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For business-to-business (B2B) companies, selecting new product concepts is vital to new product development (NPD), since it significantly contributes to the ultimate success and reputation of the product in terms of quality and function. The researc...

Structure adaptability design is critical for function evolution in product families, in which many structural and functional design factors are intertwined together with manufacturing cost, customer satisfaction, and final market sales. How to achie...

In this paper, we provide a welfare ranking for the equilibria of the supply function and quantity competitions in a differentiated product duopoly with demand uncertainty. We prove that the expected consumer surplus is always higher under the supply...

The authors establish a set of six new theta-function identities involving multivariable R-functions which are based upon a number of q-product identities and Jacobi’s celebrated triple-product identity. These theta-function identities depict t...

This paper develops an extension of the research work by Proinov to the product spaces $X^{\left|I\right|}$ (I is representing an indexing set). This paper also introduces a novel class of $(\mathcal{L};\mathcal{Y})$-contractions defined on a supremum metric $(X^{\left|I\right|},d^{\prime })$. In supremum...

The results of the development of a modified quality function deployment (QFD) method, obtained for the first time to improve the product quality planning process in the metal cutting of laser technologies confirming the dynamics of open innovation,...

We create two Sakaguchi-type function classes that are starlike and convex with respect to their symmetric points, including a q-difference operator, which may have symmetric or assymetric properties, in the open unit disc. We first obtain sufficient...

Product supply chain systems are structurally complex infophysical systems that contain numerous unmodeled dynamics and uncertainties. Drastic fluctuations in user demand and sudden unexpected events—such as epidemics, trade wars, or cyber-atta...

Porcine Liver Decomposition Product (PLDP) was obtained by treating pig liver homogenate with protease and filling it into capsules. We have already confirmed from three clinical trials that PLDP enhances visual memory and delays memory recall, and w...

In this paper, we investigate the class of quasi-homogeneous production models, obtaining the classification of such models with constant elasticity with respect to an input as well as with respect to all inputs. Moreover, we prove that a quasi-homog...

Sustainable development of the state implies a proportional change in the key macroeconomic indicators described by standard models, one of which is the exponential production function (a special case of the Cobb-Douglas function), where the number o...

Functional foods significantly affect social stability, human health, and food security. Plants and microorganisms are high-quality chassis for the bioactive ingredients in functional foods. Characterised by precise nutrition and the provision of bot...

The first part of the article contains integral expressions for products of two Bessel functions of the first kind having either different integer orders or different arguments. A similar question for a product of modified Bessel functions of the fir...

Let $\eta :X\to \mathbb{R}$ be a Morse function on a connected closed manifold X. We denote by $C\left(\eta \right)$ the fiber product of two copies of $\eta$. For Morse functions $f:M\to \mathbb{R}$ and $g:N\to \mathbb{R}$, we define the function $f\ast g:M\times N\to \mathbb{R}$ by $(f\ast g)$...

Polymeric materials including plastic and paper are commonly used as packaging for bakery products. The incorporation of active substances produces functional polymers that can effectively retain the quality and safety of packaged products. Polymeric...

Whey, a by-product of cheese and casein manufacture, represents a major output in dairy processing and a valuable resource for the production of functional foods. This review examines the technological, environmental, and nutritional aspects of whey...

Product hybridization design is a new model of integrated innovation. Existing methods of product hybridization design focus on technological recombination, and there is a lack of research from the perspective of function. Therefore, this paper propo...

Animal-processing by-products contain collagen, myofibrillar proteins, blood proteins, whey proteins, and egg proteins that can be converted into peptide-rich food ingredients. Within a single application-oriented framework, this review integrates so...

The functional gene is a product of functional information expression methods inspired by biological genes. Product innovation design is essentially a process of functional problem-solving, which has an intrinsic connection with biological gene expre...

Functional foods are products that have clinically evidenced health benefits for consumers due to one or more of their ingredients. While research indicates that consumers are highly interested in these products and are often willing to pay premium p...

In the past two decades, consumption of food has been accruing due to its health claims which include gastrointestinal health, improved immunity, and well-being. Currently, the dairy industry is the sector where probiotics are most widely used, espec...

The functional properties of food products, in addition to enrichment with functional components, can also be achieved by reducing the content of certain components such as sugars and fats, that is, by reducing the energy content of the product. Thus...

In this paper, we establish several expansion formulas for products of the Jacobi theta functions. As applications, we derive some expressions of the powers of ${(q;q)}_{\infty }$ by using these expansion formulas.

Functional foods and beverages are becoming one of the leading food products on the global market today. This is predominately due to the consumer, industry and research-related interests in the use of food-derived products for the management of seve...

Textile dyeing is known to have major environmental concerns, especially with the high use of toxic chemicals. The use of alternatives such as natural dyes rich in phenolic compounds has become extremely appealing in order to move towards a more sust...

The aquaculture sector has been increasing its share in the total fish production in the world. Numerous studies have been published about aquaculture, introducing a variety of techniques and methods that have been applied or could be applied in aqua...

The growing interest of consumers to find products with greater health benefits has led to multiple research works focused on product developments with antioxidant-rich foods by creating safe, acceptable, and high-value nutrition, even in those foods...

The conventional functional form of the Constant-Elasticity-of-Substitution (CES) production function is a general production function nesting a number of other forms of production functions. Examples of such functions include Leontief, Cobb–Do...

The lunar crater production function describes the general pattern of the size–frequency distribution of craters on the lunar surface, and it is the foundation of the surface dating method via crater counting. In addition, the lunar crater prod...

This study addresses the foundational step of developing a classification and taxonomy of agent objective functions as a prerequisite for analyzing stability and forming robust production schedules in distributed manufacturing systems. The research i...

Herbs and spices are a rich source of bioactive compounds that exhibit multidirectional health-promoting effects. Their bioactivity is mainly related to the presence of phenolic acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, essential oils, alkaloids, tannins, sapo...

Frequent human activities have led to different types of land use conflicts which seriously restricted the multi-functional land use and the optimal allocation of resources. Optimizing the development and utilization pattern of land space, carrying o...

In this study, we consider different types of convex-exponent products of elements of a certain class of log-harmonic mapping and then find sufficient conditions for them to be starlike log-harmonic functions. For instance, we show that, if f is a sp...

In metropolitan areas of China, farmland functions have undergone tremendous changes due to rapid urbanization and rising income per capita in the past three decades. This study examines tempo-spatial changes in the farmland functions, using a case s...

This study focuses on 67 counties in Guangdong Province, China, and investigates the spatial distribution patterns, regional differentiation characteristics, and functional zoning of rural areas based on the “Production–Living–Ecolo...

The coordinated development of the territorial spatial pattern and its function is an important prerequisite for the realization of regional high-quality development. This paper aims to reveal the evolutionary characteristics of the spatial–tem...

Under the influence of human activities, natural climate change and other factors, the function-folding phenomenon of land use has appeared in China. The conflict levels of different land-use functions has intensified. Based on the perspective of pro...

This paper provides new observations on the Lovász $\theta$-function of graphs. These include a simple closed-form expression of that function for all strongly regular graphs, together with upper and lower bounds on that function for all regula...

Understanding and monitoring the dynamics of rangeland heterogeneity through time and across space is critical for the effective management and conservation of rangeland systems and the sustained supply of the ecosystem goods and services they provid...

This paper investigates the complexity of real functions through proof techniques inspired by formal language theory. Productiveness, which is a stronger form of non-recursive enumerability, is employed to analyze the complexity of various problems r...

This paper focuses on the problem of determining the distribution functions of the product and the quotient of two independent random variables. We develop a quantile-based approach for approximating these distribution functions and analyze the corre...

We are living in a world filled with artifacts, including daily-use and durable products. In the context of sustainable consumption and production (SCP), the term “sufficiency” is an essential keyword. The concept of sufficiency is import...

This review systematically summarizes recent advances in the field of surface finishing for wood products, with a focus on three cutting-edge directions: functionalization, intelligence, and sustainability. The article first outlines the fundamental...

Traditionally, the special function theory has many applications in various areas of mathematical physics, economics, statistics, engineering, and many other branches of science. Inspired by certain recent extensions of the k-analogue of gamma, the P...

Bottled-beverage production systems require considerable machinery and sophisticated control systems. A malfunction in the production system can result in machine stoppages, thereby decreasing productivity and resulting in the production output not m...

Globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L.) is widely cultivated in the Mediterranean area and Italy is one of the largest producers. A great issue is represented by its high amount of by-product, mainly consisting of external bracts and st...

This paper is related to fuzzy differential subordinations for meromorphic functions. Fuzzy differential subordination results are obtained using a new operator which is the combination Hadamard product and integral operator for meromorphic function.

Sheep milk and its fermented products are increasingly recognized as valuable functional foods due to their high nutritional value and the presence of biologically active compounds. The aim of this review was to summarize current knowledge on selecte...

The lack of adequate guidance and control of the extraction conditions as well as the gap between bench- and industrial-scale production, contributes to the poor functionality of commercial pea protein isolate (cPPI). Therefore, pea protein extractio...

Oxidative stress and AKT serine-threonine kinase (AKT) are responsible for regulating several cell functions of cancer cells. Several natural products modulate both oxidative stress and AKT for anticancer effects. However, the impact of natural produ...