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Develop Eco-Friendly Enterprise: Aligning Enablers with Strategy

Environmental friendliness has been regarded as a fundamental characteristic of sustainability and competitiveness, yet such eco-friendliness is often not performed well. Based on the relationship matrix in the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method and fuzzy logic, this paper presents an original integrated approach that, by linking competitive bases, green capabilities, and providers, aims ...

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Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...

Materia Medica

Materia Medica

METFORMIN: OPTIMAL DOSING AND MYTHS SURROUNDING LACTIC ACIDOSIS ccording to the CDC, acute upper respiratory infections are the 3rd leading primary diagnosis at ambulatory care office visits in the U.S.1 One of the more common upper respiratory infections is rhinosinusitis which describes an inflammation of one or more of the paranasal sinuses.2 Symptoms, which last 4 weeks or fewer in acute ca...