Due to the gradual importance of e-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM) to the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan, this research intended to explore the critical factors which allowed the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises in Taiwan to employ e-SCM. The research further studied that under these critical factors, how the adoption of e-SCM affected their organizational achievements. In ...

Single-chain monellin (SCM), which is an engineered 94-residue polypeptide, has been characterized as being as sweet as native two-chain monellin. Data from gel-filtration high performance liquid chromatography and NMR has proven that SCM exists as a monomer in aqueous solution. In order to determine the structural origin of the taste of sweetness, we engineered several mutant SCM proteins by m...

The leap from decision support to autonomous systems has often raised a number of issues, namely system safety, soundness and security. Depending on the field of application, these issues can either be easily overcome or even hinder progress. In the case of Supply Chain Management (SCM), where system performance implies loss or profit, these issues are of high importance. SCM environments are o...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has recently entered a new era, where the old-fashioned static, long-term relationships between involved actors are being replaced by new, dynamic negotiating schemas, established over virtual organizations and trading marketplaces. SCM environments now operate under strict policies that all interested parties (suppliers, manufacturers, customers) have to abide by,...

The Sex comb on midleg (Scm) and polyhomeotic (ph) proteins are members of the Polycomb group (PcG) of transcriptional repressors. PcG proteins maintain differential patterns of homeotic gene expression during development in Drosophila flies. The Scm and ph proteins share a homology domain with 38% identity over a length of 65 amino acids, termed the SPM domain, that is located at their respect...

The sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) is one of the major muscles involved in producing abnormal head position in cervical dystonia patients. This study tested whether doxorubicin chemomyectomy, direct injection of doxorubicin into the SCM to permanently remove muscle fibers, has the potential to be a nonsurgical, permanent treatment for cervical dystonia. The right SCM of rabbits was injected w...

We analyzed the bit error rate (BER) and ergodic capacity performance improvement of dual-hop OFDM amplify and forward (AF) relay system with fixed gain (FG) at relay station (R), all attained through ordered subcarrier mapping (SCM) at R. In previous works we showed that in the region of small values of average signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) on hops best-to-best SCM (BTB SCM) scheme should be a...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) has proven to be an effective tool that aids companies in the development of competitive advantages. SCM Systems are relied on to manage warehouses, transportation, trade logistics and various other issues concerning the coordinated movement of products and services from suppliers to customers. Although in today’s fast paced business environment, numerous supply ch...

The emergence of electronic Business, or e-Business, has changed the operations and contents of traditional supply chain management or SCM. e-Business not only makes the operation of SCM more effective, but also plays the role of a major driving force to induce the development of new features of SCM by destroying the rules and orders that once governed and controlled SCM in the past. Based on t...

Benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors are generally considered curable lesions, and surgical resection is recommended as the primary line of treatment. When these tumors occur in the brachial plexus, they are most frequently accessed via the supraclavicular approach. Traditional descriptions of this approach have included either transection of sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle fibers or disartic...