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Last November, Vietnam opened its first production plant for the measles vaccine in the Hoang Mai District in Hanoi. This factory, funded by nonrefundable aid from the Japanese government, will become operational in early 2005 and will roll out 7.5 million vaccine doses annually, ending Vietnam’s dependence on imports (Ha, 2004). Measles is a deadly disease—every day, 2,000 children under the a...

Better and Faster Patient Training

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Is Newer Better ? Penn World

This paper sheds light on two problems in the Penn World Table (PWT) GDP estimates. First,we show that these estimates vary substantially across different versions of the PWT despitebeing derived from very similar underlying data and using almost identical methodologies; thatthis variability is systematic; and that it is intrinsic to the methodology deployed by the PWT toest...

Predicting Customer-Expectation-Based Warranty Cost for Smaller-the- Better and Larger-the-Better Performance Characteristics

The quality loss function assumes a fixed target and only accounts for immediate issues within manufacturing facilities whereas warranty loss occurs during customer use. Based on the two independent variables, product performance and consumers’ expectation, a methodology to predict the probability of customer complaint is presented in this paper. The formulation presented will serve as a basic ...

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