The decay of Six Sigma and the rise of Quality 4.0 in manufacturing innovation

CA Escobar, D Macias-Arregoyta… - Quality …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Smart manufacturing (SM) processes exhibit rapidly increasing complexity, nonlinear
patterns in hyperdimensional spaces, high volumes of data, transient sources of variations …

Celebrity endorsements, whitening products, and consumer purchase intentions: A review of literature

A Khan, RI Sabir, MB Majid, MU Javaid… - Journal of cosmetic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine how much celebrity endorsement
stimulates skin color racism in the cosmetics industry. Design/Methodology/Approach The …

Does carbon footprint play a relevant role in food consumer behaviour? A focus on Spanish beef

O Lami, FJ Mesías, C Balas, C Díaz-Caro, M Escribano… - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Carbon footprint has become a reference indicator of the environmental impact of food
production. Governments are increasingly demanding a trend towards low-carbon-footprint …

Cost of specific emergency general surgery diseases and factors associated with high-cost patients

GO Ogola, S Shafi - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2016 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND We have previously shown that overall cost of hospitalization for emergency
general surgery (EGS) diseases is more than $28 billion annually and rising. The purposes …

A landslide numerical factor derived from CHIRPS for shallow rainfall triggered landslides in Colombia

CA Cullen, R Al Suhili, E Aristizabal - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite great advances in remote sensing technologies, accurate satellite information is
sometimes challenged in tropical regions where dense vegetation prevents the instruments …

Development of a short form of the compulsive internet use scale in Switzerland

G Gmel, Y Khazaal, J Studer, S Baggio… - … Journal of Methods in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The study aims to develop a short form of the compulsive internet use scale
(CIUS), which can be used in multitopic and general population health surveys and is …

On Johnson's (2000) relative weights method for assessing variable importance: A reanalysis

DR Thomas, BD Zumbo, E Kwan… - Multivariate behavioral …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article provides a reanalysis of JW Johnson's (2000)“relative weights” method for
assessing variable importance in multiple regression. The primary conclusion of the …

Latent variable mixture models: a promising approach for the validation of patient reported outcomes

R Sawatzky, PA Ratner, JA Kopec, BD Zumbo - Quality of Life Research, 2012 - Springer
Purpose A fundamental assumption of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) measurement is
that all individuals interpret questions about their health status in a consistent manner, such …

Evaluating the relationship between lightning and the large‐scale environment and its use for lightning prediction in global climate models

M Etten‐Bohm, J Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study is to determine the relationship between lightning observed by the
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) and seven …

Changes in quality of life after epilepsy surgery: the role of reprioritization response shift

TT Sajobi, KM Fiest, S Wiebe - Epilepsia, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important indicator of well‐being in
patients with epilepsy. When assessing changes in HRQOL over time, some of the changes …