Successes in lean manufacture have led researchers and practitioners to consider extending ‘lean’ to different parts of the engineering enterprise, including product and process development (PPD). Lean product development (PD) has been understood to mean lean manufacture applied to PD, while the roots of lean PD – just like lean manufacture go back to Toyota. This paper presents the methodology...

This paper describes an evolutionary way to lean behaviors of a mobile robot for recognizing environments. We have proposed AEM (Action-based Environment Modeling) which is an appropriate approach for a simple mobile robot to recognize environments, and made experiments using a real robot. The suitable behaviors for AEM have been described by a human designer. However the design is very difficu...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a proinflammatory cytokine that is produced in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle. The circulating levels of IL-18 increases in obesity and some metabolic and cardiorespiratory diseases. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between circulating levels of IL-18 and leptin, high-sensitivity C-reactive protei...

Successes in lean manufacture have led researchers and practitioners to consider extending ‘lean’ to different parts of the engineering enterprise, including product and process development (PPD). Lean product development (PD) has been understood to mean lean manufacture applied to PD, while the roots of lean PD – just like lean manufacture go back to Toyota. This paper presents the methodology...

Introduction: The effective method of treatment of Polycystic Overy Syndrome (PCOS) is lifestyle modification. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of 12 weeks aerobic exercise on DHEAso4, 17OH-Progestron Concentrations, number of follicles and menstrual condition of women with PCOS. Methods: In this clinical trial, 40 PCOS patients lean (BMI<20) and obese (BMI>25) randomly divided ...

The association of hypertension with obesity has long been recognized; however, because of the lack of suitable animal models of obesity and hypertension, the pathogenesis of the high blood pressure associated with obesity remains poorly understood. We hypothesized that the Zucker fatty rat, a widely studied model of obesity and insulin resistance, might also be characterized by hypertension. M...

Mobile TV is becoming increasingly popular. As hand held devices are personal and used in a “lean-forward” mode, mobile devices are well suited for interactive TV. The porTiVity system provides authoring tools for mobile interactive content that allow to attach interactivity to moving objects in the video. We describe automatic and semi-automatic annotation tools that create content description...