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Locally Manufactured Small Wind Turbines (LM-SWTs) are growing in recognition as a means for rural electrification, and for meeting sustainability and poverty reduction targets set by the UN. This assessment is intended to inform governments and supranational entities where best to invest in order to meet these UN targets and improve the quality of life for millions of people in rural areas. This...
This paper discusses the existing approaches of competitiveness' management of small and medium enterprises. Porter's diamond approach is analyzed. The way of building competitive advantages is discussed and case study about Indian companies is provided.
With increasing competition in the global education sphere, the only way to a decent functioning of the Higher Educational Institutions of Ukraine — to match the high international standards. This cannot be achieved without active international activities aimed at the development of international educational programs. In the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Mykolayiv successfully...
This article presents the findings of a study analyzing the potential for development of technological groups and technologies for the technical and scientific area of “Electromagnetic Safety” (EMS). In this study, electromagnetic experts assessed a number of parameters for each technological group, such as the current level of development in Russia and worldwide; the potential for development by...
Interactive agents are expected to play essential roles in many fields. Moreover, it is becoming more and more important for interactive agents to deal with multilingual issues because of globalization. In this paper, we aim at realizing a multilingual interactive agent that can support end users in various fields. To achieve this goal, we first propose a framework for the multilingual interactive...
Requirements engineering provide an appropriate mechanism for understanding what the customer wants. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) need to improve their ability to face a global market. This study proposed a framework of e-commerce adoption that provided functional requirements of each level. Mapping of functional requirements into level was identified using The Delphi method. The questionnaires...
With the emergence and development of electronic currency, especially bitcoin turning out, it provided a new way of thinking for the realization of the super-sovereign currency [1]. In this situation, what is the evolution trend of the optimal monetary model? What is the construction of electronic super-sovereign currency? What is the new development of the traditional super-sovereign currency theories?...
This paper summarizes and analyzes the present situation of overseas development of Chinese book publishing industry. Opportunities for overseas development of Chinese book publishing industry include: Economic globalization, the growth of Chinese cultural industry, support and push for government policy, the trend of Chinese culture to the world. Through the construction of the book publishing industry...
This paper presents the extension of Metasystems Learning Design Theory on Information Visualisation. Based on the hypothesis that educational norms have shifted considerably over the last decades, it is explained an innovative approach based on Lean Startup Theory. Within the context of the global education, the chapter explores the Metasystems Learning Design Principles as a response to the research...
This study considers the required capacity and education for the students who majoring in management information through describing the patent analysis of the company and the idea creation and prototypic implementation at classroom practice. This patent analysis of the company is a single case study of Hon Hai Precision which has received much attention in recent years. During the classroom practices,...
Globalization allows many industries and enterprises to corporate and communicate with each other to provide services. In the era of knowledge management semantic web and related technology plays a major role. Ontology being the basic unit of semantic web realization will contain knowledge which is sharable between different domains. Ontology matching techniques are vital in querying and finding the...
There are still many people think that learning Mathematics in English causes students difficulty in obtaining a good score. Therefore, the authors conducted research related to the use of English in teaching Mathematics, for grade 7 junior high school in a private national plus school. The purpose of this study is for the reader to open up further insights related to the topic above. This research...
With the development of Economic Globalization, traditional single-cloud providers can not meet the needs of the explosive, global, diverse cloud services. JointCloud aims at empowering the cooperation among multiple Cloud Service Providers (CSP) to provide cross-cloud services. Our work in this paper is mainly focused on the accounting technology for JointCloud computing and we propose the JCLedger...
Constant changes in the economic environment, where globalization and the development of the knowledge economy act as drivers, are systematically pushing companies towards the challenge of accessing external markets. Web localization constitutes a new field of study and professional intervention. From the translation perspective, localization equates to the website being adjusted to the typological,...
Based on a dataset on 1500 Chinese firms, which established overseas R&D subsidiaries in the recent 5 years (2010–2014), we investigate the development trends of the Chinese firms' overseas R&D investment, whether and how it differs from the overseas R&D investment peak led by the Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the developed countries in the past century. Drawing on Dunning's eclectic...
With the increasingly globalisation of the world, interaction with people from different cultures than ours is more likely than ever. Knowing how to correctly approach and interact with people that have different social norms than us is a necessary condition to live in this multicultural world. This project provides a tool to learn how to adapt the way we behave. This is achieved using a virtual reality...
As the transition to more renewable energy sources progresses the regional generation clusters of wind and solar generation increase. Since the transmission capacity is limited we can observe an increasing need for redispatch measures in the German electricity grid to accommodate this development. In this paper we analyze the need and costs of redispatch measures and propose a local electricity market...
Globalization brought a set of factors that led to the promotion of some geographical areas strategic to the growth and evolution of the global financial, economic and commercial systems. The study of Global Cities emerged as a key concept to identify and characterize cities as main agents in the performance of the world economy, i.e., World Cities (WC). There is consensus on how to identify market...
Globalization, stalled economy, saturated markets, fierce competition, technological innovation, internet of things, are some of the factors that lead companies to rethink their business strategy. In this context, it is increasing the effort required organizations to adjust their business strategy in an ever more competitive environment. In this study we are presented the proposal of a conceptual...
The paper describes the formal model of the information video blocks submitting and synchronization. Also, the article describes the technology of multi-language video content support implemented in polysubtitles video player format based on that model. The essence of this technology consists of displaying multiple subtitle streams in different languages. This approach allows us to provide detailed...
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