Which subjects should be included in the curriculum of an undergraduate process control course, and which should not?

Imagine you’re in line at your favourite bakery, deciding whether to have a doughnut or a tart. You weigh them up, the doughnut wins, and you settle on that. By the time you’re at the front of the ...

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Rent control in Massachusetts could lead to big losses in city and town budgets, according to a new study released Thursday. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board and the Center for State Policy ...

This asynchronous course addresses the basic theory behind Statistical Process Control (SPC), a method used in monitoring and controlling the quality of a process through statistical analysis to ...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives. A problem arising in practice is that having ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Advanced radiotherapy methods include Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) requiring stringent quality assurance (QA) to ensure ...

1 Doctoral School of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, University of Douala, Douala, Cameroon. 2 Engineering School of ESIREM, University of Bourgogne, Bourgogne, France. 3 Department of Mathematics ...

Women who use Depo-Provera face a higher risk of developing a slow-growing brain tumor, according to a new study that comes as the contraceptive’s maker, Pfizer, faces hundreds of lawsuits claiming ...

Bentonville, Ark.—A decade ago, the largest private employer in the U.S., Walmart, increased its starting wage to $9 an hour. Raising the salaries of nearly half of its more than a million U.S. hourly ...