In response to the increasing competition, organizations are working towards cost cutting, especially in the areas of procurement, plant operations and primary distribution. In order to reduce costs, managing vendor relationship is critical. The philosophy of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) addressed interactions with the third party participation in a supply chain with the aim of improv...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE STUDY A quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) model based on artificial neural networks (ANN) was developed to study the activities of 29 derivatives of 3-amino-4-(2-(2-(4-benzylpiperazin-1-yl)-2-oxoethoxy) phenylamino) cyclobutenedione as C-C chemokine receptor type 1(CCR1) inhibitors. METHODS A feed-forward ANN with error back-propagation learning...

UNLABELLED Hub proteins (those engaged in most physical interactions in a protein interaction network (PIN) have recently gained much research interest due to their essential role in mediating cellular processes and their potential therapeutic value. It is straightforward to identify hubs if the underlying PIN is experimentally determined; however, theoretical hub prediction remains a very chal...

Spectrophores are novel descriptors that are calculated from the three-dimensional atomic properties of molecules. In our current implementation, the atomic properties that were used to calculate spectrophores include atomic partial charges, atomic lipophilicity indices, atomic shape deviations and atomic softness properties. This approach can easily be widened to also include additional atomic...

relationship between plant and sial has special importance, because it is judged about one by considering the another one. soil-plant relationship is used for range trend, range emdttton, range suitability in range species. this research, includes: the analysis of plant different types and dominant species in each type with soil factors such as percentage of lime clay depth, stone and gravel (s...

There are many interests and researches among an industry as IT develops. It is important to use information effectively and adequately as applying IT to industry because IT provides an innovative strategy for the enterprise. In case of manufacturing industry, many business solutions (e.g. SCM, CRM, ERP, PLM etc) have developed for years. However in case of construction industry, it was hard to...

BACKGROUND Invasions of natural communities by non-indigenous species are currently rated as one of the most important global-scale threats to biodiversity. Biodiversity itself is known to reduce invasions and increase stability. Disturbances by ecosystem engineers affect the distribution, establishment, and abundance of species but this has been ignored in studies on diversity-invasibility rel...

Autophagy is a conserved cellular process that degrades cytoplasmic constituents in vacuoles. Plant pathogenic fungi develop special infection structures and/or secrete a range of enzymes to invade their plant hosts. It has been demonstrated that monitoring autophagy processes can be extremely useful in visualizing the sequence of events leading to pathogenicity of plant pathogenic fungi. In th...

While recent studies have referred to plant immunity activators, it is difficult to find a compound to use for the immunity activation of plants. In this study, we seek to determine compounds that enable plant immunity activity using ILP. With the proposed method, it is possible to predict compounds that induce plant immunity activity, based on the structural features of the compounds. The pred...

in order to evaluate the relationship between morphological characters in rice lines two populations at f3 generation were grown in research field of agricultural sciences and natural resource university, sari, iran, during 2012. statistical analysis on important agronomic traits showed that maximum standard deviation belonged to total grain number followed by filled grains per panicle and grai...