considering the major change occurred in business cells from plant to “chain” and the critical need to choose the best partners to form the supply chain for competing in today’s business setting, one of the vital decisions made at the early steps of constructing a business is supplier selection. given the fact that the early decisions are inherently strategic and therefore hard and costly to ch...

abstract— due to the daily mass production and the widespread variation of medical x-ray images, it is necessary to classify these for searching and retrieving proposes, especially for content-based medical image retrieval systems. in this paper, a medical x-ray image hierarchical classification structure based on a novel merging and splitting scheme and using shape and texture features is prop...

The large-scale production of cardiomyocytes is a key step in the development of cell therapy and tissue engineering to treat cardiovascular diseases, particularly those caused by ischemia. The main objective of this study was to establish a procedure for the efficient production of cardiomyocytes by reprogramming mesenchymal stem cells from adipose tissue. First, lentiviral vectors expressing ...

Although the kernel robust mixed-norm (KRMN) algorithm outperforms the kernel least mean square (KLMS) algorithm in impulsive noise, it still has two major problems as follows: (1) The choice of the mixing parameter in the KRMN is crucial to obtain satisfactory performance. (2) The structure of KRMN grows linearly as the iteration goes on, thus it has high computational burden and memory requir...

What is the current level of knowledge development on RFID technology, the technology at the core of the “Internet of Things” within the AIS basket of top journals? And what are the potential future research directions on RFID technology within this outlet? To answer these questions, we conducted a comprehensive review of articles published between 2000 and 2011 in journals within the AIS baske...

Nowadays, several RFID systems are commercially available for numerous applications such as control assess, transportation, supply chain, etc. However, RFID tags and sensors association could provide a lot of new solutions in order to develop notably green projects such as more efficient energy production chain, best control waste, recycling, and other environmental challenges. Furthermore, the...