Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to join in a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a great impact on strategic partnering and success of a firm in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chain. Our mo...

affecting the economy of independent pharmaciesone can never deny the influence of chain pharmacies as a powerful competitor over the economy of independent pharmacies. in one view, integrating independent pharmacies with low turnover into chain pharmacies can save them; on the other hand, chain pharmacies can lead to more treat for independent pharmacies life.patient costsit is expected to dec...

results all eight candida species were successfully detected, identified and quantitated based on the icl gene. a seven-log range of the gene copy number and a minimum detection limit of 103 copies were achieved. conclusions a one-tube absolute quantification real-time pcr that differentiates medically important candida species via individual unique melting temperature was achieved. analytical ...

during the period of 1984-1995, nine young patients were admitted to shiraz university hospitals with a chief complaint of abdominal mass, weight loss and chronic diarrhea. clinically, these cases were diagnosed as intestinal tuberculosis or lymphoma. laparotomy revealed a huge mass involving the upper small intestine. histologic sections showed diffuse infiltration of the intestinal wall with ...