Secondary Ozone Standard
Secondary Ozone Standard
Christine Wu, James Kniffen, Elena Beckman and Steven Crenshaw, NC State University
The Clean Air Act established two types of national ambient air quality standards for the major air pollutants. Primary standards protect public health, while secondary standards set limits to protect public welfare, including protection against visibility impairment, damage to...
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Emissions Uncertainty: Focusing on NOx Emissions from Combustion Sources Emissions Uncertainty: Focusing on NOx Emissions from Combustion Sources Emily Wisner, Alissa Anderson, Colin Geisenhoffer, Brody Heffner and Michael Shaw, NC State University Emission factors are important for estimating and characterizing emissions from sources of air pollution. An emission factor is a representative value that attempts to relate the quantity of a pollutant released to th...
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Acid Rain Emissions Controls and NC Water Quality Acid Rain Emissions Controls and NC Water Quality Alissa Anderson and Kristen Immen, NC State University The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (NCDENR) principal goal is to preserve and protect our states’ natural resources. The organization works alongside similar agencies in order to implement programs to protect air quality, water quality a...
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A Comparison of Oil Well Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico and Kuwait A Comparison of Oil Well Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico and Kuwait Alissa Anderson and Kristen Immen, NC State University In light of the recent events in the Gulf of Mexico, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been on everyone’s mind. In a country where we are extremely reliant on fossil fuels, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is more than an environmental disaster but is also ...
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Energy Reduction in Glass Furnaces Using JMP® Energy Reduction in Glass Furnaces Using JMP® Rui Abreu, Saint-Globain Glass, Portugal. In 2008 Saint Gobain Glass launched the global project: Reduction of Energy Consumption. This initiative encompassed 30 glass plants globally and had an ambitious target of a 5% reduction in energy use in the furnaces (see picture1). A team was formed and decided to attack the problem on three fronts: • ...
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JMP® Analytics Applied in Diagnostic Radiology and Neurosurgery Trauma Research JMP® Analytics Applied in Diagnostic Radiology and Neurosurgery Trauma Research Melvin Alexander, Social Security Administration Study 1: Identify Risk Factors Associated with Subdural Hygroma (SDG) following Decompressive Craniectomy (DC), a neurosurgical procedure that removes part of the skull to relieve squeezing pressure on the brain after a severe brain Injury. SDG is the collection o...
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The Role of Software in ‘International Statistical Standards’ The Role of Software in ‘International Statistical Standards’ Michele Boulanger, Johnson International Statistical Consulting Inc. and Laura Lancaster, SAS In today’s competitive and global industries, there is mounting external pressure to increase the transparency and validity of the methods used to demonstrate conformance of a product or service to specific contractual or legal req...
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Fun with Dialog Boxes and the JMP Scripting Language Fun with Dialog Boxes and the JMP Scripting Language Peter Mroz, Johnson and Johnson. Dialog boxes in JMP are a powerful, user-friendly way to interact with the user. For example by allowing users to only select from a given set of values you can avoid entry errors. You can present all possible options necessary for an analysis on one convenient screen. Through the use of the JMP Script Lan...
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Using Analytics to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Save Trees Using Analytics to Reduce Carbon Emissions and Save Trees Steve Fowler, First Solar Inc. Prior to JMP, First Solar used a much slower product for data analysis. The Process engineers would have to come in 2 hours early in order to run the many macros and print out the 100's of graphs and charts for the daily process improvement meetings. With JMP, we are able to run a series of script...
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Risk and Return of Investments in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Risk and Return of Investments in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Ram Gopal, University of Conneticut Online peer to peer (P2P) lending has received great coverage in media but little attention from academic researchers. In this study, we focus on risk and return of investments on Prosper (P2P lending website). We find that on average, loans through Prosper provide negative return c...
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The Use of JMP® Control Charts for Corporate Customer Satisfaction Monitoring The Use of JMP® Control Charts for Corporate Customer Satisfaction Monitoring Sarah Travaglio Sarah harnessed the power of JMP in her new role as the Net Promoter® Score Manager for Asurion Corporation. Sarah and her colleagues applied the study of control charts to their daily operations when measuring customer satisfaction at the transactional level—upon completion of each insurance...
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Using JMP® Graphics to Explore Business Solutions Using JMP® Graphics to Explore Business Solutions Wenyu Su, The Dow Chemical Co. With the evolving statistical analysis complexity of Dow business, statistical tools are valuable aids for analyzing data in the quality improvement process. JMP software has been utilized by many researchers at Dow for data analysis purposes to achieve business solutions due to its nice features of power...
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Multiple Comparisons with JMP Multiple Comparisons with JMP Karen Copeland Most practitioners are familiar with t-tests to compare two treatments, however, how should one compare more than two treatment groups? The short answer is to use a multiple comparison procedure. The longer answer is that it depends on what question you are trying to answer. This poster will look at the multiple comparison...
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Use of JMP® for High Explosive Formulation, Testing and Data Analysis Use of JMP® for High Explosive Formulation, Testing and Data Analysis Paul Anderson Until recently, the formulation of explosives was an iterative “one factor at a time” process. When considering the hazards involved in the handling, processing, and testing of these formulations, minimization of exposure to the explosive is of key importance. Often, because of the logistical separation betw...
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Product Shelf-Life Extension Based on Statistical Analysis of the Collected Stability Data Product Shelf-Life Extension Based on Statistical Analysis of the Collected Stability Data Inna Ben-Anat, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA The Food and Drug Administration requires pharmaceutical companies to establish a shelf life for all new drug products through a stability analysis. This is done to ensure the quality of the drug taken by an individual is within established levels. S...
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Ten Themes of JMP 9 Ten Themes of JMP 9 John Sall, SAS Develop - to specialize software for your needs, to extend software to do more things, to share extensions with othersExplore - support the role of Detective--find out new things, follow clues, see patterns and outliers that don't fit patterns. Experiment - observational data is limited by unadventurous production settings, uncontrolled factors, inefficien...
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Analytics at Work: Secrets of Data-Charged Organizations Analytics at Work: Secrets of Data-Charged Organizations Jeanne G. Harris, Accenture The extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models and fact-based management to drive decisions & actions. Analytics, statistics, and fact-based decisions are not new to businesses. DSS, ESS, BI, etc were important and provided value, but were often marginal to ...
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Design of Experiments for Everyone Design of Experiments for Everyone Lou Valente Screening designs are attractive for assessing the relative impact of a largenumber of factors on a response of interest. Engineers prefer factors with three levelsover two-level factors because having three levels allows for some assessmentof curvature in the factor-response relationship. Yet, the most familiar screening designslimit each...
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Visual Tolerance Analysis for Engineering Optimization Visual Tolerance Analysis for Engineering Optimization Zhou Wei, MS, JMP Principal Consultant – SAS Institute (Beijing) Co. Ltd. Classic methodologies of design of experiments (DOE) are widely applied in design, manufacturing, quality management and so on. However, this is not the end of DOE. One of its shortcomings is a neglect of the propagation of errors, which means that the ...
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On Enhancing JMP's Visual Analytics Using JMP Scripting Langauge (JSL) On Enhancing JMP's Visual Analytics Using JMP Scripting Langauge (JSL) Theresa Utlaut, PhD; Georgia Morgan, MS, Statisticians – Intel Corporation John Tukey said, “The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” Arguably, JMP’s preeminent feature is the ease with which its users can quickly and easily create informative graphics that allo...
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Pulmonary Embolism Classification Using CT Images (and JMP Pro!) Pulmonary Embolism Classification Using CT Images (and JMP Pro!) Marie Guadard, PhD, Consultant – North Haven Group This talk explores some of the new advanced predictive features of JMP Pro Version 9 in the context of a medical data mining application. Bootstrap forests and neural nets, as well as other techniques and the use of JMP Scripting Language, are employed in an effort ...
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A Comparison of the Neural Platform Across JMP 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 A Comparison of the Neural Platform Across JMP 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0 Patrick Biltgen, PhD, Senior Principal Systems Engineer – BAE Systems The JMP Neural platform has evolved significantly since its introduction in JMP 6 and is used heavily in the aerospace and defense simulation community to approximate high-fidelity complex systems simulations. This paper will review and compare neural ...
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Data Mining for Vaccine Manufacturing Data Mining for Vaccine Manufacturing Julia O'Neill MS, Principal Engineer – Merck & Co. Inc. Vaccine manufacturing is a complex biological process composed of many steps carried out over months or even years. Hundreds of raw material characteristics and process variables are monitored for every lot. Although the final vaccine product is well characterized and controlled, identify...
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Making the Most of the New Mapping Features in JMP 9 Making the Most of the New Mapping Features in JMP 9 Xan Gregg, Software Development Manager – SAS After touching on map visualizations prior to JMP 9, which involve custom graphics scripts, we explore the new mapping features in JMP 9 in depth. We cover the basic uses for maps that JMP 9 supports: providing context for geographic data and showing a measure that varies by map region (chorop...
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Identification of Rogue Tools and Process State Drift by Using JMP Software... Identification of Rogue Tools and Process State Drift by Using JMP Software Visualization and Analytical Techniques Jim Nelson, Engineering Data Specialist – Freescale Semiconductor The making of integrated circuits (computer chips) takes hundreds of very exacting series of steps. Hundreds of different pieces of equipment are used within those steps. Process dri...
