Browsing Volume 15 (2022) by Issue Date
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School vouchers for greater educational equity
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)Providing public funding to parents to pay children's tuition at private and religious schools has been a matter of debate over the last three decades based on claims such as the lack of accountability in private schools, ... -
Incorporating theory into practice: A historical assessment of layout design and Bürolandschaft with practical applications to modern office landscapes using performance metrics
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)The historical upbringing of the theoretical foundations of layout planning and optimization provided several core principles from which other theories have been derived. Naturally, the development and transformation of ... -
Does a municipality's wellness affect its business growth?
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)This study focuses on the health of a given population to determine if health indicators can be used as a predictor of business growth in a geographic region. A study that was focused on the wellness in a firm, concluded: ... -
Commercial airline passengers' willingness to fly with COVID-19 safety measures
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)In the commercial aviation industry, safety is always a primary concern, with a central focus on the well?being of passengers and crew members. Given the significance of safety, the COVID?19 pandemic has resulted in drastic ... -
Journal of Management & Engineering Integration, v.15, no.1 (Summer)
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Investigating the interaction between the feedback orientation & the feedback environment on employee performance
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)A positive relationship between a favorable feedback environment and employee performance has been established, thus, researchers and practitioners have been calling for a shift in focus from an annual performance review ... -
3D printed superhydrophobic structures for sustainable manufacturing benefits: An overview
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-06)Superhydrophobic properties have been present in nature for many millennia before human beings discovered their true capabilities and utilized them to revolutionize modern societies. The most familiar form of hydrophobicity ... -
Designing, fabricating, and testing of portable electrospun nanofilter systems for domestic water purification
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Membrane technology has been playing a vital role in water filtration and purification. Various technologies such as sand filtration, reverse osmosis, treatment with chemical disinfectants, and distillation have been used ... -
Investigating the effects of salt spray corrosion on mechanical properties of steel sheets of HVAC heat pumps coated with zinc and polymeric substances
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Steel sheets are extensively used in various industrial applications because of their high mechanical properties, costs, and availability. However, in some applications such as gas, oil, and solar water heaters and heating, ... -
Statistical process control implementations within the aviation industry
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)In 1931, Walter Shewhart introduced his work in statistical process control (SPC) through his book, Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. A common confusion in the use of SPC is that it does not fit every ... -
Touch detection in augmented Omni-surface for human-robot teaming
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)This paper proposes an architecture that augments arbitrary surfaces into an interactive touching interface. The proposed architecture can detect the number of touching fingertips of human operators by detecting and ... -
Predicting asthma patients' total cost using neural networks and linear regression
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)In this paper, we analyze a population of asthma patients trying to predict the total cost of their treatment based on various demographic, clinical, and pharmacological data. We are comparing a neural network architecture ... -
Integration of instance-based learning and computed torque control for an effective assist-as-needed support in human-exoskeleton interaction
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)The physiological responses that arise from human-robot interaction may vary across subjects in magnitude and rate. Such individual variations may require instance-based learning over model-based learning algorithms. For ... -
Continuous human pose estimation by machine learning and computer vision
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Pose estimation is an important topic that has drawn significant attention from the computer vision community (Luo, Wang, Wong, & Cheng, 2020). The main task is to identify and track the pose of a person in an image or ... -
Challenges to the implementation of lean practices in higher education: Is the culture in higher education conducive to adoption of lean principles and philosophy?
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Lean in higher education, often abbreviated as LHE, has grown in interest over the past 20 years. The application of lean principles has been observed in higher education institutions throughout the world. Many researchers ... -
Business analytics at Florida commuter colleges: The impact and effectiveness of implementing a business analytics program
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Only forty of Florida's one-hundred seventy-eight colleges and universities are public, meaning the vast majority are privately run. Many of these schools provide associate degrees or certificates (Community College Review, ... -
Effects of functional nanomaterials for reduction of carbon monoxide levels in the workplace and homes
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)Carbon monoxide (CO) at high concentrations is extremely poisonous to humans and other invertebrates. It is one of the leading causes of unintentional deaths in the United States. Furthermore, people with heart diseases ... -
Computer applications: A novel architecture to improve the performance of audio visual applications
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)To attain the best audio-visual experience, the underlying computing platform should provide high performance in real time. The forthcoming computer systems consist of multicore processors to achieve a high performance-to-power ... -
Key barriers to Industry 4.0 in construction industry
(Association for Industry, Engineering and Management Systems (AIEMS), 2022-12)The construction industry makes significant contributions to the national GDP. The rapid increase in urban population resulted in increased demand for quality and productivity. Industry 4.0 offers an opportunity for the ... -
Journal of Management & Engineering Integration, v.15, no.2 (Winter)
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