Evidence- Based Medicine (EBM) aims to bring the best available evidence into clinical practice.  Different clinical methods of education such as in-patient rounds, follow up rounds, out-patients rounds, group sessions, grand rounds, lectures, and journal clubs could be held by EBM approach. The current text presents two interrelated case reports; a case report of EBM decision making in an emer...

Introduction: During the past 30 years, the melting methods and associated molten metal-handling systems used by the U.S. foundry industry have changed significantly. During the same period, while ductile iron production has experienced continued growth, the quality of metallic scrap and other ironunit feed stocks has steadily deteriorated. The result: slag related melting problems have become ...

T. Lis, K. Nowacki, K. Łakomy Silesian University of Technology, Department of Production Engineering, Katowice, Poland In the European Union one of the most important activities is the recovery and recycling of waste including foundry waste. In the article waste arising from production of iron casting was presented. Selected physic-chemical properties of iron-bearing waste were defined. Opport...

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This paper presents a virtual foundry environment that can be accessed over Internet by design and manufacturing engineers, for preliminary process planning of cast components. The plans are automatically generated by case based reasoning using the nearest neighbor algorithm. An interactive facility is also provided for handling entirely new cases that do not have matching cases in the database...

A reliable and CMOS-compatible deposition process for amorphous Al2O3 based active photonic components has been developed. Al2O3 films were reactively sputtered, where process optimization was achieved at a temperature of 250 C, with a deposition rate of 8.5 nm/min. With a surface roughness of 0.3 nm over a 1 μm area, background optical losses as low as 0.1 dB/cm were obtained for undoped films...