One of the ultimate targets of lean manufacturing paradigm is to balance production and produce at takt time in production cells. This paper investigates the performance of a lean cell that implements the previous lean goals under uncertainty. The investigation is based on a system dynamics approach to model a dynamic lean cell. Backlog is used as a performance metric that reflects the cell’s r...

Failures in the water distribution network are some most important factors in water losses, water shortage and dissatisfaction of users and secondary pollutions as well. This research aimed to analyze failure in water distribution networks during 2006-2008, for better water management. Daily failure reports in Ahvaz, Iran distribution network during 2006-2008, were collected from emergency depa...

background: the unified treatment approach (up), an emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy that holds emotional processes as a central target of treatment, is applicable for disorders with strong emotional components. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of emotion regulation intervention derivative from the up on emotional problems and quality of life among patients wit...

objective: no research has been conducted on facial emotional recognition on patients with borderline personality disorder (bpd) and schizotypal personality disorder (spd). the present study aimed at comparing facial emotion recognition in these patients with the general population. the neurocognitive processing of emotions can show the pathologic style of these 2 disorders.   method:   twenty ...

abstract aim and background: according to role of cognitive - emotion regulation in control of positive and negative emotions, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between cognitive- emotion regulation and anxiety disorders in child and adolescent. methods and materials:the method of this study was applied.240 participants of child and adolescent (154 male and 83 female) ...