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In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating the aggregated services offered to the user through a multimodal travel planner. The effective design of a multimodal travel planner is considered a complex task since it requires the identification of the best possible route that combines segments of different transport modes. We describe a novel architecture and its respective connectivity infrastructure...
The paper presents a three-stage supervision model that was implemented by two senior academics in the Postgraduate School of Engineering Management at the University of Johannesburg as a pedagogical approach for the supervision of large numbers of postgraduate students. The model was considered as an alternative to the traditional dyadic supervision model and incorporates communities of practice,...
This article tries to demonstrate a new dual-factor explaining mechanism for why emerging economy enterprises could achieve technological catch-up under the situations of technological accumulation lacks, complex international environments and inferior social reputations. We select 259 firms from 37 industries as our sample to do empirical research and found that technological discontinuity is positively...
New technologies associated with the current digital transformation promise high production improvements, but require new competences, which have to be built up in advance. While scientific research and innovation management have acknowledged the importance of the digital transformation for the long-term success of firms, little research effort is dedicated to empirically determine how competence...
In the past decade, market pressures and decreasing U.S. federal budgets for science and technology have led to a fundamental change in expectations for corporate investments in innovation. The trend to significant, sustained corporate research collaboration with major academic centers has called for rethinking the balance between academic and corporate roles in these relationships. The Georgia Institute...
There has been an increasing emphasis to understand the dynamism of firms in high-tech clusters given the economic prospect they offer to themselves and regions housing these clusters. This has placed a pressing need for researchers and practitioners across the globe to quantify absorptive capacity of a firm which is a measure of dynamic capability of a firm. Bengaluru being one of the “global hubs...
We report a novel enterprise-level technology management architecture led by the Office of Director of National Intelligence to empower the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and its partners to more effectively inform technology investment decisions by ensuring that the IC and the private sector are sharing information on intelligence-related research efforts. This framework not only provides our academic...
With the rapid globalization of the world and the rapid changes in science and technology, Taiwan's industrial structure is in urgent need of transformation. Industry 4.0 is an opportunity for industrial upgrading. In order to cultivate the future engineering talent needed for Industry 4.0. Feng Chia University has carried out a series of curriculum reforms. The Freshman Project is one of these important...
After the development of about half a century, Taiwan's industrial design education has entered the international frontier now. This paper summarizes the characteristics of industrial design education in Taiwan universities from the aspects of education scale and department, discipline and professional construction, production and research cooperation, and so on and expects to gain experience and...
Chinese character culture is the ancients will be the experience of life, into words, language, vocabulary and other forms and content, and derived from calligraphy, seal and other traditional artistic expression, with the creation of ingenuity; and for Nushu such as the disappearance of the national language there is a lack of convenient and effective design conversion model.
The whole face economical downfall throughout their lives, including Taiwan where consumers are struggling with the drastic skyrocketing price tags of products and their never-increase incomes. Nowadays, there are more and more brands in which have similar line, and thus relying on the quality itself doesn't seem ra-tional enough to stay on top of the business world. So it all depends on the consumers...
In Kenya, like in most of Africa, many of the existing industries are aged. Due to insufficient resources, maintaining these Industries becomes a challenge. It is important to note that most, if not all, of these industries are key drivers of the economies of these countries. Maintenance of these industries thus becomes a key activity to ensure economic growth. Training of engineers to completely...
The purpose of this study is to conduct a feasibility analysis and preliminary conceptual design of water boundaries based on the Blue Ocean Strategy applied in the planning stage. The researchers adopt the case studies in competition analysis, product strategy, development, and formulation, and other core concepts of flood control design to induce design principles for water boundaries that can effectively...
This paper proposes a cargo management system, named i-Logistics, which consists of an electronic tape (e-tape), a QR code scan APP, an in-vehicle infotainment system (a vehicular telematics device), and a cloud-based platform. The dedicated Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensors are mounted on the electronic tape for monitoring cargos. The QR code scan APP is used to burn a matching dedicated ID...
To meet the global tourism market trend and educational need, English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) courses have been rapidly developed in Taiwan's universities for recent years. Investigation and evaluation of national-wide ETP curriculum, give directions to the educators whose learners are second language speakers of English and aspire to work in the international tourism and hospitality industry have...
Domestic and international research on design trend regarded user experience as the vital issue, stressed on user perception (experience), and had users perceive that the aesthetic perception of “pleasure” was a primary issue in research on design. Consequently, “marketing experience” in experience economy, “user experience” in human-computer interaction, and the theory of “experience aesthetics”...
Upon the propaganda of local authorities, cycling was popular as for casual and excise purpose in Taiwan. The request on bicycle equipment was turning to high quality, lightweight, ergonomic, and flexible based on the universal design principle. Only the bottle cage showed an exception that took only 72mm water bottle. In contrast, many cyclists preferred the mineral water in 62mm bottles that could...
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