scholarly journals Determinants of Saving and Investment Behaviour of Tea Plantation Workers: An Empirical Analysis of Four Tea Gardens of Udalguri District (Assam)

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipali Bosumatari
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Tea Plantation ◽  
Status Occupation ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Investment Behaviour

The main objective of this paper is to examine the main determinants of saving and investment behaviour of tea plantation workers in Assam based on a microeconomic approach. Four tea gardens have been selected for the purpose of data collection. These gardens are Bhooteachang Tea Estate, Hattigor Tea Estate, Brotherhood Tea Growing firm and Jwnglari Tea Farm. Two separate multiple linear regression models were fitted for saving and investment. The paper found that there is propensity to save and invest among the tea planation workers in spite of low income. The workers in the sample save their income mainly in SBI, LIC, and other banks and invest in children’s education and other income generating activities like rearing livestock, buying cultivated land, etc. Further, it is found that income level, education status, occupation have positive influence on saving, while the number of dependents exerts a negative influence on saving. The factors that drive household investment are occupation, income and assets.

scholarly journals Impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in the world during 1975–2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (91) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
B. B. Brychka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The study is concentrated on examination the impact of FDI on economic growth in the World during 1975–2015. The study consists of four consecutive parts, including introduction, literature review, model and methodology, data, empirical results and conclusion. Each part of the study is focused on its own goals. According to the results of the literature review, there is positive influence of FDI on economic growth in various countries. Economic growth is one of the most important goals of any country. The country image on the international level is dependent on its economic power. Economic growth provides an opportunity to improve the living standards in the country. Most researchers conclude that there is a positive influence of FDI on the countries’ economic growth. However, the impact of FDI is strong in developing countries. Moreover, this relationship is stronger in countries with higher educational and technological level, trade openness and development of the countries’ stock markets. Economists often build regression models to estimate the relationship between the variables. In order to find the impact of FDI on economic growth, we are going to apply linear regression models. We take two variables as indicators of the countries’ economic growth, including current GDP expressed in U.S dollars, and annual GDP growth rate. Taking into account that the World’s GDP in current U.S dollar is a factor variable with the mentioned resulting variables, the regression equation looks as follows: The R-squared of the built model is 0.99, indicating that roughly 100% of changes in the World’s GDP is caused by the chosen factors. As it is seen from the SAS output, the residuals of dependent variable and factors variables are distributed normally among its average value. Thus, non-normality is not observed in the model. Taking into account the coefficients of the factor variables, the log GDP is most sensitive to the changes in trade as a percent of GDP. The log GDP is not quite sensitive to the changes in FDI, since the coefficient of 0.000128 means that increasing of FDI by one unit increase the logarithmic value of GDP by $ 0.000128.

scholarly journals Lifetime Weight Characteristics of Adult Inpatients With Severe Anorexia Nervosa: Maximal Lifetime BMI Predicts Treatment Outcome

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa-Katrin Kaufmann ◽  
Hanspeter Moergeli ◽  
Gabriella Franca Milos
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Weight Suppression ◽  
Positive Treatment

Background: The body mass index is a key predictor of treatment outcome in patients with anorexia nervosa. In adolescents, higher premorbid BMI is a strong predictor of a favorable treatment outcome. It is unclear whether this relationship holds true for adults with anorexia nervosa. Here, we examine adult patients with AN and investigate the lowest and highest lifetime BMI and weight suppression as predisposing factors for treatment outcome.Methods: We included 107 patients aged 17–56 with anorexia nervosa and tracked their BMI from admission to inpatient treatment, through discharge, to follow-up at 1–6 years. Illness history, including lowest and highest lifetime BMI were assessed prior to admission. We used multiple linear regression models with minimal or maximal lifetime BMI or weight suppression at admission as independent variables to predict BMI at admission, discharge and follow-up, while controlling for patients' age, sex, and duration of illness.Results: Low minimal BMI had a negative influence on the weight at admission, which in turn resulted in a lower BMI at discharge. Higher maximal BMI had a substantial positive influence on BMI at discharge and follow-up. Weight suppression was highly correlated with maximal BMI and showed similar effects to maximal BMI.Conclusion: Our findings strongly support a relationship between low minimal lifetime BMI and lower BMI at admission, and between higher maximal lifetime BMI or weight suppression and a positive treatment outcome, even years after discharge. Overall, maximal BMI emerged as the most important factor in predicting the weight course in adults with AN.

scholarly journals Psychiatric Disorders and Alcohol Consumption Among Low-Income African Americans:Gender Differences

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Cobb ◽  
Shervin Assari
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Compulsive Disorder

Background: Although cooccurrence of nonsubstance use disorders (non-SUDs) and substance use is well-established in the literature, most of what we know in this regard is derived from studies that have recruited predominantly White sample populations. As a result, there is a gap in knowledge on this link among low-income African Americans (AAs). There is also a need to understand how low-income AA men and women differ in these associations. Objective: To study whether there is an association between number of non-SUDs and amount of alcohol consumption by AA adults, and whether this association varies between AA men and women. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited a nonrandom sample of 150 AA adults with non-SUDs (i.e., major depression, bipolar disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, paranoid disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and schizoaffective disorder). The independent variable was the number of non-SUDs. The dependent variable was the amount of alcohol consumption. Age, socioeconomic status (educational attainment and household income), and self-rated health were covariates. Gender was the moderator. Linear regression models were used to analyze the data. Results: A higher number of non-SUDs was not associated with a higher amount of alcohol use in the pooled sample of AA adults. We, however, found a significant interaction between gender and number of non-SUDs on the amount of alcohol use, suggesting a stronger effect of non-SUDs on alcohol consumption in AA men than in AA women. Gender-stratified linear regression models showed a positive association between number of non-SUDs and amount of alcohol consumption in AA men but not in AA women. Conclusion: Non-SUDs impact alcohol use of AA men but not women. Future research should test whether AA men may have a higher tendency to turn to alcohol to regulate their emotions and cope with psychological pain due to multiple non-SUDs. The results also suggest that integration of services for SUDs and non-SUDs may be more relevant to provision of mental health services for AA men than AA women.

scholarly journals manuscript

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa-Katrin Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Weight Suppression ◽  
Positive Treatment

Background: The body mass index is a key predictor of treatment outcome in patients with anorexia nervosa. In adolescents, higher premorbid BMI is a strong predictor of a favourable treatment outcome. It is unclear whether this relationship holds true for adults with anorexia nervosa. Here, we examine adult patients with AN and investigate the lowest and highest lifetime BMI and weight suppression as predisposing factors for treatment outcome.Methods: We included 107 patients aged 17-56 with anorexia nervosa and tracked their BMI from admission to inpatient treatment, through discharge, to follow-up at 1-6 years. Illness history, including lowest and highest lifetime BMI were assessed prior to admission. We used multiple linear regression models with minimal or maximal lifetime BMI or weight suppression at admission as independent variables to predict BMI at admission, discharge and follow-up, while controlling for patients’ age, sex, and duration of illness. Results: Low minimal BMI had a negative influence on the weight at admission, which in turn resulted in a lower BMI at discharge. Higher maximal BMI had a substantial positive influence on BMI at discharge and follow-up. Weight suppression was highly correlated with maximal BMI and showed similar effects to maximal BMI.Conclusion: Our findings strongly support a relationship between low minimal lifetime BMI and lower BMI at admission, and between higher maximal lifetime BMI or weight suppression and a positive treatment outcome, even years after discharge. Overall, maximal BMI emerged as the most important factor in predicting the weight course in adults with AN.

POPULATION AGING, MIDDLE-INCOME TRAP, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF ASIAN ECONOMIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 1842009
Author(s):  
JIUN-NAN PAN ◽  
MING-LEI CHANG
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Primary Finding ◽  
Middle Income Trap ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

Population aging and the middle-income trap are serious problems felt worldwide, especially in terms of their powerful influence on economic growth. In order to explore the relationships among population aging, middle-income trap, and economic growth, this study uses a panel data of 27 economies in Asia from 1995 to 2016. The primary finding of this study is that lower-middle-income economies are facing the problem of middle-income trap, indicating that the economic growth rates of lower-middle-income economies are slowing down. In addition, population aging has a statistically significant and negative influence on the growth rate of GDP in the high-income economies, but it has a statistically significant and positive influence on the growth rate of GDP in the low-income and lower-middle-income economies. This study suggests that increasing women’s labor participation, technology innovation, and immigration could solve the problems of population aging and the middle-income trap.

scholarly journals Influence of Visceral Fat in the Outcomes of Colorectal Cancer

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Goulart ◽  
Nuno Malheiro ◽  
Hugo Rios ◽  
Nuno Sousa ◽  
Pedro Leão
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Postoperative Complications ◽  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Anastomotic Leakage ◽  
Visceral Fat ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Curative Surgery

Aim: To determine the relationship of visceral fat (VF) with the surgical outcome of the patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) submitted to curative surgery. Methods: Retrospective analysis of all patients submitted to CRC surgery during 3 years with a minimum of 5 years of follow-up. We assessed the length of hospital stay, complications, pathologic reports, surgical re-interventions and hospital re-admissions, relapses, survival time and disease-free time. VF was calculated based on patients’ pre-operative CT-scan. The patients were divided into quartiles according to the VF area. Linear regression models and logistic regression models were used to establish a relationship between VF and all data collected. Results: The study included 199 patients (129 with colon cancer [CC] and 70 with rectal cancer). The average area of VF was 115.7 cm2. Patients with CRC revealed a direct relationship between VF and postoperative complications (p = 0.043), anastomotic leakage (p = 0.009) and re-operation (p = 0.005). The subgroup of patients with CC had an inverse association between VF and lymph nodes harvested (p = 0.027). Survival analyses did not reveal significant differences. Conclusion: VF has an influence on postoperative complications, anastomotic leakage and re-operation. A negative influence of VF on lymph nodes harvested was observed on CC patients.

Impact of Profound Burn on the Quality of Life of Women Attended at the Referral Outpatient Clinic in the State of Pernambuco

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-559
Author(s):  
Shirley Maria Santos Mergulhão Freitas ◽  
Cláudia Fonseca Lima ◽  
Ana Karlla Albuquerque ◽  
Ricardo Altino Freitas Júnior ◽  
Gustavo Fonseca Albuquerque Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Neck Region ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Outpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Cross Sectional

Abstract Analyze the influence of deep-degree burns on the quality of life (QoL) of women at treatment in ambulatory after hospital discharge. A cross-sectional study was conducted at a reference public hospital for burns in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, from August 2017 to May 2018. Fifty adult women over 20 years old who suffered deep burns and were in outpatient rehabilitation treatment were included. The variables studied were biological, sociodemographic, and clinical. The dynamometry and goniometry tests and the instruments to verify the QV Burn-Specific Health Scale–Revised were included in the analysis. Multiple linear regression models were fitted to identify factors associated with the six domains of the QoL instrument. The results identified a greater negative influence of burns on the QoL of women when associated with the variables: dark-black skin color, low levels of education, low income, motion impairment in right upper limb and lesions less than 6 months in the face, head and neck region. It should be noticed that the overall QoL score presented a median of 92.0, a score considered high, revealing an important QoL impairment. Deep-degree burn victims had a great impact on physical, emotional, and psychological abilities, acting harmfully on their self-image and causing difficulties in the execution of their daily and professional life activities, which are reinforced by aspects such as social position, level of education, and extent and duration of injury, resulting in a low QoL.

scholarly journals External constraints on Spanish municipal sports agencies’ finances

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge García-Unanue ◽  
José Luis Felipe ◽  
Carlos Gómez-González ◽  
Julio del Corral ◽  
Leonor Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of the environment on the financial performance in public sports agencies at the local level. Design/methodology/approach The influence of the socio-demographic, socio-economic and political environment on the financial condition of municipal sports agencies in Spain from 2003 to 2011 was studied by several regression models. Findings The results show a negative influence of the size of the population and a positive influence of the municipal taxes per capita. The influence of the political context is not demonstrated. However, the set of variables only explain a small percentage of the variance. Research limitations/implications The main limitation of this study is the possible existence of other non-controlled environmental variables. However, this study approaches genuinely the effect of the environment on municipal sports agencies, which has important research implications as it shows additional information to be contrasted with other researches in different countries or regions. Practical implications The information provided in this study will be of great importance for managers to select more objectively other entities in benchmarking development. Originality/value Finally, this study uses a non-exploited database and redirects performance management studies to other areas of service provision such as sport.

scholarly journals Adoption of Intercropping Practices by the Cotton Farmers in Mancherial District of Telangana State

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Shivakrishna Kota ◽  
M. Rajeshwar Naik ◽  
R. Uma Reddy ◽  
I. Thirupathi
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Climatic Variations ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Cotton Farmers ◽  
New Generation

World food production shortages and estimates in the supplies of the future have promptly increased the interest in the adoption of improved crop production activities and increased the food production and helps to cope with the threats of climatic variations and food security. Intercropping is a method that efficiently uses the space and time of cultivation. In this concept of cotton-based intercropping with pulses, where cotton yields are more along with additional survivable returns to the farmers from other crops. Though the concept has beneficial effects, but the adoption of intercropping in cotton by the farmers is low due to lack of clarity about the concept of intercropping. The present study mainly focused on estimating and clarifying the decision of the farmers on the adoption and non-adoption of intercropping in cotton and the benefits of the intercropping practices by the cotton farmers in developing the conceptual framework. Logistic regression model was used to present an econometric analysis of the diffusion process. The results from the present study revealed that variables like farm size, education status and exposure to extension service and capital were statistically significant at 1% level and showing a positive influence on the adoption of intercropping in cotton. Whereas age, farming experience was statistically significant at 1% level and showing the negative influence on the adoption of intercropping in cotton and yield is the other variable showing the negative influence on the intercropping. Further, in the extension systems more stress is need upon the capacity building of the farmers for optimum harnessing of the benefits of new generation technologies in cotton cultivation.

It’s time for men to groom up!

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Sayon ◽  
Luciana Florêncio de Almeida ◽  
Mateus Canniatti Ponchio
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
The Status ◽  
Marketing Actions ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to systematically review male cosmetics consumption (CC) literature and, given the dearth of research about the topic, especially on Western emerging country contexts, to shed light on the paradoxical behaviour concerning male grooming by empirically assessing the impact of some psychological and demographic antecedents of consumption. Design/methodology/approach Six hypotheses derived from a systematic review of the literature were tested through structured equation modelling (SEM), based on data of 476 Brazilian men. Findings The results empirically sustain the positive influence of vanity and masculinity in grooming product consumption, with partial mediation of vanity between masculinity and consumption. Counterintuitively, it also confirms the negative influence of income. Age and marital status are not statistically relevant. Practical implications Practitioners should invest in marketing actions focusing on low-income men, who showed genuine interest in grooming products, promoting them as powerful tools to improve appearance and social recognition. Additionally, educational and wellness-related campaigns could be effective. Social implications Beyond profitability, economic growth and men’s well-being, the results might affect the whole society through male cosmetics' contribution to blending gender paradigms. Originality/value This study focuses on an economically relevant segment that defies the status quo. It is the first to systematically demonstrate the state of the art of male CC knowledge and to illuminate the role of psychological and demographic variables in influencing CC, enriching the literature on appearance, gender and consumption.

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