Most components undergo tests after they are designed and are redesigned if necessary. Tests help designers find unsafe and overly conservative designs, and redesign can restore safety or increase performance. In general, the expected changes to the performance and reliability of the design after the test and redesign are not considered. In this paper, we explore how modeling a future test and ...

Healthcare process redesign is a complex and often high risk undertaking. Typically, there is a limited understanding of the baseline process and often inadequate tools by which to assess it. This can be confounded by narrow redesign team expertise that can result in unanticipated and/or unintended redesign consequences. Interdisciplinary research teams of healthcare, biostatistics, engineering...

This research aims at developing a redesign problem solver which proposes suitable modifications of a given artifact for a new requirement or an inconvenience. We concentrate on the two issues, capturing design rationales of the given artifact and organizing general redesign strategies. For the former issue, we propose an ontology of functional concepts, which enables the redesign system to ide...

Design-for-Assembly (DFA) analysis of a product may indicate shortcomings of a design, without providing \speciic" guidance on redesigns for solving the problem. This paper introduces a computational tool, in development at USC, for assisting redesigns of mechanical asssemblies for DFA. The system, named REVENGE , is based on a model of reverse engineering in order to incorporate design rationa...

Continuously growing and changing multinational companies oftentimes struggle with heterogeneous degrees of standardization. Especially in case of redesigning business processes that have been historically grown over decades, the capability of handling semi-structures process is central. Nevertheless, for competitive advantages, it is essential for a company to work on the optimization of all p...

Digital circuit redesign is a task that requires knowledge of CirCUit structure, function, and purpose, and of the interrelationships among these We describe a knowledge-based system, REDESIGN, which assists In the redesign of digital circuits to meet altered functlonal specifications. REDESIGN assists the user in focusing on an appropriate portion of the circuit, generating possible local chan...

-We have found that hydriodic acid can reduce isoalloxazine derivatives to the semiquinone level. Crystals of a solid material, probably an HI complex of the semiquinone hydriodide, containing approximately 100 per cent unpaired spin content, can be obtained from such solutions. The semiquinone hydriodide is also found to form stable 1:1 complexes with various phenols. These may be isolated in ...

Many job redesign interventions are based on a multiple mediator-multiple outcome model in which the job redesign intervention indirectly influences a broad range of employee outcomes by changing multiple job characteristics. As this model remains untested, the aim of this study is to test a multiple mediator-multiple outcome model of job redesign. Multilevel analysis of data from a quasi-exper...