Purpose: We propose in this paper to analyze what are the factors that influence knowledge transfer both intra and intergenerational in family firms. The main objective is to establish a framework that can be used later in empirical research, although we maintain a completely theoretical approach in this paper Design/methodology/approach: This study, which is a comprehensive framework character...

A functional approach for the study of the random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) is proposed. Under fairly general assumptions on the random walk and on the random scenery, functional limit theorems are proved. The method allows to study separately the convergence of the walk and of the scenery: on the one hand, a general criterion for the convergence of the local time of the walk is provided...

We present a diversity-oriented hybrid evolutionary approach for the graph coloring problem. This approach is based on both generally applicable strategies and specifically tailored techniques. Particular attention is paid to ensuring population diversity by carefully controlling spacing among individuals. Using a distance measure between potential solutions, the general population management s...

focus on political, economic, cultural city of kermanshah, the reasons for moving to the city, and consequently, it is natural population growth. this part of the urban hierarchy rule out - as far and despite the high potential for job creation in the province are because of the unbalanced distribution of population, the potential of the whole province is not to be used, so that today we face t...

Supplying of blood and blood products is one of the most challenging issues in the healthcare system since blood is as extremely perishable and vital good and donation of blood is a voluntary work. In this paper, we propose a two-stage stochastic selective-covering-inventory-routing (SCIR) model to supply whole blood under uncertainty. Here, set of discrete scenarios are used to display uncerta...

A well-posedness theory of measure valued solutions to balance laws is presented. Nonlinear semigroups are constructed by means of the operator splitting algorithm. This approach allows to separate the differential terms from the integral ones, leading to a significant simplification of the proofs. Continuous dependence with respect to parameters is also shown. The whole framework allows a unif...

Chronic diseases drive significant health care utilization and costs in the US. Simultaneously, there is growing evidence that self-care and collaborative decision-making practices are linked to improvements in health-related outcomes and reduced health care costs.In April of 2005, Kaiser Permanente (KP) Georgia implemented a population care management service that included personal health coac...

Genetic variation is widespread in living organisms. The accurate analysis of genetic variation and studies of population structures have significant implications for understanding the genetic traits, population genetics, molecular breeding and disease control programs in plants and animals. Sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) analysis has been widely used for studying genetic divers...