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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTowards a Theory and View of Teaching Compressed and Abbreviated Research Methodology and Statistics CoursesJames Carifio, Lisa EriksonOne 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 compressed, pared-down or abbreviated courses in still needed or required subject-matter that became de-emphasized in the current educational reformation. Research methodology, particularly the highly quantitative and experimental kind and statistics, are … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2007 · 7,760 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSociopolitical Instability and Economic Growth Empirical Evidence from Sri LankaChangsheng Xu, Santhirasegaram Selvarathinam, Wen Xing LiSociopolitical instability severely affects economic growth in short and long run. This study analyzes that sociopolitical instability measured by proxy measure; annual growth rate of tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka during 1960-2005 adversely affects economic growth. Our empirical findings based on ordinary lease square econometric estimation, show that sociopolitical instability negatively and significantly affect economic growth. Reduction of economic growth … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 12 · 31 Dec 2007 · 6,879 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIncome Distribution and Health Status: Econometric Evidence from OECD CountriesVasudeva N.R. MurthyThis research note, using a cross-sectional sample consisting of 27 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD) for the reference year 2002, empirically examines the relationship between health status as measured by infant mortality and the degree of income inequality, given the effect of certain controlled variables. The empirical findings based on the estimation by robust econometric methods, show … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2007 · 7,251 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractVoluntary Counseling and Testing with AIDS Outpatient: Hubei, ChinaSheng Wanxiang, Liu Xiaoming, Yang Rongrong et al.The HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected the world over the past two decades reveals the significant role of socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes in the shaping of people’s lifestyles and approaches to the control and prevention of epidemics. A descriptive analysis of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) in the 2005-2006 which is the key Hubei provincial science and technology project that studies … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2007 · 7,065 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Simple Approach for Building Cooling Load EstimationF. A. Ansari, A. S. Mokhtar, K. A. Abbas, N. M. AdamThe present work is to demonstrate how some very simple problems are made mathematically complex and seemingly tedious due to academic or business compulsions. There are some problems in which mathematical model are developed after making many simplifying assumptions. But, when it comes to solving these models, very sophisticated and complex schemes are applied. For such problems, dual policy does … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2005 · 7,534 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAnalysis of Benefits and Barriers as a Critical Success Factor in IT Governance Implementation by Using Interpretive Structural ModelUky Yudatama, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto, Bobby A.A NaziefThis study aims to identify and analyze the key sub-factors of benefits and barriers as critical success factors for the implementation of IT Governance. The hope of the research is that the results of this identification and analysis can provide a high value of benefits in order to stakeholders in implementing IT Governance. In addition, it is expected to also … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 7 · 25 Jul 2019 · 7,885 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractImprovement Mechanisms of Wheat Consultant Engineers (WCEs) Project in IranAli Asadi, Morteza Akbari, Hossain Shabanali Fami, Amir AlambaigiThis article describes improvement mechanisms of Wheat Consultant Engineers (WCEs) project or Wheat Advisory Services (WAS) In Iran. A survey study was applied as a methodology of research work. Data were collected using structured questionnaires that addressed to evaluating extension expert and WCEs responses regarding to WCEs project improvement mechanisms. The result shown that the project was faced with many … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 7,555 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordEffectiveness of Business Practices Related to Climate Change as a Driver for Improving Environmental PerformanceNaciti Valeria, Centorrino GiovannaThis study explores the relationship between business practices related to climate change and environmental performance. Using an international sample of analysis from 2013 to 2017, the paper examines how managerial incentives, public policy, disclosure, and responsibilities to executives on climate change, as corporate governance factors, affect a firm's environmental performance. By employing several regression analyses, our independent variables-incentives, public policy, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 19, Issue 1 · 7 Feb 2022 · 6,787 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordLeveraging Artificial Intelligence and Other 4IR Technologies for Driving Education 4.0 in South Africa: A Scoping StudyEmmanuel Adetiba et al.The advent of the fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has impacted human life across many disciplines including healthcare, agriculture, telecommunication, manufacturing, education etc. It is characterized by cyber physical systems thus enabling automation of processes, in which devices can autonomously communicate. Some of the technologies that drive 4IR include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), big data, drone technology, robotics … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 7 · 9 Jul 2026 · 1,675 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessAll words, across the recordGreen Leadership as an Emerging Style for Addressing Climate Change Issues in SchoolsWahab AliThis paper attempts to investigate the concept of green leadership towards creating a greener environment through addressing issues of climate change and global warming. This initiative has been undertaken because principals take on a leading role in climate change education. As such an exploratory study was undertaken aimed at eliciting the views of principals about climate concepts and their opinions … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Issue 1 · 22 Jun 2019 · 8,307 accessesView PDFCite