Internal constraints to business performance in black-owned small to medium enterprises in the construction industry by Robert H. Mafundu, Chengedzai Mafini

“…Setting: The study was conducted using a purposive sample of 13 professionals employed by five black-owned SMEs operating in the construction industry in Gauteng Province, South Africa. …”
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Hotel Chain’s Strategic Options to Penetrate the Romanian Market by Smaranda Cosma, Cristina Fleseriu, Marius Bota

“…The European hotel industry is dominated by small companies that own and operate a hotel. The rest of the market contains hotel chains. …”
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EVALUASI HARGA WAJAR SAHAM PT. ASURANSI JASA INDONESIA (Persero) by , Arya Budhi Darmawan, , Dr. Mamduh M. Hanafi, MBA.

“…Asuransi Jasa Indonesia or Asuransi Jasindo is a state-owned company operating in general insurance, which was founded in 1973. …”

Unified probabilistic gas and power flow by Yuan HU, Haoran LIAN, Zhaohong BIE, Baorong ZHOU

“…The uncertainties of one system will not only threaten its own safe operation but also be likely to have a significant impact on the other. …”
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Tourism digitalization paradox by Cherevichko, Tatiana Viktorovna, Temyakova, Tatiana Vitalievna

“…An important role in domestic tourism development is played by the creation of digital products, which include a mobile application-designer of tourist trips “Be your own tour operator”. The paper gives an example of building a tourist route in Samara, proves the advantages of using the services of the proposed application. …”
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Bouncer: A Resource-Aware Admission Control Scheme for Cloud Services by Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi, Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Hassan A. Khalil, Sunghwan Kim

“…Its services can be offered by either private or public infrastructures, depending on who owns the operational infrastructure. Much research has been conducted to improve a cloud’s resource provisioning techniques. …”
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Evaluation of the Thermal Resistance in GaN HEMTs Using Thermo-Sensitive Electrical Parameters by Adrian Valeriu Pirosca, Marcello Vecchio, Santi Agatino Rizzo, Francesco Iannuzzo

“…The thermal management of power converters is not only crucial for their own optimal operation and reliability, but also for the overall system in which they are operating. …”
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The application of linear programming to a coal-mining problem: A case study by W. G. Klerck, G. M.S. Turner

“…This article describes the application of linear programming to a problem faced by a small coal-mining company. The company owns two operating collieries, one supplies the general inland trade market while the other supplies a power station under a 30-year-tied contract. …”
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Android app for hawker centres by Xiao, Yao

“…All the stalls have their own respective operation hours. This Android app name “Wak Wak Hawker” included the hawker operating hours, location information and users can save the favorite Hawker Centres. …”
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Analysis and design of the Integrated Sistem Pemantauan Agensi Awam (ISPAAA) by Ali, Haddadi

“…From the comparison of work monitoring used by private and government project, it has shown that both of them have their owned Standard Operation Procedure used as a project monitoring method. …”

Multi-Unit franchising and relational governance: A study of operating networks in Brazil by Eugenio José Silva Bitti, Cintya Lanchimba, Diego Vilcacundo, Shirley Jamileth Narváez

“…The relationship between relational governance mechanisms and multi-unit franchising, where a single franchisee owns and operates multiple units, has received limited attention in the existing literature. …”
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PERIPHERAL TOURISM ENTREPRENEURS IN A RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENT: EVIDENCE FROM EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA by Zinzi SIXABA, Christian M. ROGERSON

“…It is shown that women own and operate the majority of these small accommodation businesses. …”
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A New Smart Grid Control and Operation Concept - Autonomic Power System by Gao Bo, Liu Guangyi, Qu Yanbin, Yang Zhanyong, Fan Shixiong, Yang Yang, Zhang Kai, Shu Bin, Zhou Tong

“…Meanwhile, under the concept of distributed coordination and autonomic control, autonomic units (AUs) in APS coordinate each other and make their own autonomic operation. APS takes not only an optimally and co-ordinately active control of power system, but also brings more intelligence with characteristics of self-configuration, self-optimization, self-protection and self-healing, i.e. self-management and overall self-adaption. …”
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Tire demand planning based on reliability and operating environment by Ali Nouri Qarahasanlou, Mohammad Ataei, Reza Khalokakaie, Behzad Ghodrati, Rasoul Jafarei

“…Spare parts management is critical from an operational perspective, especially in asset intensive industries, such as mining, as well as in organizations owning and operating costly assets. A knowledge of the tires’ behavior (historical data) must be considered together with the operating environment conditions (covariates). …”
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Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm by Wernerfelt, Birger, Silk, Alvin, Yu, Shuyi

“…<jats:p> In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies. Since then, large firms have internalized more and more of the services formerly performed by external agencies, perhaps as many as half. …”
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Experience and Prospects for the International Legal Cooperation in the Nuclear Area in the Arctic Region by M. N. Lysenko, E. V. Kienko, N. S. Kurova-Chernavina

“…Russia is the only state in the world that owns and operates a civilian nuclear icebreaker’s fleet on the Northern Sea Route. …”
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The UN Security Council and EU CSDP operations: exploring EU military operations from an outside perspective by Cornelia Klocker

“…The EU has supported UN peacekeeping missions through its own military operations within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), based on the authorisation of these operations by the UN Security Council. …”
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ERP & globalization: Challenges and responses by Šereš Laslo, Tumbas Pere

“…Enterprises cannot focus on gaining competitive advantage if they struggle to integrate their own international operations. Internal operations must be integrated before interoperability can be achieved on a global scale. …”
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Evaluation of Self-Reported Agricultural Tasks, Safety Concerns, and Health and Safety Behaviors of Young Adults in U.S. Collegiate Agricultural Programs by Jenna L. Gibbs, Kayla Walls, Carolyn E. Sheridan, David Sullivan, Marsha Cheyney, Brandi Janssen, Diane S. Rohlman

“…Most participants intended to work on a family-owned agricultural operation or for an agribusiness/cooperative following graduation. …”
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Managing power imbalance with cloud energy storage in imbalance band market environment by Se Hoon Baik, Yong Tae Yoon, Young Gyu Jin, Hee Seung Moon, Seung Wan Kim

“…The term of cloud energy storage is used as a platform that the operator owns and operates the storage, while subscribed clients pay a service fee for requesting charging and discharging operations. …”
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