Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) create a dynamic and successful European economy. Existing skill deficiencies in sales, management and administrative staff are adversely affecting competitiveness in almost a third of those small firms surveyed (Bolden, 2001, 2007). Additionally, attending face-toface and classroom-based development courses is problematic for time-poor SME managers. Th...

SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprise) have become the importantly compositive part of Chinese Nation Economy. And management and innovation of SME have become one of the key problems of the process of growing up and development of SME. In this paper, a system framework of SME innovation system is introduced, and the system framework includes core layer, expression layer, enabling layer and infrast...

The paper discusses technical requirements to promote the adoption of alliance modes of operation by SMEs in the construction sector. These requirements have provided a basis for specifying a set of functionality to support the collaboration and cooperation needs of SMEs. While serviceoriented architectures and semantic web services provide the middleware technology to implement the identified ...

The subsequent memory effect (SME) is the ubiquitous phenomena that stimulus that are later retrieved show a more negative going ERP wave than stimulus that are not retrieved. Two basic findings in neurophysiology are that cells respond weaker to repeated stimulation (e.g. synaptic depression) and that the response differentiates during familiarization. This paper presents a computational theor...

Poder calorífico de misturas de biodiesel dos ésteres metílicos de colza (RME) e soja (SME) foram determinados usando um calorímetro de combustão de alta precisão. A dependência dos valores calóricos com a temperatura e pressão no intervalo (273-373) K e (1 a 200) bar foram derivados para misturas de RME e SME de biodiesel B100. Foram propostas equações práticas para o cálculo da correção da te...

In recent years the so-called Standard-Model Extension (SME) has provided a convenient framework for studying minute Lorentz and CPT violations that may be low-energy signatures for Planck-scale physics. In this work we will study a subsector of the SME describing pure electrodynamics, where Maxwell theory has been modified with Chern–Simons-like term in the Lagrangian parametrized by dimension...

Background Several studies have shown the potential of semi-quantitative and fully-quantitative analysis of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion images in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). However, estimates of myocardial blood flow (MBF) rely on accurate selection of important timing parameters. In this study, we evaluate how the identification of the timing of the S...

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...

Abstract. The discipline of situational method engineering (SME) promotes the idea of retrieving, adapting, and tailoring fragments, rather than complete methodologies, to specific situations. In order to succeed in creating good methodologies that best suit given situations, fragment representation and cataloguing are very important activities. We introduce a visual SME approach, whose roots a...

This paper, adopts a case study approach in order to examine the issues relating to the deployment of a coaching and mentoring intervention within the context of a specific UK based small and medium-sized enterprise (SME). The SME coaching and mentoring research agenda is highlighted as an area urgently needing attention given its economic impact. This paper seeks to initiate this debate. The p...