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Strategic motivators and expected benefits from e-Commerce in traditional organisations
This paper aims to identify the strategic motivators and expected benefits related to the implementation of e-commerce infrastructures in traditional “brick and mortar” organisations. Despite the fact that the clearest benefit from e-commerce might be expected to come from contribution to corporate profits, either from an increase of sales or reduction of costs, but this may not be the case. The literature suggests that there are different ways in which the potential benefits can be assessed. These ways are directly related to the evolution of e-commerce. This research has chosen six representative organisations from different sectors to explore their rationales for their e-commerce strategies. One of the main benefits reported is to increase the focus on the customer and improving internal communications. Additionally, obtaining competitive advantage was found to be a powerful motivator, despite the fact that the recent academic literature suggests that this is very difficult to achieve
A 3D Printed Toolbox for Opto-Mechanical Components
Nowadays is very common to find headlines in the media where it is stated
that 3D printing is a technology called to change our lives in the near future.
For many authors, we are living in times of a third industrial revolution.
Howerver, we are currently in a stage of development where the use of 3D
printing is advantageous over other manufacturing technologies only in rare
scenarios. Fortunately, scientific research is one of them. Here we present the
development of a set of opto-mechanical components that can be built easily
using a 3D printer based on Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and parts that can
be found on any hardware store. The components of the set presented here are
highly customizable, low-cost, require a short time to be fabricated and offer
a performance that compares favorably with respect to low-end commercial
alternatives.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figure
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The academic achievement of bilingual students: A study of limited English proficient and reclassified students
Quark-Meson Coupling model based upon the Nambu-Jona Lasinio model
The NJL model for the octet baryons, using proper time regularization to
simulate some of the features of confinement, is solved self-consistently in
nuclear matter. This provides an alternative framework to the MIT bag model
which has been used in the quark-meson coupling model. After fitting the
parameters of the model to the saturation properties of symmetric nuclear
matter the model is used to explore the equation of state of pure neutron
matter as well as nuclear matter at densities relevant to heavy ion collisions.
With a view to future studies of high mass neutron stars, the binding of
hyperons is also explored.Comment: 7 pages and 4 figure
R-Band Imaging of Fields Around 1<z<2 Radiogalaxies
We have taken deep -band images of fields around five radiogalaxies:
0956+47, 1217+36, 3C256, 3C324 and 3C294 with . 0956+47 is found to
show a double nucleus. Our data on 1217+36 suggest the revision of its
classification as a radiogalaxy. We found a statistically significant excess of
bright () galaxies on scales of 2 arcmin around the radiogalaxies
(which have ) in our sample. The excess has been determined
empirically to be at level. It is remarkable that this excess
is not present for galaxies within the same area, suggesting that
the excess is not physically associated to the galaxies but due to intervening
groups and then related to gravitational lensing.Comment: 20 pages, uuencoded compressed PostScript including tables. Figures
available upon request. To appear in the March 1995 issue of The Astronomical
Journa
What’s missing in desire?
Tanto el proceso metafórico como el interpretativo consisten en tomar algo extraño como algo familiar en función de la perspectiva que la fuerza del deseo propone. Partiendo de este supuesto intentaremos mostrar en este trabajo que lo que falta en el deseo, más que el objeto, es una relación interactiva, es decir, el vínculo por el que ese supuesto objeto faltante se podría abrir a la experiencia hermenéutica de tomar algo como algo. Y para ello seguiremos las consecuencias que se derivan de la pregunta por la relación imposible que formuló Leclaire en su artículo sobre la realidad del deseo. Si se pueden concebir dos elementos sin que exista entre ellos ninguna relación posible, lo que falta, entonces, no será ninguno de estos elementos sino el nexo hermenéutico que los podría conectar, y ahí es justamente el lugar en donde se instala el deseo.Both the metaphorical process and the interpretative one consist of taking something strange as something familiar depending on the perspective that the force of desire proposes. Starting from this supposition we will try to show in this work that what is missing in desire, more than the object, is an interactive relation, that is to say, the link which might open this supposed missing object for the hermeneutic experience of taking something as something. And to this purpose we will follow the consequences that stem from the question about the impossible relation that Leclaire formulated in his paper about the reality of desire. If one can conceive two elements that do not have between them any possible relation, what is missing at the time will not be any of these elements but the hermeneutic link that might connect them, and this is exactly the place where one installs the desire
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