Special Ingot-Making Process

Making Software Process Management Agile

The software development process is becoming more complex everyday and thus requires specific tools that facilitate its management. In this article, Zentipede, a tool for managing the software development process in software factories, is presented. This tool simplifies the software process management and provides a lot of statistical data to help measure and improve the quality of developments...

Making childbirth a normal process.

Strategy-making Process and Firm Performance in Iranian Pharmaceutical Industry

This study investigated the relationship between main dimensions in the strategy-making process, environmental complexity, and performance in pharmaceutical companies of Iran. Results argue that pharmaceutical companies like other industries place differing emphasis on strategy-making and employ different modes of strategy-making. It offers a typology of different modes of strategy-making that ...

Silicon Ingot Characterization by Quasi-Steady-State Photoconductance

The detailed knowledge of the distributions of carrier lifetimes, impurities and crystal defects in silicon ingots is key for understanding and improving wafer quality as well as solar cell processing steps. In this work, we have applied a quasi-steady-state photoconductance tester developed for the use on ingots to the measurement of lifetimes and dissolved iron concentrations along a p-type m...

The narrative analysis of decision-making process to remarriage

This study was done to investigate female heads of household’s decision-making process for remarriage and its barriers. Since an important part of these women’s life was not researchable through questionnaires and details of their life would be omitted, it's felt the need to do qualitative work; therefore, it's a qualitative study by narrative analysis strategy in which we used both...