The fossil fuels consumption is rapidly growing due to increased water and electricity demands. An interconnected water-energy nexus is generally composed of thermal power plants, combined potable water and power (CWP) generation units, and desalination only processes. Hence, participation of hydro power plants in electricity generation facilities not only reduces the total fuel consumption of ...

The mainstream view holds that over time buyer–supplier relationships evolve through a number of phases. As a consequence, supplier development as a buyer–supplier relationship management practice should also be adapted to the life-cycle phase. Supplier development activities matching the buyer– supplier relationship life-cycle phase will lead to more favorable performance improvements. However...

abstract in order to study the inheritance of grain yield and its components in bread wheat, two cultivars, karchyya(drought and salinity tolerant) and gaspard (sensitive to drought and salinity stress) were crossed.parents together with f1, f2, f3, bc1and bc2 generations were evaluated using a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2008-2009 growing season.grain weight per...

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is an application that gives support to a company in the task of deciding which supplier to choose when a new supply has to be ordered. It is based on a measure of trust and provides several tools that visualize that measure and support its use on decision making.

Postnatal depression (PND) is known to be associated with a range of detrimental child and adolescent outcomes, resulting from its disruptive impact on mother-child relationship quality. However, until now little has been known about the impact of PND on the longer-term relationships between mothers and their children, and any intergenerational effects this may have. Mother-child relationship q...

This study investigated attachment style differences in online relationships with regard to interaction characteristics and relationship satisfaction. The effect of relationship type was also taken into account in these investigations. The findings suggested that attachment style differences in interaction breadth and depth were present only in casual friendships. Preoccupied and dismissing ind...

The classification-tree method (CTM) is a black box technique developed by Grochtmann and Grimm, which helps software testers construct test cases systematically from functional specifications. Later, some extension work has been done on CTM by Chen et al., with a view to improving the effectiveness of the method. This extension results in their integrated classification-tree methodology (ICTM)...