current perspectives on research and practice

... Leonid Chechurin Editor Research and Practice on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) Linking Creativity, Engineering and Innovation Research and Practice on the Theory ... never “mono-process” and “mono-target.” It is impossible to find the “one in charge,” to describe “one past” or “one future,” and to specify “one super-system” or “one subsystem.” Any person, any ... its performance and increasing production costs, but it is not clear how Contradiction, Physical Synonym(s): (1) Physical conflict; (2) Sharpened contradiction; (3) Contradiction of properties...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2018, 13:50

... Editors Research Perspectives on Work and the Transition to Motherhood Research Perspectives on Work and the Transition to Motherhood Christiane Spitzmueller Russell A Matthews • Editors Research Perspectives ... emphasis on the development and application of boundary theory In tandem, he conducts research on “non-traditional” populations (e.g., older workers, individuals with excessive family demands) He ... Implications and Recommendations Research has long supported the idea that perceived organizational support strongly influences job satisfaction (Holtzman and Glass 1999) and overall employee health and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2018, 15:36

... collection. We expand on these findings in the following sections on handheld applications and research. Overall, we propose that the research and application of handheld technology to HR functions would ... area. In the following sections, we expand on the research supporting Factors #2 and #3 of our model (Figure 1). HR Applications on Handhelds HR-related applications on handhelds are being developed ... published research on handheld technology and HR (Cascio, 2003). There is much to be gained in this potentially fruitful area of HR practice and research by working from a common understanding and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... hospitalized and given antimalarial drugs in different com22 PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Understanding Malaria binations and doses... air conditioned hotels on tourist ... Reproduced by permission 26 PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Understanding Malaria W e live on a malarious planet It may... thousands of Allied forces contracted malaria in ... Cengage Learning PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Understanding Malaria M alaria is a growing problem... crops and threaten- PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... problems with digestion and nutrient absorption, and consequently lead to malnutrition and cachexia Dysphagia and odynophagia are particularly marked in cancers of the head and neck and esophageal ... intermediate-acting glucocorticoid (prednisone, predonisolone, methylprednisolone) may cause less HPA axis suppression than a long-acting drug (dexamethasone) Peptic ulceration is a concern, particularly in patients ... response rate and survival rate, and reduced myelosuppression, neuropathy, and cachexia among lung cancer patients in poor clinical condition.129 Thalidomide Initially developed as a sedative and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... hepatitis, and they provide personal stories about living with hepatitis PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS. .. Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington) and ... the national average (Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Texas and Wyoming) 30 PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS VIEWPOINT 3 Hepatitis B Is One of the Most Common Chronic ... unsanitary conditions Hepatitis B and C are in body fluids and. .. countries with poor sanitation, vaccinations for hepatitis A and B are recommended strongly Armed with an understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... psychology and crime Perspectives on theory and action Understanding psycho-crime pb 8/3/04 4:45 PM Page 1 Understanding psychology and crime Perspectives on theory and action CRIME AND JUSTICE ... Understanding violent crime Stephen Jones Understanding community penalties Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone Understanding psychology and crime James McGuire Understanding psychology and crime Perspectives ... Published titles Understanding criminology 2nd edition Sandra Walklate Understanding justice 2nd edition Barbara A. Hudson Understanding social control Martin Innes Understanding risk in criminal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:54

... Chain Practices and Performance in the Context of Malaysia Practice? ??, “Common Practice? ??, “Good Practice? ?? and “Best Practice? ??) while Aberdeen Group (2006) is focused more on level of adoption (“laggards”, ... practices study For example, Demand Management will be focused on Demand Signal, Demand Collaboration, Sales and Operation Planning and Inventory Management Practice Waste will be discussed on ... to focus on the elimination of waste or non valuedadded functions These waste and non value-added stops across the supply chain and reduce set of times to allow for the economic production of small...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 15:20

... between E and D on the probability ratio scale; and the type of post- 38 Epidemiology – Current Perspectives on Research and Practice conditioning analysis (a weighted average, regression, or none) ... collider on the paths ECF and EDCF even though it is still a collider on the path ECD As we have seen, conditioning on a confounder removes confounding bias In contrast, conditioning on a ... ruling out, with reasonable confidence, alternative explanations such as reverse causation, selection bias, information bias, confounding and chance The formalization and discussion of these alternative...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... Theory and Applications, vol 2010, Article ID 165098, p 18, 2010 20 H Iiduka and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings and inversestrongly monotone mappings,” Nonlinear ... solution for the following multiobjective optimization problem with the nonempty set of solutions: h1 x , h2 x , x ∈ C, 4.1 where h1 x and h2 x are both the convex and lower semicontinuous functions ... with ones of others in the literatures and our result extends and improves the ones of Colao et al and some others 6 Fixed Point Theory and Applications Preliminaries Let C be a closed convex...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... motivation and contribution 1.3 Focus, motivation and contribution In this paper, we focus on the finite-horizon case, where the customer’s demand is known (deterministic) and day-dependent(dynamic) Only ... motivation In the industry, the IRP can be applied to various distribution systems Traditionally, researchers and practitioners have focused on the distribution of industrial gases The reason for ... proposed in Section 3.3 Finally, Section 3.4 refines the latter formulation by tightening some constraints 3.1 Problem definition and motivations The problem we will focus on is a finite-horizon inventory-routing...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:43

... the mass action rate law: rA!B ðtÞ ¼ k Á cA ðtÞ In this reaction kinetic, the reaction rate rAfiB(t) depends on the substrate concentration cA(t) and the rate constant k The model code and a detailed ... indispensable Integration of data on, for example, gene expression, protein abundance, metabolite concentration and other biological parameters with an iterative model, and exploration of model characteristics ... the strongest reduction in LT50 between and days, whereas the gain in tolerance was only minor during the first 24 h of cold exposure and between days and In contrast, LT50 decreased almost continuously...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... electroporation ESCs expressing the transgene were selected by incubation for days in medium containing a concentration of G418 (Invitrogen) of 400 lgÆmL)1 G418-resistant colonies were picked and expanded ... genotyping and the formation of embryoid bodies One ESC clone (T26) out of 48 G418-resistant clones was further examined for the presence of the tsA58T cDNA expression unit and for widespread expression ... addition, an SV40-ori-containing plasmid carrying a GFP expression cassette could be introduced by lipofection and maintained for at least days after transfection as assessed by GFP expression (Fig...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... restriction site (ACRS)-PCR procedure [26], experimental conditions are essentially the same as those mentioned before except for the primer concentration (50 pmolÆ50 lL)1 reaction mix) and the concentration ... provided (e.g HPSPERT and HLSPQRT for alleles B2 and A, respectively) The RsaI polymorphic restriction site and insertions occurring, respectively, between exons and and within intron are indicated ... variants A and F, while components e and d seem to be in common with the A variant Therefore, band b represents the only component specific to the M variant The intensities of the bands in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... the currents measured at )160 mV with Bip-Pro concentrations between 20 and 500 lm was 26 lm and the maximal current amounted to 8% of the current evoked by Gly-Sar at saturating concentration ... at pH 6.0 for 10 at two Gly-Sar concentrations and at increasing Bip-Pro concentrations The diffusional component of [14C]Gly-Sar uptake, of 8% in Caco-2 cells and of 4% in SKPT cells, measured ... two different Gly-Sar concentrations (50 and 500 lm in Caco-2 cells and 10 and 100 lm in SKPT cells) in the presence of increasing concentrations of Bip-Pro (0– 100 lm and 0–50 lm, respectively)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... growth media, containing nitrate (1.5 mM KNO3), ammonium (1.5 mM NH4Cl) or mixtures of nitrate and ammonium as nitrogen source (nitrate concentration was 1.5 mM, ammonium concentrations were: Q10, ... transcription and translation of gfp mRNA To further evaluate the properties of the Pnr ⁄ Tnr expression cassette, Clone 31 cells preconditioned in ammonium medium were subjected to nitrogen starvation, ... Cyclotella cryptica and Navicula saprophila [10] So far, in all but one case, only constitutive expression of introduced genes has been achieved The one exception involved expression of a green fluorescent...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... 1,10-phenanthroline and metal ions at concentrations of and 10 mM The presence of the metal ions, Fe2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Hg2+ and Fe3+, at mM gave rise to significant inhibition of between 90% and 100% Additionally, ... purified and characterized MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains, plasmids and conditions Variovorax paradoxus Iso1 was isolated from an environmental situation containing N-acetyl-D-methionine ... the Chirobiotic T HPLC method using D-methionine as standard [44] The test concentration of chelating reagents and metal ions used for assay were mM and 10 mM, respectively Substrate specificity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... the set of common fixed points for nonexpansive semigroup and the set of solution of quasivariational inclusions with multivalued maximal monotone mappings and inverse-strongly monotone mappings ... problem and the set of solutions of a variational inclusion problem for an inverse-strongly monotone mapping Let Wn be W-mapping defined by 2.8 , f be a contraction mapping and A, B be inverse-strongly ... From 3.30 and by conditions C1 c and C2 , we get lim ni → ∞ rk K Iki xni − K Ik−1 xni , η x, Iki xni n ni n 3.51 By the assumption and by condition H1 , we know that the function ϕ and the mapping...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 329, no 1, pp 336–346, 2007 11 Y Yao, R Chen, and J.-C Yao, “Strong convergence and certain control conditions for modified Mann iteration,” Nonlinear Analysis, ... variational inequality Question Can Theorem 3.1 of Zhou , Theorem 2.2 of Hu and Cai 12 and so on be extended from finite λi -strictly pseudocontraction to infinite λi -strictly pseudocontraction? ... pseudocontraction? Question We know that the Meir-Keeler contraction MKC, for short is more general than the contraction What happens if the contraction is replaced by the Meir-Keeler contraction? The purpose...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... optimization problem with nonempty set of solutions: h1 x , h2 x , 4.1 x ∈ C, where h1 x and h2 x are both convex and lower semicontinuous functions defined on a nonempty closed and convex subset ... Theory and Applications Lemma 2.2 see 10, Lemma 3.1 b Let H be a Hilbert space and T : H → H be a nonexpansive mapping Let F : H → H be a mapping which is κ-Lipschitzian and η-strong monotone on ... xn and T λn zn 1−λn μ zn Lipschitzian and 1-strongly monotone, n αi−1 −αi Ti xn i Therefore, by Theorem 3.5, we conclude the desired result Corollary 3.7 Let C be a nonempty closed and convex...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20