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Journal articles on the topic "Export country selection"
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Nugroho, Yunanto Adi, Yu Sekiguchi, and Elia Oey. "Export Country Selection with Fuzzy AHP and PROMETHEE." International Journal of Business Excellence 1, no. 1 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijbex.2019.10021856.
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Wang, Chia Nan, and Anh Phuong Le. "Application in International Market Selection for the Export of Goods: A Case Study in Vietnam." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (December 5, 2018): 4621. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124621.
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International market selection for conducting exports is based on various trade and economic factors. It is very important to understand how to efficiently trade with another country and to maintain consistency. However, such a consistency is not possible in the case of economics. Therefore, using an efficiency measure helps us to explore and benchmark a country’s exportation businesses. The main goal of this study is to develop an integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to explore the most productive manner through which Vietnam exports goods to other countries. Exploring the most productive export business will help us achieve another goal of this study, which is the selection of international market efficiencies. The variables used for this analysis include the exports, total exports, import tariff, dollar exchange, and the ease of doing business. Based on the data collected from an international organization, on the 15 leading export markets in Vietnam, this study applied integrated DEA, which combines the super slack-based measure (Super SBM) and Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) analysis to evaluate the export market efficiency. The findings show that for the selection of the export market, the three countries that were the most consistently efficient during 2014–2017 were Malaysia, Singapore, and the United States. This study indicates that the selection of international markets for developing countries should comply with low tariff rates, low exchange rates, and a higher ease of doing business in order to improve the gross domestic product (GDP) and economy of the country.
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Viviers, Wilma, Ludo Cuyvers, Ermie Steenkamp, Sonja Grater, Marianne Matthee, and Waldo Krugell. "Identifying New Product And Service Export Opportunities For South Africa Using A Decision Support Model." International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) 13, no. 6 (October 31, 2014): 1403. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/iber.v13i6.8930.
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In the face of slow economic growth and development, and the perennial problems of unemployment, poverty and inequality, the South African government and business community have long recognised the importance of growing and diversifying the countrys tangible goods and services export sectors. One of the challenges in designing and implementing effective export promotion strategies is identifying the right markets, given South Africas ever-fluid skills, capacity and trading relationships. The Decision Support Model (DSM) is an export market selection tool that makes use of a sophisticated filtering process to sift through an extensive range of product-/service- and country-related data to reveal those product-/service-country combinations (export opportunities) that are the most realistic and sustainable. The DSM, which has been applied for Belgium, Thailand and South Africa, not only brings greater precision to the export market selection process, but also unveils opportunities that may not have been contemplated before thus supporting the quest for export diversification. This paper examines the role of the DSM for products and the DSM for services, respectively, and illustrates how, using the results from the application of these models, they herald the start of a new era in export market selection and promotion in South Africa.
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Costinot, Arnaud, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, and Iván Werning. "Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy With Firm Heterogeneity." Econometrica 88, no. 6 (2020): 2739–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ecta14763.
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The empirical observation that “large firms tend to export, whereas small firms do not” has transformed the way economists think about the determinants of international trade. Yet, it has had surprisingly little impact on how economists think about trade policy. Under very general conditions, we show that from the point of view of a country that unilaterally imposes trade taxes to maximize domestic welfare, the self‐selection of heterogeneous firms into exports calls for import subsidies on the least profitable foreign firms. In contrast, our analysis does not provide any rationale for export subsidies or taxes on the least profitable domestic firms.
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Siddiqui, Areej Aftab, and Parul Singh. "Institutional environment, competencies and firm export performance: A study of the emerging country." Corporate Ownership and Control 18, no. 2 (2021): 169–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv18i2art14.
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The study is an attempt to examine the determinants and impact of export propensity and export intensity for firm-level performance in India. The factors determining export propensity are political stability, corruption, and competition from the informal sector while the determinants of export intensity in the present study are identified as a skill of the labour force, the technological capability of a firm, and foreign ownership of technology in a firm in India. A two-stage Heckman selection model has been advanced to investigate the linkage between the export performance of Indian firms with the home institutional environment and firm competencies. Firm-level data of approximately 8,000 Indian firms are used as available from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys (WBES) database. The results indicate that political stability and competition effect export propensity of Indian firms while export intensity is impacted by access to technology and employing skilled labour. The study has important theoretical implications in terms of understanding the exporting behaviour of firms. It indicates that the decision of firms to export and their export performance are interlinked. It is affirmed that export intensity is dependent on firm-specific competencies while institutions indirectly influence the decision of firms to export. The policy measures of Skill India and Make in India strongly favour increased access to the skilled labour force and strengthening the domestic industry which may lead to an increase in the export intensity of Indian firms. The recent institutional measures adopted favour a stable environment of doing business as well as providing firms opportunities to focus and leverage their competencies in the best possible manner. The current nascent steps of policy reforms need to be aggressively implemented for enhanced export capabilities of Indian firms
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Deng, Chuang. "Analysis of Trade Diversion Effect Under Sino-us Trade Friction - Taking Developing Countries and Developed Countries As Examples." E3S Web of Conferences 275 (2021): 01031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127501031.
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Under the background of sino-us trade friction, what kind of trade diversion effect will china produce to the third country market. Based on the monthly import and export data of China and its 11 major trading partners from January 2014 to December 2019, this paper analyzes the trade diversion of sino-us trade frictions to China’s neighboring countries by using the double-difference and panel quantile methods, and through the selection of developing countries and developed countries as a control group for the spillover effects of trade transfer analysis. Empirical analysis: under the background of China’s trade frictions, China’s imports and exports to the United States have been significantly negatively affected, the trade conflict between China and the United States has a significant trade diversion effect on the third country, and the spillover effect on the developing country is larger and longer-term than that on the developed country.
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Oey, Elia, Yu Sekiguchi, and Yunanto Adi Nugroho. "Export country selection with fuzzy AHP and PROMETHEE - a case study of a shoe sole manufacturer." International Journal of Business Excellence 22, no. 2 (2020): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijbex.2020.109954.
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Stouraitis, Vassilios, Mior Harris Mior Harun, and Markos Kyritsis. "Motivators of SME initial export choice and the European Union regional effect in manufacturing." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 23, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-05-2015-0120.
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Purpose A global reach in exporting has been linked to profitability. The purpose of this paper is to answer the influence of EU regulations on exporting decisions of UK manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs) by investigating the home and host country-based motivators behind SMEs’ choice to export, and export regionally, within the EU. Design/methodology/approach Contrasting the Uppsala and resource-based view perspectives (using a sample of UK independent manufacturing SMEs and utilizing a survey, correlation analysis and factor analysis), the paper finds and describes the effect of the most recurrent motivators from the literature on the SMEs’ decision to export within the EU or not. Findings The paper finds that SMEs whose latest international market entry was not in the EU scored significantly higher in the factor scorings for the motivators in the external dimension than participants whose latest entry was in the EU. Several motivators show an association with the choice to export per se. The importance of regionalization to export initiation (and EU membership) within the EU is emphasized in the results. Research limitations/implications The sample size is limited. Practical implications In the current climate, how can SMEs reduce market research costs for managers by relying solely and proactively on home country and internal advantages and motivators and being more aware of their surroundings? Managers and policymakers can direct their strategy, resources and policy more efficiently according to motivators; internal home country motivators (e.g. strengths of prices of products) direct the SME to overcome inter-regional liability of foreignness, while host country motivators (e.g. legal restrictions in the host country) direct them to regional ventures. Originality/value The theoretical and empirical work on the topic, until recently, has been fragmented and inconsistent focusing on specific motivators but not necessarily justifying the selection or origin of variables even less on SMEs.
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Yadav, Niru. "The Role of Internet Use on International Trade: Evidence from Asian and Sub-Saharan African Enterprises." Global Economy Journal 14, no. 2 (February 22, 2014): 189–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/gej-2013-0038.
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Internet use is expected to reduce fixed information-related costs of entering international markets. This paper looks at the impact of internet use by developing country firms from Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa on their export and input import behavior. Using the enterprise survey dataset from the World Bank, the paper finds that e-mail and own website use have a positive impact on the extensive margin of enterprise export and input import behavior but not on the intensive margin. In addition, both these internet tools affect export and input import likelihood of manufacturing enterprises only and not of service enterprises. These results are robust after controlling for self-selection bias and for factors that may affect both internet adoption and international market participation.
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Cuyvers, Ludo, Ermie Steenkamp, Wilma Viviers, Riaan Rossouw, and Martin Cameron. "Identifying Thailand’s high-potential export opportunities in ASEAN+3 countries." Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 16, no. 1 (March 20, 2017): 2–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jitlp-09-2016-0019.
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Purpose This paper aims to identify Thailand’s realistic export opportunities (REOs) in the ASEAN+3 countries (i.e. ASEAN, Greater China, Japan and South Korea), which together constitute an economically dynamic region and a strategic export destination for Thailand. Furthermore, the paper seeks to determine the extent to which Thailand already has a share in ASEAN+3 countries and where new opportunities lie. This allows the formulation of appropriate export promotion strategies for Thailand. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used is a decision support model (DSM) which uses an extensive data-filtering system to systematically screen and eliminate less-promising product–country combinations to ultimately reveal high-potential REOs. Product–country combinations are screened on the basis of country risk; macro-economic country performance; market potential in terms of import growth and import market size; and market access conditions, including market concentration and the existence of trade barriers. The thus narrowed-down REOs are categorised according to Thailand’s relative market share in, and the characteristics of, the identified import markets. Findings The study reveals that the ASEAN+3 countries account for about 40 per cent of the total potential export value of Thailand’s REOs in the world, with China leading the way (12.45 per cent), followed by Japan (8.56 per cent) and South Korea (6.23 per cent). However, Thailand has a relatively small or intermediately small market share in the majority of these REOs, pointing to the need for more offensive and exploratory export promotion strategies. Research limitations/implications The ASEAN+3 countries – given that they are an abundant source of REOs for Thailand and are in Thailand’s “backyard” – should receive more focused attention and resources in government export promotion efforts. The recent launch of the ASEAN Economic Community and the proposed establishment of an East Asia Free Trade Area lend weight to the idea of Thailand adopting a strong regional focus in its export activities. Practical implications The insights derived from the study are valuable for export promotion officials, industry representatives and practising exporters alike, as they constitute an easy-to-digest snapshot of high-potential REOs for Thailand in the ASEAN+3 region. This makes for more efficient planning and prioritising of export development activities, and a more streamlined approach to resource allocation. Originality/value Export promotion shows diminishing returns and requires sustainable strategies and interventions. The value in this paper lies in its description of an innovative market selection tool, the DSM, which is able to process and filter high volumes of information and arrive at a shortlist of high-potential REOs for Thailand in the ASEAN+3 countries. The paper represents a concise case study of the DSM in practice, which should be of particular interest to export promotion agencies, industry associations and both new and more established exporting countries.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Export country selection"
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Gould, Richard Robert, and RichardGould@ozemail com au. "International market selection-screening technique: replacing intuition with a multidimensional framework to select a short-list of countries." RMIT University. Social Science & Planning, 2002. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20081125.145312.
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The object of this research was to develop an international market screening methodology which selects highly attractive markets, allowing for the ranges in diversity amongst organisations, countries and products. Conventional business thought is that, every two to five years, dynamic organisations which conduct business internationally should decide which additional foreign market or markets to next enter. If they are internationally inexperienced, this will be their first market; if they are experienced, it might be, say, their 100th market. How should each organisation select their next international market? One previous attempt has been made to quantitatively test which decision variables, and what weights, should be used when choosing between the 230 countries of the world. The literature indicate that a well-informed selection decision could consider over 150 variables that measure aspects of each foreign market's economic, political, legal, cultural, technical and physical environments. Additionally, attributes of the organisation have not been considered when selecting the most attractive short-list of markets. The findings presented in the dissertation are that 30 criteria accounted for 95 per cent of variance at cross-classification rates of 95 per cent. The weights of each variable, and the markets selected statistically as being the most attractive, were found to vary with the capabilities, goals and values of the organisation. This frequently means that different countries will be best for different organisations selling the same product. A
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Steenkamp, Ermie Annelies. "The identification of export opportunities for South African products with special reference to Africa / Ermie Annelies Steenkamp." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/5605.
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This thesis identifies realistic export opportunities for South African products in the rest of the world and specifically in the rest of the African continent. The method chosen to achieve this goal is the Decision Support Model (DSM) developed by Cuyvers et al (1995) and Cuyvers (1997) that was specifically designed to assist export promotion institutions in planning and assessing their export promotion activities. This model is positioned into the international market selection literature and four main refinements to the DSM methodology are introduced to address the limitations of the model and to make it more applicable for the South African international trade conditions. The refined model is then applied to identify product–country combinations with the largest export potential for South Africa in the rest of the world and in the rest of the African continent specifically.
The refinements to the DSM filtering process introduced in this study contribute to the effective use and application of the DSM results by South African exporters and more focused export promotion activities by South African export promotion organisations. The four refinements include (i) running the DSM on a HS 6–digit level, (ii) introducing a method to calculate the potential export value of each identified export opportunity in order to prioritise between the product–country combinations identified as realistic export opportunities, (iii) taking the production capacity of South Africa into consideration in order to identify export opportunities that can be pursued immediately due to the country's existing revealed comparative advantage in the production and exportation of these products and (iv) developing a market accessibility index per product–country combination from a South African point of view on a HS 6–digit level in order to make filter 3.2 (barriers to trade) of the DSM applicable for South African conditions.
The results of the application of the refined DSM to identify export opportunities for South Africa in the rest of the world include the top 50 worldwide export opportunities. There are 17 countries in which the top 50 worldwide product–country combinations identified as export opportunities for South Africa are located. These include the United States, Japan, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Singapore, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Brazil. Mineral products (coal, copper and aviation spirit); transportation products (1500 - 3000 cc automobile engines and diesel powered trucks); stone/glass (diamonds, platinum and rhodium) and metals (aluminium, iron/steel structures, nickel) are the product classifications within the top 50 worldwide product–country combinations that hold the largest worldwide export potential for South Africa.
In terms of the product–country combinations with the highest export potential for South Africa in the rest of the African continent, there are 18 countries in which the top 50 product–country combinations for South Africa in the rest of the African continent are located. These include Nigeria, Namibia, Ghana, Morocco, Egypt, Zambia, Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mauritius, Tanzania, Senegal, Mozambique, Algeria, Malawi and Cote d'Ivoire. The products with the highest potential export values in the top 50 product–country combinations for South Africa in Africa include mineral products (aviation spirit, iron ore, sulphur and coal) and transportation products (1500 - 3000 cc automobile engines and diesel powered trucks weighing less than 5 tons).Thesis (Ph.D. (International Trade))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2011.
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Lin, LI-WEN, and 林麗文. "Hsinchu County Personnel staff to explore the nature of the selection of indicators from evidence-based research Constructivism Theory." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75596981993379845803.
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Personnel turnover and retirement causes the unstable and restlessness in the organization, it will cause the knowledge lose and the talent gap. Attract and retain the excellent talent is the decisive factor to achieve the organization goal. Selection is the first step for gathering the talent, if the right persons can be selected then they can truly make the best of their talent and display in the right place. Facing the Big data era is coming, how to solve the complexity problems of personnel administration? Take the science method to get correct data and use appropriate statistic way to analysis the result. By using the actual evidence to draft the best decision and make the human resource management to go for “Evidence-Based” to response the major change of internal and external environment in organization. It is the trend and there will be no other choice. The study is use the WebHR to be the basis which is set up by Directorate-General Personnel Administration, Executive Yuan and it takes the data-mining method to analysis the structure of Personnel Officer in Hsinchu County. By collecting the literature, related laws and the real situation of Personnel Officer selection in Hsinchu County, then follows the “Evidence-Based” theory to find out the effective focus research objects. By using the focus groups interview of excellent Personnel Officer and the deeply interview of turnover personnel, then takes the personality traits tool to discover and analysis the competence code. Using AHP to build up the selection perspectives and after the calculation analysis, the C.R value are all ≦0.1，the numbers fit the consistency of examination. The final conclusion sequentially gets four competence perspectives to be the prior selection perspectives which are “Personnel Law”, “The ability of interpersonal relationship”, “Performance Management” and “Customer Service” for selecting Personnel Officer in Hsinchu County. The prior five selection characteristics and index are “Can use Personnel Law to solve problem”, “Can friendly explain Personnel Law and keep the colleagues’ rights and benefits”, Can use Performance Management tool to build or cooperate the Performance-Forced organization culture and the operation of human resource team”, “Can totally understand personnel policies and laws” and “Can have the ability to fight and gain the convince and support for personnel business by the head of executives.” Through the study, it not only can build up the strategic index for selecting Personnel Officer in Hsinchu County, but also can evaluate the professional abilities of whole Personnel Officer; moreover, it can also response the future talent structure change in advance.
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Lung-Jui, Lin, and 林龍瑞. "From the viewpoint of political schools to explore the allocation mechanism for voting nomination system, selecting Kaohsiung county as example." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83641805328124024945.
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Local schools influence each voting nomination very long, but, according to the change of the people composition and democratic level, the influence on the voting nomination has gradually decreasing. The research select Kaohsiung county local schools as example, design guestionnaire and process deeply interview, to explore the role and function on each voting nomination of local schools. Meantime, to analyze the way of resource allocation and the future operational strategies of local schools. The result reveals that local schools exist correlation with business operation, and local schools still have influence on deciding voting nomination on Kaohsiung county, but the power of influence have gradually decreasing. Besides, local schools and political have ever cogeneration relationship, but the future has changed a new model on the strategies alliance, and local schools operation must have tolerance and pessimistic operation, the local schools can extend more widely.
Books on the topic "Export country selection"
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Lutz, Wolfgang, William P. Butz, and Samir KC, eds. World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813422.001.0001.
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Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models. Presenting the full chapter text of the original edition alongside a concise selection of data, it summarizes past trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and education, and examines relevant theories to identify key determining factors. Deriving from a global survey of hundreds of experts and five expert meetings on as many continents, World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Overview emphasizes alternative trends in human capital, new ways of studying ageing and the quantification of alternative population, and education pathways in the context of global sustainable development. It is an ideal companion to the county specific online Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer.
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Gray, Christa, Andrea Balbo, Richard M. A. Marshall, and Catherine E. W. Steel, eds. Reading Republican Oratory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788201.001.0001.
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This collection of essays explores the oratory of the Roman Republic as practised by everyone apart from Cicero. It addresses the problems arising from the partial and often unreliable evidence for these other Roman orators and investigates new ways of interpreting this evidence. The contributors seek to contextualize these fragments and testimonia, both in their original settings and over the course of their subsequent transmission, to explore a range of questions: what was said in the Roman Republic, and what counted as public speech or ‘oratory’ at Rome? Who did the speaking, and to what extent can we identify anonymous speakers? What were the formal and informal scenarios in which public speech took place? What non-verbal signals should be considered together with the speakers’ words? How reliable and selective is our evidence? How does the development of rhetoric as a discipline affect the reception and transmission of public speech? The resulting discussions reshape our understanding of public speech in the Roman Republic and enable us to move the study of Republican oratory decisively beyond Cicero.
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Markley, Robert. Kim Stanley Robinson. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042751.001.0001.
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Kim Stanley Robinson is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read and influential science-fiction writers of our era. In dicussing eighteen of his novels published since 1984 and a selection of his short fiction, this study explores the significance of his work in reshaping contemporary literature. Three of the chapters are devoted to Robinson’s major trilogies: the Orange County trilogy (1984-90), the Mars trilogy (1992-96), and the Science in the Capital trilogy (2004-07). Two other chapters consider his groundbreaking alternative histories, including “The Lucky Strike” (1984), The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), and Shaman (2014), and his future histories set among colonies in the solar system, notably Galileo’s Dream (2009) and 2312 (2012). The concluding chapter examines Robinson’s most recent novels Aurora (2015) and New York 2140 (2017). In interviews, Robinson describes his fiction as weaving together, in various combinations, Marxism, ecology, and Buddhist thought, and all of his novels explore how we might imagine forms of utopian political action. His novels—from the Mars trilogy to New York 2140—offer a range of possible futures that chart humankind’s uneven progress, often over centuries, toward the greening of science, technology, economics, and politics. Robinson filters our knowledge of the past and our imagination of possible futures through two superimposed lenses: the ecological fate of the Earth (or other planets) and the far-reaching consequences of moral, political, and socioeconomic decisions of individuals, often scientists and artists, caught up in world or solar-systemic events. In this respect, his fiction charts a collective struggle to think beyond the contradictions of historical existence, and beyond our locations in time, culture, and geography.
Book chapters on the topic "Export country selection"
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"Selecting Target Country Markets." In Guide To Software Export: A Handbook For International Software Sales, 45–92. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203824795-9.
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Davis, Christina L. "The Reluctant Litigant: Japanese Trade Policy." In Why Adjudicate? Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691152752.003.0005.
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This chapter examines Japanese trade policy to promote market access for exports. It considers how the delegation of authority to the bureaucracy influences the choice of trade strategies by Japan. The Japanese legislature grants considerable autonomy to the bureaucracy for management of foreign trade policy. As a result, there should be lower demand for adjudication and less politicization of case selection. Compared to the United States, the chapter shows that Japan follows a more selective adjudication strategy and initiates only a few cases for large industries with less obvious political influence on selection. Analysis of a number of case studies reveal the absence of political pressure on the country's foreign economic policy. The chapter also looks at a dataset of trade barriers that represent potential trade disputes.
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Alcántara-de la Cruz, Ricardo, Guilherme Moraes de Oliveira, Leonardo Bianco de Carvalho, and Maria Fátima das Graças Fernandes da Silva. "Herbicide Resistance in Brazil: Status, Impacts, and Future Challenges." In Pests, Weeds and Diseases in Agricultural Crop and Animal Husbandry Production. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91236.
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Brazil is a large producer and exporter of crops in global terms. Weeds may be responsible for ~14% of crop losses, depending on the crop system. Herbicides occupy 58% of the Brazilian pesticide market; however, the continuous use of these products and the high selection pressure have led to the emergence of weeds resistant to herbicides. Today, there are 51 weed species reported as being resistant to herbicides in Brazil, of which 17 involves cross and multiple-resistance. Acetolactate synthase (ALS), acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase (ACCase) and 5-enolpiruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPs) inhibitors are the herbicidal groups with the most resistance cases. Soybean, corn, rice, wheat and cotton present 30, 12, 10, 9 and 8 cases, respectively, occurring mainly in herbicide-resistant crop fields from the Southern and Central West regions of the country. To better understand the dimensions of herbicide resistance, in this chapter, we will explore the size of agricultural activity in Brazil, the pesticide market and the use of herbicides in the main crops. In addition, the agronomic, scientific-technical and economic aspects that have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the selection of resistant weeds will be discussed in order to have an overview of the economic impact of herbicide resistance management.
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Jennings, Len, Thomas M. Skovholt, Heather Hessel, Sharada Lakhan, and Michael Goh. "The World of Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy." In Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy, 1–18. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190222505.003.0001.
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Research suggests that characteristics and attitudes of the therapist may be a significant contributor to psychotherapy outcome. Researchers using both quantitative and qualitative methods have explored the characteristics of expert practitioners. This chapter provides an overview of the literature on therapist variables and master therapists, describes the validity of the peer nomination process for selecting master therapists, and explains how qualitative meta-analysis is utilized to integrate findings from various countries. Finally, the importance of obtaining an international perspective on master therapists is emphasized. Qualitative studies on the practices of expert therapists in different countries offer rich descriptive narratives for how optimal therapy works in different country and cultural contexts. More qualitative studies are needed to understand old and new constructs from different cultural perspectives.
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Tepe, Fatma Fulya. "The Politico-Poetic Representation of Turkish Women in Türk Kadını Magazine (1966–1974)." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 35–58. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0128-3.ch003.
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This chapter aims to explore the ways women are represented in the context of 20th century Turkey by analyzing four poems, namely “Türk Kadını” (Turkish Woman), “Anadolu Kadını” (Anatolian Woman), “Kadın–Ana” (Woman-Mother), and “Ayşe,” published in the Türk Kadını magazine in the 1960s. Purposive sampling was used in the selection of the poems, which were later interpreted with the strategies of descriptive content analysis. In these poems, the Turkish woman is being represented and celebrated in at least the following four ways: (1) by being celebrated for combining heroism, goodness, and naturalness; (2) by having her struggle with primitive conditions of life celebrated as yet another form of heroism; (3) by being celebrated as a creative mother of the nation, charged with finding solutions to the problems of the country; (4) by being celebrated as a hardworking daughter of the nation to whom the country owes recognition and support.
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Yusoff, Yusman Azimi, Farhan Mohamed, Nor Azrini Jaafar, Mohd Shahrizal Sunar, and Ali Selamat. "Magnitude-Based Streamlines Seed Point Selection for 3D Flow Visualization." In Knowledge Innovation Through Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques. IOS Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/faia200561.
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Seed point placement techniques have been introduced and improved flow visualization research domains since the beginning of the introduction of streamlines visualization. It is a starting point of the streamlines. Thus, it is crucial because the result is directly impacted by the seed point placement. Improved seed point placement has been presented with the objectives to generate uniform streamlines placement, to have longer streamlines, and to highlight important regions in the visualization result. These three objectives need to be balanced because there is a trade-off between them. Most of the available seed point placement techniques only focus on one objective and sacrifices the other two. In this paper, the Magnitude-Based Seed Point placement technique is improved to be used in 3D space. Experts review is conducted to evaluate the result as there is no proper quantitative evaluation method for 3D visualization results. Feedback from experts shows that the proposed technique provides a better result with the same streamlines count.
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Howland, Olivia, Christine Noe, and Dan Brockington. "The Multiple Meanings of Prosperity and Poverty in Tanzania." In Prosperity in Rural Africa?, 44–69. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865872.003.0003.
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This book focuses heavily on changing patterns in ownership of assets. In other analyses where assets are used to investigate change then one of the standard means of investigating wealth and poverty is to construct asset indices to examine patterns across space and over time. Assets are important to local definitions of poverty and wealth in rural Africa. Yet their use in asset indices can miss locally valued change. The chapter presents data from seventeen villages across Tanzania to explore differences in the meaning of wealth and poverty across the country. Despite limitations in our site selection we found considerable diversity that makes a single asset index difficult to compile. Current abbreviated asset indices risk counting assets that do not matter locally.
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Antchak, Vladimir, Vassilios Ziakas, and Donald Getz. "Governmental Approach to Major Events in New Zealand." In Event Portfolio Management. Goodfellow Publishers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-911396-91-8-4187.
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For the past 20 years, New Zealand, a country relatively remote in geographi- cal terms, has been actively communicating with the international visitor market in order to construct a global brand for the country. As a tourist destination, New Zealand offers an impressive range of natural and cultural attractions, out- door activities, urban tourism and a diverse event calendar. In 2017, the country welcomed 3.7m visitors, with the market forecast to grow by 7.5% in 2018. The active role of the Government in the visitor economy makes New Zealand an attractive investment destination. Extensive marketing campaigns, significant expansion of transport connections, private investment in infrastructure and the hotel sector indicate that New Zealand will continue its sustainable tourism growth over the coming years. Major events have been recognised as a powerful and successful instrument that can brand the country directly to the target audience. The ever-increasing numbers of international event visitors to New Zealand, as well as recent success in securing bids for such large-scale international events as 2011 Rugby World Cup, 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, 2015 FIFA U-20 World cup and 2017 World Master Games, demonstrate the relevance of the employed strategy. This chapter reviews a national event portfolio approach in New Zealand. The approach is characterised by a strong top-down orientation, where the Govern- ment plays the leading role in determining current economic and socio-cultural objectives for the major event industry, implementation of the national event strategy and evaluation of the investment in major events. The data for this chap- ter have been collected by document selection and analysis and by interviewing several industry experts.
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Wilkins, Heidi. "The Alienated Male: Silence and the Soundtrack in New Hollywood." In Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406895.003.0004.
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In this chapter, I explore the audible link between masculinity, silence and soundtrack by focusing on a selection of silent, alienated male characters from renowned New Hollywood films. In this discussion, the ‘type’ of silence I often refer to is that described by Paul Théberge as ‘a kind of silence that is produced when, for example, music is allowed to dominate the soundtrack while dialogue and sound effects – the primary sonic modes of the diegetic world – are muted’. I explore the specific use of silence in these texts as well as the ways in which non diegetic music and diegetic sound are used to express meanings not divulged by the male characters, due to their limited dialogue. I argue that this acoustic construction contributes to a projected sense of alienation of male characters and that it can also be linked to the blurring of gender boundaries often accounted for by the counter-culture movements taking place in America throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
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Kruja, Alba Demneri, and Eltona Berberi. "Tourism and Handicraft Industry." In Cases on Global Leadership in the Contemporary Economy, 119–36. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8088-1.ch007.
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Tourism is one of the most crucial sectors contributing to country development. In Albania, the sector`s contribution to GDP has an increasing trend through the years. This study aimed to explore the role of tourism in supporting the development of handicraft sector and analyzing the constraints faced by artisans during their daily activities of crafts production process. Albania is known for the tradition of crafts with precious values, created for centuries by masters of folk, in every province according to the features and specifications of different areas. The most known handicrafts in Albania are works in wood, iron, copper, and precious materials like gold, silver, leather, wool, etc. These values are inherited generation to generation have aroused great interest to visitors and local and foreign researches. In cities like Kruja and Scutari, a diversity of crafts with high utilitarian and aesthetic level is distinguished. This is also the reason of selecting the surveyed sample of artisans from Kruja and Scutari.
Conference papers on the topic "Export country selection"
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Krievina, Megija, and Velga Ozolina. "Export target country selection tool for more competitive enterprises." In 19th International Scientific Conference "Economic Science for Rural Development 2018". Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2018.079.
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Smith, Daniel O., Christopher A. Mattson, and Eric C. Dahlin. "Identifying High-Potential Work Areas in Engineering for Global Development: Linking Industry Sectors to the Human Development Index." In ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2020-22063.
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Abstract Those working in Engineering for Global Development seek to improve the conditions in under-served regions. A common metric for understanding the development state of a given country is the Human Development Index (HDI), which focuses on three dimensions: health, education, and income. An engineer’s expertise does not always align with any of those dimensions directly, while they still hope to perform impactful work for human development. To discover other areas of expertise that are highly associated with the HDI, correlations and variable selection were performed between all World Development Indicators and the HDI. The resultant associations are presented according to industry sector for a straightforward connection to engineering expertise, such that they can be used during opportunity development where associated areas of expertise act as surrogates for focusing on the HDI dimensions themselves. The data analysis shows that work related to “Trade, Transportation, and Utilities”, such as merchandise exports and imports and electricity distribution, and “Manufacturing”, especially electronics manufacturing and employment in manufacturing are insightful associations with improvements in the HDI in developing countries. Also, because the associations were discovered at country-level, they geographically direct where particular areas of expertise have been historically associated with improving HDI.
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Lehmann, Tine, Veit Wohlgemuth, and Annette Ammeraal. "Challenges in Higher Education Teaching Collaborations – a CAGE distance framework analysis." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11135.
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Transnational teaching collaborations have many advantages, but also create challenges. Many challenges relate to distances between partner countries. The CAGE (cultural, administrative, geographic, economic) framework helps to assess and classify the impact of various distances. The framework was initially developed for a business context. We test the usability of the CAGE model in a higher education institution (HEI) context by relying on insights from an EU-teaching collaboration project. Within the project, students and lecturers from different HEIs consult real-life firms in going abroad. Teams from the home and the host country of the firms work together in these collaborations. We conclude that the framework is helpful for HEIs. Administrative distances seem to be the most crucial aspect in selecting the right partners for teaching collaborations, whereas geographic and economic distances are manageable. Cultural distances had less of an impact in our setting, but we expect a stronger impact for other projects. The teaching community can learn from the insights of the illustrated collaborations to avoid specific challenges and successfully set up cross-country teaching collaborations.
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Ji, Lucheng. "Analysis of Technical Challenges in Vaneless Counter-Rotating Turbomachinery." In ASME Turbo Expo 2007: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2007-27617.
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Research and development of vaneless counter-rotating turbomachinery (VCRT) is briefly reviewed. Then basic technical challenges on inflow angle and off-design operation are analyzed regardless of extrinsic differences among any kinds of VCRT (either compressor or turbine or lift fan, either highly or moderately loaded). A somewhat new approach based on velocity triangle analysis played the most important role in obtaining useful results. It is shown that the range of relative inflow angle of the second rotor is narrowed by counter-rotation. And as compared with conventional turbomachinery, varying back-pressure and varying rotation speed off-design operation of VCRT are more complicated. For some rotation speed ratios and flow coefficients, VCRT leads to better operation of varying back pressure type than conventional one, whereas some not. In varying rotation speed operation, VCRT needs variable rotor to get a comparable performance. Counter-measures to overcome these challenges are also given. These analyses will be directly used to judge the applicability of VCRT and determine basic rules and ranges in selecting design parameters of VCRT.
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Cheikh Brahim, Abed, Khelladi Sofiane, Deligant Michael, El Marjani Abdel, and Farid Bakir. "Preliminary Study of a Centrifugal Compressor With Counter-Rotating Impellers: Design and Performances Study." In ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2020-15860.
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Abstract Turbomachinery with double counter-rotating impellers offer more degrees of freedom in the choice of design and control parameters compared to conventional machines. For these innovative machines, the literature review shows that more published works are available concerning axial type turbomachines than centrifugal ones. This work deals with a preliminary design and performance analysis applied to two counter-rotating impellers of a centrifugal compressor. We present here the design practice developed based on 0D/1D models, also coupled with optimization and stream-curvature through-flow methods to satisfy the selected design-criteria. An analyze of aerodynamic performances results are made and compared to those available experimental and numerical data of a baseline configuration, composed of one centrifugal-impeller and a volute. The compressor studied here includes a first conventional impeller with an axial inlet and a mixed or centrifugal outlet. The second impeller is designed parametrically and can be considered as a rotating-diffuser with a radial or mixed inlet and outlet. Ultimately, the numerical simulation results of a selection of candidate solutions are discussed.
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Heuvel, Norman L. "Disc-Type Airborne Vehicle and Radial Flow Gas Turbine Engine Used Therein." In ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2001-gt-0447.
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An annular, radial flow gas turbine engine and airborne vehicle utilizing same for jet propulsion. The engine comprises counter-rotating rotors and a compressor section with counter-rotating annular rows of intermeshing compressor blades, an annular combustion section common to both rotors wherein the combustion zone is defined by oppositely rotating rotor walls, and a turbine section made up of annular rows of counter-rotating exhaust turbine blades. No stator blades are present in either the compressor or the turbine sections. The craft comprises a central hub on which the engine rotors rotate on thrust bearings, and speed-staged bearings maintain rotor tolerances with respect to each other and to nonrotating shell portions above and below the engine rotors. Air inlet guide vanes leading to the compressor section are also housed in the hub portion of the craft. Exhaust gases emitting from the turbine section are selectively ducted through the annularly arranged-downwardly directed lift thrust producing ducts and/ or rearwardly directed ducts or vanes for generation of forward propulsion. Directional control during hovering and low speed flight is by selective braking of one or the other of the rotors. and during high speed flight also by selective control of spoiler surfaces arranged in the upper and lower external surfaces of the craft.
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Hendricks, Eric S. "Development of an Open Rotor Cycle Model in NPSS Using a Multi-Design Point Approach." In ASME 2011 Turbo Expo: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2011-46694.
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NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project and Subsonic Fixed Wing Project are focused on developing concepts and technologies which may enable dramatic reductions to the environmental impact of future generation subsonic aircraft [1][2]. The open rotor concept (also referred to as the Unducted Fan or advanced turboprop) may allow the achievement of this objective by reducing engine emissions and fuel consumption. To evaluate its potential impact, an open rotor cycle modeling capability is needed. This paper presents the initial development of an open rotor cycle model in the Numerical Propulsion System Simulation (NPSS) computer program which can then be used to evaluate the potential benefit of this engine. The development of this open rotor model necessitated addressing two modeling needs within NPSS. First, a method for evaluating the performance of counter-rotating propellers was needed. Therefore, a new counter-rotating propeller NPSS component was created. This component uses propeller performance maps developed from historic counter-rotating propeller experiments to determine the thrust delivered and power required. Second, several methods for modeling a counter-rotating power turbine within NPSS were explored. These techniques used several combinations of turbine components within NPSS to provide the necessary power to the propellers. Ultimately, a single turbine component with a conventional turbine map was selected. Using these modeling enhancements, an open rotor cycle model was developed in NPSS using a multi-design point approach. The multi-design point (MDP) approach improves the engine cycle analysis process by making it easier to properly size the engine to meet a variety of thrust targets throughout the flight envelope. A number of design points are considered including an aerodynamic design point, sea-level static, takeoff and top of climb. The development of this MDP model was also enabled by the selection of a simple power management scheme which schedules propeller blade angles with the freestream Mach number. Finally, sample open rotor performance results and areas for further model improvements are presented.
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Frey, Daniel D., Paulien M. Herder, Ype Wijnia, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, and Don P. Clausing. "An Evaluation of the Pugh Controlled Convergence Method." In ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2007-34758.
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This paper evaluates a method known as Pugh Controlled Convergence and its relationship to recent developments in design theory. Computer executable models are proposed simulating a team of people involved in iterated cycles of evaluation, ideation, and investigation. The models suggest that: 1) convergence of the set of design concepts is facilitated by the selection of a strong datum concept; 2) iterated use of an evaluation matrix can facilitate convergence of expert opinion, especially if used to plan investigations conducted between matrix runs; and 3) ideation stimulated by the Pugh matrices can provide large benefits both by improving the set of alternatives and by facilitating convergence. As a basis of comparison, alternatives to Pugh’s methods were assessed such as using a single summary criterion or using a Borda count. The models we developed suggest that Pugh’s method, under a substantial range of assumptions, results in better design outcomes than those from these alternative procedures.
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Corsini, Alessandro, Giovanni Delibra, Anthony G. Sheard, and David Volponi. "Experimental Investigation on Double Anti-Stall Ring Effects on Reversible Ventilation Fan Performance." In ASME Turbo Expo 2016: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2016-57474.
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Stall margin improvement is a crucial issue during fan design, selection and installation. In fact, several industrial fans are operated in extreme applications and requested to be highly flexible in order to be able to withstand abrupt changes in operating conditions. This is the case of fans operated under distorted inlet conditions or interacting with other fans or used for reversible operations in tunnel and metro applications. This paper reports on a systematic experimental study on the effects of the use of casing treatments on the performance of a single stage, reversible, axial fan. Tests focused on the performance of up-stream single treatment and up- and downstream double treatment, respectively designed to prevent the fan to run into stall in forward-only operations and forward- and reverse- operations. The study reports on the assessment of the change in performance, in normal and stalled operations, with an emphasis on the relative axial position between casing treatments and the impeller blades. The analysis demonstrates the achievement of significant improvements in performance in the unstable region for all the tested configurations with marginal losses in the stable counter-part.
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Wang, Songtao, Xiaoqing Qiang, Weichun Lin, Guotai Feng, and Zhongqi Wang. "A Study of Parameter Selection Principle and Internal Flow Mechanism in a Multi-Stage Low-Reaction Axial Flow Compressor." In ASME Turbo Expo 2008: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2008-50554.
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A subsonic multi-stage highly loaded, low-reaction, boundary layer suction axial flow compressor design concept was proposed in this paper and its feasibility was studied from theoretical analysis. This design concept could greatly raise the single stage pressure ratio while keeping the compressor efficiency in a high level. The distribution principle of total pressure ratio and static pressure ratio in a multi-stage low-reaction compressor was studied as well as the selection principle of reaction, diffusion factor and other total parameters. Considering the design feature of this new type of compressor, the internal flow in a large geometry turning angle cascade was studied in order to establish the relation between geometry parameters and surface pressure distribution. The relation between surface pressure distribution and profile loss, trailing edge loss, etc was also studied in this paper. By using this design concept combined with the boundary layer suction method, a certain eleven stages axial compressor’s count was reduced to seven. The numerical simulation was done in the last two stages which had typical flow characteristics. The simulation result proved that the multi-stage low-reaction axial flow compressor design concept was feasible.
Reports on the topic "Export country selection"
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Karam, Sofia, Morteza Nagahi, Vidanelage Dayarathna, Junfeng Ma, Raed Jaradat, and Michael Hamilton. Integrating systems thinking skills with multi-criteria decision-making technology to recruit employee candidates. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41026.
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The emergence of modern complex systems is often exacerbated by a proliferation of information and complication of technologies. Because current complex systems challenges can limit an organization's ability to efficiently handle socio-technical systems, it is essential to provide methods and techniques that count on individuals' systems skills. When selecting future employees, companies must constantly refresh their recruitment methods in order to find capable candidates with the required level of systemic skills who are better fit for their organization's requirements and objectives. The purpose of this study is to use systems thinking skills as a supplemental selection tool when recruiting prospective employees. To the best of our knowledge, there is no prior research that studied the use of systems thinking skills for recruiting purposes. The proposed framework offers an established tool to HRM professionals for assessing and screening of prospective employees of an organization based on their level of systems thinking skills while controlling uncertainties of complex decision-making environment with the fuzzy linguistic approach. This framework works as an expert system to find the most appropriate candidate for the organization to enhance the human capital for the organization.