The goals of the National Toxicology Program as they relate to immunological evaluation in toxicity assessment are discussed. The advantages of immune function assays for defining cellular injury as subtoxic levels following exposure to general or immunocyte specific chemical toxicants are proposed. A comprehensive screening panel of immune function and host resistance assays is presented in th...

This paper explores how strategic management leads to success in the corporate sector. Today's economy experiences a great deal of dynamism and challenges. The achievement successful sector will depend on management's recognition essential functions, such as analyzing changes environment, selecting strategists, encouraging creativity, setting goals, devising strategies, assigning responsibiliti...

Developing countries are devising various strategies and mechanisms to accelerate their speed towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. In Nigeria, different approaches have been used to address the tackling of health-related MDGs. One creative approach has been the implementation of the NHIS Maternal and Child Health (NHIS-MCH) Project. The project aims to speed up the achieveme...

In order to effectively discover and invoke a Web service, the provider must supply a complete specification of its behavior, with regard to its inputs and outputs, preconditions and effects. Devising such complete specifications comes with many issues that have not been adequately addressed by current service description efforts, such as WSDL, SAWSDL, OWL-S and WSMO. These issues involve the f...

Introduction: In 2000, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) undertook the task of drafting a “National Standards Strategy “ for the United States. The goals included identifying the challenges then facing America as it participated domestically and abroad in standard setting, devising responsive actions to be taken to meet those challenges, and designating the stakeholders best suit...

Public clouds offer numerous virtual machine (VM) types with complex trade-offs that tenants must navigate for cost-effective resource procurement. We identify three key qualitative axes using which these trade-offs can be succinctly expressed: price dynamism, offered capacity dynamism, and granularity of resource scaling. We offer several examples of contemporary VM offerings and where they fi...

south pars oil operation activities in the south of boshehr province require settling new population in line with balancing relations among human, space and activity in this area it is necessary to organize and arrange population and shaping new residences for new population and these are unavoidable. under study area includes 5 counties, 11 villages and 5 cities this area reaches to dashtestan...

OVERVIEW Enterprise architecture is a comprehensive framework or taxonomy of systems analysis models for aligning organizational strategy with information technology. Strategies are plans to satisfy organizational goals and objectives by competing, based on size, cost, variety, speed, quality, uniqueness, or innovation. Information technology refers to the computers, software, and networks used...