Research and development (R&D) activities are important to the construction industry to successfully address the challenges placed upon it and to be competitive. Identifying the factors that influence the success of construction R&D activities is important as such identification would help the research team to concentrate on the most significant and influential factors and the proper management...

In this paper the importance and the effects of technological opportunities, stemming from academic research, on the innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of academic research to firms’ innovation activities is less important than the relevance of industrial sources but yet, the most likely partners for formal ...

Based on the R&D activities of Shanghai’s high-tech industries during 2010 to 2012, this paper uses super efficiency DEA model to analyze and evaluate the R&D efficiency of Shanghai’s hightech industries. The results show that the R&D efficiency of Shanghai’s high-tech industries has dissimilitude. The R&D efficiency values of some high-tech industries are relatively low. There are many redunda...

The development and protection of standardizable technology and related core knowledge has become major concerns of high-tech enterprises (HTEs) in nowadays dynamic standardization environment, thus HTEs need to ensure their R&D capability embraces effective processes for standards-setting, upgrading and displacement. This paper proposes a framework for R&D capability of HTEs within a dynamic s...

four known flavonoids: quercetin 3-o-β-d-rutinoside (q3rut), myricetin 3-o-β-d-galactopyranoside (m3gal), quercetin 3-o-β-d-galactopyranoside (q3gal) and quercetin 3-o-β-d-glucopyranoside (q3glc), for the first time were isolated from aerial parts of euphorbia microsciadia. the chemical structure of them was elucidated on the basis of 1 and 2 d-nmr spectra and different spectroscopic techniques...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis is a public health problem worldwide. Increment of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production may be one of the contributing factors of tissue damage in atopic dermatitis. The present study was designed to determine the effect of vitamins E and/or D on erythrocyte superoxide dismutase and catalase activities in patients with atopic dermatitis. METHODS In a randomize...

The present study was designed to explore the flavonoid contents and the radical scavenging activities of 50% ethanol extracts of leaves, stems, rachis and roots of Dryopteris erythrosora. The total flavonoid contents in various parts were determined as: stems > roots > rachis > leaves. All extracts from different parts of D. erythrosora showed strong bioactivities. The DPPH free radical scaven...

OBJECTIVE To describe the activities performed by people involved in clinical decision support (CDS) at leading sites. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted ethnographic observations at seven diverse sites with a history of excellence in CDS using the Rapid Assessment Process and analyzed the data using a series of card sorts, informed by Linstone's Multiple Perspectives Model. RESULTS We iden...

Theories on R&D organisation draw on globalisation literature as well as on communication theories. This mixed discourse is a problem, since mixing levels of logic sometimes cause faulty conclusions. How is this double logic handled in organisations, and what is the effect on R&D organisation? This study investigates R&D activities in multinational companies with several production sites and ma...

The antioxidant activities of natural d-alpha-tocopherol, mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols, and formulations comprising all forms of vitamin E, providing 400 IU, were determined employing an improved oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay using fluorescein (FL) as the fluorescent probe, randomly methylated beta-cyclodextrin (RMCD), 2,2'-azobis(2-amidino-propane)dihydrochloride (AAPH)...