Humans: the missing link in manufacturing simulation?

Humans: the missing link in manufacturing simulation?

Computer based discrete event simulation (DES) is one of the most commonly used aids for the design of automotive manufacturing systems. However, DES tools represent machines in extensive detail, while only representing workers as simple resources. This presents a problem when modelling systems with a highly manual work content, such as an assembly line. This paper describes research at Cranfie...

Psychological Therapies: The Missing Link in Improving Treatment Adherence in Patients with β-thalassemia Major

Finding the missing link

The discovery of an ancient protein complex reveals the evolutionary relationships between the proteins that help to form vesicles.

The (formerly) missing link

hen endothelial cells adhere to the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin, they can proliferate in response to growth factors. Adhesion to laminin, however, brings their cell cycles to a dead stop. Why? Given that the response depends on the composition of the extracellular matrix, Filippo Giancotti and his colleagues at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) proposed in 1...

The Missing Link

state-transition relation are mapped onto physical states-types related by a corresponding causal state-transition relation.” (Chalmers, 1994, p. 392) There is a little ambiguity in the two phrasings as to what the exact meaning of “mirrors” is supposed to be. Prima facie one would expect “mirrors” to mean something like “is isomorphic to,” as “mirrors” usually indicates sameness in structure. ...