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A new lean tool for design management: design cost deployment
No full textThe design process wields substantial influence across various dimensions in product's life cycle, encompassing functionality, manufacturability, assembly, safety and numerous other facets. Consequently, it represents a significant contributor to the product's overall cost. Enhancing the design process translates into accessing diverse opportunities within an ever-competitive market landscape. This paper introduces a novel lean framework explicitly that pinpoints and eradicates losses occurring during the design phases using an Overall Design Effectiveness (ODE) metric that assesses the performance of a company's technical department. Our Design Cost Deployment (DCD) lean toolkit then identifies, analyses and eliminates design-related losses. The DCD implementation involves five core steps, each necessitating a purpose-built matrix for loss detection, cause-effect relationship investigation, cost quantification related to losses and guidance for decision-making in the context of improvements. This framework was tested in a real-world industrial scenario, involving a mechanical manufacturing company and was both to use straightforward and effective in its results
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A novel tool for preliminary risk assessment of climate change on workers’ health and safety in outdoor worksites
No full textNowadays, there has been considerable research regarding the public health and environmental aspects of Climate
Change, but the literature on the potential impacts of Climate Change on the health and safety of outdoor workers
has received limited attention. Outdoor workers which include, by a way of example, agricultural, construction, and
transportation workers, and other workers exposed to outdoor weather conditions, are exposed at increased risk of
heat stress and other heat-related ailments, extreme weather, and occupational injuries due to Climate Changerelated
issues. Climate Change is increasing environmental temperatures and extreme weather events, affecting air
pollution and the distribution of pesticides and pathogens. The implementation of enhanced occupational health and
safety measures that can cope with the effects of Climate Change on workers is a key step towards the adaptation
perspective that must be embraced to ensure a safer and more sustainable future for the workers. In this paper, a
new tool named Climate Change - House of Safety (CC-HoS) is designed to address new risks and to carry out in
an effective way the risk assessment considering specifically the risks related to Climate Change. The CC-HoS,
derived from the House of Safety (HoS), aims to investigate the direct (i.e., warming, extreme weather, ...) and
indirect impacts (i.e., air pollution, UV exposure, vector-born disease, ...) of Climate Change on workers' health and
safety in outdoor worksites. This tool can correctly identify and assess risks through the Risk Priority Number (RPN)
in terms of Severity, Detectability, and Occurrence criteria, while determining the most suitable safety devices and
preventive/protective measures to manage the previously identified risks. The proposed approach is applied to a
company operating in the agricultural sector. The effectiveness and usefulness of the tool for selecting the most
effective technical solutions to mitigate risks related to Climate Change are presented in the case study
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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