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Oct 30, 2023Open    AccessArticle

Effectiveness of the United Nations in Fostering Global Peace.

Nimesh Chettri, Kilari Chandra Sekhar
Global peace has been identified to be vital for ensuring the maintenance of health, safety and inclusion among the nations and the purpose behind the formation of the United Nations or UN is to promote peace. This study has been aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the role taken by the UN to foster “international peace”. An exploratory research design has been used for gathering and interpreting relevant data, while a secondary qualitative data collection approach has been followed. Reliable...

Culture  Economics  Criminology  Demography  Art 

Sep 11, 2023Open    AccessArticle

EXPLORING THE FACTORS OF STUDENTS DECISION ON CHANGING A DEGREE PROGRAM AFTER ADMISSION IN A UNIVERSITY

Dr. Rana Abdul Shakoor, Anila Yasin
Schools, and universities are worthless without students. The most valuable resource for every educational institution is its students without any doubt. The academic achievement of students is intimately related to the social and economic prosperity of the nation. The academic performance of the students is crucial in developing the highest caliber graduates who will serve as outstanding leaders and human resources for the nation, contributing to the economic and social growth of that nation. ...

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Jan 12, 2023Open    AccessArticle

Trends in Workplace Wearable Technologies and Connected-Worker Solutions for Next-Generation Occupational Safety , Health , and Productivity

Vishal Patel, Austin Chesmore, Christopher M. Legner, Santosh Pandey
The workplace influences the safety, health, and productivity of workers at multiple levels. To protect and promote total worker health, smart hardware, and software tools have emerged for the identification, elimination, substitution, and control of occupational hazards. Wearable devices enable constant monitoring of individual workers and the environment, whereas connected worker solutions provide contextual information and decision support. Here, the recent trends in commercial workplace tech...

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Jan 12, 2023Open    AccessArticle

Behavioral Monitoring Tool for Pig Farmers: Ear Tag Sensors, Machine Intelligence, and Technology Adoption Roadmap

Santosh Pandey, Upender Kalwa, Taejoon Kong, Baoqing Guo, Phillip C. Gauger, David Peters, Kyoung-Jin Yoon
Precision swine production can benefit from autonomous, noninvasive, and affordable devices that conduct frequent checks on the well-being status of pigs. Here, we present a remote monitoring tool for the objective measurement of some behavioral indicators that may help in assessing the health and welfare status—namely, posture, gait, vocalization, and external temperature. The multiparameter electronic sensor board is characterized by laboratory measurements and by animal tests. Relevant behavi...

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Sep 23, 2022Open    AccessArticle

IS DOOMSDAY APPROACHING? A CRITIQUE OF MALTHUS

Katharine Heavey, Walter E. Block
This paper discusses the pervasive arguments that overpopulation and dwindling resources have already doomed humanity or will soon do so. These Malthusian arguments take on many forms but are primarily concerned with increasing populations and limited resources. We evaluate these Malthusian theories both in their original conception and modern applications to examine their logic and appeal, as well as their flaws. We also examine historical evidence such as technology, the effect of the Black De...

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Jul 03, 2020Open    AccessArticle

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR OF URBAN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Ida Ayu Made Wahyuni; I Made Weni; Tommy Hariyanto
Tourism is one of the mainstay sectors in Indonesia's national development. The sector is expected to provide the largest contribution to increasing the country's foreign exchange so that the government's efforts to realize the welfare and prosperity of the people are achieved. Various tourism organizers are competing to improve their performance in various ways, including strengthening their existing networks and increasing the competitiveness of Indonesia's tourism businesses. This study aims ...

Sociology  Politics  Economics  Education 

Sep 18, 2019Open    AccessArticle

The Performance of Energy Firms in Greece

Economist.Lypitka Melpomeni, Prof. Dr. Makrygiannakis Georgios. Prof. Dr. Papadogonas, Theodore
In this paper, we investigated empirically the financial performance of energy firms in Greece for the time period 2012-2015 with the use of the well-known Altman test. The results indicated that all firms in the energy industry are financially distressed and are characterized by lack of liquidity, low productivity and high leverage for the whole time period under examination. This means that there is a clear danger of oligopoly formation in the energy market, with its negative outcomes in pric...

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Jan 18, 2019Open    AccessArticle

MERGERS AS A STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE AND ANALYSIS OF MERGERS IN TURKEY

Gül Binbo?a
In today's global world where competition is constantly increasing, it is becoming more and more difficult for companies to continue their existence by gaining a sustainable competitive advantage. In such an environment, company mergers are regarded as a strategic management tool for companies to distinguish from their competitors and adapt to the changing environmental conditions in the fastest way possible. The aim of this study was to determine the structure and properties of mergers in Turke...

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Jan 18, 2019Open    AccessArticle

THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT SOCIAL SPENDING ON INCOME INEQUALITY IN OECD: A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS

Mustafa ?lker ULU
Income inequality is one of the issue which is most discussed and struggled for its solution throughout the history of economics. Since the 1990s, income inequality has increased in most of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries as in the whole world. Government social spending is one of the most important means of directly regulating income inequality. This study investigated the effect of goverment social spending on income inequaltiy for 21 OECD countr...

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Jan 18, 2019Open    AccessArticle

THE CRED?T R?SK MANAGEMENT AND ACT?VE CREDiT SYSTEM

Arzu Ekinci Demirelli, Mehmet Gürcan
In this study, at the banks which are financial institutions, methods related to commertial credit were examined. It is an important problem which problems should be evaluated while the bank gives credit to commertial bank. Each bank evaluates the application of credit by examining the accuantancy records of the firms and by taking into consideration a certain risk level so that it can secure the amount of credit that it provides. Our aim is to be improved at a different method so that it can be...

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