C Co om mp pe et ti it ti iv ve en ne es ss s a an nd d N Ne ew w T Te ec ch hn no ol lo og gi ie es s i in n L La at ti in n A Am me er ri ic ca a Abstract * Business development in Latin America faces great difficulties. Businessmen assign an alarming importance to the problem of lack of financing. Major outstanding problems also include excessive taxes and regulation, policy instability and,...

An adaptive niching scheme called coevolutionary shared niching (CSN) is proposed, implemented, analyzed and tested. The scheme overcomes the limitations of xed sharing schemes by permitting the locations and radii of niches to adapt to complex landscapes, thereby permitting a better distribution of solutions in problems with many badly spaced optima. The scheme takes its inspiration from the m...

Trace elements are analyzed in the human scalp hair to assess the extent of body burden of pollution. The levels of seven elements (Cd, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn) were determined in the hair of fishermen from Pondicherry, students and businessmen from Madras and non-mining workers from Neyveli lignite open mine. When compared between them, significantly high concentrations of Cd in the non-mini...

Against the background of a rapidly changing business environment, the article examines the organizational change management behavior of the owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore. The analysis of survey data is aimed at ascertaining whether there are any differences between Chinese and English-educated small (Chinese) businessmen in terms of Change Management (CM), a...

this article studies the effects of dividing the distribution of petrol on changing the methods of city transportation in mashhad, six months after the plan. the sampling method used in this research is the classed sampling method and there were 670 participants, all from the city of mashhad. the results of the study show that the rate of satisfaction from the plan, is very low; just 20%. the y...