House Of Quality (HOQ) is one of the matrices of an iterative process called Quality Function Deployment (QFD). it is the nerve center that drives the entire QFD process. The House of Quality Matrix is the most recognized and widely used tool for new product design. It translates customer requirements, based on marketing research and benchmarking data, into an appropriate number of engineering ...

Two studies examined feature matching in successive judgments. College students in both studies read about 2 apartments with shared positive and unique negative features, and 1 less globally positive apartment with all unique features. In the feature-cancellation condition, participants first saw the shared-features apartments together and then saw the all-unique apartment. In the no-cancellati...

To date, there is little information in the literature that hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to birds may occur without direct contact to birds. A 62-yr-old pensioner developed mild flu-like symptoms, fatigue and polyuria several hours after each meeting with his new female partner, either in hotels or his apartment. After divorcing from her ex-husband, who was a canary fancier, the female had ...