8,617 research outputs found
The Design and Implementation of a Key Performance Indicator Dashboard for KE-chain
No full textKE-works is a six years old company which aims to optimise the product development process in industrial applications. To accomplish this, KE-works deploys a web-application called KE-chain. KEchain is an engineering workflow management system with the objective to increase the efficiency of the product development process through better control, more efficient distribution, access and use of product-related information. Users have the possibility to set-up a project, manage the tasks belonging to this project, and control the workflow and information distribution. With KE-chain users are able to create structure in the heap of information that composes their product and, when used right, improve the process of their project development. One of the key elements in optimising the product development process is the monitoring of the available data to give users insight in the status of the project. Currently it is difficult to get a good overview of a project within KE-chain and it is not possible to see what tasks are cirtical at a certain moment. A common way of showing the status or performance of systems is the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). These indicators, for example in the form of a graph or a table, can quickly give information about the performance of a system. KE-works has decided that it wants to give its users an overview in the formof a project-specific dashboard with KPI widgets. Therefore the assignment is to design and develop an integrated KPI dashboard into KE-chain. To design the KPI dashboard, which we named KE-board, we shortly researched the field of Performance Measurement to get an overview of the different approaches for the design of KPI’s. As a basis for the design we have adopted the Lean methodology [1] which has been used by KE-works in the past. In our research we have actually connected the Lean wastes to measures in KE-chain. To do this, we have chosen a bottom-up approach, which means we started by identifying the available data, after which we extracted several groups of measures. We have interviewed several clients of KEworks, the users of KE-chain. From these interviews we deducted which groups of measures were important for which user roles. To verify which measures are of importance for these dashboards, we have questioned and interviewd the consultants of KE-works. By combining the results of the interviews and the questionnaires we designed 7 KPI widgets. Finally, we created KE-board and integrated it into KE-chain in five weeks of implementation. After that we have evaluated the complete dashboard by interviewing the consultants of KE-works. On top of that, we have sent them a questionnaire in which they rated the functionality of the widgets to see if they contribute to their purpose and achieve the goals that we set for them. KE-board has been received well by the management and employees of KE-works and according to the extensive evaluation we can state that it definitely contributes to the optimization of the product development process in KE-chain.Computer ScienceComputer ScienceElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Penilaian terhadap kecekapan penggunaan sumber, unjuran peruntukan sumber dan pemilihan sumber terbaik yang mempengaruhi industri pengagihan elektrik di Selangor
No full textOrganized by Kulliyah of Science (IIUM), 23rd - 24th December 2004 at Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia, Selangor.Kertas kerja ini memfokuskan kepada penilaian terhadap kecekapan penggunaan sumber, unjuran peruntukan sumber dan pemilihan sumber terbaik dalam mempengaruhi industri pengagihan elektrik di Selangor. Berdasarkan data kajian bagi tahun 2002, model Analisis Penyampulan Data (APD) berorientasikan input digunakan dan mendapati 4 daripada 10 kawasan pengagihan
elektrik di Selangor didapati cekap menggunakan sumbernya. Bagi setiap kawasan pengagihan elektrik yang tidak menggunakan sumber secara cekap, APD mengenalpasti tingkat ketidakcekapan bagi setiap sumber yang digunakan. Satu set unjuran sumber ditentukan bagi 6 kawasan pengagihan yang tidak cekap. Dengan menggunakan purata magnitud bagi setiap sumber, keputusan menunjukkan bahawa perbelanjaan operasi dan penyelenggaraan merupakan sumber yang paling penting (70.73%), diikuti dengan perbelanjaan ke atas gaji pekerja (27.90%)
dan perbelanjaan ke atas peralatan utama (1.37%) yang kurang penting. Selain itu, kawasankawasan pengagihan yang cekap pula akan dipangkatkan dengan menggunakan model Andersen- Petersen berorientasikan input dan matriks kecekapan-bersilang, dan keputusan yang diperolehi akan dianalisis dan dibandingkan
Optimal upper bound for the infinity norm of eigenvectors of random matrices
No full textLet be a random Hermitian (or symmetric) matrix whose upper diagonal and diagonal entries are independent random variables with mean zero and variance one. It is well known that the empirical spectral distribution (ESD) converges in probability to the semicircle law supported on . In this thesis we study the local convergence of ESD to the semicircle law. One main result is that if the entries of are bounded, then the semicircle law holds on intervals of scale . As a consequence, we obtain the delocalization result for the eigenvectors, i.e., the upper bound for the infinity norm of unit eigenvectors corresponding to eigenvalues in the bulk of spectrum, is . The bound is the same as the infinity norm of a vector chosen uniformly on the unit sphere in . We also study the local version of Marchenko-Pastur law for random covariance matrices and obtain the optimal upper bound for the infinity norm of singular vectors. This is joint work with V. Vu. In the last chapter, we discuss the delocalization properties for the adjacency matrices of ErdH{o}s-R'{e}nyi random graph. This is part of some earlier results joint with L. Tran and V. Vu.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke Wan
Development of zein-based ice nucleator films for frozen food applications
No full textThis research aimed at developing zein-based ice nucleation films for the applications of frozen foods. Acetic acid was chosen as the solvent to cast zein films with flawless surface. Tributyl citrate (TBC) was mixed into zein films to various proportions and 10% TBC was most effective on improving mechanical properties resulting in 2.3-fold more flexibility and 5.8-fold more toughness compared to unplasticized zein films. But incorporation of 20% TBC significantly decreased the water absorption by 19% compared to 10% TBC. Thus, zein films with 20% TBC with good flexibility and water resistance was used in following experiments. The activity of ECINs was stable at pH between 4.0 and 9.0 and ionic strength between 0.01 M and 0.10 M. In the development of INFs, the optimum adsorption of ECINs on zein films surface occurred through layer-by-layer method at pH 7.0 and ionic strength of 0.05 M on UV/ozone-treated zein. A novel method was developed to quantify the activity of INFs, which revealed that the highest activity of zein-based INFs reached 175 units/mm2. The zein-based ice nucleation films (INFs) were used to wrap frozen bread dough during five freeze/thaw cycles. The high-activity INF was as effective as blending ECINs in improving the yeast survival by 40%, and consequently increased the specific volume of bread loaf by 25%. Furthermore, high-activity INFs prevented the dehydration of frozen dough and thus significantly reduced the crumb hardness by 36% and increased the crumb springiness by 1.25 times. On energy saving, zein-based INFs were less potential than blended ECINs. INFs only reduced the time of freezing by 6% compared to the 20% by blended ECINs. However, the total amount of ECINs used on wrapping a piece of dough was only about 1/200 of the amount through blending. In addition, ECINs immobilized on the zein films showed desirable stability to sustain at least fifteen repetitive uses on freezing water.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke Sh
Integrating centralized and decentralized approaches for multi-robot coordination
No full textAutonomous multi-robot systems play important roles in many areas such as industrial applications for repetitive tasks, explorations in hazardous environments, and military missions in extreme conditions. Many existing coordination strategies are developed for two general types of multi-robot systems including strongly centralized systems and completely decentralized systems. For strongly centralized systems, the global information including the environment as well as the locations of all the robots is shared. It is typical for small number of robots in well structural environments and is not robust to dynamic environment or failures in communications and other uncertainties. For completely decentralized systems, each robot is executing its own control schemes completely autonomously. There are no specified leaders throughout the mission, and the team organization does not have a set structure. In many real-world applications, it is beneficial to use so-called weakly centralized systems, in which the leader robot is not specified a priori, but it is selected dynamically during the mission to guide the robot team through dynamic environments or other uncertainties. It is very challenging to develop coordination strategies for this type of systems because of the dynamic nature of the team structures. The strategies should not only allow for on-line leader role selection but also enable formation decomposition and reconfiguration whenever necessary. In this thesis, we describe a general coordination framework for weakly centralized multi-robot systems that integrates the features from both strongly centralized and completely decentralized coordination strategies at the individual robot level. The framework allows the robots to reconfigure the formation dynamically in the presence of obstacles or other uncertainties in the environment, and promotes the main advantages of multi-robot systems such as flexibility and modularity. Since the control schemes can be decentralized and this framework allows for the selection of the motion planner and local controller for a given task, the framework can be naturally applied to multi-robot systems with larger scales. We have implemented this framework on a team of two-wheeled differential driven mobile robots. Significant results from numerical simulations and experiments have been obtained to demonstrate that the coordination schemes are effective and robust, and the framework is viable and can be scaled to relative large scale multi-robot systems.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Ke X
PERANCANGAN APLIKASI ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD (EMR) PADA INSTALASI RAWAT INAP BERBASIS WEB
No full textPelayanan medik dewasa ini membutuhkan sistem yang lebih efektif dan efisien, baik dalam
penggunaan waktu, tenaga maupun sarana. Dalam pengelolaan rekam medik, kenyataan masih
umumnya penggunaan rekam medik manual yang dinilai tak lagi andal menangani data medik
melahirkan ide konversi rekam medik manual kertas ke rekam medik elektronik karena efektivitas dan
efisiensinya.
Penelitian ini bertujuan menciptakan aplikasi rekam medik elektronik yang lebih dikenal
sebagai EMR (Electronic Medical Record) dari rekam medik kertas di Instalasi Rawat Inap Rumah
Sakit Umum Ananda Salatiga. Rekam medik elektronik dirancang dengan membuat form-form isian
catatan-catatan medik dalam proses perawatan pasien selama dirawat. Data-data medik ini kemudian
disimpan dalam basis data sistem dan dikelola secara digital. Setiap kali pengisian data medik pada
form-form tertentu, sistem akan menghasilkan kode yang membawa informasi khusus.
Pada akhirnya, sistem akan menghasilkan deret kode ICD (International Statistical
Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) dari kode-kode yang dihasilkan pada
pengisian form-form catatan medik. Deretan kode-kode ini mampu menggambarkan perkembangan
kondisi pasien dan penanganan medik yang diberikan selama perawatan. Data-data medik yang
tersimpan dapat ditampilkan kembali dalam bentuk catatan medik digital.
Kata kunci: rekam medik, rawat inap, EMR, IC
ANALISIS PERMAINAN BAHASA DAN BAHASA PRIBADI PADA HANS CRISTIAN ANDERSEN (THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL)
No full textThis research focuses on a syntactical analysis of The Little Match Girl, a short story by Hans Christian Andersen, based on Wittgenstein’s language games and private languages theories. The story is about a dying child’s dreams and hope. In this short story, there are some arrangements of sentence structure which do not obey the rules of grammar. The objective of the study is to analyze this short story syntactically, which uses some formulated grammar rules to map a sentence to a formal representation of its syntactic structure, which is also a part of the theory. The research method was descriptive qualitative. To collect the data, the researcher used documentation and observation methods. In the analysis, the researchers analyzed by using grammar rules then presented in form of tables. The finding showed that some sentences do not obey the grammar rules (private language) in 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, and 7a but then they are checked in the correct grammar and corrected (language game) (see 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, and 7b). However, they are still understandable because it is easy to understand the content of the story of The Little Match Girl as he has his own specific private languages to get aesthetics of writing. To conclude, Hans Cristian Andersen has his own specific private languages so that he does not obey the grammar rules in writing his short story because it is part of poetical license.Penelitian ini fokus pada analisis sintaksis The Little Match Girl, sebuah cerita pendek oleh Hans Christian Andersen, berdasarkan permainan bahasa Wittgenstein dan teori bahasa pribadi. Ceritanya tentang mimpi dan harapan anak yang sekarat. Dalam cerpen ini, ada beberapa pengaturan struktur kalimat yang tidak mematuhi aturan tata bahasa. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis cerita pendek ini secara sintaksis, yang menggunakan beberapa aturan tata bahasa yang diformulasikan untuk memetakan kalimat ke representasi formal dari struktur sintaksisnya, yang juga merupakan bagian dari teori. Metode penelitian adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan dari masing-masing kalimat dengan membaca cerpen. Dalam analisis, para peneliti dianalisis dengan menggunakan aturan tata bahasa kemudian disajikan dalam bentuk tabel. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa beberapa kalimat tidak mematuhi aturan tata bahasa (bahasa pribadi) dalam 1a, 2a, 3a, 4a, 5a, 6a, dan 7a tetapi kemudian mereka diperiksa dalam tata bahasa yang benar dan dikoreksi (permainan bahasa) (lihat 1b, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b, 6b, dan 7b). Namun, mereka masih dapat dimengerti karena mudah untuk memahami isi dari cerita The Little Match Girl karena ia memiliki bahasa pribadi khusus untuk mendapatkan estetika penulisan. Sebagai penutup, Hans Cristian Andersen memiliki bahasa pribadi khusus sehingga dia tidak mematuhi aturan tata bahasa dalam menulis cerita pendeknya karena itu adalah bagian dari lisensi puitis
[[alternative]]The Meta-interpretation of Ke Jieh-The Analysis of Ideology of Body Action on the stage
No full text[[abstract]]The body endured some depressions under the shadow of binary opposition. Irigaray used the "black cave" to point out the pride of reason. Bakhtin used the "grotesque body" to unveil the prejudice of civilization.
Thus, I searched for a stage including character/thinking, voice/language, body/action to ascertain the fact of body's distress.
The Chinese opera theater became my selected object. In this stage the term of body action was "Ke Jieh".
The different roles of Ke Jieh in different theaters reflected the body suffering situations. There were three theaters as following:
1.Ke Jieh used the colonial mimicry of onnagata Ke Jieh to perform "the rebellion theater". In the facet of expressing sovereignty Ke Jieh played the supernumerary by means of the status of female.
2.Ke Jieh performed "the puppet theater" with the status of clown. The foregrounding position of Ke Jieh was under the control of commercial, political, culture, aesthetic theory.
3.Ke Jieh used the subject-creation of body to fight the material civilization; therefore, Ke Jieh performed "the essence theater" with the status of main actor. Ke Jieh returned to the original identity and got rid of the control of "God's will" in order' to look for the real presentation.
In conclusion, the performance of Ke Jieh in the Chinese opera theater became the potential text of body culture activities. "The rebllion theater" protested the degraded situation of body. "The puppet theater" was the reflection of body under control. "The essence theater " provided some directions to the development of body education.
KONSEP RELIGIUSITAS DALAM DONGENG DAS JUDENMÄDCHEN DAN DIE GESCHICHTE VON EINER MUTTER KARYA HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan konsep religiusitas dalam dua dongeng yaitu Das Judenmädchen dan Die Geschichte von einer Mutter, dan mendeskripsikan bentuk penyampaiannya.
Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan objektif. Data penelitian diperoleh dengan teknik baca dan catat. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah dongeng Das Judenmädchen dan Die Geschichte von einer Mutter karya Hans Christian Andersen. Instrumen dalam penelitian ini adalah peneliti sendiri. Keabsahan data diperoleh melalui validitas semantik. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Reliabilitas dalam penelitian ini menggunakan reliabilitas intrarater dan interrater.
Hasil penelitian ini adalah 1. Terdapat 5 konsep religiusitas dalam dongeng Das Judenmädchen dan Die Geschichte von einer mutter, yaitu pertama keterlibatan ritual, bagaimana orang mengerjakan ritual di dalam agamanya. Yang ke dua keterlibatan ideologi, bagaimana orang menerima hal-hal yang bersifat dogmatig di dalam agamanya. Ke tiga Keterlibatan intelektual, seberapa jauh seseorang mengetahui mengenai ajaran agamanya. Yang ke empat, keterlibatan eksperiential, pengalaman unik atau spektakuler yang merupakan keajaiban yang datang dari Tuhan. Yang ke lima Keterlibatan konsekuential yaitu bagaimana perilaku seseorang dimotivasi oleh ajaran agamanya. Konsep religiusitas dalam dongeng Das Judenmädchen adalah a. Keterlibatan ritual yang meliputi berdoa dan pergi ke Gereja. b. Keterlibatan ideologi yaitu, penghakiman dan kehidupan setelah kematian. c. Keterlibatan intelektual terdiri dari membaca kitab suci dan mengetahui sifat Tuhan. d. Keterlibatan eksperiental yaitu jiwa terselamatkan. e. Keterlibatan konsekuential yaitu, mengasihi sesama dan menghormati orang tua. Konsep religiusitas dalam dongeng Die Geschichte von einer Mutter meliputi a. Keterlibatan ritual yaitu berdoa dan pengorbanan. b. Keterlibatan ideologi terdiri dari adanya surga, kehidupan setelah kematian dan adanya malaikat. c. Keterlibatan intelektual yaitu mengetahui sifat Tuhan d. Keterlibatan eksperiential yaitu jiwa terselamatkan. e. Keterlibatan konsekuential yaitu kepasrahan. 2. Adadua bentuk penyampaian religiusitas dalam dongeng Das Judenmädchen dan Die Geschichte von einer mutter, yaitu penyampaian langsung dan tidak langsung
THE GROWTH PATTERNS OF CARCASS TISSUES WITHIN WHOLESALE CUTS IN FATTENING STEER
No full textAn investigation was conducted on beef carcasses, aimed at identifying the growth patterns of wholesale
cuts and their tissues in steer during fattening phase. This study involved 69 grass-fed steers with a live-weight
range of 300 to 600 kg. They had entered, or were progressing along, their fat deposition phase. An
allometric model (Huxley, 1932) was used to study the growth patterns of carcass tissues within wholesale
cuts. In general, The growths of muscle and fat within wholesale cuts followed similar patterns. Some
differences in growth patterns between muscle and fat were identified on the dorsal region. The growth impetus
for fat moved from the thoracic backwards to the lumbar region which was the reverse of the growth impetus for
muscle. Differential growth patterns occurred between intermuscular (IM) fat and subcutaneous (SC) fat. With
IM fat, its growth movement was similar to that of total fat where there was a concentration of growth in the
lumbar area and thin flank as side weight increased. With SC fat, there were growth movements from the ventral
region to the dorsal region of the carcass. Bone growth within wholesale cuts showed a less clear pattern.
Keywords : Fattening Phase, Steer, Growth Pattern, Carcass Tissue, Wholesale Cut
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