In New Zealand, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role in the economy by their contribution to both employment and also to gross domestic product. Addressing issues pertinent to SMEs is of paramount importance in driving this sector forward. Information Technology (IT) emerges as one main enabler for SMEs in automating their operations, seeking new opportunities and...

Cloud computing is the current technological silver bullet that has been proposed for solving a variety of Information Systems (IS) problems facing organizations in developing countries including bridging the digital divide. However, the large number of cloud options available can make determining the most applicable solution for an organization non-trivial. This paper looks at these options an...

The development of the small business sector in Ukraine is believed to be central to economic reforms and to the creation of wealth and employment (Isakova, 1997). Given the inherent instability and general weakness of the Ukrainian economy, there have been many internal and external obstacles to the development of small enterprises in a variety of business sectors. However, the recent growth a...

This set of notes contains a basic outline of the most relevant aspects of particle velocity distributions in the solar corona, and how they have an impact on the spectral lines that are observed by UVCS/SOHO. It also provides documentation for the CUES numerical code which computes model coronal lines from input velocity distribution parameters. These notes were originally written for undergra...

Order of magnitude variations in relative elemental abundances are observed in the solar corona and solar wind. The instruments aboard SOHO make it possible to explore these variations in detail to determine whether they arise near the solar surface or higher in the corona. A substantial enhancement of low First Ionization Potential (FIP) elements relative to high FIP elements is often seen in ...

We apply our systematic NLO small x resummation of singlet splitting functions to the scaling violations of structure functions and compare the results with data. We develop various theoretical tools which are needed in order to relate resummed parton distributions to measurable structure functions, and we present results from a variety of fits to HERA data for the structure functions F2 and FL...

We report our first results on comparing the variations of the solar internal rotation with solar activity, as predicted by non-linear solar dynamo modelling, with helioseismic measurements using the SOHO MDI data.

This paper develops a new model of a trade agreement that puts at center stage the competing interests between firms within a sector. Larger firms favor trade liberalization whereas smaller firms favor protection. Lobbying by firms for or against the agreement is modelled as an all-pay auction, thus incorporating the feature that binding contracts over contributions for policies cannot be writt...

The SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) instrument on SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) provides an opportunity to observe and study the solar transition region with high spatial and spectral resolution. We present new evidence to confirm that the emission from the quiet Sun at 2 × 105 K is dominated by cool loop-like fine structures which cluster across the chro...

Solar eruptions occur when magnetic energy is suddenly converted into heat and kinetic energy by magnetic reconnection in a current sheet (CS). It is often assumed that CSs are too thin to be observable because the electric resistivity in CSs is taken to be very small. In this work, we show the implications for the CS thickness he d estimated from observations of three eruptions by the UVCS and...