The concept of sustainability has been highly valued by all aspects life, while the supply chain plays a critical role in production and logistics. Supply management (SCM) is continuously transformed information technology (IT). purpose this study to review discuss effect technology-based SCM on sustainability. This paper conducted systematic literature collecting author-anchored keywords from ...

Article history: Received 5 January 2014 Received in revised format 8 March 2014 Accepted 11 March 2014 Available online 12 March 2014 Measuring the relative efficiency of banking industry has been a popular subject among both practitioners and academicians. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied for different purposes. This paper presents an empirical investigation to measure ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a condition that has a poor prognosis, with a median survival of 4-5 years irrespective of treatment. Ziesche et al (N Engl J Med 1999, 341: 1264-1269) describe an open randomised trial of 18 patients with IPF, unresponsive to corticosteroid treatment at high dose. Nine patients were treated with continued corticosteroid and nine with prednisolone plus int...

In order to mitigate climate change, reductions of energy consumption are required on heating systems for residential and non-residential buildings. Despite radiant floor being widely used due their high thermal efficiency comfort, further improvements necessary reduce the carbon footprint mortars used. This paper studies use lime mud, a by-product industry, as partial replacement cement enviro...

Abstract In this study we fabricated, for the first time, magnesium gallate (MgGa 2 O 4 , a partially inverted spinel) transparent ceramics, both undoped and doped with 1 at% Ni. The specimens were derived from in-house prepared powder, crystallite size of ∼10 nm (by wet chemistry) densified by pulsed electric current sintering (PECS; peak temperature 950 °C 90 min). Densification levels 99.84%...

concerning the penetration and development of french language in iran, present article is trying to scrutinize a part of unknown cultural history of qajar era. by the rise of the period, especially in the reign of mohammad shah (1250-1264 a.h.), not only the socio-political causes, but also the different institutions, nobles and personalities took an important role to penetrate and develop of f...