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In June 2013, Walid Helal, the chief executive officer of Helal Group, a leading petrochemicals manufacturer in Egypt, was discussing the company's performance with his brother Khaled Helal, the chairman. "Our market share is declining," indicated Walid, "we need to study the situation carefully," he…

The demand for more productivity, cost efficiency and the competition has forced the knitwear garments cluster to adopt technologies such as ERP. The knitwear garment industry acts as a cluster and possesses unique characteristics. The industrial clusters experience an institutional isomorphic pressure that forces them…

Resources in Grid computing are geographically distributed across the world through a wide area network under various virtual organizations. Due to the distributed nature of the Grid, the selection and allocation of the optimal resources from the available resource are challenging. However, the overall Grid…

Low income economies are characterized with high investment returns and therefore should attract foreign investment to primarily fill the existing gaps of productive factors which vividly reveals the basis for their underdeveloped status. The main objective of the study is to ascertain the impact of…

This paper examines the effectiveness of Esusu scheme as a strategy for achieving the entrepreneurial objectives of SSEs using selected entrepreneurs in Ado-Odo Otta, Ogun State, Nigeria as a case study. The paper adopted an exploratory method of research design and empirical analysis.  It reviews…

This study examines the employment and income opportunities being enjoyed by migrants and non-migrants in street trading sub-sector of the urban informal economy in Nigeria.  The welfare implication of such employment was also examined in the study using both the logistic model and the modified…

This study focused on the entrepreneurial intention’s antecedents in higher-education level. It examined the effect of need for achievement, self-efficacy, and risk-taking propensity on intention to be entrepreneurs. It used a sample of 204 public university students and analyzed the proposed hypotheses by using multivariate…

The aim of the present study was to assess the genetic variation and establish the relationship between and within three Sudanese zebu cattle breeds using panel composed from 9 bovine specific microsatellite markers recommended by the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG). The study was…

Background: Recognition of Cytomegalovirus related primary adrenal insufficiency in patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) requires a high clinical suspicion in patients already on glucocorticoids, especially if the glucocorticoids are to be withdrawn.Case Presentation: We report the case of a 67 year old man with…

The researcher who assumes the risk of getting an overview of the analysis of the functioning of crediting system in rural areas would have, from the very beginning, some scientific disappointment that our today officials may challenge them. The only aspect, somehow giving hope, is…