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With the increase of competition in the world of business and the advent of modern technologies, many companies in the world have turned into integration. The need for flexibility, reduction of costs, establishing close and broad connection among suppliers, producers, and distributors has caused companies to integrate their own systems and organizations so as to survive and keep going in today’s competitive, ever changing environment and finally gain competitive advantage. Supply chain management as a support for essential and operational processes of the organization is not an exception from this integration rule. Despite many views on the integrity of the supply chain, yet there is no... 

Single nucleotide polymorphs, There are changes caused by a mutation in a nucleotide in the Dena sequence. Mononucleotide polymorphisms are the most common type of genetic variation. Some of these changes have little or no effect on cells, while others cause significant changes in the expression of cell genes that can lead to disease or resistance to certain diseases. Because of the importance of these changes and their effect on cell function, the relationships between these changes are also important. Over the past decade, thousands of single disease-related mononucleotide polymorphisms have been identified in genome-related studies. Studies in this field have shown that the expression of... 

Knee pain and injuries are very common in athletes. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is one of the most important reason of knee acute and chronic pains. As ACL plays a significant role in knee stability and due to amount of reported ACL related injuries, much effort has been placed on finding proper and on time diagnosis and treatment of these injuries. Arthrometric methods are the most non-invasive reliable diagnosis option; however they are not fully capable of separating partial injuries from intact joint. This weakness can be investigated by quantifying the tests using computer simulations; so far few studies have been conducted toward this goal. In this study a two dimensional... 

Residual stresses are stress fields that exist in the absence of any external loads. All mechanical processes can cause deformation that may lead to residual stresses. It is well established that virtually no material, no component and no structure of technical importance exists free of residual stresses. However, in practice, the knowledge of the true distribution of exiting residual stress is rare. The residual stress fields are very challenging to evaluate, independent of the measurement techniques. The important aspect about the residual stress determination is that often true distribution is unknown in the engineering specimen. A simple and non-destructive method to measure residual... 

Developing to the sub-micron dimentions reduces the size of integrated circuits, so interconnects and a variations in their characteristics has more effects on circuit performance. Worst case study is the most common method in these systems, but in many cases interconnect lines are independent from eachother. Analysis state that worst case is out of the distribution in many cases (with zero possibility) and result in a pessimistic design. Statistical analysis should replace worst case analysis in multi varient systems. In this titile, statistical analysis will be used to investigate performance of interconnects in new technology. Maximum variation in interconnect parameters are considered... 

Process Variation is seen as statistical variations in leakage current and delay of transistors in nano-scale technologies. The amount of process variations increase as the size of transistors decrease by technology scaling such that those effects can be seen in frequency of MPSoC (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip) cores and their leakage power deviation. These variations cause the tasks duration and power consumption fluctuate in different processors in an MPSoC instance. Consequently, some chip instances of the same MPSoC may consume more time and power than their considered limitations. Hence considering the process variation is necessary and required for MPSoC optimization at different... 

Auxetic materials have a negative Poisson ratio (NPR), which is their most distinguishable characteristic as compared to regular materials. Test specimens were made of conventional polyurethane (PU) foams according to ASTM ; then, with a thermo-mechanical process, the foam was converted to auxetic PU foam. The reproducibility of specimens' fabrication was checked with CoV= for the final foam thickness. With regard to the fact that changing loading conditions can vary Poisson's ratio, in this study, the variations occurred in Poisson's ratio due to changing loading conditions are investigated. The applied strain and strain rate were altered in experiments and statistical analysis was...