Globally, many women are still disadvantaged when it comes to business opportunities. Entrepreneurship development programs, specifically designed to assist women entrepreneurs, are assisting in solving this problem to a certain extent. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that motivate females to start their own business. Females, from three different groups (2013, 2014 and 201...

introduction: debonding is a common cause of failure encountered with fiber-reinforced composite (frc) posts, and usually occurs along the post space-dentin adhesive interface. the aim of this in vitro study is to evaluate the regional push-out bond strength of a fiber-reinforced post system, using two resin cements. materials and methods: in this in vitro study 20 maxillary central incisors we...

Traditional knowledge management mechanism focused on the re-usage of knowledge library. However, it lacks the ability of knowledge innovation and co-creation. Meanwhile, employee should experience the process recognition and formation of knowledge. Therefore, if therefore has any mechanism, which can be used to improve these problems, it will be helpful on improving the competition of industry...

Despite the consumers' increasing demand of technology-based innovations for making stores more appealing and the huge availability of advanced technologies, there is still a lack of research on the retailers' and employees' points of views towards the introduction of these systems. In fact, an efficient innovation should take care of both the final users/consumers' and the retailers/employees'...

Vol. 34 No. 5 • May 2009 • P&T® 243 (see the April issue of P&T, page 175). Ms. Levine sued and received a settlement from the clinic where the drug was administered. She also named Wyeth as a defendant, claiming that the drug’s label should have more clearly instructed clinicians against using an IV push injection. The label, which the FDA had approved, warned about inadvertent intra-arterial ...

We study the performance of a flexible manufacturing line producing multiple products under different material control strategies. Specifically, we compare the throughput versus average inventory characteristics when the line operates under pure pull and pure push strategies. Using simulation we show that the pure push strategy has a higher throughput for a given level of inventory than the pur...