Summary Kraljic's purchasing portfolio approach has inspired many academic writers to undertake further research into purchasing portfolio models. Although it is evident that power and dependence issues play an important role in the Kraljic matrix, scant quantitative research has been undertaken in this respect. In our study we have filled this gap by proposing quantitative measures for ‘relati...

The paper presents the published results regarding the radon concentrations in indoor air in Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine and Yugoslavia from Carpathian Basin. The study is based on the materials of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) on a 10 year period (1986 1997). It is completed with the results of the papers published in the Conferences volu...

The E proteins of mammals, and the related Daughterless (DA) protein of Drosophila, are ubiquitously expressed helix-loop-helix (HLH) transcription factors that play a role in many developmental processes. We report here the characterization of a related C. elegans protein, CeE/DA, which has a dynamic and restricted distribution during development. CeE/DA is present embryonically in neuronal pr...

A. C. 2010. What are the mechanisms of regeneration post-disturbance in tropical dry forest? CEE review 07-013 (SR37). Environmental Evidence:

In order to incorporate FDI factors for different MNEs, industries and countries, a unique dataset that includes country-, industryand firmlevel data is constructed. This approach avoids the aggregation or disaggregation problem by considering several levels of data simultaneously in to the analysis. The constructed database contains information on 1,223 foreign investment made by EU15 countrie...

The gas chromatography method with direct injection for quantitative determination of residual nonvolatile solvents such as 2-(2-chloroethoxy)ethanol (CEE) and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) in quetiapine--the pharmaceutical active substance has been validated. Validation was performed according to the requirement of ICH validation guidelines Q2A and Q2B. Specificity, precision, accuracy, linea...

In this work, ZnCaO2 (zinc oxide-calcium oxide) nanocomposite were synthesized at different temperatures (500-700°C) by sol-gel method based on polymeric network of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The synthesized samples were characterized by SEM/EDAX, FT-IR and XRD techniques. It was found that synthesized nanocomposites have 1.62, 2.05 and 13.91%wt of CaO, respectively. The obtained results show tha...

Dose-survival curves for murine hematopoietic stem cells and transplanted syngeneic lymphoma cells were constructed for a variety of alkylating agents administered in vivo. A comparison of the slopes of the dose-survival curves, defined as the efficacy ratio, provided a quantitative measure of the differential sensitivity of these two cell populations to a given alkylating agent. Nitrogen musta...

BACKGROUND Progress in maternal and neonatal mortality has been slow in many countries despite increasing access to institutional births, suggesting deficiencies in the quality of care. We carried out a systematic assessment of the quality of maternal and newborn care in three CEE/CIS countries, using an innovative approach to identify priority issues and promote action. METHODS A standard-ba...