Craig Knight, Asia-Pacific Digital Business and Customer Services Manager of Eastman Chemical Company, was given a mandate to sell Eastman’s philosophy for an integrated electronic supply chain, otherwise known as the Integrated System Solution (ISS), to its business partners in the region, and to encourage adoption. Having invested in a state-of-the-art technical architecture that would suppor...

Classically, allergy depends on IgE antibodies and on high-affinity IgE receptors expressed by mast cells and basophils. This long accepted IgE/FcεRI/mast cell paradigm, on which the definition of immediate hypersensitivity was based in the Gell and Coomb's classification, appears too reductionist. Recently accumulated evidence indeed requires that not only IgE but also IgG antibodies, that not...

This atlas offers a detailed and systematic approach to the post-mortem examination of farmed poultry. The first chapter, describes the organs from the skin to the nervous system, presents a simple post-mortem technique, which explains how to examine each organ and body system, and illustrates what they look like when healthy. The second chapter describes the avian diseases that are usually enc...

In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival constructions in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL, 2002), Huddleston argues that several distributional facts about auxiliaries fit poorly with this hypothesis. He proposes, on the basis of...

Cross-organizational electronic collaboration is about to gain significant momentum and facilitates the emergence of a globally networked information service economy. However, existing solutions for the realization of such business relationships still exhibit weaknesses with respect to both managerial and technological aspects. In this work, we propose a service-oriented reference architecture ...

PURPOSE There are some epidemiological studies on pilots and cabin staff, but we found few health studies on aviation ground employees. The aim was to study associations between digestive symptoms in airline ground employees and diet, insomnia and lifestyle factors. METHODS A standardized questionnaire was mailed to all Stockholm ground employees in a Scandinavian airline company, 201 service...

This study means to inspect and get observational proof in regards with the impact of firm age, benefit, review assessment, dissolvability on report slack.The number days between end company's fiscal year audit date stated independent auditor's is used measure lag.Profitability measured using Return On Assets (ROA) formula, opinion a dummy variable, solvency Debt Asset Ratio (DAR) formula. Comp...

This paper investigates how individual characteristics, such as age, salary, job tenure, and gender, influence an individual’s decision to over-invest in company stock and follow naïve diversification rules. Using a new and unique data set from one 401(k) plan with over 73,000 eligible employees, the results suggest that individual characteristics do influence company stock holdings. Ordered pr...