This research examines the capital budgeting practices used by small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) in two Portuguese industries, footwear metalworking, aiming at answering following questions: How much knowledge do managers have about practices? What are most importance they attribute to applying them? The was conducted through an online survey with a response rate of 14.9%. results document th...

OBJECTIVES To investigate high-level piperacillin resistance in Veillonella spp. in the absence of beta-lactamase activity. METHODS Penicillin-binding protein (PBP) competition studies were conducted in Veillonella strains, with piperacillin MICs ranging from 0.5 to >128 mg/L and ampicillin MICs from 0.125 to 4 mg/L. Whole cell lysates were pre-incubated with piperacillin or ampicillin and po...

The issue of green business is a small part big that actually has hit the headlines economic growth in future, namely sustainability business. MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) sector an important role to make it happen. development MSMEs one efforts potential coastal communities. Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) activities have realizing issue. object this research analyze strategic planning...

Many Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problems contain significant subproblems exclusively composed of 0-1 (binary) variables. Much effort has gone in to special solvers for 0-1 ILP, as well as specialized versions of 0-1 ILP. The boolean satisfiability problem (SAT), is fundamental to many fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Formal Verification, and Computer Aided Design, and can be vie...

manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market. this paper is intended to investigate implementation of value engineering (ve) technique into the product design concept for necessary changes in design of the humidifier system in order to lower unnecessary costs and to increase quality of the p...

Penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP-2) of Escherichia coli K-12 was purified by covalent affinity chromatography using 6-aminopenicillanic acid covalently coupled to carboxymethyl-Sepharose (6-APA-CM-Sepharose). Purification of PBP-2 was accomplished by prebinding the methoxy cephalosporin, cefoxitin, to the Triton X-100-solubilized PBPs of E. coli and then incubating the PBPs with 6-APA-CM-Sepha...

In addition to the four typical penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), a strain of heterogeneously methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus produced an extra 78-kD PBP (PBP 2a) that had a low affinity for nafcillin and penicillin. Addition of nafcillin to cultures of this strain caused a rapid increase in the amount of this PBP in cell membranes. This increase occurred at subinhibitory concentr...

CV. XYZ is a belt-producing MSME located in Surakarta. The problems faced by the unavailability of product variations , or it can be said that these MSMEs do not yet have various differentiations. Coupled with productivity at still bad. workers use manual tools and belts are perforated using nails hammers. Based on problems, this study aims to help determines best investment alternatives order ...