Two software packages, VSP 2.1 and FIELDS 3.5, are being used by environmental scientists to plan the number and type of samples required to meet project objectives, display those samples on maps, query a database of past sample results, produce spatial models of the data, and analyze the data...

In this conceptual paper we put forth the Overseas Chinese Family Business (OCFB) as a distinct business type and more recently as a multinational enterprise. Three important factors are presented as contributing to the rise and success of OCFB in the Southeast (S.E.) Asian region, namely,...