In this study, we investigate the relationships between competitive dimensions of manufacturing strategy and competitive performance in two clusters. One consists of plants in countries known for their manufacturing excellence (i.e., "JUG" referring to Japan, the United States and Germany); and the other of plants in emerging manufacturing countries (i.e., "BC" referring to Brazil and China). D...

We study the water jug problem and obtain new lower and upper bounds on the minimum number of measuring steps. These bounds are tight and significantly improve previous results. We prove that to compute the crucial number μc(x) (i.e., min x=x·c ||x||1, where c ∈ N, x ∈ N, ||x||1 = ∑n i=1 |xi|) for estimating the minimum measuring steps is indeed a problem in P . Moreover, we prove that testing ...

Script COMPUTER: I am a bomb, you have just armed me. SIMON GRUBER (over a cellular phone): I got you see the message. It has a proximity circuit, so please don't try to run. JOHN MCCLANE: Yeah I got it. We're not gonna run. How do we turn this thing off? SIMON: On the fountain, there should be two jugs. You see them, a ve gallon jug and a three gallon jug? Fill one of the jugs with exactly fou...

A pitch-synchronous analysis was carried out over the vowel portions of the CVC utterances HAYED, HOD, ItODE and the sentence FEW THIEVES ARE NEVER SENT TO THE JUG recorded by a male speaker. For every pitch period, the analysis provides formant frequencies and the waveform of the vocM-cord excitation. The excitation waveform was replaced by a simulated excitation waveform, with which the utter...

Water-jug problem is a famous problem in the field of artificial intelligence, computer programming, recreational mathematics and psychology. Classical methods used to solve this problem are Depth first search, Breadth first search, Diophantine approach, etc. These methods are memory and time consuming. This paper implemented a cognitive approach with two new methods to solve water jug problem ...

The French press is a popular device for brewing coffee, comprising cylindrical beaker—or “jug”—fitted with lid and plunger fine wire mesh filter. used to drive the solid coffee particles bottom of jug, separating these grounds from hot liquid above. When using in this way, growing permeable pack ground pushed through water by applying force plunger. We use combination kitchen-based laboratory ...

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