Advanced economy multinational enterprises (AMNEs) face idiosyncratic challenges related to the governance of their sustainability practices in emerging market supply chains. One way for AMNEs address these would be by adopting agile mechanisms. Drawing on theories experimentalist and deliberation, we propose a processual framework suited develop We explore supplier participation factors that e...

The proteins from labelled human spleen membranes and polymorphonuclear leucocytes which bind to the iC3b fragment of complement component C3 were prepared by iC3b-Sepharose chromatography in the presence of bivalent cations. Complement receptor type 3(CR3) was eluted from iC3b-Sepharose by removal of bivalent cations. Complement receptors type 1 and 2 (present in spleen but not in polymorphonu...

The network-diversion problem (ND) is defined on a directed or undirected graph G = (V , E ) having nonnegative edge weights, a source vertex s, a sink vertex t , and a “diversion edge” e ′. This problem, with intelligence-gathering and war-fighting applications, seeks a minimum-weight, minimal s-t cut EC ⊆ E in G such that e ′ ∈ EC . We present (a) a new NP-completeness proof for ND on directe...

We report on our research and development work in the last decade, which has recently been pre sented in a PhD thesis (Heck, 2012a) and which generally aimed at improving the contribution of ICT to inquiryoriented mathematics and science education. We present the research setting and main outcomes of the PhD study, the scope of which was limited to pedagogical and software design perspectives o...

Collecting accurate pro le information and protecting an individual's privacy are ordinarily viewed as being at odds. This paper presents mechanisms that protect individual privacy while presenting accurate|indeed authenticated|pro le information to servers and merchants. In particular, we give a pseudonym registration scheme and system that enforces unique user registration while separating tr...

present data showing that the regulator of the A-factor cascade in Streptomyces griseus , AdpA, possesses related family members, and they determine both the sites to which AdpA binds and a consensus DNA-binding sequence. Sequence homologues and consensus DNA binding sites of regulatory proteins were first reported more than 20 years ago, so why is this new work notewor-thy? The answer is that ...

Origins are proposed for certain well-known traditions at the Marktoberdorf advanced courses in programming methodology. The evolution of these traditions, over the years, is also discussed.

Nepal is a small developing mountainous country in South Asia. A variety of ethnic, cultural and religious groups inhabit Nepal. Traditional healthcare providers can be divided into medical providers and faith healers. Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine is based on the tridosha theory of disease. Ayurvedic medicine is inherent to Nepal and was strongly encouraged in the medieval period of ...