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Lean Implementation in a Painter/Decorator Micro Enterprise: A Case Study
This research demonstrates how Lean can be applied in a Microenterprise. Utilising a case study in a painter/decorator business, the study aims to...
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An Approach to Describe Design Pattern Structures for Sustainable Software Products
Software affects society and environment in a variety of ways. In addition to the energy and resource requirements driven by software products,...
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Answerable and Unanswerable Questions in Decision and Risk Analysis
Decision analysis and risk analysis have grown up around a set of organizing questions: what might go wrong, how likely is it to do so, how bad might...
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Comparison of E-Commerce Retail Between China and Japan
There has always been some cannibalizationCannibalization between e-commerce retailingE-commerce retailing and brick-and-mortar...
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Mobile Web Performance Optimization
The mobile web is a widely popular digital delivery platform as mobile phones are fast becoming the primary gateways for Internet users. The mobile...
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Socialising to Entrepreneurship: Issues in Diaspora Entrepreneurship and Multiculturalism in the UK
This chapter connects culture and multiculturalism through a case study illustration to demonstrate the emergence of diaspora entrepreneurship in...
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Capitalist Pigs
In September of 1995, I started the Ph.D. program in Organizational Studies at Boston CollegeBoston College . The program was full time and...
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RViz: a toolkit for real domain data visualization
In computational science and computer graphics, there is a strong requirement to represent and visualize information in the real domain, and many...
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Managing Working Hours and Domestic Life
Women’s domestic circumstances and responsibilities continue to constrain their participation in the labour market. The long hours, shift patterns...
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Occupational Choice, Gender and Sexual Identity
Given the very low numbers of women who enter male-dominated occupations within the transport and construction sectors, women who do so might be...
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Support and Solidarity: Networks and Trade Unions
One response of women in a small minority among men in a workplace or occupation is to seek out the company of other women in a similar situation for...
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Architectural Principles for Service Cloud Applications
Service-oriented cloud-based web and mobile applications have placed new expectations and demands on software architectural design. In Maciaszek et...
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Listening to and Visualising the Pulse of Our Cities Using Social Media and Call Data Records
Methods and technologies exist to capture a sharp digital reflection of a city and to track its evolution with a decreasing delay, but decision...
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An Investigation of the Shop** Orientations of Recent Movers
The purpose of this paper is to determine how the shop** orientations of recent movers are different from the orientations of the population at...
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Towards More Flexible Enterprise Information Systems
The aim of this paper is to present the software development techniques used to build the EIS Patterns development framework, which is a testbed for...
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OREX-J: towards a universal software framework for the experimental analysis of optimization algorithms
The Operations Research EXperiment Framework for Java (OREX-J) is an object-oriented software framework that helps users to design, implement and...
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Entrepreneurship
The purpose of this chapter is to construct a working definition of entrepreneurship and research method suiting that definition. To accommodate the...
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Finding the Best Fit and the Best Relationships: Anthropology and Needs
The dynamics of everyday life in the modern world demand of us all that we engage fully with our ideals and our potential. We must try and bring...
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Pattern im Kontext des Entwurfs und der Bewertung von Softwarearchitekturen
Das Konzept der Pattern umfasst die systematische Dokumentation von Entwurfswissen, das durch die Analyse von existierenden und erprobten Entwürfen...
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The ViskiMap Toolkit: Extending Mediawiki with Topic Maps
In this paper, we present our ViskiMap systems, ENWiC (EduNuggets Wiki Crawler) and Annoki (Annotation wiki), for intelligent visualization of Wikis....