Ireland has one of the highest concentrations of information and communications technology (ICT) activity and employment in the OECD. This activity comprises both electronics hardware manufacturing, such as PCs, and software products and services, especially business application products and ‘localisation’. It has largely been driven by foreign direct investment (FDI), though recent evidence su...

Wireless networks have become a key element in healthcare institutions for streamlining access to clinical information. With the advent of wireless technology, handheld devices such as PDAs, pagers and Pocket PCs are now being deployed into modern hospital systems. However, putting confidential data on the airwaves using wireless technology introduces significant risk and adds a new level of th...

The Non-Abelian finite group PSL2(7) is the only simple subgroup of SU(3) with a complex three-dimensional irreducible representation. It has two maximal subgroups, S4 which, along with its own A4 subgroup, has been successfully applied in numerous models of flavor, as well as the 21 element Frobenius group Z7⋊Z3, which has gained much less attention. We show that it can also be used to generat...

We are living in an economy of kaleidoscopic change where the only element, which is constant, is change. The industry environment is being influenced by unexpected, multiple changes reducing the period for which organizations can hold on to a competitive advantage. Every sector of industry in every corner of the globe has been affected by this change. One of the catalyst of this change has bee...

agricultural experts in the field of biotechnology in iran were surveyed in order to explore theirperception about factors affecting the partnership between public and private sector indeveloping agricultural biotechnology. the research population included agriculturalbiotechnology experts in the public and private sectors (n=66). a series of in-depth interviewswere conducted with some biotechn...

there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

The occupancy rate of Public Rental Housing (PRH) in China is relatively low due to the unreasonable rents. At the same time, the development of PRH using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) increases the complexity of the rents. Therefore, the critical factors influencing the rents of PRH delivery by PPPs should be identified. Based on the comprehensive literature, this article identified a con...

The objective of this study is to assess the determinants of poverty in Sri Lanka from 1977 to 2000. A general equilibrium model is developed for the Sri Lankan economy considering two sectors, two factors and two households assuming it is a small open economy. A specific factors model is used treating labor as the mobile factor. Three data sets are developed and used for calibration for the ye...

Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...