In this article, an attribute control chart has been proposed using the accelerated hybrid censoring logic for the monitoring of defective items whose life follows a Weibull distribution. The product can be tested by introducing the acceleration factor based on different pressurized conditions such as stress, load, strain, temperature, etc. The control limits are derived based on the binomial d...

Contrast sensitivity (CS) quantifies an observer's ability to detect the smallest (threshold) luminance difference between a target and its surrounding. In clinical settings, printed letter contrast charts are commonly used, and the contrast of the letter stimuli is specified by the Weber contrast definition. Those paper-printed charts use negative polarity contrast (NP, dark letters on bright ...

We consider the two-bar charts packing problem which is a generalization of strongly NP-hard bin and 2-D vector problem. propose an O(n2.5)-time 16/11-approximation algorithm for when at least one bar each chart has height more than 1/2 5/4-approximation nonincreasing or nondecreasing higher 1/2.

Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) form a popular language in which scenariobased specifications and models can be written. There has been significant interest in automating aspects of testing from MSCs. This paper concerns the Oracle Problem, in which we have an observation made in testing and wish to know whether this is consistent with the specification. We assume that there is an MSC specificat...

BACKGROUND Niemann-Pick disease Type C (NP-C) is difficult to diagnose due to heterogeneous and nonspecific clinical presentation. The NP-C Suspicion Index (SI) was developed to identify patients with a high likelihood of NP-C; however, it was less reliable in patients aged <4 years. METHODS An early-onset NP-C SI was constructed following retrospective chart review of symptom presentation in...

Nocturia is a common source of sleep disturbance in men and can result from many different causes. A patient-generated frequency/volume chart, along with several simple mathematical formulas, is used to classify nocturia according to its principal aetiology. The categories are nocturnal polyuria (NP), reduced voided volumes, 24-h polyuria and a combination of the aforementioned factors. Identif...

Decision procedures for monitoring industrial processes can be based on application of control charts. The commonly used p-chart and np-chart are unsatisfactory for monitoring high-quality processes with a low fraction nonconforming. To overcome this difficulty, one may develop models based on the number of items inspected until r (P 1) nonconforming items are observed. The cumulative count con...

background: taking visual acuity is an important part of an eye routine examination. this study was conducted to compare visual acuity measured using an iranian digital tumbling e chart with visual acuity measured using an italian digital tumbling e chart as a familiar foreign chart. materials and methods: this study was carried out on 200 participants (400 eyes; healthy n=40, glaucoma n=40, re...

We consider the two-bar charts packing problem generalizing strongly NP-hard bin problem. prove that remains even if each chart has at least one bar higher than 1/2. If first (or second) of is 1/2, we show O(n2)-time greedy algorithm with lexicographic ordering constructs a length most OPT+1, where OPT optimum, and present an O(n2.5)-time 4/3 ・ OPT+2/3 in case

multivariate control charts such as hotelling`s t^ 2 and x^ 2 are commonly used for monitoring several related quality characteristics. these control charts use correlation structure that exists between quality characteristics in an attempt to improve monitoring. the purpose of this article is to discuss some issues related to the g chart proposed by levinson et al. [9] for detecting shifts in ...