The design of control charts in statistical quality control addresses the optimal selection of the design parameters such as the sampling frequency and the control limits; and includes sensitivity analysis with respect to system parameters such as the various process parameters and the economic costs of sampling. The advent of more complicated control chart schemes has necessitated the use of M...

Adherence to a restrictive gluten-free diet is the only known treatment for celiac disease (CD). Children and adolescents with CD encounter challenges while managing the diet in daily activities. Understanding their participation characteristics is lacking. The aim was to describe the development and validation process of the Celiac Disease-Children's Activities Report (CD-Chart). The final CD-...

Background The Royal College Of Physicians (RCP) has shown that the multiplicity of locally developed Early Warning Scores (EWS) used throughout the UK is causing a ‘lack of consistency in detecting the deterioration of patients [1]. The RCP therefore produced a report in July 2012 proposing a National Early Warning Score (NEWS), a point based system, with the aim of standardisation across the ...

The target costing technique, mathematically discussed by Sauers, only uses the p C index along with Taguchi loss function and X -R control charts to setup goal control limits. The new specification limits derived from Taguchi loss function is linked through the p C value to X -R control charts to obtain goal control limits. In this study, the target costing technique is exploited by further co...

Recently, the authors introduced an algebraic design framework for space–time coding in flat-fading channels [1]–[4]. In this correspondence, we extend this framework to design algebraic codes for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. The proposed codes strive to optimally exploit both the spatial and frequency diversity available in the channel. We consider...

In this paper, we consider a transmission system employing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with bit-interleaved coded modulation and perfect channel state information at both transmitter and receiver. An adaptive bit loading scheme in combination with cyclic delay diversity and discontinuous Doppler diversity is proposed at the transmitter and iterative demapping and decoding ...