We wish to thank Dr. N. S. Galbraith, of the Epidemiology Reference Laboratory, Colindale, and Dr. G. F. Smith, H.M. Medical Inspector of Factories, South-western Division, for their helpful comments following their investigations of an outbreak at Factory C; Dr. G. T. Cook, Director of the Public Health Laboratory, Guildford, for his help during the initial outbreak at Factory A; Dr. T. D. Blo...

A prototype system for automated assessment of biscuit bake has been developed. The system employs monochrome imaging and histogramming techniques to classify product samples as underbaked, correctly baked or overbaked. Two products have been investigated. Product \A" exhibits uneven browing due to the formation of blisters. An intensity histogram suitably characterises the overall browning and...

Since the discovery of mosaic on the variety Co.281 a few years ago an attempt has been made to determine the extent of the outbreak, the varieties affected, the effect on the cane, and any factors which may be contributory in determining the spread of the disease. To assist us in this work the services of several government inspectors of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology were made ava...

Currently, many users of Social Network Sites are insufficiently aware of who can see their shared personal items. Nonetheless, most approaches focus on enhancing privacy in Social Networks through improved privacy settings, neglecting the fact that privacy awareness is a prerequisite for privacy control. Social Network users first need to know about privacy issues before being able to make adj...

The stock selection problem is one of the major issues in the investment industry, which is mainly solved by analyzing financial ratios. However, considering the complexity and imprecise patterns of the stock market, obvious and easy-to-understand investment rules, based on fundamental analysis, are difficult to obtain. Fundamental and technical analyses are two common methods for predicting th...

Bridge management systems (BMSs) are widely used to assist an inspector in performing element-level bridge inspection. Retrieving and determining target elements be inspected becomes important factor the efficiency of This paper presents enhanced information retrieval (IR) method based on ontology predict elements. The novelty this is that improved seven-step automatic mapping technology propos...

To study the effect of individual genes by segregation or linkage analyses, the likelihood of the model needs to be evaluated. The likelihood can be computed efficiently using the Elston-Stewart algorithm. This algorithm involves summing over the unobserved genotypes in the pedigree, which is called peeling. An important aspect of this algorithm is to determine the order of peeling to maximize ...

The objective of this study was to determine the influence of season on intake by sheep as well as certain selected qualitative characteristics of Panicum maximum (cv Gatton) (Guinea grass) at the mature growing stage. The lower DM content of the spring and summer grass (41.6 and 40.2%) did not hamper DOMI (48.1 and 26.7 W/d), respectively. The N concentration of the spring and summer grass was...