Supply Chain Management Information Systems (SCM IS) play an increasingly critical role in the ability of firms to reduce costs and increase the responsiveness of their supply chain. This paper develops an empirically supported model of the organizational capabilities enabled by SCM IS. The model integrates and enriches theoretical and empirical studies of competitive strategy, supply chain man...

Ultrasound-assisted extraction of metal ions from Lithium batteries with weak organic acids is reported. Leaching reached ?98% Li and Co recovery due to improved residue layer diffusion mass transfer, illustrated by the shrinking core model.

This paper identifies inter-and intra-organisational management resources that determine the level of execution of inter-firm alliance supply chain management (SCM). By drawing on network and resource-based view theories, a conceptual model proposes the effects of SCM resources and capabilities as influencing factors on SCM execution. The model was tested using survey data from studies conducte...

Software configuration management (SCM) is the discipline for organizing and controlling evolving complex software systems. Several SCM tools and systems exist that automate and integrate SCM tasks like version identification, system modeling, product construction, or team work coordination. However, the choice of an SCM system is still a long-term commitment: Each SCM system comes with its own...

Single C motif-1 (SCM-1)/lymphotactin is a C-type chemokine whose expression is activation dependent, cyclosporin A sensitive and restricted to CD8+ T cells, double-negative thymocytes, gammadelta-type T cells, and NK cells. In humans, there are two highly homologous genes encoding SCM-1alpha and SCM-1beta. Here we examined the regulatory mechanism of the SCM-1 genes. The luciferase reporter ge...

This paper constructs the probability model of the general multi-valued shrinking generator, which takes two-valued key stream shrinking generator and generalized shrinking generator as special cases. It discusses the probability properties of their output sequences, and gets the formulae of the coincidence of the output sequences with the original input sequences in particular. It also analyze...

The interplay among antibody/antigen binding kinetics, antibody diffusion, and antigen metabolic turnover together determines the depth of penetration of antitumor antibodies into prevascular tumor spheroid cell clumps. A sharp boundary between an outer shell of bound high-affinity antibody and an inner antibody-free core has been previously observed and mathematically modeled and was termed th...

A wide range of definitions of supply chain management (SCM) have been developed over the last three decades. The philosophy of SCM is based firmly on a recognition that it is only by working in a more integrated manner that competitive advantage can be maximised. However, for this to become a reality the development of common definitions and understandings between supply chain partners is a cr...

A wide range of definitions of supply chain management (SCM) have been developed over the last three decades. The philosophy of SCM is based firmly on a recognition that it is only by working in a more integrated manner that competitive advantage can be maximised. However, for this to become a reality the development of common definitions and understandings between supply chain partners is a cr...

We present the construction of a pseudorandom generator, that we call the Bit-Search Generator (BSG), based on a single input sequence. The construction is related to the so-called Self-Shrinking Generator which is known for its simplicity (conception and implementation-wise) linked with some interesting properties. After presenting the general running, we give a description of the BSG by using...