Recently, a growing number of Operations Management researchers have started to investigate the interface between the two fields leveraging the institutional richness of Operations Management research, and proposing ways to operationally hedge operational and competitive exposures not effectively handled through typical financial hedging contracts. It is now timely to compile state-of-theart re...

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between efl teachers’ emotional intelligence (ei) and their effectiveness in managing young learners’ classrooms. a total of 25 female teachers of kish language school in tehran expressed their willingness to participate in this study and a briefing session was conducted for them. two sessions of each teacher’s classes were observed by t...

Sustainability legislation, new consumer behaviour and the complexity of global trade are increasingly changing the way of designing and managing supply chains. In this context, one should take into consideration sustainability factors, such as minimization of carbon emission, treatment of reverse flows, optimization of energy consumption; etc., simultaneously with the product’s life cycle desi...

This chapter presents various models for creating Grid applications and runtime environments for managing the execution of applications on global Grids. The chapter discusses superscalar, message passing, remote procedure calls, bag of tasks, distributed objects, threads, workflows, and Grid services programming models supported by existing implementations Gridsuperscalar, MPICH-G, Ninf-G, Nimr...

Authorized to Appraise Date: October 6, 2003 IBRD Amount ($m): Bank Approval: February 27, 2004 IDA Amount ($m): Global Supplemental Amount ($m): 5.50 Managing Unit: AFTES Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan (SIL) Status: Lending Sector: General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector Theme: Biodiversity (P); Other environment and natural resources management (P); Environmental polici...

Climate Change represents an unprecedented challenge to global society. Unmitigated climate change will introduce large-scale risks to ecosystems and human societies, while its mitigation represents a major task for the world economic system. Ultimately, managing the problem of climate change will require the weighing of different kinds of risks arising from climate change, adaptation, and miti...

This paper presents an overview of the Persistence product, an objected-oriented interface to relational databases, that has been tested on the integration of multiple heterogeneous relational systems. We describe a sample active multidatabase application and propose extensions of the active properties offered by Persistence in order to use it as a mediator capable of managing global integrity ...

You are a manager at Global Automobile Corporation (GAC) which is a manufacturer of cars and trucks for domestic and international customers. You work in the contracting department where your responsibilities include managing relationships with GAC’s suppliers. Your supervisor has asked you to deal with an inquiry from another department about a part used by GAC that is manufactured by one of y...

if archival centers organize archival resources on the basis of safe and global archivalstandards, then they will be useful for scholars. bibliographic relations are important and essential in organizing and managing of archives. these relations are predicted for books in libraries by unimarc and iranmarc. so, current research has studied on capabilities of unimarc and iranmarc for management o...

Burn injuries are an important global health problem. Most simple burns can be managed by general practitioners in primary care, but complex burns and all major burns warrant a specialist and skilled multidisciplinary approach for a successful clinical outcome. This article discusses the principles behind managing major burns and scalds using an evidence based approach andprovides a framework f...