noise is one of the most common workplace hazardous agents that can cause permanent hearing damage. workers in many industries are usually exposed to noise levels with high risks of hearing loss. accordingly this research aims to study the noise exposure and haring status of registered locksmiths who are exposed to harmful effects caused by several factors, such as key making machines loud nois...

The theory of constraints is an approach to production planning and control that emphasizes on the constraints to increase throughput by effectively managing constraint resources. One application in theory of constraints is product mix decision. Product mix influences the performance measures in multi-product manufacturing system. This paper presents an alternative approach by using of goal pro...

The aims of this paper are 1) search for the key factors of bancassurance operation in mainland China; 2) explore the weight of each key success factor; 3) identify performance gaps typically measured as performance minus key success factors. This study besides reviewing literatures and interviewing with experts, also adopts the modified Delphi Method and the Analytical Network Process (ANP) to...

w was created in the tradition of typesetting printed pages for bound volumes. For hundreds of years, printers considered the page as a block of type surrounded by margins. As adequate margins were required for binding, practical considerations became aesthetic needs applied by strict formulas. Earlier concepts of pages, such as certain Egyptian hieroglyphs, Roman scrolls. and medieval illumina...

Background: The transcriptome, a treasure trove of gene space information, remains severely under-used by current genome annotation methods.  Methods: Here, we present an annotation method in the YeATS suite (YeATSAM), based on information encoded by the transcriptome, that demonstrates artifacts of the assembler, which must be addressed to achieve proper annotation.  Results and Discussion: Ye...