Bicycle Sharing and Public Transit

2015 ◽  
Vol 2534 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Ma ◽  
Chao Liu ◽  
Sevgi Erdoğan
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Public Transit ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Transit Ridership ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Bicycle-sharing programs have emerged around the world. Theoretically, the effect of bicycle sharing on more conventional transit modes can take a substitute or complementary form. On one hand, bicycle sharing could substitute for conventional transit as a convenient and sustainable travel option. On the other hand, bicycle sharing may complement such transit by seamlessly connecting transit stations with origins and destinations and thus increase accessibility. However, the questions of how and to what extent bicycle-sharing programs affect public transit ridership remain to be answered, despite the attempts of a few empirical and quantitative studies. This study examined the impact of the Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) program on Metrorail's ridership in Washington, D.C. When CaBi trips were mapped, it was observed that Metrorail stations had been important origins and destinations for CaBi trips. Six of seven CaBi stations producing more than 500 trips were located close to Metrorail stations. This study conducted a regression analysis and found that public transit rider-ship was positively associated with CaBi ridership at the station level. A 10% increase in annual CaBi ridership contributed to a 2.8% increase in average daily Metrorail ridership. On the basis of these results, policy implications and recommendations are discussed.

scholarly journals The Right to Citizenship – Slovenia and Australia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Walters
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Rule Changes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Citizenship Laws ◽  
The Impact

Most people across the world automatically assume citizenship at birth or acquire citizenship by descent or naturalisation. Since the growth of the concept of citizenship from the French and American Revolutions, it has become an important principle to the nation state and individual. Citizenship is the right to have rights. However, the right to citizenship is limited. In some cases when territorial rule changes the citizenship laws may exclude individuals resident in the territory. This article compares the development of the first citizenship laws in Australia and Slovenia, and the impact that these new laws had on the residents of both states. The first citizenship laws established by Australia were in 1948. More than forty years later in 1990, when Slovenia finally obtained independence from the former Yugoslavia, the new country was able to establish their own citizenship laws. The result of the Slovenian citizenship laws saw many former Yugoslav citizens who were resident in Slovenia being without citizenship of any state. Subsequently, these people were declared stateless. On the other hand, for Australia, the outcome was relatively smooth with the transition from British subjects to Australian citizenship.

scholarly journals The Impact of E-Commerce and GDP on the Revenue of “One”

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
MSc. Rezarta Zhaku - Hani ◽  
MSc. Lirinda Vako Abedini
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mobile Operator ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Thanks to e-commerce it has never been easier to conduct business throughout the world and it has never been timelier enriching international customers. E-commerce is also an incurable tool for new businesses as it allows them to rapidly broaden their customers, interact with customers in businesses throughout the world, an inexpensive market and advertise the company worldwide. In the other hand the impact of GDP, positive or negative, is a very important one for the revenue of organizations within a country.Given the fact that e-commerce has become a very profitable way to conduct business and GDP is another important factor for organizations, we have decided through this paper to analyze their impact on the revenue of one of the biggest mobile operators in Macedonia called “ONE”. At the end of the research we will be able to show whether investing in e-commerce has been profitable for the Macedonian mobile operator “ONE”. 

Discovery, autopsy and progress: Diocletian’s jigsaw puzzles

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzles ◽  
The One ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
The Impact

It is commonplace that historical enquiry evolves as successive generations ask different questions, in a complex interplay between, on the one hand, the intellectual traditions in which individual historians have grown up, the different traditions that they discover, and the world as a whole in which they move; on the other hand, an ever greater body of knowledge and a wider range of historical tools. This chapter explores, by way of the particular example of the edicts of the Emperor Diocletian on maximum prices and on the coinage, the story of the discovery and study of their texts. It examines the impact on historical enquiry both of chance discoveries and of deliberate autopsy.

scholarly journals Academic Dishonesty: Methods and the Influence of Psychological Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S9) ◽  
pp. 578-584
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cheating Behavior ◽  
Assignment Completion ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Psychological Gender ◽  
The Impact

The research seeks to investigate students rating of various forms of academic dishonesty and also examined the impact of psychological gender on cheating behavior among undergraduates in a Malaysian university. Primary data were sourced through the distribution of 363 questionnaires. Statistical analysis of the data revealed that the following cheating techniques have widely used them a. Using published materials without reference, copying the assignments, using unfair means for presenting data, getting unauthorized help for assignment completion and presenting others work. On the other hand, regression analysis on the psychological gender revealed that the instrumental traits tend to influence male to engage in academic dishonesty.

scholarly journals Everything Changes… More or Less. Opinions about the Post-Pandemic World among Ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania (Romania)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Laura Nistor ◽  
Orsolya Gergely ◽  
Ágnes Sántha ◽  
Balázs Telegdy
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Materialistic Values

AbstractThe analysis presents some of the results of an online survey regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, which was undertaken among ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania. The survey was based on a convenience sample and was realized between 16 and 26 April 2020, so during a specific period of the lockdown. Among others, the questionnaire asked the respondents about the degree in which the post-pandemic world would change. The answers to the question show that nearly three quarters of the respondents think that the world will not change at all or it will suffer only minor changes. Those who are more prone towards seeing a totally or a majorly changed world are in a minority. We assume that this situation could reflect a wishful thinking in front of an uncertain context. The regression analysis showed that respondents’ opinion regarding the change can be only marginally predicted by the selected independent variables. Men, those holding materialistic values, are significantly less convinced that the world will suffer major/total changes. On the other hand, trust in several institutions raises the odds of formulating the opinion that the post-pandemic world will be considerably changed.

The impact of cultural factors on shareholder governance and environmental sustainability: an international context

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-385
Author(s):  
Lassaad Ben Mahjoub ◽  
Ines Amara
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effect of the shareholder governance on environmental sustainability by the moderating effect of some cultural factors.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have studied the extent of sustainability by continent. On the other hand, the authors have conducted three empirical models that deal with the effect of shareholder governance on environmental sustainability and also with the moderating effect of cultural factors.FindingsUsing a sample of 140 countries during the year 2018, the authors find a notable and positive effect of the shareholder governance on environmental sustainability. Regarding the role of cultural factors, the authors found that the factor gender parity is more important than other factors.Practical implicationsThe findings have policy implications for governments aiming to combat environmental sustainability and shareholder governance.Originality/valueThis research has approached cultural factors in a different context, which is an eastern country, which are completely different from those of western countries. On the other hand, the subject of sustainability is not sufficiently threated in this country (Saudi Arabia).

scholarly journals The role of agribusiness in stimulating on-farm investments – case-study of the armenian dairy sector

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Dries ◽  
Matthew Gorton ◽  
John White ◽  
Vardan Urutyan ◽  
Gagik Sardaryan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
International Firms ◽  
Contractual Arrangements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Supply Policy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This paper analyses the impact on investments of contractual arrangements between farms and agribusiness in the Armenian dairy sector. Our empirical evidence is based on a unique survey of 300 Armenian dairy farms. The dairy sector is of particular importance as it provides vital employment and income, in an environment of weak social security and scarce job opportunities. Furthermore, milk production is predominantly organized in small-scale farms, which are most likely to be affected by adversarial financial conditions and limited in their opportunities to raise resources to invest. The results show that a large share of milk producers in Armenia is actively investing to upgrade their farm business. Furthermore, investment activity is not limited to large dairy farmers as over 30% of respondents with less than eight cows have made dairy-specific investments. We find that the linkages between farms and agribusiness – and more specifically the support programs that agribusiness firms offer to their suppliers – have been crucial in stimulating this restructuring process at the farm level. Interestingly, farmers with a more exclusive relationship to the buyer and farmers that deliver to more internationally oriented buyers are more likely to receive support. On the other hand, buyers that operate in a more competitive market are less likely to provide support to their suppliers. These findings have interesting policy implications. On the one hand, our results point to the gains that can be made from openness to international firms. On the other hand, the negative competition effect indicates that buyers are unable to enforce repayment of the provided farm services in an environment where a lot of buyers are competing for the same supply. Policy makers should look at ways of improving the enforcement capability of dairy companies under these circumstances.

Features of Indian MNCs : An Exploratory Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashoo Sachdeva
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

India, one of the fastest growing economies with a projected GDP growth rate of nearly 9% is also expected to produce the most new multinational companies, overtaking China as potentially the emerging world’s largest source of new multinationals. On the other hand India too has undergone different economic, cultural, socio-political changes since 1990 when the economy opened its door to the world. This paper aims to study the impact of Indian multinationals on the destination countries and the effect of transnational corporation’s strategies in India on its future.

scholarly journals Intellectual capital: perceptions of productivity a and investment

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristides Isidoro Ferreira ◽  
Luís Fructuoso Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
The Other ◽  
Organizational Productivity ◽  
Structural Capital ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Customer Capital ◽  
The Impact

This study focuses on the influence intellectual capital has on employees' perceptions as related to both company investments and productivity levels. The data was obtained from 440 employees at 13 Portuguese companies. Both ANOVA and Regression Analysis were conducted in order to understand the impact three Intellectual Capital Scale components have on perceptions of investment and organizational productivity. Results show that companies with higher scores of Structural Capital have a lower perception of investment in human resources and research, as well as a higher perception of investment in marketing and sales. Moreover, employees of companies with higher Structural Capital scores also have higher perceptions of productivity. On the other hand, organizations with higher investment in Customer Capital tend to be associated with a lower perception of organizational productivity.

scholarly journals The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on antimicrobial resistance: a debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David van Duin ◽  
Gavin Barlow ◽  
Dilip Nathwani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having an enormous impact on public health. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in many regions around the world. As many COVID-19 patients are treated with antibiotics, there is concern regarding an associated rise in rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). On the other hand, social distancing, isolation and reduced travel may result in decreased spread of AMR. In this issue of JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, we present a PRO/CON debate on the question of the potential impact of COVID-19 on AMR rates.

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