Your search found 284 results.

Descriptors:
Social Sciences; Knowledge Management; Research Methodology; Higher Education; Open Universities; Humanities; Natural Sciences; Technology; Public Policy; Influences; Qualitative Research; Simulation; Models; Validity; Observation; Cartography; Social Networks; Maps; Municipalities; Open Source Technology; Data Analysis; Ethnography; Field Studies; Interdisciplinary Approach; Physics; Public Opinion; Entrepreneurship; Policy Formation; Employment; Theories; Labor Relations; Comparative Analysis; Human Capital; Organizations (Groups); Productivity; Sustainability; Handicrafts; Small Businesses; Innovation; Economics; Skill Development; Students; Public Administration; Social Action; Government (Administrative Body); Medieval History; Monetary Systems; Foreign Countries

Abstract:
This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst the Sciences (both Natural and Social), the Humanities, and the private and public sectors of society. The chapters speak across sociocultural concerns, education, welfare and artistic sectors under the common desire for direct responses in more effective ways by means of interaction across societal structures. This book contains the following chapters: (1) Social Research Methods in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Methodological Issues and Emerging Trends at the Zimbabwe Open University (Caleb Kangai); (2) Methodology Transfers Between Social Sciences and Humanities in Relation to Natural Sciences, Technology and Government Policy (Hajime Eto and Shinichi Yamamoto); (3) Causality in Social Studies Education (Bayram Tay); (4) The Assumption of Non-Gaussianity in Natural and Social Sciences and Its Influence on Detection of Causal Relationships (Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler); (5) Qualitative Research: The Toolkit of Theories in the Social Sciences (Sylvain K. Cibangu); (6) A Simulation Approach to Validate Models Derived from Observational Studies (Pierre N. Robillard and Simon Labelle); (7) Cartographic Generalization Applied to Social Networks Maps in the City of Curitiba in Brazil (Renan M. Pombo, Luciene S. Delazari and Claudia R. Sluter); (8) Open-Source Tools for Data Mining in Social Science (Pasko Konjevoda and Nikola Stambuk); (9) Applying Social Sciences Research for Public Benefit Using Knowledge Mobilization and Social Media (David J. Phipps, Krista E. Jensen and J. Gary Myers); (10) Re-Visiting Ethnographic and Orthodox Research Methodologies: Field Research Experiences from an African Perspective (Oliver Mtapuri); (11) Social Physics: An Interdisciplinary Way to Explore the Mechanism of Public Opinion (Yijun Liu and Wenyuan Niu); (12) The Methodology of Formulating Iranian National Policy of Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework (Hassan Danaeefard and Mohammad Reza Noruzi); (13) Theoretical Approaches to Employment and Industrial Relations: A Comparison of Subsisting Orthodoxies (Christopher Odogwu Chidi and Okwy Peter Okpala); (14) Human Capital Resourcing Practices and Organisational Performance: A Study of Selected Organisations in Lagos State, Nigeria (Christopher Odogwu Chidi and Okwy Peter Okpala); (15) Enhancing Productivity Through Lean Behavior (A. Perumal Puvanasvaran); (16) Organizational Sustainability: The Case of Handcrafts Micro-Business in Southern San Sebastian, Jalisco, Mexico (Jose G. Vargas-Hernandez); (17) Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Science, Technology and Innovation in Uganda (Muriisa R. Kabeba); (18) A Didactic and Methodological Lesson of the Study of Economics and the Skill Development of Students (Maria Covadonga De la Iglesia Villasol); (19) New Public Management and Reforms in Iran: Analysis of Government Downsizing (Hassan Danaee fard, Tayebeh Abbasi and Mohammad Reza Noruzi); and (20) Media of Exchange and Liquid Assets of Political and Market Enterprises: A New Monetary Perspective on Medieval French Monetary Mutations (Thomas Marmefelt). Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Visual Impairments; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Cues; Direct Instruction; Children; Stimuli; Tactual Perception; Pretests Posttests; Monetary Systems; Tactile Adaptation

Abstract:
We taught 2 children with visual impairments to select a coin from an array using tactile cues after hearing its name and then to select a coin after hearing its value. Following the acquisition of these listener (receptive language) skills, we then observed the emergence of speaker (expressive language) skills without direct instruction. (Contains 1 figure.)

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Children; Parents; Global Approach; Monetary Systems; Migration

Abstract:
This article explores the ways in which immigrant children in Cyprus negotiated and perceived their class positions amidst the transnational activities of their parents. As findings indicate, children develop acute understandings of the impact money has on their lives. Drawing on resources physically or imaginarily available to them, children navigated their class positions, hence blurring their boundaries and conceptualizations. (Contains 3 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Undergraduate Students; Operations Research; Numbers; Programming; Mathematical Applications; Higher Education; Mathematical Concepts; Mathematical Models; Mathematics; Monetary Systems; Foreign Countries; Computation; Equations (Mathematics)

Abstract:
In this article, we examine the use of a new binary integer programming (BIP) model to detect arbitrage opportunities in currency exchanges. This model showcases an excellent application of mathematics to the real world. The concepts involved are easily accessible to undergraduate students with basic knowledge in Operations Research. Through this work, students can learn to link several types of basic optimization models, namely linear programming, integer programming and network models, and apply the well-known sensitivity analysis procedure to accommodate realistic changes in the exchange rates. Beginning with a BIP model, we discuss how it can be reduced to an equivalent but considerably simpler model, where an efficient algorithm can be applied to find the arbitrages and incorporate the sensitivity analysis procedure. A simple comparison is then made with a different arbitrage detection model. This exercise helps students learn to apply basic Operations Research concepts to a practical real-life example, and provides insights into the processes involved in Operations Research model formulations. (Contains 1 table.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Macroeconomics; Economic Climate; Financial Problems; Economics Education; Monetary Systems; Credit (Finance); Institutional Role; Free Enterprise System; Undergraduate Study

Abstract:
The lessons learned from the recent financial crisis should significantly reshape the economics profession's thinking, including, importantly, what we teach our students. Five such lessons are that we live in a monetary economy and therefore aggregate demand and policies that affect aggregate demand are determinants of real economic outcomes; that what actually matters for this purpose is not money but the volume, availability, and price of credit; that the fact that most lending is done by financial institutions matters as well; that the prices set in our financial markets do not always exhibit the "rationality" economists normally claim for them; and that both frictions and the uneven impact of economic events prevent us from adapting to disturbances in the way textbook economics suggests. (Contains 1 note.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Economics Education; Banking; Monetary Systems; Course Content; Algebra; Mathematical Models; Problem Solving; Mathematical Applications; Corporations; Investment; Undergraduate Study

Abstract:
The author offers innovative approaches to 3 topics that are typically only briefly mentioned (if at all) in money and banking courses. The first topic is a Treasury bill auction experiment in which students have an opportunity to participate directly. The results from a class of 14 money and banking students are used to explain how an instructor might conduct such an experiment in the classroom. Relatively simple algebraic models are also developed for 2 types of stock market transactions: short selling and margin buying. Three analytical exercises are presented with complete solutions to demonstrate how an instructor might assign related problems for students. These experiments and models give students a lasting understanding of a number of rarely discussed topics in money and banking courses. (Contains 3 figures, 2 tables, and 2 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Finance Reform; Financial Policy; Fiscal Capacity; Tax Effort; Expenditures; Budgeting; Tax Rates; Tax Credits; Monetary Systems; Economic Factors; Microeconomics; Debt (Financial); Policy Analysis; Mathematical Models

Abstract:
Debt limits, interest coverage ratios, one-off balanced budget requirements, pay-as-you-go rules, and tax and expenditure limits are among the most important fiscal rules for constraining intertemporal transfers. There is considerable evidence that the least costly and most effective of such rules are those that focus directly on the rate of spending growth, even with their seemingly ad hoc nature and possibilities for circumvention. In this paper, we use optimal control theory and martingale methods to justify a transparent, nonarbitrary rule governing maximum sustainable rate of spending growth, treating the revenue structure of a jurisdiction as a given continuous-time stochastic process. Our results can be used to determine whether a proposed rate of spending growth is sustainable or not. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table, and 9 footnotes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Economics Education; Experiments; Class Activities; Macroeconomics; Purchasing; Undergraduate Study; Monetary Systems; International Trade

Abstract:
The authors developed a classroom experiment on exchange rate determination appropriate for undergraduate courses in macroeconomics and international economics. In the experiment, students represent citizens from different countries and need to obtain currency to purchase goods. By participating in an auction to buy currency, students gain a better understanding of currency markets and exchange rates. The implicit framework for exchange rate determination is one in which prices are perfectly flexible (in the long run) so that purchasing power parity (PPP) prevails. Additional treatments allow students to examine the effects of price changes, tariffs, and nontradable goods on the exchange rate and to explore the possible resulting deviations from PPP. The experiment is suitable for classes of 8 to 50 students and can be run in as short a period as 30 minutes. (Contains 17 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Economics Education; Banking; Financial Policy; Monetary Systems; Financial Exigency; Economic Climate; Private Sector

Abstract:
Debates over how to promote a healthy economy are pervasive once more, after decades when it seemed such debates had been put to rest. The market meltdown of 2008 ended a long string of years in which monetary policy reigned supreme. Monetary policy is the regulation of money and the banking system to influence economic variables. Its adherents, the "monetarists," had faced little challenge as they de-emphasized the role of fiscal policy, defined as the control of taxes and spending to influence economic variables. In this article, the authors discuss how the Keynesian fiscal policy, inspired by the work of British economist John Maynard Keynes, is enjoying a stunning revival under President Obama's new economic policy team. They also contend that the failure of the monetary policy to swiftly cure the country's economic woes, as it has in recent downturns, provides some of the impetus to revisit these theories of the past. While the authors agree that there are weaknesses in any proposed cure to the economy's current troubles, they believe that Keynesian fiscal stimulus is likely to have a positive impact in the short run. (Contains 1 note.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website

Descriptors:
Economics Education; Macroeconomics; Models; International Trade; Monetary Systems; Supply and Demand; Financial Policy; Comparative Analysis; Banking

Abstract:
For the open economy, the workhorse model in intermediate textbooks still is the Mundell-Fleming model, which basically extends the investment and savings, liquidity preference and money supply (IS-LM) model to open economy problems. The authors present a simple New Keynesian model of the open economy that introduces open economy considerations into the closed economy consensus version and that still allows for a simple and comprehensible analytical and graphical treatment. Above all, their model provides an efficient tool kit for the discussion of the costs and benefits of fixed and flexible exchange rates, which also was at the core of the Mundell-Fleming model. (Contains 11 figures and 11 notes.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

Related Items: Show Related Items

Full-Text Availability Options:

More Info:
Help | Tutorial Help Finding Full Text |  More Info:
Help Find in a Library |  Publisher's website