The objective was to describe the incidence of failure to finish a race in flat-racing Thoroughbreds in New Zealand as these are summary indicators of falls, injuries and poor performance. Retrospective data on six complete flat racing seasons (n = 188,615 race starts) of all Thoroughbred flat race starts from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2011 were obtained. The incidence of failure to finish event...

Grinding is an advanced machining process for the manufacturing of valuable complex and accurate parts for high added value sectors such as aerospace, wind generation, etc. Due to the extremely severe conditions inside grinding machines, critical process variables such as part surface finish or grinding wheel wear cannot be easily and cheaply measured on-line. In this paper a virtual sensor for...

[Purpose] Walking speed is related to important outcomes such as mortality and is fundamental to independent and safe ambulation in the community. The objectives of this study were to determine if the discharge gait speed of patients completing subacute rehabilitation was slow relative to normative and street crossing reference values, and whether such speed was associated with age, gender, or ...

Dynamic programming can be very confusing until you’ve used it a bunch of times, so the best way to learn it is to simply do a whole bunch of examples. One way of viewing it is as a much more complicated version of divide-and-conquer a la mergesort or quicksort. In those cases, we could divide the problem into two subproblems, solve it optimally on each subproblem, and then combine the solution...

Perceived quality in industrial design constitutes CMF (color, material, and finish). Previous studies have explored the impact of car color materials used on consumer behavior; however, there are only few type surface finish, which this study focuses on. In automobile industry, matte finish is provided mainly for luxury products. It also known that exterior automobiles improves perceived by re...

A priority-driven scheduling algorithm is said to be start time (finish time) predictable if the start time (finish time) of jobs in the schedule where each job executes for its actual execution time is bounded by the start times (finish times) of jobs in the schedules where each job executes for its maximum/minimum execution time. In this paper, we study the predictability of a job-level dynam...

The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to describe variability of pacing during a marathon and 2) to determine if there is a relationship between variability of pacing and marathon performance. Publically available personal global positioning system profiles from two marathons (Race 1 n = 116, Race 2 n = 169) were downloaded (http://connect.garmin.com) for analysis. The coefficient of variat...

This paper mathematically analyses the varying magnitude of production loss, which may occur due to idle time (inprocess waiting time and traveling time) on a linear walking worker assembly line. Within this flexible and reconfigurable assembly system, each worker travels down the line carrying out each assembly task at each station; and each worker accomplishes the assembly of a unit from star...