Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) is a grocery industry supply chain management strategy designed to make the industry more efficient and responsive. Although ECR originated in the US, the concept has been adopted in many regions. Despite the many potential benefits obtainable from ECR, however, many studies indicate that the ECR diffusion rate has been slow, which is attributable to a number o...

The ecdysone receptor is a heterodimer of the two nuclear receptors EcR and ultraspiracle (USP). We have identified the regions of Drosophila EcR and USP responsible for transcriptional activation of a semisynthetic Eip71CD promoter in Kc cells. The isoform-specific A/B domains of EcR-B1 and B2, but not those of EcR-A or USP, exhibit strong activation activity [activation function 1 (AF1)], bot...

Signal transduction of the insect steroid hormones, ecdysteroids, is mediated by the ecdysteroid receptor, EcR. In various cells of the insect Rhodnius prolixus, EcR is present in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm, where it undergoes daily cycling in abundance and cellular location at particular developmental times of the last larval instar that are specific to different cell types. EcR favors...

PURPOSE Equivalent cross-relaxation rate (ECR) imaging (ECRI) is a measurement technique that can be used to quantitatively evaluate changes in structural organization and cellular density by MRI. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the ECR value and cellular density in the rabbit VX2 tumor model. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five rabbits implanted with 10 VX2 tumors in the...

Ecdysteroids regulate the remodeling of the dorsal external oblique 1 (DEO1) muscle during metamorphosis in Manduca sexta (). We show that the temporal and spatial patterning of the A and B1 isoforms of the ecdysone receptor (EcR) within muscle DEO1 corresponds with the developmental fates of the fibers. Using antibodies directed to specific isoforms of EcR, we show that the expression of vario...

Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) is designed to make the grocery industry more efficient. Although it originated in the US, the concept has been adopted in many regions. To enrich the findings of the existing studies that indicate a slow diffusion rate of ECR, this study examines ECR adoption in Australia by conducting a survey. The findings suggest that in Australia, ECR diffusion has also be...

EcR (ecdysone receptor)-mediated ecdysone signaling pathway contributes to regulate the transcription of genes involved in various processes during insect development. In this work, we detected the expression of EcR gene in silkworm ovary-derived BmN4 cells and found that EcR RNAi result in an alteration of cell shape, indicating that EcR may orchestrate cell cycle progression. EcR RNAi and EcR...

The ECR ion source (ECRIS) is still an active field of research and development, as demonstrated by the numerous contributions to the ECRIS’12 workshop and ICIS’13 conference. It is impossible to present all the interesting ECR development in this paper. Instead, a selection of ECR development for linear accelerator and synchrotrons are presented along with some original recent ECR contribution...

marketing, and research methodologies and techniques. His PhD investigated UK food processing customer service, satisfaction and service quality and received the James Cooper Memorial Cup PhD Award from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK). on store and agglomeration format patronage, in-store logistics, distance retailing and supplier-retailer relationships. retailing, retai...

a r t i c l e i n f o This contribution introduces Elastic Component Regression (ECR) as an explorative data analysis method that utilizes a tuning parameter α ∈ [0,1] to supervise the X-matrix decomposition. It is demonstrated theoretically that the elastic component resulting from ECR coincides with principal components of PCA when α = 0 and also coincides with PLS components when α = 1. In t...