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A CROSS CULTURAL USABILITY STUDY ON THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF USER INTERFACES BASED ON AN EMPIRICAL FIVE FACTOR MODEL

Chakraborty, Joyram - 2009

With the internationalization of e-commerce, it is no longer viable to design one user interface for all environments. Web-based applications and services can be accessed from all over the globe. To account for this globalization process, software developers need to understand that simply...

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The Pricing Kernel Puzzle: Reconciling Index Option Data and Economic Theory

Brown, David P.; Jackwerth, Jens Carsten - 2004

The pricing kernel puzzle of Jackwerth (2000) concerns the fact that the empirical pricing kernel implied in S&P 500 index options and index returns is not monotonically decreasing in wealth as standard economic theory would suggest. Thus, those options are currently priced in a way such that...

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Types of software evolution and software maintenance

Khan, Khaled M.; Chapin, Ned; Hale, Joanne E.; Ramil, … - University of Western Sydney - 2001

The past two decades have seen increasing sophistication in software work. Now and in the future, the work of both practitioners and researchers would be helped by a more objective and finer granularity recognition of types of software evolution and software maintenance activities as actually...

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Empirical Evaluation of Defect Projection Models for Widely-deployed Production Software Systems

Luo Li, Paul; Shaw, Mary; Herbsleb, James; Ray, Bonnie; … - 2004

Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the development of methods to mitigate the risks of software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine user-reported software defect-occurrence patterns across twenty-two releases of four widely-deployed, business-critical, production, software...

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Rural-to-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : The Applicability of the Harris Todaro Model with a Special Focus on the Chinese Economy

Bahns, Karin Margarethe - 2005

einigerUnzulänglichkeiten in der Lage ist, die wirtschaftlicheEntwicklung in China zu erklären und Leitlinien für dieImplementierung politischer …

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Priorities and strategies for health information system development in China : how provincial health information systems support regional health planning

Yang, Hui - 2004

China is moving towards a market economy. The greater use of market forces has made China richer, accelerated … management.The objective of the study is to contribute to the development of China's health information system (HIS) over the … for planning within the macro and historical context of health planning in China, in particular having regard to the …

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Business incubation in China: effectiveness and perceived contributions to tenant enterprises

Xu, L - 2010

popularity in China since the mid-1990s. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the perceived value of business … incubators from the perspective of start-up ventures and draw implications for future incubation programmes in China … benefits of the incubation programme.Findings: True to their names, business incubators in China have added practical value to …

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Discount factors and thresholds: Foreign investment when enforcement is imperfect

Asiedu, Elizabeth; Villamil, A. P. - 2000

We consider a model that provides insight into the well-known Folk theorem in economics that when the discount factor beta is sufficiently close to 1, expropriation will never occur. Although this Folk theorem is true in our model, our perspective is different. The discount factor beta often is...

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Foreign Direst Investment and Indigenous Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Wales and Ireland

Terjesen, Siri A.; Acs, Zoltan - 2007

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in the economic development strategies of several countries. FDI inflows bring in the latest technology, create employment and lead to tradable goods. FDI not only enables the transfer of intangibles to another country but also makes...

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Foreign direct investment and employment in host regions

McDonald, Frank; Tuselmann, Heinz; Heise, Arne - 2002

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in European Business Review, published by and copyright MCB UP Ltd.

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