Grosso and Monteiro (2008) study the port selection criteria of freight forwarders in the port of Genoa, identifying port connectivity, cost and productivity, electronic information, and logistics as a few main criteria.
Investment impetus will now shift from concrete and steel to high-speed electronic communications to further enhance productivity, just as we saw in the U.S. from the early 1990s when repeated forecasts of inflation, high unemployment and slow growth were blown away by information technology's networked miracle.
In the past few decades, we've lost focus on the 9-5 work schedule, in favor of a 24-hour society to maximize productivity in the electronic age.
In the research described herein, we aim to address the data quantity problem as well as making use of electronic media to increase collaboration and productivity.
But Google's smart idea of putting a play-able Pac-Man game on its homepage for a day last week caused bored office workers to waste 4.82 million hours gobbling electronic fruit, at a cost in global productivity of $120m.
Even the courts are being hooked up to electronic filing and retrieval systems to boost productivity.
With his co-author, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, he used the farm's electronic payroll system to collect eight months of productivity data on 1,600 workers over two growing seasons.
The efficiency of the heat transfer fluid determines the productivity and lifetime of the equipments, electronic circuits, machines, etc.
Two quasi-experimental studies considered that non-interoperable electronic health records may negatively impact workflow and productivity, which in turn contributes to clinicians' resistance to adopt these systems [ 4, 61].
His mother retired as the administrative assistant at Thinking Productivity, a supplier of surplus manufacturing and electronic test equipment in Austin.
