Analysing the Effectiveness of the Nigerian Law and Policy in Promoting Renewable Energy and Expanding Access to Electricity

Access to electricity is a major challenge in Nigeria with adverse effects on residents and businesses. To improve the poor state of electricity, the government introduced several policies to enhance the use of renewable energy in addition to existing conventional energy resources. However, the use of renewable energy has been relatively low in Nigeria. This can be attributed to several factors such as inconsistency in renewable energy targets, non-implementation of policies and lack of political will. In order to address this, the use of incentives as in the case of Texas is proposed for Nigeria.

SWOT Analysis of Sustainable Marketing Mix of Food Industry Enterprises

The article is a pioneering attempt to identify the strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats to the development of a sustainable marketing mix in Polish food industry enterprises. The study enriches the poor state of literature on the sustainable marketing and marketing mix. The value of research is to acquire and present new knowledge about the four elements of marketing mix in the sustainable concept. The article may support managers who want to implement the concept of sustainable marketing mix in their companies. The aim of the study is to conduct a SWOT analysis, identifying strengths, weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats to the development of a sustainable marketing mix in Polish food industry enterprises

Water Infrastructure Asset Management Is Evolving

Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) is the process by which decisions are made and resources allocated to ensure organisational or societal assets continue to deliver, as required. IAM is an evolving field. We discuss this evolution and present our perspectives on the future direction of IAM. IAM was born as a response to the poor state of maintenance of infrastructure, largely due to lack of resources, and emphasizes the need to prioritize maintenance and renewal using risk-based approaches. The demands on IAM have also continued to evolve as asset systems have become more complex, with multifunctionality, adaptative capacity and nature-based infrastructure, all issues that IAM must now consider. These challenges underpin the changing context of Water Infrastructure Asset Management (WIAM) and the opportunity for WIAM to harness new technical developments from other IAM domains. WIAM will need to continue to evolve, responding to these challenges and take advantage of these opportunities through research and application in collaboration with a relevant education and capacity development agenda.

STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM OF THE UZBEK SSR(For example, 1930-1938.)

Based on the analysis of archival documents and historical sources, this article highlights such provisions as the negative impact of structural changes in the judicial system of the Uzbek SSR from 1930 to 1938, the level of professionalism of judges, ethnic composition, the economically poor state of the courts, insufficient working conditions for full-fledged activity. It also talks about violations in the judicial system and the factors that led to staff turnover.Index Terms: people’s court, district court, verdict, decision, collegium, personnel problems

Workplace environment and performance of nurses in a tertiary level hospital

Workplace environment is an integral part of a hospital. The workplace environment influences on nurses’ performance both positively and negatively. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong from 1st January to 31st December 2017 with the aim to assess the workplace environment and performance of nurses. Total respondents in this study were 210 nurses. Samples were selected by purposive sampling technique. After taking written consent from the respondents, data collection was done by face to face interview using a semi-structured questionnaire with the help of Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire II and Performance Evaluation Rating Scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS. The study findings revealed that 43.3% had good, 51.4% average and 5.2% poor state of physical environment and 10.0% had good, 88.1% average and 1.9% poor state of psychosocial environment. Therefore 70.5% respondents’ performance needed some improvement. The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between educational qualification and workplace performance of nurses (p< 0.001; pulled from χ2 text) and psychosocial environment and workplace performance of nurses (p<0.015; pulled from χ2 text). So, a conducive workplace environment is very crucial in every hospital to improve nurses’ performance and provide quality care. Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. December 2020, 6(4): 705-713

Rachunek kosztów instytucji kultury w świetle badań literaturowych

Cost Accounting of Cultural Institutions in Literature Research The article deals with selected issues associated with cost accounting of cultural institutions in view of literature research. The authors describe and analyse available national monographs as well as scientific and specialist articles. In principle, the analysis reveals a poor state of research on the issues related to the cost of cultural institutions. The deficiencies in literature, combined with the necessity to propose scientific and practical solutions to meet the management needs of cultural institutions, makes it necessary to expand the study of cost accounting in such entities. The aim of the article is to assess the existing acquis in the area of cost accounting in cultural institutions as well as to provide a starting point for discussing the issues associated with the subject.