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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractDetermining Causes of Gully Erosion and Associated Rates of Change in South-East Nigeria, using a Remote Sensing and GIS MethodologySylvanus IroThe study of gully development on a regional scale is currently threatened by the intrinsic costs associated with steady field tracking and monitoring and the lack of historic measurements to perform time series analysis. The research objective is to develop a low-cost GIS and Remote Sensing methodology for monitoring and quantifying gully erosion and development over time, identifying the impact … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 16, Issue 5 · 22 Oct 2020 · 7,434 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Reliability of Routing Protocols as an Important Factor for Road Safety Applications in VANET-based Autonomous CarsAnanto Tri Sasongko, Grafika Jati, Bob Hardian, Wisnu JatmikoThe autonomous cars are considered as a tremendous disruptive innovation in the coming years. They enable a driving automation system to replace human drivers to control the vehicle with better recognition, decision and driving skills and ultimately enhance the road users’ experience and traffic safety. They can communicate with other cars as they are ready with the Vehicle to Vehicle … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 16, Issue 6 · 15 Jun 2020 · 7,425 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTime-Driven Activity-Based Costing in the Public Sector. The Case of Greek General Chemical State Laboratory under the Greek CrisisAthanasios Vazakidis, Eleftheria KyriakidouThe international globalized environment and the financial crisis have generated new demands with internals (citizens-users) and externals (creditors) pressuring the governments to control public spending and improve efficiency in the supply of public goods/services. The control of the public sector costs seems more important now, in the context of the financial and fiscal crisis of 2008. Activity Based Costing (ABC) … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 4 Mar 2020 · 7,954 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEfficiency and Forecast Performance of Commodity Futures MarketsBernardina Algieri, Matthias KalkuhlThe present study empirically investigates market efficiency and the potential factors of inefficiency in the main non-energy commodity futures markets: maize, soybeans and wheat. With efficient markets, futures prices can be used as commodity price forecasts, with inefficient markets futures prices are not able to predict spot prices. Technically, exploring the drivers of inefficiency means to assess the determinants of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 10 Jun 2019 · 8,383 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRole of Energy and Exports in Economic Growth in GhanaJoseph AduFor many years, the quest for sustained economic growth has remained a paramount agenda for developing and emerging economies. However for many of these economies, this goal remains elusive as the myriad of reforms implemented have often failed to yield desired results. The literature is replete with many studies aimed at identifying the sources of growth. Yet the role of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 1 Feb 2019 · 8,228 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRoles of Macroeconomic Variables on Agricultural Diversification in NigeriaSunday B. Akpan, Samuel J. Udoka, Inimfon V. PatrickThe study examined the trend in agricultural diversification index from 1960 to 2014 in Nigeria. It also determined the influence of some macroeconomic variables on the estimated index. Augmented Dickey-Fuller-GLS unit root test showed that all series were integrated of order one. The long-run and short-run elasticity of the agricultural diversification index with respect to the specified macro-economic variables were … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 9 Jul 2015 · 7,496 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSTRESS; THE VULNERABILITY AND ASSOCIATION WITH DRIVING PERFORMANCEB. M.T. Shamsul, S. Khairunnisa, Y. G. Ng, M. Y. Irwan SyahSeveral factors may contribute to occurrence of road accidents which are human factors, vehicle factor, road factor and environmental factor. There has been recent evidence of a relationship between road accidents and emotional distress as well as fatigue. Monotonous and complex road environments are the road factor that relates to the internal factor within driver. The overall aim of this … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 11 Jan 2014 · 7,720 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRISK ANALYSIS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: A PRACTICAL SELECTION METHODOLOGYAlberto De Marco, Muhammad Jamaluddin ThaheemProject Risk Management (PRM) is gaining attention from researchers and practitioners in the form of sophisticated tools and techniques to help construction managers perform risk management. However, the large variety of techniques has made selecting an appropriate solution a complex and risky task in itself. Accordingly, this study proposes a practical framework methodology to assist construction project managers and practitioners … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 28 Nov 2013 · 9,200 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEngaging People who Drive Execution and Organizational PerformanceOlogbo C. Andrew, Saudah SofianProblem statement: The construct of employee engagement had gained much reputation in recent years among reputable management and human resources consulting firms. Though there is an increasing contributions of few academic research on the construct of employee engagement yet there is a shortage of academic studies on the construct. This gap had made the construct an interesting area of research. … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 3 Nov 2011 · 8,264 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Effect of Digital Count-Down Display on Signalized Junction PerformanceM. R. Ibrahim, M. R. Karim, F. A. KidwaiIntersections are bottleneck in the highway networks and critical determinant of system’s capacity and safety. Recently, several countdown timers had been installed at intersections in Kuala Lumpur and some other cities in Malaysia. The function of these timers is to aid drivers to judge the amount of time left for them to get the green signal for moving (starting) their … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 5 · 31 May 2008 · 7,765 accessesView PDFCite