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Manufacturing Squares: An Integrative Statistical Process Control Exercise by Coy, Steven P.

“…ABSTRACT In the exercise, students in a junior‐level operations management class are asked to manufacture a simple product. Given product specifications, they…”
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Using Experimental Design to Find Effective Parameter Settings for Heuristics by Coy, Steven P, Golden, Bruce L, Runger, George C, Wasil, Edward A

“…In this paper, we propose a procedure, based on statistical design of experiments and gradient descent, that finds effective settings for parameters found in…”
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A computational study of smoothing heuristics for the traveling salesman problem by Coy, Steven P., Golden, Bruce L., Wasil, Edward A.

“…Over the last five years or so, data smoothing has been used to improve the performance of heuristics that solve combinatorial optimization problems. Data…”
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Purchasing Development in Small and Medium Enterprises: Empirical Research and Managerial Implications by Coy, Steven, Adams, Jeffery, Kauffman, Ralph

“…This study evaluates the linkages between purchasing development and organizational performance in SMEs. This is a follow-up to a paper that was published in…”
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Utilizing statistical significance in fuzzy interval-valued evidence sets for assessing artificial reef structure impact by Shipley, Margaret F., Coy, Steven P., Shipley, J. Brooke

“…Artificial reefs are often formed by reef balls, oil rigs, either toppled or partially removed, and sunken vessels. Data gathered from observations made in the…”
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A global model for estimating the block time of commercial passenger aircraft by Coy, Steven

“…This paper uses a two-stage statistical model to estimate the block time of commercial passenger aircraft. The model considers many of the factors contributing…”
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Evaluation of the Regulatory Activity of the LSRB3 region of Limb Specific SHH Regulatory Region (LSSRR) in the Chicken Model by Coy, Steven, Pira, Charmaine U, Oberg, Kerby C

“…Abstract only During limb development, sonic hedgehog (SHH) from the zone of polarizing activity (ZPA) promoting posterior proliferation and patterning along…”
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Walking the Talk: Continuous Improvement of a Quality Management Field Exercise by Coy, Steven, Adams, Jeffery

“…ABSTRACT This article provides results from a three semester case study of the pedagogical efficacy of an innovative quality management field exercise. A…”
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OCTOBER - REGIONAL HONEY PRICE REPORT by Coy, Steven

“…The American Honey Producers Association's Annual Convention will be here before you know it! The goal of the AHPA Annual Convention is to educate and inform…”
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American Honey Producers Association by Coy, Steven

“…On June 22, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (СВР) announced (via Twitter) that they have begun focused targeting, port of entry reviews, inspections and…”
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Looking at Purchasing Development through the Lens of Small Business by Adams, Jeffery, Kauffman, Ralph G, Khoja, Raiza M, Coy, Steven

“…While relatively little research has been conducted on buyer-supplier relationships in small business, perhaps even less has been done on how to assess the…”
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Management of airline arrival performance before and after September 11, 2001 in US domestic markets by Coy, Steven

“…While an important aspect of airline service quality is on-time arrival performance, increasing on-time reliability while maximizing revenue and minimizing…”
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Looking at Purchasing Development through the Lens of Small Business by Adams, Jeffery, Kauffman, Ralph G., Khoja, Faiza M., Coy, Steven

“…While relatively little research has been conducted on buyer-supplier relationships in small business, perhaps even less has been done on how to assess the…”
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Dynamic Thermal Structure of Imported Fire Ant Mounds by Vogt, James T., Wallet, Bradley, Coy, Steven

“…A study was undertaken to characterize surface temperatures of mounds of imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and S. richteri…”
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See the forest before the trees: fine-tuned learning and its application to the traveling salesman problem by Coy, S.P., Golden, B.L., Runger, G.C., Wasil, E.A.

“…In this paper, we introduce the concept of fine-tuned learning which relies on the notion of data approximation followed by sequential data refinement. We seek…”
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Fine-tuned learning: A new approach to improving the performance of local search heuristics by Coy, Steven Paul

“…Researchers have developed improvements to descent-based local search heuristics that include rules that allow the heuristics to make uphill moves in order to…”
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Genetic Stock Identification Of Production Colonies Of Russian Honey Bees by Bourgeois, Lelania, Sylvester, H Allen, Coy, Steven, Rinderer, Thomas E

“…The variability in probability of assignment was high among colonies and among beekeepers (Figure I). Stock assignments of individual colonies ranged from 0.95…”
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