On surface treatment lines, the products are transferred in successive tanks by a hoist. Moreover, each processing time is nested between a minimal and a maximal duration. This constraint is called the processing window constraint. An interesting problem is to find the hoist moves which maximise productivity. This paper deals with the production of identical parts in a balanced three-tank line....

In this paper, we prove that any BL-general fuzzy automaton (BL-GFA) and its quotient have the same behavior. In addition, we obtain the minimal quotient BL-GFA and minimal quotient transformation of the BL-GFA, considering the notion of maximal admissible partition. Furthermore, we show that the number of input symbols and time complexity of the minimal quotient transformation of a BL-GFA are ...

Mechanical properties and color of a plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) maxillofacial elastomer were evaluated at processing temperatures from 140 to 190 degrees C. The properties were dependent on processing temperature. Specimens prepared at 170 degrees C had optimum mechanical properties with minimal discoloration.

Internal architecture has a direct impact on the mechanical and biological behaviors of porous hydroxyapatite (HA) implants. However, traditional processing methods provide very minimal control in this regard. This paper reviews a novel processing technique developed in our laboratory for fabricating scaffolds with controlled internal architectures. The preliminary mechanical property and in vi...

Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing is a emerging method of food preservation that uses short bursts of electricity for microbial inactivation (cell-lysis) and causes minimal or no detrimental effect on food quality attributes. PEF can be used for processing liquid and semiliquid food products.

In this paper we determine the minimal number of processing in the 2D systolic implementation for one class of nested loop algorithms. The number of processing elements is derived depending on the projection direction and size of loops. Obtained results are illustrated on matrix multiplication algorithm.

Numerous methods are available for the graphical display of radioimmunoassay dose-response curves, for curve-fitting and dose interpolation, for statistical quality control, and for automation and computerization of data processing. The relative merits of these approaches are discussed. Minimal requirements for radioimmunoassay data-processing systems are presented. The features of an “ideal” s...

We show that a practical translation of MRS descriptions into normal dominance constraints is feasible. We start from a recent theoretical translation and verify its assumptions on the outputs of the English Resource Grammar (ERG) on the Redwoods corpus. The main assumption of the translation— that all relevant underspecified descriptions are nets—is validated for a large majority of cases; all...

The solution of sparse linear systems is the most time-consuming step in running reservoir simulations; over 70% of time is spent on the solution of linear systems derived from the Newton methods [1]. If large highly heterogeneous reservoir models are applied, their linear systems are even harder to solve and require much more simulation time. Hence fast solution techniques are fundamental to l...