Abstract The ever-increasing environmental complexity makes strategizing a difficult multidimensional task. In this paper, we conducted corporate foresight case study in an SME packaging industry Iran. offers detailed procedure of implementing (CF) and how it can reshape traditional strategic planning. A multimethodological approach was taken study. Once intraorganizational team studied company...

This research explored how gender portrayals in video games affect gender-related attitudes. Two hundred participants from the United Kingdom and Malaysia participated across three experiments, where appearance behaviour of game characters were manipulated with regard to target (enemy) (Study 1), sexually explicit attire 2) level character agency 3). We found minimal evidence that exposure gend...

The European Diagnostic Working Group presented comprehensive diagnostic algorithms for cystic fibrosis (CF) and confirmed the fundamental role of the sweat test for the diagnosis of CF. However, several important differences between well-accepted guidelines for sweat testing 3 and the recommendations of the Working Group need to be discussed. An adequate sweat sampling volume depends on the sa...

Background: Transcription factors regulate gene expression by interacting with their specific DNA binding sites. Some transcription factors, particularly those involved in transcription initiation, always bind close to transcription start sites (TSS). Others have no such preference and are functional on sites even tens of thousands of base pairs (bp) away from the TSS. The Cyclic-AMP response e...

A (generic) spatial utterance is an utterance which helps the listener determine the location of a given entity – if the described situation is static – or else the trajectory of its motion. Hence, it can be seen as an explicit or implicit answer to a where-question. The following are thus examples of prototypical English spatial utterances: The toothpaste is on the shelf. He is going to school...

introduction: cystic fibrosis (cf) is a common genetic disorder in white populations with an autosomal recessive pattern, caused by mutations in the cftr gene. the frequency of more than 1950 various mutations reported in the cftr gene significantly varies in different populations. ∆f508 is a common mutation in exon 10, which is first addressed in the molecular analysis of the disease. other ex...

based on the controversial beliefs among l2 teachers about effective corrective feedback (cf) strategies, recast and prompts as 2 kinds of cf have drawn the attention of l2 researchers(e.g., braidi, 2002; iwashita, 2003; loewen & philp, 2006; panova & lyster, 2002; sheen, 2004). despite these numbers of studies, debate continues to exist about their usefulness as a cf technique. whereas...

Biometric based authentication protocols for multi-server architectures have gained momentum in recent times due to advancements in wireless technologies and associated constraints. Lu et al. recently proposed a robust biometric based authentication with key agreement protocol for a multi-server environment using smart cards. They claimed that their protocol is efficient and resistant to promin...