Volume 4, Issue 3 (2008) | Journal of Social Sciences

Rural-Urban Migration and Earning Gains in Iran

Mohammad Ali Molaei — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.158.164

This study analyzed the impact of earning gains of the rural migrants settled in urban areas in Iran. Primary data has been collected from 400 migrant households based on multistage cluster random sam...

Determinants of Success within an Integrated Business Curriculum Context: An Econometric Assessment

Ismail H. Genc — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.165.172

This paper studies an ongoing curriculum innovation at the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho, with junior level economics and business classes under one common team taught c...

Favorableness-Reality Index

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.173.177

By constructing a systematic structure of processes, decision models would give the most comprehensive and appropriate decision out of the variety of choices. As an instance, Analytic Hierarchy Proces...

The Logic of Populist Discourse and its Cultural Frame in Korea: An Analysis of the Former President Roh Moo-Hyun's Reformist Rhetoric

Manwoo Lee — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.178.188

This study was conducted to explain the discursive logic of populist politics and its cultural background in the former president Roh's Korean Government. It was divided into two parts of research res...

Electronic Monitoring: The Employees Point of view

Hamed Al-Rjoub — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.189.195

Electronic monitoring tools provide managers with the ability to continuously evaluate and measure their employee's performance. The employee's productivity will be increased and his work will be more...

Disclosure of Medical Secrecy Crime a study based on Jordanian Penal Law

Mohammed Mousa Al-Sweilmeen — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.196.201

This study aimed at clarifying the penal responsibility of the doctors on the disclosure of trade secret by explaining the concept, nature, jurisdiction and the legal grounds of trade secret. The stud...

Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development: The Role of Social Capital

Ali Asadi — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.202.215

Developing countries are facing dilemmas such as un-sustainability, and poverty, (especially rural poverty). Poor people are often seen as compelled to exploit their surrounding for short-term surviva...

The Random Walk Hypothesis for the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange: January 1998-November 2006

Tafirenyika Sunde — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.216.221

The main intention of this study was to investigate, using monthly data, whether prices in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) follow a random-walk process as required for there to be market efficiency....

Investigating Mechanisms of Marginal Settlement Life Improvement

Hamid Movahed Mohammadi — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.222.228

The main purpose of this research was to investigate mechanisms to improve marginal settlement life in Koohdasht County in Lorestan province. This research was a sort of the survey studies and a quest...

Participation and Decision Making Role of Rural Women in Economic Activities: A Comparative Study for Members and Non-Members of the Micro-Credit Organizations in Bangladesh

Mahmuda Hoque — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.229.236

The study was aimed to know the present status of rural women's participation and decision making role in economic activities (called EAs from here) in Bangladesh. The sample of the study consisted of...

Trust in Virtual Universities

Asghar Abolhasani Hastiani — 2008-09-30

Journal of Social Sciences, Published online: 30 September 2008; doi:10.3844/jssp.2008.237.245

The number of students enrolled at Iranian virtual Universities during 2004-2007 years, annually accounted for less than 0.5% of traditional Iranian universities enrolment. The low rate of virtual Uni...