Recent studies investigating the impacts on human internal physiological states of the psychological intervention have revealed close relationship and sensitive interaction between human body and mind. For example, various human secretory immune and endocrine substances, such as immunoglobulin A and cortisol, are temporary enhanced by acute stressful tasks or stressful events in daily life (e.g...

The purpose of this article is to present an optimization model for designing an acceptance sampling plan based on cumulative sum of run length of conforming items. The objective is to minimize the total loss including both the producer and consumer losses. The concept of minimum angle method is applied to consider producer and consumer risks in the optimization model. Also the average number o...

In 2000, Balamurali and Govindaraju presented the modified tightened two-level continuous sampling plan (modified MLP-T-2 plan). This paper explores the problem of minimizing the average fraction inspected (AFI) for a modified MLP-T-2 plan. The solution procedure is developed to find the optimal parameters that will meet the average outgoing quality limit (AOQL) requirement, while also minimizi...

The LTPD plans for acceptance sampling which minimize the mean inspection cost per lot of the process average quality when the remainder of the rejected lots is inspected were originally designed by Dodge and Romig for the inspection by attributes. The sampling plans for the inspection by variables were then proposed and it has been shown that such plans are in many situations in practice more ...

A dynamic sampling plan among strata is a permutation of sampled items specifying which stratum is to receive the next item to be included in the sample. An optimal such plan has the property of achieving minimum variance for its cost whenever it is truncated. This article shows that optimal dynamic sampling plans exist under very general conditions, and gives a simple algorithm for constructin...

In this paper, two multirate repetitive controllers are proposed, namely, repetitive intersample disturbance rejection (RIDR) and repetitive perfect tracking control (RPTC). First, in order to develop RIDR, multirate intersample disturbance rejection algorithm is reviewed which was proposed by authors for general digital control systems with restricted sampling frequency. Second, RPTC method is...

Acceptance sampling procedures are the practical tools for quality assurance applications involving product control. Acceptance sampling systems are advocated when small sample size are necessary or desirable towards costlier testing for product quality. Dodge – Romig plans can be single or double plans. There are two sets of plans. One is based on satisfying a given limiting quality level (LQL...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL), a division of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), develops reliable databases and state of the art methodology to evaluate and disseminate composition data on foods available in the United States. In 1997, NDL in cooperation with the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) inaug...