Volume 3, Issue 4 (2007) | Journal of Social Sciences

Women Empowerment through Participation in Aquaculture: Experience of a Large-scale Technology Demonstration Project in Bangladesh

M. Hammadur Rahman — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.164.171

The paper investigated rural women’s empowerment through participation in aquaculture activities within a large scale demonstration project in Bangladesh. The paper is based on farm level data colle...

A Story and a Belief in Spirit of Phoo (Grandpa) Loop : An Access to Resources of Fishermen at the Ubon Rattana Dam, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Wichian Mibun — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.172.175

The purposes of the article were twofold. 1. To bring a belief in spirit to gain an access to resources. 2. To propose a working model of and adapting method for utilizing resources of fishermen ...

Readiness in Meeting Globalization Challenges: A Case of Accounting Firms in Malaysia

Arfah Salleh — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.176.184

The empirical study explored the relationships between firm’s characteristics and perceived readiness level of Malaysian Institute of Accountants firm members in meeting globalization challenges. In...

Auditors Compliance with International Standards on Auditing (ISAs): Evidence form Jordan

Ahmad N. Obaidat — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.185.189

The continuous new amendments of the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) in the beginning of 2007 formed a pressure on auditors to follow up and comply with them. The present study attempted to...

The Determinants of Urban Household Poverty in Malaysia

T. Y. Mok — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.190.196

Since independence in 1950s Malaysia has been recognized as one of the more successful countries in fighting poverty: head count ratio came down to 5.7% by 2004. However the recent process of rapid ur...

Does Subjective Class Predict the Causal Attribution for Poverty?

Ramzi N. Nasser — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.197.201

This study investigated the attributions for poverty among secondary school and university students in relation to socio-economic. The questionnaire was adapted from Feagin's[1] and Abouchedid & Nass...

Assessing Employability Skills of Technical-Vocational Students in Malaysia

Ab. Rahim Bakar — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.202.207

Technical-Vocational Education and Training (TVE) system plays important role in providing highly skilled workforce to fulfill the needs of industries. An empirical research of TVE system is necessary...

Sociopolitical Instability and Capital Accumulation in Developing Countries: Cross Country pooled data Evidence

Abdul Haque — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.208.212

This study shows that sociopolitical conflicts measured by peace building capacity in developing countries affect physical and human capital accumulation in selected 70 developing countries from all ...

Human Resource Development Strategies: The Malaysian Scenario

Haslinda Abdullah — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.213.222

The socio-economic development of Malaysia is greatly influenced by human resources activities in both the private and public sectors. But the private sector, particularly the industrial sector is the...

An Engineer's Mathematical Approach to Designing an Emergency Room Decontamination Area for Weapons of Mass Destruction Casualties

Eldo E. Frezza — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.223.231

This study will focus on the potential requirements for an emergency response facility in case of weapons of mass destruction casualties proposing mathematical models. A complete emergency room layout...

Impacts of Physical and Psychological Abuse of Children on Family Demographic Variables

Lama M. Al-Qaisy — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.232.236

The aims of this study was to show relationship between physical and psychological abuse of children and family demographical variables. A random sample of study representing TTU students has been sel...

Investigating the Causality Granger Relationship between the Rates of Interest and Inflation in Iran

Mansour Zarra Nezhad — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.237.244

With regard to the importance of the rates of interest and inflation in economy, this paper aims at investigating the Granger causality relationship between the rates of interest and inflation in Iran...

How do Teachers Diagnosis and Percept Child Maltreatment?

Behshid Garrusi — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.245.249

Child abuse is a complex problem and its prevention requires action on many fronts. Teachers do spend many hours a day with children and they are likely to be concerned about the possible abuse or neg...

Towards a Theory and View of Teaching Compressed and Abbreviated Research Methodology and Statistics Courses

James Carifio — 2007-12-31

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 31 December 2007; doi:10.3844/jssp.2007.250.259

One of the highly questionable effects of educational reform and other curriculum reshaping factors at both the high school, post-secondary and graduate levels has been the shift to teaching compresse...