Known antiferronlagnetic nlaterials far out nwnber known ferronlagnetic and ferrinlagnetic nlaterials. More­ over, the antife rronlagnets display a wide variety of phase transitions in addition to the paranlagnetic to antiferro­ nlagnetic transition at the Neel point, that nlake thenl a rich source of infornlation about the relations hip between exchange interactions, structure, and phase trans...

Current out-of-sequence measurement (OOSM) filtering algorithms belong to two distinct classes, Kalman filter (KF) or extended KF (EKF) based and particle filter (PF) based. This paper compares the performances of the multiple-lag KF and PF based OOSM filtering algorithms for a number of scenarios with linear dynamic and measurement models with additive Gaussian noises first. The KF with in-seq...

In flexible manufacturing environments, the performance of a production system is often affected by the sequence of operation. While performance evaluation, improvement and lean design of production system have been studied extensively, the joint effect of productivity and quality parameters on operation sequencing remains practically unexplored. Indeed, determining the optimal operation sequen...

Interferometric coherence is an important indicator of reliability for interferograms obtained by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (Interferometric SAR, InSAR). Areas with low coherence values are unsuitable for interferometric data processing. Also, it may be used as a classification parameter for various coverage types. Coherence magnitude can be calculated as an absolute value of the...

This course gives an elementary introduction to the phase-field method and to its applications for the modeling of crystal growth. Two different interpretations of the phase-field variable are given and discussed. It can be seen as a physical order parameter that characterizes a phase transition, or as a smoothed indicator function that tracks domain boundaries. Elementary phase-field models fo...

The present paper concerns on the selective and very efficient transport of thorium(IV) ions from aqueous solutions through an emulsion liquid membranes composed by paraffin and a surfactant, without carrier requirement. The influence of pH of the external aqueous phase, the surfactant concentration in the membrane phase, the type, and concentration of th...

BACKGROUND Bioelectrical Impedance (BIA) derived phase angle is increasingly being used as an objective indicator of nutritional status in advanced cancer. Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) is a subjective method of nutritional status. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between BIA derived phase angle and SGA in advanced colorectal cancer. METHODS We evaluated a c...

ors recorded information about each article on a one-page abstraction form.Information coded included: 3 Indicator type (i.e. mortality, readmission, potentially overused procedures)3 Clinical domain (i.e. medical, surgical, obstetric, pediatric, and psychiatric)3 Measure category (i.e. structure, process, proxy-outcome, and outcome)3 Clinical rationale for the indicators.3 ...

Most traditional approaches to anaphora resolution rely heavily on linguistic and domain knowledge. One of the disadvantages of developing a knowledgebased system, however, is that it is a very labourintensive and time-consuming task. This paper presents a robust, knowledge-poor approach to resolving pronouns in technical manuals. This approach is a modification of the practical approach (Mitko...

In this paper, we present a knowledge discovery process applied to hydrological data. To achieve this objective, we combine successive methods to extract knowledge on data collected at stations located along several rivers. Firstly, data is pre processed in order to obtain different spatial proximities. Later, we apply two algorithms to extract spatiotemporal patterns and compare them. Such ele...