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Effective Use Of Process Capability Indices For Supplier Management, Elizabeth A. Cudney, David Drain

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Process capability indices were originally invented to enable an organization to make economically sound decisions for process management. Process capability is a comparison of the voice of the process with the voice of the customer. Current practice is to use Cp and Cpk regardless of the validity of the underlying assumptions necessary for their use. Even if all necessary assumptions are satisfied, important problems can be missed if these indices are the sole process evaluation examined. Customer-supplier axioms are introduced to motivate more useful process evaluations and foster long-term harmonious relationships. This paper explores the alternative capability indices Cpm, Cpmk, …

Breaking The Cycle-Preventing Failures By Leveraging Historical Data During Conceptual Design, Daniel A. Krus, Katie Grantham

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Major engineering accidents are often caused by seemingly minor failures propagating through complex systems. One example of this is an accident involving a Bell 206 Rotorcraft where a fuel pump failure led to the severing of the tail boom. Cataloguing and communicating the knowledge of potential failures and failure propagations is critical to prevent further accidents. The need for effective failure prevention tools is not specific to rotorcrafts, however. Failure reporting systems have been adopted by various industries to aid and promote failure prevention. The catalogued failures usually consist of narratives describing which part of a product failed, how it …

Software Patents, Incumbents, And Entry, John R. Allison, Abe Dunn, Ronald J. Mann

Faculty Scholarship

Software patents have been controversial since the days when "software" referred to the crude programs that came free with an IBM mainframe. Different perspectives have been presented in judicial, legislative, and administrative fora over the years, and the press has paid as much attention to this issue as it has to any other intellectual property topic during this time. Meanwhile, a software industry developed and has grown to a remarkable size, whether measured by revenues or profitability, number of firms or employees, or research expenditures. The scope of software innovation has become even broader, as an increasing number of devices …

The Disputed Quality Of Software Patents, John R. Allison, Ronald J. Mann

Faculty Scholarship

We analyze the characteristics of the patents held by firms in the software industry. Unlike prior researchers, we rely on the examination of individual patents to determine which patents involve software inventions. This method of identifying the relevant patents is more laborious than the methods that previous scholars have used, but it produces a data set from which we can learn more about the role of patents in the software industry. In general, we find that patents the computer technology firms obtain on software inventions have more prior art references, claims, and forward citations than the patents that the same …

How Growing Inequality Hurts The Middle Class, Robert H. Frank

Clemens Lecture Series

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Upstream Of Peril: The Role Of Federal Lands In Addressing The Extinction Crisis: Twelfth Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture On Environmental Law, Karin P. Sheldon

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Motivating Enforcement: Institutional Culture And The Clean Water Act, William L. Andreen

Pace Environmental Law Review

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The Iucn Sustainable Soil Project And Enforcement Failures, J. William Futrell

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Filling The Void In An Otherwise Occupied Field: Using Federal Common Law To Regulate Carbon Dioxide In The Absence Of A Preemptive Statute , Sarah Olinger

Pace Environmental Law Review

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Lsuhsc Facilities Biweekly Update: January 2007, Lsuhsc Property And Facilities Management

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates: 2007

LSUHSC Facilities Biweekly Updates from January 5 and 22, 2007.

These updates describe damage and a timeline of repairs at the LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans campus due to Hurricane Katrina which made landfall August 29, 2005.

Nitrocellulose As A General Tool For Fungal Slide Mounts, David Barry, Cecilia Chan, Gwilym A. Williams

Articles

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Critical Route Network For Earthquake Response And Dynamic Route Analysis, Srinivas Peeta, Georgios Kalafatas

JTRP Technical Reports

Earthquakes can significantly disrupt societal functioning, cause ecological damage, and lead to loss of human lives and property, warranting a coordinated and efficient response to mitigate their negative impacts. Preparedness against earthquakes entails a pre-disaster planning aspect and a post disaster operational aspect. In the JTRP study “Emergency Earthquake Routes for the State of Indiana; Part I: Criteria for Selection of Primary Routes: Transportation Aspects”, a multicommodity maximal covering network design formulation based optimization methodology was proposed to identify a critical routes sub-network for the Indiana component of the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone in the INDOT Vincennes District. Addressed from …

Mechanically Stabilized Earth Wall Abutments For Bridge Support, Ioannis Zevgolis, Philippe L. Bourdeau

JTRP Technical Reports

The research is an investigation on the possible use of MSE bridge abutments as direct support of bridges on Indiana highways. First, analysis was performed following conventional design methods, in order to assess the performance of MSE bridge abutments with respect to ultimate limit states, i.e. external and internal stability. In the second part of the study, finite element analysis was performed, in order to assess the performance of the structures with respect to serviceability limit states, i.e. immediate and consolidation settlements. In both parts, analysis was performed on case examples that reflect relatively typical situations. The main findings confirm …

Indot Guidance Document For In-Situ Soil Flushing, Linda S. Lee, Xihong Zhai, Jaesun Lee

JTRP Technical Reports

Many of the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) sites are contaminated with aromatic hydrocarbons and chlorinated solvents; these contaminants often occur in the form of light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) or dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs). Considerable effort has recently been focused on developing in-situ technologies for removing or destroying NAPL source zones, and several potentially viable methods have emerged including cosolvent-enhanced source zone removal. Most recently, site-specific remedial designs involving a combination of in-situ methods (often referred to as a treatment train) have been proposed for which data are still sparse. The primary goal of the laboratory experiments is …

Comparison Of Three Survey Methods Applied To The Recreational Rock Lobster Fishery Of Western Australia., Tara Baharthah

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

A mail survey of recreational rock lobster licence holders has been conducted annually since 1986. The results from this survey have been used in the management of the recreational rock lobster fishery in Western Australia. Mail surveys are susceptible to non-response and recall bias. The key to determining useful estimates of fishing catch and effort is to minimise both biases. Telephone recall surveys, with high response rates, effectively eliminate nonresponse bias. However, they still suffer from recall bias when the recall period is greater than two months. Telephone diary surveys are free of non-response bias and recall bias and provide …

Accident Denominators Relative To Age Groups In Heavy Industries Of The Port Hedland Region Of Western Australia, John R. Bottrell

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The aim of this research is to investigate characteristics of accident denominators across age groups in mining and associated process industries in the Port Hedland region of Western Australia. Emphasis has been focussed on comparing young, inexperienced groups with older, more experienced groups. A literature review revealed some key contributors to accidents among younger workers, in particular, those who had only recently entered the workforce. The review also revealed contributors impacting accidents regarding other age groups over a wide range of industry types. From these findings an accident construct model and questionnaire were designed to identify contributing and mitigating denominators …

Enron And The Special Purpose Entities - Use Or Abuse - The Real Problem - The Real Focus, Neal Newman

Faculty Scholarship

On the heels of Enron's debacle came the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the far reaching legislative reform that was designed to shore-up the accounting and corporate governance shortfalls that the legislature and the investing public believed allowed Enron to do what it did unabated. Supplementing the reforms set forth in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are a number of accounting rules, guidelines, and interpretations that are designed to curtail the type of accounting fraud Enron perpetrated through its use (or more accurately abuse) of what are referred to as special purpose entities (SPEs). Although much has been written chronicling and analyzing the …

Advances In Cardiac Surgery, Chaisit Srisamboon

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

In the past ten years, there have been many progression in cardiac surgery. Recent studies about coronary arery surgery, valvular surgery, transplantation, ventricular assisted device, surgery for arrhythymias, aotic diseases, robotic surgery and minimally invasive approaches and heart-lung machines were reviewed.

Marriage And The Elephant: The Liberal Democratic State's Regulation Of Intimate Relationships Between Adults, Maxine Eichner

Faculty Publications

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The Road Also Taken: Lessons From Organic Agriculture For Market- And Risk-Based Regulation, Donald Thomas Hornstein

Faculty Publications

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Arbitration And The Individuation Critique, W. Mark C. Weidemaier

Faculty Publications

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Cultivating The Civic Scientist: Science Communication & Tertiary Biotechnology Education, Joanne Edmondston

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Biotechnology is one of the most rapidly growing industries of the 21st Century and governments worldwide have invested significant funds to support research and development in this area. The belief that the commercialisation of biotechnology will offer significant social and economic benefits to the communities investing in this industry, however, is not a universally accepted view. Surveys of attitudes towards biotechnology in a number of countries have indicated that there are widespread concerns about the risks presented by the industry and the application of biotechnology products (Smith, 2001). These public concerns have resulted in a stronger focus being placed on …

Comment Letters For Exposure Draft: Airlines. 2007, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Proposed Aicpa Audit And Accounting Guide : Airlines;Airlines; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2007, Sept. 12, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Accounting Standards Executive Committee, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Airline Guide Task Force

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

This guide does the following: (1) Identifies certain requirements set forth in pronouncements in levels a, b, and c of the hierarchy of sources of GAAP. In these instances, entities are required to apply those requirements based on their standing in levels a, b, or c of the hierarchy rather than because of their inclusion in this guide. (2) Describes AcSEC’s understanding of prevalent or sole industry practice concerning certain issues. In addition, this guide may indicate that AcSEC expresses a preference for the prevalent or sole industry practice, or it may indicate that AcSEC expresses a preference for another …

Proposed Statement On Auditing Standards: Understanding The Entity And Its Environment And Assessing The Risks Of Material Misstatement; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2007, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

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Isolation, Characterization, And Degradation Of Bakuchiol From Psoralidium Tenuiflorum, Pei-Jan Hsu

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Bioactivity guided fractionation of the EtOAc extract from Psoralidium tenuiflorum afforded the known compound bakuchiol as a racemic mixture. This compound was purified by liquid-liquid partitions and chromatographic techniques followed by characterization with ]H NMR, 13C NMR, and GCMS which agreed with previous literature. Previously, bakuchiol was reported from Psoralea corylirolia and Posoralea glandulosa in nature which are from the same family as P. tenuiflorum. This compound exhibited Staphylococcus epidermidis cytotoxicity.

Two Dimensional NMR (HHCOSY and HETCOR) of bakuchiol indicated a disagreement with the previously described NMR structural assignment; a reassignment is described herein.

Long-term storage followed by attempted reisolation …