Modern manufacturing enterprises are required to collaborate by their business partners through their business process operations such as design, manufacture, distribution, and aftersales services. And furthermore performance evaluation is of great importance for effective supply chain man agement. Therefore, DEA can help companies to remove some of the in efficiencies in operational processes ...

Input-Output is a production model; in the original Leontief’s open version final demand determines the level of activity, assuming technology as given. Ghosh’s formulation, on the contrary, assumes that value added determines output in a supply-driven account; producers must induce sales in order to achieve a desired level of income. The supply–driven model has been criticised on the bases of ...

A Data-Driven IDCT Architecture for Low Power Video Applications Thucydides Xanthopoulos Anantha P. Chandrakasan Charles G. Sodini William J. Dally Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Abstract. Analysis of transform coded (MPEG) video data streams reveals a large percentage of zero-valued Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coe cients. A Data-Driven 2D IDCT architec...

Dependence of within-die delay variations on power supply voltage (VDD) is measured down to 0.4 V. The VDD dependence of the within-die delay variation of manual layout and irregular auto place and route (P&R) layout are compared for the first time. The measured relative delay (=sigma/average) variation difference between the manual layout and the P&R layout decreases from 1.56% to 0.07% with r...

Supply chains today amass huge amounts of data. To remain competitive in a global economy, organizations need to constantly derive meaningful information from this plethora of data to make critical business decisions. The process of gaining meaningful and actionable knowledge from supply chain related data is referred to as Supply Chain Analytics (SCA). As a result of demonstrated benefits from...

Businesses today must maintain a laser-like focus on containing costs and increasing efficiencies in every possible way in order to generate profits and maintain competitiveness. Supply chain management (SCM) & optimization is a critical aspect of modern enterprises and an ever-green research area. IT dept plays a major role in the optimization of supply chains. This paper presents a critical r...

supply chain management has been considered by many researchers in order to coordinate the chain members in this new age so that it is considered as a strategic approach for demands, operations, procurements and managing logistical processes. the present study deals with survey of supply components in supply chain management and their effect on organization performance. the research conceptual ...

this is a short commentary to the editorial issued by marianna fotaki, entitled: “why and how is compassion necessary to provide good quality healthcare.” it introduces the necessity of a more cognitive approach to explore further the determinants of behavior towards compassionate care. it raises questions about the importance of training towards a more patient-care and values driven healthcare...

Based on a previously reported request driven technique for Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous (GALS) circuits this paper presents two significant enhancements. Firstly, the previously required local ring oscillators are avoided. Instead, an external clock with arbitrary phase for each GALS block is used. Details of the required wrapper circuitry, the proposed design flow and performance...