608 research outputs found
Dan Robertson Discusses his Deming Journey
No full textIn this episode of the Deming Podcast, Tripp Babbitt interviews Dan Robertson, Deming Institute Advisory Board member and Co-author of Deming\u27s Profound Changes.
Dan discusses his Deming journey at Hewlett Packard and his experience writing Deming\u27s Profound Changes with co-author Kenneth Delavigne, as a tribute to Dr. Perry Gluckman.https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/deming_podcast/1003/thumbnail.jp
By-ways of nature and life
No full textThis book is a collection of articles previously published in the New York Evening Post written while Deming traveled through England, North America, and the West Indies. Each article focuses on a particular place, describing both it and what drew Deming to it. Newfoundland is the subject of several articles on pp. 75-113, and is described in great detail by the author. He also writes about cod and it's importance to the island, the seal fishery, and the process of sending/receiving telegraphs at the cable station at Heart's Content
Application of the Deming philosophy to higher education
No full textA brief overview of the historical significance of the work of W Edwards Deming, one of the originators of Total Quality Management (TOM), is provided. The essence of the Deming philosophy is that quality must be the pre-eminent consideration in any strategy aimed at long-term success. Within this context, the idea of what constitutes true quality in higher education is discussed followed by an explanation of how Deming\u27s famous \u2714 points\u27 are as applicable to colleges and universities as they are to business and industry. The author then explains how the \u2714 points\u27 can be used as a framework for ensuring quality, customer satisfaction and greater accountability within the collegiate environment
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SuperWASP: wide angle search for planets
No full textSuperWASP is a fully robotic, ultra-wide angle survey for planetary transits. Currently under construction, it will consist of 5 cameras, each monitoring a 9.5 by 9.5 degree field of view. The Torus mount and enclosure will be fully automated and linked to a built-in weather station. We aim to begin observations at the beginning of 2003
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The Orbits of terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of known exoplanetary systems
No full textWe show that terrestrial planets could survive in variously restricted regions of the habitable zones of 47 Ursae Majoris, Epsilon Eridani, and Rho Coronae Borealis, but nowhere in the habitable zones of Gliese 876 and Upsilon Andromedae. The first three systems between them are representative of a large proportion of the 90 or so extrasolar planetary systems discovered by mid-2002, and thus there are many known systems worth searching for terrestrial planets in habitable zones. We reach our conclusions by launching putative Earth-mass planets in various orbits and following their fate with a mixed-variable symplectic integrator
Status and Prospects of Planetary Transit Searches: Hot Jupiters Galore
No full textThe first transiting extrasolar planet, orbiting HD 209458, was a Doppler wobble planet before its transits were identified with a 10 ern CCD camera. Wide-angle CCD cameras, by monitoring in parallel the light curves of tens of thousands of stars, should find hot Jupiter transits much faster than the Doppler wobble method. The discovery rate could easily rise by a factor 10. The sky holds perhaps 1000 hot Jupiters transiting stars brighter than V = 13. These are bright enough for follow-up radial velocity studies to measure planet masses to go along with the radii from the transit light curves. I derive scaling laws for the discovery potential of ground-based transit searches, and use these to assess over two dozen planetary transit surveys currently underway. The main challenge ties in calibrating small systematic errors that limit the accuracy of CCD photometry at milli-magnitude levels. Promising transit candidates have been reported by several groups, and many more are sure to follow.</p
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF DEMING AND CROSBY'S THEORIES IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
No full textThis research is a figure thinking study focused on two quality thinkers, Deming and Crosby. Using the Library Reseach research method presented in the form of argumentative approaches and descriptive analysis. The 14 quality points expressed by Deming and Crosby are interesting for further investigation, Deming emphasizes the scope of the concept and the theory of quality management, while Crosbye focuses on the construction of the components of the quality management as well as the details of its implementation. In this article, the author offers the theoretical concepts and contextualization of quality management Deming and Crosby in improving the quality of education with the concept of "Circle of Three Layers". In this concept there is a continuous blend between theory and context. The working step of this concept is to emphasize the development of theory (theorytical improvement) and the contextualization of the theory in the educational institutions, so that after the process of the contextalization theory is carried out, then it is expected that the institutions of education can improve the quality (quality improving) and competitive quality (competitive quality). (periodic evaluation)
First Results From Sleuth: The Palomar Planet Finder
No full textWe discuss preliminary results from our first search campaign for transiting planets performed using Sleuth, an automated 10 cm telescope with a 6 degree square field of view. We monitored a field in Hercules for 40 clear nights between UT 2003 May 10 and July 01, and obtained an rms precision (per 15-min average) over the entire data set of better than 1% on the brightest 2026 stars, and better than 1.5% on the brightest 3865 stars. We identified no strong candidates in the Hercules field. We conducted a blind test of our ability to recover transiting systems by injecting signals into our data and measuring the recovery rate as a function of transit depth and orbital period. About 85% of transit signals with a depth of 0.02 mag were recovered. However, only 50% of transit signals with a depth of 0.01 mag were recovered. We expect that the number of stars for which we can search for transiting planets will increase substantially for our current field in Andromeda, due to the lower Galactic latitude of the field
OGLE-TR-56
No full textIn early 2003 our team announced the discovery of the second extrasolar transiting planet, around the faint star OGLE-TR-56 (V = 16.6), based on the detection of small changes in the radial velocity of the primary. The star was originally identified as a candidate by the OGLE team from the shallow and periodic dips in its brightness. We present here new precise radial velocity measurements that confirm the variation measured earlier, supporting the conclusion that the companion is indeed a planet. Additional photometric observations are also available, which combined with the spectroscopy yield improved parameters (mass and radius) for the planet
Astrophysical False Positives Encountered in Wide-Field Transit Searches
No full textWide-field photometric transit surveys for Jupiter-sized planets are inundated by astrophysical false positives, namely systems that contain an eclipsing binary and mimic the desired photometric signature. We discuss several examples of such false alarms. These systems were initially identified as candidates by the PSST instrument at Lowell Observatory. For three of the examples, we present follow-up spectroscopy that demonstrates that these systems consist of (1) an M-dwarf in eclipse in front of a larger star, (2) two main-sequence stars presenting grazing-incidence eclipses, and (3) the blend of an eclipsing binary with the light of a third, brighter star. For an additional candidate, we present multi-color follow-up photometry during a subsequent time of eclipse, which reveals that this candidate consists of a blend of an eclipsing binary and a physically unassociated star. We discuss a couple indicators from publicly-available catalogs that can be used to identify which candidates are likely giant stars, a large source of the contaminants in such surveys
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