311 research outputs found
A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland.
No full textPresents the study "A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland," by Paul O'Dowd, Eamonn McQuade and Eamonn Murphy, which focuses on the competitiveness of multinational manufacturing subsidiaries within Ireland against low-cost operations. Assessment of the competitive environment for subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations in the country; Strategic options for subsidiaries and description of the Value Discipline business model; Core aspects of the cyclical innovation and proactive divestment business model for subsidiaries formulated based on interpretive analysis of respondents
A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland.
No full textPresents the study "A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland," by Paul O'Dowd, Eamonn McQuade and Eamonn Murphy, which focuses on the competitiveness of multinational manufacturing subsidiaries within Ireland against low-cost operations. Assessment of the competitive environment for subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations in the country; Strategic options for subsidiaries and description of the Value Discipline business model; Core aspects of the cyclical innovation and proactive divestment business model for subsidiaries formulated based on interpretive analysis of respondents
A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland.
No full textPresents the study "A Model for Innovation in Manufacturing Subsidiaries Based in Ireland," by Paul O'Dowd, Eamonn McQuade and Eamonn Murphy, which focuses on the competitiveness of multinational manufacturing subsidiaries within Ireland against low-cost operations. Assessment of the competitive environment for subsidiaries of foreign multinational corporations in the country; Strategic options for subsidiaries and description of the Value Discipline business model; Core aspects of the cyclical innovation and proactive divestment business model for subsidiaries formulated based on interpretive analysis of respondents
ChemInform Abstract: Organometallic Fluorides of the Main Group Metals Containing the C-M-F Fragment
No full textA QFD framework for quality, innovation and high-tech product development dynamics
No full textThe customer mostly chooses a product on the base of its quality, which therefore arises as the main cause of its commercial success. In a nearly axiomatic drawing, it follows that the effect of innovation is the improvement of quality, which itself becomes the aim of innovation. Even though the previous statement relates quality and innovation, it still does not explain their dynamics. To stress them, the ‘quality' concept must be analyzed in more detail. In fact, in addition to the ‘perceived quality', the quality ensured through `design, manufacturing and marketing' combined domains should be dealt with. This paper enhances this issue taking advantage of principles and models made available by control theory schemes coupled with quality function development (QFD) and best practice software modeling based on unified modeling language (UML
Book Review
No full text Managing Orofacial Pain in Practice. Eamonn Murphy, Quintessence Publishing Co Ltd, 2008 (170pp, £28.00). ISBN: 978-1-85097-130-6. </jats:p
Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of a series of substituted cyclopentadienyl Group 4 fluorides; crystal structure of the acetylacetonato complex [(acac) 2 (??-C 5 Me 5 )Zr(??-F)SnMe 3 Cl]
No full textA series of mono- and di-substituted cyclopentadienyl Group 4 fluorides [Ti{eta-C(5)H(3)R(R')-1,3}F-n(m)], (n = m = 2 and n = 1, m = 3; R = H or SiMe(3); R' = H, Me or SiMe(3)), [Ti(eta-C(5)Me(5))(2)F-2] and [Zr(eta-C5H5)(2)F-2] have been-prepared via the reaction of the corresponding chlorides with SnMe(3)F. The compounds have been characterized by means of H-1 and F-19 NMR, IR and mass spectroscopy and chemical analyses. The solvent dependence of the reactions using SnMe,F is discussed. To demonstrate the wide applicability of this fluorinating system the acetylacetonatofluoro complex [(acac)(2)(eta-C(5)Me(5))Zr(eta-F)SnMe(3)Cl] has been prepared and its crystal structure determined
1981 Newfoundland Folk Festival. Tape 7 of 25
No full textDay 2 of the Festival continues at the St. John's Curling Club. "Step Lively Now" session continues with Ed Doucette on fiddle, and the two Ron Felixes on guitar and accordion. Also performing is Des Walsh (fiddle), Eamonn Curran (Irish pipes), Frank Maher (accordion), Gerry Strong (tin whistle), Marilyn Benson (tin whistle), Rob Murphy (wooden flute), Dave Panting (mandolin), Paddy Mackey (bodhran), The Bowman Family, Figgy Duff with Emile Benoit, and Art Stoyles.Video Accession Number 82-092, v78; held in Memorial University of Newfoundland, Folklore and Language Archive
Design imperatives for improved architecture-based reliability prediction of software systems
No full textReliability prediction of a software product is complex due to interdependencies and
interactions among components and the difficulty of representing this behavior with tractable models. Models developed by making simplifying assumptions about the software structure may be simple to use but their result may be far from what happens in reality. Making assumptions closer to reality that allows complex interactions and interdependences among components results in models that are too complex to use and/or their results may be too difficult to interpret.
The reliability predication problem is aggravated by the absence of precise information on the behavior of components and their interactions, information that is relevant for reliability modeling. Usually, the interactions are not known precisely because of subtle undocumented side effects. Without accurate precise information, even mathematically correct models will not yield accurate reliability predications. Deriving the necessary information from program code is not practical if not impossible because the code
contains too much implementation detail to be useful in creating a tractable model and
because it is difficult to fully analyze.
This author approached the problem from three tracks:
1. Identifying design imperatives that will make the system behavior easier to predict
2. Identifying mathematical documentation techniques to describe the behavior of software systems
3. Adapting structural reliability modeling techniques to predict the reliability of
software systems based on their mathematical description
This thesis documents the resulting novel approach of designing, specifying, and describing the behavior of software systems in a way that helps to predict their reliability from the reliability of the components and their interactions. The design approach, which the author names design for reliability redictability (DRP), integrates design for change, precise behavioral documentation and structure based reliability prediction to achieve improved reliability prediction of software systems. The specification and documentation approach builds upon precise behavioral specification of interfaces using the trace function method (TFM) and introduces a number of connection documents or structure functions. These functions capture both the static and dynamic behaviors of component
based software systems and are used as a basis for a novel document driven structure based reliability predication model. System reliability assessment is studied in at least three levels: component reliability, which is assumed to be known, interaction reliability, a novel approach in studying software reliability and service reliability, whose estimation is the primary objective of reliability assessment. The approach is applied successfully as a case study in the construction of an industrial product which is described in this thesis
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