is challenged by the presence of multiple reflectance corneal structures). We present a new imaging method based on fluorescence sectioned micr...

Although timetabling has long been studied through constraint satisfaction based techniques, along with many alternatives, only recently work has been reported where distributed timetabling problems (DisTTPs) was studied as distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DisCSPs). We present an alternative method for solving DisTTPs based on multiply sectioned constraint networks (MSCNs). The pro...

Multiply sectioned Bayesian networks (MSBNs) provide a general and exact framework for multi-agent distributed interpretation. To investigate algorithms for inference and other operations , experimental MSBNs are necessary. However, it is very time consuming and tedious to construct MSBNs manually. In this work, we investigate pseduo-random generation of MSBNs. Our focus is on the generation of...

The multiply sectioned Bayesian network (MSBN) is a well-studied model for probability reasoning in a multiagent setting. Exact inference, however, becomes difficult as the problem domain grows larger and more complex. We address this issue by integrating approximation techniques with the MSBN Linked Junction Tree Forest (LJF) framework. In particular, we investigate the application of importan...

Multiply sectioned Bayesian networks (MSBNs) provide a framework for probabilistic reasoning in a single user oriented system in a large problem domain or in a cooperative multi-agent distributed interpretation system. During the construction or dynamic formation of a MSBN, an automatic verification of the acyclicity of the overall structure is desired. Although algorithms for testing acyclicit...

In this study, a structural hold down component was designed and produced using the particulate injection moulding (PIM) process. The material of choice titanium due not only to properties but also desire create custom-made components for state-of-the-art marine vessel, Earthrace 2.On removal from mould, green parts were seen have an irregular surface on top face. Known as bloom, it can be duri...

Variables and constraints in problem domains are often distributed. These distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DCSPs) lend themselves to multiagent solutions. Most existing algorithms for DCSPs are extensions of centralized backtracking or iterative improvement with breakout. Their worst case complexity is exponential. On the other hand, directional consistency based algorithms solve c...

Serially sectioned images of whole cadavers have become available through the work of four projects: the Visible Human Project, the Visible Korean, the Chinese Visible Human, and the Virtual Chinese Human (VCH). For the VCH, new techniques and equipment were developed and applied to two female and two male cadavers to overcome some of the limitations noted in previous studies. In this article o...