Government policy agendas in high-cost economies focus on manufacturing competitiveness promoting what they term High Value Manufacturing (HVM). HVM is seen as the solution to problem of manufacturers being outcompeted by those low-cost economies. Despite ubiquity HVM, there little academic engagement with it leaving an under-theorized, emerging phenomenon lacking legitimization. Our purpose th...

Abstract Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity theory proposes that poverty itself induces scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the poor into suboptimal decisions and The purpose our work to provide an integrated, up-to-date, critical review this theory. To end, we reviewed empirical evidence for three fundamental propositions: (1) lead...

In recent years a great number of advanced theoretical - empirical methods has been developed for design & modeling concrete pavements distress. But there is no reliable theoretical method to be use in evaluation of conerete pavements distresses and making a decision about repairing them. Only empirical methods is used for this reason. One of the most usual methods in evaluating concrete paveme...