Limited information is available regarding haskap berry maturity and corresponding postharvest characteristics. We assessed detached quality, respiration rate, ethylene production at five stages of compared storage influence on berries harvested half-blue softening stages. Ethylene’s increase successive suggests its involvement with maturation, but concomitant does not support classifying ripen...

There exists a strong correlation between efficient project management and competitive advantage for organizations. Therefore, organizations are striving to standardize and assess the rigor of their project management processes and capabilities i.e. project management maturity. Researchers and standardization organizations have developed several project management maturity models (PMMMs) to ass...

Traditionally , information security management standards listing generic means of protection have received a lot of attention in the field of information security management. In the background a few information security management-oriente d maturity criteria have been laid down. These criteria can be regarded as the latest promising innovations on the information security checklist standard fa...

pomegranate (punica granatum) is an important fruit crop cultivated for fruit and processing in the iran. delaying fruit harvest of pomegranate may increase fruit losses due to fruit cracking; however, early harvest may influence physical and biochemical indices of fruit. an experiment was carried out in 2011 at ‘baghmalek’ (north west of ahwaz, khuzestan province, iran) to determine the effect...

While different governments worldwide have published sets of recommendations-or even laws-for increasing preparedness, a reference framework to assess the level of compliance of organizations is still to come. For instance, emergency plans often remain stored in closets where they stay until some emergency or major legal change occurs. Consequently, achieving actual preparedness is difficult to...

High quality and well-managed climate data are the cornerstone of all services. Consistently assessing how well managed is one way to establish or demonstrate trustworthiness data. This paper presents World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Stewardship Maturity Matrix for Climate Data (SMM-CD) subsidiary SMM-CD National Regional Purposes (SMM-CD_NRP). Both these matrices have been developed w...

This paper is focused on the analysis and comparison of liquidity ratios and asset liability management practices in top three banks from public, private and foreign sector in India. The analysis is based upon the liquidity ratios calculation and the determination of maturity gap profiles for the banks under study. The paper also compares these banks maturity gap profiles with their correspondi...

Physical properties of cotton yarns are affected by the characteristics of cotton fibers such as fineness, length, maturity and strength. This relationship has been worked out by means of multivariable regression and stepwise method for an open-end spun (NeC 20) cotton yarn. Moreover, with the help of linear programming, it was made possible to determine the percentage of different cottons in t...

background: quality in health care can be seen as having three principal dimensions: service, technical and customer quality. this study aimed to measure customer quality in relation to self-management of type 2 diabetes. methods: a cross-sectional survey of 577 type 2 diabetes people was carried out in australia. the 13-item patient activation measure was used to evaluate customer quality base...