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Assessment of skill and technology indicators at the macro-micro levels in Sudan
Get PDFIn this paper we examine skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. Different from the Sudanese literature, a novel element in our analysis is that we use new primary data from the macro and firm surveys and we provide a new contribution and fill the gap in the Sudanese literature by examining five hypotheses on the causes and consequences of low skill and technology indicators at the macro and micro levels in Sudan. We verify our first hypothesis that the interaction between the deficient educational system -caused by low quality of education- and the high share of unskilled workers leads to poor provision of training; low skill levels; skills mismatch; low transfer of knowledge/external schooling effect; weak technology indicators and dependence on foreign technologies at the micro level. We confirm our second hypothesis that the poor local technology indicators/indigenous capability to build the local technology and heavy dependence on foreign technology can be attributed to lack of R&D activities/efforts, due to a lack of funding, low skill levels, weak linkages, lack of networks systems and collaboration between universities and industry/firms, low transfer of knowledge and a lack of entrepreneur perspective. We support our third hypothesis that the transfer of knowledge/external schooling effects is successful at the micro level but unsuccessful at the macro level due to low educational qualifications and deficient educational and training systems. We confirm our fourth hypothesis that skill and technology indicators are significantly determined by firm size and industry. We support our fifth hypothesis concerning the consistency of upskilling plans at the macro-micro levels. Finally, one advantage and interesting element in our analysis is that we provide a new contribution to the Sudanese literature, since we explain the causes, consequences and interaction between the low skill and technology indicators and the transfer of knowledge. We recommend further efforts to be made to improve skill and technology indicators and transfer of knowledge at the macro and micro levels which are all essential for economic growth and development in Sudan.Skill, technology, firm size, industry, Sudan
Raw data files for the manuscript \u27Elastin Recoil is Driven by the Hydrophobic Effect\u27
No full textThese are the raw data files associated with the manuscript \u27Elastin Recoil is Driven by the Hydrophobic Effect\u27 by Nour M. Jamhawi, Ronald L. Koder, and Richard J. Wittebor
Les personnages féminins dans NOUR, 1947 de Jean Luc RAHARIMANANA
Get PDFLa littérature malgache, comme la plupart des littératures africaines et de l’Océan Indien, est fortement dominée par la littérature orale. Elle est très riche et a existé depuis des siècles. Des légendes, des contes, des devinettes, des « hain-teny » et différents types de chansons et déclamations sont les genres dominants de la littérature orale malgache.
Cette littérature orale est d’abord transcrite en SORABE (écriture arabe), mais d’une manière exclusive. Seuls les initiés appartenant à un clan bien déterminé ont la connaissance de cette écriture. Après l’introduction de l’alphabet latin au début du XIXème siècle, l’écriture a été vulgarisée et a permis le développement de la littérature écrite. Elle s’est enrichie de textes poétiques avec les cantiques, la poésie et de textes en prose, tels que le roman et la nouvelle. La littérature orale reste encore la source d’inspiration pour certains écrivains malgaches ou forme une toile de fond de leurs productions écrites. La présence de la littérature orale dans les écrits est effective, que ce soit dans la littérature d’expression malgache ou dans celle d’expression française. Jean Luc RAHARIMANANA, un écrivain malgache de la génération des années 80, très attaché aux genres traditionnels de la littérature malgache et à l’histoire de son Pays, a écrit le roman NOUR , 1947, classé comme étant un roman historique et fortement inspiré de la littérature orale. Notre analyse portera sur les personnages féminins de Nour, 1947.
En effet, une des particularités du roman NOUR, 1947 est son attachement aux figures traditionnelles, dans une perspective historique et mémorielle. Les personnages féminins tiennent une place importante dans ce roman de RAHARIMANANA et constituent un des piliers de la narration. Ces personnages féminins sont organisés autour du personnage-narrateur pour faire avancer le récit, en tant que figures emblématiques et mythologiques
Proper biharmonic maps on tangent bundle
No full textThis paper, we define the Mus-Gradient metric on tangent bundle by adeformation non-conform of Sasaki metric over an n-dimensional Riemannianmanifold . First we investigate the geometry of the Mus-Gradient metricand we characterize a new class of proper biharmonic maps. Examples of properbiharmonic maps are constructed when all of the factors are Euclidean spaces
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Revised_SOM_final – Supplemental material for Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup
No full textSupplemental material, Revised_SOM_final for Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup by Jacqueline M. Chen, Nour S. Kteily and Arnold K. Ho in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
Chen_OnlineAppendix – Supplemental material for Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup
No full textSupplemental material, Chen_OnlineAppendix for Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup by Jacqueline M. Chen, Nour S. Kteily and Arnold K. Ho in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin</p
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Physicochemical Characteristics of Date Sap Lagmi from Deglet Nour Palm (Phoenix Dactylifera L.)
Get PDFpeer reviewedPhysicochemical properties of sap from Deglet Nour date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) were studied. Composition analysis revealed (on a dry-weight basis) a high content of carbohydrates (94.98 g/100 g of dry matter basis) mainly sucrose, 2.72 g/100g (dry matter basis) of proteins and 2.29 g/100 g (dry matter basis) of ash. Date palm sap also contains 7.64 mg gallic acid equivalent/100 ml of total polyphenol. Thus, date palm sap showed antioxidant activity with a percentage inhibition of the DPPH radical value of 47.64%. Surface and foaming properties were also performed by drop volume and bubbling method, respectively. Equilibrium surface tension of fresh sap was 63.51 mN/m. Freeze-drying method preserved surface activity. Native sap showed better foam power (1.03) and foam stability (1150 s) than solutions prepared from lyophilised sap (5-30 g /100g of solution). Results demonstrated that this natural juice could be regarded as functional food due to its high nutritional value, antioxidant activity, surface activity, and foam power
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