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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractClimatic Hazards and Social Crisis: A Quick Mitigation Approach to Accelerate Sustainable DevelopmentM.A. Rakib, M.S. Akter, Kushal MajumderClimate change and its negative consequences frequently impede to social development through mal-structural function of socioeconomic status but prospective mitigation approach may accelerate to social sustainability. This paper investigates to existing climatic hazards along with functional damage in a society that, how climatic hazards make vulnerable to the social people and evolve a new mitigation pathway to rescue from food … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 1 · 18 Feb 2016 · 7,587 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGOVERNMENTAL CONTROL OF THE FORMATION EFFICIENCY OF EDUCATIONAL CLUSTERS AT THE REGIONAL LEVELNina Ivanovna Larionova, Tatiana Valerievna Yalyalieva, Dmitry Leonidovich Napolskikh, Victor Evgenevich ShebashevStudying the cluster institutionalization processes in the modern practices of the social development allows determining the formation trends of an efficient governmental control system at the subfederal level. The efficiency parameters suggested by the author for the cluster policy implementation for the governmental control purposes, such as density, integrity, complementarity and institutional sphere conductivity will allow controlling the development efficiency … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 10 · 1 Dec 2014 · 5,636 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractErgonomics Issues in MalaysiaH. S. Loo, Stanley RichardsonProblem statement: Ergonomics so far has had little impact in Malaysia. For most Malaysian managers, ergonomics is not considered to be associated with performance, but rather with occupational health and safety and legislation. Approach: This study reviews the development of ergonomics in Malaysia and the underlying issues related to national development. Results: Many changes need to be made within the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 1 · 23 Jan 2012 · 9,509 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRural Students’ Skills and Attitudes Towards Information and Communication TechnologyHairulliza M. Judi, Hazilah M. Amin, Nor A.M. Zin, Rodziah LatihProblem statement: Despite various initiatives and programmes by the government to incorporate ICT in education, not much research has been done to evaluate the achievement of these initiatives and programmes, including ICT proficiency among students. This study fills in the gap of lack of current information pertaining to the Malaysian secondary school students’ ICT competencies, knowledge on internet and attitudes … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 21 Oct 2011 · 7,964 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Analysis of Hybrid Tool Estimator: An Integration of Risk with Software EstimationJ. Frank Vijay, C. ManoharanProblem statement: One important problem with software development projects is to get an early and nevertheless accurate estimation of the effort needed to complete the project within the schedule. In the literature various methods have been developed for this purpose. The most popular examples are Boehm’s COCOMO, Albrecht’s Function Point Method or Sneed’s object-point method. The two last named methods … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 11 · 25 Aug 2011 · 6,754 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGender Issue in Contract Farming: The Case of Malaysian StudentsHayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Jeffrey Lawrence D’Silva, Jegak Uli, Bahaman Abu SamahProblem statement: Agriculture has been proved to be a significant impetus for development in Malaysia. Agriculture offers a number of profitable activities, contract farming is one of it and it is still in infancy stage. Besides being a developed sector in Malaysia, it still has a number of problems to be solved. Gender issue is one of it. Gender issue … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2010 · 8,319 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Developmental Model of Cultural Tourism-Homestay of the Lao Vieng and Lao Song Ethnic Groups in the Central Region of ThailandSupon Chaiyatorn, Prarop Kaoses, Phairat ThitphatProblem statement: Lao Wieng and Lao Songe Ethnic Groups were herded from Lanchang Region to Siam Region. In recent time, they settled down in Central Thailand. The objectives of this research were to study: (1) historical background of Lao Wieng and Lao Songe Ethnic Groups, (2) their lifestyle facilitating tourism and (3) development of cultural tourism model as Home Stay … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2010 · 9,662 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Trade Regulations in the Sustainable Management of Natural ResourcesAbhijeet MukherjiProblem statement: The complex issues involved in the role of trade regulations in sustainable management of natural resources have necessitated intensive research in this area. Approach: Hence this study highlights the fact that while the international community is making efforts to take concrete actions to protect the environment, mitigate the negative impacts of increased trade and promote the positive impacts … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2009 · 7,237 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractReconciling the Bio Safety Protocol and the WTO Regime: Problems, Perspectives and PossibilitiesP. G. Gayathri, Reshma R. KurupProblem statement: The issue of regulation of international trade in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) evokes a very unique, passionate and emotional debate between environmentalists and businesses. At the conceptual level itself, like most other multilateral environmental agreements, the Cartagena Protocol appears to be incompatible with the WTO Rules. Approach: Further, since there is precious little scientific certainty on the actual … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2009 · 7,782 accessesView PDFCite