A paradigm shift is taking place in logistics. The focus is changing from operational effectiveness to adaptation. Supply Chains will develop into networks that will adapt to consumer demand in almost real time. Time to market, capacity of adaptation and enrichment of customer experience seem to be the key elements of this new paradigm. In this environment emerging technologies like RFID (Radio...

A recent study suggests that lateral gene transfer has been particularly intense among human-associated microbes. What can this tell us about our relationship with our internal microbial world?

A BNORMAL PULSATIONS of the chest wall due to myoeardial aneurysms have been previously described 1-4 and emphasized by Dressler and Pfeiffer5 and Vakil.6 However, these pulsations have not been systematically evaluated by objective methods. In addition, it is not certain whether such pulsations are due to actual anatomic aneurysms or "functional" bulging of the ventricular wall. The fact that ...

We give a presentation of the moduli stack of toric vector bundles with fixed equivariant total Chern class as a quotient of a fine moduli scheme of framed bundles by a linear group action. This fine moduli scheme is described explicitly as a locally closed subscheme of a product of partial flag varieties cut out by combinatorially specified rank conditions. We use this description to show that...

This paper focuses on work undertaken through the European Commission funded Bazaar project to establish a community of practice for researchers and practitioners in open source software and open content. The paper considers the use of social software to support such a communitty of practice. It consiers some of the theories and ideas behind supporting communities before going on to outline the...

Scholars have long argued that gender impacts how space can be occupied in traditional locations, such as bazaars. However, deeply divided societies an added factor of privilege relation to ethnosectarian identity has considered. This article uses intersectional lens understand people occupy the bazaar Kirkuk, Iraq. It pays particular attention intersection (Kurd, Sunni Arab, Turkmen) and gende...

During the last decades, international outsourcing has received huge attention in political discussion as well as in economic research. In empirical studies, outsourcing is measured in different ways. The several measurements are mostly calculated from different datasets, which often lead to diverse results and thus complicate comparative analysis. In Germany, the discussion about international...

E-commerce agents with Bayesian learning were first proposed by Zeng and Sycara in their Bazaar automated bargaining system [18]. Many studies have directly applied or extended Bazaar to agent learning. In Bayesian learning, it is critical to construct the conditional probabilities for new events in order to obtain an accurate estimation of the posterior probability. The construction of such co...

during the safavid rule, due to the close relationship between the government and the structure of religious institution, the economic life of many religious leaders was based on the bureaucratic salaries and aids granted by the government. however, after the fall of safavids and transfer of the shia scientific and juridico-religious centres (i.e. seminaries) from iran to the holy cities of ira...