Despite the growing importance of developing a novel business model, most previous studies on business model remain conceptual and theoretical. A paucity of empirical studies has hindered the use of the business model concept in practical purposes. Hence, this study proposes a systematic approach to new business model development (NBMD) that helps business practitioners to develop, evaluate and...

We present an approach based on linear programming (LP) that estimates the weights for a pairwise comparison matrix generated within the framework of the analytic hierarchy process. Our approach makes sense for a number of reasons, which we discuss. We apply our LP approach to several sample problems and compare our results to those produced by other, widely used methods. In addition, we extend...

We describe in detail our high-performance density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm for solving the electronic Schrodinger equation. We illustrate the linear scalability of our algorithm with calculations on up to 64 processors. The use of massively parallel machines in conjunction with our algorithm considerably extends the range of applicability of the DMRG in quantum chemistry.

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Background Five years ago we began preliminary work to organize the difficult issues, associated with the six decade old confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians. With the support of a number of private foundations, we were able, on several occasions, to gather together in Pittsburgh participant groups of equal size, consisting of people who were interested in and knowledgeable about t...

The reasons for replacing the classical strictly two-component velocity and equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation Svedberg equations by multicomponent equations, applicable in the study of biological macromolecular systems, are given.

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