Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative study on the impact of manufacturing strategies and resources on innovation performance in two newly industrialised countries in the South East Asian region, Thailand and Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative approach was employed. The survey data was drawn from 95 Thai and 44 Vietnamese middle or senior managers in...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in women worldwide. In Iraq, there is a tendency for this disease to be diagnosed in younger ages, at advanced stages with a prevalence of more aggressive tumor behavior. Patients and Methods: The study included a total of 216 women with breast lumps and proven breast cancer who visited the Main Referral Training Center for Early Dete...

To determine the overlaps of toxoplasmosis infection with serum luteinizing hormone level (s. LHL); we carried out this study on Baghdad women who suffered recurrent spontaneous abortion. Herein, a group of pregnant women aborted once (group I), and a second group who had multiple abortions (group II) were compared with a third group of normal pregnant women, which involved to serve as a contro...

OBJECTIVE To examine sex differences in injury mechanisms, injury-related death, injury-related disability, and associated financial consequences in Baghdad since the 2003 invasion of Iraq to inform prevention initiatives, health policy, and relief planning. BACKGROUND Reliable estimates of injury burden among civilians during conflict are lacking, particularly among vulnerable subpopulations...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative frequency of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and class II in Iraqi multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, and to ascertain whether they offer any etiologic or protective role. METHODS We conducted this study in the Baghdad MS Clinic and Teaching Laboratory Institute, Medical City, Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq from March to July 2004. We enrolled 4...

Introduction. The neighborhoods where the children live play an important role in their development physically and mentally. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between neighborhood safety and child nutritional status in Baghdad city, Iraq. Methods. A cross-sectional study was carried out in Baghdad city, Iraq, among 400 primary school children from 4 schools. BMI-for-age...

We consider the interaction of two enemy nations. Nation 1 wants to develop a nuclear bomb (or other weapons of mass destruction). Nation 2 wants to prevent such a development through the deterrence of a threatened attack, or an actual attack if it thought the bomb was produced. 2 has an intelligence system that imperfectly indicates the presence of a bomb. 1, if lacking the bomb, can open its ...

Navigating a Concept Lattice Family w.r.t a Query Introduction Relational Concept Analysis (RCA) constructs conceptual abstractions from a relational context family (RCF). An RCF is sets of objects described by both own properties and inter-object links. It generates several lattices that are connected via relational attributes. Navigating such interrelated lattice family in order to find conce...