intellectual capital is known as a key strategic asset for organizational performance and innovative solutions; and its management is critical for maintaining competitive advantage. this paper analyzes the relationship between intellectual capital, competitive advantage and innovation drivers in 8 factories in rubber and plastics industry. to assess these factors, the views of 246 managers and ...

Spin-polarized density functional theory computations have been carried out to study the stable adsorption configurations of Cun (n = 1-7, 13) on Fe and Fe3C surfaces for understanding the initial stages of copper promotion in catalysis. At low coverage, two-dimensional aggregation is more preferred over dispersion and three-dimensional aggregation on the Fe(110) and Fe(100) surfaces as well as...

survival in patients with HCC in two independent cohorts, and the mechanism was associated with low VEGFR-1 expression levels in HCC. Grant support: This research was supported by grants from the National Scientific Council (NSC 100-2314-B-075-051, NSC 101-2321-B075-004) and Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V101B-005, V102E2005 and V102E2-006) to YF Hu, (NSC99-3112-B-010-005-CC1, NSC1002627-B-...

Fifteen strawberry germplasm collected from local and exotic sources were evaluated for different qualitative and quantitative characters. The germplasm showed variation for majority of the studied traits. Plant height during peak harvest ranged from 14.67 to 25.00 cm and FA 007 exhibited the tallest plants. The maximum number of leaves plant was produced by FA 006 (46.67). The maximum number o...

the main objective of this article is to present a comparative study of capital assets pricing models (capm) with extrapolating capital assets pricing models (x-capm) of companies admitted in tehran exchange market which is accomplished for the first time by investigators of this research in iran. accordingly, the statistical population under study of this research includes all companies admitt...

Background. Major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA) is a ligand for the activating NKG2D receptor expressed on natural killer (NK) cells. We aimed to assess the association of MICA polymorphism with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) in Korean children. Methods. Eighty-one patients with AITD were recruited. We analyzed MICA polymorphisms by PCR-SSP and compared the r...

volves determining the population and distribution of these defects. Scanning probe microscopy was used to examine the cleaved surfaces of four binary molybdates: a-MoO3(010), Mo18O52(100), Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a term we use here to Mo8O23(010), and h-Mo4O11(100). The Mo18O52(100) and refer collectively to scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) Mo8O23(010) surfaces were imaged in air a...