Loading and hauling machineries are highly capital intensive equipment to procure, operate and maintain in surface mining operation. It must be borne in mind that with this huge and capital-intensive equipment, every second of its life time is absolutely important from the production and productivity point of view. As such, it is imperative to optimize the overall cycle time and speed factor of...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 1 January 2007 186 1 3-4 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Editorials times, is currently used for 12% of bookings. Rad archiving, el ctronic prescription transfer, email, and directory have been implemented, but electronic pat common user interface and sec ndary use of data ar delayed. The NHS chose to procure systems centrall...

Unless you have lived in a cave for the last few years, you will know that the arrival of digital television is presumed imminent. The media are filled with news of big deals, optimistic interviewees, and market forecasts to excite even the most reluctant investor. But underlying all the hype there are natural concerns about the technical challenges ahead. These are perhaps most strongly felt b...

Chemical glycomics uses synthetic chemistry to procure defined carbohydrate molecules to study the glycans involved in many functions in the living cell. Based on an automated synthesis platform, a host of synthetic tools including carbohydrate microarrays has been developed. These tools have been employed to dissect carbohydrate-copolymer interactions. Basic research in the glycomics arena is ...

Construction procurement is complex and there is a very wide range of options available to procurers. Inappropriate choices about how to procure may limit practical opportunities for innovation. In particular, traditional approaches to construction procurement set up many obstacles for technology suppliers to provide innovative solutions. This is because they are often employed as sub-contracto...

Public agencies rely on two key modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. The relative advantages of these two modes are still imperfectly understood. This paper therefore studies public procurement of regional passenger railway services in Germany, where regional agencies can use auctions and negotiations to procure regional passenger rail services. This offers the...

"Common regions" (CRs), such as Orf513, are being increasingly linked to mega-antibiotic-resistant regions. While their overall nucleotide sequences show little identity to other mobile elements, amino acid alignments indicate that they possess the key motifs of IS91-like elements, which have been linked to the mobility ent plasmids in pathogenic Escherichia coli. Further inspection reveals tha...

Governments procure large amounts of goods and services to help them implement policies deliver public services. As the COVID-19 crisis demonstrated, procurement strategies, practices systems directly affect quality life wellbeing citizens. It is important that countries aim for maximum efficiency, effectiveness value money in procurement.