This paper explores the concept of being and performing masculinity in Karim Raslan’s short story Go East. Torn between being a man in his own terms and performing socially endorsed masculine roles and sexual desires, the protagonist, Mahmud, negotiates and transgresses gender borders, resulting in his inability to sexually perform with women and incapacity for emotional and physical intimacy w...

The performing art of violin was introduced, popularized and developed in China as the result of an economic and cultural exchange between the east and west. Chinese violin music has its unique characteristics, which is rooted from Chinese tradition music and philosophy bounded with western composing concept and rich violin techniques. The efforts by Chinese musicians and violin educators in th...

After a thorough investigation of end user requirement differences from a Database and a Data Warehouse, a strong case is made for specific Data Warehouse Management Systems (DWMS), in contrast to the trend of utilizing DBMS for Data Warehouse construction. The three type (Temporal, Nested Relational, Multidimensional) DWMS hypothesis, an original concept of Yoshioki Ishii, President, Software ...

1414 school children (789 boys and 625 girls) residing in east-Tehran, were evaluated for the evidence of goiter. 88% of girls and 71.5% of boys had goiter. In 30% of girls and 17.5% of boys goiter was clearly visible (grade 2 and over). FT4I, FT3I, TSH, and thyroglobulin concentrations were not significantly different in groups with or without goiter. The concentration of iodide in urine was 2...

This paper concerns the modeling of low inventory lines. Currently, most models assume that processing times are independent. We consider the differences in behavior of workers in lowand high-inventory production lines. Using a laboratory experiment we show that workers speed up when they are the cause of idle time on the line. This means that processing time distributions are not independent o...

Recently Just-In-Time (JIT) production has attracted increasing interest throughout the Chinese manufacturing industries and its programs have been widely implemented. Currently, there are few studies conducted about JIT manufacturing implemented by small manufacturing firms in China, even though small firms are still dominant in many areas of manufacturing industries in China. This study analy...

This paper implements the inventory model developed in the first part of this paper in a simplified problem to simultaneously reduce costs and risks in JIT systems. This model is developed to ascertain an optimal ordering strategy for procuring raw materials by using regular multi-external and local backup suppliers to reduce the total cost of the products, and at the same time to reduce the ri...

In this paper, we deal with a supply chain in which an assembler orders parts from a supplier. The assembler decides both order size and lead time for the supplier. In response, the supplier will determine its production capacity to fulfill the order from the assembler. Compared with the case where the assembler and the supplier maximize their own individual profits, the supply chain coordinati...

Since the early 1980’s, when Japanese manufacturing firms in a number of industries—including auto, electronics, and machinery—achieved high levels of international competitiveness, Japanese manufacturing practices—particularly those associated with just-in-time manufacturing (JIT)—have attracted considerable attention in North America. Transfer to the United States of JIT is characterized by s...