Drawing on the supply chain (SC) management literature, this article conceptualizes and empirically tests a framework that shows how both external and internal integration practices are significant and positively associated with SC value addition and firm performance. The framework also tests the impact of value addition as a reinforcing factor on firm performance. The outcome of this investiga...

objective: the organotypic co-culture is a well-known technique to examine cellular interactions and their roles in stem cell proliferation and differentiation. this study aims to evaluate the effects of dermal fibroblasts (dfs) on epidermal differentiation of adipose-derived stem cells (ascs) using a three-dimensional (3d) organotypic coculture technique. materials and methods: in this experim...

background:accumulative research is in progress to clarify clinical aspects of gbv-c. the possibility of interaction between hcv and gbv-c as well as its consequence on development of liver diseases is the most important clinical aspect which encourages researchers to develop a rapid and cost effective technique for simultaneous detection of both viruses.methods: in this study, a sybr green rea...

This paper tests for the e¤ects of increased trade and …nancial integration on business cycle co-movement. Using both quantitative theory and a reduced form empirical approach motivated by the theory, I measure and explain the channels from bilateral trade integration, …nancial integration, and industrial specialization to cyclical co-movement. The model is also used to measure the causal chann...

this paper presents a descriptive study which examines the co-alignment between total quality management (tqm) and technology/research and development (r&d;) management in predicting organizational performance in terms of quality and innovation. this study improves our understanding of the relationship between tqm and innovation based on the following two major issues. first, this study contrib...

mfi-type zeolite membranes (zsm-5) were prepared on α-alumina tubular supports and tested for separation of h2/co mixtures. the effect of pressure and temperature on h2 and co flows and selectivity was investigated. the best results in this work were obtained with a zsm-5 membrane prepared over a porous α-alumina tube seeded with zeolite nanocrystals synthesized with microwave technique. in thi...

This paper presents an improved technique for accelerating the process of doing logic programming in discrete Hopfield neural network by integrating fuzzy logic and modifying activation function. Generally Hopfield networks are suitable for solving combinatorial optimization problems and pattern recognition problems. However Hopfield neural networks also face some limitations; one of the major ...

A new technique for ontology alignment has been built by integrating important features of matching to achieve high quality results when searching and exchanging information between ontologies. The system is semiautomatic and enables syntactical and semantic interoperability among ontologies. Moreover, it is a multistrategy algorithm which can deal with and solve more than one critical problem....