Using an Application Service Provider for Erp System Hosting: the City of El Paso Experience

Enterprise Resource Planning and Activity Based Costing in a Local Government Setting: the El Paso, Texas Case

This study assesses opportunities and benefits presented by enterprise resource planning (ERP) in terms of leveraging technology to improve the business of government in the City of El Paso, specifically with respect to activity based costing (ABC) within its ERP system. ABC and ERP, in tandem, can provide reasonably accurate and useful government services cost information for planning and deci...

Low-Wage Occupations Remain a Hallmark of El Paso Economy - Crossroads, Issue 1, 2007 - FRB Dallas El Paso Branch

El Paso has followed national trends in job growth with a steady shift of employment out of manufacturing and into services. It has been a sometimes painful transition for the city, with the number of manufacturing jobs cut nearly in half, from 41,100 to 22,100, between 1990 and 2006. Losses were concentrated in traditional economic mainstays such as textiles, apparel and leather goods. Meanwhi...

A Brief Overview of the Specialty of Travel Medicine

SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF CHROMIUM UPTAKE BY CREOSOTE BUSH (Larrea tridentata) USING HYDRO- PONICS

115 SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF CHROMIUM UPTAKE BY CREOSOTE BUSH (Larrea tridentata) USING HYDROPONICS S. Arteaga, J. L. Gardea-Torresdey, R. Chianelli, N. Pingitore, W. Mackay, J. Arenas Environmental Science and Engineering Program, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968. 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968. 3 Department of Geological Scie...

Crossroads, Issue 1, 2007 - FRB Dallas El Paso Branch

El Paso has followed national trends in job growth with a steady shift of employment out of manufacturing and into services. It has been a sometimes painful transition for the city, with the number of manufacturing jobs cut nearly in half, from 41,100 to 22,100, between 1990 and 2006. Losses were concentrated in traditional economic mainstays such as textiles, apparel and leather goods. Meanwhi...