To integrate Computer Aided systems (CA*-systems) in the area of Mechanical Engineering (ME) with other applications in the world of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), one principal approach under development is based on feature representation. It enables any CA*-system to recognize the higher-level entities { the so-called features in ME { out of a lower-data exchange format. In this pap...

Usually, in monitoring a proportion p < /em>, the binary observations are considered independent; however, in many real cases, there is a continuous stream of autocorrelated binary observations in which a two-state Markov chain model is applied with first-order dependence. On the other hand, the Bernoulli CUSUM control chart which is not robust to autocorrelation can be applied two-sided co...

OBJECTIVE Compare the performance of Lea Symbols and Sheridan Gardiner charts against the standard test chart used to determine reduced VA during vision screening among pre-schoolers. MATERIAL AND METHOD Seven hundred seventy five pre-school participated where 389 subjects were boys and 386 subjects were girls were tested using the Lea Symbols chart and the Sheridan Gardiner chart. The mean a...

BACKGROUND Different visual acuity chart can be targeted to evaluate the visual function of patients with different eye diseases. We conducted a comparative analysis of the digital logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (LogMAR) vision chart and the standard logarithmic vision chart for the measurement of visual acuity after retinal detachment surgery. METHODS We used the digital LogMAR...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility, applicability and the value of customised symphysio fundal height (SFH) charts developed for women of Indian origin in the United Kingdom (UK: CSFH - In chart) and women of African origin in the UK (CSFH - Af chart) in detecting fetal growth restriction and predicting low birth weight (LBW) of the neonate in a Lankan population, and to compare these resul...

The attribute Conforming Run Length (CRL) control chart has attracted increasing research interests in Statistical Process Control (SPC). It decides the process status based on the interval or distance between two nonconforming units. This article proposes a Generalized CRL chart (namely GCRL chart) for monitoring the mean of a measurable quality characteristic x under 100% inspection. To run a...

This paper will present a generalisation of chart parsing able to cope with the case where the object being parsed is a particular kind of diagram (a flowgraph) and the grammar is an appropriate type of graph grammar (a flowgraph grammar). A feature that often occurs in such diagrams is structure sharing. This paper also discusses the problem of diagram recognition in the case where structure s...

This paper presents an algorithm for incremental chart parsing, outlines how this could be embedded in an interactive parsing system, and discusses why this might be useful. Incremental parsing here means that input i8 analysed in a piecemeal fashion, in particular allowing arbitrary changes of previous input without exhaustive reanalysis. Interactive parsing means that the analysis process is ...

Introduction In the field of linguistics, Active Chart Parsing (ACP) is an algorithm that generates all possible parsings of a sentence, given an ambiguous grammar. Therefore, ACP would be one part of a natural language interface to a database server, if real-time processing could be achieved. Parallel processing is one way to achieve real-time performance. A previously reported parallelization...