OBJECTIVE To examine global food demand patterns and how changing diets may stimulate demand for and trade of Mediterranean diet products. DESIGN Literature review. Trends in global and US food consumption patterns are examined and trade data are reviewed to evaluate the impact of changing diets on trade of Mediterranean diet products. Market access issues are also addressed briefly to highli...

If cost reductions produce a cost-quality trade-off, healthcare policy makers need to be more circumspect about the use of cost-effective initiatives. Additional empirical evidence about the relationship between cost and quality is needed to design a value-based payment system. We examined the association between cost and quality performances for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) care at the ho...

In the traditional instructional method used in international trade, teachers provide knowledge to learners by lecturing using slides and setting assignments; however, these methods merely deliver international trade knowledge rather than facilitating student development of relevant skills. To solve these problems, we proposed a simulationbased learning system for international trade, combining...

Project Solutions. Increasing responsiveness is often dealt against decreasing another valuable resource. As responsiveness is a quality, the most significant resources in a software project to trade off are scope, cost, time, and other quality aspects. In a lot of systems, namely “embedded systems”, software is an integral part, but only one part of the system. Here trade-offs against hardware...

The ERNE project is briefly introduced. The single shot nature of an instrument development project highlights the importance of the concept of process. Useful concepts of process management are reviewed. Trade-off situations and optimisation of diverse requirements are commonplace in space instrument projects. The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method is discussed as a potential tool for qu...

This paper examines time series evidence to establish a link between trade, economic growth and income inequality in Bangladesh. The empirical results from a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model suggest that there is some evidence of trade liberalization accelerating growth in Bangladesh. Trade openness promotes investment. We find little evidence of trade affecting income distribution or of incom...

As a result of rapid economic growth and increased influence of globalization in international trade activities, intra-industry trade (IIT) becomes prominent across Asia including Malaysia. Free trade agreements and creations of free trade areas have encourage increased cross border investments through production networking as well as fragmentation of production, especially in manufacturing sec...

Weak enforcement of international contracts can substantially reduce international trade. We develop a model where agents build reputations to overcome the difficulties that this institutional failure causes in a context of incomplete information. The model describes the interplay between institutional quality, reputations and the dynamics of international trade. We find that the conditional pr...

It is inadequate to just assure the functional requirements. Quality of service (QoS) must also be satisfied. An important challenge for developing efficient Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to maintain the QoS attributes because of compositional and dynamical environment of SOA. It is significant to scrutinize how quality attributes are supported by SOA. However, implementation of SOA pr...