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Integrating sustainability in cloud computing for managing sustainable knowledge in higher education
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IGI Global
, 2014 , Book chapter)
This chapter aims to present a conceptual model in order to facilitate sustainability in cloud computing resulting in sustainability in organizational knowledge in education. From one perspective, while cloud computing has ...
Expert Systems
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Expert systems mimic the problem-solving activity of human experts in specialized domains by capturing and representing expert knowledge. Expert systems include a knowledge base, an inference engine that derives conclusions ...
Barriers towards widespread adoption of V2G technology in smart grid environment: From laboratories to commercialization
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Springer International Publishing
, 2018 , Book chapter)
A new era of transportation has experienced electrification and undergoes notable changes in the last few decades. The concern about environmental friendly technology carries almost a huge expansion prospect to electric ...
Structuring IT function: Imperative for the new millennium
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Taylor and Francis
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Globalization of the world economy is made possible only by advances in information technology (IT). The IT function has come a long way from being organized as a centralized function to becoming a more distributed ...
Educational outcomes and labour market based on supply and demand: A Qatari perspective
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Taylor and Francis
, 2017 , Book chapter)
This article investigates the question of what are the stock and current flow of educational outcomes in Qatar and to what extent such outcomes are linked to the labour market and hence provide it with required skills. The ...
Creating value from business intelligence systems investments
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Taylor and Francis
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Both academics and practitioners have recognized the value of business intelligence systems (BI systems, hereafter) to enhance planning, control, decision-making, and organizational performance. This value stems from the ...
Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Economic growth is an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. The productive capacity can be increased by an increase in factors of production, such as capital, labor, or the level of technology. Economic growth ...
Corruption and Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ...
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ...
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ...