In many companies, warranty management functions are handled in isolation without the necessary focus on analyzing the impact of each function on discrete value chain functions such as manufacturing, quality, and services. In many such companies, the warranty management function is fragmented across financials, product design, manufacturing, quality and reliability, service chain, sales, and ma...

Rheum turkestanicum Janischew. (Polygonaceae) is a plant that grows in central Asia and in north-east of Iran. Traditionally, people use roots of R. turkestanicum as an anti-diabetic and anti-hypertensive as well as anticancer agent. In this study the cytotoxicity and apoptogenic properties of ethyl acetate (EtOAc), n-hexane and H2O extracts from Rheum turkestanicum Janischew. (Polygonaceae) ro...

In this research, first of all, the existing problems in fragmentation measurement are reviewed for the sake of its fast and reliable evaluation. Then, the available methods used for evaluation of blast results are mentioned. The produced errors especially in recognizing the rock fragments in computer-aided methods, and also, the importance of determination of their sizes in the image analysis ...

Integration of different components that compose enterprise Information System (IS) represents a big challenge in the IS development. However, it is indispensable in order to avoid fragmentation of the IS and redundancy between different IS applications. In this work we consider service-driven IS engineering as a prospective approach to deal with IS fragmentation and interoperability of differe...

We show that for 0 < α < 1 and θ > −α, the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution with parameter (α, θ) is the unique reversible distribution of a rather natural fragmentation-coalescence process. This completes earlier results in the literature for certain split and merge transformations and the parameter α = 0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963548307008784 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Ar...

This paper puts forward important concepts related to the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with mental illness and the workplace. These include the need to take an integrated bio-psycho-social approach, an emphasis on functional outcomes, the need to improve the current fragmentation of occupational mental health services, the benefits of identifying individuals at risk of developing ment...

A personal bereavement from suicide prompts a critique of current mental healthcare. Fragmentation, lack of long-term attachment to a tenured professional, the dearth of family therapy, and professional ambivalence are identified as weaknesses in current provision. Implicit is the case for change in UK psychiatric services, both structural (need for long-term therapies) and cultural (need for a...