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Dear Colleagues, For many years, this journal has been a vehicle for the delivery of timely and thoughtful information and opinion on the many issues that involve the EnT community. Firstly, i would like to join all the members of the italian Society of otorhinolaryngology in thanking the past editors-in-chief for their service to our readers. i also would like to thank those who served on the ...

The Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program is the sole discretionary research and development (R&D) investment program at Sandia. LDRD provides the opportunity for our technical staff to contribute to our Nation's future, to our collective ability to address and find solutions to a range of daunting scientific and technological challenges. The results of their work will sha...

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Compliant mechanisms achieve desired force and displacement characteristics through elastic deformation of their structure. Current research in the synthesis of compliant mechanism topology has pursued multiobjective optimization using gradient-based search methods. This paper will explore the use of a randomguided search method for multiobjective optimization of compliant mechanisms through ge...

in the name of allah, the compassionate, the merciful   my esteemed friends and colleagues from thousands of years ago, with the increase in the number of immigrants for finding new lands and then for trading, learning other languages became inevitable. from second half of the twentieth century, the ever increasing need for getting into communication with others, development in technological gr...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benefits realisation road-map for ERP usage in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – Direct interviews were used to collect data from a random sample of 48 MBA students and 87 business managers (CIO/IT directors and CFO roles). Findings – The ERP benefits road-map suggests that a long-term visi...

Unlike digitally savvy banking and retail industries, oil and natural gas businesses are latecomers to digitization. With large capital investments in complex industrial operations, firms in latecomer industries are seeking ways to cut costs and become responsive to market demands. Executives in oil and natural gas companies are facing unprecedented pressure to cut costs due to market turbulenc...

Because it is a strategic resource that is complex, costly and permeates all functions of the modern organization, information technology (IT) is closely scrutinized for its contributed value, particularly in relation to resources expended. From this perspective, understanding the business value of information technology is a requirement not only for CIO’s and CEO’s, but also for non-managers w...

Our article investigates factors impacting IT executives’ equilibria of CIO work. We used the interview data collection method in a media company. Interviews revealed that the roles of IT and the corporate IT function were seen differently at three levels – social groups of the company. During the years 2010-2016 our case company experienced several business interruptions. We investigated how t...