the purpose of the present study is to investigate the supply chain strategies and information system strategies alignment and the impact of these two strategies on supply chain management performance of manufacturing firms in khuzestan province. the population of this applied research consisted of 1716 manufacturing firms and with using cochran's formula for limited society, 231 firms wer...

background the association between quality of work life and participation in knowledge management is unknown. objectives this study aimed to discover the association between quality of work life of nurse managers and their participation in implementing knowledge management. materials and methods this was a correlational study. all nurse managers (71 people) from 11 hospitals affiliated with the...

this study examines inventory management practices of flour milling manufacturing firms and their effects on operational performance. five flour milling manufacturing firms in lagos were used for this study. structured questionnaire was the major instrument for the collection of relevant primary data while descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was deployed to analyzing the ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer that endangers the women's mental health. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of stress management consulting on coping strategies in women with breast cancer. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental, with pre- and post-test design and follows up with control and intervention groups. 104 women with breast can...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

AIMS This study investigates the selection and efficacy of various strategies employed by young Taiwanese women in the self-management of dysmenorrhea. BACKGROUND Dysmenorrhea is the common gynaecological problem in reproductive-aged women. In the past, non-specific treatments such as heat and exercise were found to be less effective. Current therapies for dysmenorrhea include prostaglandin s...