The Role of Drop Shipping in E-Commerce

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
Brahami Menaouer ◽  
Semaoune Khalissa ◽  
Mohammed El Amine Belayachi ◽  
Benslimane Amine
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
New Models ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

During the recent years, e-commerce has been constantly growing in various industrial sectors. E-commerce has also changed the buying pattern of customers. E-commerce is a concept that has gained enormous popularity in recent decades. There are a multitude of variants and strategies of e-commerce such as drop shipping, which is renowned for its low cost and high efficiency. However, e-commerce is a new technology that is growing rapidly. It has the ability to create a truly global digital economy. In this research paper, the authors study the state of the drop shipping market for e-commerce in Algeria and the possibility to introduce new models by analyzing different aspects that can have a huge impact on the evolution of drop shipping in e-commerce in order to promote economic development in Algeria. To develop a better understanding, an exploratory study via a structured questionnaire intended for the general Algerian public drop shipper market was carried out.

Intergenerational hybrid products in periods of discontinuous change

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilian Gatti Junior ◽  
Alceu Salles Camargo Junior ◽  
Paul Varella
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Discontinuous Change ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Hybrid Products ◽  
Organizational Inertia

PurposeThis study examines the role of hybrid products employed in companies' innovation strategy within three American industrial sectors: tires, typewriters and photography cameras.Design/methodology/approachThe authors selected historical cases that enabled us to present the role of hybrid products in periods of discontinuous change. Different sources are employed in this study: papers, books, cases, working papers, videos, manuals and product catalogues, companies' annual reports, company websites, advertising, collectors' websites and museums, in addition to press and other media reports.FindingsThe authors’ historical case analysis points to two forms of hybrid products. (1) Exploitation-hybrid, which incorporates significant elements from the existing dominant design and aims at extending the revenue-generating opportunities of the existing products. (2) Exploration-hybrid, which works as an offensive strategy, as the firm uses the exploration-hybrid to promote a gradual and controlled adoption of new technology by reducing risks and the cost of change for the customer.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors’ proposed definitions strengthen the idea that hybrids are not only a reflection of organizational inertia (exploitation-hybrid). Hybrids can also mean a more proactive stance in the strategy of developing and adopting new technology (exploration-hybrid).Originality/valueThis study acknowledged hybrid products as a learning instrument that materialized the organizational ambidexterity, favoring at the same time exploitation, generally attributed to organizational inertia, and the exploration of new segments of customers or the use of new technologies.

Role of Telecommunications in Precision Agriculture

2011 ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
James M. McKinion
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Variable Rate ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Commercial Sources

Precision agriculture has been made possible by the confluence of several technologies: geographic positioning systems, geographic information systems, image analysis software, low-cost microcomputerbased variable rate controller/recorders, and precision tractor guidance systems. While these technologies have made precision agriculture possible, there are still major obstacles which must be overcome to make this new technology accepted and usable. Most growers will not do image processing and development of prescription maps themselves but will rely upon commercial sources. There still remains the challenge of storage and retrieval of multi-megabytes of data files for each field, and this problem will only continue to grow year by year. This chapter will discuss the various wireless technologies which are currently being used on three proof-of-concept farms or areas in Mississippi, the various data/ information intensive precision agriculture applications which use wireless local area networking and Internet access, and the next generation technologies which can immensely propel precision agriculture to widespread use in all of agriculture.

The Research of Gas Sealing Performance Inspection Module of Electronic Sphygmomanometer Based on STC12C5A

2013 ◽  
Vol 756-759 ◽  
pp. 574-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Zhe Li ◽  
Xiao Hui Feng
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Leak Detection ◽  
Single Chip ◽  
Sealing Performance ◽  
Gas Leak ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Performance Inspection

The gas sealing performance of electronic sphygmomanometer is an important index of its quality control. At present, the gas leak detection of sphygmomanometer is mainly by manual, which has disadvantages of low efficiency and precision, huge impact of human factors and so on. An automatic and high precision gas sealing performance inspection module is proposed in the paper, which solves the problems of pressure calibration and gas leak detection of sphygmomanometer products. The paper also introduces the principle and implementation of system project. The module is designed by STC12C5A single-chip, KPM DC air pump and the pressure sensor of E8CC, which has advantages of high precision, high efficiency, low cost, and flexible operation etc.

Research on Rubber One Step Injection Molding Technology and Equipment

2012 ◽  
Vol 501 ◽  
pp. 344-348
Author(s):  
Yi Zhou Pei ◽  
Bai Yuan Lv
Keyword(s):  
Injection Molding ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Molding Method ◽  
Good Product ◽  
One Step ◽  
The One ◽  
Good Product Quality

Through the laboratory research on the one step injection molding technology, as well as a series of industrialization researches on the injection tire capsule, injection oilfield used screw drill rubber stator and injection solid tire, this thesis presents the principle of one step injection molding technology and proves the feasibility, practicability of this technology. Substituting the traditional compression molding method, one step injection molding is a new technology with high efficiency, good product quality and low cost; it also has a broad prospect of application and huge developing potential.

Role of Telecommunications in Precision Agriculture

2010 ◽  
pp. 836-850
Author(s):  
James M. McKinion
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Variable Rate ◽  
Positioning Systems ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Commercial Sources

Precision agriculture has been made possible by the confluence of several technologies: geographic positioning systems, geographic information systems, image analysis software, low-cost microcomputer- based variable rate controller/recorders, and precision tractor guidance systems. While these technologies have made precision agriculture possible, there are still major obstacles which must be overcome to make this new technology accepted and usable. Most growers will not do image processing and development of prescription maps themselves but will rely upon commercial sources. There still remains the challenge of storage and retrieval of multi-megabytes of data files for each field, and this problem will only continue to grow year by year. This chapter will discuss the various wireless technologies which are currently being used on three proof-of-concept farms or areas in Mississippi, the various data/information intensive precision agriculture applications which use wireless local area networking and Internet access, and the next generation technologies which can immensely propel precision agriculture to widespread use in all of agriculture.

Comparative Study on Vibratory Stress Relief (VSR) and Thermal Stress Relief (TSR) of Cylinder Wallboard

2011 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 460-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Wu Dong ◽  
Xi Ping Zhao ◽  
Song Qing Yu ◽  
Xiao Wen Zhou ◽  
Dai Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Stress ◽  
Dimensional Stability ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Aging Treatment ◽  
Stress Relief ◽  
Size Accuracy ◽  
The One ◽  
Better Than

Dimensional stability of carding machine has a greater impact on the performance of the Cylinder wallboard. Compared with the thermal stress relief (TSR), the vibratory stress relief (VSR) is a new technology which may eliminate the residual stress in metal components with high efficiency, energy saving, environmental protection and low cost. We have 8 pieces of cylinder wallboard castings with every 4 pieces as a group. It takes 20 minutes to do VSR in one of the groups and 20 hours for TSR in another group. Three identical size accuracy indexes are measured, respectively at intervals of 1 month 2 months after aging treatment. The results show that: the dimensional stability of cylinder wallboard vibration by VSR is better than the one by TSR. Energy consumption and cost-saving is more than 90% without "three wastes" emissions.

scholarly journals The Role of Cultural Heritage in Promoting Socio-Economic Development: An Analysis on Emerging Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Nicola Boccella ◽  
Irene Salerno
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Tourist Flows ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
New Models

The enhancement of cultural heritage through new forms of dialogue with the territorial communities and the so-called “heritage communities” of which such heritage is an expression, is becoming an increasingly important vehicle for the economic and social development, especially in emerging countries. The places that express the history, culture and values ​​of the human collectives can become, in this way, laboratories in which the knowledge and the traditions are reinterpreted in a continuous dialogue. Of such valorization and of such dialogue, the emerging countries can benefit in view of a profitable local development that can also propose diversified and seasonally adjusted tourism routes, able to bring constant tourist flows, with positive economic and social consequences. In light of these considerations, the paper aims to explore the different paths through which, in emerging countries, it is possible to create new models of development also through innovative ways of dialogue with the so-called “patrimonial communities”. Central will be a reflection on how the most recent international patterns to promote social and economic development can be “translated” and adapted to specific developing geographic and sectoral contexts.

scholarly journals The role of cover and pattern of installed resource sinks in the recovery of degraded patchy drylands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeles Garcia Mayor ◽  
Paul Berghuis ◽  
Max Rietkerk ◽  
Mara Baudena
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Higher Plant ◽  
Small Cover ◽  
Plant Densities ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Field Works

<p>A low-cost restoration in patchy drylands aiming at recovering the ability of the ecosystem to capture and store water and nutrients is the installation of obstructions to break runoff pathways and retain these resources (hereafter, resource sinks). Field works in drylands worldwide have studied how the effectiveness of this action depends on the materials used to build the obstructions. However, the spatial pattern attributes of the resource sinks can also affect the effectiveness of the restoration and has not yet been investigated. In this work, we cover this knowledge gap by using a well-known dryland model to investigate how different initial amounts of cover and spatial distribution of installed resource sinks (i.e., random vs. regular) affects the recovery of the system. In agreement with field-work studies, our model results confirm that the installation of resource sinks can restore degraded drylands that are not able to recover naturally. More importantly, we found that a very small cover of resource sinks was sufficient to trigger the recovery of vegetation, while a high cover could lead to a complete failure of vegetation recovery. This was found for both random and regular distributions of resource sinks. However, a distribution similar to that of vegetation in the reference healthy system (i.e., regular distribution in our study system) was more effective: higher plant densities were reached for a given initial cover of resource sinks. Given the high efficiency of low covers of resource sinks suggested by our work, combined with the low-cost materials needed, the installation of resource sinks in severely degraded drylands has the potential to be a key contributor to the large restoration efforts needed to achieve land-degradation neutrality in the coming decades, particularly in developing countries.</p>

scholarly journals Wheat Straw Biochar as a Specific Sorbent of Cobalt in Soil

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Medyńska-Juraszek ◽  
Irmina Ćwieląg-Piasecka ◽  
Maria Jerzykiewicz ◽  
Justyna Trynda
Keyword(s):  
Wheat Straw ◽  
Contaminated Soils ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Ft Ir ◽  
Heavy Metal Adsorbent

There is an urgent need to search for new sorbents of pollutants presently delivered to the environment. Recently biochar has received much attention as a low-cost, highly effective heavy metal adsorbent. Biochar has been identified as an efficient material for cobalt (Co) immobilization from waters; however, little is known about the role of Co immobilization in soil. Hence, in this study, a batch experiment and a long-term incubation experiment with biochar application to multi-contaminated soil with distinct properties (sand, loam) were conducted to provide a brief explanation of the potential mechanisms of Co (II) sorption on wheat straw biochar and to describe additional processes that modify material efficiency for metal sorption in soil. The soil treatments with 5% (v/w) wheat straw biochar proved to be efficient in reducing Co mobility and bioavailability. The mechanism of these processes could be related to direct and indirect effects of biochar incorporation into soil. The FT-IR analysis confirmed that hydroxyl and carboxyl groups present on the biochar surface played a dominant role in Co (II) surface complexation. The combined effect of pH, metal complexation capacity, and the presence of Fe and Mn oxides added to wheat straw biochar resulted in an effective reduction of soluble Co (II), showing high efficiency of this material for cobalt sorption in contaminated soils.

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