This paper shows how a provider of complex hardware with long operation times makes use of a structured methods approach to develop maintenance, repair and overhaul services and improve its service solutions. Service engineering is a methodical approach for the design of service offerings, and can be described by using the dimensions outcome, structure, process and management. So far, little is...

Abstract The choice, aggregation, weighting, and interactions of divergences, a natural metric of contrasts in the exponential family, is outlined from our experiences in applied genetics.

Twente. Beta is the largest research centre in the Netherlands in the field of operations management in technology-intensive environments. The mission of Beta is to carry out fundamental and applied research on the analysis, design, and control of operational processes.

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This note is aimed at the developers engaged in applied research and development tasks or trying to develop end-user applications and attempts to explain how an ontology can be useful to them and how can they evaluate an ontology for their needs. We also consider a concrete scenario of representing and reasoning with music preferences to show how the ontology concepts apply to a specific situat...

Forensic science is an applied science based on the laws of physics and chemistry. Over time, a set of fundamental concepts has developed that apply specifically to a forensic analysis. Traditionally, five concepts have been articulated: transfer, identification, individualization, association between source and target, and reconstruction. We suggest that an additional sixth concept, the idea t...

Valid causal inference is central to progress in theoretical and applied psychology. Although the randomized experiment is widely considered the gold standard for determining whether a given exposure increases the likelihood of some specified outcome, experiments are not always feasible and in some cases can result in biased estimates of causal effects. Alternatively, standard observational app...

In the 21st century, healthcare executives are facing changes of unprecedented magnitude in virtually every area, affecting their ability to compete. That hindrance brings with it a greater need for rapid and effective organizational change and improvement. Yet changes in the U.S. healthcare delivery system have historically been criticized as slow and less than effective in responding to the c...

Fourier transforms, integer and fractional, are ubiquitous mathematical tools in basic and applied science. Certainly, since the ordinary Fourier transform is merely a particular case of a continuous set of fractional Fourier domains, every property and application of the ordinary Fourier transform becomes a special case of the fractional Fourier transform. Despite the great practical importanc...

It is now realized by all those concerned with the development of scientific, social, cultural, and economic progress, that practical applications and desirable advances in these fields depend upon research . The research is of two major kinds. One kind consists of basic fundamental research, in which problems are investigated because of their interest and challenge to the investigator, with no...