The central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. This necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. Environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. Doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

- Determining people trend to herbal medicine consumption since 10 years ago. - Numbers of drugstores which directly prescribe herbal medicines. - Numbers of prescriptions which contain herbal medicine as a medicinal item. - Awareness of medical and pharmaceutical students on herbal medicine. - Supply sources of herbal medicines for drugstores. - Herbal medicine problems in relation to prescrip...

- Determining people trend to herbal medicine consumption since 10 years ago. - Numbers of drugstores which directly prescribe herbal medicines. - Numbers of prescriptions which contain herbal medicine as a medicinal item. - Awareness of medical and pharmaceutical students on herbal medicine. - Supply sources of herbal medicines for drugstores. - Herbal medicine problems in relation to prescrip...

ex vivo expansion of human umbilical cord blood cells (hucbc) is explored by several investigators to enhance the repopulating potential of hucbc. the proliferation and expansion of human hematopoietic stem cells (hsc) in ex vivo culture was examined with the goal of generating a suitable clinical protocol for expanding hsc for patient transplantation. using primary human mesenchymal stem cells...

Objective(s) Articular cartilage tissue defects cannot be repaired by the proliferation of resident chondrocytes. Autologous chondrocyte transplantation (ACT) is a relatively new therapeutic approach to cover full thickness articular cartilage defects by in vitro grown chondrocytes from the joint of a patient. Therefore, we investigated the redifferentiation capability of human chondrocytes ma...