Maintaining competitive advantage is significant in this present day of globalization, knowledge management and enormous economic activities. An organization's future developments are influenced by its managements' decisions. Businesses today are facing a lot of challenges in terms of competition and they have to be in the lead by strengthening their research and development strategies with the...

A project is underway to map die indoor radon potential for New York State at the township level. Through a detector distribution program the New York State Department of Health has a database of over 36,000 basement screening measurements. The address field for the indoor measurement data is being linked to latitude and longitude coordinates using data files containing coordinate information. ...

Management of an asset by the government is a process that starts from planning to inventorying have been pre-existing or obtained legitimate assistance so they can managed appropriately and beneficially for community. For government, especially in village regions, management assets very important, both apparatus community get complete, accurate real-time information about owned be used activit...

This paper addresses the impact of transport infrastructure projects of manufacturing employment in Thai regions. After a theoretical review we consider the impact of various transport modes: road, rail and ports. We find that roads and ports have a positive impact on industrial location, although the size of the impact is modest. Labor appears to be a more important location factor in Thailand...

With the death of Peter Alan Burrough in Leiden on 9 January 2009 the field of geographic information science (GIScience) lost one of its founding fathers, a scholar whose contribution was prolific, rigorous, original, and always ground-breaking. His career was marked by numerous firsts, including the first widely read textbook on geographic information systems (Burrough, 1986). He directed ove...