Amorphous silica thin films were applied on the 316L stainless steel substrates by sol-gel dipping technique. The starting chemicals (TEOS, ethanol, HCl, PEG, and NaOH) were used to prepare a gel and then deposited on a substrate. The microstructure, topography, corrosion behavior, and surface hardness were investigated using SEM, AFM, electrochemical method, and micro-hardness measurements. Th...

(Received: Feb. 24, 2013; Accepted in Revised Form: April 9, 2013) Abstract: Mycophenolic acid (MPA) is an antibiotic and immunosuppressive agent, as a secondary metabolite of Penicillium brevicompactum. Parameter optimization of culture composition using Test plan L16, available in the form of an orthogonal array and software for automatic design and analysis of the experiments, both based on ...

We describe a \learning{from{examples"{method to automatically adjust parameters for a balloon model. Our goal is to segment arbitrarily shaped objects in medical images with as little human interaction as possible. For our model, we identiied six signiicant parameters that are adjusted with respect to certain applications. These parameters are computed from one manual segmentation drawn by a p...

The language acquisition procedure identifies certain properties of the target grammar before others. The evidence from the input is processed in a stepwise order. Section 1 equates that order and its typical effects with an order of parameter setting. The question is how the acquisition procedure derives the order from input evidence. Section 2 proposes a systematic input reduction for functio...

The paper proposes a new method to approximate the normalized information distance by a compression method that is particularly suited for image data. The new method is based on a video compressor. The new method is used to compute the distance matrix of all the images in the data sets considered. Moreover, the hierarchical clustering method from the R package is used to cluster the distance ma...

Parameter identification problems are formulated in a probabilistic language, where the randomness reflects the uncertainty about the knowledge of the true values. This setting allows conceptually easily to incorporate new information, e.g. through a measurement, by connecting it to Bayes’s theorem. The unknown quantity is modelled as a (may be high-dimensional) random variable. Such a descript...

Overview After selecting and administering District Determined Measures (DDMs), districts need to develop a plan for using those assessments to make a determination of whether students have demonstrated high, moderate, or low growth. There are three components that help to determine student growth, including a clearly written rubric or scoring guide for assessing student work, directions for ma...

In this paper, we point out a possible way by which the child could obtain the target values of the word order parameters for her language. The essential idea is an entropy-based statistical analysis of the input stream. Comments University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-93-07. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://...

Compound orthogonal arrays (COAs) and single arrays are alternatives to the inner–outer arrays advocated by Taguchi for robust parameter design experiments. A criterion based on the wordtype pattern and strength of COAs is proposed to select optimal COAs. Single arrays are classified into prodigal single arrays (PSAs) and economical single arrays (ESAs) according to their relative estimation ca...