Due to the importance of the growth of biotechnology in Taiwan, the question of how the operation performance of the industry can be upgraded to sustain its competitive advantages has become an important question for Taiwanese biotechnology insiders. Recently, a growing number of organizations have implemented TQM in order to give them a competitive advantage [Chan, T. H., & Quazi, H. A. (2002)...

Existing bounds on the minimum weight d of the dual 7-ary code of a projective plane of order 49 show that this must be in the range of 75 < d < 99. We use combinatorial arguments to improve this range to 87 < d < 99, noting that the upper bound can be taken to be 91 if the plane has a Baer subplane, as in the desarguesian case. A brief survey of known results for the minimum weight of the dual...

Proof. First note that the map φ is uniquely determined by its components φ11, φ12, φ21, φ22. Indeed, by the universal property of the coproduct M1 ⊕ M2 we see that φ is uniquely determined by the maps φ∗1 := φ◦ι1 and φ∗2 := φ◦ι2. Then from the universal property of the product N1⊕N2 we see that the map φ∗1 is uniquely determined by the maps φ11 = π1 ◦φ∗1 and φ21 = π2 ◦ φ∗1. Similarly, φ∗2 is u...

for −∞ < z < ∞. The properties of this distribution and its generalizations have been studied by several authors. Of particular eminence are the numerous papers on this topic by Professor N. Balakrishnan and his colleagues; see, for example, Balakrishnan [1, 2, 3], Balakrishnan and Aggarwala [4], Balakrishnan et al. [5, 7, 12], Balakrishnan and Chan [6], Balakrishnan and Joshi [8], Balakrishnan...

We consider VC-minimal theories admitting unpackable generating families, and show that in such theories, forking of formulae over a model M is equivalent to containment in global types definable over M , generalizing a result of Dolich on o-minimal theories in [4].

In ring theory, the notion of annihilator is an important tool for studying the structures. Many characterizations and structure theorems can be derived by using this notion. On the other hand, certain classes of rings (e.g., Baer rings and Rickart rings) are defined by considering annihilators ideals. In the present work, we introduce a class of rings which is close to the class of Rickart rin...

While environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, many countries are adopting policies to control pollution. At the same time, the environmental regulation will inevitably affect economic and social development, especially employment growth. The environmental regulation will not only affect the scale of employment directly, but it will also have indirect effects by stimulating up...

Present-day understanding of rill dynamics is hampered by a lack of detailed data on velocity distributions in rills. The latter are difficult to collect with traditional techniques due to the very low water depths and the relatively high flow velocities in rills. The objectives of this paper were to investigate the feasibility of miniaturized acoustic Doppler velocimeter (mADV) measurements in...

Previous studies have hypothesized that wave-induced drag forces may constrain the size of intertidal organisms by dislodging or breaking organisms that exceed some critical dimension. In this study, we explored constraints on the size of the articulated coralline alga Calliarthron, which thrives in wave-exposed intertidal habitats. Its ability to survive depends critically upon its segmented m...