The current study examines the role of organizational efficacy and supplier flexibility in regards to the business performance of small and medium-sized firms. It was anticipated that both organizational efficacy and supplier flexibility would have positive relationships with performance for small and medium-sized businesses. Results supported these hypotheses and indicate the importance of fir...

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Introduction Reproduction efficiency of the herd is optimal when replacement heifers attain puberty as yearlings and calve at 2 years of age, and cows are able to become pregnant early during the annual breeding season (Bagley, 1993). Nutrition is the environmental factor that most influences reproductive efficiency of cattle (Bagley, 1993; Diskin et al., 2003); therefore, beef females should b...

Apoptotic regulators dispose of the midbody A pathway that clears up the remains of dead cells also removes the debris generated during cell division, Chai et al. report. The midbody is a microtubule-rich structure that connects the two daughter cells at the end of mitosis. When cytokinesis is completed, the midbody is either shed into the ex-tracellular space or retained by one of the daughter...

Switch-mode rectifier (SMR) or called power factor corrected (PFC) rectifier (Erickson & Maksimovic, 2001; Mohan et al, 2003; Dawande & Dubey, 1996) has been increasingly utilized to replace the conventional rectifiers as the front-end converter for many power equipments. Through proper control, the input line drawn current of a SMR can be controlled to have satisfactory power quality and provi...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is popular around the world and encompasses many different practices with particular emphasis on herbal TCM. Using the PubMed database, a literature search was undertaken to assess the extent herbal TCM products exert rare hepatotoxicity. Analysis of reported cases revealed numerous specified herbal TCM products with potential hepatotoxicity. Among these were ...

C om m ent on \E lasticity M odelofa Supercoiled D N A M olecule" B ouchi at and M ezard [ 1]have proposed a \worm-l i ke rod chai n m odel " to descri berecentexperi m entson D N A m echani cs [ 2]. T hei r m odelcan be sol ved usi ng an analogy w i th quantum m echani cs,thanks to the l ocalnature ofthe eecti ve H am i l toni an. T he l etter concl uded that thi s m odelhas excepti onalphysi ...

We consider the version of the Zee model where both Higgs doublets couple to leptons. Within this framework we study charged Higgs decays. We focus on a model with minimal number of parameters consistent with experimental neutrino data. Using constraints from neutrino physics we (i) discuss the reconstruction of the parameter space of the model using the leptonic decay patterns of both of the t...