Build or Buy? Curricular Design and External Basic Sciences Learning Resources

Embedded Signal Processing System: Build or Buy?

" Build or Buy " Strategies in the Local Loop ∗

We provide a dynamic model to study how the presence of the option to "buy" the incumbent local exchange carrier’s (ILEC) facilities via local loop unbundling affects the competitive local exchange carriers’ (CLECs) incentives to "build" alternative infrastructures. We show that an unregulated incumbent sets a rental path for its local loop which delays technology adoption compared to the case ...

Developments in Practice V: IT Sourcing: Build, Buy, or Market

This paper describes the logical evolution of IT service provisioning through various delivery models over time concentrating on the “rent” era as well as the “market” era – an emerging external IT services marketplace that offers rich opportunities for IT organizations to become more cost-effective in the future. With the market era, IT organizations speculate that strategic business applicati...

Comparative analysis of design/build and design/bid/build project delivery systems in Lebanon

Design/bid/build and design/build are two principal project delivery systems used worldwide. The performance of each project may differ with the type of procurement system used. This study has two aims: firstly, to assess and compare the performance of design/bid/build and design/build projects in Lebanon; secondly, to compare the results with the performance of equivalent systems in the Far Ea...

Explorer To Buy or Not to Buy ?

This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that amounts to actual bodily harm is unlawful in the UK, and calls to decriminalise it are often met with fears that participants will be left vul...