This paper describes an interactive neural network model that predicts the quality of cast ceramic products using multiple quantitative and qualitative inputs. This has been done to enable a major sanitary ware manufacturer to reduce product waste by better control of the slip casting process. The input variables describe the raw materials, ambient conditions and line settings for the ceramic c...

The increased expectations for food products of high quality and safety standards and the need for accurate, fast and objective quality determination of these characteristics in food products continue to grow. In this situation, new techniques are necessary to enable on-line control of quality parameters. Computer vision provides one alternative for an automated, non-destructive and cost-effect...

year during the respective seasons and the authorities are unable to cope with the precautionary work when the diseases have taken their foothold, and the people have been scared into a panic, so much so that sanitary or medical advice counts for nothing. Invariably the villagers resort to methods objectionable and mischievous, that is lodging in non-infested localities and thus spreading the d...

We wish to draw the particular attention of our readers to a volume which lias been recently issued from the India Office, entitled;?" Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India, from June 1869 to June 1870, together with Abstracts of Sanitary Reports for 1868, forwarded from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay." This is a sanitary multum in parvo, and should be in the hands of every ...

Pigs are confronted with changes in farming practices that may affect performance and animal well-being. The sanitary conditions of the farm can have an impact on the ability of pigs to adapt to these changes. This study aimed to analyse how weaned pigs respond to common farming practices of changes in diet and housing in terms of performance, health and behaviour, and how these responses are a...

The WHO Consensus Document on the epidemiology of the SARS epidemic in 2003, included a report on a concentrated outbreak in one Hong Kong housing block which was considered a 'super-spreading event'. The WHO report conjectured that the sanitary plumbing system was one transmission route for the virus. Empty U-traps allowed the aerosolised virus to enter households from the sewerage system. No ...

This paper describes the information system that has been built for the support of sanitary teams. The system is aimed at supporting analytical work which must be carried out when there is a risk of an epidemic outbreak. It is meant to provide tools for predicting the size of an epidemic on the basis of the actual data collected during its course. Since sanitary teams try to control the size of...

AIM This baseline study aims to find out the evaluation of hygienic-sanitary conditions at the level of dental medicine cabinets through the verification of certain hygienic aspects. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study conducted consists in monitoring the hygienic/sanitary conditions at the level of 68 dental medicine cabinets (40 private cabinets and 28 school/university dental cabinets in Iasi c...