scholarly journals Intelligent Devices in Rural Wireless Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Daniel Fuentes ◽  
Rosalía Laza ◽  
Antonio Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Experience Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Intelligent Devices ◽  
The Cost

The rural wireless networks are increasingly in demand by associations and autarchies to expand Internet access in this type of areas. The problem of such solutions centers not only in network deployment and its maintenance, but also in the equipment installation on clients, which always has big costs. This installation and configuration must be performed by a technician on site, so that the equipment can be integrated in the infrastructure. To try to mitigate this problem, it is presented a solution that allows the clients to install, with transparency, the device at home, reducing not only the cost for the management entity but also for the clients. This way, for info-excluded people or with new technology low experience level, it is the user that integrates himself in the network, making him part of the process, fostering the network usage.In this article are specified not only the system architecture but also the way that it works and how it obtains the desirable result. The tests made to the solution show the quickness, reliability and autonomy in the execution of the tasks, making it a benefit for rural wireless networks.This solution, by its robustness and simplicity, allowed an uptake to the IT by people who never thought to do it, namely an advanced age group (elderly) who want to join the world of the new technologies

Investment Strategies for Sourcing a New Technology in the Presence of a Mature Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Hsiao-Hui Lee
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Development Effort ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Cost Shifting ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

To stay competitive, high-technology manufacturers not only frequently source new technologies from their suppliers, but also financially support the development of these new technologies into component products or production tools. We consider a manufacturer that can either source a new but immature technology from a financially constrained supplier, or source a mature technology from an existing supplier if and only if the development of the new technology fails. To support the new technology, the manufacturer can choose to inject capital in the form of an equity or loan. The investment strategy not only affects the new supplier’s development effort and the probability of technical success (PTS), but also affects the existing supplier’s effort to improve the mature technology, which presents the manufacturer with a trade-off. Following the debt financing literature, we find that a loan contract is associated with a cost-shifting effect and often leads to a higher PTS. However, because the manufacturer not only maintains an investment but also a procurement relationship with the new supplier, we find a profit-sharing effect associated with an equity investment, which does not exist in the traditional equity issuance literature. In particular, we show that the profit-sharing effect can dominate the cost-shifting effect and lead to a higher PTS when the new supplier’s technological capability is sufficiently high. Nonetheless, we also show that the strategy that derives a higher PTS does not necessarily generate a higher payoff for the manufacturer. On the one hand, a loan can be preferred even when it leads to a lower PTS because the cost-shifting effect allows the manufacturer to offer a sufficiently low procurement payment while maintaining a sufficiently high PTS. On the other hand, when the existing supplier is very capable of reducing its costs, a loan can over-incentivize the new supplier to exert excessive effort and backfire. This paper was accepted by Charles Corbett, operations management.

Challenges and Issues in E-Banking Services and Operations in Developing Countries

2016 ◽  
pp. 237-281
Author(s):  
Preeti Rana ◽  
Durgesh Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Banking And Finance ◽  
Banking Service ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

In recent years we have seen a number of changes in banking sector of India. Main objective of banks is to create more value for customers; that is why most of the banks have begun to take an innovative approach for this purpose. In the world of banking and finance, nothing stands still. Now a day's banking activities is not limited to deposit and lending money to customers Apart from traditional business, banks provide a wide range of services to satisfy the needs of all types of customers whether it is financial or non-financial needs from the smallest account holder to the largest company and in some cases of non-customers. As a result of recent developments, the entire banking industry has restructured and new technologies are also introduced to make it competitive. Revolution of Information Technology has made it possible to provide ease and flexibility in operations to customers thus making life simpler and easier so bank can provide a variety of products and services to the customers. The E-Banking process has changed the way of working of banks across the world. In the chapter, the author reviews the literature on “The issues and challenges of e-banking service operation” what is the perception of people towards E-Banking in different developing countries?” As E-Banking is an emerging concept in the field of commerce and banking. This paper furnishes the study of E-banking in developing countries through an analysis of content & existing literature that focused on developing countries. The main purpose of the study is to present the current level of research on E-banking in developing countries. Electronic banking (e-banking) is the new technology in banking environment that allows the bank customers to do banking activities at any time and from any place.

Australian visual arts: libraries and the new technologies

1996 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Thomson ◽  
Joye Volker
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
World Wide ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Electronic Networking ◽  
Multimedia Resource

Electronic networking has been welcomed in Australia not least because of its potential to help solve problems of distances within Australia and of the isolation of Australia. In the world as a whole, the Internet, and the World Wide Web in particular, is transforming the communication of art information and access to art images. Three Australian Web servers focus on the visual arts: Art Serve, Diva, and AusArts. A number of initiatives intended to provide online bibliographic databases devoted to Australian art were launched in the 1980s. More recently a number of CD-ROMs have been published. As elsewhere, art librarians in Australia need new skills to integrate these products of new technology into the art library, and to transform the latter into a multimedia resource centre.

The Time Perception in Contemporary

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S717-S717
Author(s):  
D.F. Burgese ◽  
D.P. Bassitt ◽  
D. Ceron-Litvoc ◽  
G.B. Liberali
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Processes ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
The Relationship

With the advent of new technologies, the man begins to experience a significant change in the perception of the other, time and space. The acceleration of time promoted by new technology does not allow the exercise of affection for the consolidation of ties, relations take narcissists hues seeking immediate gratification and the other is understood as a continuation of the self, the pursuit of pleasure. It is the acceleration of time, again, which leads man to present the need for immediate, always looking for the new – not new – in an attempt to fill an inner space that is emptied. The retention of concepts and pre-stressing of temporality are liquefied, become fleeting. We learn to live in the world and the relationship with the other in a frivolous and superficial way. The psychic structure, facing new phenomena experienced, loses temporalize capacity and expand its spatiality, it becomes pathological. Post-modern inability to retain the past, to analyze the information received and reflect, is one of the responsible for the mental illness of today's society. From a temporality range of proper functioning, the relationship processes with you and your peers will have the necessary support to become viable and healthy.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Uso de las redes sociales y la brecha digital en el tejido asociativo inmigrante de España

2020 ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Jenny Carolina Tovar Parra ◽  
Javier Ernesto Torralba Vásquez
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

Resumen: Son innumerables las investigaciones que se han realizado en el mundo sobre los efectos y beneficios de las nuevas tecnologías versus población y la ciudad digital en sus análisis y conclusiones consideran que existe una nueva problemática en el mundo a la que se le denominó “brecha digital”. Sin embargo, no se han realizado investigaciones acerca del efecto que tienen las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación TICS sobre el tejido asociativo inmigrante de Argelia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Mali, Marruecos, Rumania y Senegal en España. El objetivo principal de esta investigación es determinar la incidencia de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación en el tejido asociativo inmigrante en España, así como conocer el uso de éstas en el quehacer cotidiano de las asociaciones y sus implicaciones para las mismas, partiendo de una metodología no experimental, comparativa, descriptiva y de etnografía virtual. En sus conclusiones queda claro que la brecha digital afecta las asociaciones a partir de la diferenciación entre las que tienen acceso a internet, los conocimientos para el acceso y cuentan con contenidos de calidad, de las asociaciones que no.   Palabras clave: Tecnologías de la información, Redes Sociales, Migración.   Abstract: Countless researches have been done in the world on the effects and benefits of the new technologies of information and communication ICT versus population and the digital city in its analysis and conclusions consider that there is a new problematic in the world called "digital divide". However, there are not conducted researches about the effects that ICT has had on the immigrant associations network of Algeria, Bulgaria, Colombia, Ecuador, Mali, Morocco, Romania, and Senegal in Spain. The main objective of this article is to analyze the impact of new information and communication technologies on the immigrant network in Spain, as well as knowing the use of them in the daily work and their implications for them based, starting from a non-experimental, comparative, descriptive and virtual ethnography methodology. In its conclusions is clear that the digital divide affects these associations from the differentiation between those with internet access, the skills to access and the quality on the contents, from those without internet access   Key words: Information Technologies, Social Networks, Migration.

scholarly journals Potential of solar desalination for irrigation in Tunisia

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ramadane El Zarroug ◽  
Issam Daghari ◽  
Jean Robert Kompany ◽  
Charles Muanda ◽  
Naima Shanak
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Desalinate Water ◽  
Solar Desalination ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost

In arid countries like Tunisia, the need to find new sources of water for irrigation has become imminent. Desalination of seawater can be an alternative to irrigation. In this article, we take a look at the leading food companies specializing in desalination for irrigation around the world and the prospects for the solar energy desalination potential for irrigation in Tunisia. We have noticed that several companies invest money to desalinate water for agricultural purposes. However, the cost of a cubic meter of water sometimes remains high to go forward in this new technology.

scholarly journals Self-healing Concrete and Environmental Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Amiri ◽  
Javad Majrouhi Sardroud ◽  
Ali Golsoorat Pahlaviani
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
High Performance ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Steel Corrosion ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

Nanotechnology will serve as a suitable solution to achieve high performance in future construction. Using this new technology results in creativity and innovation in the construction industry. One of these new technologies is the smart concrete which has received much emphasis in recent years. Many research and experiments have been conducted in scientific research centers around the world in this regard. It is an undeniable fact that concrete structures are prone to cracking. Natural processes have caused cracks in the concrete through which harmful substances entered the concrete leading to steel corrosion. To tackle this issue through the conventional method of concrete restorative, materials, especially polymers which are also harmful to the environment, are used. An alternative that the scientists have achieved is to employ bacteria in concrete through which to produce self-healing concrete and also to reduce the problems regarding the maintenance of concrete for the environment. Bacteria contribute to the durability and performance of the concrete and increase the service life of the concrete.

scholarly journals The Impact of Lifestyle Changes on the Quality of Everyday Life of People with Osteoporosis.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Functional Disability ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Osteoporosis has recently "walked in“ like an epidemic. It is a disorder that, due to industrialization and the application of new technologies, is today present in younger people lives. Modern devices used in everyday life have replaced the physical activity of man, and along with the sedentary lifestyle, had an impact on an increasing number of people affected by this disease. The effects of osteoporosis are significant because they represent a medical and social problem, and the cost of treating fractures requires significant economic expenditures [1,2]. Falls and injuries caused by them (e.g. fractures) are a growing problem for people in the third age group. Injuries and fractures cause pain plus functional disability, which consequently diminish the quality of life. The consequences increase costs of health care and cause mortality [3].

WiMAX Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-86
Author(s):  
Eliamani Sedoyeka ◽  
Ziad Hunaiti
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
End Users ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Wimax Networks ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
The World ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas ◽  
Wimax Network

Every new technology comes with its challenges and lessons to be learnt. With a number of unknowns, deploying a new technology becomes a challenge. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is one of these new technologies currently on the rise. This paper presents the finding of the research conducted to investigate technical and non technical aspects of network operators in Tanzania. The research looked into WiMAX network operational challenges faced by the network owners as well as the level of services experienced by the end users. This paper is suitable researchers, network operators and investors interested in WiMAX technology. It is mostly usefully for those looking into solutions to problem facing rural and remote areas of the world. The research is discussed in detail throughout of the article.

Need of a Balance between Fragmented and Coordinated Decision-Making

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Enterprise Creation

This chapter looks at fragmentation and implications in different decision-making contexts with a focus on new technology and enterprise creation in developing economies. Coordination is introduced as the response to external effects of fragmented and scattered decisions. The most important features of this framework are captured under a simplified theoretical economic model. The evidence on economic sectors is provided in the literature review, but the data from “Doing Business” of the World Bank is used to test for the high costs implied by the implicit scattering and fragmentation of decisions related to enterprise creation. The attained results either from access to new technologies or from the empirical analysis of “Doing Business” data show the prevalence of anti-commons and fragmentation in developing economies. This points out how anti-commons and fragmentation can limit development through reducing business expansion and social benefits, even when national and international institutions exhibit clear intentions for coordination.

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