This paper deals with R&D priority setting. It advocates for the introduction of strategic capital budgeting methodologies that will unite the hitherto largely independent processes of strategic planning and capital budgeting. Significant advances in economics and finance theory regarding valuing derivative securities, such as futures and options, and in computing power over the past twenty yea...

Understanding enzyme stability and activity in extremophilic organisms is of great biotechnological interest, but many questions are still unsolved. Using 2-deoxy-D-ribose-5-phosphate aldolase (DERA) as model enzyme, we have evaluated structural and functional characteristics of different orthologs from psychrophilic, mesophilic and hyperthermophilic organisms. We present the first crystal stru...

Malik Muhammad Khurram Sher Khan, MD, Malik Muhammad Humayun Sher Khan, MD, Aaron Tolan, MD, Darryl Elmouchi, MD, FHRS, Carlos E. Tavera, MD, FACP From the Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Frederik Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University C...

MUHAMMAD MUNIR, AHMAD KHAN BALOCH, WAQAR AHMAD KHAN FARZANA AHMAD AND MUHAMMAD JAMIL 1 Department of Food Science and Technology, Gomal University, Pakistan. 2 Department of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK. 3 Department of Chemistry, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea. 4 Division of International Studies, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Ko...