INTRODUCTION The special nature of Blood Transfusion Services has been very well described by Wolf' who states that "unlike other clinical laboratories the blood bank provides a parenteral therapeutic agent. Unlike the pharmacy's primarily synthetic parenterals, blood and its components resemble tissue or organ transplants. They require individual patientdonor matching. The unique aspects of tr...

This paper outlines a model of the factors that are critical to the establishment and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantage for education services enterprises in international markets. It draws together theories of competitive advantage developed by industrial economics and management theory, with literature relating to services marketing. In examining a theory of sustainable competi...

or organs to restore impaired function resulting from any cause, including congenital defects, disease, trauma and aging. It uses a combination of several technological approaches that moves it beyond traditional transplantation and replacement therapies. These approaches may include, but are not limited to, the use of soluble molecules, gene therapy, stem cell transplantation, tissue engineeri...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper reflects on changes that occurred in agrifood supply chains Canada and United States. The sudden shift food consumption patterns from service to retail required realignment of chains. For most part, have performed remarkably well during pandemic. Cross-border continued function effectively. significant disruptions emerged workforce outbreaks meat pr...

This paper investigates the economic order quantity inventory model for a retailer under two levels of trade credit to reflect the supply chain management situation. It is assumed that the retailer maintains a powerful position and can obtain full trade credit offered by supplier, yet the retailer just offers the partial trade credit to customers. Under these conditions, the retailer can obtain...

Viewed as manufacturing, the electric power industry is more similar to process industries such as petroleum, chemicals and pharmaceuticals than to the manufacture of automobiles, electronic devices and clothing by discrete, assembly-fine operations. However, it has most of the same challenges as these other industries, often carried to their extremes. For instanze, while electricity has essent...

Lipids were extracted from human blood plasma using suband supercritical fluids. An extraction plant was specifically designed to allow the treatment of plasma with compressed propane, dimethyl ether (DME) and nitrous oxide (N2O) as solvents. Experiments were performed using suband supercritical gases as mild solvents to remove the lipid fraction without denaturing valuable proteins or affectin...

Our purpose in this document is to inform about the objectives we have for the second phase of the The Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, JSCI (www.iiisci.org/Journal/sci), in order to get feedback as input for the final planning of the second phase of the journal. The main objectives of this second phase are the following:  To increase the readership of JSCI.  To broaden the ...

This article briefly outlines the agrifood market and policy situation in United States after 1 year of COVID-19 pandemic. Agrifood markets suffered initial disruptions from both supply-side demand-side shocks but significant adjustments by farmers, processors, distributors, government kept these relatively shorty-lived. Substantial support has been provided to farmers as part $5 trillion econo...

There are two logics or mindsets from which to consider and motivate a transition from goods to service(s). The first, “goods-dominant (G-D) logic”, views services in terms of a type of (e.g., intangible) good and implies that goods production and distribution practices should be modified to deal with the differences between tangible goods and services. The second logic, “service-dominant (S-D)...