I this field study, conducted at a leading avionics guidance systems manufacturer, we gathered primary data on time and cost performance of both the design and manufacturing phases of new product development (NPD). We modeled the impact of the management levers relating to oversight, the intensity of design specialization, and the level of interaction with the customer. The study highlights the...

Two fractions ET-1 and TW isolated from Terminalia arjuna were evaluated for their antimutagenic potential against 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine (NPD) in TA98, sodium azide in TA100 and 2-aminofluorene, in both TA98 and TA100 tester strains of Salmonella typhimurium using bacterial reverse mutation assay. Both the fractions inhibited the mutagenicity of 2AF significantly in both the strains. ET-1 ...

With the advent of time-based competition, the speed with which new products can be developed and introduced into a market is an important managerial aspect of time-based strategy. The relationship between the allocation of decision-making power within organization and new product development (NPD) speed is investigated empirically using Chinese data. The results of correlation analysis show th...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents is a major public health problem. Psychiatric disorders are a common and important complication of pediatric TBI. Research has focused on understanding the risk factors for post-injury development of a general category of new-onset psychiatric disorders, called novel psychiatric disorders (NPD) , and specific psychiatric disorders such as...

To gain competitive advantage, firms involve suppliers in New Product Development (NPD). However, uncertainty affects selection of suppliers and associated technologies, and selection outcomes in terms of commitment to one supplier or maintaining flexibility. We report on a case study of collaborative NPD with the aim to develop an energy storage unit. The case involved selection of both techno...

We extend the popular NK model of complex landscapes to incorporate two realities of NPD: (1) complementary vs. conflicting dependencies in a project and (2) predominantly incremental design changes to components in evolutionary NPD projects. We show, through stylized projects that the nature of dependencies among system elements moderate the effect of system complexity. Our study highlights th...

The ultrasound-assisted reaction of AgNO3, 2-amino-4,6-dimethylpyrimidine (dmapym) and 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid (H2npd) gave rise to a new 2D network of the formula [Ag2(dmapym)2(npd)]n (1). The atoms Ag1 and Ag2 in the complex show seesaw and distorted tetrahedral coordination geometries, respectively. The dmapym ligand acts as a bidentate bridge to bind paired Ag(I) ions into a chain....

We report the spin transport properties in a thin film of naphthyl diamine derivative: N,N′-Bis(naphthalen-1-yl)-N,N′-bis(phenyl)-2,2′-dimethylbenzidine (α-NPD). In palladium (Pd)/α-NPD/Ni80Fe20 tri-layer structure sample, pure current is generated α-NPD layer with pumping driven by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). The absorbed into Pd layer, and converted charge inverse spin-Hall effect (ISHE) P...

Positive definite kernels, such as Gaussian Radial Basis Functions (GRBF), have been widely used in computer vision for designing feature extraction and classification algorithms. In many cases nonpositive definite (npd) kernels and non metric similarity/dissimilarity measures naturally arise (e.g., Hausdorff distance, Kullback Leibler Divergences and Compact Support (CS) Kernels). Hence, there...

The conceptual, clinical, and empirical overlap between the constructs of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is reviewed and their descriptive discriminability is investigated. Twenty-four patients with NPD and 16 patients with ASPD were compared on 33 characteristics for pathological narcissism assessed with the semistructured Diagnostic Intervie...