The paper will discuss managerial knowledge challenges in global sourcing relationships faced by two small and medium enterprises (SMEs) competing in a highly globalized industry (textiles). Each company has changed its global sourcing setup due to the continuing globalization of their manufacturing and distribution activities; and in this process have experienced how the relational set-up in t...

A hierarchical framework is proposed to address the issues of modeling different type of words in keyword spotting (KWS). Keyword models are built at various levels according to the availability of training set resources for each individual word. The proposed approach improves the performance of KWS even when no training speech is available for the keywords. It also suggests an easier way to co...

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This article explores the political implications of the growing enmeshment of human communities with each other over time and the way in which the fate of peoples is determined increasingly by complex social, economic and environmental processes that stretch across their borders. Examining the growing interconnections between states and societies, the article focuses on the transformations that...

GeoBrain is a Web based geospatial information and knowledge system that adopts and implements the newly emerged geospatial Web service technologies. It provides innovative methods in remote sensing education to prepare students with world-view training and experiences, transfer spatial data and information technologies to the professional workforce and society at large, and meet the increasing...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 121 I. NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEWS OF FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS OF U.S. TELECOM BUSINESSES............................................................ 126 II. FCC CONDITIONS ON A MERGER OF DOMESTIC TELECOM CARRIERS ....................................................................................... 14...