scholarly journals Globalization processes and their effects on the household economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 05028
Author(s):  
Jarmila Vidová ◽  
Peter Sika
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Household Expenditures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Expenditure Structure ◽  
Required Quality

Research background: Globalization influences the behavior of all economic actors. The aim of the presented scientific article is to examine households and household economics, which is affected by current social and innovative changes. The role of households is very important in any economy, they support economic growth with their expenditures, and it depends not only on the growth rate of household consumption, but also on the large share of income of household expenditures. Purpose of the article: The authors in the scientific article will examine households and their decision-making processes, which mainly concern consumption, taking into account income, expenditure, structure, savings, indebtedness and income stratification in the context of maintaining the required quality of life. Methods: To meet the goal, we will use available data, we will use statistical methods to analyze, compare with each other and, based on the findings, propose the necessary measures. Findings & Value added: Globalization processes are part of us and must be accepted in order for households to be able to meet their needs. As their income in particular becomes important, it will be necessary to decide which group of expenditures the household will prefer in order to achieve them. So far, according to statistical data, a very low part of household expenditures went to education, although it is the higher educational level of household members that presupposes that the household will be able to adapt to the challenges of globalization.

scholarly journals Do patients value a hospital’s innovativeness reputation? A multi-method approach to assess the relative importance of innovativeness reputation in patients’ hospital choice

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Gurtner ◽  
Nadine Hietschold ◽  
María Vaquero Martín
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Hospital Choice ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Technical Innovations ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Method Approach

Innovations in health care are costly and risky, but they also provide the opportunity for hospitals to increase quality of care, to distinguish themselves from competitors and to attract patients. While numerous hospitals strive to increase their innovativeness by adopting a costly innovation leader strategy, the question of whether this actually influences the patient’s choice remains unanswered. To understand the role of innovativeness from the patient perspective, this study conceptualizes the construct of innovativeness reputation of hospitals and determines its relevance in patients’ hospital choice decisions. In the pretest, we identified six dimensions of innovativeness reputation such as progressive work procedures and value added services. We then used three different quantitative multi-criteria decision-making methods to evaluate the relative importance of innovativeness reputation in patient choice. We collected data from 355 former German patients who had undergone elective non-emergency surgery. Overall, innovativeness reputation accounts for 11.6%–16.8% of the patient decision. Innovativeness reputation has a moderate influence on hospital choice and should be taken into account by managers. Since technical innovations are costly, hospitals should use other means to enhance their innovative image. Strategies such as emphasizing value added services can enable hospitals to increase their innovativeness reputation efficiently.

scholarly journals The contribution of tourism to the Croatian Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neven Ivandić ◽  
Ivan Šutalo
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Tourist Industry ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Multiplicative Effects ◽  
Positive Effect

In order to understand the contribution of tourism to the economy and the effects of possible structural changes during the tourism boom that Croatia is currently facing, the article focuses on the place and role of tourism in the Croatian economy and its impact on the output of the most relevant industries. The aim of the paper is to estimate the contribution of tourism to the gross domestic product of Croatia and to measure the multiplicative effects of tourism consumption on the different industries of the economy during a nine year period, based on a specific methodological framework, which integrates tourism satellite and input-output models in three different years. The analysis has provided an approximation of the total tourist industry contribution to the national economy, ranging from 14.2 to 16.3 percent of the gross value added of the whole of the economy. It concludes that tourism consumption has a positive effect on both tourism and non-tourism products and activities. Improvement of the quality of the research within the input-output framework requires the process of the fractionalization of input-output tables but also a more precise extraction of activities characteristic of tourism than there has previously been.

scholarly journals The role of personal and household members’ substance use in health-related quality of life in women living with HIV/AIDS

AIDS Care ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-479
Author(s):  
Cui Yang ◽  
Peter DeBartolo ◽  
Mary E. McCaul ◽  
Heidi E. Hutton ◽  
Hirut Gebrekristos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Women Living With Hiv ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals The Role of Students in the Governance of Public Higher Education: a Case Study of Malta

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Colin Borg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Objective: The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent of student involvement in higher education governance by considering Malta as a case study. When analysing participation within institutions, two main players are involved: students and staff. Methodology: The author uses a hybrid of methodological tools to analyse the subject matter. A review of the existing literature is compounded with document analysis and the collection of unpublished institutional data. Findings: Student participation in the governance of higher education institutions (HEIs) is becoming a pressing reality. Students, who are the institutional clients, are a crucial key player in the manner in which HEIs are governed and managed. Therefore, HEIs have an interest in ensuring effective student participation. Various mechanisms are available and student participation is not always at an optimum level. Value Added: This paper analyse in detail two main mechanisms of student participation: elections and academic feedback. A qualitative analysis is provided in order to measure the extent of participation. Elections are an important tool to elect student representatives while study-unit and course feedback provide valuable information to improve teaching and learning. Recommendations: Further research is required in order to determine the quality of student participation in academic boards and committees. Therefore, the quantitative analysis is to be embraced with qualitative data. Furthermore, HEIs are to study ways in which they can create more participatory tools within their complex governing arrangements. The issue of involving more established student societies, which are not intrinsically part of the governing structures, is also essential.

Assessing the quality of state disaster recovery plans: Implications for policy and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan Sandler, MRP ◽  
Gavin Smith, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Recovery ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
State Programs

Pre-event planning for postdisaster recovery helps to improve recovery outcomes following disasters by engaging the network of stakeholders involved in recovery and working to develop a degree of consensus around recovery priorities. States serve as a linchpin between local communities and federal agencies, and the development of comprehensive state recovery plans allows states to communicate recovery goals and decision-making processes. This article addresses the limitations of what we know about the role of the state in disaster recovery by describing the application of a plan quality evaluation tool to a sample of state recovery plans. The plans evaluated in this study tended to be heavily focused on federal and state programs and grants available following disasters. To effectively guide recovery decision-making and encourage community resilience, state recovery plans should help to set a direction for recovery and develop corresponding policies that may be implemented by the broad network of stakeholders involved in recovery.

scholarly journals THE PECULIARITIES OF SOCIAL PERCEPTION IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION-PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 499-504
Author(s):  
Nane Zeynalyan
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
International Policies ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Decision Making Processes

In the recent decades, war fields have moved into the information sphere. Today’s person has reason to “be informed”; as having information provides a sense of security. In the modern world, great effort is invested in expanding information sources, because it serves to articulate both international policies and the context of wars. The exchange of information in domestic and international platforms influences the quality of public debate and ideology, which affects social attitudes and decision-making processes. This article presents the role of information-psychological warfare as a factor in forming public opinion. It discusses the peculiarities of organizing an information-psychological warfare during military conflicts. The goal of our research is to explore how social groups might perceive peculiarities in the information-psychological warfare. The research involves methods of survey, content analysis, and free associations. The effectiveness of psychological warfare significantly depends on how people perceive information. Consequently, in the contemporary world, it is necessary to not only protect or fight on the battlefield, but also to use information weapons. This imposes requirements on psychological scientists to explore peculiarities around the perception of information to help find mechanisms that safeguard people’s lives by way of contributing to the formation of necessary attitudes and stereotypes.

scholarly journals The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Yaman Abdin ◽  
Muhmmad Jawad Nasim ◽  
Yannick Ney ◽  
Claus Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Single Blind

Scientists observe, discover, justify and eventually share their findings with the scientific community. Dissemination is an integral aspect of scientific discovery since discoveries which go unnoticed have no or little impact on science. Today, peer-review is part of this process of scientific dissemination as it contributes proactively to the quality of a scientific article. As the numbers of scientific journals and scientific articles published therein are increasing steady, processes such as the single-blind or double-blind peer review are facing a near collapse situation. In fact, these traditional forms of reviewing have reached their limits and, because of this, are also increasingly considered as unfair, sloppy, superficial and even biased. In this manuscript we propose forms of Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R) as valuable alternatives to the traditional blind peer review system. We describe how the journal Sci has explored such an approach and provide first empirical evidence of the benefits and also challenges such a P4R approach is facing.

scholarly journals The role of geophysics in enhancing mine planning decision-making in small-scale mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 200384
Author(s):  
Ricardo Tichauer ◽  
Antonio Carlos Martins ◽  
Ranyere Sousa Silva ◽  
Giorgio De Tomi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Geophysical Methods ◽  
Mine Planning ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Planning Decision

Small-scale mining usually operates under high geological uncertainty conditions. This turns mine planning into a complex and sometimes inaccurate task, resulting in low productivity and substantial variability in the quantity and quality of the mineral products. This research demonstrates how the application of a novel methodology that relies on traditional and low-cost geophysical methods can contribute to mine planning in small-scale mining. A combination of resistivity and induced polarization methods is applied to enhance mine planning decision-making in three small-scale mining operations. This approach allows for the acquisition of new data regarding local geological settings, supporting geological modelling and enhancing decision-making processes for mine planning in a timely and low-cost fashion. The results indicate time savings of up to 77% and cost reductions of up to 94% as compared with conventional methods, contributing to more effective mine planning and, ultimately, improving sustainability in small-scale mining.

scholarly journals The Pioneering Role of Sci in Post Publication Public Peer Review (P4R)

Publications ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ahmad Yaman Abdin ◽  
Muhammad Jawad Nasim ◽  
Yannick Ney ◽  
Claus Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Peer Review System ◽  
Review System ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Single Blind

Scientists observe, discover, justify and eventually share their findings with the scientific community. Dissemination is an integral aspect of scientific discovery, since discoveries which go unnoticed have no or little impact on science. Today, peer review is part of this process of scientific dissemination as it contributes proactively to the quality of a scientific article. As the numbers of scientific journals and scientific articles published therein are increasing steadily, processes such as the single-blind or double-blind peer review are facing a near collapse situation. In fact, these traditional forms of reviewing have reached their limits and, because of this, are also increasingly considered as unfair, sloppy, superficial and even biased. In this manuscript, we propose forms of post-publication public peer review (P4R) as valuable alternatives to the traditional blind peer review system. We describe how the journal Sci has explored such an approach and provide first empirical evidence of the benefits and also challenges, such a P4R approach faces.

scholarly journals YOUTH VERSUS OLD AGE – CONSUMPTION DETERMINANTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-116
Author(s):  
Marlena Piekut
Keyword(s):  
Age Groups ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The People ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Central Statistical ◽  
Central Statistical Office ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Expenditure Structure ◽  
Financial Aspect

The age of household members is an important determinant for expenditures. The aim of the present study is to determine expenditure structure and also the hierarchy of consumption determining factors in Polish both young and older households. The research material comes from unpublished Household Budget Survey of Central Statistical Office of Poland for 2012. Canonical correlation analysis was applied as a research method. The most important determinants of expenditures turned out disposable incomes per capita and household size. In spite of transformations taking place in the last years, financial aspect still plays deciding role in consumer spending, particularly in spending on services. The study on consumption determinants at different age groups leads to better understanding of consumer behavior circumstances and thereby ensuring a good quality of life for the people of different age.

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