the intricate web of individuals processes and information

... supervision; (3) standardization of work processes; (4) standardization of output; (5) standardization of skills; (6) standardization of norms In terms of the consequences of coordination, several ... In sum, the three aspects of information sharing measure the technologies used to support information sharing, the information shared among supply chain partners, and the quality of information ... theory development in supply chain management research The results of the analytical and empirical studies help better understand the different roles of information sharing and supply chain processes...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:47

... on the health and development of children, the care of the elderly and disabled, the ability of employed adults to obtain and retain work, and the ability of nations to decrease the number of ... manufacturing, trade, and service work; and the worldwide entry of the majority of men and then of women into the industrial and postindustrial labor forces In the slums of Tegulcigalpa, when ... influence their health status across the lifecourse Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Health and Social Behavior and the Director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health at the Harvard School of Public...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... and extension of the hip, extension of the knee and extension and inversion of the ankle) and the flexion synergy (external rotation, abduction, and flexion of the hip, flexion of the knee, and ... torques in the directions that were consistent with both the mechanical demands of the task and the physical properties of the musculature of the legs For instance, when asked to generate a maximum ... synergies These synergies are based on the direction of the moment arm of the joint torque in the sagittal plane Ankle flexion, knee extension, and hip flexion secondary torques are grouped as the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... (transcription of pri-miRNA) Discovery of parallel mechanisms of regulation of other sets of miRNAs, such as the 15 downregulated miRNAs in schizophrenia, would, therefore, be of considerable interest Further ... target sites in the 3' UTR of a protein coding gene, for example the program miRanda [7] The potential targets of miRNAs often include hundreds of genes because the reverse complement of some 'seeds' ... Center web site These 15 miRNAs are identified using miRanda to potentially target the 3' UTRs of over 4,600 genes, with 1,539 targeted by or more of them [39] Using the programs offered by the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 18:20

... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities of the company They want to study the “pure” movement of the ... features of the growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth and the stability of the growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these for thousands of companies ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead of the earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 20:15

... invest The amounts of aggregate income and of aggregate saving are the results of the free choices of individuals whether or not to consume and whether or not to invest; but they are neither of them ... the demand for it, and that the rate of interest was, so to speak, the equilibrating price-factor determined by the point of intersection of the supply curve of savings and the demand curve of ... function of the rate of interest to preserve equilibrium, not between the demand and the supply of new capital goods, but between the demand and the supply of money, that is to say between the demand...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 21:15

... call the user cost of the employment in question.[1] The excess of the value of the resulting output over the sum of its factor cost and its user cost is the profit or, it we shall call it, the ... fall to the appropriate level, which will occupy Book IV Thus the analysis of the Propensity to Consume, the definition of the Marginal Efficiency of Capital and the theory of the Rate of Interest ... that is to say, the volume of work on the earlier stages of new processes of production, whilst the output of consumption-goods and the amount of employment on the later stages of processes which...

Ngày tải lên: 31/12/2013, 23:30

... the problem of sewer overflows Rather, what is needed is political will, enforcement of existing laws, adequate information, and billions of dollars to improve the integrity and capacity of the ... be increasing, and there is evidence that the rate of infection is proportional to both the amount of time swimmers are exposed and the levels of pollution in the waters where they swim.60 According ... percent over land areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th century,155 and global warming is predicted to further increase the intensity of rainfall events for parts of the United States.156...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... affinity of Fpg for the THF:C ligand was 1.6-fold higher than for the THF:A ligand The presence of Mg2+ had little effect on the binding of Fpg to the THF:C ligand and slightly improved binding to the ... evaluate the effects of ionic strength and Mg2+ on the activity and specificity of OGG1, we measured the apparent values of k2 and k3 under conditions of low salt (KPi only) and no Mg2+, low salt and ... strength, the concentration of divalent cations such as Mg2+, the nature of the buffering agents, the presence of competing polyamines and other small molecules, and crowding by other macromolecules Their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... that the oxidant-promoted alteration of the Ki of elafin and trappin is caused by the oxidation of their P1¢ methionine residue Fig Mass spectra of native and oxidized elafin (A) and trappin (B) The ... correspond to a half-life of dissociation of 36–105 [15] The oxidation of elafin and trappin down-shifts the half-life of there complexes with NE to % 1.3– 1.8 On the other hand, the oxidized inhibitor–Pr3 ... binding of the methionine sulfoxide residue at the S1¢ subsite of the active centers of NE and Pr3 The fact that the S1¢ subsite of Pr3 is significantly smaller than that of NE [21] might then explain...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof ... away these random visitors or to repair their ravages Mr Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and ... middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief But for all the hurry of his cowing, these were not the dews of exertion...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... 17 of the Act concerning the conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of ... equal to the sum of: — 50% of the share of its respective Member State in the population of the Community in the penultimate year preceding the establishment of the ESCB; — 50% of the share of its ... annual report on the activities of the ESCB and on the monetary policy of both the previous and the current year to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and also to the European...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Terrorists and insurgents share important features (e.g., their status as nonstate actors, their use of violence, and the clandestine nature of many of their activities), but these are outweighed by their ... definition has the advantage of parsimony, but fails to capture essential aspects of the phenomenon, such as the fundamentally political nature of the insurgency movement, and the centrality of the local ... activities, and propaganda/psychological warfare All of these instruments are designed to weaken and/ or destroy the power and legitimacy of a ruling government, while at the same time increasing the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... broadband VI CORE ELEMENTS OF A BROADBAND POLICY A A National Policy for an Interstate Service The Interstate Nature of Broadband—Based on the nature of the technology and the reality of the market, ... picking up and delivering copies of her x-rays and test results And we all know the power of broadband for entertainment and the promise of video-on-demand and similar services But broadband will ... all ISPs and then treating all ISPs the same with respect to the unregulated nature of the information service component, regardless of whether or not the ISP was owned by the owner of the underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... Thus the rigid dichotomy often presumed between forest and plantation is irrelevant to the understanding and management of such land-use systems The recent changes of status of the Ministry of ... sell the land to migrants or share it with them against labour for the upkeep of the plantations15; The independent migrants lack the skills to clear the forest16 and they are well aware of the ... those of the project and not represent any official view of the Commission This is one of a series of reports prepared during 1999 by the Forest Fire Prevention and Control Project Together they...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... about the privacy of birth, on the one hand, and the of cial sanctions against traditional midwifery, on the other, one begins to glimpse the dimensions of the struggle over the “said” and the ... universe of ideas about race and gender, the relationship of medicine to society, and the status of the South in the nation’s political and social economies These ideas reflected the world as these ... with attention to the specifics of how individuals narrate their lives and the lives of their community can we come to a clear understanding of both the shared elements and the variations in African...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20