‘Survival of the fittest’ is the reality in modern global competition. Organizations around the globe are adopting or willing to embrace just-in-time (JIT) production to reinforce the competitiveness. Even though JIT is the most powerful inventory management methodologies it is not free from barriers. Barriers derail the implementation of JIT production system. One of the most significant tasks...

Bad men do what good men dream, observed the sage, and psychiatrists are frequently called upon to explain why. Murder is the crime of crimes. The murderer particularly inspires the ultimate in feelings of repugnance, fear and fascination for violating man's most sacrosanct commandment thou shalt not kill. While the immediate circumstances of the murder may be unspeakably horrible, the later ex...

BACKGROUND The use of Internet-based behavioral programs may be an efficient, flexible method to enhance prenatal care and improve pregnancy outcomes. There are few data about access to, and use of, the Internet via computers and mobile phones among pregnant women. OBJECTIVE We describe pregnant women's access to, and use of, computers, mobile phones, and computer technologies (eg, Internet, ...

We present a family of conformal field theories (or candidates for CFTs) that is build on extremal partition functions. Spectra of these theories can be decomposed into the irreducible representations of the Fischer-Griess Monster sporadic group. Interesting periodicities in the coefficients of extremal partition functions are observed and interpreted as a possible extension of Monster moonshin...

It is shown that the automorphism group of the shorter Moonshine module constructed in [Höh95] (also called Baby Monster vertex operator superalgebra) is the direct product of the finite simple group known as the Baby Monster and the cyclic group of order 2.

We describe a number of relationships between properties of the vacuum Verma module of a Virasoro algebra and the automorphism group of certain vertex operator algebras. These groups include the Deligne exceptional series of simple Lie groups and some exceptional finite simple groups including the Monster and Baby Monster.