scholarly journals Understanding Users’ Experiences of Riding a Two-Wheeler Vehicle and their Intentions of Purchasing Electric Two-Wheelers

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 503-512
Author(s):  
Fei-Hui Huang
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Hierarchical Multiple Regression ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Willingness To Purchase ◽  
Two Wheeler

More than 13.7 million people in Taiwan are scooter users, which signifies the highest density of scooter users in the world. The aim of the present study is to use the user experience (UX) evaluation methods to investigate the factors that influence the users’ satisfaction, recommendation intention, and willingness to accommodate Electric two-wheelers (E2Ws). An online survey design has been used to recruit two-wheeler owners who live in Taiwan. The results of the hierarchical multiple regression analysis, based on a sample of 315 Taiwanese, indicate that the variables of satisfaction, positive emotions, and riding experience predicted whether users intended to recommend a two-wheeler. The results also reveal that external motivation is the core factor that influences a rider’s willingness to purchase an E2W. It highlights the importance of providing opportunities for people to experience the advantages of E2Ws and services. Having good hedonic and pragmatic experiences accumulated during two-wheeler usage may further positively influence the users’ satisfaction and intrinsic motivation. It is recommended that the government and the related industries consider the above issues when formulating related policies or developing E2W or battery technologies.

STUDI ANALISIS DAMPAK PADEMI COVID-19 TERHADAP EKSISTENSI PEMBELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DI INDONESIA

Edupedia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Ilzam Dhaifi
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
The Core ◽  
Equal Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The world has been surprised by the emergence of a COVID 19 pandemic, was born in China, and widespread to various countries in the world. In Indonesia, the government issued several policies to break the COVID 19 pandemic chain, which also triggered some pro-cons in the midst of society. One of the policies government takes is the closure of learning access directly at school and moving the learning process from physical class to a virtual classroom or known as online learning. In the economic sector also affects the parents’ financial ability to provide sufficient funds to support the implementation of distance learning applied by the government. The implications of the distance education policy are of course the quality of learning, including the subjects of Islamic religious education, which is essentially aimed at planting knowledge, skills, and religious consciousness to form the character of the students. Online education must certainly be precise, in order to provide equal education services to all students, prepare teachers to master the technology, and seek the core learning of Islamic religious education can still be done well.

scholarly journals Meditation Tourism, Buddhist Philosophy in Practice: A Case Study of Lumbini, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59
Author(s):  
Netra Prasad Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
National Development ◽  
Meditation Practice ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spiritual Tourism ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The dimensions of travelling and tourism have become manifold in recent decades. People love to travel with various purposes. Religious tourism, yoga tourism, peace tourism and spiritual tourism are some dimensions. Lumbini can be a best destination for meditation tourism, which could be much rewarding for individual, social and national development. The travelers and stakeholders have yet to be aware of this aspect. In Buddhism, Lumbini is a best destination for meditation tour. Exploring the importance of travelling Lumbini for meditation is the main objective of this article. Tourists and pilgrims would benefit immensely if they understand the significance of meditation tourism to Lumbini, its philosophy and practice. This article aims to explore the spiritual significance of Lumbini and it will provide visions of a purposeful development and publicity that would shape Lumbini as a best destination for meditation tourism. The government and private sectors are interested to develop Lumbini as best tourist destination. People all over the world are attracted to visit Lumbini for different reasons. Most tourists are unaware of the core aspect of visiting Lumbini. People who visit Lumbini are unaware about meditation practice or involving in charity works. Meditation and compassion are the core aspects of Buddha’s teachings, which are neither realized nor practiced. There seems a vast gap between the actual philosophy of Buddhism and the attitude of most of the visitors. This research study attempts to reveal the significance of meditation tourism in Lumbini.

Entrepreneurship in Sultanate of Oman

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Government ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

In Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East, Schroeder reminds one that the collective GDP of the Arab world is larger than Russia's and India's and nearly twice that of China on a per capita basis. The Middle East has more than 350 million people whose disposable income has grown by 50 percent over the last three years and whose Internet appetite has been expanding at a speed that rivals that of any other region in the world. More than 40 percent of those online denizens say that they would like to start their own businesses. Sultanate of Oman is no exception and eyeing towards more entrepreneurial activities. The government is also keen to facilitate entrepreneurship development. In this backdrop, the aim of this paper is to understand entrepreneurship with reference to Sultanate of Oman, a stable balanced developing economy in Middle East. With rising trends towards entrepreneurship, and hotbeds of entrepreneurial activity emerging therein, the core of the paper is to provide insights of entrepreneurship in Sultanate of Oman through case approach.

scholarly journals Investigating the Asymmetric Core/Periphery Structure of International Labor Time Flows

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-264
Author(s):  
Junfu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
International Division ◽  
Labor Time ◽  
The Core ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Downward Pressure ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

This paper studies the core/periphery hierarchy of the capitalist world-economy in the current globalization era. The central and novel argument is that the network of international labor time flows reveals the core/periphery hierarchy of the world-economy with regard to the international division of labor. Based on the analysis of the labor time network of forty economies from the world input-output table, I find that the core/periphery structure of the world-economy has in large part remained unaltered for 1995-2009, though the asymmetry of international labor time flows decreased slightly between 2003-2009. Through regression analysis, I find that per capita income of a country is strongly associated with its command over global labor time. The regression analysis also lends evidence to the existence of oligarchic wealth. This wealth is not available to all countries, implying that the struggle of a country to improve its position in the capitalist world-economy tends to put downward pressure on the income of other countries.

Knowledge and Awareness on Economic impact of Covid-19 among Trichy city population - A survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 558-566
Author(s):  
Kiran Srinivas B ◽  
Gayatri Devi R ◽  
Yuvaraj Babu K
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
City Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Government

Coronavirus disease [Covid 19] is an infectious communicable disease causing severe causality among the world’s population. A communicable disease with high intense spread rates originated from China. As a result the world has locked all its gates, prevails in the entire world. Economy the most affected sector in any country, daily life living is now restricted. The main aim of this study is to test the knowledge and create awareness on various attributes that are related to the Indian economy among the Trichy population. A self assessed questionnaire containing 14 questions about Indian economy during COVID 19 were framed and was shared through an online survey platform. The questionnaire was passed to 109 individuals. Responses from them were collected and were through SPSS. Many residents from Trichy are aware about various aspects that affect our economy. Most of the responses from them were relevant and correct, emphasizing that they are already aware in these fields. Pandemic plays an important role in deciding a country’s economy. It shows its effects on all sectors of the government. Measures should be adopted by the citizens in order to escape from this economic fever.

VOLUNTEERING AS THE PLATFORM FOR CHANGES IN THE SOCIETY

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Nataliya Govorukha
Keyword(s):  
Volunteer Activity ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Values ◽  
The Government ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Society Today ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The article discusses the multiple possibilities of volunteering in Ukrainian society today, the need for its active presence in various spheres of life, in different strata of society. The main content of the study is an analysis of state of volunteering, as a type of a platform for promoting changes in problematic areas of life. Volunteer groups (units) are often the initiators of changes, also carriers and conductors of noticeable improvements on different levels, including personal, of an organization, community’s, governmental and international. The author presents the core life values as the basis of volunteering, as well as the fundamental principles of it and its main motivation. Thankfully to volunteer movement`s activists, volunteer activity in Ukraine improves every year and, and currently is supported by the law, is growing, expanding and becoming more diverse. In this paper, the author focuses on the necessity of tight active cooperation of all the participants of volunteer activity, where essential are: a volunteer and a beneficiary, and for better process and results of volunteering are: an engaging organization, the government and a benefactor. With active involvement of all five mentioned sectors the further development and spreading of volunteering is expected. The teambuilding process inevitably occurs, especially when there are clear and unifying goals presented. Willingness and non-profitable nature of volunteering is described in the article, as well as the the multiplicity of volunteer projects and actions, and therefore the importance of its further structuring, development and expansion in all the regions of the country, as well as throughout the world.

E-Government and Transformation of Service Delivery in Malaysia

2020 ◽  
pp. 1606-1622
Author(s):  
Noore Alam Siddiquee ◽  
Mohd. Zin Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
The Government

Since the 1990s e-government has been a leading feature of public sector reform in Malaysia. As elsewhere around the world, at the core Malaysia's e-government agenda is the desire to reinvent governance and service delivery so as to realize national developmental goals. Variety of e-initiatives undertaken and implemented over the past decades has improved the nation's e-profile and readiness. These programs have also brought about profound changes to the mode of service delivery and the nature of interactions between the government and citizens and other stakeholders. The paper demonstrates the current trends in e-government by focusing on some most recent initiatives and their roles in modifying governance and service delivery systems thereby producing benefits of efficiency, improved access and convenience, among others. It argues that while Malaysia has made significant inroads in e-services and is ahead of most developing countries, yet progress remains unsatisfactory when compared with regional and world leaders. The paper sheds lights on current impediments of e-government in Malaysia and their implications.

Entrepreneurship in Sultanate of Oman

2017 ◽  
pp. 1852-1864
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Sultanate Of Oman ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Government ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

In Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East, Schroeder reminds one that the collective GDP of the Arab world is larger than Russia's and India's and nearly twice that of China on a per capita basis. The Middle East has more than 350 million people whose disposable income has grown by 50 percent over the last three years and whose Internet appetite has been expanding at a speed that rivals that of any other region in the world. More than 40 percent of those online denizens say that they would like to start their own businesses. Sultanate of Oman is no exception and eyeing towards more entrepreneurial activities. The government is also keen to facilitate entrepreneurship development. In this backdrop, the aim of this paper is to understand entrepreneurship with reference to Sultanate of Oman, a stable balanced developing economy in Middle East. With rising trends towards entrepreneurship, and hotbeds of entrepreneurial activity emerging therein, the core of the paper is to provide insights of entrepreneurship in Sultanate of Oman through case approach.

scholarly journals Media, Trust in Government, and Risk Perception of COVID-19 in the Early Stage of Epidemic: An Analysis Based on Moderating Effect

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1597
Author(s):  
Tao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors

Previous research has revealed that environmental, social, and cultural factors affect people’s risk perception of COVID-19, especially the influence of media and trust, while the dynamics of how they affect it is still not clear. Through the analysis of online survey data, this article shows that there are two opposed paths of action. Trust in the government will enhance people’s confidence in controlling COVID-19. It then moderates and decreases the effects of people’s level and frequency of concernon the risk perception (both cognition and worries) of COVID-19, on the contrary, obtaining information from unofficial channels also moderates and increases the effects of the people’s level and frequency of concern on the second dimension (worries) of risk perception of COVID-19 rather than the first dimension (cognition). These conclusions have important policy implications for the control of the COVID-19 epidemic all over the world.

scholarly journals Everything Changes… More or Less. Opinions about the Post-Pandemic World among Ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania (Romania)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Laura Nistor ◽  
Orsolya Gergely ◽  
Ágnes Sántha ◽  
Balázs Telegdy
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Materialistic Values

AbstractThe analysis presents some of the results of an online survey regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, which was undertaken among ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania. The survey was based on a convenience sample and was realized between 16 and 26 April 2020, so during a specific period of the lockdown. Among others, the questionnaire asked the respondents about the degree in which the post-pandemic world would change. The answers to the question show that nearly three quarters of the respondents think that the world will not change at all or it will suffer only minor changes. Those who are more prone towards seeing a totally or a majorly changed world are in a minority. We assume that this situation could reflect a wishful thinking in front of an uncertain context. The regression analysis showed that respondents’ opinion regarding the change can be only marginally predicted by the selected independent variables. Men, those holding materialistic values, are significantly less convinced that the world will suffer major/total changes. On the other hand, trust in several institutions raises the odds of formulating the opinion that the post-pandemic world will be considerably changed.

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