• Title/Summary/Keyword: Global Software Development

Search Result 254, Processing Time 0.025 seconds

Factors Affecting Women Micro and Small-Sized Enterprises' Success: A Case Study in Jordan

  • THAHER, Lubna Mohammad;RADIEAH, Nor Mohd;WAN NORHANIZA, Wan Hasan
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
    • /
    • v.8 no.5
    • /
    • pp.727-739
    • /
    • 2021
  • Over the past decades, the Jordanian government has made great efforts to help poor women start small businesses by providing microcredit and facilitating financial services. Although in Jordan almost hundreds of thousands of women have the ability to contribute more fully to their economy, they are reluctant to do so. Women's participation in economic activities in 2016 was only 13.2%, while the unemployment rate for Jordanian women was 24.1%. The decline in women's participation in small business management has gradually become an important issue following the trial of more than 13,000 Jordanian women for non-payment of their micro-loans. This study aims to identify the factors that hinder Jordanian women from achieving job stability. In this qualitative study, a semi-structured interview method with sixteen open-ended questions was used to collect relevant data. A purposeful sampling method is also used to select participants. To analyze the data, this study used NVivo 11 software as a method. Using System Theory, this study showed that women's failure depends on three factors: women entrepreneurs, the environment around women entrepreneurs, and micro-financial institutions. Findings of this study suggest that strengthen women's entrepreneurship sustainability and minimize the risk of failure should be done through integrated strategies include these three domains.

A Proposal for Development of Tangram Game Using Vision System and Raspberry Pie (비전시스템과 라즈베리파이를 활용한 칠교놀이 게임 개발 제안)

  • Lee, Myeong-Cheol;Kim, Nu-Ri;Kim, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Kang-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
    • /
    • 2019.07a
    • /
    • pp.427-428
    • /
    • 2019
  • 칠교놀이는 해외에서는 Tangram이라고 불리며 아주 예전부터 전해져 내려오는 세계적인 놀이이다. 친구와 여럿이서 놀이를 할 수 있을 뿐만아니라 혼자서도 즐길 수 있다. 칠교놀이는 특히 창의력 향상에 도움을 주는데 이번 논문에서는 혼자서 쉽게 칠교놀이를 즐길 수 있도록 비전시스템과 라즈베리파이를 이용해서 칠교를 카메라로 인식해 성공하면 보상으로 사탕을 지급하는 놀이를 개발해 보았다. 자판기에 동전을 넣으면, 게임을 시작해서 칠교놀이의 문제를 하나씩 맞출 때 마다 사탕 한 개가 지급되는 방식으로 4차산업혁명 시대에 걸맞는 재미있는 칠교놀이 게임을 만들어 보았다. 본 논문은 OPENCV라이브러리와 라즈베리파이 GPIO라이브러리를 사용하였다. 사용한 부품은 웹캠, 초음파 센서, 서보모터이다. 라즈베리파이를 서버로 설정하고, PC를 클라이언트로 설정하여 서로 데이터를 주고 받을 수 있게 하였다. 라즈베리파이에 OPENCV를 설치하지 않은 이유는 OPENCV가 꽤 높은 사양이 필요하다고 판단하여 비전영상처리는 PC(클라이언트)에서 진행하고, 게임의 진행상황(정답의 여부)을 라즈베리파이(서버)에 보내는 방식으로 정하였다. 반대로 라즈베리파이에서도 동전의 투입 유무를 판단하여 PC(클라이언트)에 게임 시작 신호를 보내는 방식으로 설정하였다. 언어는 라즈베리파이와 PC둘다 Pythond으로 구현하였다.

  • PDF

Global Post-epidemic Recovery: The Impact of Role Modeling on Employees' Proactive Behavior

  • Wenjie Yang;Xiaoteng Wang;Myeong-Cheol Choi;Hannearl Kim
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
    • /
    • v.11 no.4
    • /
    • pp.193-201
    • /
    • 2023
  • With the end of global COVID-19 epidemic, hospital staff are likely to be "physically and mentally exhausted" after three years of grueling work in the fight against the epidemic. At this point, it is especially important to enable them to continue to maintain their previous proactive work behavior. This study focuses on 400 employees of various types in three-A grade hospitals in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, through the proactive motivation model. Statistical software SPSS 25.0 and AOMS 22.0 were used to analyze the survey data to test whether role modeling in hospital management can have an impact on employees' proactive behaviors, in addition to verifying the mediating role of transactional psychological contract. The results of this study show that: First, role modeling of hospital leaders has a positive effect on employees' proactive behavior and a negative effect on their transactional psychological contract; Second, transactional psychological contract has a negative effect on employees' proactive behavior; Third, the transactional psychological contract mediates the effect between role modeling of leaders and employees' proactive behavior. The results of this research add to the F-path of proactive motivation model, and provide enlightenments and implications for hospital management.

Shadow Libraries: A Bibliometric Analysis of Black Open Access Phenomenon (2011: 2023)

  • Safinaz Mahmoud Elroukh
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
    • /
    • v.24 no.5
    • /
    • pp.21-32
    • /
    • 2024
  • This study analyzes the global literature on the black open-access phenomenon from 2011 to 2023. A bibliometric analysis was conducted using the Scopus database. The search strategy employed advanced queries with multiple synonymous terms to ensure exhaustive retrieval of relevant documents. The VOSviewer software was employed to visualize the co-occurrence networks. The findings reported 90 papers published during the study period. An evolving scholarly landscape was revealed, with heightened attention from 2016 onwards, peaking in 2017, 2021, and 2023. Articles constitute 83.3% of the total published documents. Singh and Srichandan are prolific authors, with 11.2% of the total publications. The United States contributes 18.9% of the papers, followed by India and Spain. Information Development and Scientometrics are pivotal journals in scholarly discussions about this scope, contributing 4.4% of publications. Co-occurrence network visualization revealed "Sci-Hub" and "open access" as the most used keywords in the global literature. The findings underscore the need for additional research to discover innovative business models to safeguard intellectual property rights while meeting researchers' evolving needs. The importance of this paper comes from being the first bibliometric study analyzing international literature related to this phenomenon, which provides a basis for future research efforts and policymaking.

A Study on the Factors Affecting E-logistics Systems in the Chinese Logistics Industry

  • Yu, Liu;Bae, Jung-Han
    • International Commerce and Information Review
    • /
    • v.2 no.1
    • /
    • pp.25-48
    • /
    • 2009
  • With the rapid growth of e-logistics in the global logistics industry, it is important to gain further insight into this growing segment of Chinese logistics industry. The current situation in China consists of many small and medium-sized logistics firms. Furthermore, e-logistics is still relatively undeveloped in the majority of the Chinese logistics companies and presently there are still many problems unresolved. This paper attempted to review the concepts and theoretical background of e-logistics systems from previous studies. After acknowledging the essential issues related to e-logistics systems, a research model based on the theory acceptance model was designed and tested. The key factors to the e-logistics system (reliability, maintainability, software, facility and transportation) were validated through the modeling and testing process. Included in the modelling and testing process are other related factors of e-logistics process, logistics information system and added value as dependent variables in this model. The results of this study confirm that the e-logistics Process is affected by transportation, while maintainability and software factors influence logistics information system. reliability, maintainability, facility and transportation are significant factors associated with added value. This research aimed to provide theoretical and practical contribution to Chinese logistics companies and to give some insights into e-logistics system as a whole. The paper also provided some useful theoretical implication and practical guidelines for the development of e-logistics system in the chinese logistics industry.

  • PDF

A Study on the Factors Affecting E-logistics Systems in the Chinese Logistics Industry

  • Yu, Liu;Bae, Jung-Han
    • International Commerce and Information Review
    • /
    • v.11 no.2
    • /
    • pp.3-26
    • /
    • 2009
  • With the rapid growth of e-logistics in the global logistics industry, it is important to gain further insight into this growing segment of Chinese logistics industry. The current situation in China consists of many small and medium-sized logistics firms. Furthermore, e-logistics is still relatively undeveloped in the majority of the Chinese logistics companies and presently there are still many problems unresolved. This paper attempted to review the concepts and theoretical background of e-logistics systems from previous studies. After acknowledging the essential issues related to e-logistics systems, a research model based on the theory acceptance model was designed and tested. The key factors to the e-logistics system (reliability, maintainability, software, facility and transportation) were validated through the modeling and testing process. Included in the modelling and testing process are other related factors of e-logistics process, logistics information system and added value as dependent variables in this model. The results of this study confirm that the e-logistics Process is affected by transportation, while maintainability and software factors influence logistics information system. reliability, maintainability, facility and transportation are significant factors associated with added value. This research aimed to provide theoretical and practical contribution to Chinese logistics companies and to give some insights into e-logistics system as a whole. The paper also provided some useful theoretical implication and practical guidelines for the development of e-logistics system in the chinese logistics industry.

  • PDF

Investigation, analysis and study for urban transit's driving energy efficiency (도시철도 운전에너지 효율화를 위한 조사 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Kyu;Park, Se-Young;Park, Young-Seok;Chung, Il-Bong;Han, Moon-Seob
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
    • /
    • 2009.05a
    • /
    • pp.612-618
    • /
    • 2009
  • Recently the roles of railways about the prevention of global warming caused by greenhouse gases and for low carbon green growth are larger than ever. And the railroad-related research institutions have been active in researching for energy conservation. Especially the urban railroad has been emerged as the best means of transportation compared to the general public transportation systems in punctuality, stability, ecology and etc. In operating the urban railroad system there are various ways for energy savings. In the larger category, One is the hardware aspect according to the structure of the vehicle and the development of control systems. The other is the software aspect which efficient train operation can be made through control of driving patterns and driving diagram. In this paper, there is sense to analyze the result in verifying expectation relation with variable and the use of electric power on this after selecting main variables that can influence to the energy of the train operation in the software aspect. First, after collecting the basic data related to operation(train speed, operating hours, power consumption, the position of stopping station, electrical power system etc.) and according to this, investigating the consumption of the energy of the operation, in the side of energy consumption deducing and analyzing problem, this will be found solutions.

  • PDF

Production of Digital Fashion Contents based on Augmented Reality Using CLO 3D and Vuforia (CLO 3D와 Vuforia를 활용한 증강현실 기반 디지털 패션 콘텐츠 제작)

  • Kang, Tae-Seok;Lee, Dong-Yeon;Kim, Jinmo
    • Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
    • /
    • v.26 no.3
    • /
    • pp.21-29
    • /
    • 2020
  • This study defines the pipeline for digital fashion contents production using CLO 3D, a 3D fashion design software that supports virtual clothing visualization as a cutting-edge simulation technology for fashion, and vuforia, a mobile platform augmented reality (AR) development kit for creating AR applications. The proposed production pipeline is organized in a method to produce a virtual clothing model through CLO 3D software through works of patterns, sewing lines, textures, etc., and AR contents based on computer vision techniques using the functions and properties of vuforia development kits in the Unity engine development environment. In addition, we present application method that can be practically utilized from the perspective of practical users, such as fashion designers and directors, by creating a new type of AR digital fashion contents directly as a flow of the defined production pipeline.

Development of End-to-end Numerical Simulator for Next Generation GNSS Signal Design

  • Shin, Heon;Han, Kahee;Won, Jong-Hoon
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
    • /
    • v.8 no.4
    • /
    • pp.153-164
    • /
    • 2019
  • This paper presents the development of an end-to-end numerical simulator for signal design of the next generation global navigation satellite system (GNSS). The GNSS services are an essential element of modern human life, becoming a core part of national infra-structure. Several countries are developing or modernizing their own positioning and timing system as their demand, and South Korea is also planning to develop a Korean Positioning System (KPS) based on its own technology, with the aim of operation in 2034. The developed simulator consists of three main units such as a signal generator, a channel unit, and a receiver. The signal generator is constructed based on the actual navigation satellite payload model. For channels, a simple Gaussian channel and land mobile satellite (LMS) multipath channel environments are implemented. A software receiver approach based on a commercial GNSS receiver model is employed. Through the simulator proposed in this paper, it is possible to simulate the entire transceiver chain process from signal generation to receiver processing including channel effect. Finally, numerical simulation results for a simple example scenario is analyzed. The use of the numerical signal simulator in this paper will be ideally suited to design a new navigation signal for the upcoming KPS by reducing the research and development efforts, tremendously.

Response modification and seismic design factors of RCS moment frames based on the FEMA P695 methodology

  • Mohammad H. Habashizadeh;Nima Talebian;Dane Miller;Martin Skitmore;Hassan Karampour
    • Steel and Composite Structures
    • /
    • v.49 no.1
    • /
    • pp.47-64
    • /
    • 2023
  • Due to their efficient use of materials, hybrid reinforced concrete-steel (RCS) systems provide more practical and economic advantages than traditional steel and concrete moment frames. This study evaluated the seismic design factors and response modification factor 'R' of RCS composite moment frames composed of reinforced concrete (RC) columns and steel (S) beams. The current International Building Code (IBC) and ASCE/SEI 7-05 classify RCS systems as special moment frames and provide an R factor of 8 for these systems. In this study, seismic design parameters were initially quantified for this structural system using an R factor of 8 based on the global methodology provided in FEMA P695. For analyses, multi-story (3, 5, 10, and 15) and multi-span (3 and 5) archetypes were used to conduct nonlinear static pushover analysis and incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) under near-field and far-field ground motions. The analyses were performed using the OpenSees software. The procedure was reiterated with a larger R factor of 9. Results of the performance evaluation of the investigated archetypes demonstrated that an R factor of 9 achieved the safety margin against collapse outlined by FEMA P695 and can be used for the design of RCS systems.