e-Services are just as commercial services; however e-services can be fully ordered and provisioned via the Internet. Such e-services are often offered by a constellation of enterprises rather than just one. A question is then how to properly align these enterprises, such that they can provision e-services. Additionally, because e-services rely so heavily on IT, aligning business (essentially t...

By selecting and adopting best practices organizations expect to benefit from the experience of other organizations and avoid common mistakes that these organizations have committed in the past. However, the adoption of best practices is not a trivial step due to several reasons. One reason is the fact that, to implement best practices, organizations need to migrate from an as-is state (before ...

Managing talent is a strategic priority in today’s complex, global business environment. Global organizations are looking to align their international HR strategy and align their various systems and processes. Leadership and management skills are not uniformly available and the war for talent is more prevalent in different parts of the world. In China and some other Asian countries, for example...

Salespeople play a critical boundary-spanning role in establishing productive relationships with their buyers. In doing so, they employ diverse selling approaches that resulting in a wide range of customer experiences—some that align well with the overall marketing strategies and some that conflict with the intent of the organization. Several theoretical explanations for the variations in selli...

Maintenance has become a management issue, with its function as a contributor towards profit. This indicates the need for the maintenance operation to align with the business objectives and increase value for the enterprise. As a contributor to current management techniques, lean thinking approaches are now more commonly used. Without strong evidence to support the presence of generic lean thin...

To date, few tools for aligning protein-protein interaction networks have been suggested. These tools typically find conserved interaction patterns using various local or global alignment algorithms. However, the improvement of the speed, scalability, simplification, and accuracy of network alignment tools is still the target of new researches. In this paper, we introduce Pin-Align, a new tool ...

1 Physical Sciences of Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences (PSIBS) doctoral training centre, University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. 2 School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. 3 School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. * Corresponding authors: Joshua Z. Rappoport 2 , j.rappoport@bham....

Pyro-Align is a multiple alignment program specifically designed for pyrosequencing reads of huge number. Multiple sequence alignment is shown to be NP-hard [1] and heuristics are desgined for approximate solutions. Multiple sequence alignment of pyrosequenceing reads is complex mainly because of 2 factors. One being the huge number of reads, making the use of traditional heuristics, that scale...

Background & Objective: Premalignant lesions of cervix have increased dramatically in recent years. Early diagnosis and management of abnormalitie...

Background & Objective: Premalignant lesions of cervix have increased dramatically in recent years. Early diagnosis and management of abnormalitie...