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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Leanness"”.
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Measuring Leanness of Manufacturing Systems and Identifying Leanness Target by Considering Agility
… quantitative and synthesized measure for overall leanness has not been established. In some circumstances, being lean may not be the only goal for manufacturers. In order to compete in the rapidly changing marketplace, manufacturing systems should also be agile to respond quickly to uncertain …
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Disentangling Resilience, Agility and Leanness: Conceptual Development and Empirical Analysis
… specifically by: (1) disentangling resilience, leanness and agility and (2) investigating how resilience along with leanness and agility affects operational performance outcomes. At the first phase, a literature review of practices underlying Lean, Agile and Resilient (LAR) was done, classifying …
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A comparative study of certain factors related to obesity and leanness in several preadolescent girls
… is a comparison of certain factors related to leanness, obesity, and "average" weight in 12 healthy preadolescent girls of above-average intelligence and similar family backgrounds. Factors considered were anthropometric data from the subjects, possible height-weight relationships between …
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The Effects of Exposure to Slender and Muscular Images on Male Body Dissatisfaction
… to change in body dissatisfaction. Drive for leanness and drive for muscularity were examined as moderators for each condition. Participants were 95 male undergraduates who provided demographic information and completed measures assessing body dissatisfaction, the drive for muscularity, the …
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An evaluation of the prime vendor support approach to U.S. Army weapon system sustainment
… and is then used to generate a "degree of leanness" index for each major sustainment process. These measures reflect, in essence, lean effectiveness ratings. The rating process itself draws upon extensive field interviews with personnel associated with these two weapon system support …
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Application of DMAIC to integrate Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma
… is made more prescriptive by an integrated leanness assessment tool, which will guide the user given their existing level of implementation and integration. Further guidance in each of the cells formed by the integration matrix is provided by way of phase methodologies and …
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Effects of Ractopamine and Muscle Fiber Number on Swine Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, and Meat Quality
… feed conversion (G:F), and increasing carcass leanness. One method to increase ADG, G:F, and carcass leanness is through the utilization of RAC. Ractopamine hydrochloride is an orally active beta1 adrenergic agonist that is approved for use in the United States, and is incorporated into the …
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Effects of ractopamine and muscle fiber number on swine growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality
… feed conversion (G:F), and increasing carcass leanness. One method to increase ADG, G:F, and carcass leanness is through the utilization of RAC. Ractopamine hydrochloride is an orally active β1 adrenergic agonist that is approved for use in the United States, and is incorporated into the pig’s …
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Operational initiatives in the food industry
… assessed in order to understand the degree of leanness by examining the status of lean practices. All the cases pertaining to the food industry were mapped on the food industry classification scheme to identify specific food industry types of each of the food plants. It is observed that the …
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Evaluating Consumer Acceptability and Willingness to Pay for Various Beef Chuck Muscles
… and the SV lowest. Like of shape, size, and leanness differed among muscles <em>(P </em>< 0.05) with the LD and TB rated similar and highest for like of shape, and the SV the lowest; the LD rated highest for like of size, the SS and SV similar and lowest; the LD rated highest for like of …
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Lean enterprise self-assessment as a leading indicator for accelerating transformation in the aerospace industry
… as a means for measuring their current state of leanness in leadership/transformation processes, lifecycle processes, and enabling infrastructure. Cross-sectional LESAT data, two-period time series LESAT data, and directed interviews and site visits were utilized to formulate the conclusions …
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Female Collegiate Athletes and Eating Disorders: A Population at-Risk?
… relationships between sports advocating body leanness as possible risk factors of eating disorders were investigated and no significance was found. The study did find a link between age and eating disorder behavior among nonathletes. Traditionally, it has been assumed that collegiate female …
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Growth, carcass composition, and plasma growth hormone levels in cyclically fed rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss microform
… factor, which is an index of the fatness or leanness of a fish, was slightly lower than that of the control groups at the end of the experiment as a leaner fish was produced. The response to the starvation phase of the feeding cycle (as far as weight and fat loss were concerned) decreased in …
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Effects of feeding ractopamine (Paylean®) to immunologically castrated (Improvest®) pigs on growth performance, carcass yields, and further processing characteristics
… of the increased efficiency and carcass leanness commonly associated with raising boars without having any boar taint issues with meat from those pigs. While the reports of feeding RAC, as well as immunological castration, are extensive and numerous, there is very limited data evaluating …
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Influence of supplemental chromium picolinate on nitrogen balance, dry matter digestibility and carcass traits in growing-finishing pigs
… dry matter digestibility, nitrogen balance and leanness in growing-finishing pigs. In three similar trials, 12 crossbred barrows (littermate pairs) were used in each trial for two nitrogen balance periods (end of grower and end of finisher). After the second nitrogen balance period, all the …
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Modeling, Analysis,and Design of Responsive Manufacturing Systems Using Classical Control Theory
… systems in terms of inventory build-up (i.e., leanness) and lead time. We define classical control theory terms and interpret their meanings according to the closed-loop poles locations to assist production management in utilizing the Root Locus design tool. Again, by applying this completely …
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Nutritional and Environmental Factors Affecting Feed Intake Level and Pattern in Growing and Finishing Pigs
… rate had better growth performance and greater leanness. Further experiments were conducted to determine the effects of temperature, space allowance and mixing on feed intake level and pattern, and hematological and behavioral changes. Growth performance and feed intake were depressed linearly …
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Performance of broiler chickens fed Pearl Millet as an energy source and Acacia Karroo leaf meal as an additive.
… (A. karroo) leaf meal as an additive on broiler leanness. The optimum level at which maize can be replaced by pearl millet was also determined. Nutritional compositions of pearl millet and A. karroo leaf meal were determined using the standard Association of Official Analytical Chemists …
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Modeling growth of pigs reared to heavy weights
… impact on overall growth performance or carcass leanness. A third study was carried out to evaluate the growth of individual pigs within a pen. Barrows and gilts were housed in single-gender pens of approximately 153 pigs from weaning to week 10 post-weaning and pens with approximately 73 pigs …
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