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A Systems Thinking Approach To Apply Water Sustainability In Hospitals
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
One of the most critical challenges the world is facing is to ensure everyone has access to an adequate and quality supply of water. As the population increases, the demand for water rises. Water needs to be sustained for ...
Stationary And Non-stationary Time Series Prediction Using State Space Model And Pattern-based Approach
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The motion-adaptive radiotherapy techniques are promising to deliver ablative radiation doses to tumor with minimal normal tissue exposure by accounting for real-time tumor movement. However, a major challenge of successful ...
Joint Kinematics, Muscle Activity And Postural Strain For Finger- Intensive Operation Of Small Hand- Held Devices
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
Background: Extensive movement of fingers while playing video games, and while browsing or texting in a smartphone often result in medically recognized repetitive strain injuries such as "PlayStation thumb" or "Blackberry ...
Phase I Monitoring With Applications In Manufacturing And Healthcare
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)
This research develops statistical methods for quality monitoring in complex systems. Quality monitoring typically consists of two phases called Phase I analysis (or offline monitoring) and Phase II analysis (or online ...
Evaluating The Impact Of A Shared Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model To Minimize Counterfeit Drugs, Diverted Drugs, And Drug Shortages
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The pharmaceutical supply chain in the United States of America (USA) is getting complicated and is often not controllable due to a globally open market, increasing online market, and many illegal activities. Consumers who ...
An Exploration And Exploitation Pareto Approach To Surrogate Optimization
(Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014)
The experiments or simulations conducted by computers can be a tedious task,requiring substantial computational time. To find a global solution using a computerexperiments process, we usually need to perform many function ...