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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAddictive Behaviors Amongst University Students: Contributing Factors, Student’s Perception and Addiction RatesAhmad Houri, Mirvat HammoudFactors contributing to addictive behaviors affecting student health are analyzed in this study. Smoking, alcohol consumption, and the use of illegal drugs are assessed in a sample of 290 university students. General averages indicate that 37.2% of students smoke cigarettes, 49.8% drink alcohol regularly, and 17.9% have tried illegal drugs while 4.8% of them use it regularly. Age, academic achievement, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 7,410 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTax Revenues and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation for Greece Using Causality AnalysisThomas Anastassiou, Chaido DritsakiThis study examines the relationship between tax revenues and the rate of economic growth for Greece. The viewpoint that the low ratio of direct to indirect taxation promotes high economic growth has been a main subject for discussion. However, not many papers have attempted to test the above hypothesis. One of the main problems that researchers are facing is the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 8,342 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractJob Satisfaction of University Woman Teachers in BangladeshSyed S. Alam, Mohammad Talha, C. N. Sivanand, Most N. AhsanThis study examines the relationships between job satisfaction, individual job facets, and socio-demographic variables in the public universities in Bangladesh. The research was conducted through mail survey. The sample consists of 500 teachers from two large universities in Bangladesh. Among the 500 questionnaires, 21 were returned, of the remaining 479 questionnaires, 232 usable responses were received, for a final response … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 7,425 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractBusy Period Analysis of a Man-machine System Operating Subject To Different Physical ConditionsG S. Mokaddis, M. L. Tawfek, S. A.M. ElhssiaThis study deals with some characteristics of a single-unit of a man-machine system operating under different physical conditions. The failure, repair and change of physical conditions (good-poor) are stochastically independent random variables each having an arbitrary distribution. The system analysed by some Markov process technique. The busy period, expected number of visits by the repairman and the cost per unit … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 6,160 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractMacroeconomic Impact of Trade on Namibian Growth: An Empirical IllustrationCyril A. OgbokorThe study analyses the role of trade on the economy of Namibia by considering a different specification of the traditional export-growth model. Foreign direct investment is included to capture the potential effect of this variable on growth. Utilising a combination of bivariate and multivariate models, the researcher estimated the relationship between the selected macroeconomic variables used for the study. Macroeconomic … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2005 · 6,864 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractIs the LEADER Initiative a Real Contribution to Rural Development in Underdevelopment Areas in Europe?M. M. Perez-Fra, Rosa Verdugo-Mateshe LEADER Community Initiative is a public programme that adopt on a local initiative approach, targeting rural areas as their field of intervention. The aim of this study is to provide elements for discussion regarding the applicability of such strategies for rural areas, which lag far behind European levels and to gauge the true bearing they have on the diversification … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2005 · 7,429 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractInvestigating the Influence of Different Process Parameters on Shrinkage of Injection-Molded PartsA. R. Jafarian, M. ShakeriDifferent models have been proposed to investigate the effects of various process parameters on shrinkage of plastic parts, which in most cases the effect of each parameter is obtained by changing one factor at a time. In this research, a simple flat model has been used and a simulation code has been developed. Then, through this simulation code, the effects … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2005 · 7,257 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractExtended IOWG Operator and its Use in Group Decision Making Based on Multiplicative Linguistic Preference RelationsZeshui XuIn [1], Xu and Da introduced the Induced Ordered Weighted Geometric (IOWG) operator, which takes as its argument pairs, called OWG pairs, in which one component is used to induce an ordering over the second components which are exact numerical values and then aggregated. In this study, we develop an extended IOWG (EIOWG) operator, in which the second components are … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2005 · 7,118 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractComparison of Environmental Performance-HSEQ Management System, Regarding the International and Iranian Oil and Gas General ContractorsJ. Nouri, M. Abbasspour, E. Roayaei, H. NikoomaramThe ever-increasing significance of the health, safety, environment and quality Management system has led general contractors including those involved in the oil and gas industry to place the implementation of this integrated system on their agenda, in a way that the implementation and execution of this system is considered as one of their operation and development strategies. The purpose of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2005 · 7,085 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Effect of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors on Contraceptive Use and Induced Abortion in TurkeyOzlem Alpu, Gunseli KurtThe aim of the study was to estimate the parameters of the heteroscedastic bivariate Probit model established for the induced abortion and the contraceptive use by using socioeconomic and demographic factors and their effects by eliminating the observed heteroscedasticity. Using a heteroscedastic bivariate Probit model and Turkish Demographic and Health Survey (1998) data on married women aged 15 through 49 … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2004 · 6,719 accessesView PDFCite