Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Subsidized health insurance coverage of people in the informal sector and vulnerable population groups: trends in institutional design in Asia2016 / Ileana Vilcu, Lilli Probst, Bayarsaikhan Dorjsuren, Inke Mathauer
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Draft of Management Model of Work Motivation in Hotels
Abstract The essential part of the hotel that wants to be successful are satisfied and loyal employees. The role of management is to lead employees to the success of the progressive achievement of the hotels goals. To achieve the general goal of the ...
2016 / Milota Vetráková, Ľudmila Mazúchová -
An Application of Fuzzy Clustering on Prevalence of Youth Tobacco Survey
Abstract The foremost avoidable cause of disease and death is tobacco consume in almost every country and nearly all tobacco consume begins during youth and young adulthood. The use of tobacco products has increased in years and nearly half of...
2016 / Hazel Kavili, Gülhayat Gölbaşi Şimşek -
Exploring the Critical Factors for Sustainable Product-service Systems Implementation and Diffusion in Developing Countries: An Analysis of two PSS Cases in Brazil
Abstract This paper aims at exploring how some factors identified in the PSS and product/service innovation literature can hinder or foster sustainable PSS implementation in developing countries, since there is a lack of knowledge concerning the...
2016 / Thayla T. Sousa-Zomer, Paulo A. Cauchick Miguel -
Enhancement and Governance of the Local Tourist Destinations in Integrated Perspective
Abstract The increased competition between territories following the globalization of the market economy of the last three decades is accompanied by a change in policy for the development of peripheral and marginal areas, where local specificities...
2016 / Lucia Della Spina, Claudia Ventura, Angela Viglianisi -
Optimization of Poli(ɛ-caprolactone) Scaffolds Suitable for 3D Cancer Cell Culture
Abstract Fused Deposition Model (FDM) as Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies may offer a viable and simpler alternative to manufacture scaffolds for different purposes such as tissue engineering and cells culture. Existing commercial FDM...
2016 / Giró-Perafita Ariadna, Rabionet Marc, Puig Teresa, Ciurana Joaquim -
Data on Vietnamese patients׳ financial burdens and risk of destitution
Abstract The research process started in the first week of August 10, 2014 and ended early February 2015, obtaining qualified data for 330 patients from many hospitals in northern Vietnam. Its expansion was performed for an enlarged dataset through...
2016 / Quan-Hoang Vuong, Trong-Khang Nguyen -
The contribution of the polio eradication initiative to narrowing the gaps in the health workforce in the African Region
Abstract Introduction The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) massively invested to overcome the crippling disease in countries of the WHO African Region. In the context of economic crisis, almost all countries in the Region ...
2016 / Jean Kamso, Eddy S. Mvika, M.O.C. Ota, Joseph Okeibunor, Pascal Mkanda, et al. -
State-of-the-art review revealing a roadmap for public building water and energy efficiency retrofit projects
Abstract Governments occupy a significant proportion of building stock and their associated annual water and energy costs can be substantive. Research has shown that significant reductions in energy and water consumption as well as carbon emissions...
2016 / Edoardo Bertone, Oz Sahin, Rodney A. Stewart, Patrick Zou, Morshed Alam, et al. -
How well they retrieve fresh news items: News search engine perspective
Summary People are nowadays opting news search engines for searching news instead of traditional web search engines as, number of specialized news search services have been developed. So it becomes necessary to evaluate these news search systems and ...
2016 / Mohammad Ubaidullah Bokhari, Mohd. Kashif Adhami -
Workplace violence against nurses in the emergency departments of three hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional survey
Abstract Background Emergency department nurses are continuously exposed to violence on the job. Objectives This study sought to identify the prevalence and...
2016 / Asmaa Alyaemni, Hana Alhudaithi -
Evaluation of the orthopaedics and traumatology resident education in Turkey: A descriptive study2016 / Gazi Huri, Yusuf Sertan Cabuk, Safa Gursoy, Mustafa Akkaya, Secil Ozkan, et al.
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Nonlinear Measurement Update for Recursive Filtering Based on the Gauss von Mises Distribution
Abstract In conventional Kalman-based state estimation algorithms, there is an assumption that the uncertainties in the system state and measurements are Gaussian distributed. However, this Gaussian assumption ignores the periodic nature of angular...
2016 / Mu-yi Chen, Hong-yuan Wang -
Economic and Demographic Characteristics of the Subjects, Operating in Digital Shadow Economy
Abstract This article is aimed at theoretical and empirical identification of economic and demographic characteristics of the subjects, operating in digital shadow economy. Although, in general sense, the characteristics of the subjects, operating...
2016 / Ligita Gaspareniene, Rita Remeikiene -
Performance in Daily Living Activities of the Elderly While Living at Home or Being Home-bound in a Thai Suburban Community
Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of elderly people in performing their daily activities while living at home or being home-bound in the community. Data collection included interviews and observation of their performance...
2016 / Supawadee Putthinoi, Suchitporn Lersilp, Nopasit Chakpitak -
Domain-specific innovativeness: a meta-analysis in business and consumer
Abstract The specific domain of a product and the perception of innovation are topics that aroused interest in research in the last twenty years, especially after the development of the domain-specific innovativeness (DSI) construct. This paper...
2016 / Clecio Falcão Araujo, Wagner Junior Ladeira, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Claudio Hoffmann Sampaio -
Natural Radionuclides as a Source of Background Irradiation Affecting People Inside Buildings
Abstract The article describes the research of the human background exposure to natural radionuclides in Volgograd region premises and presents the methods to protect the population from the influence of natural radionuclides. Direct studies...
2016 / V.A. Kamaev, I.P. Mikhnev, N.A. Salnikova -
Representing Business Process Flexibility using Concept Maps
Abstract Business process flexibility has been a relevant research topic within Business Process Management (BPM) for the past 20 years. Several taxonomies were proposed along this time, emphasizing certain aspects of flexibility or change within...
2016 / Asma Mejri, Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, Ricardo Martinho -
On Systemic Perspective and the Strategies in E-learning: Inquiries in Linear Algebra
Abstract There is presented a teaching experience described by means of some theoretic elements of the Ontosemiotic Approach. We propose a series of problem-situations of exploration type which require an integral approach to intra-mathematical...
2016 / Larissa Sbitneva, Nehemías Moreno, Daniel Rivera, Rogelio Valdez -
Choosing a Sensitive Business Process Modeling Formalism for Knowledge Identification
Abstract Today's organizations have been characterized by collaborative, highly dynamic, complex and knowledge-intensive processes. Sensitive business process modeling has become primary concern for any successful organization to improve the...
2016 / Mariam Ben Hassen, Mohamed Turki, Faïez Gargouri