SUMMARY The procedures to be fo llowed and some o f the problems which ing breeding objectives are discussed. Specia l emphasis is given reconcile confl icts between different bases o f evaluation, and it ~o att~ that from,a, long-term viewpoi nt , effic i ~ncy s hould be the goal of ~~econcI where efflclency 1S measured as the rat10 of the v alue of all input br~ of al l outputs. In the shorte...

In electric generat ion plants , facility administration is going to be computerized for s e c u r e and efficient maintenance, a n d i t is needed t o input many a l ready existing plant diagrams (so called piping & ins t rument diagrams) into computer systems. Then i t i s required to recognize plant diagrams, whose drawing quality is s o tough f o r recognition, t h a t t h e drawn elements,...

T h e method of CERMAK and HERMAN has been appl ied to mass spectrometr ic studies of symmetrical electron and proton transfer processes. The characteristics of the ion source used have been investigated both experimental ly and theoretical ly. A new type of ionization ef f ic iency curve is obtained if the current of a secondary ion is plotted as a funct ion of the voltage between ionization c...

A number of researchers in ar t i f ic ia l intel l igence, for example, Woods(1975, p.88 f f . ), have asserted that transformat ional grammars are not a satisfactory basis on which to construct natural language understanding systems, pr imari ly because of eff ic iency considerations. The evidence for such a claim is by no means strong, Pe t r i ck (1976) , and it can be argued that transfer ...

Over the past 20–30 years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of people living with immunosuppression. Cancer chemotherapy and the treatment of haematological disease transiently put people at risk, while the immunosuppression required for solid organ transplants and for immunemediated diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, is more prolonged. In addition to these iatrogeni...

Non-sticky latex beads and sticky diatoms were used as models to describe mutual coagulation between sticky and non-sticky particles. In mixed suspensions of beads and Thalassiosira nordenskjoeldii, both types of particles coagulated into mixed aggregates at specific rates, from which the interspecific coagulation effic~ency could be calculated. Stickiness between beads and T nordenskjoeldii wa...

It is highly desirable to collect speech data from the telephone network via a digital interface. This avoids an additional A/D conversion normally required by analog telephone data collection hardware. A popular solution to this problem is the use of a T1 line which offers 24 digital phone lines. The leading T1 interface for Sun workstations is a system developed by Linkon Corporation. Using t...

Cryptococcus neoformans is encapsulated yeast, which is highly prevalent in the soil. animals and as a colonist in humans. The most important event involved in host defense against Cryptococcus neoformans is the development of an adequate cell-mediated immune response particularly T cell mediated immunity. The level of immunity caq cause the spectrum to vary from mere colonization of the respir...

OBJECTIVES The clinical efficacy and safety of imidapril were evaluated in dogs that presented with mild to severe congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association stage II to IV) by comparing the success rate of imidapril with a positive control by a non-inferiority approach. METHODS This good, clinical practice compliant, multicentre study (EFFIC study) enrolled 142 client-owned dogs an...

The increasing emphasis on quality software has prompted the need for better software quality management using data driven and statistical methods. Various measures of development and released software quality have been created to make the process measurable, repeatable, and continuously improving. Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE) is one of the commonly used metrics for measuring the efficiency ...