In some statistical process monitoring applications, quality of a process or product is described by more than one ordinal factors called ordinal multivariate process. To show the relationship between these factors, an ordinal contingency table is used and modeled with ordinal log-linear model. In this paper, a new control charts based on ordinal-normal statistic is developed to monitor the ord...

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Charts are one of several tools used in Quality Control. Other tools include flow charts, histograms, cause-and-effect diagrams, check sheets, Pareto diagrams, graphs, and scatter diagrams. A control chart is simply a graph which indicates process variation over time. The purpose of drawing a control chart is to detect any changes in the process, signalled by a...

In this paper, an augmented chart data structure with efficient word lattice parsing scheme in speech recognition applications is proposed. The augmented chart and the associated parsing, algorithm can represent and parse very efficiently a lattice of word hypotheses produced in speech recognition with high degree of lexical ambiguity .without changing the fundamental principles of chart parsin...

a sigmoid function is necessary for creation a chaotic neural network (cnn). in this paper, a new function for cnn is proposed that it can increase the speed of convergence. in the proposed method, we use a novel signal for controlling chaos. both the theory analysis and computer simulation results show that the performance of cnn can be improved remarkably by using our method. by means of this...

This report presents the work carried out for the flow chart recognition task in the course of the CLEF-IP 2012 competition. The goal is to obtain structural information of flow charts based on the visual content of the images. To this end, for each flow chart a list of its nodes and their interconnections, i.e. its edges, is extracted and the type of the nodes and edges and attached text is re...

Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis in humans throughout the world, but infection of animals, especially poultry, results in a commensal colonization of the intestines. We previously found that a mutant lacking docA, which encodes a putative cytochrome c peroxidase (CCP), demonstrates up to a 10(5)-fold reduction in colonization of the chick cecum compared to wi...

Regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) proteins are GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) that bind to Galpha subunits and attenuate G protein signaling, but where these events occur in the cell is not yet established. Here we investigated, by immunofluorescence labeling and deconvolution analysis, the site at which endogenous Galpha-interacting protein (GAIP) (RGS19) binds to Galphai3-YFP and its...

BACKGROUND Critical care pathways (CCPs) are implemented within health care systems as a means to systematically decrease resource utilization, whereas maintaining a high level of care for patients with a specific diagnosis. Previous studies have shown equivocal results for CCPs in head and neck cancer surgery. METHODS We conducted a systematic review evaluating studies of CCPs for head and n...

This paper reports the properties of two series of flowable self-compacting slurry (SCS). In Series 1, a limestone quarry by-product, fine crushed sand (FCS), and ponded-CCPs were used. For Series 2, standard concrete sand and ponded-CCPs were used. For Series 1, five mixtures and for Series 2, six mixtures of flowable SCS were made. Ponded-CCPs and limestone quarry FCS content of the mixtures ...

We advocate Cyclic Communicating Processes (CCPs) as a viable and tractable model of computation for reactive systems. As the name suggests, the model consists of a network of sequential agents that communicate with each other. The crucial restriction is that the control flow of each agent is cyclic. The communication mechanism consists of the agents performing common actions together. At the l...