Existing research on Smallto Medium-sized Manufacturers (SMMs) pays scant attention to factors affecting their growth in the contact of paradigms of competition and, particularly, segments of the supply chain in which they operate. This work adopts a supply chain perspective to propose a business definition and model for the process of the SMMs understanding of, responding to, andinf1uencing cu...

The reliability of the Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tube (MGIT) 960 system for rapid detection of mycobacteria in clinical specimens was evaluated and compared to the radiometric method (BACTEC 460TB) and to mycobacterial culture on Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium. Clinical specimens (n = 590) were tested without selection. A total of 121 (20.5%) isolates of mycobacteria were recovered; 98 (81.0...

During the last decade, the stringent pressures from environmental and social requirements have spurred an interest in designing a reverse logistics (RL) network. The success of a logistics system may depend on the decisions of the facilities locations and vehicle routings. The location-routing problem (LRP) simultaneously locates the facilities and designs the travel routes for vehicles among ...

Kedai Nyoklat Classic Delisya Delicious is one of the business units engaged in beverages and snacks city Palangka Raya. Based on observations I made this shop, at time experiencing difficulties conveying information, because only uses Instagram social media to promote still not consistent delivering information. Therefore, "Design Build a Website for Micro Small Business Development System Del...

BACKGROUND Extensive full-thickness burns require replacement of both epidermis and dermis. In designing skin replacements, the goal has been to re-create this model and make a product which has both essential components. METHODS In the present study, we developed procedures for establishing confluent, stratified layers of cultured human keratinocytes on the surface of modified collagen-chito...

Hot air and hot water heating methods have been extensively studied as thermal treatments to control insect pests in fruits to replace chemical fumigation. An inherent difficulty in using these methods is that slow heating rates may result in long treatment times and possible damage to fruit quality. Many factors influence heating time. A systematic analysis of those influences is desirable to ...

Since the earliest days of tissue culture research, one of its primary objectives has been the development of an in vitro system that would enable complex adult tissues to be cultured for extended periods of time. A number of different approaches to this problem have been devised over the years (Fell and Robison, 1929; Wolff and Haffen, 1952; Chen, 1954; Trowell, 1954, 1959; Grobstein, 1956; Sc...

A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a particular type of mobile ad hoc network (MANET), which aims to provide high bandwidth access for a large number of users. Shared nature of the wireless medium, static nodes and diversity of multiple paths between source and destination nodes makes designing of routing protocols makes a challenging task for wireless mesh networks when throughput, delay and pro...

Knowledge of the optical properties is in medicine very important for modeling of light propagation in tissue, diagnosis and therapeutical methods. The aim of a theoretical part is understanding of tissue optics and different approaches for determining optical properties in a turbid medium such as tissue. In experimental part we are designing a new method for determining optical properties abso...

Empirical approaches have guided the development of bacterial cultures. The availability of sequenced genomes now provides opportunities to define culture media for growth of fastidious pathogens with computer modelling of metabolic networks. A key issue is the possibility of growing host-dependent bacteria in cell-free conditions. The sequenced Tropheryma whipplei genome was analysed to identi...