Vibrational echo correlation spectroscopy experiments on the OD stretch of dilute HOD in H(2)O are used to probe the structural dynamics of water. A method is demonstrated for combining correlation spectra taken with different infrared pulse bandwidths (pulse durations), making it possible to use data collected from many experiments in which the laser pulse properties are not identical. Accurat...

This paper describes a simulation environment, called Prosim, which permits a user to define components, subsystems, and their interconnections to analyse a statistical process control (SPC) system. The components and systems are defined and analysed interactively. A library of standard SPC objects containing models for the Xbar, range, exponential weighted moving average, pchart and other SPC ...

Introduction: Transient cavitations induced by low frequency irradiation of ultrasound can be used to treat tumors. Previous studies in in-vitro experiments have shown that induced cavitation by dual or multiple frequencies of ultrasound is greater than induced cavitation by single frequency irradiation. In this study, we compared and evaluated the treatment effects of dual frequency irradiatio...

Kolyva C, Spaan JA, Piek JJ, Siebes M. Windkesselness of coronary arteries hampers assessment of human coronary wave speed by single-point technique. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 295: H482–H490, 2008. First published May 30, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00223.2008.—A novel single-point technique to calculate local arterial wave speed (SPc) has recently been presented and applied in healthy hum...

INTEGRATION OF DATA MJNING ALGORITHMS AND CONTROL' CBARI'S FOR MULTIVARIATE AND AUTOCORRELATED PROCESSES WEERAWAT JITPITAKLERT, Ph.D. ,The University of Texas at Arlington, 2009 Supervising Professor: Seoung Bum Kim The objective of tllli3 dissertation is to integrate state-of-the-art data mining 3lgoritbms with statistical process control (SPC) tools to a.chieve efficient 'monitoring in multiv...

INTRODUCTION The use of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors in combination with metformin is increasing in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), but no single-pill combination (SPC) is currently available in Japan. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy and safety of vildagliptin/metformin SPC in Japanese patients with T2DM inadequately controlled with vildaglipt...

The classical funnel experiment was used by Deming to promote the idea of statistical process control (SPC). The popular example illustrates that the implementation of simple feedback rules to stationary processes violates the independence assumption and prevents the implementation of conventional SPC. However, Deming did not indicate how to implement SPC in the presence of such feedback rules....

Two independent methods for improving quality are engineering process control (EPC) and statistical process control (SPC). The first method tries to minimize variability by handling process variables so as to keep the outputs of the process on target. While the latter method, SPC does the same basic task of minimizing variability by supervising and eradicating the assignable causes of variation...

Statistical Quality Control (SQC) is a branch of Total Quality Management (TQM) that defines a quality philosophy and set the guiding principles that represent the foundation for a continuously improving organisation. Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Acceptance Sampling are the two major parts of SQC. SPC is an effective tool that aims to get and keep processes under control and ensure tha...

The classical utilized double emulsion solvent diffusion technique for encapsulating water soluble Mitomycin C (MMC) in PLA nanoparticles suffers from low encapsulation efficiency because of the drug rapid partitioning to the external aqueous phase. In this paper, MMC loaded PLA nanoparticles were prepared by a new single emulsion solvent evaporation method, in which soybean phosphatidylcholine...