The painting process is an important part of the entire automobile manufacturing system. Changing color in the painting process is expensive because of the wasted paint and solvent during color change. By intelligently selecting cars toward downstream operations at the places where conveyors converge or diverge, we can reduce the number of such color changes without additional hardware investme...

INTRODUCTION: Most of the previous functional studies focus on the magnitude change of the MR signal. However, as well as the magnitude change, the phase change of the BOLD fMRI signal [1-3] and the frequency shift of the functional MR signal [4] have also been detected in human. Since no fMRI signal phase change should be detected if the fMRI signal is only consisted of extravascular signal an...

The most promising media for rewritable applications are the phase change materials [1]. For the modelling of the phase transition processes in phase change materials was used the minimum switching unit called “commuton” [2]. A commuton is a minimum cluster of atoms that supports a reversible change from OFF to ON state under the influence of an external applied energy pulse. It was developed a...

The research presented in this paper is oriented on the transition of the manufacturing industry towards the delivery of product-service system. The paper presents the first results in the development of a decision support system dedicated to help in configuring service-oriented production systems, notably with an objective of capacity management. An illustrative case study is presented, linked...

This paper highlights the benefits of using discrete event simulation models for developing change management frameworks which facilitate productivity and environmental improvements in order to create a sustainable enterprise. There is an increasing need for organisations to be more socially and environmentally responsible, however these objectives cannot be realised in isolation of the strateg...

We observe n sequences at each of m sites and assume that they have evolved from an ancestral sequence that forms the root of a binary tree of known topology and branch lengths, but the sequence states at internal nodes are unknown. The topology of the tree and branch lengths are the same for all sites, but the parameters of the evolutionary model can vary over sites. We assume a piecewise cons...

The purpose of our study is to: 1) propose a new model of conceptual change called collaborative scientific conceptual change model; 2) examine student collaborative scientific conceptual change process while using computer simulations to understand aquarium ecosystem through three perspectives (i.e., cognitive, social, and epistemic) included in the new conceptual change model. We propose that...

ANESTHESIOLOGISTS pioneered simulation, as a technology and an educational methodology, in the late 1980s. Yet, its adoption has been limited largely to residency training programs and medical schools. A number of institutions and researchers have reported the benefits of simulation for teaching medical students, anesthesiology residents, and trainees in other disciplines. The benefit of simula...

An important question in water resources and related subjects is how an appropriate model should look given a specific research area and objective. This question is dealt with by developing a model appropriateness procedure based on model uncertainties. The procedure has been applied to a river basin model meant to assess the impact of climate change on flooding in a large river basin to illust...

In power system protection, the need to know the load current together with the fault level detected by a relay is important. This is due to the fact that the relay is required to isolate the equipment being protected if a fault is present and keep the breaker associated with it closed if the current level is lower than the maximum load level. This is not an issue for a radial system. This is n...