Plastics is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries, ranked as one of the few multi-billion dollar industries. Due to the vast improvements in polymers and production processes, plastics are now amongst the world’s most widely used materials, with the world consumption of polymers surpassing steel in volume and weight. Injection molding represents approximately 32% (by weight)...

The architects of phase I radiochemotherapy development programs impose a semblance of structured radiation "intensity" and adverse event predictability upon radiation-anticancer agent interactions whose natural complexity and improper mixing would otherwise lead to dire health consequences. It is incumbent upon radiation oncology investigators to pledge radiation quality and safety to the part...

This paper describes a method of on-line handwritten Japanese text recognition by improving segmentation quality. The method produces hypothetical segmentation points according to features such as distance and overlap between adjacent strokes. Moreover, it extracts multidimensional features from these hypothetical segmentation points and applies an SVM to the extracted features to produces segm...