The purpose of this study was to explore how three different human resource variables affect employment growth of small-scale enterprises: Human capital of business owners, human capital of employees, and human resource development and utilization. The literature suggests different models how these human resource variables affect business outcomes. Longitudinal data from 119 German business own...

in this paper, the energy efficient resource allocation in noma-based heterogeneous cellular network(hcn) systems is investigated. since energy consumption and its limitations is one of the important challenges in fifth generation of cellular networks (5g), we propose a resource allocation problem which allocates power and subcarriers to multiple users to achieve the best system energy efficien...

Energy efficiency and timeliness (i.e., predictable job latency) are two essential – yet opposing – concerns for embedded systems. Hard timing guarantees require conservative resource allocation while energy minimization requires aggressively releasing resources and occasionally violating timing constraints. Recent work on approximate computing, however, opens up a new dimension of optimization...

As house size increases, resource use in buildings goes up, more land is occupied, increased impermeable surface results in more storm-water runoff, construction costs rise, and energy consumption increases. In new, single-family houses constructed in the United States, living area per family member has increased by a factor of 3 since the 1950s. In comparing the energy performance of compact (...

Common pool resource systems are governed by a wide variety of institutions designed to promote long run resource viability. Relatively little work has focused on the use of majority rule voting in managing resource stocks. This paper develops a theoretical and experimental framework for assessing the efficiency of majority rule voting in allocating appropriation rights to a group of resource u...

Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench) yield is characterized by low productivity but may be increased through the adoption of new technology or efficient allocation existing resources. In addition, improving level resource important for productivity. This study investigated use efficiency in small-scale okra production. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select 100 respondents. The ...

fabrication, characterization and application of micro-/nano-rods/wires are among the hottest topics in materials science and applied physics. micro-/nano-rod-based structures and devices are developed for a wide-ranging use in various fields of micro-/nanoscience (e.g. biology, electronics, medicine, optics, optoelectronics, photonics and sensors). it is well known that the structure and prope...