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M. Reza Abdi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Product Family Formation and Selection for Reconfigurability Using ANP
Integrated Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Smart Value Chain, 2018Co-Authors: M. Reza Abdi, Ashraf Labib, Farideh Delavari Edalat, Alireza AbdiAbstract:This chapter develops a conceptual framework for product Family Formation towards reconfigurability through a product-process reconfiguration link . Various decisive factors affecting product Family Formation and selection such as manufacturing requirements, market requirements, manufacturing cost and time and cost of process reconfiguration are investigated. An analytical network process (ANP) model is proposed to incorporate all the outlined decisive factors and major criteria and elements influencing the product Family Formation and selection. The proposed ANP model is utilised for selecting the most appropriate product Family with synthesis judgements and sensitivity analysis through a case study in a manufacturing company.
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Product Family Formation and selection for reconfigurability using analytical network process
International Journal of Production Research, 2012Co-Authors: M. Reza AbdiAbstract:The paper develops a conceptual framework for product Family Formation towards reconfigurability through proposing a product-process reconfiguration link. Different decisive factors affecting product Family Formation and selection such as manufacturing requirements, market requirements, manufacturing cost and process reconfiguration are investigated. An analytical network process (ANP) model is proposed to incorporate all the outlined decisive factors and major criteria and elements influencing the product Family Formation and selection. As a consequence of the interactive nature of the product Family selection problem, most of the children's’ elements within the same cluster and/ or different clusters are associated with each other. As a result, all the clusters are connected to each other (outer dependencies) as well as their connections to themselves (inner dependencies). The proposed ANP model is examined through a case study in a manufacturing company for validation. Synthesis judgments and sensitivi...
Anette Eva Fasang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Intergenerational patterns of Family Formation in East and West Germany
2016Co-Authors: Zachary Van Winkle, Anette Eva Fasang, Marcel RaabAbstract:Why is intergenerational transmission of Family Formation weaker in some country contexts than in others? This paper employs the historically unique situation of the German division to study country context effects on intergenerational regularities in Family Formation. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to analyze the longitudinal Family Formation trajectories from age 15-35 of children born 1953-1978 and their mothers. Findings show that East German mother-child Family Formation trajectories are more dissimilar than West German mother-child Family Formation trajectories. Further, East German mother-child dyads are more likely to be categorized as patterns of intergenerational contrast, whereas West German mother-child dyads are more likely to display strong transmission. To account for these differences in intergenerational transmission of Family Formation between East and West Germany, we propose to combine multichannel sequence analysis, multinomial logistic modeling and decomposition methods for nonlinear probability models. This new methodological approach enables us to show that differences in parental education and children’s educational mobility in East and West Germany mediate the strength of intergenerational transmission and contribute to explaining differences in intergenerational patterns of Family Formation in the two contexts.We conclude that the proposed approach is promising to disentangle cross-national differences in intergenerational regularities in Family Formation.
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Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Demography, 2014Co-Authors: Marcel Raab, Anette Eva Fasang, Aleksi Karhula, Jani ErolaAbstract:Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of Family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in Family-Formation trajectories and whether siblings’ shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood Family structure, can account for similarity in Family Formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 through 2007 to construct longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N=14,257 dyads). Findings show that Family Formation is moderately but significantly more similar for siblings than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in Family Formation. Instead, gender and the respondents’ own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of Family Formation. Yet, Family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar Family-Formation patterns. In particular, patterns that correspond with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of Family structure in the reproduction of social inequality. Copyright The Author(s) 2014
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New Perspectives on Family Formation: What Can We Learn from Sequence Analysis?
Life Course Research and Social Policies, 2014Co-Authors: Anette Eva FasangAbstract:Due to its rapid technical development over the past two decades, sequence analysis has partly lost sight of its theoretical motivation in the social sciences as originally formulated by Andrew Abbott. How exactly is the sequential approach helping us to inform core theoretical debates in the social sciences? Taking the life course paradigm as a starting point, this chapter argues that insights gained from sequence analysis can uniquely contribute to three theoretical concerns in Family Formation research: First, multidimensional lives, that is primarily the study of parallel Family and employment trajectories; second, linked lives, i.e. how Family Formation unfolds in the context of networks of shared relationships; and third, how macro-structural contexts shape the de-standardization and pluralization of Family Formation. This chapter reviews the respective sequence analysis literature. I conclude that sequence analysis is most promising in further advancing insights on Family Formation when applied in rigorous research designs that incorporate the broader premises of the life course paradigm and narrative positivism. To illustrate the argument, I present a study on the de-standardization of Family Formation before and after the German Reunification. This case study explores constellations of macro structural context factors (multiple-way interactions) to theorize the de-standardization of Family Formation and proposes a new method for establishing within and between group differences in sequences.
T. Warren Liao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Classification and coding approaches to part Family Formation under a fuzzy environment
Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2001Co-Authors: T. Warren LiaoAbstract:Classification and coding is a major approach to solve the part Family Formation problem in group-technology applications. Traditionally, all features in a classification and coding system are considered crisp. It has been recognized that more realistically some features should be fuzzy. This paper addresses issues involved in using the classification and coding approach for part Family Formation under a fuzzy environment. Methods for dealing with major issues such as part coding, computation of similarity between parts, and part Family Formation are proposed and discussed in detail. Examples were given to show how these methods could be applied.
Jani Erola - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Demography, 2014Co-Authors: Marcel Raab, Anette Eva Fasang, Aleksi Karhula, Jani ErolaAbstract:Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of Family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in Family-Formation trajectories and whether siblings’ shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood Family structure, can account for similarity in Family Formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 through 2007 to construct longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N=14,257 dyads). Findings show that Family Formation is moderately but significantly more similar for siblings than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in Family Formation. Instead, gender and the respondents’ own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of Family Formation. Yet, Family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar Family-Formation patterns. In particular, patterns that correspond with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of Family structure in the reproduction of social inequality. Copyright The Author(s) 2014
Marcel Raab - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Intergenerational patterns of Family Formation in East and West Germany
2016Co-Authors: Zachary Van Winkle, Anette Eva Fasang, Marcel RaabAbstract:Why is intergenerational transmission of Family Formation weaker in some country contexts than in others? This paper employs the historically unique situation of the German division to study country context effects on intergenerational regularities in Family Formation. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to analyze the longitudinal Family Formation trajectories from age 15-35 of children born 1953-1978 and their mothers. Findings show that East German mother-child Family Formation trajectories are more dissimilar than West German mother-child Family Formation trajectories. Further, East German mother-child dyads are more likely to be categorized as patterns of intergenerational contrast, whereas West German mother-child dyads are more likely to display strong transmission. To account for these differences in intergenerational transmission of Family Formation between East and West Germany, we propose to combine multichannel sequence analysis, multinomial logistic modeling and decomposition methods for nonlinear probability models. This new methodological approach enables us to show that differences in parental education and children’s educational mobility in East and West Germany mediate the strength of intergenerational transmission and contribute to explaining differences in intergenerational patterns of Family Formation in the two contexts.We conclude that the proposed approach is promising to disentangle cross-national differences in intergenerational regularities in Family Formation.
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Sibling Similarity in Family Formation
Demography, 2014Co-Authors: Marcel Raab, Anette Eva Fasang, Aleksi Karhula, Jani ErolaAbstract:Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of Family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way whether sibling similarity exists in Family-Formation trajectories and whether siblings’ shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood Family structure, can account for similarity in Family Formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 through 2007 to construct longitudinal Family-Formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N=14,257 dyads). Findings show that Family Formation is moderately but significantly more similar for siblings than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in Family Formation. Instead, gender and the respondents’ own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of Family Formation. Yet, Family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar Family-Formation patterns. In particular, patterns that correspond with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of Family structure in the reproduction of social inequality. Copyright The Author(s) 2014
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Family Effects on Family Formation
2014Co-Authors: Marcel RaabAbstract:Abstract – Study 01 Research about parent effects on Family behavior focuses on intergenerational transmission: whether children show the same Family behavior as their parents. This potentially overemphasizes similarity and obscures heterogeneity in parent effects on Family behavior. In this study we make two contributions. First, instead of focusing on isolated focal events, we conceptualize parents’ and their children’s Family Formation holistically as the process of union Formation and childbearing between age 15 and age 40. We then discuss mechanisms likely to shape these intergenerational patterns. Second, beyond estimating average transmission effects, we innovatively apply multichannel sequence analysis to dyadic sequence data on middle class American families from the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG, N=461 parent-child dyads). The results show three salient intergenerational Family Formation patterns among this population: a strong transmission, a moderated transmission, and an intergenerational contrast pattern. We examine what determines parents’ and children’s likelihood to sort into a specific intergenerational pattern. For middle class American families, educational upward mobility is a strong predictor of moderated intergenerational transmission, whereas parent-child conflict increases the likelihood of intergenerational contrast in Family Formation. We conclude that intergenerational patterns of Family Formation are generated at the intersection of macro structural change and Family internal psychological dynamics Abstract – Study 02 Sibling studies have been widely used to analyze the impact of Family background on socioeconomic and, to a lesser extent, demographic outcomes. We contribute to this literature with a novel research design that combines sibling comparisons and sequence analysis to analyze longitudinal Family Formation trajectories of siblings and unrelated persons. This allows us to scrutinize in a more rigorous way, whether there is sibling similarity in Family Formation trajectories and if siblings’ shared background characteristics, such as parental education and early childhood Family structure can account for similarity in Family Formation. We use Finnish register data from 1987 until 2007 to construct longitudinal Family Formation trajectories in young adulthood for siblings and unrelated dyads (N=14,257 dyads). Findings show that siblings’ Family Formation is moderately but significantly more similar than for unrelated dyads, also after controlling for crucial parental background characteristics. Shared parental background characteristics add surprisingly little to account for sibling similarity in Family Formation. Instead, gender and the respondents’ own education are more decisive forces in the stratification of Family Formation. Yet Family internal dynamics seem to reinforce this stratification, such that siblings have a higher probability to experience similar Family Formation patterns. Particularly patterns that go along with economic disadvantage are concentrated within families. This is in line with a growing body of research highlighting the importance of Family structure in the reproduction of social inequality. Abstract – Study 03 This study investigated the association between childhood living arrangements and early Family Formation in Germany. Drawing on persisting socio-environmental differences between East and West Germany the author addressed the question whether the association of childhood Family structure and the early transition to adulthood varies in different societal contexts. In line with research from other countries, the analysis based on data from the German Family Panel (pairfam/DemoDiff; N = 3643) showed that children from non-traditional Family structures experience important demographic transitions faster than children who have been raised by both biological parents. In addition to this rather ubiquitous association, the study revealed considerable context-specific differences, which point to the long-term consequences of the post-war separation of East and West Germany. First, although increasing in relevance, Family structure was less predictive for early Family Formation in East Germany. Second, the results indicated that the link between childhood Family structure and the reproduction of social inequality, which has been found in many studies from the US, could only be replicated for West Germany. In East Germany, educational attainment did not mediate the effect of childhood living arrangements on early Family Formation, nor was it associated with an increased probability of ever having lived in an alternative Family structure.
