Machined surface profile and roughness are important parameters in evaluating the quality of a machining operation. They are resulted from the transformation of the complex tool-workpiece displacements involving the dynamics of the machine tool mechanical system, cutting process, and cutting motions. The focus of this study is the fundamental understanding of the surface profile formation durin...

The objectives of this study are to provide detailed information about green roof performances in the Mediterranean climate (retained volume, peak flow reduction, runoff delay) and to identify a suitable modelling approach for describing the associated hydrologic response. Data colleted during a 13 month monitoring campaign and a seasonal monitoring campaign (September to December 2008) at the ...

This paper presents an approach to handle out of profile traffic using Common Open Policy Service and network monitoring feedback. The proposed approach is based on monitoring and reporting information sent by bandwidth monitors installed on each node of a Diffserv Domain. A monitor interacts with Policy Decision Point. This later, depending on the network state, pushes policy decision rules to...

Due to the late response to process condition changes, forging processes are normally exposed to a large number of defective products. To achieve online process monitoring, multichannel tonnage signals are often collected from the forging press. The tonnage signals contain significant amount of real time information regarding the product and the process conditions. In this paper, a methodology ...

For the last years, time-series mining has become a challenging issue for researchers. An important application lies in most monitoring purposes, which require analyzing large sets of time-series for learning usual patterns. Any deviation from this learned profile is then considered as an unexpected situation. Moreover, complex applications may involve the temporal study of several heterogeneou...

In this paper, we describe the design of a profile generator toolkit, which aims to automatically create realistic user profiles for a mobile personalized portal service. These profiles simulate actual user behavior and are utilized to experiment with a personalized crawling system, called eRACE. With the help of this tool, we will assess the performance and scalability of the eRACE system by c...

Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a human T-cell leukemia virus type-1-induced neoplasm with four clinical subtypes: acute, lymphoma, chronic, and smoldering. Although the chronic type is regarded as indolent ATL, about half of the cases progress to acute-type ATL. The molecular pathogenesis of acute transformation in chronic-type ATL is only partially understood. In an effort to determin...

KEYWORDS In many manufacturing processes, the quality of a product is characterized by a non-linear relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. Using nonlinear regression for monitoring nonlinear profiles have been proposed in the literature of profile monitoring which is faced with two problems; 1) the distribution of regression coefficients in small sample...

We aimed to estimate the prevalence of resistant hypertension through both office and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in a large cohort of treated hypertensive patients from the Spanish Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Registry. In addition, we also compared clinical features of patients with true or white-coat-resistant hypertension. In December 2009, we identified 68 045 treated pati...

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in the management of sickle cell disease, gaps still exist in the training of primary healthcare professionals for monitoring patients with the disease. OBJECTIVE To assess the perception of community healthcare workers about the care and monitoring of patients with sickle cell disease after an educational intervention. METHOD This exploratory, descriptive, and...