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Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term and TOPSIS to Assess Lean Performance
(2019-02-28)Manufacturing companies usually expect strategic improvements to focus on reducing both waste and variability in processes, whereas markets demand greater flexibility and low product costs. To deal with this issue, lean ... -
Tuning the reversible magnetocaloric effect in Ni-Mn-In based alloys through Co and Cu co-doping
(2019-03-01)The reversibility of the giant magnetocaloric effect (MCE) through the magnetic field–induced magnetostructural transformation in Ni–Mn–In‐based alloys is a key issue towards the potential magnetic refrigeration applications. ... -
Dissimilarity-Based Linear Models for Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction
(2019-03-01)Bankruptcy prediction has acquired great relevance for financial institutions due to the complexity of global economies and the growing number of corporate failures, especially since the world financial crisis of 2008. In ... -
The Role of Employees’ Performance and External Knowledge Transfer on the Supply Chain Flexibility
(2019-03-01)In this article structural equation models are reported, which relate four latent variables associated with employee performance, knowledge transfer, and supply chain flexibility, which incorporate 17 observed variables. ... -
Lower Secondary School Mathematics Teachers’ TopicSpecific Content Knowledge in the U.S. and Russia
(2019-03-01)This interpretive cross-case study examined the U.S. and Russian teachers’ topic-specific knowledge of lower secondary mathematics. In total, N=16 teachers (8 from the U.S., and 8 from Russia) were selected for the study ... -
Evaluation of the impact of water supply disruptions in bioethanol production
(2019-03-01)Factors such as raw materials availability, production capacity, technology, and costs promote the development and feasibility of supply chains. However, some other factors are more than important for supply chain development; ... -
The Role of Green Attributes in Production Processes as Well as Their Impact on Operational, Commercial, and Economic Benefits
(2019-03-01)This paper reports a second-order structural equation model composed of four variables: the green attributes before and after an industrial production process, the operating benefits, the commercial benefits, and the ... -
Introduction and configuration of a collaborative robot in an assembly task as a means to decrease occupational risks and increase efficiency in a manufacturing company
(2019-03-01)Occupational risk factors (e.g. awkward postures, excessive effort, and repetitive movements) are a growing concern in the manufacturing industry due to their relationship with the incidence of musculoskeletal disorders ... -
Impact of Managers and Human Resources on Supply Chain Performance
(2019-03-01)Current competitive, complex, and uncertain markets push companies toward increasing active collaboration on the part of all human resources (HR) involved in the supply chain (SC), because increasing employee participation ... -
Characterization of Impulse Oscillometric Measures of Respiratory Small Airway Function in Children
(2019-03-01)Abstract. Children suffering from asthma are often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as their symptoms are similar to other respiratory conditions. Spirometry, the "golden" pulmonary function test used for asthma di- agnosis, ... -
Dimensional Analysis under Pythagorean Fuzzy Approach for Supplier Selection
(2019-03-06)The supplier appraisal process is one of the most important decision problems for companies focused on improving supply chain costs. Supplier selection is typically a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) issue, as there ... -
Graphite to Graphene: Green Synthesis Using Opuntia ficus-indica
(2019-03-15)Green synthesis promotes partial or total substitution of chemicals that are potentially harmful to the environment with more friendly ones and is also concerned with decreasing energy consumption. In this study, commercial ... -
Low temperature synthesis of alpha alumina platelets and acicular mullite in MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 system
(2019-03-15)The refractory materials are more reliable and less expensive, this research is based on materials like alumina and mullite because it offers a very high refractoriness. In the present study an acicular mullite and a-alumina ... -
Sol-Gel and Electrospinning Synthesis of Lithium Niobate-Silica Nanofibers
(2019-03-26)Lithium niobate-silica fibers were produced by the combination of the sol-gel method and the electrospinning technique. Two sol-gel solutions starting from niobium-lithium ethoxide and tetraethyl orthosilicate were prepared ... -
Effect of NiO and MoO3 addition on the crystallinity and mechanical properties of α-cordierite and β-cordierite in the MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 system
(2019-03-27)The cordierite is one of the most important phases within the MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 (MAS) system. In this study, the crystallization and microstructure of cordierite was analyzed. Four samples were prepared, which were subjected ... -
Predictors of organizational resilience by factorial analysis
(2019-03-27)The global economy is characterized by a progressive complexity, uncertainty, and volatility, which exert intense pressures to organizations and confronts them, with increasing frequency, to disruptive and unexpected ... -
Effects of Human Factors and Lean Techniques on Just in Time Benefits
(2019-03-28)A successful Just in Time (JIT) implementation is based on human resources integration (managers, operators and suppliers) and other lean manufacturing techniques applied in the production process. However, the relationship ... -
Impacto del Diseño para Cambios Rápidos (DFC) en la Manufactura Moderna
(2019-03-30)El avance de las tecnologías en la industria de la manufactura, así como la necesidad de contar con procesos más rápidos y eficientes que brinden un mejor desempeño en la calidad, mejores tiempos de respuesta, flexibilidad ... -
Diseño y Modelado de Biorobots
(2019-04)En este proyecto se propusieron varios diseños de plataformas robóticas biónicas: un sistema biomecánico de un robot acuático de aleta dorsal, así como también el sistema articulado de nado de un vehículo subacuático ... -
Short-Term Electricity Market Price Forecasting Based on De-Noised Wavelets and NARX Neural Network- Data Analytics Approach
(CSREA Press, 2019-04)Electricity price data is often non-linear and highly volatile. Under a weather and climate disaster event, price forecasting represents a challenging task. Noise in electricity price data is commonly affected by several ...