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SME international business models: The role of context and experience
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper addresses two questions through a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets prevail among SMEs and do they configure into ...
Beginner CFL learners' perceptions of language difficulty in a task-based teaching and learning (TBTL) environment in Denmark
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Information flows in construction projects are generally focused on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information ...
Large-scale simulations and performance evaluation of connected cars - A V2V communication perspective
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Performance evaluation is integral to the vast majority of research on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technology enabled connected cars. To validate ideas and concepts, researchers have been continuously striving towards the ...
Single- and multi-source battery-less power management circuits for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper presents a battery-less power management unit for piezoelectric energy harvesting which exploits a diode-based rectifier, a storage capacitor, and a custom trigger circuit to extract energy from a piezoelectric ...
A hybrid optimization-simulation approach for robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
We address the robust weekly aircraft routing and retiming problem, which requires determining weekly schedules for a heterogeneous fleet that maximizes the aircraft on-time performance, minimizes the total delay, and ...
On the optimal computing budget allocation problem for large scale simulation optimization
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Selecting a set that contains the best simulated systems is an important area of research. When the number of alternative systems is large, then it becomes impossible to simulate all alternatives, so one needs to relax the ...
A practical solution approach for the green vehicle routing problem
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Green vehicle routing (GVRP) is an active research area that is concerned with the development and analysis of distribution activities with eco-friendly vehicles. We propose a practical solution approach for the GVRP that ...
Comparisons of replacement policies with periodic times and repair numbers
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Periodic replacement policies modeled with the history of minimal repairs have been studied extensively. However, in the viewpoint of cost rate, there is no literature to compare replacement polices which are carried out ...
East meets West: Working together in interprofessional education and practice
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Elsevier Inc
, 2017 , Article)
[No abstract available]