Innovation and New Technology in Rural Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Some Policy Issues

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 549-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Smallbone ◽  
D North
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Policy Issues

E-Empowerment through Strengthening Women's Policy Issues via the Internet

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-241
Author(s):  
Tanja Carstensen ◽  
Gabriele Winker
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
And Gender

Both Internet studies and women’s and gender studies formulated various hopes and fears for the effects of the Internet on gender relations at an early point. Whereas some scholars saw it as a male domain, others pinned hopes for overcoming dichotomous gender constructions to the new technology. The Internet was also seen as an opportunity to network women’s policy activists and to strengthen women’s policy issues from the very beginning. There have, however, been few studies of how women specifically use the Internet to further feminist issues. This article addresses this question of Internet use in women’s policy networks based on an empirical study, which examined the democratizing use of the Internet for German women’s networks. We start off by signifying the importance of the Internet within the developments of the women’s movement and giving an overview of the existing research findings. We then analyze the use of the Internet within women’s policy networks, using the three dimensions “information”, “interaction,” and “political action”. We wind up the article by outlining an idea that could be used to better concentrate and structure existing Internet services, possibly strengthening women’s public political spaces.

scholarly journals Supply, Demand and Policy Issues for Use of Aspen

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Beck ◽  
Luis Constantino ◽  
William Phillips ◽  
Mark Messmer
Keyword(s):  
Oriented Strand Board ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Pulp Mill ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Adoption Of New Technology ◽  
Derived Demand ◽  
Supply Side Factors

There is currently considerable expansion of aspen utilization in the Prairie Provinces, and particularly in Alberta. This expansion includes the establishment of both oriented strand board mill capacity and pulp mill capacity. The pulp mill expansion is geared predominantly to aspen utilization. These developments arise out of the adoption of new technology and are demand driven. In this paper, the derived demand for aspen roundwood is examined. It includes a review of panel product and pulp consumption patterns. On the supply side, factors such as stumpage availability are examined. There is some uncertainty about the economic viability of aspen utilization as a result of demand and trade patterns as well as domestic and trade policies. The paper concludes with an examination of some current policy issues and the manner in which they may affect the future of aspen utilization.

Consortium management of triple therapy cost pressures for HIV/AIDS in the North East of England

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
David Tregoning ◽  
Barrie M. Craven
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Triple Therapy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Hiv Therapy ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Therapy Cost

Reviews NHS policy for the introduction of new technology and drug developments into the NHS with reference to HIV therapy. Also reviews current policy issues related to NHS rationing and priority setting with reference to commissioning services for HIV infection and AIDS. Confirms the destabilisation of HIV contracts in the North East of England caused by the introduction of double therapy in 1996 and triple therapy in 1997 in relation to the above policy areas. Also reviews purchaser and provider contracting following the introduction of triple therapy for HIV infection. Finally, concludes by reviewing local policy and management arrangements and recommendations for change.

Microfabrication research at the National Submicron Facility

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 86-89
Author(s):  
E.D. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Speed ◽  
New Technology ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Particle ◽  
New Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intermediate Domain ◽  
Circuit Function

Most microelectronics devices and circuits operate faster, consume less power, execute more functions and cost less per circuit function when the feature-sizes internal to the devices and circuits are made smaller. This is part of the stimulus for the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program. There is also a need for smaller, more sensitive sensors in a wide range of disciplines that includes electrochemistry, neurophysiology and ultra-high pressure solid state research. There is often fundamental new science (and sometimes new technology) to be revealed (and used) when a basic parameter such as size is extended to new dimensions, as is evident at the two extremes of smallness and largeness, high energy particle physics and cosmology, respectively. However, there is also a very important intermediate domain of size that spans from the diameter of a small cluster of atoms up to near one micrometer which may also have just as profound effects on society as “big” physics.

Characterization of RF Sputtered ZnO Piezoelectric Films Using Transmission Electron Microscope

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
Kemining W. Yeh ◽  
Richard S. Muller ◽  
Wei-Kuo Wu ◽  
Jack Washburn
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Surface Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electromechanical Properties ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Saw Devices ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
High Degree

Considerable and continuing interest has been shown in the thin film transducer fabrication for surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the past few years. Due to the high degree of miniaturization, compatibility with silicon integrated circuit technology, simplicity and ease of design, this new technology has played an important role in the design of new devices for communications and signal processing. Among the commonly used piezoelectric thin films, ZnO generally yields superior electromechanical properties and is expected to play a leading role in the development of SAW devices.

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