While most prior studies on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Web Services adoption have focused on large counterparts, this research recognizes the importance of these technologies, and realizes the difficulties involved in their effective adoption by Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The aim of this paper is to study as to whether the resources constraints (time, finance, a...

March brings March Madness, the annual conclusion to the U.S. men’s college basketball season with two single elimination basketball tournaments showcasing the best college teams in the country. Almost as mad is the plethora of office pools across the country where the object is to pick a priori as many game winners as possible in the tournament. More generally, the object in an office pool is ...

Evidence suggests that small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have failed to capitalize on the Internet to facilitate the management of customer relations (e-CRM) and the creation of competitive advantage (Chen & Popovich, 2003; Geiger & Martin, 1999; McGowan et al., 2001; O’Toole, 2001). This is attributed to a lack of influence, time, finance and specialised knowledge, (Carson & Gilmore, 20...

The solar f-mode is a surface gravity wave which high horizontal wavenumber k and the frequency ω satisfy the dispersion relation ω2 = gk, where g is the surface gravity of the Sun. However, the observations of this mode revealed deviations from this simple dispersion relation. According to these observations for high values of k the f-mode frequency is significantly lower than the frequency gi...

Purpose: In all Western countries, ageing populations cause the demand for elderly care services to increase dramatically. In addition, elderly clients are getting more demanding about the services they require to fulfil their widely varying and multiple needs. Besides, cost reductions have been the focus of governmental policies and organisational practices for many years. Health care provider...

In New Zealand, small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role in the economy by their contribution to both employment and also to gross domestic product. Addressing issues pertinent to SMEs is of paramount importance in driving this sector forward. Information Technology (IT) emerges as one main enabler for SMEs in automating their operations, seeking new opportunities and...

Cloud computing is the current technological silver bullet that has been proposed for solving a variety of Information Systems (IS) problems facing organizations in developing countries including bridging the digital divide. However, the large number of cloud options available can make determining the most applicable solution for an organization non-trivial. This paper looks at these options an...

The development of the small business sector in Ukraine is believed to be central to economic reforms and to the creation of wealth and employment (Isakova, 1997). Given the inherent instability and general weakness of the Ukrainian economy, there have been many internal and external obstacles to the development of small enterprises in a variety of business sectors. However, the recent growth a...

This set of notes contains a basic outline of the most relevant aspects of particle velocity distributions in the solar corona, and how they have an impact on the spectral lines that are observed by UVCS/SOHO. It also provides documentation for the CUES numerical code which computes model coronal lines from input velocity distribution parameters. These notes were originally written for undergra...

Order of magnitude variations in relative elemental abundances are observed in the solar corona and solar wind. The instruments aboard SOHO make it possible to explore these variations in detail to determine whether they arise near the solar surface or higher in the corona. A substantial enhancement of low First Ionization Potential (FIP) elements relative to high FIP elements is often seen in ...