Clarification of a term transport chain

Long chain PUFA transport in human term placenta.

Introduction Docosahexanoic (DHA) and arachidonic (ARA) acids are important for proper fetal development and accumulate in the fetus during gestation. They cannot be synthesized by the fetus and must be gained instead from the maternal blood supply via the syncytiotrophoblast, the transporting epithelium of the placenta. Cell biological experiments suggest that both membraneassociated placental...

An integrated Decision-Making Approach for Road Transport Evaluation in a Sustainable Supply Chain

One important step to achieve a sustainable transportation system is to control the impact and evaluate the effect of various influencing factors toward three dimensions of sustainability. Within this context, diverse analytical approaches have been developed to assess the sustainability level of various transportation systems, however, sustainability evaluation based on fuzzy multiple criteria...

Some further clarification on Markov chain random fields and transiograms

The Markov chain random field (MCRF) theory and the transiogram spatial measure were proposed several years ago. Basic sequential simulation algorithms based on simple MCRF models such as the Markov chain sequential simulation algorithm and the Markov chain sequential co-simulation algorithm have been developed and used in a series of application studies. However, misunderstanding of these two ...

Coordination: A Clarification

Ever since Hayek’s 1937 classic, “Economics and Knowledge,” Austrians and other sympathetic writers have rightly emphasized study of the coordination properties of an economic system. To this end, they have claimed a distinction between the Hayekian focus on coordination and the neoclassical focus on equilibrium and efficiency. Although genuine and important, this distinction has yet to be sati...

Clarification