Reference models, whose aim is to capture domain knowledge, can assist in the adequate design of enterprise specific business processes. In complex organisations, business processes can be locally designed by specific organisational units. However, in order to be adequate, these processes should meet the local needs while maintaining the organisational standards. For this purpose, we propose to...

We conduct full-scale experimental validation and comparison of three different nonlinear attitude observers, two of them with inherent heave estimation, in two different operational scenarios encountered by an offshore vessel in the North Sea. Two different microelectro-mechanical inertial measurement units are the primary sensors for driving the nonlinear observers, which are aided by gyrocom...

The "Thrombin Reference Standard (Control 031", of National Institute of Health Sciences was prepared. The precision of filling into ampoule was about 11.5% as C.V. The content of alpha-thrombin was about 89%. The thrombin potency of the standard material was assayed against the Thrombin Reference Standard (Control 961) according to the method of JP-X IV and the potency was 692 +/- 35 units/amp...

The most general SU(2) × U(1)Y -symmetric quartic potential with two Higgs doublets, subject to an only softly broken discrete symmetry (φ1, φ2) → (−φ1, φ2), is considered. At tree-level, analytic bounds on the parameters are derived that ensure a stable vacuum, breaking SU(2)× U(1)Y down to U(1)em. email: [email protected] In the minimal standard model, spontaneous symmetry breaking of t...

introduction the present work describes a study in which, based on patient dose measurements, thermoluminescent dosimeters were used to obtain the diagnostic reference level arising from panoramic radiography. materials and methods ten panoramic units and a sample of 15 patients per x-ray unit were studied. two thermoluminescent dosimeter chips were placed on the skin surface of selected organs...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is non-parametric linear programming (LP) based technique for estimating the relative efficiency of different decision making units (DMUs) assessing the homogeneous type of multiple-inputs and multiple-outputs. The procedure does not require a priori knowledge of weights, while the main concern of this non-parametric technique is to estimate the optimal weights o...

A new DEA model has been introduced recently combining the primal and the dual models in order to impose strong complementary slackness conditions. It was claimed that a reference set that contains the maximum number of efficient units can then be determined. The model is very interesting as a theoretical idea. However, not only does the computational burden increase significantly, but it seems...

Three studies were conducted to evaluate titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a digestibility marker for cattle. In Exp. 1, eight steers consumed prairie hay ad libitum with or without dietary supplements. Fecal recovery of TiO2 averaged 93% and was not affected (P = 0.47) by supplement. Digestibilities calculated with reference to TiO2 were not different (P = 0.15) from those based on total fecal collec...