This study considers instant decision-making needs of the automobile manufactures for resequencing vehicles before final assembly (FA). We propose a rule-based two-stage stochastic model to determine the number of spare vehicles that should be kept in the pre-assembly buffer to restore the altered sequence due to paint defects and upstream department constraints. First stage of the model decide...

Since the last two decades, much attention has been paid to Electronics Engineering (EE) education in India. Various commercial software tools and simulator such as mathematical application packages, electronics CAD tools, learning management systems, multimedia tools and general purpose tools supports EE education. Traditionally, proprietary software packages such as OrCAD Pspice, MATLAB, LabV...

Design-based research (DBR) and open source software are both acknowledged as potentially productive ways for advancing learning technologies. These approaches have practical benefits for the design and development process and for building and leveraging community to augment and sustain design and development. This report presents a case study of a software project using a design-based research...

The electromagnetic decay contributions to J/ψ(ψ′) → V P , where V and P stand for vector and pseudoscalar meson, respectively, are investigated in a vector meson dominance (VMD) model. We show that J/ψ(ψ′) → γ∗ → V P can be constrained well with the available experimental information. We find that this process has significant contributions in ψ′ → V P and may play a key role in understanding t...

Artificial radar reflectors, such as corner reflectors or transponders, are commonly used for radiometric and geometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor calibration, SAR interferometry (InSAR) applications over areas with few natural coherent scatterers, InSAR datum connection geodetic integration. Despite the current abundance of regular time series, no free open-source software (FOSS) de...

The OER Universitas (OERu) is a consortium of more than 30 higher education institutions on five continents. It was founded in 2011 to provide learners everywhere with learning opportunities and pathways official recognition or credit. OERu maintains very economical base low expenses. supports sustainable environment incremental increases infrastructural capacity as when it needed. OERu’s globa...

We present methods for using the model of Foss, Lande, Stahl and Steinberg to estimate interference and map distances from two-factor tetrad data. We illustrate the application of the methods with data from Neurospora and from Saccharomyces.

Geographic Information tools (GI tools) have become an essential component of research in landscape ecology. In this article we review the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and GI tools in landscape ecology, with an emphasis on free and open source software (FOSS) projects. Specifically, we introduce the background and terms related to the free and open source software movement, then ...

Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) mostly uses proprietary software, but the interest in Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) for GEOBIA is growing. This interest stems not only from cost savings, but also from benefits concerning reproducibility and collaboration. Technical challenges hamper practical reproducibility, especially when multiple software packages are required to cond...