Increased focus on sustainability has made firms' value creation increasingly boundary spanning and complex. This begs the question of how business model research describes firm's external relationships, motivating us to undertake a systematic literature review. In analyzing 49 articles, we discuss problematize four conceptualizations relationships—collaboration, alliances, networks, ecosystems...

The evolution of building codes typically produce design provisions that are expected to create safer and more accurate designs. We as engineers expect building codes to advance the state of the art with each successive edition. The 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and the Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-08) have significant revisions affecting the design of ti...

This paper discusses how security considerations and sectarianism have served Iran Saudi Arabia as mutually reinforcing tools in their strife to secure positions the struggle for regional influence standing. It premises that no single factor can explain this conflict its proper understanding requires a more comprehensive approach links factors analyses joint impact. The main hypothesis is an an...

Integrins coupled with other proteins form protein complexes named focal adhesions (FA) which are considered as the primary sites for cellular forces transduction during cell stable adhesion. Cell traction forces transmitted by FAs and integrin tensions inside FAs have been extensively studied. However, it remains unknown whether integrins outside FAs can transmit tension, and if so, what is th...

Portugal has a longstanding relationship with China and benefited from the economic opportunities arising closer ties Beijing, especially in wake of 2011 international bailout external assistance programme. Lisbon wants to do as much business possible. On other hand, United States (US) is Portugal’s most important ally. Thus, found itself caught between conflicting great-power interests. Amid r...

Reducing and preventing road traffic injuries (RTIs) is a challenge faced by all nations [1]. The manuscript by Naghavi et al. highlights the huge burden of injuries in Iranian children [2], most of which are the result of road traffic injuries. The manuscript revealed a rising death rate from injuries among children from 1971 to 2005. The authors' previous work has documented the fact that Ira...