purpose: this research seeks to determine the level of knowledge sharing, the absorptive capacity, and the innovation capability at the central libraries of the state universities of tehran in 1393. besides, it seeks to identify the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation capability in the library. methodology: this applied research is carried out using survey method – correlation...

background nowadays task sharing is a way to optimize utilization of human resources for health. this study was designed to assess the effect of task sharing, mutually between midwives and family health workforces (fhws), on the number of needed staff across the iranian health posts.   methods the workload and required number of midwives and fhws in a health post were calculated and compared in...

15 December 2012 We consider the problem of sharing retailer’s demand information in a supply chain with two competing manufacturers selling substitutable products through a common retailer. We consider several scenarios with the manufacturers facing either production diseconomy or economy, and the retailer offering information contracts either concurrently or sequentially to the manufacturers....

The file-sharing literature has focused mainly on whether file-sharing has decreased record sales, with less attention paid to the size of any decline. Although there is still some contention, most studies have concluded that filesharing has decreased record sales. What has not been noted is that most estimates indicate that the file-sharing has caused the entire enormous decline in record sale...