scholarly journals THE INTERNET AS A DETERMINING FACTOR IN ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE ACROSS COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Manuel Perez-Trujillo ◽  
Marcelo Lufin ◽  
Maricruz Lacalle-Calderon
Keyword(s):  
Data Model ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Model Averaging ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Conditional Convergence ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Determinant Factor

This paper examines whether the Internet is a determining factor in explaining economic growth and convergence across countries when it acts as a channel of information and knowledge diffusion. Literature has identified around 140 possible growth factors, therefore given the contradictory results obtained from previous empirical studies it is crucial we understand the actual role of the Internet. Using the conditional convergence theory and a Bayesian panel data model averaging method from a sample of 100 countries between 1994 and 2017, our results demonstrate that an increase in access to the Internet is a non-determinant factor in economic convergence, being its probability of inclusion in the true growth model conditioned by the regressors included in the estimates and the time span analysed.

scholarly journals Testing Of Economic Convergence In The Middle Of The Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Samsul Arifin ◽  
Sayifullah Sayifullah
Keyword(s):  
Control Variable ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Speed Of Convergence ◽  
Spatial Dynamic ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Better Than

This study aims to see whether the process of export and import convergence occurs with the control variable of the size of the country's economy affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as measured by GDP and spatial interactions. The method of analysis in this study uses the Spatial Dynamic Panel. The research objects are 64 countries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic—data taken in the period 2019q4-2020q3. The results show that GDP and spatial elements influence the process of export and import convergence. The speed of convergence and the length of time to reach a steady-state, imports are better than exports reaching 28-38% with about one semester and reaching 15-16% with a duration of 1 year (export model). Exports and imports during the COVID-19 pandemic reflect interactions between countries, with distance as a determining factor. However, the role of interaction between countries tends to be insignificant in the long run.

scholarly journals Inversión Extranjera Directa como determinante de la Convergencia Económica por entidad federativa en México: 1993 - 2015

UVserva ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 262-275
Author(s):  
Rosa Martínez Hernández ◽  
Edson Valdés Iglesias
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Model ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Conditional Convergence ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Economic Growth Model ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Convergence Model ◽  
Determining Factor

En el presente escrito se desarrolla un análisis de Convergencia Condicional para las 32 entidades federativas de México durante el periodo de 1993 – 2015, observando el comportamiento de la Tasa de Crecimiento Media estableciendo como factor determinante a la Inversión Extranjera Directa. Para cumplir con el objetivo de esta investigación, se retoman los principios teóricos del Modelo de Crecimiento Económico de Solow (1956) junto con los fundamentos expuestos en el Modelo de Convergencia Condicional propuesto por Sala – i – Martin (2000).Palabras clave: Inversión Extranjera Directa; Crecimiento Económico; Convergencia Económica; Modelo de Crecimiento Económico; Modelo de Convergencia Condicional. AbstractThis paper an develops Conditional Convergence analysis for the 32 federal entities of Mexico during the period of 1993 - 2015, observing the behavior of the Average Growth Rate establishing as a determining factor the Direct Foreign Investment. To meet the objective of this research, the theoretical principles of the Solow Economic Growth Model (1956) are retaken together with the foundations set forth in the Conditional Convergence Model proposed by Sala - i - Martin (2000).Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Economic Convergence; Economic Growth Model; Conditional Convergence Model.

scholarly journals Smart Farming through Responsible Leadership in Bangladesh: Possibilities, Opportunities, and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4511
Author(s):  
Amlan Haque ◽  
Nahina Islam ◽  
Nahidul Hoque Samrat ◽  
Shuvashis Dey ◽  
Biplob Ray
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Farming System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Traditional Farming ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Smart farming has the potential to overcome the challenge of 2050 to feed 10 billion people. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) have become critical prerequisites to smart farming due to their high interoperability, sensors, and cutting-edge technologies. Extending the role of responsible leadership, this paper proposes an AI and IoT based smart farming system in Bangladesh. With a comprehensive literature review, this paper counsels the need to go beyond the simple application of traditional farming and irrigation practices and recommends implementing smart farming enabling responsible leadership to uphold sustainable agriculture. It contributes to the current literature of smart farming in several ways. First, this paper helps to understand the prospect and challenges of both AI and IoT and the requirement of smart farming in a nonwestern context. Second, it clarifies the interventions of responsible leadership into Bangladesh’s agriculture sector and justifies the demand for sustainable smart farming. Third, this paper is a step forward to explore future empirical studies for the effective and efficient use of AI and IoT to adopt smart farming. Finally, this paper will help policymakers to take responsible initiatives to plan and apply smart farming in a developing economy like Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Sunken ships and screaming banshees: metaphor and evaluation in film reviews

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
MATTEO FUOLI ◽  
JEANNETTE LITTLEMORE ◽  
SARAH TURNER
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Film Reviews ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

It has been suggested that metaphor often performs some sort of evaluative function. However, there have been few empirical studies addressing this issue. Moreover, little is known about the extent to which a metaphor needs to be creative in order to perform an evaluative function, or whether there are differences according to the type of evaluation, such as its degree of explicitness and its polarity. In order to investigate these questions, 94 film reviews from the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) were annotated for creative and conventional metaphor, and for positive and negative, inscribed and invoked evaluation. Approximately half of the metaphors in our corpus were found to perform an evaluative function. Creative metaphors were significantly more likely to perform an evaluative function than conventional metaphors. Metaphorical evaluation was found to be significantly more negative than non-metaphorical evaluation. Both creative and conventional metaphors were used more frequently to perform inscribed evaluation than invoked evaluation. However, the tendency towards inscribed evaluation was stronger for conventional metaphors than for creative metaphors. From a theoretical perspective, these findings call into question fundamental assumptions about the role of metaphor in performing evaluation, such as the claim, made in the Systemic Functional Linguistics literature, that metaphor invariably ‘provokes’ attitudinal meanings. We have shown that it can do so, but that it does not always do so. The study also offers methodological contributions, by introducing a new protocol for the annotation of creative metaphors as well as detailed guidelines for coding evaluation at different levels of explicitness.

Guardians of the Internet: Building and Sustaining the Anonymous Online Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 959-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe G Massa
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Political Groups

Online communities have displaced or become complements to organizations such as churches, labor unions and political groups which have traditionally been at the center of collective action. Yet, despite their growing influence and support of faster, cheaper and more flexible organizing, few empirical studies address how online communities are built and become enduring agents of social change. Using Internet-based ethnographic methods, this inductive field study examines how an online community called Anonymous transitioned from being a small gathering of contributors focused on recreation to becoming a community of trolls, activists and hackers incubating myriad projects. Findings reveal that the interplay of digital technology and a culture of transgression supported experimentation that culminated with the adoption of a resilient organizing platform that enabled several community factions to coexist in continuous engagement. This paper infuses community building research with an important emphasis on the role of the techno-cultural, highlighting how online formation and maintenance processes are shaped and shape mutually contingent technologies and cultures.

Mathematics Textbook as an Object of Research/Matematički udžbenik kao predmet istraživanja

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dubravka Glasnović Gracin
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mathematics Textbooks ◽  
Mathematics Textbook ◽  
Mathematics Book

AbstractA mathematics textbook can be described as an officially authorized and pedagogically designed mathematics book written to provide mathematical knowledge to students. This description suggests the authority of the textbook - because it has been authorized by an administrative source and because it deals with authorized knowledge. This paper provides an overview of research on mathematics textbooks. The emphasis is on questions concerning the extent to which and how textbooks are used in mathematics education in Croatia and in the world.Research results show that mathematics textbooks are widely used in mathematics education worldwide. This finding points to the need for research on the content and structure of textbooks. Such studies are combined with the associated results on how textbooks are used in the classroom and which methods teachers apply in using textbooks in mathematics education. The results of the empirical studies show that teachers use textbooks for lesson preparation and pupils use mathematics textbooks for exercises to a great extent. These results imply that such an important role of textbooks in mathematics education deserves additional attention, with the goal of understanding and improving mathematics education.Key words: mathematics education; overview; research on textbook---SažetakMatematički udžbenik može se opisati kao službeno autorizirana i pedagoki osmiljena matematička knjiga napisana s ciljem da učenicima ponudi matematičke sadržaje. Taj opis sugerira autoritet udžbenika jer ga je autorizirao administrativni izvor i jer sadrži autorizirano znanje. Ovaj članak daje pregled istraživanja matematičkih udžbenika, a naglasak je na pitanjima u kojoj mjeri i kako se udžbenici koriste u nastavi matematike u Hrvatskoj i u svijetu.Rezultati raznih istraživanja pokazuju da se udžbenici u velikoj mjeri koriste u nastavi matematike irom svijeta. Taj nalaz ukazuje na potrebu za istraživanjem sadržaja i strukture matematičkih udžbenika. Uz to, prikazani su rezultati istraživanja o tome na koji se način udžbenici koriste u razredu i koje metode nastavnici prakticiraju prilikom upotrebe udžbenika na nastavi. Rezultati empirijskih studija pokazuju da nastavnici udžbenike većinom koriste za pripremu nastavnog sata, a učenici udžbenike koriste u najvećoj mjeri za vježbanje. Ti rezultati ukazuju na to da tako važna uloga udžbenika u matematičkom obrazovanju zaslužuje dodatnu pažnju s ciljem razumijevanja i poboljanja nastave matematike.Ključne riječi: istraživanje udžbenika; nastava matematike; pregled.

ASPECTS IN BUILDING A COMPANY WEB-SITE AND ITS ROLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Petar Halachev ◽  
Victoria Radeva ◽  
Albena Nikiforova ◽  
Miglena Veneva
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Web ◽  
Design Construction ◽  
Made In ◽  
Site Types

This report is dedicated to the role of the web site as an important tool for presenting business on the Internet. Classification of site types has been made in terms of their application in the business and the types of structures in their construction. The Models of the Life Cycle for designing business websites are analyzed and are outlined their strengths and weaknesses. The stages in the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of a business website are distinguished and the activities and requirements of each stage are specified.

THE SCIENCE OF JUDICIAL PSYCHOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Petru TĂRCHILĂ
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Psychosocial Characteristics ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Behavioral Profile ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Determining Factor ◽  
Determinant Factor

Judicial psychology is the science that analyzes and tries to understand the criminal phenomenon in general and its determinant factor in particular, by the complexity of factors that generate it and by the diversity of its forms of manifestation. Although the determining factor of criminal behavior is always subjective being generated by the psychic of the offender, this aspect must be correlated with the context in which it manifests itself: social, economic, cultural context etc. Judicial psychology investigates the behavior of the individual in all its aspects, seeking a scientific explanation of the mechanisms and factors enhancing criminal favors, thus enabling the identification of the preventive measures to be taken to reduce the categories of offenses. It studies the psycho-behavioral profile of the offender, identifying the causes that determined its behavior in order to take preventive measures.The domain of judicial psychology is mainly deviance, conduct that departs from the moral or legal norms that are dominant in a given culture. The object of judicial psychology is the criminal act, correlated with the psychosocial characteristics of the participants in the judicial action (offender, victim, witness, investigator, magistrate, lawyer, civil party, educator, etc.). The science of judicial psychology also analyzes how these characteristics appear and manifest themselves in concrete and special conditions of their interaction in three phases of the criminal act: the pre-criminal phase, the actual criminal phase and the post-criminal phase.

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