by Jonathan W. Palmer and J. Scott Johnston The University of Oklahoma distribution was putting together the bulletins on paper, which were around 25 pages long, and mailing them to customers. The whole process took anywhere from a few days to two or three weeks for international customers. Fruit of the Loom has around 50 wholesalers nationwide to ship its goods in bulk to thousands of silkscre...

FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, COMPETITION IN premium TV market has primarily been a two-horse race between OLED sets made with LG Display's “white OLED” panel technology and LCD that use quantum-dot enhancement film (QDEF) for improved color performance. The TVs, sold by set-makers such as Electronics Sony, have viewed most industry pundits offering superior performance, particularly in contrast ...

Knowledge is the key for all organisations and the success of many of them depends on the effective deployment and continual enhancement of their knowledge base so as to be innovative and to remain/become competitive (Hamburg & Widmaier, 2004). As great challenges loom large for the world economy the need to manage company knowledge becomes more acute. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...

This study focuses on the poor and deteriorating quality of education in the Third World countries in relation to Cross-border in higher education (CBHE), as a result of colonisation and globalisation. By whatever standards, be they macroeconomic or social variable, the situation has been precipitous retrogression. Debt servicing obligation is on the increase. The subject is approached by appli...

Partitioning large graphs, in order to balance storage and processing costs across multiple physical machines, is becoming increasingly necessary as the typical scale of graph data continues to increase. A partitioning, however, may introduce query processing latency due to inter-partition communication overhead, especially if the query workload exhibits skew, frequently traversing a limited su...