The design and production of goods that satisfy the special needs of individual customers are of central interest to the European industry. A major trend is to improve customer specific adaptation with configurable products. We are interested in the methods, practices and tools that support product configuration tasks. The research described in this paper is meant to guide our future work. We h...

This paper argues that technical change in the East Asian countries was sector-specific, took the form of learning-by-doing and was induced by relative factor prices. Usual growth accounting exercises do not account for this in the structure of the assumed aggregate production function and therefore miss these technical gains. Assumed or estimated elasticities of substitution are too high in th...

An even factor in a digraph is a collection of vertex-disjoint dipaths and even dicycles, which generalizes a path-matching introduced by Cunningham and Geelen (1997). In a restricted class of digraphs, called odd-cycle-symmetric, Pap (2005) presented a combinatorial algorithm to find a maximum even factor. In a certain class of weighted digraphs, called odd-cycle-symmetric, Király and Makai (2...

Cunningham and Geelen (1997) introduced the notion of independent path-matchings, which generalize both matchings and matroid intersection. Path-matchings are yet generalized to even factors in digraphs by Cunningham and Geelen (2001). Pap (2005) gave a combinatorial algorithm to find a maximum even factor in odd-cycle-symmetric digraphs, in which each arc in any odd dicycle has the reverse arc...

in the beginning of the 1980s, the organizational entrepreneurship was considered a factor which could affect the output of the small, medium and big organizations and improve the growth and innovation of an organization.  nowadays, large numbers of organizations exploit the entrepreneurship as a procedure to achieve long-term competitive advantages. thus, it is of great importance to identify ...

From the Diabetes Research Centre,WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Education & Training in Diabetes,Chennai-India Correspondence to :Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, Diabetes Research Centre,WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Education & Training in diabetes 5, Main Road, Royapuram Chennai 600 013.India Efficacy of Glycated Albumin (GA) in Comparison with Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) in Type 2 ...

In the title compound, C(11)H(12)ClNO(3), the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the amide group is 44.9 (2)°. In the crystal, mol-ecules form inversion dimers via pairs of O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. These dimers are further linked into sheets parallel to (013) via N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds.

An even factor in a digraph is a vertex-disjoint collection of directed cycles of even length and directed paths. An even factor is called independent if it satisfies a certain matroid constraint. The problem of finding an independent even factor of maximum size is a common generalization of the nonbipartite matching and matroid intersection problems. In this paper, we present a primal-dual alg...

the main purpose of this descriptive-survey study was to investigate the problems of applying cell phone in delivering agricultural consultancy, technical and engineering services. the statistical population of the study consisted of 218 experts working in agricultural consulting, technical and engineering service ventures in zanjan province. according to the kjercie and morgan table, a sample ...