In-house R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition – What Makes Chinese Firms Productive?

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

Buying Knowledge: Effective Acquisition of External Knowledge

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading buying knowledge effective acquisition of external knowledge is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advant...

What Makes an Economy Productive and Progressive? What Are the Needed Institutions?

Institutions again have become the focus of the theorizing and empirical work of economists concerned with the determinants of economic growth, and of cross country differences in income levels. One central argument of this paper is that institutions and institutional change need to be understood as tightly intertwined with the technologies used in an economy, and with technological change. A s...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes Patterns Interesting in Knowledge Discovery Systems

One of the central problems in the eld of knowledge discovery is the development of good measures of interestingness of discovered patterns Such measures of interestingness are divided into objective measures those that depend only on the structure of a pattern and the underlying data used in the discovery process and the subjective measures those that also depend on the class of users who exam...