Hungarian IT: Coping with Economic Transition and Globalization

This paper examines the impact of economic transition on the information technology industry in Hungary. It highlights some of the challenges faced by policy makers and businesses in their efforts to ensure that Hungarian technology capabilities survive the onslaught of fierce competition from abroad, and that the industry continues to grow and innovate in the context of a rapidly globalising economy. The paper is based on extensive field research conducted by the author in Hungary during 1998-2002

ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

This Is Issue Voice over lP: Still Emerging After All These Years Unified Messaging: A Killer App tor lP State-of-the-Art Communications at SUNY Upstate Medical OptlPuter Enables More Powerful Collaborative Research Wireless Technology: A Major Area of Telecommunications Growth Ready for Convergence: lT Management and Technologists Innovation Culture Clashes Speech Recognition Solves Problems Interview President\u27s Message From the Executive Directo

The Anesthesia Continuing Education Market and the Value Creation From a Sustainable Unified Platform

Practicing anesthesia professionals in the United States are all governed by various profession-specific regulatory bodies that mandate continuing education (CE) requirements. To date, no unified resource exists for anesthesia professionals (i.e., Anesthesiologists, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Anesthesiologist Assistants) to explore the CE offerings available within the marketplace. This study endeavored to convey the potential value of a unified anesthesia CE resource. It investigated how to cultivate a sustainable platform to potentially improve how anesthesia professionals search available CE offerings and to potentially enhance how anesthesia CE providers reach anesthesia professionals. This qualitative study was conducted utilizing an integrative review of the literature. The key concepts identified and investigated were network effect, segmentation, first to market, best of breed, search costs, transaction costs, minimally viable product, evolutionary phases of platforms, platform theory, platform business model, platform economy, and types of platforms. Inductive content analysis was chosen as the organizational method for the resultant qualitative data. The goal of the analysis was to create a conceptual, practical, and strategically applicable platform paradigm for the anesthesia CE marketplace driven by the insights and amalgamations from the literature. The analyzed concepts, dimensions, and indicators of platform successes and their applications potentially facilitate anesthesia professionals’ CE explorations and CE providers’ marketing efforts, as well as contextualize the overarching impacts and implications onto the anesthesia CE industry and beyond. The conclusion portrays these impacts and implications

Can Mergers be Exploited to Consistently Generate Value and Gains?

Despite the amount of research in the field of mergers and acquisitions, there still exists a significant gap in the literature. In fact, there is strong debate regarding the knowledge of the key determinants of post-merger performance. One side argues that the determinants are unknown to us and powerless in predicting performance whereas the other side asserts that many are captured in our understanding of the complicated process of mergers. Therefore, this study seeks to evaluate both sides of this debate and provide a better understanding of the conceptual framework of M&A. In addition, this study seeks to identify some of these still unknown determinants and generate a benchmark for future study to help facilitate their identification and research

Classical Philology: from sign, to sound, to meaning

Il lavoro presenta le ricerche svolte ed i risultati ottenuti per consentire alle persone non vedenti lo studio quanto più autonomo del greco antico tramite sintesi vocale. Una introduzione storica ripercorre la prima vicenda professionale dell'esercizio della professione docente delle lettere classiche da parte di un soggetto privo di vista, mentre il riferimento alla legislazione contemporanea tenta di disegnare una cornice capace dei più moderni approdi supportati dalle tecnologie informatiche. La Tesi illustra infine il funzionamento dei vari dispositivi prodotti, mentre una importante appendice ripercorre le pubblicazioni via via curate dal Gruppo di Studio, accogliendo infine le trascrizioni dei codici di programmazione delle sintesi vocali realizzate. Essa affida così all'Università la prosecuzione delle ricerche delineando ulteriori ipotesi di sviluppo.The paper presents the research carried out and the results obtained to enable people who are blind study ancient greek as autonomous via speech synthesis. A historical introduction traces the first year professional career in the teaching of classics by a person without sight, while the reference to the contemporary legislation attempts to draw a frame capable of the most modern solutions supported by information technology. Finally, the thesis illustrates the operation of the various devices produced, while an important appendix traces the publications gradually prepared by the Study Group, finally accepting transcripts of programming codes made for speech synthesis software. It entrusts the University as a continuation of the research outlining further development hypothesis