A substantial body of data is described by the Standard Model of particle physics. However the description is far from perfect and there is a growing number of internal inconsistencies. These fall short of qualifying as discoveries; nevertheless, examination of their merits is both interesting and worthwhile. The existence of three families of quarks and leptons is not understood. There are new...

Ethernet is now conquering the field level in automation technology. Realtime behavior is a knock-out criterion therefore. This paper deals with the key concepts for guaranteed realtime behavior using Ethernet, based on the requirements of factory automation. A classification of the vendor-driven approaches that are currently under discussion for realtime Ethernet is provided.

The Hint Factory is an implementation of our novel method to automatically generate hints using past student data for a logic tutor. One disadvantage of the Hint Factory is the time needed to gather enough data on new problems in order to provide hints. In this paper we describe the use of expert sample solutions to “seed” the hint generation process. We show that just a few expert solutions gi...

In this paper we present OSS Factory (Open Source Software Factory), an ecosystem aligning software demands, undergraduate Computing students qualification and Open Software practices in a collaborating relation, dedicated to produce open software applications to cope with market demands, using students coding potential. A contest among students attending software engineering courses (or volunt...

This chapter describes the application of the RAP/AOR methodology proposed by Taveter and Wagner (2005, 2006) to the modeling and simulation of a real ceramics factory. The chapter addresses the modeling of the ceramics factory from the interaction, information, and behavior aspects of the methodology. The chapter also discusses the simulation of the manufacturing processes of the ceramics fact...

The fresh water fish Rasbora daniconius were exposed to two sublethal concentration of sugar factory effluent for 4 weeks studied. The concentration were record 1/5(2.2%) and 1/10(1.1%) of the 96 hrs LC 5O values of sugar factory effluent. The gills of R. daniconius showed the curling and degeneration and breaking of epithelium cells of the secondary gill lamellae, destruction of blood cells, b...

Emerging technologies related to sugar factory operations are reviewed in the context of the potential impact of new factory technology. Increased productivity is the key goal and is a more complex issue than factory output alone. It is related to the efficient use of resources, including energy, equipment design and reliability and performance optimization. New technology is divided in this di...

Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) on median nerve stimulation were studied in 38 rubber factory workers to detect possible subclinical impairments in the somatosensory pathway as a result of exposure to rubber factory chemicals. Results showed trend towards the prolongation of latencies of all the major peaks of SEP such as P1, N1, P2, N2, P3, N3 in exposed workers besides changes in peak ...

Recent results on B mixing and CP violation from the B-factory experiments, BABAR at PEP-II and Belle at KEK-B, are summarized. A discussion of CP violation is then presented which concentrates on the CP parameter sin2β (also known as sin2φ1). The most recent measurements of this parameter from B-factory data yield sin2β = 0.741± 0.067 (stat)± 0.033 (syst) (BaBar) sin2φ1 = 0.719± 0.072 (stat)± ...