The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem ...

Background Networks have been proven effective representations for the analysis of biological data. As such, there exist multiple methods to extract knowledge from biological networks. However, these approaches usually limit their scope to a single biological entity type of interest or they lack the flexibility to analyze user-defined data. Results We developed ProphTools, a flexible open-sou...

BACKGROUND In-country research capacity is key to creating improvements in local implementation of health programs and can help prioritize health issues in a landscape of limited funding. Research prioritization has shown to be particularly useful to help answer strategic and programmatic issues in health care, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The purpose of this paper is to pres...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

ABSTRACT The destruction of the ecological system caused by urban expansion has led to environmental deterioration, cities have become increasingly vulnerable. In this study, six districts and counties along Yellow River in Zhengzhou were selected as study area. First, green infrastructure elements extracted morphological spatial pattern analysis. Then, outside areas, we used connectivity analy...

Enterprise System (ES) implementations remain high-risk and technically challenging projects. This is partly due to their socio-technical nature, and in particular, the involvement of multiple internal and external stakeholders. However, the importance of these stakeholders has largely been undermined in ES practice and research. There is thus a need to re-focus attention on the tripartite aspe...

During software development companies are frequently faced with lack of time and resources, which limits their ability to effectively complete testing efforts. Often, the engineering team is compelled to stop their testing efforts abruptly due to schedule pressures. We build upon prior test case prioritization research and present a system-level, value-driven approach to test case prioritizatio...