scholarly journals Intervención: cuidado del medio ambiente en la formación clúster de turismo alternativo, para el desarrollo regional

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Raquel Valdez-Guerrero ◽  
Isela Margarita Robles-Arias ◽  
Ivana María Real-Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Environmental Intervention ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Intervention Process ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Intervention Plan ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Observation Matrix

Strategies for the development of an Environmental Intervention Plan in the formation of the alternative tourism cluster for regional development applied in El Triunfo, Baja California Sur are addressed to allow poverty reduction through the generation of self-employment in the region, increasing the quality of life and without compromising the natural environment. The objective is to identify strategic activities and processes that are integrated into the start-up of companies that conglomerate together and form an alternative tourism cluster. To carry out the same, the Planned Change Model Intervention methodology is used, where information is collected, data is processed, the intervention plan is analyzed and designed. For the purpose of this investigation they have been designed; a questionnaire to identify the knowledge and application of the regulations of the Law of Ecological Balance and Protection of the Environment, applied to the companies that conglomerates make up the cluster and an observation matrix to collect the information, for the processing comparative matrices have been designed with in order to identify opportunities for improvement and include them in the intervention process.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial intention of agriculture undergraduates in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Zuzana Bednarikova ◽  
Miroslava Bavorova ◽  
Elena Ponkina
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
Remote Part

Purpose. This paper aimed to investigate factors that influence the intention of educated youth in remote areas of Siberia to start-up business under the specific conditions with post-communist legacy. Special attention is paid to the willingness of graduates to run a business in agriculture. Methodology / approach. We surveyed 470 university students and applied logistic regression to analyze the probability of becoming self-employed. Results. Study results reveal that being male, an existing family entrepreneurial tradition, and effort of respondents to increase their quality of life, such as a desire for a higher income and career efforts, improve the intention to be self-employed. Preference to live in rural areas decreases the entrepreneurial intention. We identified an important path dependency problem that arises from the low entrepreneurial literacy and tradition of the families because setting up a private business is a novelty in Russia. Originality / scientific novelty. The Global Entrepreneurial Monitor Review ranks Russia among countries with the lowest entrepreneurial intention. This fact may threaten the development of the country as self-employment represents an important trigger for the economic development of a region, especially for its rural and remote part. Entrepreneurs in agriculture might help in re-cultivation of the abandoned land in Russian Siberia if the entrepreneurial education and incentives were set properly. Practical value / implications. A promotion of entrepreneurship education at the universities, removing administrative barriers to business development, and launching programs to support young entrepreneurs, especially in rural areas, might be crucial in increasing the entrepreneurial activity of youth. This study has important implications for policymakers and education system as youth entrepreneurship provides an opportunity to decrease unemployment, ensure the income of the rural population, and promote sustainable growth of rural areas.

Entrepreneurial Training for Unemployed Adults: Challenges and Opportunities in Accessing Financial Services in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 453-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celestin Mayombe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Entrepreneurial Training ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
Training Delivery

Entrepreneurship training programmes and self-employment initiatives for unemployed adults has become a new frontier for poverty reduction in South Africa. This article investigates the types of challenges graduates encounter and opportunities in accessing financial services in order to start-up and grow an own micro-enterprise in South Africa. The main findings reveal that micro-finance institutions are keen to grant loans and credits to graduates from entrepreneurial training centres. However, graduates are not eligible for credits because they fail to meet the security requirements of the lending banks due to their socio-economic situations. The author concludes that if centre managers do not involve micro-finance institutions prior to the training delivery and transition stages of the entrepreneurial training programmes, graduates will continue finding it difficult to access financial services and enter self-employment after obtaining the required entrepreneurship skills.

First Steps towards Self-Employment – Microcredit for Enterprise in Scotland

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil McHugh ◽  
Morag Gillespie ◽  
Jana Loew ◽  
Cam Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Grameen Bank ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Poor Communities

While lending for small businesses and business start-up is a long-standing feature of economic policy in the UK and Scotland, little is known about the support available for those taking the first steps into self-employment, particularly people from poorer communities. This paper presents the results of a project that aimed to address this gap. It mapped provision of support for enterprise, including microcredit (small loans for enterprise of £5,000 or less) and grants available to people in deprived communities. It found more programmes offering grants than loans. Grants programmes, although more likely to be time limited and often linked to European funding, were generally better targeted to poor communities than loan programmes that were more financially sustainable. The introduction of the Grameen Bank to Scotland will increase access to microcredit, but this paper argues that there is a place – and a need – for both loans and grants to support enterprise development across Scotland. A Scottish economic strategy should take account of all levels of enterprise development and, in striving towards a fairer Scotland, should ensure that the poorest people and communities are not excluded from self-employment because of the lack of small amounts of support necessary to take the first steps.

scholarly journals Syngas Quality as a Key Factor in the Design of an Energy-Efficient Pyrolysis Plant for Scrap Tyres

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (23) ◽  
pp. 1455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Czajczyńska ◽  
Renata Krzyżyńska ◽  
Hussam Jouhara
Keyword(s):  
Energy Demand ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Industrial Emissions ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Industrial Emissions Directive ◽  
Pyrolytic Oil ◽  
Quality Of Products

In 2016 4.94 million tonnes of tyres were produced. Each tyre eventually become waste and pyrolysis has been considered an effective way of utilizing scrap tyres for several decades. However, pyrolysis has failed many times because the process has a great energy demand and the quality of products is unstable or insufficient for commercial use. Usually plants are focused on the production of pyrolytic oil or char and the gaseous phase is only a by-product. In this paper the importance of composition and quality of pyrolytic gas is emphasized. The main chemical properties make this gas a valuable biofuel that may satisfy energy requirements of the whole process (except for the start-up phase). Available data from literature concerning composition and other features of the pyrolytic gas from scrap tyres obtained at temperatures up to 1000 °C are compared with experimental results. The quality of evolved gases is discussed in the context of the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), too. Finally, an analysis of the mass balances obtained allows a decision about the business profile and profitability.

Processing of Sonar Image Based on Compressive Sensing

2011 ◽  
Vol 301-303 ◽  
pp. 719-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Jing Xu ◽  
Huan Lei Dai ◽  
Pei Pei Cao
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Matching Pursuit ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Underwater Acoustic Channel ◽  
Sonar Image ◽  
Underwater Image ◽  
Reconstruction Image ◽  
Observation Matrix ◽  
Efficient Transmission

The particularity of the underwater acoustic channel has put forward a higher request for collection and efficient transmission of the underwater image. In this paper, based on the characteristics of sonar image, wavelet transform is used to sparse decompose the image, and selecting Gaussian random matrix as the observation matrix and using the orthogonal matching pursuit (OMP) algorithm to reconstruct the image. The experimental result shows that the quality of the reconstruction image and PSNR have gained great ascension compared to the traditional compression and processing of image based on the wavelet transform while they have the same measurement numbers in the coding portion. It provides a convenient for the sonar image’s underwater transmission.

Een slechte start en dan?

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk-Jan Dirven ◽  
Wouter van der Torre ◽  
Seth van den Bossche
Keyword(s):  
Analysis Data ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Employment Quality

A bad start and what then? The work situation of self-employed entrepreneurs with negative and positive start motives This article assesses the extent to which the quality of labor varies between solo self-employed who set up a business for negative reasons and those who started for positive reasons. A negative reason is, for example, not being able to find a suitable job as an employee; an example of a positive reason is wanting to be self-employed from the very beginning. Quality of labor is measured according to the person's financial situation, security of employment, quality of the working environment and work satisfaction. In the analysis, data are used from the Self-employment Survey conducted by Statistics Netherlands and TNO. Compared to self-employed persons with a positive motivation, those who were negatively motivated show lower performance in terms of their business's financial situation, income position, work-related mental fatigue (burn-out), self-perceived health status, concern about the business's future and the level of satisfaction. However, in absolute terms, the vast majority appear to be satisfied with their work situation, enthusiastic and not intending to quit self-employment.

ENTREPRENEURIAL OPTIMISM, THE NATURE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE AND DEBT DECISION FOR BUSINESS START-UP

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850024 ◽  
Author(s):  
HÉDIA FOURATI ◽  
RIHAB BEN ATTITALAH
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Forecasts ◽  
Adjustment Cost ◽  
Debt Ratio ◽  
Entrepreneurial Experience ◽  
Panel Data Estimation ◽  
Quality Of Control ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Serial Entrepreneurs ◽  
Data Estimation

This paper studies the entrepreneurial optimism and debt decisions for business start-up. By analysing a sample of 160 business start-up and by using the panel data estimation, we study entrepreneurs’ optimism and its impact on debt decision of business start-up. The measure of entrepreneurial optimism is based on the entrepreneur earnings forecasts initiated by Lin et al. (2005). Meanwhile, the nature of entrepreneurial experience (serial and portfolio entrepreneur) has an effect on entrepreneurial optimism and leads to more or less optimistic entrepreneur. The results reveal that optimistic entrepreneur prefers equity in funding the financial deficit. Serial entrepreneurs tend to use more debt funding. In the dynamic model, the entrepreneur acquiring business concurrently adjusts slowly to debt ratio. Nevertheless, the sequential entrepreneurial experience leads to more optimism and so on more debt use. Given the governance role played by banks, the high adjustment cost for start-up is a consequence of the efficiency of the quality of control exercised by banks that in spite of entrepreneurial optimism, the entrepreneur does not convince the financiers to be so confident on the prospect of the business.

scholarly journals Introduction of Criterion-Based Audit of Postpartum Hemorrhage in a University Hospital in Eastern Ethiopia: Implementation and Considerations

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9281
Author(s):  
Abera Kenay Tura ◽  
Yasmin Aboul-Ela ◽  
Sagni Girma Fage ◽  
Semir Sultan Ahmed ◽  
Sicco Scherjon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Postpartum Hemorrhage ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Local Hospital ◽  
Eastern Ethiopia ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Intervention Plan ◽  
Cross Matching

With postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) continuing to be the leading cause of maternal mortality in most low-resource settings, an audit of the quality of care in health facilities is essential. The purpose of this study was to identify areas of substandard care and establish recommendations for the management of PPH in Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital, eastern Ethiopia. Using standard criteria (n = 8) adapted to the local hospital setting, we audited 45 women with PPH admitted from August 2018 to March 2019. Four criteria were agreed as being low: IV line-setup (32 women, 71.1%), accurate postpartum vital sign monitoring (23 women, 51.1%), performing typing and cross-matching (22 women, 48.9%), and fluid intake/output chart maintenance (6 women, 13.3%). In only 3 out of 45 women (6.7%), all eight standard criteria were met. Deficiencies in the case of note documentation and clinical monitoring, non-availability of medical resources and blood for transfusion, as well as delays in clinical management were identified. The audit created awareness, resulting in self-reflection of current practice and promoted a sense of responsibility to improve care among hospital staff. Locally appropriate recommendations and an intervention plan based on available resources were formulated.

scholarly journals Self-employment, start-up incentives and political ideology

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Horst Baruffaldi ◽  
Marianna Marino ◽  
Pierpaolo Parrotta
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Up

scholarly journals Proactive Health Support: Exploring Face-to-Face Start-Up Sessions Between Participants and Registered Nurses at the Onset of Telephone-Based Self-Management Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233339362093002
Author(s):  
Susanne Winther ◽  
Mia Fredens ◽  
Marie Brund Hansen ◽  
Kirstine Skov Benthien ◽  
Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Continuous Contact ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Health Support ◽  
The Relationship

Proactive Health Support (PaHS) is a large-scale intervention in Denmark carried out by registered nurses (RNs) who provide self-management support to people at risk of hospital admission to enhance their health, coping, and quality of life. PaHS is initiated with a face-to-face session followed by telephone conversations. We aimed to explore the start-up sessions, including if and how the relationship between participants and RNs developed at the onset of PaHS. We used an ethnographic design including observations and informal interviews. Data were analyzed using a phenomenological–hermeneutical approach. The study showed that contexts such as hospitals and RNs legitimized the intervention. Face-to-face communication contributed to credibility, just as the same RN throughout the intervention ensured continuity. We conclude that start-up sessions before telephone-based self-management support enable a trust-based relationship between participants and RNs. Continuous contact with the same RNs throughout the session promoted participation in the intervention.

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