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Development and application of lean product development performance measurement tool
Venue: Int. J. Comput. Integr. Manuf.

The need of applying lean thinking to product development is becoming a must for the organisations to succeed in the current industry. This paper presents the development and application of a tool that helps to identify the actual status of the organisation in relation to the lean principles. Overview of the literature highlighted the need of developing a tool focused on assessing the implementation of lean principles themselves, rather than quantitative metrics. Based on the idea of the balanced scorecard, four perspectives, with their corresponding set of questions, were defined reflecting the enablers of the lean product development model proposed by the Lean Product and Process Development European project. A five level scale was customised to reflect different readiness levels of lean implementation. The tool was used in case studies in two organisations; first in aerospace and second in automotive. Examples of measurement from two different organisations demonstrated the accuracy of the tool in assessing and defining the starting conditions for adapting lean principles and practices.
A Hybrid Fuzzy Model for Lean Product Development Performance Measurement

In the effort for manufacturing companies to meet up with the emerging consumer demands for mass customized products, many are turning to the application of lean in their product development process, and this is gradually moving from being a competitive advantage to a necessity. However, due to lack of clear understanding of the lean performance measurements, many of these companies are unable to implement and fully integrated the lean principle into their product development process. Extensive literature shows that only few studies have focus systematically on the lean product development performance (LPDP) evaluation. In order to fill this gap, the study therefore proposed a novel hybrid model based on Fuzzy Reasoning Approach (FRA) and the extension of Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS methods for the assessment of the LPDP. Unlike the existing methods, the model considers the importance weight of each of the decision makers (Experts) since the performance criteria/attributes are required to be rated, and these experts have different level of expertise. The rating is done using a new fuzzy Likert rating scale (membership scale) which is designed such that it can address problems resulting from information lost/distortion due to closed form scaling and the ordinal nature of the existing Likert scale.
Proposal for a Conceptual Model for Evaluating Lean Product Development Performance: A Study of LPD Enablers in Manufacturing Companies

The instability in today's market and the emerging demands for mass customized products by customers, are driving companies to seek for cost effective and time efficient improvements in their production system and this have led to real pressure for the adaptation of new developmental architecture and operational parameters to remain competitive in the market. Among such developmental architecture adopted, is the integration of lean thinking in the product development process. However, due to lack of clear understanding of the lean performance and its measurements, many companies are unable to implement and fully integrate the lean principle into their product development process and without a proper performance measurement, the performance level of the organizational value stream will be unknown and the specific area of improvement as it relates to the LPD program cannot be tracked. Hence, it will result in poor decision making in the LPD implementation. This paper therefore seeks to present a conceptual model for evaluation of LPD performances by identifying and analysing the core existing LPD enabler (Chief Engineer, Cross functional teams, Set based engineering, Poka yoke (mistakeproofing) Knowledge based environment, Value focused planning and development, Top management support, Technology, Supplier integration, Workforce commitment and Continuous improvement culture) for assessing the LPD performance.
Online Purchase Behavior of Generation Y in Malaysia

The escalation of the Internet and information technology has significantly contributed to the popularity of online shopping. Generation Y (Gen Y) has been identified as the age cohort that makes up the majority of online shoppers in many developed countries. Even though Gen Y makes up the largest segment of Malaysia's population as well as its Internet population, they are not the largest segment of online shoppers. The aims of this study are to investigate the online purchase behavior of Gen Y in Malaysia and identify the factors that drive the behavior. 200 respondents from Gen Y participated in the survey. Findings from the study reveal that Gen Y in Malaysia buys mostly from online retailers operating via Facebook and Instagram. Of the four factors proposed in the model, only perceived trust and perceived reputation have a significant positive relationship with online purchase intention of Gen Y shoppers. Implications of these findings are discussed for researchers and practitioners.
A multimodal discourse analysis of glocalization and cultural identity in three Indian TV commercials

Improvising selected tools from Kress and Van Leeuwen's inter semiosis framework, this study explores how, between global and local, TV commercials in India often reframe a cultural third space producing new discursive forms and identities. Three commercials from the food and beverage category are selected on the basis of the country of origin of the endorsing company and the patterns of glocalization. Multimodal discourse analysis reveals that the commercials construct the glocal identity in several ways. In the Knorr Soups commercial, the melody of the title song is contemporary pop, whereas the delivery style and crooning are distinctively Western. The language is predominantly Hindi with deft use of selected English words. The Funda Mint commercial casts a rebel voice support executive who rejects the pseudo glocal identity and asserts his true identity. In the Cadbury Bournvita Folk commercial, the two boys represent the global and the local in the realm of creativity. The study advances the knowledge of product positioning and brand identity involving the intersemiosis of discursive elements from different cultural spaces within the contemporary Indian consumerist culture.
Investigation on contact angle measurement methods and wettability transition of porous surfaces

Various solid surfaces (e.g. smooth titanium surface, smooth aluminum surface, polished copper surfaces, polished silver surfaces and porous copper surfaces) were prepared to quantify the reliability of half angle algorithm and axisymmetric drop shape analysis (ADSA) algorithm for calculating contact angles. Besides, the effects of surface conditions on contact angle values were also investigated. The experimental results of 10 repeated tests for each surface show that both algorithms have good accuracy for an acute contact angle, while the ADSA algorithm is better than the half angle algorithm for an obtuse contact angle. Furthermore, with the decrease of surface roughness, the contact angle increases but the standard deviation of contact angles by 10 repeated tests decreases. In addition, the porous layer on copper surface by electrochemical deposition shows a super hydrophilic property, but it could change to be super hydrophobic after exposed in ambient air for 24 h. Interestingly, the surface wettability reverses to be super hydrophilic again after it is immersed in water, and the inorganic contamination is the reason of formal change from the super hydrophilic status to the super hydrophobic status.
Linking, Searching, and Visualizing Entities for the Swedish Wikipedia

In this paper, we describe a new system to extract, index, search, and visualize entities on Wikipedia. To carry out the extraction, we designed a high performance entity linker and we used a document model to store the resulting linguistic annotations. The entity linker ,HERD, extracts the mentions from text using a string matching Engine and links the mto entities with a combination of rules, PageRank, and feature vectors based on the Wikipedia categories. The document model, Docforia, consists of layers, where each layer is a sequence of ranges describing a specific annotation,here thee ntities. We evaluated HERD with the ERD'14 protocol (Carmel et al. 2014) and we reached the competitive F1 score of 0.746 on the English development set. We applied HERD to the whole collection of Swedish articles of Wikipedia and we used Lucene to index the layers and a search module to interactively retrieve articles and metadata given a title, a phrase, or a property. The user can then select an entity and visualize concordance in articles or paragraphs. A demonstration of the entity search and visualization is available for Swedish at this address: http:/vilde.cs.lth.se:9001/sv herd/ (Less)
Discrimination, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorders Among Sexual Minority Populations.
Venue: LGBT health

Sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual) populations have a higher prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Such disparities have been attributed, in part, to minority stressors, including distal stressors such as discrimination. However, few studies have examined associations between discrimination, mental health, and substance use disorders by gender among sexual minority populations.  We analyzed data from 577 adult men and women who self identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual and participated in Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) Six questions assessed discrimination due to sexual orientation. Weighted multivariable logistic regression examined associations between experiences of sexual orientation discrimination and both mental health and substance use disorders. Analyses were conducted separately for sexual minority men and women, adjusting for sociodemographic covariates.  Sexual minority men who ever experienced discrimination (57.4% reported higher odds of any lifetime drug use disorder and cannabis use disorder compared to sexual minority men who never experienced discrimination. Sexual minority women who ever experienced discrimination (42.9% reported higher odds of any lifetime mood disorder and any lifetime anxiety disorder compared to sexual minority women who never experienced discrimination.  The findings suggest that discrimination is differentially associated with internalizing (mental health) and externalizing (substance use) disorders for sexual minority men and women. These findings indicate a need to consider how homophobia and heteronormative discrimination may contribute to distinct health outcomes for lesbian and bisexual women compared with gay and bisexual men.
HPV Involvement in Head and Neck Cancers: Comprehensive Assessment of Biomarkers in 3680 Patients.
Venue: Journal of the National Cancer Institute

We conducted a large international study to estimate fractions of head and neck cancers (HNCs) attributable to human papillomavirus (HPV AFs) using six HPV related biomarkers of viral detection, transcription, and cellular transformation.  Formalin fixed, paraffin embedded cancer tissues of the oral cavity (OC) pharynx, and larynx were collected from pathology archives in 29 countries. All samples were subject to histopathological evaluation, DNA quality control, and HPV DNA detection. Samples containing HPV DNA were further subject to HPV E6*I mRNA detection and to p16(INK4a) pRb, p53, and Cyclin D1 immunohistochemistry. Final estimates of HPV AFs were based on HPV DNA, HPV E6*I mRNA, and/or p16(INK4a) results.  A total of 3680 samples yielded valid results: 1374 pharyngeal, 1264 OC, and 1042 laryngeal cancers. HPV AF estimates based on positivity for HPV DNA, and for either HPV E6*I mRNA or p16(INK4a) were 22.4% 4.4% and 3.5% for cancers of the oropharynx, OC, and larynx, respectively, and 18.5% 3.0% and 1.5% when requiring simultaneous positivity for all three markers. HPV16 was largely the most common type. Estimates of HPV AF in the oropharynx were highest in South America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Northern Europe, and lowest in Southern Europe. Women showed higher HPV AFs than men for cancers of the oropharynx in Europe and for the larynx in Central South America.  HPV contribution to HNCs is substantial but highly heterogeneous by cancer site, region, and sex. This study, the largest exploring HPV attribution in HNCs, confirms the important role of HPVs in oropharyngeal cancer and drastically downplays the previously reported involvement of HPVs in the other HNCs.
Functional Diversity and Group Creativity

The author explores effects of functional diversity on group creativity under varying group longevity. When group members have worked together for a long time in functionally diverse groups, they are expected to show stronger information processing and weaker categorization processing. Knowledge sharing and group cohesion are examined as mediating mechanisms through which functional diversity enhances group creativity as group longevity increases. Analysis of a sample of 155 workgroups demonstrates that group longevity positively moderates the relationship between functional diversity and group creativity through moderating the effects of functional diversity on two mechanisms of knowledge sharing and group cohesion.
Reflections from the classroom: Towards a radical pedagogy for early years practitioners

This article comprises some critical reflections on the teaching of a second year undergraduate module called Children's Cultural Worlds in which students are required to engage with original studies which are then used to stimulate self reflection and engagement with wider issues relating to our understanding of children's place in the social world. It will be argued that when individual memories are shared, it is possible to identify continuities and discontinuities in childhood experiences as well as the intersections between childhood and other social divisions such as gender, class and ethnicity. The requirement that students recall and reflect on their childhood memories and share them with others is a way of students learning through their own experiences, reflecting on their views and values. Furthermore, as it will be shown, it opens up spaces for alternative values and viewpoints to emerge about how we might 'regulate' early childhood because 'When we tell stories and process them, using reflective dialogues, we create the possibility of change in ourselves and others'
Learning shape correspondence with anisotropic convolutional neural networks
Venue: NIPS

Establishing correspondence between shapes is a fundamental problem in geometry processing, arising in a wide variety of applications. The problem is especially difficult in the setting of non isometric deformations, as well as in the presence of topological noise and missing parts, mainly due to the limited capability to model such deformations axiomatically. Several recent works showed that invariance to complex shape transformations can be learned from examples. In this paper, we introduce an intrinsic convolutional neural network architecture based on anisotropic diffusion kernels, which we term Anisotropic Convolutional Neural Network (ACNN) In our construction, we generalize convolutions to non Euclidean domains by constructing a set of oriented anisotropic diffusion kernels, creating in this way a local intrinsic polar representation of the data `patch' which is then correlated with a filter. Several cascades of such filters, linear, and non linear operators are stacked to form a deep neural network whose parameters are learned by minimizing a task specific cost. We use ACNNs to effectively learn intrinsic dense correspondences between deformable shapes in very challenging settings, achieving state of the art results on some of the most difficult recent correspondence benchmarks.
The Genetic Basis of Hydrocephalus.
Venue: Annual review of neuroscience

Studies of syndromic hydrocephalus have led to the identification of >100 causative genes. Even though this work has illuminated numerous pathways associated with hydrocephalus, it has also highlighted the fact that the genetics underlying this phenotype are more complex than anticipated originally. Mendelian forms of hydrocephalus account for a small fraction of the genetic burden, with clear evidence of background dependent effects of alleles on penetrance and expressivity of driver mutations in key developmental and homeostatic pathways. Here, we synthesize the currently implicated genes and inheritance paradigms underlying hydrocephalus, grouping causal loci into functional modules that affect discrete, albeit partially overlapping, cellular processes. These in turn have the potential to both inform pathomechanism and assist in the rational molecular classification of a clinically heterogeneous phenotype. Finally, we discuss conceptual methods that can lead to enhanced gene identification and dissection of disease basis, knowledge that will potentially form a foundation for the design of future therapeutics.
Analysis of the Runtime Linux Operating System as a Complex Weighted Network
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Software Analysis, Testing and Evolution (SATE)

The structures and behaviors of modern software systems are more and more complicated, thus the modeling of the runtime software systems is difficult. In this paper, we model the runtime Linux operating system (LOS) as a weighted network to investigate the execution process of LOS. The topologies of the weighted LOS network are analyzed and it is found that the weight distribution follows a power law distribution. For better understanding the execution process of LOS, we explore the manifestations of LOS components. The result shows that the component of process management plays the key role in the execution process of LOS. Moreover, an assessment of the reliability of LOS is proposed by considering the execution status of LOS as a discrete time Markov chain. The reliabilities of 10 LOS versions ranging from versions 3.15 to 4.4 are compared and the result shows that the reliability declines. Our work may shed a light on the testing and monitoring processes of software systems.
Web application security analysis using the Kali Linux operating system

The Kali Linux operating system is described as well as its purpose and possibilities. There are listed groups of tools that Kali Linux has together with the methods of their functioning, as well as a possibility to install and use tools that are not an integral part of Kali. The final part shows a practical testing of web applications using the tools from the Kali Linux operating system. The paper thus shows a part of the possibilities of this operating system in analysing web applications security, which presents the goal of this work.
Analysis of attack and protection systems in Wi Fi wireless networks under the Linux operating system
Venue: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA ACCA)

This article describes the preparation of a Wi Fi wireless network in production system, with intrusion detection systems Snort and Kismet; for subsequent evaluation under attack. Through Penetration Testing with Backtrack 5 R3 using Fern WiFi Cracker and Ettercap to monitor response reaction of IDSs. Once the attacks are completed, the results are analyzed, in terms of the captured traffic by the system using Wireshark, and the attack description, in order to determine the response characteristics of Snort and Kismet. In addition, minimum safety recommendations are deducted, targeting both network administrators and clients; to avoid problems with the attackers.
Role of biofuel and their binary (diesel biodiesel) and ternary (ethanol biodiesel diesel) blends on internal combustion engines emission reduction

Exhaust emission from transportation sector affects the human health. It is the main contributor to degrade the air quality. Biofuel is promising alternative to maintain both human health and environment quality better by reducing harmful emission from biofuel runs diesel engines. This study explores the global and Australian greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenario along with the contribution of transportation sector to the GHG emission in Australia. Besides, the world biofuel standard with the target and mandate taken by the government of different countries to use biofuel are also discussed in the paper. This review indicated that engine emission is dependant on some factors such as engine operating condition, biofuel types, blending etc. Both biodiesel diesel and ethanol biodiesel diesel blending plays a significant role in reducing the exhaust gas emission such as carbon monoxides (CO) hydrocarbons (HC) particulate matter (PM) But ethanol biodiesel diesel and biodiesel diesel blends produce higher carbon dioxides emission, which is absorbed by the crops and considered as lower net CO2 emission. Finally, about 5 10% of ethanol with 20 25% biodiesel can be added with petro diesel effectively and efficiently to reduce global GHG emission, thus to maintain environment and human health better.
Performance analysis of an off grid wind PV (photovoltaic) diesel battery hybrid energy system feasible for remote areas

A large number of populations of the world; especially in developing countries; are living in rural or remote areas those are geographically isolated from the grid connection. Power supply and uninterrupted fuel transportation to produce electrical power for these areas poses a great challenge. Using renewable energy in off grid hybrid energy system might be a pathway to solve this problem. Malaysia is a hilly land with the gift of renewable energy resources. There is a possibility to utilize these renewable resources to produce electrical power and to limit the dependency on the fossil fuel. In this perspective, a research is carried out to analyze the performance of an off grid PV (photovoltaic) wind diesel battery hybrid energy system for a remote area named "KLIA Sepang Station" located in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. The system is designed as well as simulated to support a small community considering an average load demand of 33 kWh/day with a peak load of 3.9 kW. The simulation and optimization of operations of the system have been done by HOMER (Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewable) software using the real time field data of solar radiation and wind speed of that area. The simulation ensures that the system is suitably feasible with respect to net present cost (NPC) and CO 2 emission reduction purpose. The result shows that NPC and CO 2 emission can be reduced about 29.65% and 16 tons per year respectively compared to the conventional power plants. The NPC of the optimized system has been found about USD 288,194.00 having the per unit Cost of Energy (COE) about USD 1.877/kWh. The analyzed hybrid energy system might be applicable for other region of the world where the climate conditions are similar.