Small and medium-sized enterprizes : opportunities and challenges

Small and medium-sized enterprises play a major role in national economy. However, their lifetime is limited by the micro-economic climate. This paper discusses whether credit exposure has a major impact on the rate of bankruptcy and this hypothesis is verified by means of statistical methods, based on official statistical data and selected published studies and researches. The hypothesis was not fully confirmed in our investigation. The output of the paper was an evaluation of the dependency of bankruptcy of SMEs on their credit exposure and the presentation of other factors that might have an impact of SMEs, making them either successful or going to bankruptcy.peer-reviewe

Stabilization factors of family enterprises in the context of macroeconomic performance

The article describes performance and stabilization factors in the context of macroeconomic performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which comprise also family businesses (SMEs) in the Czech Republic. We consider the number of SMEs active entrepreneurial subjects, the number of SMEs employees, the accounting value added of SMEs and the wage costs of SMEs the performance and stabilization factors. As a representative of macroeconomic performance the authors chose GDP. The stability and performance of SMEs are examined through statistical methods: the Pearson correlation coefficient and the average growth factor. The statistical methods are applied to the data time series between 2002 and 2016. The stability and performance factors are mutually measured and evaluated.peer-reviewe

Development of a consensus classification of physiotherapy interventions in paediatric neurorehabilitation

Background and Aims Physiotherapy within paediatric neurorehabilitation is a complex process whereby the relationship between treatments delivered and resultant severity-adjusted patient outcomes have been difficult to demonstrate. An essential prerequisite for analysing physiotherapy input at the point of its delivery to the patient is to have clear descriptions and categories of physiotherapy interventions. Recent work in this area has focussed on grouping treatments based on their common essential ingredients. The aim of this work is to develop an expert-lead consensus classification of physiotherapy interventions used in paediatric neurorehabilitation, categorised according to their essential ingredients, actions and mediators. Method Comprehensive literature searches of five electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, AMED, CINAHL and PsychINFO) together with supplementary hand searching identified 4,194 studies which were separated into 34 different interventions following cross-referencing with other sources. These were then divided into eight distinct categories according to their essential treatment ingredients. A panel of 13 expert physiotherapists specialising in the field of paediatric neurorehabilitation were consulted in two rounds of an online modifiedDelphi survey (a method commonly used to glean expert consensus). Results In modified-Delphi survey rounds 1 and 2 respectively, eight (62%) and nine (69%) of the experts responded. Utilising a threshold of ≥75% agreement set a priori to represent expert consensus, there was agreement that the eight categories are comprehensive (complete) and unambiguous (easily understood). What remains less clear is the extent to which these categories are independent of one another. Discussion This categorisation of physiotherapy interventions within paediatric neurorehabilitation is the first of its kind to group treatments according to their essential treatment ingredients. Such work adds the potential for gleaning greater understanding regarding how physiotherapy leads to improved patient outcomes within paediatric neurorehabilitation. Further work is required in this area to better understand the extent to which different categories are truly independent or where similarities exist between them

Ipratropium/Salbutamol Comparator Versus Originator for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations : USA Observational Cohort Study Using the Clinformatics™ Health Claims Database

Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank Priyanka Raju Konduru of Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute Pte Ltd (OPRI) for assistance with data extraction. This study was sponsored and funded by Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products, R&D, Inc. Lynanne McGuire, PhD, of MedVal Scientific Information Services, LLC (Princeton, NJ, USA) provided medical writing and editorial assistance. This manuscript was prepared according to the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals’ ‘Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: the GPP3 Guidelines.’ Funding to support medical writing assistance was provided to MedVal by Teva Branded Pharmaceutical Products R&D, Inc., Frazer, PA, USA. Teva provided a full review of the article and provided funding of the journal’s article processing charges. All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given final approval to the version to be published. All authors had full access to all of the data in this study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the data analysis.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Proyecto SMED: Aplicación real de técnicas de cambio rápido en el entorno Lean Manufacturing

[ES] Este trabajo final de grado expone el uso de la técnica SMED, en un entorno Lean Manufacturing, para resolver un problema de disponibilidad de máquinas en una empresa de matricería en el sector del automóvil. En el trabajo se desarrolla cual es la motivación para el desarrollo del proyecto, el marco teórico en el que nos basamos, la implantación práctica de las técnicas de cambio rápido, siguiendo los pasos de la metodología SMED y los resultados obtenidos.Martínez Mares, D. (2022). Proyecto SMED: Aplicación real de técnicas de cambio rápido en el entorno Lean Manufacturing. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/180974TFG

Using time-frequency analysis to determine time-resolved detonation velocity with microwave interferometry

Two time-frequency analysis methods based on the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and continuous wavelet transform (CWT) were used to determine time-resolved detonation velocities with microwave interferometry (MI). The results were directly compared to well-established analysis techniques consisting of a peak-picking routine as well as a phase unwrapping method (i.e., quadrature analysis). The comparison is conducted on experimental data consisting of transient detonation phenomena observed in triaminotrinitrobenzene and ammonium nitrate-urea explosives, representing high and low quality MI signals, respectively. Time-frequency analysis proved much more capable of extracting useful and highly resolved velocity information from low quality signals than the phase unwrapping and peak-picking methods. Additionally, control of the time-frequency methods is mainly constrained to a single parameter which allows for a highly unbiased analysis method to extract velocity information. In contrast, the phase unwrapping technique introduces user based variability while the peak-picking technique does not achieve a highly resolved velocity result. Both STFT and CWT methods are proposed as improved additions to the analysis methods applied to MI detonation experiments, and may be useful in similar applications

Virtualización del Módulo de Ventas Multicamal utilizando el estándar de Arquitectura Websphere Message Broker para la integración de Aplicaciones en el Centro de Investigación Tecnológica BCP

Este proyecto de investigación se ha desarrollado con la finalidad de integrar las aplicaciones del módulo de motor de ventas multicanal utilizando la arquitectura ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) utilizando WebSphere Message Broker. La utilización de esta arquitectura es importante debido a que permite, a través de un único canal, poder ejecutar las acciones pertinentes con la finalidad de que las aplicaciones consumidoras de servicios obtengan la data necesaria y en el formato adecuado por parte de las aplicaciones proveedoras; además, al utilizar WebSphere Message Broker, se permite la reutilización de servicios toda vez que es este medio el que realiza las transformaciones necesarias para que las aplicaciones consumidoras puedan utilizar la data expuesta por parte de las aplicaciones proveedoras. Se ha implementado este proyecto utilizando herramientas diseñadas por el banco como MFX o Mensajería Financiera Badasa en XML, el cual es un estándar desarrollado por el BCP, principalmente porque es aplicable a la realidad del banco, es abierto a ser extendido y simple pero bien estructurado. Estos servicios, que han sido implementados utilizando WebSphere Message Broker, son denominados servicios virtualizados debido a que son servicios generados a partir de otros servicios de negocio y nunca desde el aplicativo Core. Además para la implementación de estos servicios virtualizados se ha hecho uso de SOA o Arquitectura orientada a servicios por sus siglas en inglés, toda vez que SOA proporciona técnicas útiles y necesarias para construir servicios utilizando Web Sphere Message Broke