The authors argue that product-sharing services, where companies offer customers the use of a physical product on a limited basis at a lower cost, offer an overlooked opportunity for growth. The primary advantage of product-sharing services is that they leverage a firm’s core product development and production capabilities to expand their portfolio of offerings and market segments. A framework ...

Public responses where identical T cell receptors (TCRs) are clonally dominant and shared between different individuals are a common characteristic of CD8(+) T cell-mediated immunity. Focusing on TCR sharing, we analyzed approximately 3,400 TCR beta chains (TCRbetas) from mouse CD8(+) T cells responding to the influenza A virus D(b)NP(366) and D(b)PA(224) epitopes. Both the "public" D(b)NP(366)...

The need for high quality information to support the improvement of the production process is well recognised, as is the importance of sharing information in order to reduce production costs. The use of IT systems in manufacture has huge potential to support this need. However, for information sharing through software systems to be fully effective it is essential that such systems can easily in...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing knowledge sharing among the personnel of agricultural extension and education organization in the iranian ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed for the study, and 110 personnel randomly selected as a sample out of 140 who were busy working in the organization. data was collected through a questionn...

We address several aspects related to managing re-entrant lines in an uniied manner { capacity allocation, inventory management and production control { in a set of three papers. Our approach to study these systems is through simulation based optimization. Simulation ooers the exibility to model the complexities adequately while the gradient computation (via Innnitesimal Perturbation Analysis) ...