Forecasting always plays an important role in business, technology and many others and it helps organizations to increase profits, reduce lost sales and more eff icient production planning. A parallel algorithm for forecasting reported recently on OTIS-Mesh[9]. This parallel algorithm requires 5( – 1) electronic steps and 4 optical steps. In this paper we present an improved parallel algorithm ...

A R T I C L E I N F O Lean implementation barriers, machine tool sector, ISM, IRP Received 18 June 2014 Accepted 04 August 2014 Available online 1 December 2014 Acute global competition has forced organization to adopt Lean manufacturing strategy in order to improve competitive potential. Top managements should examine the barriers to lean in order to ensure its effective implementation. This p...

This paper examines the collapse of the Italian postwar party system in 1992, and documents that international economic factors contributed signi ̄cantly to the end of Christian Democratic hegemony. The paper speculates that the reason may be that the prospect of European monetary integration changed the preferences of important social groups in Italy so that they came to favor a change of regim...

Despite a high degree of homonomy in the segmental organization of the ectoderm, the body plan of the leech is divided into two zones based on the distinct cell lineage patterns that give rise to the O/P portion of the segmental ectoderm. In the midbody and caudal segments, each segmental repeat of ectoderm arises in part from one 'o' blast cell and one 'p' blast cell. These two blast cells are...

Shigella strains are important human pathogens and are normally identified by their O antigens. O antigen is an essential part of the lipopolysaccharide present in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and plays a role in pathogenicity. Structural and genetic organization of the Shigella boydii type 18 O antigen was investigated. As judged by sugar and methylation analyses and NMR spectr...

Shigella strains are human pathogens and their identification is usually based on their O-antigens. The O-antigen gene cluster of Shigella boydii O11 was sequenced. All the expected genes for the synthesis of the O-antigen were identified on the basis of homology and genes for the biosynthesis of dTDP-l-Rhamnose, genes encoding sugar transferases, as well as genes encoding O unit flippase (wzx)...

* The initial inspiration for this historical review arose during a professional development workshop at the 2007 Academy of Management (AOM) conference in Philadelphia, in which I addressed the past and future of research on entrepreneurial teams. I would like to thank Howard Aldrich, Mark Granovetter, Hans Landström, and Franz Lohrke for their helpful feedback on an earlier draft of this chap...

Introduction: This is a survey to the implementation of Islamic standards in the hospitals of Iran for attraction of medical Muslim tourists. Method: This is a cross-sectional study which was conducted in 2013 within a number of hospitals throughout Iran. The data was collected by the check lists of Islamic standard...