The competitive landscape is changing as the wipe out of less successful companies continues in the wake of the recession. For the audacious, there are opportunities to acquire other companies as a means to further strengthening their position for the next upturn. However, an in-depth study conducted by Arthur D. Little notes that while the potential gain of merging R&D departments is substanti...

The philosophical importance of notions like ‘facts’, ‘events’, and ‘things’ lies in the central role they play in ontology, the venerable branch of metaphysics which deals with the question of what there is. Depending on various philosophical options, reality is regarded as either constituted by things, or by events, or by facts, or by a pluralistic combination of these categories. But what, p...

AFFILIATIONS: STEVENS AND VAN ZANTEN—Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; VALI—Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; COMSTOCK, WOOD, AND BRETHERTON—Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; VAN ZANTEN— Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht,...

Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran. Food and Drug Laboratory Research center and Food and Drug Control Laboratory, MOH & ME , Tehran, Iran Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran Department of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Me...

Magnetofossils from Ancient Mars: a Robust Biosignature in the Martian Meteorite ALH84001 Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta,* Simon J. Clemett, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Joseph L. Kirschvink, David S. McKay, Susan J. Wentworth, Hojatollah Vali, Everett K. Gibson, Jr., and Christopher S. Romanek Lockheed Martin and National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration/Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058; Depart...

Protective ventilation with low tidal volume (VT) has become the standard of care in patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ ARDS) to prevent ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) [1]. While tight control of VT is more easily achieved with controlled ventilation, assisted ventilatory modes are available, and their performance and suitability for use in ALI/A...

This paper presents a synchronization model for hypermedia applications. Several media, continuous, like video or audio file, or non-continuous, like text pages or images, are delivered separately over a network in a Webbased environment, and presented to the user in a coordinated way. The model is based on a set of synchronization relationships which define objects behavior during presentation...

If we are keen to boost the process of language learning, we need to study every aspect and component of our course. To this end, we carry out an investigation in which every detail of the course is put under microscope. Assessment of a course is an attempt in which different type of information is gathered systematically in order to study the working of a language instruction program. Certainl...