This study considers instant decision-making needs of the automobile manufactures for resequencing vehicles before final assembly (FA). We propose a rule-based two-stage stochastic model to determine the number of spare vehicles that should be kept in the pre-assembly buffer to restore the altered sequence due to paint defects and upstream department constraints. First stage of the model decide...

Using the eye-tracking method, the present study depicted pre- and post-head processing for simple scrambled sentences of head-final languages. Three versions of simple Japanese active sentences with ditransitive verbs were used: namely, (1) SO₁O₂V canonical, (2) SO₂O₁V single-scrambled, and (3) O₁O₂SV double-scrambled order. First pass reading times indicated that the third noun phrase just be...

The Soból sequence is the most popular quasirandom sequence because of its simplicity and efficiency in implementation. We summarize aspects of the scrambling technique applied to Soból sequences and propose a new simpler modified scrambling algorithm, called the multi-digit scrambling scheme. Most proposed scrambling methods randomize a single digit at each iteration. In contrast, our multi-di...

To respond to movements of others and understand the intention of others' actions, it is important to accurately extract motion information from body movements. Here, using original and spatially scrambled point-light biological motions in upright and inverted orientations, we investigated the effect of global and local biological motion information on speed perception and sensitivity. The spee...

This study examined the processing of Japanese wh-questions with preposed (scrambled) vs. in-situ (canonical SOV word order) wh-objects, and of yes/no-questions with scrambled vs. in-situ demonstrative objects. Questions with scrambled objects elicited bilateral slow anterior negative potentials between filler and gap. Scrambled demonstratives elicited P600 effects following the filler and (L)A...

This series of studies explores the early development of visuo-spatial human body knowledge in infancy. To achieve this, infants’ responses to typical and scrambled human body shapes were tested. As reviewed above, previous work showed that in a preferential looking paradigm, only 18month-olds appeared to discriminate scrambled from typical human body shapes. This pattern is inconclusive, howev...

Scrambled Burrows-Wheeler transform [6] is an attempt to combine privacy (encryption) and data compression. We show that the proposed approach is insecure. We present chosen plaintext and known plaintext attacks and estimate their complexity in various scenarios.

We show that the diierence between indeenites and deenites with respect to their syntactic behaviour, in particular scrambling, follows from a diierence in their semantics. In general, deenites can be viewed as a special type of indeenites: they are restricted indeenites in all semantic types. This inherent restriction of deenites makes them insensitive to processes of semantic incorporation. T...

At the end of 2011, Google released version 4.0 of its Android operating system for smartphones. For the first time, Android smartphone owners were supplied with a disk encryption feature that transparently scrambles user partitions, thus protecting sensitive user information against targeted attacks that bypass screen locks. On the downside, scrambled telephones are a a nightmare for IT forens...