83 research outputs found
Supplemental Material - From adversity to advice: Survival threats as a trigger for sustained engagement with external business support in small firms
No full textSupplemental Material for From adversity to advice: Survival threats as a trigger for sustained engagement with external business support in small firms by Halima Jibril, Maria Wishart, and Stephen Roper in International Small Business Journal</p
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: esa New York presents Halima Garrett of Threads of Habit
No full textIn this workshop, master-thrifter and designer, Halima Garrett, will describe the importance and craft of upcycling. She will give advice for identifying materials that can be upcycled and take the audience through a short upcycling tutorial to show how it is done in a way that minimizes waste and maximizes utility and style. Ms. Garrett is the founder of Threads of Habit, a New Jersey-based outlet offering bold, eccentric, and unique vintage pieces.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
The traumatic experience and sexual violence in Halima Bashir’s tears of the desert
No full textEl objetivo principal de este trabajo se centra en el análisis de la experiencia traumática de la escritora sudanesa Halima Bashir en su obra autobiográfica Las lágrimas del desierto. A la hora de analizar la obra hemos tenido en cuenta los postulados del trauma para entender la función de la memoria como herramienta a partir de la cual la memoria individual de Halima se convierte en memoria colectiva para los sudaneses oprimidos en Darfur. La obra de Halima, aunque se centra en la experiencia de violación de un individuo, implica un mensaje político y un testimonio histórico de las atrocidades en Darfur.This paper applies trauma theory to Tears of the Desert, an autobiography written by the Sudanese author Halima Bashir. It examines the traumatic experience of the protagonist Halima Bashir who has been raped during Darfur conflict. In applying the aforementioned theory, this paper shows how the traumatic memory of Halima stands as a collective memory for the oppressed Sudanese in Darfur. Halima’s work, although focusing on the rape experience of an individual, implies a political message that many Sudanese were subjected to physical and psychological traumas as they were bearing witness to the conflict in Darfur
Halima C. Schmaling, Lawan Bala Hausawa (co-author of Book 1). Maganar Hannu. Harshen Bebaye na ƙasar Hausa/Hausa Sign Language. Liffafi na farko: Iyali/Book 1: Family, Kano: Good Image Printing Ltd., 2011, 28 pp; Littafi na biyu: Haɗuwa da sadarwa/Book 2: Meeting and communicating, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2013, 31 pp; Littafi na uku: Kwatancin mutane da abubuwa/Book 3: Describing people and things, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2016, 35 pp; Littafi na huɗu: Kasuwanci da kiɗaya/Book 4: Commerce and counting, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag 2016, 32 pp; Littafi na biyar: Ayyukan yau da kullum/Book 5: Everyday activities, Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag, 2017, 35 pp.
No full textA review of series of books by Halima C. Schmaling, Lawan Bala Hausawa (co-author of Book 1). Maganar Hannu
Oil Prices and the Trade Balance of Sub-Saharan African Countries: The Roles of Oil Price Volatility, Real Exchange Rates, and Financial Integration.
No full textThis thesis empirically examines the effects of oil prices on the trade balances of oil importing and exporting Sub-Saharan African countries. These countries depend heavily on international trade for foreign exchange and economic growth, and fluctuations in oil prices have direct implications for their terms of trade. This thesis contributes to the oil price-trade balance literature by focusing on three aspects of this relationship that are unexplored. First, this thesis introduces the issue of nonlinear oil price effects to the trade balance literature. Using a Threshold Vector Autoregressive Model, it estimates asymmetric and threshold effects of oil prices on the trade balance, focusing on oil price volatility as the source of nonlinearity. Nonlinearities are shown to be stronger in the effects of oil price volatility shocks than oil price level shocks: volatility shocks have larger effects on the trade balance when they occur in an already volatile environment, and decreases in oil price volatility have larger effects than increases. Second, this thesis pioneers the empirical investigation of the role of real exchange rates in determining the effects of oil prices on the trade balance. Using a Cross Section Dependence robust panel data method, this thesis shows that real exchange rate depreciations reduce the effects of oil prices on the trade balances of SSA countries, while real appreciations reinforce these effects. Third, this thesis is the first study to empirically investigate how higher international financial risk sharing affects the response of the trade balance to oil prices. To do this, it employs a Panel Smooth Transition Regression model. The results show that oil importing SSA countries that are well integrated in global financial markets, with higher access to foreign funds, fare better when the oil price is high: they are able to avoid large fluctuations in their nonoil trade balances by smoothing nonoil consumption
Understanding the geographical distribution of innovation in England : density, accessibility and spillover effects
No full textWe examine the role of population density and accessibility in shaping innovation intensity in the 32,000 lower super output areas (LSOAs) in England. Our analysis focuses on firms’ registered intellectual property – patents, trademarks and registered designs – and using spatial autoregression models suggests four key results. We find a positive relationship between population density and innovation intensity, a consistent negative relationship between longer journey times to the nearest town centre and innovation intensity, and a strong interaction effect between population density and accessibility. Finally, we find strong evidence of local innovation spillovers reflecting either competition or demonstration effects
Financialisation and innovation in emerging economics: Evidence from Brazil
No full textThis article contributes to the literature on the financial constraints of innovation in two ways. First, we examine whether financialisation has transformed the relation between finance and innovation by assessing the association between companies' financial relations, both on the liability side and the asset side of their balance sheets, and intangible assets. Second, this is the first study that examines theoretically and empirically the link between financialisation and innovation in the context of emerging markets using the population of publicly listed companies in Brazil over the period 2011-2016. We find evidence that whilst financial liabilities do not affect investments on intangibles, higher financial assets and financial profits discourage investments on intangibles. Other indicators of financialisation are not significant. Thus, our results support the crowding-out hypothesis that financialisation i.e. companies' increased tendency to hold financial assets and generate revenue from financial income rather than their underlying operations, discourages investments on innovation
Breaking Boundaries: Discovering the Impossible Counterproof of Beal’s Conjecture
No full textThis paper will attempt to logically differentiate between two types of fractions and discuss the idea of Zero as a neutral integer. This logic can then be followed to create a counterexample and a proof for Beal’s conjecture
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