Drawing on the supply chain (SC) management literature, this article conceptualizes and empirically tests a framework that shows how both external and internal integration practices are significant and positively associated with SC value addition and firm performance. The framework also tests the impact of value addition as a reinforcing factor on firm performance. The outcome of this investiga...

T elusive dream of replacing missing teeth with artificial analogs has been part of dentistry for a thousand years. The coincidental discovery by Dr P-I Brånemark and his coworkers of the tenacious affinity between living bone and titanium oxides, termed osseointegration, propelled dentistry into a new age of reconstructive dentistry. Initially, the essential tenets for obtaining osseointegrati...

The paper presents an analysis of the main events regarding the making of a national university evaluation system during the Nineties and the main results achieved so far. The structure of the evaluation system presents some problems related to the role of internal evaluation units inside the universities and, at a central level, to the connections between the National University Evaluation Cou...

hex programs were originally introduced as a general framework for extending declarative logic programming, under the stable model semantics, with the possibility of bidirectionally accessing external sources of knowledge and/or computation. The original framework, however, does not deal satisfactorily with stateful external environments: the possibility of predictably influencing external envi...

The modular organization of nervous systems is a widely documented principle of design for both vertebrate and invertebrate brains of which the columnar organization of the neocortex is an example. The classical cytoarchitectural areas of the neocortex are composed of smaller units, local neural circuits repeated iteratively within each area. Modules may vary in cell type and number, in interna...

the paper by gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and national health service (nhs) manager in the run up to the general election, when the nhs is at the hustings. they have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

all living organisms are exposed to ionizing radiation comprising cosmic rays coming from outer space, terrestrial nuclides occurring in the earth’s crust, building materials, air, water and foods and in the human body itself. the exposures are constant and uniform for all individuals everywhere including the dose from ingestion of 40k in food. cosmic rays are, more intense at higher altitudes,...

People use granite in residential buildings on a large scale all around the world. Knowing granite’s radiological characteristics allows for safe of its properties to be maintained over time. Our findings are significant two reasons: first, they may increase public awareness naturally radioactive materials under investigation, and second, necessary establish standards, regulations, management b...