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  • A conceptual and strategy map for lean process transformation

    Creator:
    Mirdad, Waleed Khalid
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    Since the introduction of lean manufacturing by Toyota and publication by Womack and Jones, organizations have realized sizeable gains through lean process improvement. The spread of lean practices across organizations and industries – from manufacturing to healthcare and construction – requires adjustments of the lean process and, in the case...
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    historical data, and other qualitative (Doolen & Hacker, 2005; Soriano-Meier & Forrester, 2002; Upton, 1998

  • Keyboard design deficiencies of mobile bar code scanners

    Creator:
    Long, Myra D.
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    The use of mobile bar code scanners is expanding to markets beyond popular manufacturing uses, such as healthcare, environmental testing and professional services. The successful interaction of users with mobile bar code scanners is of great importance from a business and technology perspective as well as from the user standpoint....
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    committee members, namely Dr. Ken Funk and Dr. Toni Doolen, I've learned a great deal from you both. I

  • Does the relationship with the baby's father predict breastfeeding for low-income mothers?

    Creator:
    Schiedel, Esther R.
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    The study hypotheses, based on sociobiology, were that the more committed and positive the parental relationship, the greater the likelihood of breastfeeding and of later weaning. Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study was used; sample size was 3635, and over half were African- 2merican. In a logistic...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Process modeling the physician-patient encounter

    Creator:
    Tong, Xiaomin
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    The objective of this research was to provide a definitive description of the processes within the physician-patient encounter in an office setting. This description would take the form of a formal process model of the encounter in a provider's office setting, as this represents the most common situation during patient...
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    guidance during the past two years. I also wish to thank my graduate committee members: Dr. Toni Doolen

  • An analytical methodology to support the identification and remediation of potential human fallibilities in complex human-machine systems

    Creator:
    Thompson, Leslie Braitsch
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    This research proposes a Human Fallibility Identification and Remediation Methodology (HFIRM) that supports the systematic identification and remediation of potential human errors. The objective of this research was to develop and test a prototype framework that supports the practical application of human factors knowledge to the analysis and design of...
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    that he has provided as major professor. The author also thanks Toni Doolen, Irem Tumer, and Erik

  • Lean thinking in the secondary woodproducts industry : challenges and benefits

    Creator:
    Czabke, Jochen
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    Due to growing global competition, especially in the last decade, the United States wood and wood-based industries have suffered significant market share losses. The wood industry in Germany is facing similar challenges. To stay competitive in an increasingly global marketplace, many wood manufacturers are adopting new management/manufacturing approaches. Lean manufacturing...
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  • Faculty perceptions of actions of community college presidents that increased organizational trust

    Creator:
    Baker, Joshua D.
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    Organizational trust refers to the tendency of individuals or groups within an organization to trust each other. Tschannen-Moran (2004) describes trust as one's "willingness to be vulnerable to another based on the confidence that the other is benevolent, honest, open, reliable, and competent" (p. 17). The purpose of this study...
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    Dissertation

  • Bi-criteria group scheduling with learning in hybrid flow shops

    Creator:
    Bozorgirad, Mir Abbas
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    In this research, a bi-criteria group scheduling problem is investigated in hybrid flow shop (HFS) environments, where the parallel machines in each stage are unrelated, meaning not identical. The objective of the problem is to minimize a linear combination of the total weighted completion times as a means of complying...
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    committee members, Dr. Toni Doolen and Dr. Karl Haapala for their guidance and support. Special thanks to

  • Utilizing wireless-based data collection units for automated vehicle movement data collection

    Creator:
    Saeedi, Amirali
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    There are many different types of automatic data collection technologies that have been used in transportation system applications such as pneumatic tubes, radar, video cameras, inductive loops detectors, wireless toll tags, and global positioning systems (GPS). Nevertheless, there are still multiple examples of important and helpful transportation system data that...
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    like to thank my committee members Dr. Toni Doolen, Dr. Karen Dixon, Dr. David Hurwitz, and Dr. Scott

  • Towards a guided framework for innovative engineering through the generation and evaluation stages of concept design

    Creator:
    Oman, Sarah Kay
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    This work proposes a framework of concept generation and evaluation that takes into consideration the benefit of creativity and innovation in current market trends. By educating engineers in how to increase creativity in concept design and assess it quantitatively, the next generation of designers will be a step ahead of...
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    the freedom to pursue my interests. To those in my committee, Drs. Rob Stone, Kagan Tumer, and Toni