Indian industries need overall operational excellence for sustainable profitability and growth in the present age of global competitiveness. Among different quality and productivity improvement techniques, Six Sigma has emerged as one of the most effective breakthrough improvement strategies. Though Indian industries are exploring this improvement methodology to their advantage and reaping the ...

Despite taking advantage of established learning from other industries, quality improvement initiatives in healthcare may struggle to outperform secular trends. The reasons for this are rarely explored in detail, and are often attributed merely to difficulties in engaging clinicians in quality improvement work. In a narrative review of the literature, we argue that this focus on clinicians, at ...

objective(s): sirna may be a very promising tool for treatment of various diseases especially in cancer therapy due to high specificity. one of the main hurdles applications of sirnas in vivo is optimization of the delivery strategy, especially the carrier systems. the aim of this study was to optimize sirna delivery into suspended erythroleukemic cell line k562. materials and methods: we appli...

unsteady flow through non - homogeneous and anisotropic porous media can be modeled by a partial differential equation.' this-equation cannot be solved analytically. hence, numerical methods. such as the finite element and the finite difference methods might be employed. in this study a mathematical model has been developed using the fully implicit finite difference method with control vol...

We study the rendezvous problem in the asynchronous setting in the graph of infinite line following the model introduced in [13]. We formulate general lemmas about deterministic rendezvous algorithms in this setting which characterize the algorithms in which the agents have the shortest routes. We also improve rendezvous algorithms in the infinite line which formulated in [13]. Two agents have ...

A few of the presented soil behavior models are capable of predicting the triggering and post liquefaction and also shear band mechanism through the soil media. The assessment of earth-dam body behavior as a soil structure made of cohesive soil in core and non-cohesive soil as the core supports, including water interaction at upstream through earthquake upon a multi-line constitutive equations ...

Animal breeding is concerned with the genetic improvement of farmed livestock. A central task is the estimation of genetic parameters or, equivalently, variance components, required to design selection programmes and in identification of genetically superior animals. Statistical techniques used rely heavily on linear, mixed models. Whilst some traits of interest are measured only once per anima...

We are interested in the problem of learning stochastic language models on-line (without speech transcriptions) for adaptive speech recognition and understanding. In this paper we propose an algorithm to adapt to variations in the language model distributions based on the speech input only and without its true transcription. The on-line probability estimate is defined as a function of the prior...