Two types of businesses dominate the landscape of the IT industry: service businesses that develop tailor-made software based on customer specific needs on the one hand, and software businesses that develop standard software products based on market needs on the other hand. The so-called productization process enables software companies to perform a business transformation from customer specifi...

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This paper examines key aspects in the innovative behavior of the construction firms that determine their environmental orientation while innovating. Structural equation modeling was used and data of 222 firms retrieved from the Spanish Technological Innovation Panel (PITEC) for 2010 to analyse the drivers of environmental orientation of the construction firms during the innovation process. The...

OBJECTIVE To establish the trends in prevalence, and correlates, of roll-your-own (RYO) use in Canada, USA, UK and Australia, 2002-2008. METHODS Participants were 19,456 cigarette smokers interviewed during the longitudinal International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four-Country Survey in Canada, USA, UK, and Australia. RESULTS "Predominant" RYO use (i.e., >50% of cigarettes smoked) increased sign...

Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Epidemiology Division, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of T...

Given the significant improvements in Machine Translation (MT) quality and the increasing demand for translations, post-editing of automatic translations is becoming a popular practice in the translation industry. It has been shown to allow for larger volumes of translations to be produced, saving time and costs. In addition, the post-editing of automatic translations can help understand proble...

Governments around the world are investing in healthcare as they attempt to increase access to care and the quality of care, while simultaneously lowering the costs of providing care. Many of these investments are in healthcare IT (HIT). The IT software industry is preparing for intensive competition for their HIT packages and workers in response to government and private industry investments. ...

In this paper, we endorsed expending in VAT should be implemented step by step. Then we select the transportation industry as the breakthrough point, by combining qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis methods and analyze tax pass-through effect, enterprise behavior effect and resource allocation effect between sales tax and VAT. It is made some correction based on the traditional measu...

There has been a dramatic decline in labor force participation of older men since the early 1970s. A large literature evaluates the potential contribution of changes in pension benefits, health, wealth, and retirement preferences to explaining these trends. Yet, during the same period there have been important developments in the United States labor market, such as changes in industry decomposi...