Human Capital is the most crucial resource on which the Information Technology & Information Technology Enabled Services (IT & ITES) industry in India depends. Next to the location advantage that India has, the factor for the country's immense success in the overseas markets, is its abundant & cost effective human...
The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficacy of current federal government policies toward inbound foreign direct investment. At first glance there would not appear to be much of an issue. While there are huge new investment opportunities in transition economies, Canada remains a relatively safe and attractive...
New product development NPD typically uses tools such as project mapping techniques, concurrent engineering, and simultaneous engineering to improve the NPD process for a single commercial product or product family. On the other hand, project management techniques are gaining increased attention in product development as well. Using a case study...
There is an influential literature studying the impact on Total Factor Productivity TFP of foreign technology obtained through imports trade. This paper builds on that literature and is a first attempt to examine the effects on TFP in the South of technology developed in the North that is diffused not...
This paper analyzes how corruption affects foreign direct investment in transitional economies. Popular development and economic theories nowadays maintain that foreign investment is beneficial for economic growth and that corruption is damaging in economic development. Based on primary and empirical research, using an inter-disciplinary approach, this paper examines how the...
A simple Smith-Ricardo model is developed that incorporates division of labor into the continuum-good Ricardian model. The trade-off between the efficiency gain and coordination cost associated with production specialization determines the efficient level of division of labor. This paper applies the model to explain how the recent IT revolution could...
Software architecture has become a major topic in the past several years because of the increasing complexity of software systems. Software architectures also play a crucial role for managing the changes. It is common in practice to reconstruct architecture from the existing design and modify the system to accommodate changes...
An array of proposals for health human resource planning has been made. And more are being completed for the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. The challenge is to develop the means to assess them, rather than to add another one to the heap. This paper is...
ATLAS is a specification language defined to outline city sections as cell spaces. A static view of the city section to be analyzed can be defined, and a modeler is able to define complex traffic models in a simple fashion. A compiler for this specification language called TSC was built....
This paper focuses on an approach to On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP that is based on a database operator and data structure called the datacube. Efficient algorithms for computing the entire datacube both sequentially and in parallel have recently been proposed. This paper describe a parallel algorithm for computing partial datacubes...
This paper describes the parallel, cluster-based implementation of an algorithm for the computation of a database operator known as the datacube. Though a number of effi-cient sequential algorithms have recently been proposed for this problem, very little research effort has been expended upon cost-effective parallelization techniques. The approach builds directly...
SymPowerco Corporation (PINKSHEETS: SYMW) CEOJohn Davenport today announces that the company and its developmentpartner, Carleton University of Ottawa, Canada, are completing the2008/2009 development plans for the company's Flowing Electrolyte Direct Methanol Fuel Cell FE DMFC. As previously announced, SymPowerco has partnered with Carleton Universityto rapidly advance the company's...
SymPowerco Corporation (PINKSHEETS: SYMW) CEOJohn Davenport today announces benchmark performance and operationaldetails of SymPowerco Corporation's unique Flowing Electrolyte DirectMethanol Fuel Cell FE DMFC. The company's operational 5 Watt (5W) FE DMFC, located in the laboratoriesof SymPowerco's development partner, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada,proves the viability of the Flowing Electrolyte principle...
Conference to Feature New Advancements in Geospatial Technology; Ingres Awarded Geospatial Grant REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, is promoting important and innovative new skills around geospatial open source software at its next and largest Open...
Ross Sterling, Texan: A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company. By Ross S. Sterling and Ed Kilman. Edited and revised by Don Carleton. Foreword by Dolph Briscoe Jr. (Austin: Published by the University of Texas Press for the Center for American History, ...
Canplats Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE: CPQ) is pleased to announce the appointment of David Watkins to its Board of Directors. Mr. Watkins is an international mining executive with over 40 years experience in exploration and development, acquisitions and mergers, and mining operations. He graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Geology...
SymPowerco Corporation (PINKSHEETS: SYMW) CEOJohn Davenport today announces that Carleton University in Canada's capitalcity of Ottawa, Ontario will be SymPowerco's primary development partner inthe company's Flowing Electrolyte Direct Methanol Fuel Cell FE DMFCprogram. SymPowerco will partner on the program with Carleton's Mechanical andAerospace Engineering Department, one of North America's premierengineering...
Mansco Perry III has been named chief investment officer of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, the system's board of trustees announced. Perry was assistant executive director and deputy chief investment officer for the Minnesota State Board of Investment, the 18th largest public pension fund in the United States....
2 Hearts, 1 Love: Gilbert Anslem Thompson married Dr. Jahzreel Allardice at Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau, Bahamas. The bride is a first-year family medicine resident at The Princess Margaret Hospital. The groom attended Carleton University and Bucckingham University. He is a partner in Meridian Law Chambers. Nassau, Bahamas. They...
