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People in the E-Business: New Challenges, New Solutions
[Excerpt] Human Resource Planning Society’s (HRPS) annual State of the Art/Practice (SOTA/P) study has become an integral contributor to HRPS’s mission of providing leading edge thinking to its members. Past efforts conducted in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 have focused on identifying the issues on the horizon that will have a significant impact on the field of Human Resources (HR). This year, in a divergence from past practice, the SOTA/P effort aimed at developing a deeper understanding of one critical issue having a profound impact on organizations and HR, the rise of e-business. The rise of e-business has been both rapid and dramatic. One estimate puts the rate of adoption of the internet at 4,000 new users each hour (eMarketer, 1999) resulting in the expectation of 250 million people on line by the end of 2000, and 350 million by 2005 (Nua, 1999). E-commerce is expected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2003, and of that, 87 percent will go to the business to business (B2B) and 13 percent to the business to consumer (B2C) segments, respectively (Plumely, 2000)
Remote sensing in Michigan for land resource management
An extensive program was conducted to establish practical uses of NASA earth resource survey technology in meeting resource management problems throughout Michigan. As a result, a broad interest in and understanding of the usefulness of remote sensing methods was developed and a wide variety of applications was undertaken to provide information needed for informed decision making and effective action
Integrative framework and methods for coastal area management: proceedings
Coastal zone management, ASEAN,
Motion planning and assembly for microassembly workstation
In general, mechatronics systems have no standard
operating system that could be used for planning and
control when these complex devices are running. The
goal of this paper is to formulate a work platform that can
be used as a method for obtaining precision in the
manipulation of micro-entities using micro-scale
manipulation tools for microsystem applications. This
paper provide groundwork for motion planning and
assembly of the Micro-Assembly Workstation (MAW)
manipulation system. To demonstrate the feasibility of the
idea, the paper implements some of the motion planning
algorithms; it investigates the performance of the
conventional Euclidean distance algorithm (EDA),
artificial potential fields’ algorithm, and A* algorithm
when implemented on a virtual space
Seafloor characterization using airborne hyperspectral co-registration procedures independent from attitude and positioning sensors
The advance of remote-sensing technology and data-storage capabilities has progressed in the last decade to commercial multi-sensor data collection. There is a constant need to characterize, quantify and monitor the coastal areas for habitat research and coastal management. In this paper, we present work on seafloor characterization that uses hyperspectral imagery (HSI). The HSI data allows the operator to extend seafloor characterization from multibeam backscatter towards land and thus creates a seamless ocean-to-land characterization of the littoral zone
Autonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems
In this letter, we present a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can
autonomously harvest sweet pepper in protected cropping environments. Our
approach combines effective vision algorithms with a novel end-effector design
to enable successful harvesting of sweet peppers. Initial field trials in
protected cropping environments, with two cultivar, demonstrate the efficacy of
this approach achieving a 46% success rate for unmodified crop, and 58% for
modified crop. Furthermore, for the more favourable cultivar we were also able
to detach 90% of sweet peppers, indicating that improvements in the grasping
success rate would result in greatly improved harvesting performance
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