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EDITORIAL: VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2 (I-III)

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

HIGH EFFICIENCY GEARS SYNTHESIS BY AVOID THE INTERFERENCES (275-298)

Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu

MULTI RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCESS PARAMETERS DURING END MILLING OF GFRP USING GREY-BASED TAGUCHI METHOD (299-313)

Reddy Sreenivasulu

EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN SUPPLY NETWORKS IN BRAZIL (314-330)

João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis, Pedro Luiz de Oliveira Costa Neto, Sivanilza Teixeira Machado, Rone Vieira Oliveira

THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS AND SIX SIGMA: CONVERGENCES, DIVERGENCES AND RESEARCH AGENDA FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT (331-343)

Diego Pacheco

STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS (344-359)

Diego Pacheco, Isaac Pergher, Carlos Fernando Jung, Carla Scwenberg ten Caten

MARKOV CHAIN PORTFOLIO LIQUIDITY OPTIMIZATION MODEL (360-380)

Eder Oliveira Abensur

STUDY TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAZILIAN FRANCHISE SEGMENTS (381-397)

Alvaro Luiz Neuenfeldt Júnior, Julio Cezar Mairesse Siluk, Marlon Soliman, Kelen Franciane Scheroldt Marques

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MANAGMENT IMPLEMENTATION IN A SMALL BRAZILIAN COMPANY (398-416)

Jonathan Schmitz Rauber, Marco Antonio Viana Borges, Márcio Laênio Manoel Júnior, Diego Augusto de Jesus Pacheco

PRODUCTIVITY AND PRESENTEEISM - A QUESTION OF SLEEP WELL (417-437)

Renata Silva Cardoso Rocha Tavares, Quésia Postigo Kamimura

SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF AN E-COMMERCE CHAIN (E-CHAIN) (438-457)

João Gilberto Mendes do Reis, Pedro Luiz de Oliveira Costa Neto, José Paulo Alves Fusco, Sivanilza Teixeira Machado

MANAGING REPUTATION RISK AND SITUATIONAL CRISIS IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING (458-479)

Andem Ita Effiong

UNCERTAINTY SUPPLY CHAIN MODEL AND TRANSPORT IN ITS DEPLOYMENTS (480-492)

Fabiana Lucena Oliveira

COST MANAGEMENT IN AGRIBUSINESS: STUDY PROFITABILITY SCENARIOS OF INTEGRATED SYSTEM VS. INDEPENDENT SYSTEM FOR A POULTRY PRODUCER. (493-510)

Laura Maria Leite Ferreira, Maritiza dos Santos Wanzeler, Renata Melo e Silva de Oliveira, Alef Berg de Oliveira

QUANTITATIVE MODELING OF THE WATER FOOTPRINT AND ENERGY CONTENT OF CROP AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS CONSUMPTION IN TANZANIA (511-526)

Felichesmi Selestine lyakurwa

GARCH MODEL INDENTIFICATION USING NEURAL NETWORK (527-541)

André Machado Caldeira, Maria Augusta Soares Machado, Reinaldo Castro Souza, Ricardo Tanscheit

May 1, 2014

Prof. Dn. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor