Background: “Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA)” has been formulated to control tobacco epidemic. This study was conducted assess level of awareness COTPA among vendors compliance at point sale.
 Methods: In cross-sectional study, one the areas central zone selected randomly. Vendors selling were interviewed all sales observed for practice COTPA.
 Results: Out 117 vendo...

Currently, multiple data vendors utilize the cloud-computing paradigm for trading raw data, associated analytical services, and analytic results as a commodity good. We observe that these vendors often move the functionality of data warehouses to cloud-based platforms. On such platforms, vendors provide services for integrating and analyzing data from public and commercial data sources. We pres...

To date, most research on IT outsourcing concludes that firms decide to outsource IT services because they believe that outside vendors possess production cost advantages when facing environmental and technological change. Yet it is not clear what enables vendors to provide production cost advantages and how. The paper elaborates on these two questions by combining existing research literature ...

The objectives of this research are to describe competitive environment in software industry in Japan and to understand the differences of characteristics among maker-turned, user-turned and independent vendors. Based on management frameworks such as Porter’s five forces and Barney’s resource-based view, we developed the measurement model of environmental threats and competitive strengths/weakn...

This paper analyses the dynamics of the informal economy in Cali Colombia. In particular it details the working lives and characteristics of street vendors in the main food market of the city, Santa Helena. It compares them with formal merchants in the same area and uncovers a major difference in income. Street vendors make more money. Government interventions to revitalize the area and create ...

Independent software vendors need to grow beyond their domestic markets. Software producing organizations are faced with a great number of options and opportunities on how they choose to conduct internationalization. Interestingly, efforts conducted have a high failure rate and software companies rarely succeed at first. In this paper we present a systematic mapping study and the results of 20 ...

To offer the best performance to each application (e.g., decision support systems) administration and optimization of database management systems is needed. In order to reduce administration costs and to provide continuous adaptation to changing workload patterns, selfmanagement techniques have been in the focus of researchers and DBMS vendors for recent years. One important topic in this area ...

A aspect of better and more secure software is timely patch release by software vendors for the vulnerabilities in their products. Software vulnerability disclosure, which refers to the publication of vulnerability information, has generated intense debate. An important consideration in this debate is the behavior of software vendors. How quickly do vendors patch vulnerabilities and how does di...

One key aspect of better and more secure software is timely and reliable patching of vulnerabilities by software vendors. Recently, software vulnerability disclosure, which refers to the publication of vulnerability information before a patch to fix the vulnerability has been issued by the software vendor, has generated intense interest and debate. In particular, there have been arguments made ...

OBJECTIVES We studied respiratory problems among vendors exposed to cooking fumes in an open-air hawker center. Exposure to cooking fumes from either the use of fossil fuels or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has been shown to be associated with adverse respiratory health effects. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study among 67 food vendors exposed to cooking fumes as well as 18 merchandi...