A critical part of mass customization is simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, cost efficiency, and high volume production in the manufacturing system.
The NBAS supplementary items analyzed (quality of alert responsiveness, cost of attention) were designed to capture qualitative aspects of the infant's ability to attend to visual and auditory stimuli.
For the 542 subjects with an NBAS exam at 2 weeks, we observed consistent inverse associations between cord serum PCB and DDE levels and NBAS measures of alertness, quality of alert responsiveness, cost of attention, and other potential attention-associated measures including self-quieting and motor maturity.
Furthermore, supply chain agility partially mediates the relationship between product modularity and both responsiveness and cost reduction.
The dynamic behavior of the developed system is investigated by studying the effect of the time based parameters on responsiveness and cost effectiveness of the system reflected in the natural frequency and the damping of its different configurations.
We propose a framework that deploys the dynamics of building supply chain resilience, first linking the design of the supply chain portfolio (local versus global scope, as well as strategic responsiveness versus cost reduction) with supply chain vulnerabilities (external versus internal).
Validity, reliability, responsiveness, relevance, cost and patient and administrator burden are criteria commonly applied when selecting outcome measures for use in clinical research [ 15].
Our results show consistent inverse associations between PCB, TEQ, and DDE cord serum levels and attention-related NBAS outcomes, including alertness, quality of alert responsiveness, and cost of attention.
Individual NBAS items fell into three broad domains: a) measures of attention (alertness, quality of alert responsiveness and cost of attention), b) measures of state (consolability, self-quieting activity, hand-to-mouth facility, irritability and never in state to do orientation items), and c) measures of motor function (elicited and spontaneous activity, and motor maturity).
The median cord serum level for subjects included in this analysis was 0.19 ng/g (range, 0.01 4.41 ng/g serum) for the sum of four prevalent PCB congeners and 0.30 ng/g (range, 0 10.27 ng/g serum) for DDE. Figure 1 shows inverse associations for the two PCB congener groups as well as DDE and measures of attention, including alertness, quality of alert responsiveness, and cost of attention.
Initial inferior repliers, such as ciliates with initial low responsiveness, higher costs, and poorer net payoffs, advertised meager fitness by prudently saving resources and signaling escape with contractions or reversals at lower rates.
