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"Fuzzy front end" practices in innovating Japanese companies
In this paper, we report on the results of a large-scale study about typical front-end-related innovation practices in 553 Japanese mechanical and electrical engineering companies. We explore typical activities concerning the generation and assessment of new product ideas, the reduction of technological as well as market uncertainty and front end planning. Finally, we report on differences between successful and unsuccessful companies. Our study confirms earlier findings about the frequent use of creativity techniques in Japan during the process of idea generation. We also find companies to intensively involve upper management and customers into NPD projects. While integrating upper management is of vital importance for assessing new product ideas, integrating customers and users is primarily used to developing product ideas and concepts. We further find evidence that successful companies integrate their customers more frequently in the process of developing and assessing new product ideas than non successful companies. In addition, the former integrate customer requirements into their product definitions more often and also translate these requirements into technical specifications more frequently than non-successful companies. Finally, successful companies more often systematically plan a project prior to its start than unsuccessful ones. --New product development,Japanese firms,planning,success innovation
The structure and behavior of the arctic cyclone in summer analyzed by the JRA-25/JCDAS data
AbstractIn this study, three-dimensional structures and the life-time behavior of arctic cyclones are investigated as case studies, using reanalysis data of JRA-25 and JCDAS. In recent years, arctic region has undergone drastic warming in conjunction with the reduced sea ice concentration in summer. The rapid reduction of the sea ice concentration is explained, to some extent, by a pressure dipole of the arctic cyclone and Beaufort high over the Arctic Ocean. This paper presents some case studies for the structure of the arctic cyclone.It is found by the analysis of this study that the arctic cyclone indicates many differences in structure and behavior compared with the mid-latitude cyclone. The arctic cyclones move rather randomly in direction over the Arctic Ocean. The arctic cyclone has a barotropic structure in the vertical from the surface to the stratosphere. The arctic cyclone detected at the sea level pressure is connected with the polar vortex at the 500 hPa level and above. Importantly, the arctic cyclone has a cold core in the troposphere and a warm core around the 200 hPa level. The mechanism of the formation is discussed based on the analyzed structure of the arctic cyclones
Sparse modeling approach to extract spectral functions with covariance of Euclidean-time correlators of lattice QCD
We present our sparse modeling study to extract spectral functions from
Euclidean-time correlation functions. In this study covariance between
different Euclidean times of the correlation function is taken into account,
which was not done in previous studies. In order to check applicability of the
method, we firstly test it with mock data which imitate possible charmonium
spectral functions. Then, we extract spectral functions from correlation
functions obtained from lattice QCD at finite temperature.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, talk presented at the 40th International
Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2023), July 31st - August 4th,
2023, Fermi National Accelerator Laborator
A sensitive cloud chamber without radioactive sources
We present a sensitive diffusion cloud chamber which does not require any
radioactive sources. A major difference from a commonly used chamber is use of
a heat sink as its bottom plate. A result of a performance test of the chamber
is given.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, iopart.cls, figures and references adde
Widely Extended [OIII] 88 um Line Emission around the 30 Doradus Region Revealed with AKARI FIS-FTS
We present the distribution map of the far-infrared [OIII] 88um line emission
around the 30 Doradus (30 Dor) region in the Large Magellanic Cloud obtained
with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer of the Far-Infrared Surveyor onboard
AKARI. The map reveals that the [OIII] emission is widely distributed by more
than 10' around the super star cluster R136, implying that the 30 Dor region is
affluent with interstellar radiation field hard enough to ionize O^{2+}. The
observed [OIII] line intensities are as high as (1-2) x 10^{-6} W m^{-2}
sr^{-1} on the peripheral regions 4'-5' away from the center of 30 Dor, which
requires gas densities of 60-100 cm^{-3}. However the observed size of the
distribution of the [OIII] emission is too large to be explained by massive
stars in the 30 Dor region enshrouded by clouds with the constant gas density
of 10^2 cm^{-3}. Therefore the surrounding structure is likely to be highly
clumpy. We also find a global correlation between the [OIII] and the
far-infrared continuum emission, suggesting that the gas and dust are well
mixed in the highly-ionized region where the dust survives in clumpy dense
clouds shielded from the energetic photons.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the
Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ
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