This paper describes a CBR application in manufacturing industry, a domain where CBR has by and large proved its applicability and success. The paper details a thorough understanding of the field of fused cast manufacturing basically seen from the perspective of glass furnace, where quality of glass produced is straightaway related to the refractory blocks used in furnace linings. The applicabi...

Early in World War II, a new map paper was developed that greatly improved the quality and performance of war maps. The National Bureau of Standards cooperated in the development and, subsequently, determined by experimental manufacture how to make the paper from commercially available raw materials. The best results were obtained in experimental manufacture by using fiber furnishes of 100-perc...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a unique plant currently being domesticated. The fruit is the main component of value, although the leaves are occasionally made into sea buckthorn tea. The two main sources of valuable products are derived from the berries, juice from the fleshy tissue and seed as a single seed from each berry. The juice provides a nutritious beverage, high in suspended ...

Bull, A. T. (1980) in Contemporary Microbial Ecology (Ellwood, D. C., Latham, M. J., Hedger, J. N., Lynch, J. M. & Slater, J. H., eds.), pp. 107-136, Academic Press, London Bull, A. T. & Slater, J. H. (1982) in Microbial Interactwns and Communities (Bull, A. T. & Slater, J. H., eds.), vol. 1, pp. 1-12, Academic Press, London Cain, R. B. (1981) in Microbial Degradation of Xenobwtics and Recalcit...

In numerical studies of Gowdy spacetimes evidence has been found for the development of localized features (‘spikes’) involving large gradients near the singularity. The rigorous mathematical results available up to now did not cover this kind of situation. In this work we show the existence of large classes of Gowdy spacetimes exhibiting features of the kind discovered numerically. These space...

The visual inspection system was developed for defects detection on leather surfaces, which is an important component of automatic CAD/CAM cutting systems. The main functions of the system are quality control and raw material cutting. An efficient algorithm, which combines multiresolution approach, energy and entropy matrices, is presented for detection of defects embedded in leather surface im...