National Oil Companies (NOCs) have significant control over the world’s energy resources, holding about 80% of oil reserves and 70% of oil production, with similar figures for natural gas, both the economies of their home nations and the larger global energy market depend on these businesses. However, they perform in a wide range of ways, and a number of factors, such as labor costs, environmental regulations, corporate size, and financial stability, affect how efficient they are. This paper uti...

Business Management  Sociology  Economic System 

Leadership promotes sustainable actions and positive outcomes to address systemic issues. For decades, Black women and girls suffered from unsolved cases and increased homicide rates. Poverty and violence became widespread in several states exacerbated by inaction and bias from police authorities and preferential treatment from the media. Reports and data trends highlighted that African American women and girls encountered violence and death four times more than in white communities. Sociopoliti...

Sociology 

Uganda is one of the countries in the world today that recognizes the international and regional human rights instruments in terms of the administration of juvenile justice. It has a constitution and policy frameworks, which contain provisions with a bearing on children’s rights. However, some of the cultural practices in the country have created a massive gap in these rights, although the government of Uganda has a strong mechanism to protect the rights of children. The study argued that the co...

Sociology  Law  Public Policy 

This paper explores the dialectical relationship between spiritual capital and cultural productivity, and their impact on social development. It shows that spiritual capital, consisting of long-accumulated human knowledge, ideas, and values, forms the foundation and source of cultural productivity. Simultaneously, the development of cultural productivity continually enriches and updates spiritual capital. There exists a dialectical unity between the two, embodying the relationships between inher...

Sociology 

Background: Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest literacy rates of any world region. Public libraries have been noted to contribute to a community’s general literacy. Aim: To assess the utilization of a small town community library in sub-Saharan Africa by its community. Findings: The library was mostly used by young adults around 21.6 years old with 95% of the participants reporting use of the free Wi-Fi and 66% reading the library books. ...

Sociology  Library, Intelligence and Philology 

The Nation Rise wind power project was the last industrial-scale or grid-scale wind power project approved in Ontario, Canada despite controversy, opposition and legal action from the “host” community, and even an attempt by the environment minister himself to stop it. Problems surfaced early for the project, months before it was granted a formal commercial operation date, as residents complained of noise from the wind turbines. Documents including email correspondence referencing noise complain...

Sociology  Public Policy 

Since the 1990s, the focus of Shiseido Company’s work policy for women, one of Japan’s leading women-friendly companies, has gone through three phases of change. In the first phase, from the 1990s, the focus was on guaranteeing women’s legal childcare leave time; In the second phase, from 2000 to 2009, the focus was on realizing women’s balance between working and raising children; And in the third phase, from 2010 to the present, the focus of the work policy has shifted to the cultivation of wo...

Sociology 

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the overall attributes and characteristics of successful and satisfying BES private secondary schools. It sought to elucidate the direct correlation between school satisfaction and academic achievement, as well as to examine any potential relationship between school satisfaction and the gender of students. Methods: The researchers employed a descriptive approach by utilizing the modified measurement tool, adapted from [1], to...

Sociology  Psychology 

The integration of blockchain technology with artificial intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential for enhancing psychological research, diagnostics, and interventions. This study investigates the synergy between blockchain and AI to address critical issues of data security, privacy, and integrity in psychological assessments. A systematic literature review was conducted, utilizing databases such as PubMed, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and PsycINFO, to synthesize relevant studies from 20...

Sociology 

Film is a form of art that presents different concepts and perspectives to a wider audience thus can be considered a form of education and impact on shaping opinions amongst viewers. This research paper focuses on the problem of presenting stereotypes, misleading concepts, and unethical representations in film leading to bias and prejudice among audiences. This academic research report examines two case studies of films “Rise” (2022) and “Farming” (2018) showing contrasting representations of Ni...

Sociology  Art  Literature