The wax scale Ceroplastes glomeratus Peronti shows seasonal behavioral and phenotypic differences. Individuals develop gregariously during autumn, whereas solitarily in spring. Besides such behavioral differences, spring ...

The production planning of regional small-scale soft drink plants can be modeled by mixed integer models that integrate lot sizing and scheduling decisions and consider sequence-dependent setup times and costs. These plants ...

The production planning of regional small-scale soft drink plants can be modeled by mixed integer models that integrate lot sizing and scheduling decisions and consider sequence-dependent setup times and costs. These plants ...

This paper describes the development of the waxy test and the microscopic characters of the three female nymphal instars of Ceroplastes cirripediformis Comstock, C. diospyros Hempel, C. floridensis Comstock, C. flosculoides ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the Shore A hardness and color stability of two soft lining materials after thermocycling and when chemical polishing was used or omitted. Two acrylic-based soft lining materials were ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the Shore A hardness and color stability of two soft lining materials after thermocycling and when chemical polishing was used or omitted. Two acrylic-based soft lining materials were ...

Within the Kohn-Sham framework and for a series of single charged monatomic anions, the orbital hardness is calculated as a change in the frontier eigenvalue, which is equivalent to integrate the local hardness function ...

Firms worldwide increasingly link competency-based appraisals to rewards as a tool to align human capital to business strategy and performance. Its assumption is that competence mastery at the individual level would drive ...