Within the manufacturing process planning, blanks are either selected or designed, respectively forms of input material for the manufacture of products. Reviewed in this paper are three types of group blanks: group castings, group forgings manufactured by closed die forging and free forging, and group blanks manufactured by pressing melted metal in casts. The paper also presents requisites for ...

This paper demonstrates that piecewise, rotated explicit curves are flexible enough for 2–D modeling applications such as font design. Their use simplifies many operations such as scan conversion, point classification, and curve intersection.

We extend Approval voting to the settings where voters may have intransitive preferences. The major obstacle to applying Approval voting in these settings is that voters are not able to clearly determine who they should approve or disapprove, due to the intransitivity of their preferences. An approach to address this issue is to apply tournament solutions to help voters make the decision. We st...

Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion system for English is being developed for further integration into speech synthesis system within TC-STAR project. In this work we describe experiments performed using two different machine learning techniques. The pronunciation was predicted both for stressed and unstressed lexicon and the results were compared. Analysis of different parameters that may influence...

In this paper we describe how to modify GSAT so that it can be applied to non-clausal formulas. The idea is to use a particular \score" function which gives the number of clauses of the CNF conversion of a formula which are false under a given truth assignment. Its value is computed in linear time, without constructing the CNF conversion itself. The proposed methodology applies to most of the v...

In this Letter, we experimentally demonstrate the enhancement of the inhomogeneous second harmonic conversion in the opaque region of a GaAs cavity with efficiencies of the order of 0.1% at 612 nm, using 3 ps pump pulses having peak intensities of the order of 10 MW/cm(2). We show that the conversion efficiency of the inhomogeneous, phase-locked second harmonic component is a quadratic function...

We show how to effectively convert a secret-shared bit b over a prime field to another field. If initially given a random replicated secret share this conversion can be done by the cost of revealing one secret shared value. By using a pseudo-random function it is possible to convert arbitrary many bit values from one initial random replicated share. Furthermore, we generalize the conversion to ...

Modulation-transfer-function (MTF) measurement often involves the use of three- and four-bar resolution targets. In the conversion of three- and four-bar image data to MTF, biased results can occur when we use series-expansion techniques appropriate for square-wave targets of infinite extent. For systems where the image data are digitally recorded, a convenient and accurate conversion of bar-ta...