By intracellular recording, 99 myenteric neurons with Dogiel type II morphology were electrophysiologically characterized in the porcine ileum and further subdivided into three groups based on their different types of afterhyperpolarization (AHP). In response to a depolarizing current injection, a fast AHP (fAHP; duration 34 +/- 11 ms; amplitude -11 +/- 6 mV; mean +/- SD) immediately followed e...

Lean production has become an integral part of the manufacturing landscape as its link with superior performance and its ability to provide competitive advantage is well accepted among academics and practitioners. Lean production helps producers in overcoming the challenges organizations face through using powerful tools and enablers. However, most companies are faced with restricted resources ...

The study presents a methodology for floating wind farms site selection with Canary Islands case study. frame combines geographical information systems (GIS) and multiple criteria decision methods (MCDMs). First, the problematic areas installation of turbines are identified through GIS database application. This tool generates thematic layers representing exclusion criteria. Then, at second sta...

in today’s competitive business situation, performance evaluation of firms is an extremely important concern of all the people who are typically stakeholders of the business game. in case of holding companies, this is a more important issue since the parent firm must permanently control the situation of its subsidiaries in their sectors to make appropriate investment decisions. this paper devel...

Multi-period differences of technical and financial performances are analyzed by comparing five North African railways over the period 1990–2004. A first approach is based on Malmquist DEA TFP index for measuring total factors productivity change, decomposed into efficiency change technological changes. multiple criteria analysis also performed using PROMETHEE II method ARGOS software. These me...

Global rekabetin büyük artış gösterdiği günümüzde, firmalar tedarik zinciri tasarımının daha ürün geliştirme süreci sırasında gerçekleştirilmesinin; yüksek karlılık, verimli üretim yapısı, maliyetlerin düşürülmesi, artan pazar payı gibi hedeflere doğrudan bağlı olduğunun bilincindedirler. Bu çalışmada; yeni sürecinde tasarımına değinilmiş, aşamasında tedarikçi seçiminin nasıl yapılabileceği örn...

1.1 Agile Development The Agile Manifesto explicitly states that priority should be given to ‘‘individuals and interaction over processes and tools, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, working software over comprehensive documentation, and responding to changes over following a plan’’ [1]. Thus these agile principles promotes the flexibility by allowing changes to project requirem...