A number of manufacturing companies have reported anecdotal evidence describing the benefits of Model-Based Enterprise (MBE). Based on this evidence, major players in industry have embraced a vision to deploy MBE. In our view, the best chance of realizing this vision is the creation of a single "digital thread." Under MBE, there exists a Model-Based Definition (MBD), created by the Engineering ...

This report covers the period of June 1, 2013–May 31, 2014. Due to the ongoing success of Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) and Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE), whose revenues continue to increase, the society remains in outstanding financial health. Society membership decreased marginally during financial year 2013: Membership-only subscriptions decreased from 732 in 2012 to 332 in 2013...

Application of magnetic Barkhausen emission (MBE) analysis for assessment of microstructures and damage in various materials including carbon steel, Cr-Mo ferritic steels, 17-4 PH steel and metastable austenitic stainless steel has been highlighted in this paper. Thermally induced microstructural changes in Cr-Mo steels have been correlated with MBE, based on a two stage magnetization process m...

Model-Based Engineering (MBE) has proven to be highly successful in many different contexts in large software organizations such as Ericsson over the last decades. However, the broad adoption of MBE has been significantly limited by the fact that existing tools have failed to provide for better customizability and support for Domain-Specific Modeling Language (DSML) and to deliver capabilities ...

The objective of this study was to determine whether yearling bulls, when pastured with cows, reduced the duration of postpartum anestrus to the same extent as did mature bulls. This experiment was conducted over a 3-yr period. Cows were stratified by parity group to achieve 37% 2-yr-old and 63% mature (> 2-yr-old) cows within each treatment group (approximately 50 cows per treatment per year)....

Background Mendelian randomization (MR) is being increasingly used to strengthen causal inference in observational studies. Availability of summary data of genetic associations for a variety of phenotypes from large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) allows straightforward application of MR using summary data methods, typically in a two-sample design. In addition to the conventional inverse...

Many important combinatorial optimization problems can be expressed as constraint satisfaction problems with soft constraints. When problems are too difficult to be solved exactly, approximation methods become the best option. Mini-bucket Elimination (MBE) is a well known approximation method for combinatorial optimization problems. It has a control parameter z that allow us to trade time and s...

The issue of knowledge utilization is a fundamental societal and practical concern that has received considerable attention in many branches of the social sciences. In the field of strategy there is widespread agreement that the ability to leverage, or re-use knowledge assets could be a fundamental source of competitive advantage. Such issue has been especially prominent for the management of t...

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, which exhibit spontaneous magnetization maintained down to the monolayer limit, provide an ideal platform understand and manipulate properties in 2D scale have potential applications optoelectronics spintronics. Transition metal halides (TMHs) are suitable candidates owing partially filled d orbitals weak interlayer van der Waals interactions. As a sophi...