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About the Authors Jean-Pierre Birat earned his engineering degree form the Paris School of Mines in 1969 and his M.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. He joined IRSID in 1971 as a Reserach Engineer in continuous casting, holding various manage- rial positions in RD for continuous casting, steelmaking and the Myosotis Project from 1982 to 1990. He is now a member of Technical Direction of IRSID within the RD Department of Arcelor, in charge of RD related to the environment and exploratory research. He has authored more than 200 papers and conference communications. Cindy Chow is currently a Research Engineer at the RD facility at Ipsco Inc. in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her current research interests include steelmaking, slab and product quality, and mechanical properties of pipeline product. She obtained a B.A.Sc. degree in mechanical engi- neering from the University of Waterloo in 1999 and an M.A.Sc. degree in metals and materials engineering under the supervision of Dr. Indira V. Samarasekera in 2001 at the University of British Columbia. Toshihiko Emi graduated from Osaka University in 1958, and then joined Kawasaki Steel (now JFE Steel), where he spent 35 years as Chief of the Steelmaking Lab, Manager of the Process Metallurgy and Research Planning Departments, and board member for corporate overseas steel projects, energy, environment and intellectual properties. He earned his Ph.D. in physical chem- istry from Hokkaido University in 1967 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan from 1967 to 1970. He moved to Tohoku University in 1993 as a professor at the Graduate School of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute for Advanced Material Processing. After reti