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The app assigns a three-word combination to every point on the planet, ideal for the billions who have no mailing address.
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If all goes according to plan, residents of the Czech capital might soon be surprised to enter city buses without anyone behind the wheel.
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In an attempt to save costs and increase transparency, agencies can only procure customized software for which the source code is made freely available to the public.
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Supply chain innovation has become the new pre-requisite for the survival of firms in developing capabilities and strategies for sustaining their operations and performance in the market. This study investigates the influence of supply and demand competence on supply chain innovation and its influence on a firm’s operational and relational performance. While the former competence refers to production and supply management related activities, the latter refers to distribution and demand management related activities. The current investigation further explores how well supply chain management processes are internally executed by the firm’s employees i.e. process compliance is observed as an enabler (moderator) on the relationship between supply chain competences and supply chain innovation. Further the model also explores the moderating influence of environmental uncertainty on the linkage between supply chain innovation and firm performance. The model is empirically validated based on perceptual data collected from 166 supply chain professionals through web based survey. Implications for both managers as well as practitioners are also provided.
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In the era characterized by significant dynamics of the environment traditional methods of anticipating the future, assuming the immutability of the factors affecting the forecasted phenomenon, may be in the long term ineffective. The modern approach of predicting the future of technology, taking into account the multidimensionality of the environment, is, among other things, the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA). Designing the FTA research procedure is a complex process, both in organizational and methodological terms. The catalogue of methods that can be used in this process is extensive and constantly open. However, in the source literature the rules for the selection of methods appropriate for the type of research were not specified. The ways of combining methods in the research process were also missing. The main aim of this article was to present the author’s classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis and indicate the possibilities of its application. In the text, using statistical methods and artificial neural networks, the classification of methods with the potential of exploitation in prospective technology analysis was carried out. Each of the received classes was analysed, the characteristics of particular groups of methods were selected, and authorial names characterizing the given classes were chosen. According to the author, the application of the proposed classification of methods of future-oriented technology analysis facilitates the design of the FTA research process. It will contribute to the systematization and standardization of the manner of selection of research methods. It will also allow for the selection of complementary methods.
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“Traditional” websites are a very good method of disseminating information for students in online environment. We might thing that with this new trend, people prefer to get information on a social network website, but actually for complex information the “traditional” websites are better.Facebook social network is very used in Romania, mostly by young people. It is a common saying around here: if you do not have a Facebook account, then you do not exist. The Facebook account of the University was created in may, 2012. Since then it has been a powerful tool for disseminating information, but mostly for photos, short messages, links and videos. YouTube and Twitter are not that used by students for finding information about their University, but during one year, I’ve recorded growth in number of followers.In this paper I compare these four online methods of disseminating information for students (may 2012- may 2013 period of time)
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In the wake of electric power system transition towards smart grids, and the adoption of the electric market schemes, electric utilities are facing the need of a better load profiles understanding for their customers. In this work, some key objectives were addresses, such as definition of the mathematical model for calculating the hourly energy specific, identification of the three target groups for users who have developed consumer profiles, definition of the two types of significant load and assessment of the impact of using consumer profiles on users.
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Income inequality is one of the most common issues considered in the context of economic growth. As theoretical literature indicates, income inequality interacts with the level of development through various channels, e.g. education, investment level or delinquency. We used data from 120 developed and developing countries to verify empirically the existence and strength of these channels. The estimates cannot confirm the statistical or economic relevance of the channels proposed by the theory in linking inequalities and growth.
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Worldwide and during the last decade, R has developed in a balanced way and nowadays it represents the most powerful tool for computational statistics, data science and visualization. Millions of data scientists use R to face their most challenging problems in topics ranging from economics to engineering and genetics. In this study, R was used to compute data on stock market prices in order to build trading models and to estimate the evolution of the quantitative financial market. These models were already applied on the internationalcapital markets. In Romania, the quantitative modeling of capital market is available only for clients of trading brokers because the time series data are collected for the commercial purpose; in that circumstance, the statistical computing tools meet the inertia to change. This paper aims to expose a small part of the capability of R to use mix-and-match models and cutting-edge methods in statistics and quantitative modeling in order to build an alternative way to analyze capital market in Romania over the commercial threshold.
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In modern times, in the context of an increasingly quantitative approach to economics, welfare has been related mostly to an economic actor’s income. With increasing complexity in social and economic life, studies moving beyond the income approach to welfare enriched economic literature. Modelling the economic concept of ‘happiness’ is one of the new ways to design welfare policy. Even if it has been shown, using econometric techniques, that an accurate measurement of the true welfare effects is not possible, researchers estimated, for example, the income required for a typical individual in different countries to ascertain the same change, due to various events, in declared happiness as in welfare. This paper introduces the concept of happiness as one of the measures of well-being in economics and presents a brief survey of the literature on this topic.
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Having as subject the labor market in the context of the contemporary world’s problems, this paper aims to make a theoretical and practical presentation of these concepts, which are relevant for the national and international literature. The first part, dealing with the state-of-the-art of the domain, aims to present these concepts from the perspective of many specialists in this field. The practical part of this article consists in a research based on the presentation of the labor market under the impact of the contemporary world’s problems. To support our line of reasoning, in our scientific approach we used a research based on the analysis of secondary sources, and as quantitative methods, we used: the simple linear regression and the public opinion poll. Among the contemporary world’s issues analyzed using the quantitative methods were: juvenile delinquency, violence against other peoples and population’s poverty rate.The hypothesis of this paper starts from the premise according to which lack of education generates intensification of the contemporary world’s problems, especially juvenile delinquency and poverty rate, these two having an impact upon the employment rate of the labor market, because potentially active people are convicted when referring to people above 18 years old and in special educational institutions when referring to people under 18. The most relevant conclusions of the research highlight the fact that between the labor market and the contemporary world’s problems there is interdependence, and not giving the appropriate importance to the contemporary world’s issues will generate irremediable difficulties in society.
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Local resellers may have conspired with the Silicon Valley tech giant to overcharge consumers, the anti-monopoly service says.
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Apple could also face sanctions as Moscow continues to narrow the playing field for foreign tech companies.
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The study investigates current tendencies in marketing and consumer behavior, concerning the era of fast developing digital environment and importance of new media. There are new ways of ways of influencing consumers, which have strategic importance.
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The aim of this essay is a critical insight into the most important long-term phenomena i.e. civilisations at critical stages. The plural form used indicates that at least two such instances will be analysed. Globalization and IT revolution have led to a transformation into a civilization of knowledge, but also, in the majority of the world, to a transformation of an agrarian or agrarian-industrial civilization into an industrial one with a skin-deep layer of the civilization of knowledge. Civilization is seen here not as most philosophers, sociologists of culture or anthropologists would see it, i.e. as effects or symptoms of culture and/or religion, but in a much wider sense, as a system incorporating both the material-institutional and the spiritual relations based on the foundation of the main resource defining the economic-productive system. The deliberations concern mainly conditions of the transition from the old into the new civilization, taking into account the materialistic (economic-technical) and the spiritual-enlightenment conditions but also the mechanisms of violence accompanying such transitions. Other aspects that have been taken into account are the time and the territorial scope of the transition, and the nature of the critical stage characteristic for such change, as well as the question of time needed for the emergence of a new civilization. That is how different segments deriving from different civilizations co-exist and pile up. The phenomenon leads to different contradictions as to the model of the state, economic consequences and differentiated culture systems. The understanding of the specifics of these processes is particularly difficult also because the attempts of interpretation have so far been based on the theories and paradigms derived from the industrial civilization and often do not provide answers to the questions on the emerging civilization of knowledge.
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Today, knowledge is an integral part of all economic and social systems. Knowledge-based economy is depending on generation, sale, acquisition, storage, use and protection of knowledge because it is decisive in profit making and strategic competitiveness. Knowledge participates to a large extent in the manufacture of modern products and made up almost entirely services. Simultaneously, knowledge is a key factor of production, as they take part, along with other classical factors of production, to all phases of the modern production process. Finally, knowledge represents a finished product itself, like software, patents, quality standards, scientific studies etc.
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The article aims at transferring the European Creativity Index (ECI) assessment from the country to regional comparison basis, focusing on the case of Slovakia. The newly created Slovak Creativity Index (SCI) has the power to assess the creativity potential found in the Slovak regions. The Principal Component Analysis has been chosen as an advanced method for establishing a well-designed overall Index and six sub-indices to show differences and variability according to all dimensions of the creative potential. The research also explains several relations between creative performance of the regions by several factors such as urbanisation, cultural environment, human capital and tolerance.
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The report represented the peculiarities that must be taken into account in order to be usable content. It is essential for it to be useful and worthwhile, but if it is not presented to the „laws of the Internet“ utility is „useless“ itself. Content should be visually structured to be friendly to the eye of the reader. The paragraphs should be short, separated by thematic headings, the title must be sufficiently informative. The basic information that aims to convey the content must be presented at the beginning but then "be served toppings" in the form of additional details. Usage increases significantly if the text content has teamed up with appropriate image. Well-structured by formal and conceptual point of view content, accompanied by skillfully selected image becomes a visual and semantic trap for consumers. And if you regularly go in current content in a website among them unconsciously build a positive attitude and trust in all this work in a positive direction for the brand.
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This article begins with short discussion of advantages and disadvantages of online surveys. Further, the author answers the question why the representativeness of an online sample is important. First, the market research industry is large and growing. Second, the interest of academic community to online surveys is growing. Third, if the sample is not representative, the research findings could be wrong. In the context of online surveys, the following models of random and non-random samples are discussed – simple random sample, systematic sample, cluster sample, stratified sample, quota sample and self-selected sample.
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The extant report aims to present the trends in digital marketing of automotive companies and evaluate the overall performance of these companies in the Bulgarian market. The main focus is on cross-channel digital marketing across different devices.
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