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Hong Kong and mainland China, being the places with most important container terminals among the world, have not carried out any studies in relation to risk and safety management. Countries around the two places like Taiwan have already devoted some efforts on the issue. Operational risks in terminal operation can lead to many bad consequences like incurring high cost for recovering the losses if...
The professional qualifications are the attributes obtained by an individual to the development or improvement of skills in order to perform their tasks in the best way. Its main goal is the incorporation of theoretical knowledge, technical and operational services to the production of goods and services, through educational processes developed in several instances (schools, unions, companies, associations)...
This paper applied institutional theory to explore the relationships between institutional legitimacy and corporate social responsibility by analyzing financial data and media reports of commercial banks in China from 2008 to 2010. This article revealed the determinants of corporate social responsibility from regulative, normative and cognitive aspects. Empirical study shows that regulation pressure...
Monthly and seasonal variation characteristics of passenger volume of urban public transport can provide an important basis for the rational planning and operation of public transport. According to the passenger volume information of the public transport of Pingdingshan City, this paper, using Excel, calculates the monthly seasonal index, and then processes them with one-way analysis of variance in...
Online Word-of-mouth has become one of most important information sources when a consumer is making a purchase decision. Most researchers focus on the direct relationship between consumer reviews and sales performance rather than exploring their interaction with other factors. To bridge this gap, we conducted an empirical study in the hospitality field to investigate the impact of online consumer...
People are already familiar with stories about innovation in Silicon Valley. It presents a specialized innovation mode, which is based on universities of science and technology. However, people pay little attention to another high-tech innovation center-New York. This paper points out that unlike Silicon Valley which has strong science and technology universities like Stanford and Berkeley, New York...
During the past four years, the government affairs microblogs in China have developed rapidly from simple outlets for disclosing information to become more efficient and effective integrated platforms for not only the communication between the government and the public, but the public's supervision of government services. In such a circumstance, to understand the structural characteristics of a certain...
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is a topic of great importance that maintains an ongoing interest in the academic community and in countless industries and services. Technological advances allow the successful deployment of particular solutions but many potential applications still face limitations that prevent them from happening. This paper compares data collected from five implementation...
In order to meet customer satisfaction in the future, the postal system of Mongolia has been increasingly facing new challenges to maintain its competitiveness. How exactly, should a given infrastructure/network and transportation strategy be changed to meet the upcoming challenges? Should the postal network throughout the country revised to accommodate introduction of new ICT- based technology? The...
We analyse Stockholm City's fibre access network investment model and its effects on the different stakeholders, and for society at large. Moreover, Stockholm is compared to Copenhagen, which has conditions similar to Stockholm, but where the municipality has not taken an active role in the city's fibre network. The socio-economic return on the fibre infrastructure investment is estimated to over...
Data warehouses store large volumes of consolidated and historized multidimensional data for analysis and exploration by decision-makers. Exploring data is an incremental OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) query process for searching relevant information in a dataset. In order to ease user exploration, recommender systems are used. However when facing a new system, such recommendations do not operate...
In the last decade South African innovators have produced two game changing innovations: Thawte and Mxit, the former for Internet security and the latter for mobile messaging. It is of interest to understand what it is in the local system of innovation that has enabled such innovations to emerge. Mxit is one of the first instant messaging systems to be freely available for almost all mobile phones...
Our paper processes the case of the subsidiary of car manufacturer who imports containers of constituents (components) of cars to be assembled locally. The road transport of these containers is assured by a company of road transport which has to affect to each reservation, optimally, one or more containers while meeting the deadlines proposed by the customers, the employment regulations and the availability...
GPS enabled taxis provide us not only their locations and passenger status information in real-time, but also historical digital traces which could enable innovative services such as smart taxi dispatching, anomalous taxi detection, urban hotspots discovery, bus planning, and so on. Even though researchers have developed algorithms and systems in previous work targeting specific applications, there...
The rapid development of e-commerce has given birth to the powerful global trading platforms. At the same time, the development of the traditional international trade center is limited by the constraint of the city. As a new international trade center form, the Virtual International Trade Center (VITC) is beginning to reveal its clues. On the basis of the theory of e-commerce and International Trade...
Social Network Service (SNS) such as Twitter and Facebook has explosively grown nationwide since iPhone was introduced to Korea in November 2009. In addition, KakaoStory has recently opened and joined to the SNS market, and it has grown to one of the most popular SNS in the domestic market in a short period of time. Social Network Service supports not only the formation of relationship between SNS...
There are many factors that lower the level of accessibility in our environment, especially for citizens with special needs, examples are incorrect designs of public buildings or the lack of tools that show and generate the information in an accessible and user friendly way. These factors translate into physical and technological barriers both to citizens with disabilities and to the professionals...
In order to analysis whether the administrative appointment can select eligible operators for state-owned enterprises(SOE), a two-stage dynamic game of incomplete information is used in this paper. By introducing an alternative parameter that can reflect the operating capacity, the game model can show what will the administrative appointment bring to this ability parameter. Equilibriums of this game...
In the beginning, this article analyzes the investment and financing environment and its causes of coastal shoal development in Jiangsu Province. Then, underlying the traditional ways of investment and financing, the article targetedly puts forward five innovative ways of investment and financing and constructs the basic framework of investment and financing mechanism for coastal shoal development...
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