In this paper, we focus on outsourcing activities optimization problem in single period setting. In some situations, capacity planning or outsourcing is a one-time event and can be modeled as a single period problem. The aim of this research is to balance the trade-off between two echelons of a supply chain consisting of a single outsourcer and a single subcontractor. Each part is composed of a...

A definition for a document type within an organization represents an organizational norm about the way the organizational actors represent products and supporting evidence of organizational processes. Generating a good organization-specific document structure is, therefore, important since it can capture a shared understanding among the organizational actors about how certain business processe...

Lead time is one of the major limits that affect planning at every stage of the supply chain system. In this paper, we study a continuous review inventory model. This paper investigates the ordering cost reductions are dependent on lead time. This study addressed two-echelon supply chain problem consisting of a single vendor and a single buyer. The main contribution of this study is that the in...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of psychotherapy based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on the subscales of marital satisfaction overall satisfaction, religious orientation, relations with children, sex, occasional conflicts, interpersonal conflicts and arrogance, by single case study in the spouses of veterans with spinal cord injuries. Methods: ...

background: single nucleotide polymorphism (snps) are considered as one of the underlying causes of male infertility. proper sperm chromatin packaging which involves replacement of histones with protamines has profound effect on male fertility. over 20 snps have been reported for the protamine 1 and 2. materials and methods: the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of two previously ...

introduction: haemophilia a is the most common inherited x-linked recessive bleeding disorder. the severity of the resultant bleeding diathesis depends on the fviii levels associated with the mutation. analysis of carrier state can be made indirectly by dna linkage analysis or directly by identifying the mutation that leads to the disease. the aim of this study was to identification of the caus...