Relaxin family peptide 3 receptors (RXFP3) are activated by H3-relaxin to inhibit forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation and stimulate extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) 1/2 phosphorylation. In this study, we sought to identify novel signaling pathways coupled to RXFP3 and to investigate whether other members of the relaxin peptide family activated these pathways. Two patterns of signa...

We study the exact physical quantities of a competing spin chain which contains many interesting and meaningful couplings including nearest neighbor, next chiral three spins, Dzyloshinsky-Moriya interactions unparallel boundary magnetic fields in thermodynamic limit. obtain density zero roots, surface energies elementary excitations different regimes model parameters. Due to competition various...

Coordinating stakeholder’s actions in a supply chain provides an efficient approach to enhance supply chain performance and win today’s fierce competition in the market. Using quantitative examples is proved to be an efficient pedagogical methodology to motivate students learning and facilitate students’ in-depth knowledge in supply chain management education. This study provides six quantitati...

Supply chain and industrial cluster are the results of competition economy. Clustering analysis enable more efficient supply chain management practices. In this paper, we focus our discussion on the rough set theory for clustering supplier chain management. We propose ROSMAN (ROugh Set approach for clustering Supplier chain MANagement), an alternative algorithm for clustering supplier base mana...

The rapidly growing biofuel industry poses considerable challenges to its supply chain network design and operations. In this chapter, we introduce key characteristics of the biofuel supply chain that comprises of feedstock production, biomass logistics, biofuel production and distribution. We then discuss the recent literature on biofuel supply chain models. Using an illustrative biofuel suppl...

In all industries, competition between business organizations is vital to utilize collaborative logistics for planning, forecasting and efficient customer response to optimize the supply chain. Consequently, numerous business organizations build coalitions among themselves making their partnerships

Supply chain management (SCM) has rapidly emerged as the central field of competition in many industries and has captivated the top executives of companies in the recent past. Electronic commerce (EC) technologies have the potential to revolutionize how firms coordinate and manage their supply chain activities. This paper focuses on the emerging paradigm of Internetenabled supply chain manageme...

In the past decades, the inappropriate subsidy policies in many nations have caused problems such as serious oversupply, fierce competition and subpar social welfare in the photovoltaic (PV) industry in many nations. There is a clear shortage in the PV industry literature regarding how dual supply chains compete and the key decision issues regarding the competition between dual PV supply chains...