Due to the pressure of rising costs and an increase in customer orientation, IT-service providers are forced to professionalize their operations (IT-Production). Using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems common in real goods production allows to take advantage of planning functions and integrated data management. Since the production planning of IT-Production cannot be addressed by stand...

introduction: different mechanisms are involved in stress induced analgesia (sia) and hyperalgesia (sih). repeated stress induces development of tolerance to sia. the role of hpa axis and gs signaling pathway in these effects are investigated in the current study. methods: forced swim stress (5 min/day) in water (20±1 ºc) was employed to adult male wistar rats (200-250 g). the nociceptive thres...

background: nephrotoxicity is one of the major side-effects of cisplatin that has been seen in about 20% of treated patients. the aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a forced hydration protocol comprised of isotonic saline, potassium chloride (kcl) and magnesium sulfate (mgso4) on prevention of cisplatin nephrotoxicity. methods: this cross sectional prospective study was perfor...

An important unresolved question in sensory neuroscience is whether, and if so with what time course, tactile perception is enhanced by visual deprivation. In three experiments involving 158 normally sighted human participants, we assessed whether tactile spatial acuity improves with short-term visual deprivation over periods ranging from under 10 to over 110 minutes. We used an automated, prec...

The contrast sensitivity function (CSF) provides a fundamental characterization of spatial vision, important for basic and clinical applications, but its long testing times have prevented easy, widespread assessment. The original quick CSF method was developed using a two-alternative forced choice (2AFC) grating orientation identification task (Lesmes, Lu, Baek, & Albright, 2010), and obtained ...

The effect of boundary conditions on the vibrations variable stiffness composite laminates (VSCL) with curvilinear fibers is particularly interesting because fiber orientations at plate edges and in plate’s domain can differ. Since real boundaries are not ideal limit cases usually assumed literature, a more correct model be achieved by representing as elastically restrained edges. This approach...

abstract objective: this study was carried out for investigating the religion orientation relationship with coping with diabetes in type 2 diabetic patients in yazd, iran. the present study is a kind of scientific-comparative description. the research subjects comprised of all type 2 diabetic patients admitted to the hospitals in yazd. materials and methods: the study sample was consisted of 16...

This study extends prior researches by exploring the effect of organizational orientations on export performance. Building on the already extensive literature, we developed a model of relationship. A total of 120 usable questionnaires were received from the Iranian food industry SMEs. The results indicated that entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation and learning orientation positively ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to survey relationship between religious orientation and happiness in elderly man and woman in tehran. methods and materials: the present study was descriptive and causal- comparative. in order to survey the relationship between religious orientation and happiness among the elderly men and women in tehran 389 aged people above 60 years including 247 men and...