A survey analysis of innovation information and input sourcing of New South Wales regional exporting firms indicates that the majority of regional exporters were small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The analysis shows that these SMEs have been able to establish their own extensive information linkages into the international economy. Consequently, the need to assess and develop the benefits...

Personal area networks such as home or small office LANs are usually more vulnerable to cyber-attacks than those with dedicated support staff and the ability to invest consistently in security defenses. In this paper we propose leveraging physical characteristics of these personal area networks in order to enable non-technical individuals to secure their networks or at least be aware that their...

‘There is no overwhelming evidence of a significant expansion in this type of employment in the 1980s. The only employment forms for which the evidence of expansion is unambiguous are self-employment and part-time employment. The latter is in any case primarily both permanent and direct employment. Temporary and contract work, homeworking and black economy work are the employment forms where ex...

Based on a random sample of 500 South Yorkshire non-hi-tech manufacturing small, medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the quantitative findings support the hypothesis that size, strategic, and market orientation associate with innovation. The results show that prospectors are medium-sized companies and small companies, defenders. Prospectors are more innovative and market-oriented than defenders. Th...

While entering WTO, Taiwan has become one of the members in the international community of globalization. The medium & small enterprises (M&SE), which accounts for 98 % of Taiwan industries facing even more competition due to insufficient capital, human resources, and limited organization scale. To achieve competitive edges for the globalization requires efficiency in doing business and scale i...

In this theoretical paper we propose an approach to the spatial implications of homeworking derived from the work of social theorist Henri Lefebvre. By highlighting the processes involved in the inherently contested and (re)constructed nature of space in the demarcated home / work environment we suggest a collapse of this demarcation and consider the impact of such a collapse on questions relat...

An uncalibrated solar hydrogen Lyman α profile was obtained with the use of the spectrometer on SOHO. The collection of the light scattered by the telescope permitted to average the profile over the full solar disk. The profile taken at the L1 Sun-Earth Lagrangian position is free of the central geocoronal absorption. Then, taking advantage of the absolute flux measured by the SOLSTICE/UARS spe...

Office settings and public places are indeed very different places. Whereas the development of mobile technologies has been informed by insights regarding the office the same cannot be said about the knowledge regarding public places. Still, mobile technologies are frequently used in public places. In this paper we focus on the problem of engaging with technology while others are present, which...

During the past year we have been engaged in an effort to develop a prototype community of fine-grained agents to support the orbit determination process for the SOHO [1] mission. This paper presents a high-level overview of what was accomplished.

In the present paper we report on the difference in angular sizes between radio-loud and radio-quiet CMEs. For this purpose we compiled these two samples of events using Wind/WAVES and SOHO/LASCO observations obtained during 1996-2005. It is shown that the radio-loud CMEs are almost two times wider than the radio-quiet CMEs (considering expanding parts of CMEs). Furthermore we show that the rad...