Scholarship @ UWindsor

Scholarship @ UWindsor is the institutional repository of the University of Windsor (UWindsor), showcasing and preserving the UWindsor community’s scholarly outputs, as well as items from the Leddy Library’s Archives & Special Collections. Its mission is to disseminate and preserve knowledge created or housed at the University of Windsor.

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Conferences and Conference Proceedings 3170
Papers, presentations and abstracts of conferences held at the University of Windsor, in person and virtually.
Digitized Local Collections 1552
Digitized local items from the collections of the Leddy Library, University of Windsor, and community partners.
Faculties, Departments and Research Units 3439
Open Access Faculty publications, reports and working papers from academic departments at the University of Windsor.
Theses, Dissertations, and Major Papers 9579
Formal graduate original research from the University of Windsor's Masters and Doctoral programs.

Recent Submissions

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The State-of-the-Art and Prospects of Learning Factories
(Elsevier BV, 2012-01-01) U. Wagner; Tarek AlGeddawy; H.A. ElMaraghy; E. MŸller
Changeability of manufacturing systems is an important enabler for offering large variety of competitive products to satisfy customers' requirements. Learning factories, as teaching and research environments, can play a key role in developing new solutions for changeability, transferring them to the industry and using them in educating engineers. The results of a survey of existing learning factories and their characteristics are presented. Their use in research, teaching and industrial projects is analyzed. A novel scheme to classify those systems with regard to their design, products and their changeability characteristics is outlined. Conclusions about the future of learning factories are drawn.
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The Speaker’s Ruling on Afghan Detainee Documents: The Last Hurrah for Parliamentary Privilege?
(University of Alberta Library, 2012-05-16) Heather MacIvor
On 3 January 1642 the Commons sat, and claimed a breach of privilege which, deliberately or not, incited the king to attempt force. On 4 January [King Charles I] entered the Chamber, leaving the door open so that members could see the troops "making much of their pistols." ... He asked the Speaker if the five [rebel MPs] were present. Lenthall, on his knees, spoke. "May it please Your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here; and I humbly beg Your Majesty’s pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what Your Majesty is pleased to demand of me."
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Enterprise Strategic Flexibility
(Elsevier BV, 2012-01-01) A. Arafa; Waguih ElMaraghy
Using system dynamic model that captures the enterprise strategic behavior of two competing enterprise, this study explore and analyze the strategic benefit of gaining volume flexibility capability considering both the expected behavior of competition and the market dynamics. By conducting a game theoretic comparative analysis for simultaneous decisions made by competitors under different market scenarios in different industry and market setups, results shows, to achieve high productivity, profitability, efficiency and maximum utilization rate, industrial enterprise should select from a wide range of strategic capabilities that match the state of its external environment requirements with responsive rate that matches the product life cycle span.
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Simulation Methods for Changeable Manufacturing
(Elsevier BV, 2012-01-01) Seleim; Ahmed Azab; Tarek AlGeddawy
Computer simulation presents an excellent tool for visualizing, understating, and analyzing the dynamics of manufacturing systems and thus assisting in the decision making process. Manufacturing systems experience structural changes during their operational life span resulting from adding new system components, replacing or retiring old components to react to changes in products, technology or markets. Current simulation methodologies neither support the changeable nature of manufacturing systems nor the change in model parameters during simulation.Simulation models and methods used for manufacturing systems are reviewed and evaluated for their suitability to changeable manufacturing systems. Future challenges and requirements are highlighted.
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Is whole-body vibration beneficial for seniors?
(BioMed Central, 2012-01-06) Chantelle C. Lachance; Patricia L. Weir; Kenji A. Kenno; Sean Horton
Normal aging processes result in losses of functional flexibility and muscular strength, which increase seniors’ fall risk and dependence on others. A relatively new intervention to reduce and/or reverse the adverse effects of aging is whole-body vibration (WBV) exercise. The purpose of this article is to review the established effects of WBV exercise exclusively with the aging population. A systematic search utilizing PubMed and Sport Discus databases uncovered journal articles specific to seniors and whole-body vibration. An extensive hand search supplemented the database results to find other relevant articles. Twenty-seven articles were obtained; all articles have been published in the past 8 years, reflecting the recent and growing interest in this area. Researchers have determined that WBV training can reduce fall risk and improve postural control in seniors. It has also been determined that WBV training can be as effective as conventional resistance training to improve seniors’ lower body strength. However, little is known about the effect of WBV exercise on flexibility and upper body strength in the aging population. More research is required to establish how effective WBV training is on these specific components and how it may affect seniors’ quality of life.