scholarly journals The Impact Of HIV/AIDS On International Human Resource Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
To Come ◽  
Multinational Businesses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hiv Aids ◽  
Labor Pools

Economies of global scope afford businesses a competitive advantage. One way to utilize this advantage is to coordinate the leveraging of resources especially labor. Businesses have attempted to minimize labor costs and risks in an effort to maintain or increase competitive advantage. There is a risk to the global workforce: HIV/AIDS. This disease is striking at the heart of low cost labor pools. The impact on business is being felt now and will be felt for years to come. How large the impact is depends on the level of involvement of multinational businesses in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Multinational businesses must develop policies and procedures to combat this illness, as it is devastating labor pools in various parts of the world.

scholarly journals Design of a Low-Cost Indoor Navigation System for Food Delivery Robot Based on Multi-Sensor Information Fusion

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (22) ◽  
pp. 4980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunlong Sun ◽  
Lianwu Guan ◽  
Zhanyuan Chang ◽  
Chuanjiang Li ◽  
Yanbin Gao
Keyword(s):  
Information Fusion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wide Band ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Ultra Wide Band ◽  
Steering Control ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Meal Delivery

As the restaurant industry is facing labor shortage issues, the use of meal delivery robots instead of waiters/waitresses not only allows the customers to experience the impact of robot technology but also benefits the restaurant business financially by reducing labor costs. Most existing meal delivery robots employ magnetic navigation technologies, which require magnetic strip installation and changes to the restaurant decor. Once the moving path is changed, the magnetic strips need to be re-laid. This study proposes multisource information fusion, i.e., the fusion of ultra-wide band positioning technology with an odometer and a low-cost gyroscope accelerometer, to achieve the positioning of a non-rail meal delivery robot with navigation. By using a low-cost electronic compass and gyroscope accelerometer, the delivery robot can move along a fixed orbit in a flexible and cost-effective manner with steering control. Ultra-wide band (UWB) and track estimation algorithm are combined by extended Kalman filter (EKF), and the positioning error after fusion is about 15 cm, which is accepted by restaurants. In summary, the proposed approach has some potential for commercial applications.

The Impact of Internal Factors in Time Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Shefqet Zeqir Dervishaj
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
External Data ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Time management, as a new and modern discipline, represents a problem in developed countries as well as in Kosovo. The intention of this study is to carry out an analysis as to how these factors affect the time management in public organizations and in private companies in Kosovo. Amongst other factors that influence the management in general, the focus of the present study rests on internal factors, which are resources, capacities and base competence or competitive advantage of the organization, what the level of these factors is and how can organizations advance these factors and thus create a competitive advantage. Time is a necessary and irreplaceable resource in the process of completing tasks. Time is the managers’ valuable asset and in the event they lose it they can neither save nor replace it. The better we make use of time the more we will manage to accomplish. We cannot stop time; we cannot extend nor recover time. What can we manage? We can manage ourselves in time and we must understand the nature of the “time” phenomenon in order to adapt to it. The objective of this study will be to identify the extent that the organizations understand their internal environment, determination of values of these factors and determination of these capacities, identifying of weak and strong points of these factors. Based on the practice and based on the data I shall collect from the field, I will compare the same and will extract conclusions as to how these factors impact the time management, increasing thus the efficacy and efficiency of the organizations included in the study. External data shall be collected by way of quantitative questionnaires in order to come to a conclusion as to how these factors affect the time management in business and public organizations in Kosovo.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP ON STRATEGIC COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE THROUGH STRATEGIC THINKING AND STRATEGIC PLANNING: A BI-MEDITATIONAL RESEARCH

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (0) ◽  
pp. 320-330
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hunitie
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact

Confusion between strategic planning and strategic thinking in the context of strategic leadership and its effect on competitive advantage was the foremost rationale for this study to come into view. Thereby, the aim of this study was to examine the role of two mediating variables, i.e., strategic planning and strategic thinking in the impact of strategic leadership on competitive advantage. Scoping health care sector in Jordan resulted in three public hospitals agreed to participate in the study. Data were gathered using a questionnaire developed on the basis of literature review. A total of 1000 questionnaires were administered to hospitals. A total 521 questionnaires were returned with a response rate of 52.1%. The results pinpointed that strategic leadership significantly predicted strategic planning, strategic thinking and competitive advantage. the results also revealed that strategic planning and strategic thinking significantly and positively related to competitive advantage. accordingly, it was approved that strategic planning and strategic thinking mediated the effect of strategic leadership on competitive advantage. Despite that the influence of strategic thinking on competitive advantage was greater than the influence of strategic planning on competitive advantage. The study hold the perspective that both strategic planning and strategic thinking were essential in the context of strategic leadership, since strategies are developed by strategic thinking and operationalized via strategic planning.

Computer simulation study about the dependence of amorphous silicon photonic waveguides efficiency on the material quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 30502
Author(s):  
Alessandro Fantoni ◽  
João Costa ◽  
Paulo Lourenço ◽  
Manuela Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
High Throughput Screening ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Deposition Process ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Sidewall Roughness ◽  
Sensing Applications ◽  
Fabrication Defects ◽  
The Impact

Amorphous silicon PECVD photonic integrated devices are promising candidates for low cost sensing applications. This manuscript reports a simulation analysis about the impact on the overall efficiency caused by the lithography imperfections in the deposition process. The tolerance to the fabrication defects of a photonic sensor based on surface plasmonic resonance is analysed. The simulations are performed with FDTD and BPM algorithms. The device is a plasmonic interferometer composed by an a-Si:H waveguide covered by a thin gold layer. The sensing analysis is performed by equally splitting the input light into two arms, allowing the sensor to be calibrated by its reference arm. Two different 1 × 2 power splitter configurations are presented: a directional coupler and a multimode interference splitter. The waveguide sidewall roughness is considered as the major negative effect caused by deposition imperfections. The simulation results show that plasmonic effects can be excited in the interferometric waveguide structure, allowing a sensing device with enough sensitivity to support the functioning of a bio sensor for high throughput screening. In addition, the good tolerance to the waveguide wall roughness, points out the PECVD deposition technique as reliable method for the overall sensor system to be produced in a low-cost system. The large area deposition of photonics structures, allowed by the PECVD method, can be explored to design a multiplexed system for analysis of multiple biomarkers to further increase the tolerance to fabrication defects.

Advancing dairy farming profitability through research

2001 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
J.R. Caradus ◽  
D.A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Pasture Management ◽  
Nitrogen Fertiliser ◽  
Grass Endophyte ◽  
Forage Species ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Dairy Cow Nutrition ◽  
The Impact

The New Zealand dairy industry recognises that to remain competitive it must continue to invest in research and development. Outcomes from research have ensured year-round provision of low-cost feed from pasture while improving productivity. Some of these advances, discussed in this paper, include the use of white clover in pasture, understanding the impacts of grass endophyte, improved dairy cow nutrition, the use of alternative forage species and nitrogen fertiliser to improve productivity, demonstration of the impact of days-in-milk on profitability, and the use of feed budgeting and appropriate pasture management. Keywords: dairy, profitability, research and development

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