A key determinant of the quality of hot-rolled strip is mechanical properties lying within the tolerance range. Traditionally, this is done by testing samples which is costly, time-consuming and ties up stock awaiting test results. An alternative is given by MicroStructureMonitor, a computer model-based system which calculates the required quality parameters rather than measuring them and addit...

Background: The antemortem diagnosis of Alzheimer disease (AD) requires time-consuming and costly procedures. Therefore, biochemical tests that can direct the physician rapidly to the correct diagnosis are highly desirable. Measurement of single biochemical markers in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), such as total tau protein and -amyloid peptide42 (A 42), shows robust alterations that highly correla...

Automatic Text categorization using machine learning methods like Support Vector Machines (SVM) have tremendous potential for effectively organizing electronic resources. Human categorization is very costly and time-consuming, thus limiting its application for large or rapidly changing collections. SVM is a comparatively new technique with a very solid mathematical foundation for solving a vari...

Evaluation and selection of the software packages is complicated and time consuming decision making process. Selection of inappropriate software package can turn out to be costly and adversely affects business processes and functioning of the organization. In this paper we describe (i) generic methodology for software selection, (ii) software evaluation criteria, and (iii) hybrid knowledge base...

International arbitration procedures have become more and more costly and time consuming both for the arbitrators and the parties. Therefore, some specifi c procedural options have developed “fi nal offer arbitration” (FOA) and “sealed offer arbitration”which, alongside with their numerous advantages, actually lead to some new problems. The article discusses those advantages and disadvantages o...

The casting and hot rolling process is a most important and widely used industrial route to produce aluminum alloy sheet[I]. Because rolling is such a high volume process and the capital expenditure in plants and fabrication facilities is so large, even small cost savings or increases in efficiency can result in a very large total money savings[2, 3]. To remove the very costly and time-consumin...

Integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources into applications is a time-consuming, costly and error-prone engineering task. Relatively mature technologies exist that make integration tractable from an engineering perspective. These technologies, however, have many limitations, and hence present opportunities for breakthrough research. This paper briefly describes some of these limitations, ...

Collecting chemical data for site characterization and remediation at former manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites can be time consuming and costly, with sufficient data acquired at only a few sites. In response, EPRI has developed chemical analysis methods for utility use in generating data quickly and cost-effectively. This report presents results from a laboratory demonstration of sample prepar...

In computer vision field, Image resolution enhancement has become the most current research area. Improving image resolution by applying costly hardware is expensive and time-consuming. In this paper we have discussed different methods to improve the resolution of the single image and we have given a comparison of different Super resolution algorithms for standard images based on PSNR and SSIM ...