Maintenance strategy plays a very important role in all kind of manufacturing industries. Each maintenance strategy has their characteristics, importance and drawbacks. Performance of a machine depends on the type of maintenance strategies employed on it. Machines used in industries need proper maintenance because failure of machine may cause the production loss. Maintenance strategy may vary f...

The importance of maintenance has escalated significantly by the increasing of automation in manufacturing process. This condition switches traditional maintenance perspective of inevitable cost into the business competitive driver. Consequently, maintenance strategy and operation decision needs to be synchronized to business and manufacturing concerns. This paper shows the development of conce...

to suceed in sport arena, provinces should have plans parallel with national sport plans. khorasan razavi province as one of the provinces that has played a vital role in iran sport lacks a comprehensive plan in sport and sport activities are follwoed randomly. therefore, this study aimed at developing the strategic plan of sport and youth organization of khorasan razavi in sport and physical e...

We study the impact of strategic commitment on cooperation in indefinitely repeated games of strategic substitutes (Cournot) and complements (Bertrand) using laboratory experiments. Overall, strategic commitment has no effect on cooperation with strategic substitutes and a negative one with strategic complements. In the absence of strong strategic commitment, we find more cooperation in the com...

Objective: Identify the evaluation methods being used in academic medical libraries that are engaged in strategic planning, where in the planning and implementation process evaluation is being incorporated, and how the evaluation data are collected, analyzed, and incorporated into future strategic planning processes. Methods: Using the multi-case approach (five), data collection included docume...

In 1900, 20 physicians met in Washington, DC, to form the American Therapeutic Society (ATS) as a means of advancing rational therapeutics through “the application of any method or agency which might ameliorate, cure, or prevent disease.”1 This mission, articulated over a century ago by the ATS, which eventually evolved into our modern day American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeu...