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Silvio Coda, Pierluigi Confuorto, Pantaleone De Vita, Diego Di Martire and Vincenzo Allocca
Aquifer mismanagement is a common anthropogenic cause of subsidence and uplift phenomena in alluvial plains, representing one of the main natural hazards in urban areas due to related damage to urban structures and infrastructures. In this work, the grou...
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Werner H. Otto
AbstractThis study identifies the trade credit management situation within the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) environment. The purpose of this study is to determine the trade credit management practices of SMEs, focussing on debtors alone, in or...
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John N. N. Ugoani
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H. Abraham
AbstractThis paper demonstrates that the fractional reserve system is a source of instability in commercial and investment banks. The purpose of investment banks is to enhance completeness of financial markets and thereby contribute to an efficient alloc...
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H. Abraham
AbstractThis paper demonstrates that the fractional reserve system is a source of instability in commercial and investment banks. The purpose of investment banks is to enhance completeness of financial markets and thereby contribute to an efficient alloc...
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Janice M. Traflet
Crisis management theory illuminates the New York Stock Exchanges efforts to recover organizational legitimacy after the 1929 crash and the scandals unearthed in its wake. Ineptly defusing charges of an unfair and disorderly marketplace, NYSE President R...
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JIN-WOOK CHOI
Pág. 104 - 127
In line with the new public management (NPM), a public service agency (PSA) isconsidered as an alternative to replace the government-led public service delivery in a more efficient and effective way. At the same time, a PSA mechanism can deliver public s...
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Muhammad Bilal, Habib Ul Hassan, Madiha Taj, Naseem Rafiq, Ghulam Nabi, Asif Ali, Karim Gabol, Muhammad Ishaq Ali Shah, Rizwana Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Sohail and Takaomi Arai
The issue of microplastic (MP) pollution is one of the most pressing environmental problems faced today and for the future. Plastics are ubiquitous due to their exponential use and mismanagement, resulting in the accumulation of fragments across the worl...
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Maria Francesca Bruno, Giulia Motta Zanin, Angela Barbanente and Leonardo Damiani
Nowadays, erosion and flooding risks represent a serious threat to coastal areas and this trend will be worsened due to climate change. The increasing concentration of population in coastal areas has a negative impact on the coastal ecosystem due to chan...
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Cordelia Onyinyechi Omodero,John Uzoma Ihendinihu,Kabiru Isa Dandago
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The study investigates the impacts of federation account allocated funds on economic growth in Nigeria prior to reinstatement of democracy and after the restoration witnessed in May 29, 1999. The study employs annual time series data from 1989-1998...
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Ukpong UA
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The interdependence of developing countries necessitates the granting of aid to needy countries. However, analysts have diverse opinions about factors responsible for the underdevelopment of Africa. Many assumed that the underdevelopment and dependency s...
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David M. Akinnusi,Olubukunola O. Sonubi,Adebukola E. Oyewunmi
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The paper provides a conceptual understanding and significance of diversity and especially workplace diversity in Nigeria, drawing on previous studies. Naturally, the practice of HRM cannot be divorced from the socio-cultural, economic, political and leg...
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Tomola Obamuyi, Fapetu Oladapo
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This paper examines the Nigerian economy and the tendency for its growth in the face of several socio-political challenges facing the country, which have hampered the rate of economic development in spite of the tremendous human and material resources in...
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American Higher Education (AHE) is at a critical juncture. Issues discussed in this paper are related to tuition increase, cost escalation, and available alternative choices we discussed liquidity, stability and growth, sources of revenues and expenditur...
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George P. Gonpu
The adverse macroeconomic consequences of financial crises have heightened research interests in their causes. However, little is known about the role of political influence as a cause of financial crises in small developing countries. This research expl...
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Ofer Barkai, Elad Harison
The operation of service providing systems and organizations is challenging, as services typically incorporate a broad set of resources and a complex and sophisticated work practices that fulfill the needs of different consumers. At the same time, the la...
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William Lawless
We review the progress in developing a science of interdependence applied to the determinations and perceptions of risk for autonomous human?machine systems based on a case study of the Department of Defense?s (DoD) faulty determination of risk in a dron...
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Solomon O. Obadimu, Nektarios Karanikas and Kyriakos I. Kourousis
As part of the airworthiness requirements, an aircraft cannot be dispatched with an inoperative equipment or system unless this is allowed by the Minimum Equipment List (MEL) under any applicable conditions. Commonly, the MEL mirrors the Master MEL (MMEL...
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Gwendoline Ernesta Webber,Richard John Webber
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The state built brown coal (lignite) power generation industry in the Latrobe Valley, Australia started in the 1930?s. The State Electricity Commission Victoria (SECV) managed this industry until its disaggregation, corporatisation, and privatisation, in...
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Nick Middleton
Dust storms present numerous hazards to human society and are particularly significant to people living in the Dust Belt which stretches from the Sahara across the Middle East to northeast Asia. This paper presents a review of dust storm variability and ...
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