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This paper puts forth a novel methodology for facilities layout planning and optimization, where the fitness evaluation of layout alternatives is automatically performed by employing an artificial neural network trained to preferences of the domain experts. The inherently uncertain, unstructured, and often tacit nature of…

The debate over how to solve the problem of rising health care costs has produced a vast amount of literature in many different fields.  In particular, economists have developed a method known as stochastic frontier analysis which can be used to estimate how inefficiencies within…

The paper presents an analytical method to define innovation behaviours and technology strategies of companies using patent data.The framework can be used to: 1) analyse single innovation behaviours, 2) map innovation strategies defined as combinations of different innovation behaviours, and 3) describe the patterns of…

Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) in small ruminants has been diagnosed by culture several times in the state of Grenada. In order to understand the prevalence of CLA, serum samples from 541 sheep and 338 goats from Grenada and Carriacou islands were tested for antibodies against the…

Wadifood is one of the leading companies in the Egyptian market devoted in the production and selling of organic food. By strictly adhering to high quality standards and by satisfying the needs of a sophisticated health-conscious market, Wadifood has grown globally at a remarkable rate.…

Patients with chronic epilepsy, who have suffered a high number of secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures (SGTCS) frequently show cognitive comorbidity. It is yet unclear whether a higher number of SGTCS is associated with tissue changes in the brain. We have investigated in patients with chronic…

Romania, as an EU member state, supports developing countries to integrate trade into their national development policies, in programs and strategies to reduce poverty by regulations related to technical assistance for the participation of these countries in the negotiation and implementation of the Doha Development…

The increasing use of the virtual communities as a communication tool, raise interest in understanding the relationship between the information existing in virtual communities and the level of trust in electronic commerce. Given the difference between the traditional websites   and the virtual communities the concept…

Web-enhanced teaching has been widely utilized in many disciplines in US higher education since the development of the internet and the continuous advancement of information technology. The purpose of this study is to investigate the learning effectiveness of web-enhanced teaching in landscape construction studio courses…

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have always been of interest to researchers across various research disciplines. Recently, the cloud computing paradigm has emerged to become one of most prominent technologies in business and academia alike. These new cloud accessibility and software delivery models have radically…