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One can ask whether the logarithmic fit is the adequate function or only an elegant mathematical approximation to a more complex reality. The only way to answer this question is to make new and more measurements of reaction times in tasks with changing number of stimuli and response alternatives. 

Poppel stimulated the start of this work with his observation that a visual reaction task with 2 lamps and 2 keys produced on average a 70 ms longer reaction time that the llamp-lkey- task, the 21amps-lkey-task needed a 50 ms longer reaction time and the 31amps-3keys-task needed 105 ms longer than the llamp-lkey-task. If one takes the llamp-lkey-task as the reference task, the plus of the other times can be computed by this formula  

The experiments were conducted with 15 persons. The subjects were healthy and did not take any medication except ovulation inhibitors. There were no musculoskeletal complaints or vision problems that might interfere with reaction time measuring. 15 subjects performed all the tasks vMN with M=N and 3 subjects performed all tasks vMN (v=visual task, M=number of stimuli, N=number of responses). 

The subject faced a PC screen, located approximately 40-50cm from their eyes and had their fingers on distinct keys of the keyboard  

For each task there were only so many fingers on the keyboard as were needed for the task 

To date, the code is capable of simulating a single, deforming drop, as shown in Figs. 5.4a and 5.46. The code will be expanded to provide the required capabilities for this project. The work will proceed through the following phases  

The phases will be executed over the next years. Increasingly complex and realistic simulations will be performed cis the code development progresses. 

Gosman. 1990. Atomization mechanism of fuel injection. ILASS-90-Americas. 

Mehring, C., and W. A. Sirignano. 2000. Planar-liquid-stream distortion from Kelvin-Helmholtz and capillary effects. 8th ICLASS Meeting Proceedings. Pasadena, CA. 

Modeling spray atomization with the Kelvin-Helmholtz/Rayleigh-Taylor hybrid model. Atomization Sprays 9(6) 623-50. 

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Thus the complexity of chemical process synthesis is twofold. First, can we identify all possible structures Second, can we optimize each structure for a valid comparison When optimizing the structure, there may be many ways in which each individual task can be performed and many ways in which the individual tasks can be interconnected. This means that we must simulate and optimize... 

The synthesis of the correct structure and the optimization of parameters in the design of the reaction and separation systems are often the single most important tasks of process design. Usually there are many options, and it is impossible to fully evaluate them unless a complete design is furnished for the outer layers of the onion. For example, it is not possible to assess which is better. 

Having made an initial specification for the reactor, attention is turned to separation of the reactor effluent. In addition, it might be necessary to carry out separation before the reactor to purify the feed. Whether before or after the reactor, the overall separation task normally must be broken down into a number of intermediate separation tasks. The first consideration is the choice of separator for the intermediate separation tasks. Later we shall consider how these separation tasks should be connected to the reactor. As with reactors, we shall concentrate on the choice of separator and not its detailed sizing. 

Having explored the major degrees of freedom, the material and energy balance is now fixed, and hence the hot and cold streams which contribute to the heat exchanger network are firmly defined. The remaining task is to complete the design of the heat exchanger network. 

Carbon 12, the most abundant naturally occurring isotope, has zero spin and thus cannot be studied by NMR. On the other hand, its isotope carbon 13 has an extra neutron and can be its low natural occurrence (1.1%) nevertheless makes the task somewhat difficult. Only pulsed NMR can be utilized. 

Despite such improvements, exploration remains a high risk activity. Many international oil and gas companies have large portfolios of exploration interests, each with their own geological and fiscal characteristics and with differing probabilities of finding oil or gas. Managing such exploration assets and associated operations in many countries represents a major task. 

EIA Preparation is the scientific and objective analysis of the scale, significance and importance of impacts identified. Various methods have been developed, in relation to baseline studies impact identification prediction evaluation and mitigation, to execute this task. 

Because of the nature of subsurface data, maps and sections are only models or approximations of reality, and always contain a degree of uncertainty. Reduction of these uncertainties is one of the tasks of the geoscientists, and will be further discussed in Section 6.2. 

In conjunction with the production operations input into the FDP describing how the process will be operated, maintenance engineering will outline how the equipment will be maintained. Maintenance is required to ensure that equipment is capable of safely performing the tasks for which it was designed. This is often stated as maintaining the technical integrity of the equipment. 

In the feasibility phase the project is tested as a concept. Is it technically feasible and is it economically viable There may be a number of ways to perform a particular task (such as develop an oil field) and these have to be judged against economic criteria, availability of resources, and risk. At this stage estimates of cost and income (production) profiles will carry a considerable uncertainty range, but are used to filter out unrealistic options. Several options may remain under consideration at the end of a feasibility study. 

One of the primary tasks in connection with the use of AE method is to identify defects by the AE parameters. For identification of nature of the destruction centre in the polymeric composites it is necessary to consider the peculiarities of their heterogeneous structure, that is presence of at least two different components (filler and connector), and also boundary transitional layers. 

Construction of expert systems is facilitated if it is possible (at least approximately) to describe (model) expected signal from defect and non-defect pieces. If no models for the problem are available then the knowledge about the problem has to be acquired from an expert (the NDT inspector). However, the knowledge possessed by the expert is often incomplete and not well formalised, which makes knowledge acquisition a difficult task for the knowledge engineer. 

The whole knowledge acquisition process is also a burden for the inspection company, especially a smaller one, as it prevents the expert from taking part in routine inspection tasks. 

In service inspections of French nuclear Pressure Water Reactor (PWR) vessels are carried out automatically in complete immersion from the inside by means of ultrasonic focused probes working in the pulse echo mode. Concern has been expressed about the capabilities of performing non destructive evaluation of the Outer Surface Defects (OSD), i.e. defects located in the vicinity of the outer surface of the inspected components. OSD are insonified by both a "direct" field that passes through the inner surface (water/steel) of the component containing the defect and a "secondary" field reflected from the outer surface. Consequently, the Bscan images, containing the signatures of such defects, are complicated and their interpretation is a difficult task. 

In many cases, the methods used to solve identification problems are based on an iterative minimization of some performance criterion measuring the dissimilarity between the experimental and the synthetic data (generated by the current estimate of the direct model). In our case, direct quantitative comparison of two Bscan images at the pixels level is a very difficult task and involves the solution of a very difficult optimization problem, which can be also ill-behaved. Moreover, it would lead to a tremendous amount of computational burden. Segmented Bscan images may be used as concentrated representations of the useful... 

There are several important partial results. (1) Definition of quality of the CT-data in relation to the imaging task, including a model of the X-ray paths and how it is used to predict the optimal performance. (2) A model and method to determine how the information of the imaged object transfer from the detector entrance screen through the detector chain to CT... 

The systems of such type have been developed of all last 10 years. We shall bring some characteristics of one of the last development within the framework of European BRITE project, carried out in LETT This 3D cone-beam tomograph is referred to as EVA Bench or Equipment for Voludensimetry Analysis. It is oriented on NDT of industrial products from ceramics and other composites. One of the main task of this tomograph is achievement of high resolution at study of whole internal volume of researched object. For test sample of the size 10mm spatial resolution in 50mm was obtained [14]. 

Tasks of the USCT IT are restoring of SD of the certain acoustic parameter of material in product volume on the base of measured parameters of US signals, but afterwards determination of necessary PMF. It is defined strong factors basically on the grounds of their correlation with acoustic features. 

Limited capabilities as the instrument carries out an analog measurement, on-line signal processing of data is almost impossible. All analysis tasks must be done off-line, and cost is increased (equipment, specialists). 

CPU. A standard Motorola CPU was selected, which works under a powerful real-time, multi-task operating system (VxWorks), and has embedded Ethernet interface. This CPU also features 4 IP slots to which can be plugged ... 

This paper is structured as follows in section 2, we recall the statement of the forward problem. We remind the numerical model which relates the contrast function with the observed data. Then, we compare the measurements performed with the experimental probe with predictive data which come from the model. This comparison is used, firstly, to validate the forward problem. In section 4, the solution of the associated inverse problem is described through a Bayesian approach. We derive, in particular, an appropriate criteria which must be optimized in order to reconstruct simulated flaws. Some results of flaw reconstructions from simulated data are presented. These results confirm the capability of the inversion method. The section 5 ends with giving some tasks we have already thought of. 

A major advantage of radioscopy is the flexible inspection perspective that allows an optimum adjustment of beam direction and geometrical magnification to the inspection task at hand it also permits in-motion testing. 

The three-part draft of the radioscopy standard pr EN 13068 is ready for the necessary european inquiries. This standard covers the requirements placed on the imaging system, the checking procedures as to the performance of the entire system and also the specifications of user guidelines for certain inspection tasks. The standard remains open to the definition of new inspection classes for future application cases. 

Neuronal networks are nowadays predominantly applied in classification tasks. Here, three kind of networks are tested First the backpropagation network is used, due to the fact that it is the most robust and common network. The other two networks which are considered within this study have special adapted architectures for classification tasks. The Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) Network consists of a neuronal structure that represents the LVQ learning strategy. The Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory (Fuzzy-ART) network is a sophisticated network with a very complex structure but a high performance on classification tasks. Overviews on this extensive subject are given in [2] and [6]. 

This study describes one stage of a soft tool realisation, which facilitate and improve the task of the expert for x-ray image interpretation and decision-making. We are interested by tbe first four stages of this flow chart. 

In conclusion, segmentation reduces the huge amount of image information analysed, without loosing relevant details (defects). This work represents a preliminary decision assistance stage, that will facilitate the expert task in defect detection. 

Tasks for the determination of the film system parameters according to EN 584-1... 

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