It is an indisputable that Wal-Mart did not operate smoothly in China. based on the development dilemma, this paper analyzes the internal and external factors of Wal-Mart developing in Chinese market, founds that differences in consumption habits and management culture, friction with China suppliers result WalMart developed unlucky in Chinese market. Finally, According to Wal-Mart’s SWOT analys...

Inadequate access to preventive oral health services contributes to oral health disparities and is a major public health concern in the United States. Federally Qualified Health Centers play a critical role in improving access to care for populations affected by oral health disparities but face a number of administrative challenges associated with implementation of oral health integration model...

As part of a study to investigate the state of Information Systems research in Australia, a survey of the heads of all IS discipline groups in Australian universities was conducted in mid 2005. The study revealed a wide range of topics researched (with rapid growth in Electronic Commerce and Knowledge Management), a range of foci, a balance between positivist and interpretivist research, survey...

To develop into big coastal economic province, Hebei Province requires the support of the coastal cities, one of the biggest coastal cities in Hebei Province, playing an important role. In this paper, the authors mainly use the SWOT method to analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that Tangshan City mainly faces today. It is very essential to develop effective measures to brin...

Partnership is a strategic decision to aim the common objectives. This article will review strategic decisions and the used tactics by the DAE University in cooperation with the other universities especially, partnership with a virtual university. This case study is focused on the campus that is the international branch of a big university, which has worked more than eight years in Dubai. The D...

The purpose of this study is to introduce a new paradigm called “Smart Learning” in South Korea. The adoption of highly advanced Information Technology (IT) in education has been a global issue for many years. The Smart Learning paradigm in Korea is a convergence concept of uLearning and Social Learning. This study examined the Smart Learning education system through a SWOT analysis of Korean p...

Domain-specific Internet of Things (IoT) applications are becoming more and more popular. They process data coming from sensor measurements. Adding semantic annotations to the sensory observations and measurements can allow to reason on data via logical rules. Stemming from Linked Open Data and Linked Open Vocabularies, we have designed sensor-based Linked Open Rules (S-LOR). S-LOR allows explo...