Determinants of Portuguese trade: 1986-2010

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Draft amendments to the standard external trade statistics classification of East Caribbean Common Market Countries

Includes bibliography

Draft standard ECCM trade statistics classification

Includes bibliography

Economic markets and the standard industrial classification /

"October 1990."

The Market data book, containing a directory of industrial, trade and class publications.

Title varies: 1921- Crain's market data book. The Market data book.

Standard Industrial Mortality Table

Tables include data on age correlated with mortality, commutation, and valuation. The Sub-Standard Industrial Mortality Table correlates age with number living, number dying, yearly probability of dying and commutation.

Annual bulletin of foreign trade.

Vol. for 1930 has title: Report on the foreign trade.

Standard daily trade service.

"A condensed survey and forecast of business everywhere."

The international competitiveness of the Costa Rican clothing industry

Includes bibliography

The Effect of Product Classifications on the Formulation of Export Unit Value Indices: A Comparison of Export Unit Value Indices based on SITC and HS

With the globalization of economic activity, the relative weight of foreign trade in national economic activities has increased, and the question of how to measure trends in the value and quantity of international trade has become an important issue for policy-makers and economists. This paper compares the chain-linked indices formulated by Masato Kuroko, based on HS this fiscal year for individual industry categories and countries with chain-linked indices based on SITC-R1 codes, in order to study how changes in the quality composition of the same products, which cannot be considered using unit value indices based on SITC-R1 codes, can be considered using unit value indices based on the more detailed HS product classifications.

Perfil Logístico de Colombia; Sector Papel y Cartón

Actualmente en Colombia no se realizan los suficientes estudios logísticos para analizar aspectos importantes y relevantes de cada uno de los sectores del país, esto se debe en parte a la limitada tecnología e información que poseen cada uno de estos, este es el motivo por el cual se realizará una investigación sobre el perfil logístico del sector de fabricación de papel y cartón, con el fin de mejorar la información pertinente y así ayudar tanto al país como a las empresas que se desenvuelven en este entorno, para que de esta manera logren solucionar los problemas que se puedan presentar en cuanto a la implementación logística y así llegar a obtener mejoras y ayudar a la productividad y competitividad de Colombia. Se escogió este sector debido a que este es uno de los destacados a nivel país y con potencial de crecimiento a corto plazo, ya que realiza aportes a las actividades económicas, la productividad y competitividad de Colombia en proporciones de gran escala. Este sector pertenece al código CIIU 210 según la clasificación del “código industrial internacional uniforme” siendo uno de los más competitivos del país. Por otro lado se realizará un análisis del sector en el mundo para así lograr identificar problemas y oportunidades en el país para incrementar su eficiencia en diferentes aspectos logísticos como el transporte, almacenamiento, tiempos de producción, entre otros. Para esto se tendrán en cuenta diversas variables como la balanza comercial, el Producto Interno Bruto y la productividad que tiene actualmente el país.

Customizing floating-point units for FPGAs: Area-performance-standard trade-offs

The high integration density of current nanometer technologies allows the implementation of complex floating-point applications in a single FPGA. In this work the intrinsic complexity of floating-point operators is addressed targeting configurable devices and making design decisions providing the most suitable performance-standard compliance trade-offs. A set of floating-point libraries composed of adder/subtracter, multiplier, divisor, square root, exponential, logarithm and power function are presented. Each library has been designed taking into account special characteristics of current FPGAs, and with this purpose we have adapted the IEEE floating-point standard (software-oriented) to a custom FPGA-oriented format. Extended experimental results validate the design decisions made and prove the usefulness of reducing the format complexity

An occupational view of the Australian labour force - Patterns of job growth and decline

Generally employment has been studied in terms of changes in the types of goods and services that the economy is purchasing. Far less attention has been given to the occupational aggregates that go into producing these goods and services. The few studies that did investigate this area found that the mix of tabour inputs appear to have been changing over time in a systematic pattern. The increasing prevalence of white-collar, information workers gave rise to the assertion that many societies had entered a post-industrial information age. Deals first of aff with some issues of measurement in the context of the Australian labour force, then looks at trends in various occupational groups using a non-standard four-sector classification of the labour force. Finally suggests an application in relation to the link between education and training and its ability to reduce structural unemployment.