This study carries out an empirical test of the order-winners framework in manufacturing organizations. Hill [Hill, T., 1985. Manufacturing Strategy: The Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Function, first ed. Macmillan, Basingstoke; Hill, T., 2000. Manufacturing Strategy: Text and Cases, second ed. Palgrave, Basingstoke] proposed the order-winners framework to help managers to improve un...

A neglected shoulder dislocation is a rarer entity and only few cases are reported in the literature. An anterior dislocation of the shoulder is rarely missed as patients present with limb in abduction and external rotation, an attitude very familiar to orthopaedic surgeon. Occasionally such cases are missed when they present with fracture of proximal humerus or when they receive treatment from...

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BACKGROUND Crawford Williamson Long (1815 to 1878) was the first to use ether as an inhaled anesthetic for surgical operations. By not publishing his discovery for 7 yr, his pioneering work was largely overshadowed by that of Horace Wells (1815 to 1848), Charles Thomas Jackson (1805 to 1880), and William Thomas Green Morton (1819 to 1868). As a result, sites commemorating Long's discovery are n...

What is the interplay between informal networks, such as those that facilitate risk-sharing among households, and institutions such as public transfers and formal financial intermediation? Much of the existing literature on informal networks in economics focuses on either altruism or strategic mechanisms for their formation and maintenance. This approach stands in sharp contrast to perspectives...

Various classification schemes exist for homogeneous and isotropic (CP) world models, which include pressureless matter (so-called dust) and Einstein’s cosmological constant Λ. We here classify the solutions of more general world models consisting of up to four noninteracting fluids, each with pressure Pj, energy density ǫj and an equation of state Pj = (γj − 1)ǫj with 0 ≤ γj ≤ 2. In addition t...

[1] Radar interferometry (InSAR), field measurements and creepmeters reveal surface slip on multiple faults in the Imperial Valley triggered by the main shock of the 4 April 2010 El Mayor‐Cucapah Mw 7.2 earthquake. Co‐seismic offsets occurred on the San Andreas, Superstition Hills, Imperial, Elmore Ranch, Wienert, Coyote Creek, Elsinore, Yuha, and several minor faults near the town of Ocotillo ...

A broadcast graph is an n-vertex communication network that supports a broadcast from any one vertex to all other vertices in optimal time dlgne, given that each message transmission takes one time unit and a vertex participates in at most one transmission per time step. This paper establishes tight bounds for B(n), the minimum number of edges of a broadcast graph, and D(n), the minimum maxdegr...

Observations of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) associated with atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs) generated by the moving solar terminator have been made with the Millstone Hill incoherent scatter radar. Three experiments near 1995 fall equinox measured the AGW/TID velocity and direction of motion. Spectral and cross-correlation analysis of the ionospheric density observations indicate...

We investigate the long-time behavior of weak solutions to the thin-film type equation vt = (xv − vvxxx)x , which arises in the Hele-Shaw problem. We estimate the rate of convergence of solutions to the Smyth-Hill equilibrium solution, which has the form 1 24 (C − x2)2+, in the norm |||f |||2m,1 = ∫ R (1 + |x|)|f(x)|dx+ ∫ R |fx(x)|dx . We obtain exponential convergence in the ||| · |||m,1 norm ...