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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"new information technologies"”.
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New information technologies in public participation : a challenge to old decision-making institutional frameworks
Given the progress in information technology (IT) in the past 30 years, I hypothesized that new conditions exist for considerable improvements in public participation in decision-making. In order to test my hypothesis, I developed a prototype of an Intelligent Multimedia System to support public …
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New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India
… explore the role of community-based geographic information systems (GIS) in improving service provision to the poor. These participatory GIS applications focus on collecting neighborhood-level information directly from residents and providing this information to government for more need-based …
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The business transformation effects of information technology
New information technologies can greatly impact the landscape of business and even entire industries. For some, these changes are both welcome and anticipated. For others, technology seems to cause more problems than it solves. The ability to interrelate technology and business strategy is what …
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Innovation and the state : development strategies for high technology industries in a world of fragmented production : Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
… industries have leapfrogged to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and have carved out different positions in the global IT production …
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Design of intelligent interiors
… interior design by allowing utilities, goods and information to be delivered where and when we need them. How will new information technologies impact the design of interior spaces? Intelligent interiors can be more flexible and expressive than traditional spaces. Automation, personal fabrication …
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Product and service intangibility : a study of its dimensions and consequences on product/service evaluation
As new information technologies have been developed during the last decade, so has a new generation of products that are called "information products". Since these products are highly intangible, this renews the debate about intangibility as defined in the marketing literature, which has …
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The Presence and Use of Interactive Features on Kurdish News Websites in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. A case study of interactivity of news Kurdish websites of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region
… has emerged as an interactive platform. Thus, new communication technologies are challenging the traditional media with interactive devices turning online journalism into a rich media environment. While new information technologies have enabled media organisations to use interactive features in …
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O BSC na gestão de desempenho do ensino secundário público
… and the various social stimuli exposed by the New Information Technologies, posing new challenges and changes the positioning and management school at the present. Against this background, the school needs to adapt to new times, modifying in much the way it works and acts. The Business …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… recognized notion of authorial property. With new information technologies expanding the boundaries of proprietary authorship everyday, the proprieties according to which these boundaries were first defined should help teachers and researchers not only better to understand the nature of …
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Life in a Northern Town: Call Centres, Labour Markets and Identity in Post-Industrial Middlesbrough
… steel and chemical industries to a reliance on new forms of insecure, flexible service sector employment, typified in this study by call centres. Call centres emerged in the 1990s as a cost-saving efficient delivery system for companies to handle customer contact through the marriage of …
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El proceso de internacionalización del sistema bancario español: incidencia de las nuevas tecnologías de la información
… as banking is an intensive activity of use of information, the application of the new information technologies allow to save costs. In a sense, Internet banking, as a new channel of financial distribution, can be interesting to entities and consumers. That's why, at the present thesis, we …
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New consumption identities in virtual worlds. The case of Second Life.
The dynamic development of new technologies influences consumers in many different ways reaching far beyond the shift in consumption patterns, challenging the way consumers live their lives. The role of new information technologies is continually growing in our daily lives changing the way we see …
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New consumption identities in virtual worlds. The case of Second Life.
The dynamic development of new technologies influences consumers in many different ways reaching far beyond the shift in consumption patterns, challenging the way consumers live their lives. The role of new information technologies is continually growing in our daily lives changing the way we see …
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Our Biometric Future: The Social Construction of an Emerging Information Technology
… the social and cultural dimensions of new information technologies known as biometrics. Biometrics are designed to generate digital readings of the body as a means of identifying individuals, enlisting a number of communication technologies, including photography, video, and computer …
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The role of human resource management in the context of mergers and acquisitions
… environment drastically. The fast pace of new information technologies turns the work environment upside down and change has become the rule instead of the exception. Globalization calls for more permeable borders so that inflexible organizational systems and structures start to crumble or …
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Analysis of Clothing Websites for Young Customer Retention based on A Model of Customer Relationship Management via the Internet
… in modern retailing. With the emergence of new information technologies, the Internet offers new possibilities for customer retention through the management of relationships between marketers and consumers. Little empirical research has addressed the role of Internet websites in retaining …
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Sensor-based Computing Techniques For Real-time Traffic Evacuation Management
… unexpected. Even if sometimes we do have partial information about a possible attack, it is generally not known exactly where, when, or how an attack will occur. This lack of information posses great challenges on those responsible for security, specifically, on their ability to respond fast, …
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Essays on value creation in online marketplaces
… essays that study the transformative impact of new information technologies under three specific contexts using both empirical and theoretical approaches. Chapter 2 examines the online review system, which is the new type of information technology that replaces the traditional word-of-mouth …