Quantifying effectiveness in emergency management

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 378 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Michael Weaver, DPA
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Intergovernmental Relations ◽  
Federal Emergency Management Agency ◽  
Collaborative Networks ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This study looked at the relationship between the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS). Moreover, it reviewed the interface between their two subordinate organizations (Northern Command under DOD and the Federal Emergency Management Agency under DHS) with primacy over domestic disasters. Understanding the importance of intergovernmental relations (IGRs), the article dissected the interrelatedness of these organizations regarding hurricanes and the subsequent involvement of federal preparation and response efforts. The informal networked relationships were evaluated using regression analysis focusing on secondary sources of data and several variables. The vitality of collaborative networks is grounded in literature and has been espoused by Waugh and Streib1 in the world of emergency management; this study expanded on their premise.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Liquidity and Firms’ Profitability: A Case Study of Karachi Stock Exchange

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazish Bibi ◽  
Shehla Amjad
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Current Ratio ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Operating Income ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between firm’s liquidity and profitability; and to find out the effects of different components of liquidity on firms’ profitability.The relationship between liquidity and firms’ profitability is empirically examined by collecting the data of 50 listed firms of Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan. Panel data has been collected from secondary sources for the year 2007 to 2011 .Net operating income and Return on assets are used measure of firm’s profitability. Liquidity of the firm is measured by using cash gap in days and current ratio. Firm size measured by net sales, total assets and market capitalization .The study applies regression analysis to determine factors affecting profitability. Incremental tests are carried out to see the importance of individual variables in the model.The results of correlation and regression analysis showed that there is a significant negative relationship between cash gap and return on assets while current ratio has significant positive relationship with profitability. Results further indicate that log of sales and log of total assets has positive significant relationship with profitability. The findings of this study are based on firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Hence, the results cannot be generalizable to those firms which are not listed on Karachi stock exchange. The sample of the study comprises only the merchandising and manufacturing firms. Banks are excluded due to their nature of work.

scholarly journals Relationship between Sustainable Development of Branches of Fuel and Energy Complex and Growth GDP

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3760-3763 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
System Performance ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the relationship between the development of fuel and energy Uzbekistan with GDP growth (gross domestic product). Data are provided on the forecast growth rates of the world economy, the average developed countries and Uzbekistan, factors for ensuring GDP growth in tandem with the efficiency of the use of fuel and energy resources. Based on the cross-country regression analysis, the model of the influence of the energy system performance index (EAPI) on GDP growth is shown.

scholarly journals The Psychology and Historical Perspective behind Entrepreneurial and Business Practices in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asif Khan
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship

Indonesia is a country in southern Asia consisting of many islands and is the 4th largest populated country in the world. The country has one of the best economies in the world since it has been participating in international trade for many years. However, it has had drawbacks that have made it unable to reach the levels of the developed countries in the world. Therefore, it is necessary to study the facts behind the success and the failure of some business ventures. Additionally, the study of strategies by companies to have a competitive advantage in business is fundamental to understanding the situation in the country. The new research will seek to use the available analyses about the same topic to bring about a new understanding. Theories such as McClelland’s locus of control theory can apply in the study to understand the relationship between entrepreneurship and the psychology of people. The paper uses secondary sources review to get information about the topic to propose a solution to the challenges that the companies in the country have been facing towards achieving a competitive returns.

Enlightened Sexuality: Exploring the Implications of Sacred Sexuality

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Corey Carlisle
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
Dyadic Adjustment ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

For many Christians spirituality and sexuality are kept in separate compartments of life, limiting both spiritual formation and adult sexual development. This study explored a concept of sacred sexuality, how it might fit into adult sexual development, how it might be expressed across path preferences, and its association with sexual satisfaction. A nonrandom convenience sample of adults was recruited to measure the relationship and strength between the prevalence of sacred qualities during sexual episodes and sexual satisfaction using a multiple regression analysis. It was determined that sacred qualities uniquely predicted a significant portion (12%) of sexual satisfaction after accounting for dyadic adjustment. This study can assist clinicians and spiritual directors in advancing the sexual welfare of their communities, leading to a sexuality that is truly salt and light in the world.

scholarly journals Reading Sri Lanka's Suicide Rate

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOM WIDGER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractBy the final decade of the twentieth century, rates of suicide in Sri Lanka ranked among the highest in the world. However, in 1996 the suicide rate began to fall and was soon at its lowest level in almost 30 years. This decline poses problems for classic sociological theories of suicide and forces us to question some fundamental assumptions underlying social scientific approaches to the suicide rate. Drawing from sociological, medical epidemiological, historical, and anthropological secondary sources as well as 21 months of original ethnographic research into suicide in Sri Lanka, I argue that there are four possible readings of the country's suicide rate. While the first three readings provide windows onto parts of the story, the fourth—a composite view—provides a new way of thinking about suicide, not just in Sri Lanka but also cross-culturally. In so doing the paper poses questions for how the relationship between suicide and society might be imagined.

scholarly journals Variables associated with the post-treatment healing of lesions in patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis in Paraná State, Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresinha Gomes Casavechia ◽  
Thaís Gomes Verzignassi Silveira ◽  
Ueslei Teodoro ◽  
Vanderly Janeiro ◽  
Margareth Udo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis ◽  
Clinical Evaluation ◽  
Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Immunofluorescence Assay ◽  
American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of several variables to the healing of lesions in patients with American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). The patients with clinical and/or laboratorial diagnoses of the disease were followed up for varying periods after treatment by clinical evaluation and indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA), from September 2000 to December 2003. The lesions of 85.3% of the 163 patients had healed by their last return for clinical evaluation, and of these, 82.7% had negative IFA results, indicating an association between the healing of lesions and IFA negativity (p=0.000). In patients evaluated up to 120 days after treatment, there was a significant association between negative IFA results and the healing of lesions (p=0.0000). Logistic regression analysis showed that negative IFA results on patients' first return after treatment predicted a 2.175 fold greater chance of lesion healing (p=0.0001). These results indicate an association between IFA negativity at the first return up to a period of 120 days, and the healing of lesions, and that the chances of healing are significantly higher in patients with negative IFA results at their first return after treatment.

scholarly journals Katrina, Rita, Challenger and Columbia: Operationalizing a Knowledge Analytic in NASA and DHS Crises

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Terence Michael Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Federal Emergency Management Agency ◽  
Department Of Homeland Security ◽  
Management Agency ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Differences ◽  
Hurricanes Katrina And Rita ◽  
Executive Level

Recent and past problems with the NASA shuttle program are illustrative of decisionmaking problems centered at the executive level of knowledge on the organizational pyramid. The poor responses to hurricanes Katrina and Rita by executives at all levels of government, but particularly with regard to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), also bear scrutiny. These catastrophic incidents, beyond the obvious partisan/political differences and the physical and psychological devastation, are demonstrative of management failures in their respective organizations. The author argues that the key to unlocking the conundrum of management failure rests with the fact that multiple knowledges exist in modern organizations like NASA, DHS, and FEMA and the use and development of the knowledge analytic offers new theoretical insights for understanding managerialcrises.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGIOSITY TOWARD OF THE MUSLIM'S HAPPINESS WITH THE BEHAVIOR OF ZAKAT, INFAQ AND ALMS AS MODERATING VARIABLES

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
anton priyo nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The behavior of zakat, infaq, and alms is very important for a person to get Muslim the truehappiness that is the happiness of the world and the hereafter. Religiosity is one of the factorsthat affect the happiness of a muslim. But the happiness it brings should be accompanied by thebehavior of the zakah, infaq, and alms. This research aims to know the influence of religiosityagainst the muslim's happiness and to find out whether the behavior of the zakat, infak and almsto moderate the relationship between religiosity with muslim‘s happiness.This research includedin this type of research quantitative research design with causality and using paradigms ofpositivistic method. The population in this research is muzakki and sampling using a purposivesampling that is as much as 100 respondents muzakki in LAZ Dompet Dhuafa Yogyakarta. Dataanalysis using regression analysis techniques Weight Least Squares.The results of this researchshow that religiosity effect significantly to the muslim's happiness. The behavior of the zakat,infaq, and alms was able to moderate positive relationship of religiosity with happiness muslim.

scholarly journals Adopting knowledge management in an e-learning system: Insights and views of KM and EL research scholars

2011 ◽  
pp. 375-398
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Relationship

The main goal of this study is to explore the insights and views from knowledge management (KM) and E-learning (EL) research scholars through a face-to- face interview for determining the relationship between KM and EL as well as for adopting KM in an EL system. We conducted this study based on the review of existing concepts and frameworks of KM and EL available in the secondary sources of information, and the findings of the face-to-face interviews of 17 (Seventeen) KM and EL research scholars from all over the world. We selected the respondents from the participants of two international conferences held in Japan and Thailand in 2010. The interviews were conducted during the break of the conferences using a carefully structured, short and open ended questionnaire. The levels of understanding of KM and EL among the research scholars were varied. The results indicate that there are some common goals and significant overlaps between the two knowledge domains. They also delineate the significant implications and advantages of adopting KM and EL. The proposed model of this study theoretically contributes to the advancement of academic debate in both KM and EL domains. Since we interviewed only 17 KM and EL research scholars worldwide from two international conferences held in 2010, the results of this study may not reflect the general scenario of the world. However, the study suggests that EL professionals should adopt KM and apply the techniques of KM to an EL system for the overall enhancement of the e-learning process. The study explored the original views and insights of the KM and EL research scholars regarding the relationship between KM and EL as well as adopting KM in an EL system.

scholarly journals Analisa Dampak Lalu Lintas Jalan Tambak Osowilangun Akibat Pembangunan Teluk Lamong Surabaya

UKaRsT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Endro Wibisono
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
City Government ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Traffic Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The development of the area in the Lamong Bay Surabaya which includes: Causeway, Connecting Bridge, Interchange Area, Container Yard, Pier is being carried out by the city government, this is one of the developments of land use that will give a direct influence on the surrounding traffic. Traffic problems can assume because of the large traffic flow in the area. The purpose of this study was to determine the magnitude of trip generation/attraction due to the construction of the Teluk Lamong port on Jalan Tambak Osowilangun, Surabaya. Predicting traffic performance on several roads and intersections around the study site (Jalan Tambak Osowilangun Surabaya) in 2020 (when the Teluk Lamong Port starts operating. The method for analyzing trip generation of vehicles entering and exiting the Teluk Lamong Port uses linear regression analysis of the relationship between volumes vehicle traffic in and out of an analog building with several variables/parameters that are thought to affect trip generation at Tanjung Perak Harbor as an analog port building. 1,626. This shows a very saturated condition, while at the intersection of Father Kalisari, the DS intersection is 1.10.Pembangunan kawasan di Teluk Lamong Surabaya yang meliputi Causeway, Jembatan Penghubung, Interchange Area, Container Yard, Dermaga sedang dilakukan pemerintah kota, hal ini merupakan salah satu pengembangan tata guna lahan yang akan memberi pengaruh langsung terhadap lalu lintas disekitarnya. Permasalahan lalu lintas dapat di asumsikan karena adanya arus lalu lintas yang cukup besar di daerah tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui besarnya bangkitan/tarikan perjalanan akibat pembangunan pelabuhan Teluk Lamong di Jalan Tambak Osowilangun Surabaya. Memprediksi  kinerja lalu lintas di beberapa ruas jalan dan simpang di sekitar lokasi studi (Jalan Tambak Osowilangun Surabaya) tahun 2020 (saat Pelabuhan Teluk Lamong mulai beroperasi. Metode untuk analisis bangkitan perjalanan kendaraan yang masuk dan keluar Pelabuhan Teluk Lamong menggunakan analisis regresi linear hubungan antara volume lalu lintas kendaraan yang keluar dan masuk suatu bangunan analog dengan beberapa variabel/parameter yang diduga mempengaruhi bangkitan perjalanan di Pelabuhan Tanjung Perak sebagai bangunan pelabuhan analog kinerja persimpangan Margomulyo yang memiliki DS terbesar adalah dari arah Gresik (Romo Kalisari) menuju ke Surabaya (Kalianak), yaitu sebesar 1,626. Hal ini menunjukkan kondisi yang sangat jenuh. Sedangkan pada persimpangan Romo Kalisari, DS simpang sebesar 1,10.

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