This paper reviews effects of amplitude and force control during the ultrasonic welding cycle of thermoplastics. In a previously published paper, the benefits of amplitude profiling were detailed as increased strength and reduced part marking. This paper reviews the mechanisms for such observations and details additional benefits, such as decreased residual stresses and increased solvent resist...

Runtime profiling of Web-based applications and services is an effective method to aid in the provisioning of required resources, for monitoring server-level objectives, and for detecting implementation defects. Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain accurate profile data on live client workloads due to the high overhead of instrumentation. This paper describes a cloud-based profiling service...

A flotation bank is a serial arrangement of cells. How to optimally operate a bank remains a challenge. This article reviews three reported strategies: air profiling, mass-pull (froth velocity) profiling and Peak Air Recovery (PAR) profiling. These are all ways of manipulating the recovery profile down a bank, which may be the property being exploited. Mathematical analysis has shown that a fla...

A controlled experiment tested the possibility that racial profiling—disproportionate scrutiny of a minority racial group by sanctioned authorities—would have a “reverse deterrent” effect on the illicit behavior of members of a nonprofiled majority group. Research participants given a task involving extremely difficult anagrams were given the opportunity to cheat. White participants randomly as...

CCTV systems are broadly deployed in the present world. To ensure in-time reaction for intelligent surveillance, it is a fundamental task for real-world applications to determine the gender of people of interest. However, normal video algorithms for gender profiling (usually face profiling) have three drawbacks. First, the profiling result is always uncertain. Second, for a time-lasting gender ...

With the growing amount of information being digitized, users find it difficult to obtain the most relevant information that is hidden in the deluge of information returned to them by search engines. In this paper, we describe a conceptual model using a hybrid approach based on user profiling approaches and information filtering techniques that can alleviate the problem of information overload....

Nowadays, in genomocentric era accelerated research of the human genome coupled with advances is enabling the comprehensive molecular profiling of human tissue. Particularly, DNA microarrays are powerful tools for obtaining global view of human non-Hodgkin lymphomas gene expression. Complex information from lymphomas “expression profiling” studies can, in turn, be used to create molecular marke...

Profiling consists of three stages: the collection of performance data, the processing of that data to infer performance information and the feedback of this performance information into the system. Feedback refers to using the information to change either the runtime system or the sampling parameters for subsequent profiling runs. This paper will concentrate on the latter approach for feedback...

OBJECTIVE Nutrient profiling can be defined as the 'the science of categorising foods according to their nutritional composition'. The purpose of the present paper is to describe a systematic and logical approach to nutrient profiling. DESIGN A seven-stage decision-making process is proposed and, as an illustration of how the approach might operate in practice, the development of a nutrient p...