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Industries in real life are mostly dual resource constrained (DRC) systems in which capacity constraints stem from both machines and human operators. The effective management of these resources is an important issue that can significantly affect the performance of an organization. Resource managers and planners must acknowledge the unique characteristics inherent in different types of resources in...
Today more than 80% of the Iran's revenue comes from the oil exported to the other countries in the world. It's quite apparent that oil is considered as a source that one day will be gone. Oil is unable to bring a bright future as a foundation of the economy. The purpose of this study is to bring in light the current situation of Iran from the exceptional tourism opportunities point of view, and the...
Our research group recently discovered that human analysts, when asked to validate candidate traceability matrices, produce predictably imperfect results, in some cases less accurate than the starting candidate matrices. This discovery radically changes our understanding of how to design a fast, accurate and certifiable tracing process that can be implemented as part of software assurance activities...
Purchasing is the primary point of contact with most supply-chain partners and thus extremely crucial for the performance of the supply chain specifically and in overall for the firm. Understanding how the various criteria for evaluating suppliers play a role is crucial for a better understanding of the dynamics of the supply chain. This study attempts to find out the relative importance of the various...
One of the key elements for achieving service excellence in all service businesses is appropriate training. Organisational goals can not be reached without qualified trained staff. This paper seeks to compare and contrast hospitality training system practices of Chinese Owned Hotels (COHs) and Foreign Owned Hotels (FOHs) in the Chinese hotel industry. It's hoped to gain an understanding of the relative...
A one degree-of-freedom (vertical up-down) power assist robot was developed for lifting objects. The robot was simulated and six subjects independently lifted objects of three different sizes with the robot. In each trial, the subject used his two hands synchronously to lift the object with the robot and estimated the perceived weight of the lifted object by comparing it to a reference weight. We...
This study aimed to discuss the relationship between innovative concepts of training quality and organizational commitment for Taiwan's industry management. Questionnaire survey was conducted on manufacturers in Taiwan that participated in the project of the Vocational Training Council. A total of 1000 questionnaires were distributed to directors, general employees, and human resource personnel in...
The survey on software engineering excellence (SEE) was designed and conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007 with Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan. In the survey the software engineering capability was measured from the seven viewpoints, i.e., deliverables, project management, quality assurance, process improvement, research and development, human development, and customer contacts. For the...
This key note speech outlines the 4-Es related to electronic industry: 1. Explosion through multi-pronged fundamental research in materials etc, has significantly contributed towards efficient, cost-effective and small-in-size electronic systems. 2. Emergence of new technological domains like molecular (micro & nano) electronics which are seeing huge application potential. 3. End-use of these...
This paper presents a payment model in which the mobile businessman is seen as trusted third party. Then we propose a new symmetric key-based mobile payment protocol and introduce both according key agreement protocol and payment protocol. In key agreement protocol, we introduce a Hash function with key based on RPC to guarantee payment authorization security. The payment protocol achieves security...
The Distribution of shallow groundwater containing beryllium were summarized and the major factors influencing beryllium enrichment were discussed in this paper, based on chemical data of Be, aluminum and pH from more than 900 groundwater samples in the Pearl River Delta. The results show that Be concentration ranges from less than 0.02μg·L-1 to 40.3μg·L-1, with the majority less than 0.05μg·L-1 and...
We conducted two experiments. In the first experiment, we made two objects with identical appearance. One was lifted by humans in constrained condition, another was lifted in unconstrained condition, and human's weight perception was compared between the two conditions. The results showed that weight perception for constrained lifting of objects was not too much different from that for unconstrained...
Enterprise's IT capability has attracted more and more attention from the academic circles and corporate circles, but whether IT resources can promote enterprise performance and its effect mechanism have not been theoretically clarified. Based on resource-based view, this essay considers enterprise's capabilities of configuring and optimizing IT resources as the source of its IT-based sustained competitive...
A successful innovative strategy can keep the predominance of company in the market of fierce competition, and high-level human capital can realize the enhancement of corporate performance, thus the clarifying of the interactive mechanism of innovation strategy and human capital on firm performance becomes particularly important. Data for this study were collected from 197 listed companies out of...
Based on the background of building resource-saving-oriented society today, which acts as one of main bodies of resource-saving, the construction of conservation-oriented government is increasingly becoming the focus of current academic research. Most of researches mainly focus on the content of conservation-oriented government and paths to build it, while researches done on the practical and specific...
We analyzed the influence of R&D funds input and personnel quality on high-tech products export from the perspective of technological innovation resources. Based on the panel data of 52 national hi-tech zones in three consecutive years (2005-2007), we found that R&D fund input positively relates to high-tech products export performance, while personnel quality has a significantly negative...
The ecological-economic system of resource-dependent cities is compound system composed by the ecological system and economic system through certain technical means, environmental media and the process of human labor. It includes energy, material and information transmission. In order to maximize the value of the entire system and achieve the sustainable development of ecological-economic systems,...
With the continuous improvement of productivity levels and Human understanding of the natural environment becomes more and more thorough, human society has entered the ecological Era after two different stages - agricultural era and industrial. The theme of Ecological Era is "harmony and development". The development of environmental protection industry in this era is in a strategic position...
The financial crisis caused almost every country's economy in a depression, on contrast to economic recession, the financial crisis, however, gave an opportunity to the electronic entertainment with cultural elements. The authors analyzed the relationship between culture and economy, found that Economy serves as foundation for culture, and Culture is an important force for economic development. The...
In this study, we investigate the customer's sensation to service quality of state-owned commercial bank and the relation between Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and service quality. Results suggest that the sensation to service quality of different customers in sex, marriage, age and education is different, the relation between OCB and service quality is significant. Empirical implications...
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