It is now widely accepted within the industrial community that quality assurance is essential for future survival and competitiveness. However, most quality improvement activities have been performed off-line without being integrated into the shop floor control system (SFCS) that focuses on efficient production planning and scheduling. An integrated systematic framework for both enhancing produ...

Quasi-Static analysis of moored vessels is vastly used for engineering designs, as a substitute to the numerical simulation of dynamic mooring analysis. Yet, the level of validity of the results of quasi-static analysis is a matter of discussion. In the present study, the validation of the assumptions behind the quasi-static analysis of mooring vessels is examined with application of a dynamic ...

the effect of alkyl substituents on the c-phenyl and/or the n-phenyl ring of benzophenylhydroxamic acid on their molecular structure and hydrogen bonding has been investigated. the predominant configuration in chcl3 is determined by steric and electronic effects. substituents on the c-phenyl ring favor the cis configuration, while substituents in the n-phenyl ring favor a trans configuration. t...

The automated detection of conflict will be a crucial feature of emerging speech-analysis technologies, whether the purpose is to assuage conflict in online applications or simply to mark its location for corpus analysis. In this study, we examine the predictive potential of overlapping speech in determining conflict, and we find that this feature alone is strongly correlated with high conflict...