manufacturing industries of agricultural products, which constitute a considerable part of different countries’ economies, are seeking new profitable opportunities by increasing competition at the international level. organizational agility is new method and philosophy of production that seeks to react effectively to the variable and unpredictable environment and to utilize the changes as chanc...

Due to income constraints, increased awareness of environmental protection and preference for new products, consumers generate switching purchases between remanufactured which often lead a “cannibalization effect” in the market, make sellers fall into vicious circle price reduction. Considering consumers’ purchase behavior, this study examines pricing problem products competitive market environ...

Agro-industrial processing activities generate by-products that are discarded at high economic and environmental costs; however, many of them still contain levels bioactive compounds (BCs) such as dietary fiber (DF) phenolic (PCs), which, when combined, known antioxidant (ADF). These BCs have properties beneficial to our health, among anti-inflammatory, cardioprotective. Moreover, DF can regula...

Background and Aim: The use of ceramics has a long history. A new category of these materials was used in medicine in 1960 introduced as bioceramics. Biocompatibility, osteoinductivity and sealing ability are among the most favorable characteristics of endodontic bioceramics. Introduction of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) revolutionized endodontics and this new era is progressively growing. ...

Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concerns.In this paper, we address the carbon footprint basedon problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. These returned products can either be disposed or be remanufactured to be sold as new ones again. Here, we formulate a comprehensive closed-loo...