scholarly journals The Impact of Rural Electrification on Education: A Case Study from Peru

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Aguirre
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

This study examines the indirect impact of rural electrification on education. It finds that the greater the likelihood of a household being connected to the electricity grid, the more time the household’s children are likely to spend studying at home. This finding is interpreted as indirect evidence of an improvement in levels of schooling. Using instrumental variables to overcome endogeneity problems, the study’s LATE estimates reveal that providing households with access to electricity leads to children studying an extra 94 - 137 minutes at home per day, on average.

Gedeeld leiderschap en proactiviteit in Het Nieuwe Werken

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine J.H. Coun ◽  
Cees J. Gelderman ◽  
José Pérez-Arendsen
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Shared Leadership ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Feedback Culture ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Shared leadership and proactivity in the New Ways of Working Shared leadership and proactivity in the New Ways of Working Increasingly, employees are experiencing so-called New Ways of Working (NWW), facilitated by advanced ICT. They must deal with more autonomy and responsibilities in combination with flexibility in time and location of work. It has been argued that NWW combine well with novel leadership styles, such as shared leadership, although this relationship has not been studied before. Similarly, the expected consequences of NWW on proactivity of employees and teams requires academic investigation. This paper reports on a study on the impact of NWW implementation on shared leadership and the proactivity within SNS REAAL (a large banking and insurance company in the Netherlands). The case study is particularly interesting since NWW employees (N = 51) are compared with non-NWW employees (N = 77). The results confirm that NWW have a positive, significant relationship with team proactivity behaviour. In addition, the implementation of NWW can have an indirect impact on the individual proactivity of employees, which is only effective if team proactivity is promoted. Merely implementing NWW will not result in shared leadership. The findings suggest that NWW characteristics, such as an open feedback culture, more autonomy, and internal entrepreneurship, are most effective in the pursuit of proactivity and shared leadership.

scholarly journals The Impact of Knowledge Management on Work Performance through the Employees’ Competence: A Case Study of “MP” Bank

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Annasrudin Nasikhin ◽  
Nevi Danila
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Human Resources Development ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
The Impact

Since it was established in 2003 until 2014, the “MP” bank had never provided its human resources development training. As a result, it decreased its employees’ performance which ultimately gave a bad impact on the bank. This was a serious concern for the management in 2015. This study aimed to determine and analyze the impact of knowledge management variables consisting of socialization, externalization, combination, and Internalisation on the employees performance indirectly through their competence. The path analysis was used to determine the indirect impact of knowledge management on the wmployess’ performance, with the  samples of 140 people. The data analysis and hypothesis testing proved that knowledge management had significant effect on the employees performance indirectly through the employees competence. The R-square of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalisation of the employees competence were 70.5%; and the R-square of competence variable to the performance was 52%. This showed that knowledge management played an important role in improving the employees performance through their competence. It implies that the bank needs to provide in-house training for its employees resource development because only relying on the quality the employees get from the college was not enough

The Satiric Penny Press for Workers in Mexico, 1900–1910: A Case Study in the Politicisation of Popular Culture

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Elena Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Small Press ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

In 1908 an editorial in El Diablito Rojo, itself a penny journal, made some disparaging, yet revealing, remarks regarding the impact of the penny press of the time on Mexican workers:There is hardly a worker in Mexico [today] who every morning does not bring to his workshop or leave at home the paper of the day in addition to the small papers dedicated to workers which he acquires with real pleasure. In the big paper [the worker] looks for the daily news… in the small weekly he looks for a joke, a caricature, an anecdote; something that can distract or instruct him…But is that small press useful to its readers?… No: the journals constituting the small press all call themselves defenders of the worker and preach a dangerous gospel: hate of the bourgeois… [so that today] The worker already sees the bourgeois as an ogre…The small press does not… demonstrate to the worker the evils brought about by rebellion or violence, instead it tries to flatter the proletariat, indeed defending it in its own way when it is victimised, but only by fomenting in him a bad attitude towards his work.1

scholarly journals Sustainability of Renewable Off-Grid Technology for Rural Electrification: A Comparative Study Using the IAD Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heksi Lestari ◽  
Maarten Arentsen ◽  
Hans Bressers ◽  
Budhi Gunawan ◽  
Johan Iskandar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Grid Connection ◽  
Sustainable Electricity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Iad Framework

This paper analyses the implementation of renewable off-grid technologies in rural areas, especially where an extension to the national electricity grid was not considered economically feasible. Implementation of remote, stand-alone, electricity technologies as alternatives to a grid connection to provide sustainable electricity access have often failed with many planned projects not realised or abandoned. Our initial assumption was that stand-alone electricity project exhibiting higher scores on sustainability indicators would benefit communities more and make their endurance more likely. However, the impact of the stand-alone technology was often overruled or its quality weakened by government preferences wishing to realise a connection to the central electricity grid. Empirically, the study compares three cases of stand-alone micro-hydropower projects and three cases of stand-alone solar photovoltaic projects in Bogor Regency, Indonesia. It is based on qualitative document analysis, complemented by multiple rounds of semi-structured interviews and observations. The paper assesses the extent to which each project met indicators of technical, economic, social, environmental, and institutional sustainability. The paper tries to explain the endurance of the project from these sustainability scores and uses additional explanations from Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. The findings show that, for the studied local communities, the attractiveness of a grid connection overrules the virtues of a stand-alone electricity project, despite its quality, successful operation and impact. Our research also shows that government policy priorities changed in the rural electrification programme for some communities. In these situations, the off-grid rural electrification programme predominantly provided only temporary access to sustainable electricity for remote local communities that remained waiting and hoping for a grid connection to connect them to fossil fuel-dominated electricity.

Author, Publisher, Patron, World: A Case Study of Old Books and Global Consciousness

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 375-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wills, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Global Consciousness ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis essay focuses on the big books on distant parts of the world compiled by Olfert Dapper of Amsterdam between 1668 and 1688. It shows that in addition to his own efforts his publisher, Jacob van Meurs, and his patron, Nicolaes Witsen, made vital contributions to these works. It makes a case for the vital contribution to European knowledge of a wider world, and to the impact of that knowledge on broader cultural trends, of one who was not an eyewitness of distant shores but a diligent and sophisticated stay-at-home compiler. It urges scholars of these distant areas to pay attention to these books and others like them, and teachers to think about the benefits of discussing them with their students.

The Impact of Ertapenem Use on the Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Imipenem A Hospital Case Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Lucia L. Lima ◽  
Priscila R. Oliveira ◽  
Adriana P. Paula ◽  
Karine Dal-Paz ◽  
Flavia Rossi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Gram Negative ◽  
Hospital Case ◽  
Extended Spectrum ◽  
Defined Daily Doses ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Enterobacteriaceae Infections ◽  
The Impact

We sought to evaluate the indirect impact of ertapenem use for the treatment of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae infections in our hospital on the susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to imipenem. The use of ertapenem was mandated for treatment of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae infections in the absence of nonfermenting gram-negative bacilli for 1 year. The use of imipenem was restricted. Imipenem consumption decreased 64.5%. Ertapenem consumption was 42.57 defined daily doses per 1,000 patient-days. None of the 18 P. aeruginosa isolates recovered after ertapenem introduction were imipenem-resistant, compared with 4 of the 20 P. aeruginosa isolates recovered in the previous year.

scholarly journals Are citizen juries and assemblies on climate change driving democratic climate policymaking? An exploration of two case studies in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 168 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wells ◽  
Candice Howarth ◽  
Lina I. Brand-Correa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Indirect Impact ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Elected Representatives ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn light of increasing pressure to deliver climate action targets and the growing role of citizens in raising the importance of the issue, deliberative democratic processes (e.g. citizen juries and citizen assemblies) on climate change are increasingly being used to provide a voice to citizens in climate change decision-making. Through a comparative case study of two processes that ran in the UK in 2019 (the Leeds Climate Change Citizens’ Jury and the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change), this paper investigates how far citizen assemblies and juries are increasing citizen engagement on climate change and creating more citizen-centred climate policymaking. Interviews were conducted with policymakers, councillors, professional facilitators and others involved in running these processes to assess motivations for conducting these, their structure and the impact and influence they had. The findings suggest the impact of these processes is not uniform: they have an indirect impact on policy making by creating momentum around climate action and supporting the introduction of pre-planned or pre-existing policies rather than a direct impact by truly being citizen-centred policy making processes or conducive to new climate policy. We conclude with reflections on how these processes give elected representatives a public mandate on climate change, that they help to identify more nuanced and in-depth public opinions in a fair and informed way, yet it can be challenging to embed citizen juries and assemblies in wider democratic processes.

Efficacy of Crisis Intervention

Crisis ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Reisch ◽  
Petra Schlatter ◽  
Wolfgang Tschacher
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Suicide Ideation ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Term Therapy ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Step Therapy ◽  
Long Term Therapy ◽  
The Impact

This study assesses the efficacy of the treatment approach implemented in the Bern Crisis Intervention Program, where particular emphasis is placed on the remediation of suicide ideation and suicidal behavior, and depression, fear, and phobia are generally considered to be contributing factors. Four questionnaires addressing psychopathology, emotional well-being, social anxiety, and personality were administered prior to and after the treatment of 51 patients over a period of 2 to 3 weeks. The reduction of symptoms contributing to suicidal ideation and behavior was interpreted as indirect evidence of an antisuicidal effect of the program. Significant improvements were found in the psychopathology ratings, with depression and anxiety showing the largest reductions. The impact on personality and social phobia, however, was only moderate, and on average patients still exhibited symptoms after attending the program. This residual symptomatology points to the necessity of introducing a two-step therapy approach of intensive intervention targeted at the precipitating causes of the crisis, augmented by long-term therapy to treat underlying problems.

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