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Total Quality Management in the American Defence Industry

International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 1994
The US Department of Defense is playing a significant leadership role in implementation of TQM. Provides an overview of the process of implementing total quality management in the US Department of Defense and discusses the implications of this change for its subcontractors and related industries.
Glenn A. Pitman, Jaideep G. Motwani, Deborah Schliker   +2 more
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Microplastic accumulation via trophic transfer: Can a predatory crab counter the adverse effects of microplastics by body defence?

Science of the Total Environment, 2020
Microplastics are considered detrimental to aquatic organisms due to their potential accumulation along food chains. Thus, it is puzzling why some of them appear unaffected by microplastics. Here, we assessed the contribution of water filtration and food
Tingyue Wang, Menghong Hu, Guangen Xu, Huahong Shi, J. Leung, Youji Wang   +5 more
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Responses of nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide in regulating oxidative defence system in wheat plants grown under cadmium stress.

Physiologia Plantarum : An International Journal for Plant Biology, 2019
We conducted a study to evaluate the interactive effect of NO and H2 S on the cadmium (Cd) tolerance of wheat. Cadmium stress considerably reduced total dry weight, chlorophyll a and b content and ratio of Fv/fm by 36.7, 48.6, 26.7 and 19.5 ...
C. Kaya, M. Ashraf, M. Alyemeni, P. Ahmad   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Defence Expenditure on Total Factor Productivity: New Insights from Panel Bootstrap Granger Causality

Defence and Peace Economics
Geopolitical risk and rising military expenditure may have severe consequences for economic output. Thus, this study analyzes the causal nexus between defence expenditure and total factor productivity in the highest defence-spender countries during 1994 ...
Khalid Khan, A. Khurshid, Javier Cifuentes‐Faura   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effect of total calorific deprivation on host defence in the horse

Research in Veterinary Science, 1981
Horses were deprived of food but not water for a period of five days. There was a progressive decrease in circulating lymphocyte count and compromised host deference. In vitro phagocytosis of yeast fell from a mean of 97 per cent in fed horses to 78 per cent in horses deprived of food for five days.
J M, Naylor, S J, Kenyon
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Lactobacillus fermentum and/or ferulic acid improved the immune responses, antioxidative defence and resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) fingerlings.

Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 2019
This study investigates the possible effects of using Lactobacillus fermentum (LF) and/or ferulic acid (FA) in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) on some immunological parameters as well as resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila.
E. Ahmadifar, M. Moghadam, M. Dawood, S. Hoseinifar   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Direct Governmental Involvement in Defence Contracting: Total-Cycle-Time Effects

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 1999
ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to assess whether direct governmental involvement has significant effects on Total Cycle Time (TCT) in the defence industry. A major US government defence contractor was chosen for this study, with a replication study at another defence contractor.
BILLY NG, JOHN N. PEARSON
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Total Defence

2022
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Nest defence and offspring provisioning in a cooperative bird: individual subordinates vary in total contribution, but no division of tasks among breeders and subordinates

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2020
Niki Teunissen, Sjouke A. Kingma, Anne Peters   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What Does Total Defence Look Like in Action?

2023
UZI BEN-SHALOM, EYAL BEN-ARI
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