Achieving optimal production cycle time for improving manufacturing processes is one of the common problems in production planning. During recent years, different approaches have been developed for solving this problem, but most of them assume that mean quality characteristic is constant over production run length and sets it on customer’s target value. However, the process mean may drift from ...

There is increasing interest in childhood maltreatment as a potent stimulus that may alter trajectories of brain development, induce epigenetic modifications and enhance risk for medical and psychiatric disorders. Although a number of useful scales exist for retrospective assessment of abuse and neglect they have significant limitations. Moreover, they fail to provide detailed information on ti...

Objective: to examine the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and mental health problems in juveniles who sexually offended (JSOs) compared to juveniles who offended non-sexually (non-JSOs). Methods: a sample of 44 JSOs and 763 non-JSOs incarcerated in two juvenile detention centers in the Netherlands between May 2008 and March 2014 were examined for childhood abuse history (Child...

many recent researches have been devoted to investigating the connection between seismic activity and ionospheric variations. it has been shown that the behavior of characteristic parameters of the ionosphere can be used as temporal and spatial precursors of strong earthquakes ( ). in the present work variations of critical frequency of ionospheric f2 layer as a temporal precursor for the qom e...

Owing to the fact that insufficient data quality usually leads to wrong decisions and high costs, managing data quality is a prerequisite for the successful execution of business and decision processes. An economics-driven management of data quality is in need of efficient measurement procedures, which allow for a predominantly automated identification of poor data quality. Against this backgro...