Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce and conceptualize the topic of Model-based management (MBM) in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The relevance of different types of models for management is elaborated, and a research agenda for this new topic is proposed. Findings – An analysis of the concept, role and function of models in the context of management and organizati...

Lawrence C. Katz died of melanoma on November 26, 2005, at the age of 48. He was amongst the most creative and influential neuroscientists of his time. His contributions were both scientific and personal, providing as much to the development of people as to scientific discovery. These affections were always inextricably intertwined, his love of scientific beauty and discovery, and his caring fo...

Systemically administered pravastatin effectively treats diabetic retinopathy without central nervous system side effects. The efflux transport mechanism of pravastatin from the brain has already been clarified. In this study, the influx of pravastatin across the bloodretinal and blood-brain barriers (BRB and BBB) and the efflux of pravastatin from the retina were investigated using rats. Prava...

During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Robert Paul Lanza studied embryonic stem cells [5], tissues, and endangered species as chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology, Incorporated in Worcester, Massachusetts. Lanza's team cloned the endangered species of gaur Bos gaurus [6]. Although the gaur did not survive long, Lanza successfully cloned another cow [7]-like creature, c...

The business is an abstraction of the way in which value created and delivered. concrete representation model, expressed by a group artifacts built with different languages. It serves to describe, explain, analyze, design, evaluate business. set concepts, construction rules, artifacts, languages required express it, are defined Meta-Business Model (MBM). Multiple authors have proposed MBMs, eac...

Abstract A six-treatment study in a 3 × 2 factorial design was conducted to investigate whether dietary supplementation of shrimp hydrolysate (SH) improves the efficacy meat and bone meal (MBM) replacing fishmeal protein juvenile giant trevally Caranx ignobilis . fishmeal-based diet (MBM0) used as control; two low diets were prepared by 25% (MBM25) 50% (MBM50) with MBM; another three treatments...

The depletion of phosphate rock reserves has led to the search for new, alternative and environmentally friendly products processes. One safe sources is animal bone char (ABC), residue from pyrolysis meat meal (MBM), a slaughterhouse waste material. presented study investigated physico-chemical properties residues (ABC) obtained MBM under different treatment conditions. Two end temperatures (60...