In today’s highly competitive marketplace, technology-driven organizations widely adopt decentralized profit-center business model. In order to complete a series of new product development (NPD) activities on time and within budgetary constraints, the NPD managers need an objective benchmarking approach to gain accurate perception on the relations of resource allocations, profits, costs and tim...

INTRODUCTION In New York City, the age-adjusted prevalence of nonspecific psychological distress (NPD) among Hispanics is twice that of non-Hispanic whites; nationally, there is little Hispanic-white disparity. We aimed to explain the pattern of disparity in New York City. METHODS Data came from the 2006 National Health Interview Survey and 2006 Community Health Survey in New York City. Respo...

in future, the main cause of competitive advantage for companies is successful new product development. in recent 30 years, many researches have done about efficiency of npd process and many various models have been developed to systematize these processes. in the npd process, great amount of organizational knowledge will be created, stored, retrieved and used. therefore, many researchers presu...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of critical success factors, metrics, and tools and techniques for implementing metrics for each stage of the new product development (NPD) process. Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a literature review was undertaken to investigate decades of studies on NPD success and how it can be achieved. These studies were ...

Although concepts of pathological narcissism are as old as psychology and psychiatry itself, only a small number of clinical studies are based on the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of Mental Disorders (DSM). As a result, NPD appears to be one of the most controversially discussed nosological entities in psychiatry. Wher...

Background. The new psychoactive drugs (NPD) are those that represent a danger to public health and are not prohibited by conventions on international narcotics. The concept also includes new contexts and new routes of consumption as well as novel ways of distribution, notably Internet. The risks associated with NPD consumption are largely unknown to users and to health care providers. Objectiv...

A new control method, called adaptive nonlinear PD learning control (NPD-LC), is proposed for robot manipulator applications in this paper. The proposed control structure is a combination of a nonlinear PD control structure and a directly learning structure. Consequently, this new control method possesses both adaptive and on-line learning properties. One of the unique features of the NPD-LC al...

Most research on narcissism has been conducted using the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI). However, the generalizability of findings from the NPI to narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is unknown. The current study uses two samples (48 clinical outpatients; 49 undergraduates) to address this question by examining the correlations between the NPI and interview ratings of NPD. The pro...

A direct method for surface-structure determination from normal emission photoelectron diffraction (NPD) data is presented. Fourier transforms of the calculated NPD intensities yield peaks at adsorbate-substrate normal interlayer distances. Applications are demonstrated, using theoretical NPD curves for the Se/Ni system calculated by dynamical theory. These results show that interplanar spacing...