The Department of Community Nursing and the Open Learning Centre of Technikon Natal (South Africa) and the community-owned Community Development Programme are collaborating to provide online learning to rural and urban community nurses. The project involves the development of a multimedia pharmacology course, a virtual Internet class, and the provision of information points (telecenters) in fac...

In this paper, aiming at the problems of backward overall technology, weak competitiveness, poor operation efficiency and low production and economic efficiency in Liaoning equipment manufacturing industry, we based on the theory of constrains and used the DEA model to research its technology upgrading input and output efficiency to find its bottleneck, and then analysis its cause, finally put ...

In the past two decades, China’s manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer, we analyze the effect of exposure to import competition on earnings and employment of U.S. workers over 1992 through 2007. Individuals who in 1991 ...

All industries world wide are facing intense competitions due to globalization and they are forced to adopt more flexible, integrated and highly automated methods for production in order to increase their productivity at reduced costs and with maximum customer satisfaction. This objective is to be achieved without any sacrifice in Quality, since the customer in this era is highly knowledgeable ...

Recently Just-In-Time (JIT) production has attracted increasing interest throughout the Chinese manufacturing industries and its programs have been widely implemented. Currently, there are few studies conducted about JIT manufacturing implemented by small manufacturing firms in China, even though small firms are still dominant in many areas of manufacturing industries in China. This study analy...

As a pillar industry in supporting Chinese economy, Chinese manufacturing industry consumes a large amount of energy and causes serious environmental pollutants. Better understanding the greening level of manufacturing industry is important to promote its green growth. Hence first this study, measures the green growth efficiency for Chinese manufacturing industries by applying the EBM measuring...

The paper argues that Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems (RMS) and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing (EBM) could play a very important role in the context of Green Revolution. The paper analyzes RMS as a machining system which can be created by incorporating basic process modules both hardware and software that can be interchangeable, rearranged or replaced quickly and reliably. The author...

t his paper investigates the gain of bilateral trade between china and u.s. in manufacturing sectors when both countries play a role in asymmetric (biased) growth of  international trade. our model includes a special case of biased growth theory in international trade. we collected labor productivity, export and import data by using classification of manufacturing industries, for u.s. and china...