Partly as a result of the rapid growth in Chinese higher education, graduate placement has become a critical issue facing colleges and universties. In response, one of the policy initiatives adopted by the Chinese government is for higher education institutions to put an emphasis on...

Technologization banking is a recent phenomenon, which has occurred - at a faster or a slower pace, during the last thirty years. The entire banking industry is quite inert and prone to traditional and verified methods. However, the number of transactions in the banking industry has grown to...

Designing and adopting a global response to address the rise of chronic diseases in both the industrial and developing world requires policymakers to engage in global health diplomacy. In the context of the recent United Nations’ High-Level Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases, the paper first...

This paper gives ship traffic modeling and performance evaluation in container port. The basic approach used analytical and simulation mod-els. These models are developed for impact analysis of the ship traffic and patterns of arrival ships at terminal performance. Results from both models are...

Lean manufacturing provides a new management approach for many small and medium size manufacturers, especially older firms organized and managed under traditional push systems. Improvement results can be dramatic in terms of quality, cycle times, and customer responsiveness. Lean manufacturing...

Business intelligence is a concept that arose twenty years ago from decision support, which were designed for directors, managers and their supporting analysts. Since then, organizations have come to realize that decision-makers at all levels in all parts of the organization need access to...

In the past few years, e-government has been a topic of much interest among those excited about the advent of Web 2.0 technologies. This paper reviews the recent literature concerning Web 2.0, social media, social networking, and how it has been used in the public sector. Key observations...

The objective of this research is to emphasize the difficulties generated by incomplete adoption of accounting concepts and treatments related to stocks into the public sector by the national regulators, by reference to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Taking into account...

To acquire knowledge through information obtained is the role of information technology. Information technology now provides support not only information necessary for carrying out business in terms of efficiency, but also solutions for rethinking the organization of business in order to...

Analyses realized on markets showed in time that these are not amorphous masses of buyers but are formed of different divisions that we can often find under the name of market segments. Market can be divided in more segments of request composed of buyers, instinctively in the search of the same...