porpose: the present study aims to determine the librarians' innovative behavior and its influential factors on the acquisition process. methodology: the methodology for this study is based on survey research. the instrument for collecting data was questionnaire. the research population consisted of 104 librarians and active managers in the acquisitions process of the organization of libraries,...

Modeling processes are the activities of capturing and representing processes and control of their dynamic behavior. Desired features of the model include capture of relevant aspects of a real phenomenon, understandability, and completeness of static and dynamic specifications. This paper proposes a diagrammatic language for engineering process modeling that provides an integration tool for cap...

four different alkaline earth metal oxides i.e. mgo, cao, sro and bao were used as heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel production from palm oil. effects of critical process variables i.e. reaction time, methanol to oil ratio and temperature were investigated. the results were then fitted to a historical design to study the analysis of variance (anova), to characterize interactions between var...