• Effective cost minimization strategy and an optimization model of a reliable global supply chain system 

  Daehy, Yahya H.; Krishnan, Krishna K.; Alsaadi, Ahmed K.; Alghamdi, Saleh Y. (Growing Science, 2019)

  Attributable to high competition in global manufacturing market and outsourcing suppliers, many supply chain systems have become more complex and faced with high risks and low performance. Many financial losses and failures ...

• An energy-aware multiobjective ant colony algorithm to minimize total completion time and energy cost on a single-machine preemptive scheduling 

  Rubaiee, Saeed; Yildirim, Mehmet Bayram (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Energy-aware scheduling in manufacturing operations with time-of-use electricity tariffs is a challenging problem. Sustainable manufacturing is gaining significant momentum: companies are not only improving their product ...

• Real-time control of cyber-physical manufacturing process under uncertainty 

  Nannapaneni, Saideep; Mahadevan, Sankaran; Dubey, Abhishek (ASME, 2018-06)

  Modern manufacturing processes are increasing becoming cyber-physical in nature, where a computational system monitors the system performance, provides real-time process control by analyzing sensor data collected regarding ...

• Modeling and analysis of short-term work planning in inpatient care settings 

  Aragon, Lucy G.; Cure Vellojin, Laila N.; Tiong, Ewing; Bush, Rita (Elsevier, 2018-12)

  This paper uses operations research (OR) to investigate inpatient care work planning decisions from the perspective of a single healthcare provider in a hospital unit. While there has been considerable research on the ...

• Relaxing leaf-motion restrictions in dynamic multileaf collimator leaf sequencing 

  Mirzapourrezaei, Seyedali; Salari, Ehsan (John Wiley and Sons, 2018-11)

  Purpose Methods Traditionally, unidirectional leaf-sweeping schemes have been employed to deliver IMRT plans using the dynamic multileaf collimator (DMLC) technique. The goal of this research is to investigate the potential ...

• Material degradation modeling and failure prediction using microstructure images 

  Si, Wujun; Yang, Qingyu; Wu, Xin (Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-05)

  Degradation data, frequently along with low-dimensional covariate information such as scalar-type covariates, are widely used for asset reliability analysis. Recently, many high-dimensional covariates such as functional ...

• Environmental impact reduction as a new dimension for quality measurement of healthcare services: the case of magnetic resonance imaging 

  Esmaeili, Mohammad Amin; McGuire, Charles; Overcash, Michael; Ali, Kamran; Soltani, Seyed A.; Twomey, Janet M. (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-10)

  PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed accounting of energy and materials consumed during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The first and second stages of ISO standard ...

• A multi-criteria ranking algorithm (MCRA) for determining breast cancer therapy 

  Hasan, Mostafa; Buyuktahtakin, Esra; Elamin, Elshami (Elsevier, 2019-01)

  Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. The selection of an effective, patient specific treatment plan for breast cancer has been a challenge for physicians because the decision process involves a ...

• Impact of process parameters on mechanical properties of 3D printed polycaprolactone (PCL) parts 

  Mehraein, Hootan (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  Rapid prototyping is an innovative and powerful technology used for direct layer-by-layer fabrication of parts from a 3D computer model. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is the most common and simplest technique in 3D ...

• Nurse staffing and skill-mix optimization in inpatient settings using a stochastic modeling approach 

  Eimanzadeh, Parisa (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  This dissertation is embargoed to August 2019.

• Medical applications of rapid prototyping: a review of the current state of technology 

  Sundaram, Lakshmi (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  Rapid prototyping (RP) also known as additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing is a collection of techniques that aid faster production of prototypes. RP has a wide variety of applications in fields ...

• Supplier assessment process for manufacturing companies with existing suppliers 

  Patel, Ravi J (Wichita State University, 2018-07)

  In the global supply chain, appropriate and sustainable suppliers play a vital role in supply chain development and feasibility. In any big organization with a large number of suppliers, it is necessary to divide suppliers ...

• Time-variant reliability-based design optimization using sequential kriging modeling 

  Li, Mingyang; Bai, Guangxing; Wang, Zequn (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-03-21)

  This paper presents a sequential Kriging modeling approach (SKM) for time-variant reliability-based design optimization (tRBDO) involving stochastic processes. To handle the temporal uncertainty, time-variant limit state ...

• Intra-fraction motion prediction in MR-guided radiotherapy using Markov Modeling 

  Mirzapour, Azam; Mazur, Thomas R.; Sharp, Gregory; Salari, Ehsan (John Wiley and Sons, 2018-06-11)

• Optimizing chemoradiotherapy to target metastatic disease and tumor growth 

  Badri, Hamidreza; Salari, Ehsan; Watanabe, Yoichi; Leder, Kevin (INFORMS, 2018-04-05)

  The majority of cancer-related fatalities are due to metastatic disease. Chemotherapeutic agents are administered along with radiation in chemoradiotherapy (CRT) to control the primary tumor and systemic disease such as ...

• Advancements in Unit Process Life Cycle Inventories (UPLCI) Tools 

  Overcash, Michael; Griffing, Evan M.; Vozzola, Eric; Twomey, Janet M.; Flanagan, W.; Isaacs, J. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Interest in environmental benefits and impacts of products continues to evolve. Direct macro-creation of pieces, parts, and components assembled into products is an essential final step, requiring energy and chemical ...

• Measurement of resilience in job shop system 

  Alquraish, Mohammed M. (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  This dissertation is embargoed to May 2019.

• The effects of a fatiguing lifting task on postural sway among males and females 

  Bannon, Helen; Hakansson, Nils A.; Jakobsen, Markus D.; Sundstrup, Emil; Jorgensen, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2018-06)

  Lifting and falls comprise a large proportion of work related injuries. Repetitive lifting to the point of fatigue can affect postural sway, which is associated with fall risk. To investigate the effects of lifting and ...

• A study of temperature effects in modulation-assisted machining 

  Natarajan, Arvind (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Machining is a process that involves extreme physical and chemical interactions between cutting tools and work materials. The extreme interactions lead to high tool wear and intensive energy expenditure; and, to mitigate ...

• Rolling pattern and energy requirements when rolling from supine to side-lying on rigid and soft surfaces 

  Agrawal, Rahul Omprakash (Wichita State University, 2017-12)

  Rolling is an activity that most people perform repeatedly on a daily basis. Rolling and repositioning oneself in bed serves to improve comfort, circulation, and sleep quality and prevent decubitus ulcers, commonly referred ...

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