This paper presents a look at the concept of Lean Manufacturing as applied to the office environment. Lean Manufacturing, which is often referred to as Lean, is a philosophy of manufacturing process improvement through the elimination of waste. As Lean developed since its origins in the automobile industry, it has been extended to apply to various enterprises and organizations, and has achieved...

We present an analysis of time series data acquired with the SUMER spectrograph on SoHO in coronal hole regions, being particularly interested to find the fast solar wind origins as low as possible in the solar atmosphere. We study the temporal evolution of the magnetic network as seen in different layers in the transition region (TR). Our results indicate that, in lines originating from low to...

The majority of today’s complex development and consulting projects involve various locations and distributed project organisation. One part of the project team usually works at the customer’s location in order to analyse requirements, specify system functionality, or present project results. Another, smaller part of the team is located in the »back office«, supporting the other workers. In dev...

The US National Science Foundation supports and utilizes a range of platforms which are made available to its US funded science investigators in the furtherance of airborne science program objectives. As well as providing access to the platforms themselves, NSF also supports their operation, maintenance and infrastructure development. NSF airborne science projects may be deployed worldwide. Whi...

The MIST methodology (Multi-level Image Sampling and Transformation) provides an environment for applying diverse machine learning methods to problems of computer vision. The methodology is illustrated by a problem of learning how to conceptually interpret natural scenes. In the experiments described, three learning programs were used: AQ15c—for learning decision rules from examples, NN—neural ...

Over one-half of U.S. adults use dietary supplements, so federally supported research into the safety and effectiveness of these compounds is important for the health of many Americans. Data collected in the Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements database, which compiles federally sponsored dietary supplement-related research, are useful to scientists in determining the type of diet...

The Technology Support Projects, Technology Support Center (TSC) for Monitoring and Site Characterization was established in 1987 as a result of an agreement between the Office of Research and Development (ORD), the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) and all ten Regional Offices. The objectives of the Technology Support Project and the TSC were to make available and provide OR...

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Professor: Mark van der Laan Email: [email protected] Office: 108 Haviland Hall Office Hours: MW 1-2 Textbook: None required, but material is covered in a handout distributed to the class. Optional reading is The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data by Kalbfleisch and Prentice. Grading: Based on attendance, class notes (students write their notes for one lecture as a LaTex document), ...