This guide is aimed at providing a general understanding of the various types of hardware devices that form the core of information processing systems for ship and marine use. Ship and marine information processing systems require specific devices in order to perform automated tasks ...

This guide illustrates the steps and considerations involved with digital data acquisition. While analog recording of wear and friction data has been in the past, digital data acquisition and storage is used extensively. It is important that DAQ users understand how data is collected and stored a...

This guide establishes the minimum standard for training Land Rescue Team Members as it relates to their general, field, and rescue-specific knowledge and skills. A person trained to this guide is a Support Level Land Rescue Team Member (LRT-Support Member).

Every person who is identified ...

1.1 This guide covers key elements of an evaluation of a laboratory's measurement practices and the statistical analysis of the resulting data. This guide addresses an evaluation that covers a broad range of in-house quality measurements, some of which may be directly related to accreditation req...

The fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm(PCM) to the fuzzy kernel C-means clustering algorithm (FKCM) to effectively perform cluster analysis on the diversiform structures are extended, such as non-hyperspherical data, data with noise, data with mixture of heterogeneous cluster prototypes, asymmetric ...