With the rapid development and evolution of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and big-data analysis technologies, faster and more accurate production data analysis and process capability evaluation models will bring industries closer to the goal of smart...
Complex event processing (CEP) systems have gained significant importance in various domains, such as finance, logistics, and security, where the real-time analysis of event streams is crucial. However, as the volume and complexity of event data cont...
The process capability index is a tool for quality measurement and analysis widely used in the industry. It is also a good tool for the sales department to communicate with customers. Although the value of the process capability index can be affected...
Many studies have pointed out that the-smaller-the-better quality characteristics (QC) can be found in many important components of machine tools, such as roundness, verticality, and surface roughness of axes, bearings, and gears. This paper applied...
Background: The translation of a large quantity of data into valuable insights for daily clinical practice is underexplored. A considerable amount of information is overwhelming, making it difficult to distill and assess quality and processes at the...
Process Capability Indices (PCIs) are not only a good communication tools between sales departments and customers but also convenient tools for internal engineers to evaluate and analyze process capabilities of products. Many statisticians and proces...
27 November 2019
Determining acrylamide (AA) content in foods using chromatographic methods is expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, there is a need to develop a simple, economical method for monitoring the content of acrylamide in foods. This study analysed wheth...
The purpose of a shop enhancing customer satisfaction is to raise its total revenue as the rate of customer purchases in the shop increases. Some studies have pointed out that the amount of customer arrival at a shop is a Poisson process. A simple an...
3 February 2026
Access to valid and reliable measures of structural racism is essential for addressing health inequities, yet few validated ecological-level indices exist for assessing structural racism affecting Black and Hispanic populations in the United States....
Processed Fu-Zi (the lateral roots of Aconitum carmichaeli) is beneficial for the cardiac system, but, because it contains toxins, raw Fu-Zi produces arrhythmia and breathing difficulties. C19 diester diterpenoid alkaloids (DDAs), including aconitine...
The generation of hazardous industrial waste in Taiwan has rapidly increased, reaching 1.5 million tons produced annually in 2021. Most of this waste was burned in incinerators, with about 15% (225,000 tons) of it converted into fly ash. Incinerator...
In the process of extrapolating a lifetime distribution function under normal storage conditions through nonlinear accelerated degradation data, time indexes under the normal storage conditions are usually set to the mean value of time indexes under...
25 February 2022
A mature of safety culture is crucial to preventing and mitigating accidents, incidents, and unsafe behaviors in the process industry, so as to make it more sustainable and economically responsible. Measurement, investigation, and assessment of the s...
In this study, the estimation methods of bias-corrected maximum likelihood (BCML), bootstrap BCML (B-BCML) and Bayesian using Jeffrey’s prior distribution were proposed for the inverse Gaussian distribution with small sample cases to obtain the...
U-statistics are fundamental in modeling statistical measures that involve responses from multiple subjects. They generalize the concept of the empirical mean of a random variable X to include summations over each m-tuple of distinct observations of...
This paper develops a unified asymptotic theory for conditional single-index U-statistics and the associated conditional U-processes in the setting of locally stationary functional time series subject to missing-at-random response mechanisms. The pro...
Real-time performance is important in rule-based continuous spatiotemporal query processing for risk analysis and decision making of target objects collected by sensors of combat vessels. The existing Rete algorithm, which creates a compiled node lin...
The quality characteristics with unilateral specifications include the smaller-the-better (STB) and larger-the-better (LTB) quality characteristics. Roundness, verticality, and concentricity are categorized into the STB quality characteristics, while...
This paper assesses the bootstrap confidence intervals of a newly proposed process capability index (PCI) for Weibull distribution, using the logarithm of the analyzed data. These methods can be applied when the quality of interest has non-symmetrica...
The desire for foods with lower glycemic indices has led to the exploration of functional ingredients and novel food processing techniques. The glycemic index (GI) is a well-recognized tool to assess the capacity of foods to raise blood glucose level...
Many kinds of spatio-temporal data in our daily lives, such as the trajectory data of moving objects, stream natively. Streaming systems exhibit significant advantages in processing streaming data due to their distributed architecture, high throughpu...
The process performance index (PPI) can be a simple metric to connect the conforming rate of products. The properties of the PPI have been well studied for the normal distribution and other widely used lifetime distributions, such as the Weibull, Gam...
Geospatial databases are basic tools to collect, index, and manage georeferenced data indicators in sustainability research for efficient, long-term analysis. NoSQL databases are increasingly applied to manage the ever-growing massive spatial vector...
A control chart monitoring the process capability index (PCI) using median absolute deviation (MAD) is proposed to analyze the industrial process performance. Extensive simulation studies were carried out to evaluate the performance of MAD-based PCI...
We develop a design-conditional limit theory for kernel estimators of conditional U-functionals based on locally stationary functional random fields observed at irregular random locations and under incomplete response observation. The covariates take...
It is agreed by industry experts that manufacturing processes are evaluated using quantitative indicators of units produced from this process. For example, the
In his work published in (Ann. Probab. 19, No. 2 (1991), 812–825), W. Stute introduced the notion of conditional U-statistics, expanding upon the Nadaraya–Watson estimates used for regression functions. Stute illustrated the pointwise con...
Personalized learning requires systematic approaches for representing, analyzing, and quantifying learner characteristics and educational processes. This study presents a framework for analyzing and quantifying symmetry in personalized learning throu...
Rice is a fundamental food source for more than fifty percent of the world’s population, significantly contributing to human nutrition and food security. Like other cereal grains, rice is rich in starch, although it also contains protein, vitam...
The interactive development of economic globalization, informatization, marketization, and urbanization has reshaped the urban commercial landscape and society, and poses new requirements for the business environment. New commerce forms that are base...
We assessed the association between body mass index (BMI) and sensory processing in 445 Spanish children aged 3–7 from the InProS project. Child sensory processing was measured using the short sensory profile (SSP); an atypical sensory performa...
In order to improve the treatment processes of the drinking water treatment plant (DWTP) located near the Butoniga reservoir in Istria (Croatia), a prediction of the water quality index (WQI) was done. Based on parameters such as temperature, pH, tur...
It should be remarked that the basic knowledge collected from complicated area of the structuration process of the organic materials, including the liquid crystal (LC) ones, useful for the optoelectronics and biomedicine, requires extending the types...
Human activities continue to affect our water quality; it remains a major problem worldwide (particularly concerning freshwater and human consumption). A critical water quality index (WQI) method has been used to determine the overall water quality s...
This study explored how the chemical composition and molecular structure of black rice influence its glycemic index (GI), as well as how different processing methods regulate these relationships. Eight black rice varieties were analyzed for their nut...
The estimated glycemic index (eGI) value of adzuki bean powder prepared by steamed cooking (SC), extruded cooking (EC) and roller cooking (RC) was studied comparatively. Results showed that RC had the highest eGI, with 80.1, and both EC and SC result...
Leaf area index (LAI) is an important biophysical parameter, which can be effectively applied in the estimation of vegetation growth status. At present, amounts of studies just focused on the LAI estimation of a single plant type, while plant types a...
Eight wheat products differing in texture (porridge vs. bread), grain fineness (fine, kibbled, intact), and cooking (raw vs. cooked), with pre-measured glycaemic indexes (GI), were analysed by in vitro amylolytic digestion to determine effects of pro...
Many applications, including crop growth and yield monitoring, require accurate long-term time series of leaf area index (LAI) at high spatiotemporal resolution with a quantification of the associated uncertainties. We propose an LAI retrieval approa...
Landslide susceptibility assessment is an effective non-engineering landslide prevention at the regional scale. This study aims to improve the accuracy of landslide susceptibility assessment by using an optimized statistical index (SI) method. A land...
Retinal vessel segmentation, skeletonization, and the generation of vessel segments are considered significant steps in any automated system for measuring the vessel biomarkers of several disease diagnoses. Most of the current tortuosity quantificati...
Transparent and comparable evaluation of ecological restoration outcomes is essential for advancing performance-based environmental governance and ESG-aligned ecological compensation. However, existing grassland monitoring approaches in semi-arid reg...
Huge quantities of audio and video material are available at universities and teaching institutions, but their use can be limited because of the lack of intelligent search tools. This paper describes a possible way to set up an indexing scheme that o...
The Taguchi capability index, which reflects the expected loss and the yield of a process, is a useful index for evaluating the quality of a process. Several scholars have proposed a process improvement capability index based on the expected value of...
Process capability index (PCI) is a convenient and useful tool of process quality evaluation that allows a company to have a complete picture of its manufacturing process in order to prevent defective products while ensuring the product quality is at...
Process Capability Indices (PCIs) are devices widely used in the industry to evaluate process quality. The commonly used process capability indices all contain accuracy indices and precision indices. As the accuracy index is closer to zero, the proce...
Agricultural leisure is one of the development trends in modern society. However, in leisure agriculture management, managers must consider the dual characteristics of agricultural production technology and the leisure service industry. Therefore, ma...
The permeability index (PI) is a key comprehensive indicator that reflects the smoothness of internal gas flow in pig iron production via blast furnace. An accurate prediction for it is essential for forecasting abnormal furnace conditions and preven...
This study aims to create a performance evaluation model for the food processing machinery industry. The goal is to help food processing plants improve both process quality and competitiveness. Additionally, component failures may disrupt the continu...
Serial crystallography (SX) enables the determination of biologically relevant structures at room temperature while minimizing radiation damage. During SX experiments, the beam center on diffraction images can shift due to X-ray beam movements or det...
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