Thanks to sophisticated software systems that even small businesses can use, more companies are moving toward the perpetual inventory system, which keeps real-time track of product levels. The ...

Inventory systems track the flow of raw materials, work in process and finished goods inventory from receipt to sale and shipment. Accountants use different methods of tracking inventory based on the ...

Chemists still use the table that groups elements according to their properties most days in their work. The periodic system for elements will turn 150 this year. In 1869, the Russian chemist Dmitri ...

In a recently published article in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS), the scientists look back to the beginnings of the periodic system, whose structure is characterized by ...

Eric Scerri's delightful "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" follows the 1969 classic by J. W. Spronsen, "The Periodic System of Chemical Elements," but is a different treatment of ...

The periodic table of chemical elements hangs in front of chemistry classrooms worldwide and is an icon for science. Yet much was unknown about its history -- until now. The periodic table reflects ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

This illustration shows a typewriter with the keys depicted as the periodic table. Hands are typing on it, and the sheet of paper coming out of it shows the words "Tales from the table." Credit: Chris ...

Lomonosov, Lobachevsky, Mendeleieff. By B. G. Kuznetzov. [Russian text.] Pp. 332. (Moscow: Acad. Sci. U.S.S.R., 1945.) 22 r. [10s.] [Mendeleieff, pp. 189–332 ...