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Because the human-capital-intensive firm's crucial resource does not have the property right characteristic, the difference in merger and acquisition between the human-capital-intensive firm and traditional physical-capital-intensive firm is remarkable. After traditional physical-capital-intensive firm merges the target enterprise property right, merger and acquisition primary goal can be achieved,...
This paper revises the classic Ontological Semantics theory with regard to the output of the analyzer. We argue that it is not enough to produce semantic interpretation of text, and syntactic trees should serve not only as clues for semantic processing but also as an output in its own right. We show that it is useful to combine both results of syntactic and semantic processing in a single output while...
The cultural and creative industry has a positive role in a city's prosperity and development, it is also very important in a city's restructuring and upgrading of industrial structure, especially to Shanghai, the Chinese biggest international financial center, it is important for its comprehensive competitiveness. By studying the status of the development of Shanghai's creative industry and the human...
As an external factor, FDI's spillover plays an important role in improving innovation capability of local firms in China. By integrating FDI's spillover, intellectual capital with innovation performance, this paper builds a conceptual model to explain how FDI's spillover affects innovation capability by intellectual capital. By questionnaire analysis of 240 local firms in Yangtze River delta and...
The purpose of this study is to review the main issues of the new educational standards for engineering programs in Russia, to consider the key competences of the engineering graduates and to imply the importance of the communicative competence for the future engineers. This study shows the experience of Siberian Federal University in creating the language learning environment in the university community,...
The recent economic growth in Brazil has resulted in a strong demand for human resources qualification. Software Engineering education, in Brazil, offers qualifications at all levels: undergraduate, further education and postgraduate. However, current market demand indicates a mismatch between the academic provision and the industrial demand. To address this mismatch, it is important to take into...
Unit testing of legacy code is often characterized by the goal to find a maximum number of defects with minimal effort. In context of restrictive time frames and limited resources, approaches for generating test cases promise increased defect detection effectiveness. This paper presents the results of an empirical study investigating the effectiveness of (a) manual unit testing conducted by 48 master...
This study aimed to explore the interaction effect of psychological capital and job satisfaction on performance. Then the concept psychological capital of positive psychology and job satisfaction was used in conceiving a model which was about the moderate effect of psychological capital on performance. An experimental design between subjects was conducted with 321 IT employees. The indications of...
The purpose of this paper is to interpret and address the unique challenges faced by Human Intensive IT Services Organizations*1 using a Cybernetics Lens. A framework is being proposed based on Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety and Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model. Software is an artifact requiring large-scale human effort. IT is unlike other engineering industries because it produces non-material...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the intellectual capital reporting practice of companies listed under Ace Market of Bursa Malaysia. This study also evaluates the relationship of firms' characteristics such as firm size, type of industry, type of auditor and profitability with intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) levels. The extent of ICD was measured by using content analysis method....
The objective was to design and implement a weight-perception-based novel control strategy to improve performances when lifting objects with a power assist system by two humans cooperatively. We developed a 1-DOF power assist system for lifting objects. We hypothesized that weight perception due to inertia might be different from that due to gravity when lifting an object with power-assist because...
Higher education in engineering must cope with rapidly changing industrial environment. Activities of engineers in lifecycle product management projects are being integrated in increasingly sophisticated virtual systems where product model is built and applied for coordinated simulations and equipment control. Knowledge is being moved into product models for simple development and product information...
This is a qualitative empirical study that contributes to the field human capital and brand innovation in China with regards specifically to the top level management of Chinese grown and owned enterprises. Using a tri-pronged framework of analysis based on grounded theory, critical discourse analysis and visual semiotics, this study focuses in particular on the recent growth of Geely Automobile, that...
This study investigates the potential of an online intervention, namely an online community, to reduce energy consumption among consumers. The study model, underpinned by Self-Determination Theory, explores how such an intervention can enhance consumer psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness in the energy saving context. This would be highly beneficial to energy providers, such...
Based on the data about dioxin emission in Jilin province from The Solid Waste Management Center of Jilin Province, the dioxin pollution situation of Jilin province is analyzed in the thesis. And with the data of 2008 as a benchmark, the emission factor estimation method and the prediction model is adopted to estimate the annual emissions of dioxins from 2009 to 2015 in Jilin Province. The composition...
The Agricultural industry on the whole is ancient so far. Quality assessment of grains is a very big challenge since time immemorial. The paper presents a solution for quality evaluation and grading of Rice industry using computer vision and image processing. In this paper basic problem of rice industry for quality assessment is defined which is traditionally done manually by human inspector. Machine...
China is the largest country to produce and consume Chinese medicine in world. People have come to realize that the side effects of chemical medicine gradually because serious pollution, ecological environment deterioration and human ‘lifestyle disease’ are among the most severe challenges with which human beings are faced today. The voice for “return to nature” becomes louder and louder. To find...
In the service economy, as markets change from offering physical products to offering services, organizations across many industries must embrace this transformation to remain competitive. Mobile technology plays an important role in this transformation because of characteristics such as mobility. However, high levels of mobility may not always contribute to service performance. Due to customer variability...
There is an increasing visibility of mobile social games in Japan. The radical growth of item-purchasing in mobile social games provides a new perspective for service engineering. The author comes to recognize that the know-how in mobile social games provides lessons for further general service engineering. The author proposes the concept of virtual-world alchemy for parsing the new paradigm of service...
This paper assesses the extent of inter-firm transferability for the skills developed by employees in the Italian ICT industry between 1988 and 2002. Skill transferability is measured through the wage premium recognised to firm changers compared to firm stayers. Based on WHIP, a longitudinal dataset of employer-employee matched data representative of the Italian labour market, the results of the empirical...
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