New product development (NPD) is one of the most importance processes for firms to increase their profit and competitiveness. This study presents the results of a comparison study between Taiwan and Indonesia in the employment of evaluation criteria for NPD process. This study is guided by a stage-gate process to derive a structured NPD performance evaluation framework. In this study we use 20 ...

In the classical scheduling problems, it has been assumed that complete knowledge of the problem was available when it was to be solved. However, scheduling problems in the real world face the possibility of the lack of the knowledge. Uncertainties frequently encountered in scheduling environments include the appearance of new jobs and unknown processing times. In this work, we take into accoun...

The present study was designed to establish adequate criteria for categorizing 'obesity disease' in Japan in relation to obesity-related complications. The subjects were 1,193 Japanese subjects (775 men, 418 women; age: 20-84 years old, body mass index (BMI): 14.9-56.4 kg/m(2)) including subjects undergoing a health examination and obese subjects visiting an obesity clinic. Visceral fat area (V...

A set of simple stopping criteria is presented, which improve the efficiency of iterative root finding by terminating the iterations immediately when no further improvement of the roots is possible. The criteria use only the function evaluations already needed by the root finding procedure to which they are applied. The improved efficiency is achieved by formulating the stopping criteria in ter...

In this work we consider some integral operators for analytic functions in the open unit disk and we obtain new univalence criteria for these integral operators, using Mocanu’s and Şerb’s Lemma, Pascu’s Lemma. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 30C45.

A new variational approach to irreversible thermodynamics has been developed leading to lagrangian equations of evolution. The essential results have been presented recently in the form of a short monograph [l]. Its foundation rests on a fundamental principle of virtual dissipation. Our purpose here is to derive new stability criteria for a steady state evolution based on lagrangian equations i...