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The study investigates the relationship among local marketing, regional linkage, a destination image, and FDI firms' satisfaction in Long An province. Qualitative quantitative research was implemented as follows: qualitative executed through focus group discussions with 10 owners or export managers of firms; conducted direct interviews 491 firms An. Empirical results justifies satisfaction. sho...

The efficiency of a wireless sensor network (WSN) is dependent on the level of event detection reliability it achieves, and the associated consumed amount of energy. In this work, the potential performance improvement gained by using a routing metric that reflects the quality of links in terms of detection reliability is investigated. As a first main contribution, we derive the expression of su...

This paper deals with the quality of e-learning at AL-Balqa Applied University – Jordan. It discusses the already developed measures on the basis of statistical analysis for data gathered from e-learning elements which evaluates the quality of e-learning applications and systems. The main contribution of the paper is the proposal for the quality metrics with the features concerning elearning pl...

In 2012, Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) had 13 different physician compensation models among its operating units, with most based on productivity metrics. MCHS aimed to transition all physicians to a single compensation model that would facilitate its integration with Mayo Clinic and promote physician engagement with emerging value-based payment models. The new model, which was implemented th...

Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics (MTEMs) are the central core of Machine Translation (MT) engines as they are developed based on frequent evaluation. Although MTEMs are widespread today, their validity and quality for many languages is still under question. The aim of this research study was to examine the validity and assess the quality of MTEMs from Lexical Similarity set on machine tra...

this study was carried out in zarabd, bardsir and sirjan in kerman province in 2002-2003. a number of 58 green-house owners, five wholesaller and 20 retalisaller selected by systemathic sampling method. the results showed that cost marketing service was from 196 to 620 rials and marketing net benefit was 375 rials for cucumber and 230 rials for tomato. retail marketing net benefit was 204 rials...

small and medium enterprises (smes) have distinctive characteristics that differentiate them from their larger counterparts. one of these characteristics is marketing; poor marketing skills in smes would lead to low performance and, in extreme cases, to failure. therefore, adopting a marketing strategy based on small business analysis is the fundamental requirement of any successful sme. the te...