According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

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Diversity and dissimilarity coefficients: A unified approach☆

Growing evidence suggests that thrombophilia is associated with venous thromboembolism (VTE) and adverse pregnancy outcomes. However, methodological limitations have made it difficult to obtain a clear overview of the overall risks. We conducted a systematic review to determine the risk of VTE and adverse pregnancy outcomes associated with thrombophilia in pregnancy. The effectiveness of prophylactic interventions during pregnancy was also evaluated. Major electronic databases were searched, relevant data abstracted and study quality assessed by two independent reviewers. Odds ratios (ORs) stratified by thrombophilia type were calculated for each outcome. A total of 79 studies were included in our review. The risks for individual thrombophilic defects were determined for VTE (ORs, 0.74-34.40); early pregnancy loss (ORs, 1.40-6.25); late pregnancy loss (ORs, 1.31-20.09); pre-eclampsia (ORs, 1.37-3.49); placental abruption (ORs, 1.42-7.71) and intrauterine growth restriction (ORs, 1.24-2.92). Low-dose aspirin plus heparin was the most effective in preventing pregnancy loss in thrombophilic women (OR, 1.62). Our findings confirm that women with thrombophilia are at risk of developing VTE and complications in pregnancy. However, despite the increase in relative risk, the absolute risk of VTE and adverse outcomes remains low. There is also a lack of controlled trials of antithrombotic intervention to prevent pregnancy complications. Thus, at present, universal screening for thrombophilia in pregnancy cannot be justified clinically.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2141.2005.05847.x

Thrombophilia in pregnancy: a systematic review

The statistical analysis of compositional data

Revolutionizing product development

Synchronizing the release rates of salicylate and indomethacin from degradable chitosan hydrogel and its optimization by definitive screening design

Comprehensive testing is necessary to ensure the quality of complex web services that are loosely coupled, dynamic bound and integrated through standard protocols. Testing of such web services ca n be however very expensive due to the diversified us er requirements and the large numbers of service combinations delivered by the open platform. Group testing was introduced in our previous research as a selective testing technique to reduce test cost and improve test efficiencies. This paper proposes a ri skbased approach to group test selection. With this approach test cases are categorized and scheduled with respect to the risks of their target service features. The paper reports a first attempt for an ontology-b ased quantitative risk assessment of semantic web servic es. The failure rate and the importance of services are estimated based on a complexity and dependency analysis of the ontology specified domain knowledge model and various service model. The paper also discusses the risk-based group testing process and strategies for ranking and ruling-out services of t he test groups, at each risk level. Runtime monitoring mechanism is incorporated to detect the dynamic changes in service configuration and composition so that the risks can be continuously adjusted online.

Risk-Based Adaptive Group Testing of Web Services

In introducing the term ‘concept’, the authors of the 2008 International vocabulary of metrology ‘Basic and general concepts and associated terms’ (VIM, 2008) recognize that in order to operationalize a globally accepted set of metrology terms, one requires to deal with a higher level of abstraction. Concepts are obviously not specific to metrology–handling complex tasks in any domain of knowledge that requires conceptual thinking abilities. In this short white paper, we discuss how to assess and develop conceptual thinking of professionals in service, business, and industrial environments. The approach builds on a proven methodology called MERLO that has been developed in the last 15 years by experts in psychology and education with adaptation to new interactive technologies such as clickers and internet-based formative assessments. MERLO pedagogy can be used to assess individuals’ inherent conceptual thinking abilities and train them to enhance their competence in analyzing complex conceptual situations. This is pertinent to the education of metrology, quality, and statistical thinking. We suggest that MERLO can be considered as a complementary enabler to VIM, so that this fundamental work can enhance its impact and applicability.

Conceptual thinking and metrology concepts

roduct and process development is fundamental to long-term business survival. Fostering innovation and reducing time to market while achieving top product performance are crucial to survival and success. Statistically designed experiments play an important role in achieving such objectives and are an important component of industrial statistics. The expanding use of computers to run experiments in a simulated environment has created new frontiers.

Ron S. Kenett

Papers

Synchronizing the release rates of salicylate and indomethacin from degradable chitosan hydrogel and its optimization by definitive screening design

Risk-Based Adaptive Group Testing of Web Services

Conceptual thinking and metrology concepts

New frontiers in the design of experiments

Concept Science Evidence-Based MERLO Learning Analytics