background: in addition to the various human environmental issues, environmental hazards due to the industrial waste mismanagement are one of the country's major problems. this especially is more important in the provinces such as bakhtiari province where there have been concentration and diversity of the natural resources and a rapid growth of technology and industry in the recent years. metho...

A survey conducted on Norwegian software projects concludes that projects that deploy flexible development models are less likely to suffer from effort overruns than those which deploy sequential development models. However the same can not be said of schedule overruns. This report reviews the paper with further explanation and an evaluation by the author. It concludes that this type of survey ...

Third party Logistics is a new type of industry where the firm‘s logistics activities can be outsourced. The concept of Third party logistics has been developed from the need to extend transportation services by transportation companies to its customers. Many manufacturing industries turned to logistics outsourcing to restructure their distribution networks and gain competitive advantages. This...

The present paper focuses on the topics of “Collaborative Working Environments”, “eBusiness-Future forms of organisations, Technology and Applications” and “Semantic and Knowledge based systems”. It is based mainly on the Collective project Know Construct (COLL-CT-2004-500276) starting in March 2005. The main objective of the project is to develop a common internet-based platform for SMEs and o...

Abstract: Research in social networks has demonstrated that firms in changing environments will benefit from innovation networks. However, the lack of consensus on what factors and how these factors impact performance impedes further research in this area. In this paper, the concept of an International Innovation Network (IIN) and its performance is clarified. Then, based on reviews of the soci...

We discuss an extension of a map between between BPS states and free fermions. The extension involves states associated with a full two matrix problem which are constructed using a sequence of integral equations. A two parameter set of matrix model eigenstates is then related to states in SUGRA. Their wavefunctions are characterized by nontrivial dependence on the radial coordinate of AdS and o...

An international ethics review committee, founded seven years ago, has several unusual features: it selects its own members, who are independent of the drug industry; it includes members with no medical or paramedical background, such as lay people and lawyers; and it reviews protocols together with the study's sponsor. Membership of 31 from nine European countries enables frequent meetings and...