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The results of our annual Warehouse Operations & Trends Survey are back, including a healthy uptick in the average capital expenditure budget for enhancing DC networks, equipment and systems. Beyond [...]

The results of our annual Warehouse Operations & Trends Survey are back, including a healthy uptick in the average capital expenditure (capex) budget for enhancing DC networks, equipment and systems. [...]

For several years, build to rent [BTR] has been in vogue in UK property and has become an established asset class. Now, however, investors are turning their attention to single-family [...]

The pandemic led to--inevitably--a major focus on technologies that could support remote or hybrid learning. Emerging from that period, and its colossal economic fallout, schools, colleges and universities have since [...]

At the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian forces deployed a handful of Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aerial vehicles to hit Russian targets. Those precise drone strikes [...]

DANY GARCIA is dancing in her living room. As she poses, a group of young women who have helped develop her social media presence chant: 'Killer heels and a Bodycon [...]

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) has gone from a niche technology to a purported agent of transformational change in everything from disease diagnosis health [...]

What's a nice Jewish boy like David Schwartz doing running a Chinese food mini-empire, and why risk everything to open a deli-inspired steakhouse? It's all about honouring his mom, of [...]

When COVID hit and e-commerce took off, many shippers realized they needed to expand their direct-to-consumer delivery. Traditional business-to-business (B2B) industries such as manufacturing, brick-and-mortar like retail, and small- to [...]

It's not every week that the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector welcomes a new critical product from a new powerhouse manufacturer. Recently, Pharmaceutical Technology travelled to Saint Paul, Minnesota to gain a fuller understanding of the rationale driving strong investment into the bioprocessing downstream space. We found a culture of can-do innovation and daring, coupled to old fashioned warmth and integrity. Early in the manufacturing process resin choice not only sets the baseline for most other downstream activities and outcomes, it's also part and parcel of future cGMP and regulatory filings. As such, new critical raw materials warrant close and careful inspection., ECOLAB, a company that specializes in water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services, has been in the life sciences space since 2017. Ecolab's acquisition of Purolite in 2021, (1) [...]

I am the only music teacher working with students from kindergarten through eighth grade at my current school. I design the curriculum for nine different grades, and I may work [...]

Private equity firms are maneuvering to invest in college athletes, their schools, and the conferences they play in. The deals could add risk to the whole system. In 2022, Gervon [...]

The Railbelt has no redundancy. 'If we have a power problem in Anchorage and the line to Fairbanks goes down, we don't have a Plan B,' says Curtis W. Thayer, [...]

When a business witnesses growth in certain industry segments that it services, it behooves the company to respond quickly and to the best of its ability to satisfy customer needs. [...]

Table 3.17. Selected Government Current and Capital Expenditures by Function [Billions of dollars] Last Revised on: November 17, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 Current expenditures (1) Consumption expenditures: 1 Government [...]

Providing customers with electricity they can depend on at a price they can afford is the electric utility industry's most important duty, and delivering on it is the longstanding mission [...]

For example, computing giant Lenovo has partnered with N.C. State to develop geospatial AI, aiming to optimize agriculture applications. The university has a $20 million grant from the National Science [...]

Situated in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin lies the third largest oil resource in the world, the Canadian Oil Sands, containing approximately 164 billion barrels of oil, or 95% of [...]

The Trump verdict in New York on May 30 does not seem to have had a significant effect on the polls - when it comes to changing anyone's mind. On [...]

INTRODUCTION FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER LOS ANGELES International trade and investment have never been more significant components of the economic landscape in California, The golden state's return to post-pandemic [...]

Table 3.17. Selected Government Current and Capital Expenditures by Function [Billions of dollars] Last Revised on: November 17, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 Current expenditures (1) Consumption expenditures: 1 [...]

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In 1903, John Wendell Anderson penned a letter to his father, Dr. Wendell Abram Anderson, to convince him to send money for an exciting investment. The junior Anderson wanted to [...]

Table 3.17. Selected Government Current and Capital Expenditures by Function [Billions of dollars] Last Revised on: November 17, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 Current expenditures (1) Consumption expenditures: 1 [...]

Over the last 10 years, Arizonans have watched as large wildfires ravaged the watershed in and around the Salt and Verde Rivers--a critical source of water for central Arizona and [...]

Having the right replacement parts is critical to reducing downtime and increasing uptime. Having the right tool for the job can deliver efficiencies and time savings. How much uptime and [...]

Purpose: Crowdfunding is a trending innovative strategy that startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses employ to secure funds. In this study, we adopt the Transfer Trust Theory as a primary framework to examine how trust in the fundraiser and crowdfunding platform, familiarity, information quality, and innovativeness influence the intention to invest in equity crowdfunding in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from investors with equity crowdfunding experience (n=200) via a self-administered online questionnaire. This study uses Smart-PLS 4 to validate measurement and structural models. Findings: The results demonstrate that information quality, innovativeness, trust in fundraisers, and trust in the platform positively influence investors' intention to invest in equity crowdfunding. Familiarity appears to be the only insignificant factor. Notably, innovativeness emerges as the most dominant factor shaping investment intentions in equity crowdfunding. Research limitations/implications: This research contributes to the existing body of knowledge on crowdfunding and provides valuable insights into the dynamics of equity crowdfunding in Malaysia. Our findings may not be transferable to other cultural or national contexts because our research was limited to the experiences of Malaysian respondents. Practical implications: Implications derived from this research inform equity crowdfunding platform service providers and fundraisers to enhance investment opportunities. Fundraisers can better engage potential investors and boost campaign success by enhancing information quality, innovativeness, and trust-building. Originality/value: This study explores potential factors that have yet to be scrutinized, such as platform and fundraiser trusts, familiarity, information quality, and innovativeness, thereby contributing insights into the effects of these aspects on the investors' intention to invest in equity crowdfunding in Malaysia. Keywords: Equity Crowdfunding, Familiarity, Innovativeness, Information Quality, Transfer Trust Theory., Introduction The mainstream of the Malaysian economy is small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), accounting for 98.5% of all firms in the nation, 38% of GDP, and hiring close to 70% [...]

On a Thursday morning in June, I boarded Amtrak's California Zephyr train in Denver as it headed west on its scheduled 51-hour journey between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay [...]

Table 5.4.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Private Fixed Investment in Structures by Type [Percent] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 1 Private [...]

Table 5.6.5. Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type [Billions of dollars] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 1 Private fixed investment 778.9 [...]

Table 5.6.6. Real Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type, Chained Dollars [Billions of chained (2017) dollars] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 [...]

Table 5.6.4. Price Indexes for Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type [Index numbers, 2017=100] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed [...]

Table 5.6.2. Contributions to Percent Change in Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 Percent change at [...]

Table 5.6.3. Real Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type, Quantity Indexes [Index numbers, 2017=100] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed [...]

Table 5.5.6. Real Private Fixed Investment in Equipment by Type, Chained Dollars [Billions of chained (2017) dollars] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed [...]

Table 5.5.5. Private Fixed Investment in Equipment by Type [Billions of dollars] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed investment 1,157.4 1,134.0 1,175.0 in [...]

Table 5.6.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Private Fixed Investment in Intellectual Property Products by Type [Percent] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 2018 [...]

Table 5.4.6. Real Private Fixed Investment in Structures by Type, Chained Dollars [Billions of chained (2017) dollars] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed [...]

Table 5.5.3. Real Private Fixed Investment in Equipment by Type, Quantity Indexes [Index numbers, 2017=100] Last Revised on: September 29, 2023 Line 2015 2016 2017 1 Private fixed investment 96.959 [...]