105 research outputs found
Women in environmental disasters: the 1991 cyclone in Bangladesh
No full textThe author is a female relief worker who has seen first-hand how women are more vulnerable than men to natural disasters, and in their aftermath. She explores why women are more likely to die in environmental disasters, and why emergency relief aid often fails to benefit women. Begum makes recommendations for ensuring that women's needs are taken into account when planning and delivering relief work.
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Correction: Feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) package for children 0–3 years across three countries
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the author names of Magdalena Janus, Yvonne Schönbeck, Abdullah H. Baqui and Rasheda Khanam, and an error to the affiliations of authors Tarun Dua, Romuald Kouadio E. Anago, Michelle Perez Maillard and Gillian Lancaster. The incorrect author name is: Magdalana Janus. The correct author name is: Magdalena Janus. The incorrect author name is: Yvonne Schonbeck. The correct author name is: Yvonne Schönbeck. The incorrect author name is: Abdullah Baqui. The correct author name is: Abdullah H. Baqui. The incorrect author name is: Rasheda Khanum. The correct author name is: Rasheda Khanam. Authors Tarun Dua and Michelle Perez Maillard should be affiliated to “Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland”, author Romuald Kouadio E. Anago should be affiliated to “Innovations for Poverty Action, IPA Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire”, and author Gillian Lancaster should be affiliated to “School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, UK”. The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected
Social enterprise and the capability approach: examining the quest to humanize business
No full textSocial enterprise is an emerging form of business, yet there is no unifying definition for the concept. Much of the literature on social enterprise consists of conceptual research seeking to define it, limiting theoretical development in the field. This dissertation is the first large-scale empirical study that develops a universal definition for social enterprise. A total of 115 social enterprises throughout the United States are surveyed to examine their social, economic, and legal activities. Using the capability approach, a framework for viewing poverty in respect to multiple dimensions of human development, this study introduces the term social capabilities in reference to the services that social enterprises create to advance different aspects of human development. Data analysis techniques include descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation Analysis, and grounded theory. Results reveal that the more revenue social enterprises generate, the more diverse types of social capabilities they create. In addition, a social enterprise’s legal form influences its revenue sources, creation of social capabilities, and its institutional collaborations. Given the results, this research defines social enterprise as a social intervention that operates under any legal form, but uses commercial business activities to advance human development.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Rasheda L. Weave
Customer relationship management system
No full textThe thesis aims to offer an insight into the customer relationship management methods and how it can be utilized. It aims to bring out the effectiveness of the utilization of CRM, which can further help to achieve customer loyalty and customer satisfaction and overall better performance of an organization. The technique that is used to carry out the research is a mixed method research approach. It would involve a survey to gain further information on how the business operates to achieve the objectives of customer satisfaction and loyalty and what they think of customer relationship management.
The theoretical framework consists of the origins of customer relationship management, its effectiveness and different ways of implementation. It also highlighted the frequent mistakes made in relation to Customer Relationship Management. There was also some enlightment on Customer Relationship Marketing as a component of Customer Relationship Management.
The conclusion of the thesis discusses the practicability and key findings from the study. The research method used to get insights related to CRM in the Itsudemo Sushibar. It also discussed the limitations of the research conducted due to lack of samples. It also mentioned the type of businesses that can benefit from the thesis. It shed light on the possibility of small business models to be able to implement CRM
“They’re Not Building It for Us”: Displacement Pressure, Unwelcomeness, and Protesting Neighborhood Investment
No full textIn some of Camden, NJ’s most underdeveloped neighborhoods, new investment is perceived as a catch-22. Such investment is badly needed, but residents fear gentrification and the creation of white spaces. Our study examines that puzzle, that residents protest badly needed investment, using ethnographic and interview data from residents and Camden, NJ, as a case study for examining community understanding of gentrification. In doing so, we draw upon gentrification literature that focuses on displacement pressure and exclusionary displacement, but argue that the Camden case points towards a different dimension of gentrification. Our findings show how (1) exclusion and “unwelcomeness” created by the development of white spaces is conceptualized by residents as being distinct from the impact such exclusion has on future displacement and (2) that residents internalize that exclusion from white spaces, dampening their support and increasing their resistance for new development. Our findings represent a contribution to the discussion on displacement pressure, which focuses primarily on exclusion through financial and economic pressure on residents, and shows that racialized exclusion is, itself, a fundamental element of residential fear of gentrification. We point to an opportunity to address fears of gentrification not only through economic means but also by focusing on issues of access and exclusion in urban space as a direct response to such residential fears.This is open source, so it should be fine to submit the full PDF.Peer reviewe
Can UK NHS research ethics committees effectively monitor publication and outcome reporting bias?
No full textThe effect of cumulative forward and single large-angle scattering of an electromagnetic wave in a random medium
No full textA general discussion on propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a random medium is presented. Emphasis is placed on the bistatic scattering problem. The first phase of the investigation is focused on a random continuum. This is an extension of work done by de Wolf [19] recently. He derives a formal expression for the enhancement factor of the electromagnetic flux at large angles (excluding backscatter) from an extended weakly random medium. Enhancement describes the factor by which the singly-scattered flux is modified when the effects of cumulative forward scatterings are taken into account before and after one large-angle scattering. Explicit results are calculated here for a two-dimensional geometry describing cylindrical scattering from a slab of width L filled with a uniformly turbulent dielectric described by a power-law spectrum in the inertial subrange. The results show that the enhancement factor is close to unity beyond the mean free path of the small-angle scatterings and it increases when the medium width L exceeds the mean free path of a large-angle scattering. This result is extended for a generalized power-law structure function of the dielectric permittivity fluctuation, which shows a possibility of using the cumulative forward and single large-angle scattered flux to detect the statistical properties of a random continuum. The negligence of the Fresnel terms in the expression of the scattered flux is justified by including those in the phase term and investigating the resulting effects. This investigation reveals that the inclusion of the Fresnel terms makes the scattered flux complex, an error arising from the truncation of the higher-order phase terms, which is not observed when the Fresnel terms are neglected.
The second phase of the investigation involves discrete random media. A mathematical model is developed for the purpose of deriving an integral equation of the coherent field and autocorrelation function in the very general case of an electromagnetic wave propagating in a medium of densely packed nontenuous particles. All orders of N-tuple particle correlation function are included. The resulting equations are a generalization of those derived recently by Tsolakis et al. [23]; the four lowest-order terms of each equation include those of Tsolakis et al.'s equations which incorporate only binary correlation between particles. The mathematical model is then used to derive an expression for the scattered flux of an electromagnetic wave under a first-order cumulative forward and single large-angle scattering approximation. The resulting expression is valid at high frequencies under Twersky's approximation [5]. It is shown that the discrete scatterer case may be treated by an approach similar to the continuum case by using the new formulation.Ph. D
Christine-CC evaluation of an As-built Ka-band CCTWT to predict drive induced oscillation
No full textDesign and development of 5-MW X-band klystron for medical and cargo screening applications
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