UNLABELLED Nickel-titanium shape memory alloy (NiTi-SMA) implants might allow modulating fracture healing, changing their stiffness through alteration of both elastic modulus and cross-sectional shape by employing the shape memory effect (SME). HYPOTHESES a novel NiTi-SMA plate stabilizes tibia osteotomies in rabbits. After noninvasive electromagnetic induction heating the alloy exhibits the ...

E-Commerce changes the way organizations do business. Recognizing the significance of ECommerce contributions to the nation’s economic growth, the Malaysian government introduced several stimuli to increase the practice of E-Commerce, particularly among SME, as they constituents about 84 percent of the Malaysian business enterprises. This paper looks at several stimulus provided by the Malaysia...

Software development is a complex activity. It is involved with different scenarios and risks which must be managed through a systematic approach to Software Risk Management (SRM). The best software process depends on the project’s particularities. Situational Method Engineering (SME) focuses on building project specific method/process according to the situation at hand. This paper proposes an ...

Small firms (SMEs) are encouraged to embrace e-business. However, the mechanisms by which such business transformation occurs is not understood. IS transformation models suggest a single path, though, there is little evidence that SMEs follow it, and e-business transformation models are untested. Venkatraman’s business transformation model provides a means of determining IS development that has...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this review is to examine cost implications, including cost-effectiveness analyses, cost-savings calculated from health-care utilisation and intervention delivery costs of arthritis-related self-management education (SME) interventions. METHODS Literature searches, covering 1980-March 2012, using arthritis, self-management and cost-related terms, identified 487 artic...

Atomic clock comparisons provide some of the most precise tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetries in the laboratory. With data from multiple such experiments using different nuclei, it is possible to constrain new regions of the parameter space for Lorentz violation. Relativistic effects in the nuclei allow us to disentangle forms of Lorentz violation which could not be separately measured in purel...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Abundant consumption of seaweeds in the diet is epidemiologically linked to the reduction in risk of developing cancer. In larger cases, however, identification of particular seaweeds that are accountable for these effects is still lacking, hindering the recognition of competent dietary-based chemo preventive approaches. The aim of this research was to establish the antipr...

This paper describes Talea [12], a platform aimed at supporting the development of web-based e-business applications. Talea is a software designed and developed within Diadi 2000 [4], a Piedmont Region project co-founded within the European Structural Funds framework. The main goal of Diadi 2000 is to support the technology transfer to SME (SME) in the Piedmont Region, in order to increase thei...

The complexes [BX3(m-L L)BX3] (X 1⁄4 Cl, Br, I; L L 1⁄4 EtS(CH2)2SEt, MeSe(CH2)2SeMe), [BX03{oC6H4(SMe)2}] (X’ 1⁄4 Cl, I), [(BBr3)2{o-C6H4(SMe)2}], [(BBr3)2{o-C6H4(SeMe)2}] and [BI3{o-C6H4(SeMe)2}] have been prepared as moisture-sensitive pale solids by reaction of the appropriate BX3 with the dichalcogenoether in anhydrous n-hexane solution, and characterised by microanalysis, IR and multinucl...

Animal hairs consisting of α-keratin biopolymers existing broadly in nature may be responsive to water for recovery to the innate shape from their fixed deformation, thus possess smart behavior, namely shape memory effect (SME). In this article, three typical animal hair fibers were first time investigated for their water-stimulated SME, and therefrom to identify the corresponding net-points an...