Process fault identification for product quality improvement is a critical issue in both design and manufacturing, especially for multistage manufacturing processes. In this paper, an integrated approach is proposed to develop cause-effect models from engineering knowledge and to conduct associated statistical analysis of the measurement data. First, a cause-effect diagram and predicted symptom...

This article presents an interpretive analysis of the key problems and challenges to technology implementation in developing countries, based on a three-year case analysis of an IT project in a city government in Ukraine. We employ the concept of technological frames of reference as an analytical tool for articulating the group-level structures related to the implementation context from the per...

Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Ishikawa Prefectural University, Nonoichi, Ishikawa 921-8836, Japan, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581 Japan, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Oiwake, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia, Department of Forest Resources,...

In this paper, the convergence results of [V. Berinde; A convergence theorem for Mann iteration in the class of Zamfirescu operators, Analele Universitatii de Vest, Timisoara, Seria Matematica-Informatica 45 (1) (2007), 33–41], [V. Berinde; On the convergence of Mann iteration for a class of quasi-contractive operators, Preprint, North University of Baia Mare (2003)] and [V. Berinde; On the Con...

The purpose of this paper is to study the convergence problem of Mann and Ishikawa type iterative schemes of weakly contractive mapping in a complete convex metric space. We establish the results on invariant approximation for the mapping defined on a class of nonconvex sets in a convex metric space. Finally, we obtain the existence of common fixed points of two asymptotically nonexpansive mapp...

Using ad hoc networks as alternative means of communication in disaster situations is a salutary solution. However, analysing application performance is mandatory for evaluating such a possibility. In this paper we present the two aspects of our approach to application performance assessment on wireless ad hoc networks. The first aspect refers to real-world tests in which we quantify objectivel...

In this paper, we prove strong as well as ∆− convergence theorems in CAT(0) spaces for totally asymptotically nonexpansive nonself mappings under a recent iterative scheme essentially due to Agarwal et al. [3] which is relatively faster as well as independent to Ishikawa iterative scheme. Our results are improvements over several corresponding results contained in [1, 2, 14, 22, 30, 31, 33] and...

Department of Molecular & Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, 9 USA 10 Graduate Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of 11 Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA 12 Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 13 MI 48109, USA 14 Division of Cell Medicine, Department of Life Science, Medical R...

We show that for several classes of mappings Mann and Ishikawa iteration procedures with errors in the sense of Xu [14] are equivalent. It is worth to mention here that, our results are the extensions or generalizations of some known recent results about equivalences.