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As of December 2, 2016, Henan has 74 listed companies, which are an important part of the capital market and contribute greatly to the economic and social development of Henan Province. This paper analyzes the problems existing in the development of Listed Companies in Henan Province from the regional and industrial distribution, market capitalization and capital structure, management level, etc,...
This paper provides an understanding of what constitutes a Qualified Person, an Unqualified Person, and a Competent Person. Also included are the training requirements for each classification. The principles for performing a Needs Assessment, a Job/Task Analysis, and Job Hazard Analysis are addressed as they relate to the information gathering needed for the development of an effective training program...
The use of chemical substances and their potential impacts on human health and the environment is a concern world-wide. This paper looks at substances and substance restrictions, why they are restricted, and how they affect the safe use and disposal of electrical, toy, and medical products.
Patent analysis helps companies understand their intellectual property (IP) portfolio and develop competitive marketing and management strategies. A Technology Function Matrix (TFM) is a critical approach for patent data analytics. This paper develops a generic computer supported TFM construction methodology that can be used for creating patent technical maps for any given domain. The approach is...
In their mission of collecting, analyzing and disseminating statistic data, the National Institutes of Statistics are more and more confronted with personal data management. With the advent of the “Open Data” [1], the need for data diffusion and to establish a link between databases created during the surveys and censuses, are necessary for planning, monitoring and activities evaluation, in a context...
This paper examines the relationship between accounting conservatism, debt covenants, and information asymmetry around the global financial crisis. This relationship plays a pivotal role to understand the interactive behavior of accounting and economic data which influencing the agency problem and information asymmetry. Data of non-financial companies listed at the Pakistan Stock Exchange is used,...
This paper presents a study for generate digital business reporting using the language XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) and its applicability in Ecuador. XBRL is a common language for the exchange of financial information, a specialized version based on XML. This standard has been implemented in Europe, USA, Canada, Oceania, Asia and some countries in Latin America, Ecuador have not adopted...
Value chain accounting is a new field of accounting. It is an integration of value chain management theory, supply chain management theory, accounting theory and information technology. Traditional accounting reports are unstructured documents, such as PDF, DOC, HTML, and even printed versions of paper. The accounting information provided by them are difficult to query and analyze. Furthermore, they...
Open source projects rely on collaboration of members from all around the world using web technologies like GitHub and Gerrit. This mixture of people with a wide range of backgrounds including minorities like women, ethnic minorities, and people with disabilities may increase the risk of offensive and destroying behaviours in the community, potentially leading affected project members to leave towards...
As industries pursues safer workplaces and implementing electrical safety programs they face major challenges in engaging the worker and how to ensure knowledge retention. Over the past 5 years we have gone on a journey starting with a very small group of electricians focused on creating and delivering training to their peers. In 2015 this had blossomed to 160 electricians across four different areas...
IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) is a technology that combines industrial techniques, “smart sensors” and “smart devices” in a network. Such technology allows memorizing, analyzing and integrating data from all “smart sensors” to a single workspace. As part of IIoT it generally considered “intelligent enterprises” (transport, engineering, processing, etc.) and, in some ways, “intelligent machines”...
This qualitative multiple case study aims to explore the key knowledge that is transferred by predecessors (parents) to successors (children) in a family company. This knowledge becomes a resource to create the family company's competitive advantage. The research sample was composed of 23 participants from 13 family companies. The data were obtained through in-depth, semistructured interviews. The...
The purpose of this study is to suggest ICT based conceptual evaluation model for the investors when to review the startup business. In regards, the conceptual model tried to emphasize the trust network among multi-stakeholders. Since ICT enables all businesses in real time through online channel, building the trust issues has been crucially raised. Under the digital paradigm, Industry 4.0 that maximize...
To understand connectivity among companies in financial news, and their overall influence, we define an algorithm for ranking companies in networks of positive, negative and mixed co-occurrences. We collect a homogeneous set of financial articles from crowd sourced news to get a sentiment polarization between positive and negative news. We use this polarization to develop three types of sentiment...
This paper presents the electric planning process and requirements in Muscat Distribution Company (MEDC) and discusses how the planning can be enhanced by using best practices. Also, the paper describes the planning model used in MEDC. Planning challenges and constraints are discussed. These include high demand growth, design and technical constraints, technical and non-technical losses, security...
Process Improvement is an aspect of organizational development in which a series of actions are taken by a process owner or process analyst to identify, analyze and improve existing business processes within an organization for optimization and to meet new quotas or standards of quality. The shoe industry in Marikina City which is the shoe capital of the Philippines is lagging behind its neighboring...
The operating environment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is more uncertain and risky comparing to big enterprises. The SMEs managers often face insufficient funds and lack of domain expertise to undertake important financial decisions. Moreover they are often unaware of opportunities offered by financial institutions. Therefore there is a growing need for intelligent and interactive...
The purpose of this work was to examine factors that are believed to affect the technology transfer (TT) process in the field of information and communication industry (ICT). The aim is to investigate the factors that describe the TT process of embracing of international technology by ICT projects in Libya. ICT sector in Libya is reliant on external technology imported into the country by multinational...
Achieving efficiency gains on all levels of enterprise architecture by such means as standardization has been and is a goal of researchers and practitioners working on the provisioning of IT services. At the process level, provisioning IT services is defined in common practice frameworks like the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ITIL describes a trend where vendors offer new application systems for...
In 2011, the 4th industrial revolution started. Industry 4.0 is a trend in this industrial area which affect the production lines as well. In this paper, we show eight selected case studies which illustrate the different heterogonous systems which are used in Hungarian factories to support its production. A case-study is chosen in which image processing tools are applied in the operation of a furniture...
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