implications for education and work

... manacapi@ rand.org RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... Level Users and Training Infrastructure Information Needs and Flows by Type and Level AETC Management Information Needs and Flows Cost Information Data Needs and Flows Capacity Information ... information useful for decisionmakers The research reported here was sponsored by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC/CV) and HQ Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel (AF/DP) and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... training, and goals The effort is less useful for providing a cross-institutional framework for assessment and comparison Higher Education Funding Council for England’s environmental report and workbook ... (Roorda, 2000, 2002) The goal is for AISHE to expand across Europe and the world, resulting in certificates, awards, and other forms of official recognition for users and the instrument itself (Roorda, ... higher education The major goals of the Dutch working group currently designing the auditing instrument for sustainability in higher education (AISHE) include: providing criteria and a framework for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/06/2016, 00:42

... Rứisland, Anders Vredin, seminar participants at the Norges Bank Macro-Finance Forum, the 2012 Meeting of the International Finance and Banking Society, and the 2012 Meeting of the Society for ... Shiller (1981) and LeRoy and Porter (1981) have shown that stock prices See, for example, Roxburgh, et al (2012) Examples include Iacoviello (2005), Iacoviello and Neri (2010), and Walentin and Sellin ... knowledge is imperfect 12 See, for example, Kannan, Rabanal and Scott (2009), Angelini, Neri, and Panetta (2010), Christensen and Meh (2011), and Lambertini, Mendicino and Punzi (2011) then, the...

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... willing to work for low wages and to move across the country in response to new work opportunities Since Thailand has a well-established seniority system in terms of terms and conditions, older workers ... uniformly hard-working and would happily toil through the day and night in factories making clothing, shoes, appliances and electronics Government needed only to woo investment - most of it foreign ... competition, some firms will fail and others will flourish and grow in size and their structures become part of internationalized (and sometimes globalized) firm-firm networks and are embedded in international...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... that organized a 1998 Workshop on the National Policy and Strategic Framework for Micro and Rural Finance This Forum and its subcommittees served as a sounding board for policy and legal drafts emanating ... benchmarks and performance standards will be reference points that can be used by the unregulated RMFIs (especially NGOs) for self-regulation and by donors, BOG and MOF to monitor the growth and performance ... encouraging entry and then adjusting regulation has fostered a wide range of RMFIs and products in formal, semi- formal and informal segments, including some suitable for microenterprises and lower-...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... carbon, and economic comparisons between first and second-generation biofuels; and (d) finally, to speculate on the implications for trade and development of future expansion in global production and ... salient energy, carbon and economic comparisons among biofuels; and (d) speculating on the implications for trade and development of future expansion in global production and use of biofuels Second-generation ... development and demonstration efforts are needed Commercial production of thermochemical biofuels could begin in five to 10 years Metrics for understanding and evaluating biofuel systems include land...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... construction and fire resistance of steel structures and specifications for materials, workmanship and erection It comprises the following Parts: — Part 1: Code of practice for design in simple and continuous ... of practice for design of light gauge profiled sheeting; — Part 7: Specification for materials and workmanship: cold formed sections and profiled sheets; — Part 8: Code of practice for fire resistant ... requirements for the materials, fabrication and erection, using cold formed sections, of structural steelwork in building It also specifies requirements for profiled sheets for cladding, roof decking and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 22:20

... Background information on the economy and domestic economic policies, detailed statistics on the country’s foreign trade and investment, an outline of its legislative and bureaucratic frameworks for making ... frameworks for making and enforcing policies affecting foreign trade, and a copy of all the laws and regulations are required In addition, the Memorandum must detail every current and agreed future ... of 14.7 per cent compares with per cent for Malaysia, per cent for Indonesia, 11 per cent for the Philippines, 14 per cent for Thailand and 19 per cent for Vietnam in 1997 Lao PDR agricultural...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:19

... they wanted to marry and have children and cook for their husbands When it was my mother’s turn she said, ‘I want to live in the city and be able to send out for kebabs and naan instead of cooking ... and scenery and our Sufi festivals of music and dancing And so did many foreigners, all of whom we called angrezan – ‘English’ – wherever they came from Even the Queen of England came, and stayed ... tough and dangerous work, and the coffins of those killed in accidents would come back several times a year The best that most village boys could hope for was to go to Saudi Arabia or Dubai and work...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 20:29

... cheerful character, always laughing and jokes He used to tell me about his experiences and I _ to him for hours on end Mind you, we had to work quite _ and usually there were two or three ... two- metre deep holes and fill them in when th e coffins has been put in As I , it was a marvellous summer and I’m glad to say I didn’t have to work on my I had a workmate who had been ... Every year there are at least 50 000 ( applicants / candidates ) for that particular examination People who are unable to find work may be eligible for unemployment ( payment / benifit ) Dr Brewer...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 01:20

... cheerful character, always laughing and jokes He used to tell me about his experiences and I _ to him for hours on end Mind you, we had to work quite _ and usually there were two or three ... two- metre deep holes and fill them in when th e coffins has been put in As I , it was a marvellous summer and I’m glad to say I didn’t have to work on my I had a workmate who had been ... Every year there are at least 50 000 ( applicants / candidates ) for that particular examination People who are unable to find work may be eligible for unemployment ( payment / benifit ) Dr Brewer...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

... through email and intranets increase the efficiency and speed of sharing documents, diagrams, formulae, symbols and images Groupware facilitates the communication and sharing of information and knowledge ... storing, transferring and manipulating data and information The new tools have major implications for the cost and speed of the innovation Intensification of innovation and management of knowledge ... them to access and integrate nonlocal networks, to draw creatively from a combination of local and distant relationships and to manage this specific form of knowledge acquisition and business development...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... technologies for innovation provide new mechanisms for the management of knowledge and innovation and the construction of the resources, routines and capabilities that are the basis of competitiveness For ... transferring information and knowledge, through, for example, encryption techniques and firewalls (Nonaka and Nishiguchi, 2001), and those that help measure, control and diagnose the results of ... Dodgson, M., D M Gann and A Salter (forthcoming), Think, Play, Do: Technology and Innovation in the Emerging Innovation Process, Oxford: Oxford University Press Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... franchises and outlets, they may buy back cars and trucks for secondhand sales More recently, owing to increased environmental awareness and legislation, vehicle producers arrange for the disposal and ... performance can be relayed in flight and the maintenance teams and components can be ready when the plane arrives and problems can be solved before they create a major difficulty for the company and ... For companies like Rolls-Royce, therefore, instrumentation and electronics for monitoring and diagnostics become more central to the company’s innovation profile and strategy Its competitive and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... common platform will be launched for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish bank operations in Nordea The platform will first appear in Merita and then move to Nordbanken and the Danish and Norwegian ... of: geoscience and seismic interpretation, engineering and equipment design, and in decision analysis and decisionmaking, especially with respect to risk, uncertainty, and economic and financial ... similarity and dissimilarity are relative terms for capabilities that can be understood in the context of complementarity and in practice And in practice, if managers are to plan and organize...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... environment as are for instance regulations, and they manifest themselves in the form of convictions, norms, standards, and search heuristics for R&D to which firms will be likely to conform These three ... are dependent Coercive pressures take the form of enforced rules, standards or mandates Typical examples of coercive pressures include mandates or standards set by governmental agencies But also ... competition on the one hand, with call centres, and on the other hand, with PC connections in the near future It was acknowledged that the work on the BDT platform was running late and consumed more...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... experience and the quality of their personal network; ownership of specialized and difficult to imitate resources; and the capacity to engage in alliances and cooperative networks (Coviello and Munro, ... networking strategies and discusses two patterns in the establishment of foreign technological relationships Section concludes NETWORKS, PROXIMITY AND DISTANCE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY 2.1 The Network ... organization, for reasons such as advantages in the access to knowledge, risk reduction strategies, personal mobility and informal networking (Breschi and Lissoni, 2001; Lemarié et al., 2001; Stuart and...

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... enhancing’ and ‘competence destroying’ consequences for firms arose as an important distinction from the studies of Tushman and Anderson of the 1980s (Anderson and Tushman, 1991;Tushman and Anderson, ... Arora, A A Fosfuri and A Gambardella (2001), ‘Markets for technology and their implications for corporate strategy’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (2), 419–51 Arundel, A and A Geuna (2001), ... a variety of national and foreign databases for R&D projects and patents and the consultation of firms’ web pages, as well as other documentation available on them The information obtained was...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... that specialized in food safety and quality Due to its implications for public health, in particular tuberculosis, its handling and processing of milk in agriculture and dairies also ranked high ... decade scientific understanding of LAB (e.g its metabolism and functions) has expanded considerably, opening up the way for more reliable process control in production and for an increasing range ... used for identifying nationalities of assignees and inventors, and for recording the distinction between main and secondary IPC classes A third database, Delphion Intellectual Property Network,...

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