Constant pressure to increase return on assets has firms seeking ways to reduce their working capital costs. In the cash management area, firms are employing more sophisticated collection and disbursement systems. Cash management systems today efficiently speed up collections and, at the end of the day, sweep excess balances into money market accounts. Cash managers focus on finding the optimal...

Today, the adaptation to effects of changing behavior and attitudes Algerian companies has become a necessity. The current work aims provide real-time information drawn from field involvement with use performance indicators, in order have global vision general situation company. This allows for fulfilling functions such as awareness, guidance, decision support, strategic planning. These indicat...

BACKGROUND Poor quality of care at health facilities is a barrier to pregnant women and their families accessing skilled care. Increasing evidence from low resource countries suggests care women receive during labor and childbirth is sometimes rude, disrespectful, abusive, and not responsive to their needs. However, little is known about how frequently women experience these behaviors. This stu...

Abstract Previous research shows that female managers narrow the gender wage gap (GWG) among workers but does not disentangle two general underlying mechanisms. First, might use their organizational power to change practices and make organizations more gender-equal. Second, benefit from interacting with a manager, e.g. through homophily mentoring. To these mechanisms, I distinguish between at f...

of TO DISCLOSE OR NOT TO DISCLOSE: THAT IS THE QUESTION by Lynne Boone Statement of the Problem The disclosure dilemma can be challenging for students with disabilities leaving a community college setting and entering the workforce. There is a general lack of knowledge regarding their rights and responsibilities concerning disclosure. Resources pertaining to disclosure are limited on the Americ...

As shopping through e-commerce portals continues to grow, personal information disclosure is becoming more commonplace. The proposed research employs Cue Utilization Theory (CUT) to better understand how extrinsic cues, intrinsic cues, or a combination of both, influence truthful consumer disclosure of personal demographic information. The two relevant cues used in the study are security featur...

We propose a kind of agent called probe-agent, which is responsible to collect and monitor the data and information according to its goals. On the other hand, it can summarize the collected data and information into the reports and forward to the higher level agents or the manager automatically. In this paper, goal-oriented approach is applied to model the probe-agents and the architecture is g...

Dynamic resource management is a crucial part of the infrastructure for emerging distributed real-time embedded systems, responsible for keeping mission-critical applications operating and allocating the resources necessary for them to meet their requirements. Because of this, the resource manager must be fault-tolerant, with nearly continuous operation. This paper describes our efforts to deve...

A workkow management systems (WFMS) employs a workkow manager (WM) to execute and automate the various activities within a workkow. To protect the consistency of data, the WM encapsulates each activity with a transaction; a transaction manager (TM) then guarantees the atomicity of activities. Since workkows often group several activities together, the TM is responsible for guaranteeing the atom...