Small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in Africa. It is widely accepted that the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in Ethiopia. Women account for the larger share of the in...

small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in africa. it is widely accepted that the micro and small enterprise (mse) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in ethiopia. women account for the larger share of the in...

The study examined the effect of internet banking on small and medium enterprises performance in Enugu Metropolis. Specifically this aims to determine (i) effectiveness business expansion Metropolis, (ii) convenience enterprise quality job delivery made use descriptive survey design. used structured questionnaire obtain data. population is 650 with sample size 264. Summary includes: findings re...

The general perception of Islamic finance is that it prohibits the practice of paying and receiving interest, but Islamicfinance is much broader than interest rate prohibition. Islamic financial services can be viewed as a set of financialservices which are diversified based on the needs of society.Since in THE Iranian Economy most of the enterprises are micro and/or small, micro financing seem...

To remain competitive organizations are lining up into virtual alliances, with integrated value chains, introducing competition between, rather than within supply chains. A crucial requirements of virtual alliances, and their supporting, integrated enterprise application is their ablility to move fast and quickly adapt to business-induced change. This paper combines theories from the area of Co...

Enterprise social software (ESS) systems are open and flexible corporate environments which utilize Web 2.0 technologies to stimulate participation through informal interactions and aggregate these interactions into collective structures. A challenge in these systems is to discover, organize and manage the knowledge model of topics found within the enterprise. In this paper we aim to enhance th...

AIDS, which twenty-five years ago no one even knew it existed, has become the most serious infectious disease worldwide. The development of an HIV vaccine is one of the most difficult challenges that modern biomedical science is confronting. To address this challenge, scientists may need to organize themselves in a more intense, targeted, and collaborative effort, such as the one proposed by th...

To fully leverage the information from different data sources and applications, an enterprise needs a generic, interoperable and flexible infrastructure to integrate and coordinate information across back-end data sources on semantic level. Through undertaking research at the intersection of the Semantic Web and Grid, the Semantic Grid expects to establish a semantic interconnection environment...