... as the control, while for the MCB approach, the CIs bound the difference between the performance of each design and the best of the others Chen and Kelton (2003) further established that the ... the notoriously slow convergence rate of the accuracy cannot be improved any further than N The other limitation is the “optimization” part When an optimization problem has the advantage of the ... balance between the allocation decisions We therefore discuss about the trade-offs involved Following this, we discuss and present the assumptions and models in the allocation problem when the 21 Chapter...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 12:42
... phase the type of data might be different and even with the same data the approach to the data and the decision based on the data might be different (Hirotsu, 1992) An example of this could be the ... education system 4.1 THE CASE OF TAKENAKA CORPORATION The Takenaka Corporation was the winner of the first Deming Prize in the construction sector and should be regarded as the leader of the sector Its ... that trainees themselves have their own motivations Then it is essential to teach statistical methods based on the real problems they are confronted with When they have their own motivations and...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:41
Seafood Supply Chain Quality Management: The Shrimp Supply Chain Quality Improvement Perspective of Seafood Companies in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
... and the South of Vietnam The structure of Vietnam’s SFC organization The supply chain quality management of interviewed SFCs The fish chain in the Netherlands The shrimp chain in the MD The life ... The HACCP and the role of government in the shrimp chain in the MD Shrimp problems in hatchery and farm productions Shrimp problems at the collector/wholesale buyer stage Shrimp problems in the ... ensuring the quality of the final product, but also in SFC’s material suppliers In order to control the quality of the supplier’s product, the framework shows the necessity for supplier quality...
Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 09:34
Quality tools, the basic seven
... of the scales used and hence not a measure of the strength of the correlation Unfortunately, the scales used also affect the width of the cloud, which is the indicator of correlation When there ... 315.337.9932 Quality Tools, The Basic Seven (Cont'd) Figure could also be used to relate the number of defects to the day of the week to see if there is any significant difference in the number ... it The wider variance can be attacked by optimizing any of the controllable factors such as tuning the engine, replacing the tires used, etc Moving the central tendency in the direction of the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/08/2013, 14:16
Trade finance centralization in a vietnamese bank the case study of BIDV
... entrusted the handling of a collection; The “Collecting bank is any bank, other than the remitting bank, involved in processing the collection; The “Presenting bank is the collecting bank making the ... financed by their banks from the production to the exportation stage In the production stage, they borrow money to manage their business, while in the exportation stage they discount the shipment ... final party to receive the money; The target bank: the final bank to receive money and credit to the beneficiary’s account; The correspondent bank: being the intermediary bank to support for...
Ngày tải lên: 27/09/2013, 21:58
Tài liệu Đề tài " The Calder´on problem with partial data " doc
... dimension n ≥ 3, the knowledge of the Cauchy data for the Schr¨dinger equation measured on possibly very small subsets of the o boundary determines uniquely the potential We follow the general strategy ... measurements at the boundary of the body Substantial progress has been made on this problem since Calder´n’s pioneer contribution [3], and is o also known as Calder´n’s problem, in the case where the measurements ... made on the whole boundary This problem can be reduced to studying the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map associated to the Schr¨dinger equation A o key ingredient in several of the results is the construction...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Child mental health and educational attainment: multiple observers and the measurement error problem ppt
... question that determines whether the child has a problem in that domain If the child passes the screening question and the relevant SDQ score is normal, the remainder of the section is omitted but, ... psychiatric assessors make the best use they can of the information available to them, exploiting their experience of observing children’s mental health problems and the reactions of other untrained informants ... child indicates that there is a problem or the SDQ score is high, detailed information is collected, including a description of the problem in the informant’s own words The DAWBA parent and child...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination pptx
... part of the stack, causing no sideeffect In the other xterm, the memory corruption landed on a pointer on the stack (the long description of the problem is beyond the scope of this chapter) The pointer ... assumptions until they are proven Narrow the scope of the problem Work to prove or disprove theories about the problem The best practices listed here are particularly important for complex problems that ... you solve the problem) 1.3 The Four Phases of Investigation If the problem isn’t too serious, then just make a mental note of this information and continue the investigation If the problem is...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20
Why Markets Could (But Don’t Currently) Solve Resource Allocation Problems in Systems pot
... (the second constituency) are much more interested in knowing if these proposed market allocation projects and their system offspring solve real problems in distributed resource allocation There ... of the users When users have complex needs, achieving this goal is not easy for either the individual users and for the system tasked with making the allocation decision We will return to these ... dominate the time required to run the experiment Either these associations are explicit, in which case minimum resource bundles must be purchased, or there are side effects that constrain the allocation...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Health supplier quality and the distribution of child health ppt
... if the quality measure of the practice is the lowest quartile of the practice quality distribution Both the unadjusted and the adjusted quality measures are analysed this way: the adjusted quality ... medical care need, there is little association between the family income of the child and the quality to which they have access In terms of the second part of the explanation for the lack of gradient, ... measured quality but the true quality is not lower, or they reflect true lower quality for poorer families? The adjusted measures suggest the first, while the unadjusted measures show the second...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
NITRITE CURING OF MEAT The N-Nitrosamine Problem and Nitrite Alternatives pdf
... 1970s, the development of the so-called “nitrite problem surfaced on account ofthe detection of N-nitrosamines in processed meats The industry was in an uproar, and the issue rose to the very ... CHAPTER THE COLOR OF MEAT Assessing meat by its aesthetic appeal is something consumers every time they walk up to the counter in a butcher’s shop The four main deterrninants of meat quality at the ... The most important ones include species (e.g., the muscles of the hare are richer in Mb than those of the rabbit), breed, sex ( e g , the muscles of the bull contain more Mb than those of the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
Factors Affecting Audit Quality in the 2007 UK Regulatory Environment: Perceptions of Chief Financial Officers, Audit Committee Chairs and Audit Engagement Partners ppt
... and the other concerning audit quality more directly (dimension 9) In contrast to the other groups, they include the audit inspection factor in with the audit firm ethics dimension For ACCs the ... auditors, the audit committee chair (ACC) is now a key party in the audit process There have been no studies in the UK or other jurisdictions which have simultaneously sought the views of the three ... establishes whether the responses differ significantly depending on respondents beliefs regarding the value of audit to the company or client; and (c) identifies the changes to either the regulatory...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Words and Echoes: Assessing and Mitigating the Non-Randomness Problem in Word Frequency Distribution Modeling" ppt
... based on the empirical standard deviation of the ei across the 20 trials (the confidence intervals are usually somewhat larger than the actual range of values found in the experiments, so they should ... than splitting the data into separate training and test sets, they evaluate the models in an extrapolation setting, where the parameters of the model are estimated on a subset of the data used ... chronologically, the data one wants to generalize to We estimate parameters of the ZM, fZM and GIGP models on each training set, using the zipfR toolkit.5 The models are then used to predict the expected...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20
Lund University International Master’s Programme in Environmental Science (LUMES): Assessment of Efforts to Solve the Water Pollution Problem in Kaunas pdf
... right - downstream the city at the right bank; Down left - downstream the city at the left bank; LaR - Lampedziai reservoir The water quality in the river fluctuates due to the changes in hydro-meteorological ... utilisation The water in the reservoir adjoins the Nemunas river, but water quality in the reservoir is much better than in the river Within Kaunas city the Neris river flows into the Nemunas The Neris ... agriculture The basin area of the Nevezis is 6141km2 Its water flow before the confluence with the Nemunas is 33m3/s and its effect on the water quality in the Nemunas is much lower than the effect of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
The Weapons Mix Problem - A Math Model to Quantify the Effects of Internetting of Fires to the Future Force pptx
... are the result of decisionmaker judgments The value of the targets and the future value of the munitions are on the same relative scale The mathematical program for the value maximization problem ... back into the situation map The process iterates until the allocation of fires provides the decisionmaker with the desired level of attrition to the targets The IOF Allocator works above the tactical ... limits The Allocator then computes an optimal allocation of fire missions based upon the input, and the Adjudicator assesses losses to the targets based on this allocation Those results then feed...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
A Bayesian network approach to the database search problem in criminal proceedings docx
... H1 represents the proposition The suspect is the source ¯ of the crime stain’ The state H1 represents the composite proposition ‘one of the other N − individuals is the source of the crime stain’ ... database The node H has three states: the suspect is the source of the crime stain’ (H1 ), the second individual in the database is the source of the crime stain’ (H2 ), and the source of the crime ... n ≤ N) of them are on a database The node H has three states: the suspect is the source of the crime stain’ (H1 ), ‘one of the n − other individuals in the database is the source of the crime...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20
Đề tài " Existence and minimizing properties of retrograde orbits to the three-body problem with various choices of masses " potx
... main theorem (Theorem 1) shows the existence of many periodic and quasi-periodic retrograde solutions to the three-body problem provided the mass ratios fall inside the white regions in Figure The ... methods These discoveries attract much attention not only because they are not covered by classical approaches, but also due to the amusing symmetries they exhibit On the other hand, these orbits ... [19], relates the configurations of the three bodies with points on the unit shape sphere In the figure Λj represents isosceles triangles with jth mass equally distant from the other two The equator...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK THE EUROSYSTEM - THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF CENTRAL BANKS potx
... absence, the Vice-President, chairs the meetings of the Governing Council, the Executive Board and the General Council of the ECB .The President is invited to the meetings of the Eurogroup , the informal ... times The General Council comprises the President and the Vice-President of the every year ECB and the governors of the national central banks of all EU Member States The other members of the Executive ... institutions and other sources in their respective countries and calculate aggregates at the national level, which they send to the ECB The ECB then compiles the aggregates for the euro area The legal...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
RESPONSIBLE REFORM OF THE WORLD BANK - THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN IMPROVING THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS OF WORLD BANK OPERATIONS pptx
... World Bank donors will decide on the 13th three-year funding replenishment for the International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank that lends to the poorest countries As the ... important health outcomes among the formal M&E indicators in some World Bank loans, there continue to be two important problems with the World Bank s use of M&E indicators: the quality & frequency of ... as the Swedish construction firm, Skanska However, the World Bank, one of the two original sponsors of the WCD, has refused to incorporate the recommendations into its policies The World Bank s...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20