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Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland

Panin, Anthony; Mthombo, Thabile T. - 2008

This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of … garment firms into the country primarily driven by the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). This analysis is based on a … survey data of 235 employees randomly selected from five garment firms in the country. Understanding the actual contribution …

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AEC industry culture: a need for change

Weippert, Achim; Kajewski, Stephen L. - 2004

participants to do business through information and communication technology (ICT) tools and systems is dependent on the innovation … of the user, not only the technology itself – i.e. the successful implementation of ICT requires careful consideration to …

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Export specialization and economic growth

Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001

Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...

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Exploiting Inference for Approximate Parameter Learning in Discriminative Fields: An Empirical Study

Kumar, Sanjiv; August, Jonas; Hebert, Martial - 2005

Estimation of parameters of random field models from labeled training data is crucial for their good performance in many image analysis applications. In this paper, we present an approach for ap- proximate maximum likelihood parameter learning in discriminative field models, which is based on...

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Policy Search in Kernel Hilbert Space

Bagnell, J. Andrew; Schneider, Jeff - 2003

Much recent work in reinforcement learning and stochastic optimal control has focused on algorithms that search directly through a space of policies rather than building approximate value functions. Policy search has numerous advantages: it does not rely on the Markov assumption, domain...

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MODERATORS OF TRUST AND RELIANCE ACROSS MULTIPLE DECISION AIDS

Ross, Jennifer - 2008

The present work examines whether user's trust of and reliance on automation, were affected by the manipulations of user's perception of the responding agent. These manipulations included agent reliability, agent type, and failure salience. Previous work has shown that automation is not...

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A comparative analysis of three macro price forecasting models

Akintoye, Akintola S.; Skitmore, Martin - 1994

This paper examines the relative performance of three different systems of forecasting movements in macro building prices. The three systems analysed are (1) the Building Cost Information Service system, (2) the Davis, Langdon & Everest system, and (3) Akintoye and Skitmore's reduced-form...

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Using risk analysis to prioritise intelligent transport systems: a variable message sign case study on the Gold Coast

Marschke, Kath; Ferreira, Luis; Bunker, Jonathan M. - 2006

With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS), and in particular, variable message signs (VMS), a key component of incident...

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No Simple Solutions: How Sectoral Innovation Systems Can Be Transformed : Key Findings from the Australian Innovation Systems (AUSIS) Project

Scott-Kemmis, Don; Holmen, Magnus; Balaguer, Antonio; … - 2005

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study is concerned with change in the factors that drive and support innovation, focusing on the influences of business behaviour and industrial dynamics. The study draws on seven sectoral case studies: computer games, dairy products, mineral exploration, motor vehicles,...

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Trends in emission standards and the implication for bus fleet management : technology assessment for Brisbane transport

Patil, Anish; Brown, Kerry A. - 2008

provides recommendations to the fleet manager for selecting new buses, in terms of technology and emissions, in order to attain …

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