Analysis of supersaturated designs

In today\u27s fiercely competitive marketplace, successful and profitable companies distinguish themselves by bringing new products to market before their competitors. The cycle time to develop and launch new products largely depends on a company\u27s ability to study large numbers of factors and to separate, or detect, the significant factors from the insignificant factors. Most ordinary experimental situations with many variables are easily satisfied with the use of a saturated, or nearly-saturated, fractional factorial experimental designs. However, there are occasions where the cost of mnning a statistically designed experiment can be so great as to prohibit the use of these techniques, forcing the experimenter to resort to other, riskier, experimental techniques. Theory suggests that a relatively new class of designs, systematic supersaturated designs, may prove to be even more effective at identifying significant factors than saturated, or nearly-saturated, fractional factorial designs. For the purpose of continuous improvement in the monetary and cycle time expenditures for new product design, new process launch, and new manufacturing process launch, supersaturated designs may provide the experimenter with a viable solution to the problem of studying more factors than permitted in a saturated design. Although, much has been written about creating supersaturated designs, little has been written regarding the analysis of these designs. This paper examines three test statistics which one might consider using when analyzing a supersaturated design. These test statistics are studied for four different supersaturated designs. The simulations and mathematical justifications presented in this paper suggest that it is not in the best interest of the experimenter to use these test statistics with these designs on a regular basis

Passion in Jamie\u27s kitchen : the vital ingredient in education and training for young workers?

In this paper we will sketch out and briefly analyse a recurring and central theme throughout the reality TV series Jamie&rsquo;s Kitchen &ndash; that of passion:&bull; Passion for food;&bull; Being passionate as you construct and present yourself;&bull; Being passionate about your work;&bull; Having a go, getting passionate in a training environment which compresses years of training into months of training.In this series the high profile celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into the enterprising, entrepreneurial, ideal worker of 21st century flexible capitalism. This series, and its figure of the entrepreneurial, risk taking, small businessman (who in this instance is also a global celebrity brand) seeking to develop similar dispositions and behaviours in a workforce that initially does not display such character features, illuminates, and provides a means to explore, key features of new work regimes. The emphasis on passion in the analysis &ndash; which draws on Foucault&rsquo;s later work on the care of the self - allows us to connect to discussions about education and training that highlight the passionate/pleasure dimensions of pedagogy. These elements of education and training very rarely get discussed in a vocational education and training environment which is largely driven by modules/competencies/outcomes.<br /

UA3/3/1 Founders Day Nov. 15, 1967

Founders Day speech written and presented by Lowell Harrison with letter from Kelly Thompson. Original found in President Kelly Thompson\u27s papers

Process algebraic non-product-forms

AbstractA generalization of the Reversed Compound Agent Theorem of Markovian process algebra is derived that yields separable, but non-product-form solutions for collections of interacting processes such as arise in multi-class queueing networks with Processor Sharing servers. It is based on an analysis of the minimal cycles in the state space of a multi-agent cooperation, which can be simply identified. The extended methodology leads to what we believe are new separable solutions and, more generally, the results represent a viable practical application of the theory of Markovian process algebras in stochastic modelling

Reflections 2000

The 2000 issue of Reflections was edited by Kelly Harrison with Brooke Buchanon and Jennifer Carlile serving as artistic director and faculty adviser, respectively. Award winners of the student poetry contest include: Jason Whisnant, Kelly Harrison, and Sarah Donaldson. Award winners of the student art contest include: Mary Jones, Meryl Scott, and Ashlie Pence. Award winners of the student photography contest include: Joy Marinelli and Meryl Scott.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/reflections/1025/thumbnail.jp