Practical research in production engineering

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Practical statistics in pain research

Pain is subjective, while statistics related to pain research are objective. This review was written to help researchers involved in pain research make statistical decisions. The main issues are related with the level of scales that are often used in pain research, the choice of statistical methods between parametric or nonparametric statistics, and problems which arise from repeated measuremen...

A Practical Dramaturgy for Actors through Theatrical Production Procedures

Dramaturgy, as a creative and critical act dependent on the theoretical and practical knowledge of theater, consists of two parts with Greek roots: Drama (action) and Ourgia (work and operation). Ourgia literally means to practice, act, and in other words process a raw material. Eugenio Barba divides Dramaturgy in to three parts: Actor Dramaturgy, Director Dramaturgy and Audience Dramaturgy. Th...

Theoretical and Practical Studies on the Metabolic Engineering of Streptomyces for Production of Butanols

Biofuels have emerged as one of the important sustainable fuel sources and are considered as a promising way to minimize Greenhouse Gas emissions and provide new energy sources [13]. Different countries have developed different strategies to introduce biofuels. The main concern is the economic drivers for each fuel, which varies with location and feedstocks. In addition, strategic and environme...

Practical Machine Learning for Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Machine learning is practical for software engineering problems, even in datastarved domains. When data is scarce, knowledge can be farmed from seeds; i.e. minimal and partial descriptions of a domain. These seeds can be grown into large datasets via Monte Carlo simulations. The datasets can then be harvested using machine learning techniques. Examples of this knowledge farming approach, and th...