This article reports on a study of the factors that characterize a complete supplier-buyer partnership, and a more cooperative orientation in the channel. Data were collected for 33 elements of supplier-customer relationships from 205 Canadian manufacturing organizations. The authors used principal component analysis to provide a relatively compact instrument that allows researchers and practit...

The idea of dimension reduction is to find a hyperplane in high-dimensional space such that an objective function [of the data with respect to its projection on the hyperplane] is optimized. In certain cases, we can interpret the dimensions that are obtained; a case study where this has worked is the ideal point model in voting. A commonly used method for dimension reduction is principal compon...

OBJECTIVE Percutaneous treatment of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is feasible, but is associated with a unique set of risks. A comparison of Excluder endograft deployment with femoral artery cutdown (FAC) versus percutaneous femoral access (PFA) for treatment of infrarenal AAA was undertaken. METHODS A single-institution, controlled, retrospective review was carried out in patients who u...

We apply the object-oriented robust factor analysis R package robustfa to the 28 financial indicators of the 100 listed companies in China’s Chinese Securities Index (CSI) 100 index in the first quarter of 2013. First of all, according to the size of the data, we automatically choose a robust estimator, the robust Ogk estimator. By the Mahalanobis distances which are computed by the robust Ogk ...

Abstract The rapid economic development and high incidence of crises in emerging economies make them play an increasingly important role the transmission global financial risks. As a new trend industry, green finance also indicates direction future industry. Faced with concerned environmental issues, it is necessary for economies, mainly represented by developing countries, to learn from experi...

We have divided rebuilding food systems into two phases, one of which is to maximize productivity in a way that maximizes sustainability and economic benefits. Another minimize hunger insecurity, with regard equity. Firstly, we use Euclidean Metri Complete Connection Method for cluster analysis according the production efficiency structure various foods. Then countries are classified different ...

Manufacturability Analysis Systems (MASs) have been developed to enable the evaluation of easy of manufacture parts during the design stage enabling the reduction of costs and time to market of the designed products. The feature analysis approach is one of the methods used to gather information from the proposed design for manufacturability assessment purposes. The objective of this paper is to...

Mechanical waves conceptual survey (MWCS) is a measurement tool established by the physics education research (PER) community to evaluate understanding of mechanical waves. A validation study still needed figure out factor structure MWCS using two data reduction techniques, namely exploratory analysis (EFA) and principal component (PCA). The dataset in this paper was gathered from students (n =...