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The Effects Of Personality On Obtaining Microloans For Small Business Owners In The United States, Luis Moncayo

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study addressed the perceived negative individual characteristics that may precipitate failure of small business owners in securing microloans. The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental, correlational study was to examine how the personality traits of small business owners related to their ability to secure microloans for their business needs. Goldberg’s big five theory provided a framework for the study and aided in forming the research questions focused on the relationship between personality traits of the big five theory and the ability of small business owners to secure microloans for their business needs. A sample of 196 small business owners in …

Microfinance For Smallholder Farmers: The Lived Experience Of Borrowers In Akaki, Ethiopia, Amsalu Alemayehu Gutema

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Microfinance was intended to help smallholder farmers (SHFs), but the results have been disastrous for some individuals who have been unable to repay loans, often displacing them from their land. A lack of understanding of the lived experiences of borrowers complicates a full analysis of microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of SHF borrowers in Akaki District, Ethiopia, related to microfinance loan repayment decisions. Habermas's critical social theory, which divides the social world into lifeworld and system, was the conceptual framework for the study. The …

Improving Staff Retention In Adolescent Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities, Tasha C. Moses

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractHigh direct care staff (DCS) turnover in psychiatric residential treatment facilities presents significant organizational challenges. Insufficient DCS levels and high turnover rates can undermine an organization’s ability to provide quality care to residents who have acute psychiatric symptoms, maintain a safe environment, and achieve strategic goals. This case study was grounded in the Baldrige Excellence Framework and focused on the DCS retention challenges experienced by a psychiatric residential treatment facility in the southeastern United States. Sources of data included semi structured interviews with seven organizational leaders, a review of organizational archival records, and an academic literature review. Thematic content analysis …

Insider Ownership And The Performance Effects Of Firm Diversification In Nigeria, Ibeawuchi Ibekwe

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite the preponderance of diversified firms, the diversification–performance (D–P) relationship and how insider ownership moderates it in Nigeria remains unclear and a concern for decision makers interested in the survival of firms and their contributions to society. This quantitative study was conducted to examine the D–P relationship and how it is associated with insider ownership in Nigeria. Agency theory and institution-based theory formed the theoretical foundation of this study. Four research questions that focused on how diversification is related to firm performance and how insider ownership moderates this relationship were answered using the panel design variant of correlational research. Data …

Understanding Successful Strategies Human Service First-Level Managers Utilize When Addressing Workplace Incivility, Mary Elizabeth Barlow

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The social problem of workplace incivility is a well-researched issue that impacts employees, work groups, and organizations across the nation. The purpose of this study was to understand how first-level human service managers describe employee turnover in relation to workplace incivility and what first-level human service managers view as successful strategies they have used to address workplace incivility. The theoretical framework utilized for this study was incivility spiral theory, as described by Andersson and Pearson. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to gain an understanding of successful strategies that first-level human service managers utilize when addressing workplace incivility …

Haitian Informal Entrepreneurs' Ability And Motivation To Formalize Their Microbusinesses, Samanthessa Ramona Jacob

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Microbusiness owners or informal entrepreneurs in developing countries make up 40 to 60% of the informal economy. With a steady increase in unemployment in rural areas of developing countries, individuals live under poverty levels and start microbusinesses as a mean to survive. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the factors that contribute to Haitian informal entrepreneurs' ability and motivation to transition into the formal sector. A narrative inquiry approach was used for this study to bring in-depth meaning to the experiences of informal entrepreneurs in Haiti. For this study, 18 individual interviews of Haitian or Haitian descendant …

Kentucky And The Thoroughbred Industries: Prospects And Challenges As Gambling Stagnates, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Over the last 15 to 20 years or so horse racing has seen declines in wagering and fan attendance throughout the US. Because of this, the number of races, horses per race, the number of thoroughbred farms, and new thoroughbreds bred and born each year for about the last 10 to 12 years have also declined. The decline in wagering has occurred despite simulcasting of races, online betting, and gambling machines which employ films of past races (historical horse racing machines). Those racetracks doing well are usually part of larger casino and entertainment complexes (racinos). Kentucky, which has one of …

Can User Interface Design Choices Alter Perceptions Of Time Passage?, James Gaskin

Faculty Publications

When a task is dull, time seems to unhelpfully dilate. This can have serious impacts on job satisfaction, burnout, and turnover – all of which impact employee well-being and the bottom line. Without changing the task, could a user interface take advantage of psychology-driven, theoretically-supported design decisions to make time seem to contract? If such is the case, we might, without much cost, partially alleviate employee suffering due to task fatigue and disinterest by making simple changes to the user interface. While psychology research and user interface design have intersected abundantly in extant literature, no study has empirically tested whether …

Escape For Boone & Crocket, William Foxx, W. Frank Thompson Jr., Joseph W. Giese, David Vanbuskirk

Atlantic Marketing Journal

Eber Crocket is the owner of Boone & Crocket Trapper Supply (B&C). He feels like the environmental forces that are impacting his business are like a trap slowing closing on him. He is considering ideas to improve his store’s profitability.

Demand for furs as fashion goods is a multi-million dollar industry. Twenty percent of this demand is met by wild fur which is harvested by trappers. Trapping suppliers serve as the middleman between small individual trappers and auction houses. These auction houses collect the raw fur pelts from trappers and trapping stores and hold them until one of their auctions. …

ครีมขัดผิวเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพด้วยเกล็ดประกายมุกจากเปลือกหอยแมลงภู่, เมธีรัตน์ ธานีรัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

โครงการพิเศษนี้จัดทำขึ้นเพื่อการพัฒนากระบวนการผลิตครีมขัดผิวเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพด้วยเกล็ดประกายมุกจากเปลือกหอยแมลงภู่ ทำให้สามารถใช้เกล็ดประกายมุกจากเปลือกหอยแมลงภู่เป็นวัตถุดิบเพื่อนำมาทดแทนการใช้พลาสติกไมโครบีดส์ในผลิตภัณฑ์ขัดผิวได้เป็นอย่างดี ซึ่งสอดคล้องกับเป้าหมายการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน (SDGs) และโมเดลเศรษฐกิจสู่การพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน (BCGs) การพัฒนาเทคโนโลยีในการแปรรูปเปลือกหอยเหลือทิ้งจากอุตสาหกรรมอาหารทะเลให้เป็นผลิตภัณฑ์เชิงพาณิชย์ ทำให้ขยะเปลือกหอยมีมูลค่าทางเศรษฐกิจ และเป็นการกำจัดขยะด้วยเทคโนโลยีที่มีประสิทธิภาพ ทำให้ได้ผลผลิตเป็นเกล็ดประกายมุกจากเปลือกหอยแมลงภู่ที่มีคุณสมบัติเฉพาะในการทำงานเป็นแบบ 2-in-1 เนื่องจากเกล็ดประกายมุกที่ได้หลังจากการแปรรูปจะมีช่องว่างแทรกอยู่ระหว่างชั้นของแผ่นอะราโกไนต์ซึ่งเคยเป็นชั้นออร์แกนิก ทำให้สามารถบรรจุสารออกฤทธิ์เข้าไปแทนที่ ส่งผลทำให้เกิดเป็นกระบวนการทำงานแบบไบโอเอนแคปซูเลชั่นในเกล็ดประกายมุกที่สามารถย่อยสลายได้ทางชีวภาพ โดยที่สารออกฤทธิ์จะถูกปลดปล่อยสู่ผิวในระหว่างการใช้งานผลิตภัณครีมฑ์ขัดผิว พร้อมกับแผ่นอะราโกไนต์ที่เคยเรียงกันอยู่เป็นชั้นอย่างเป็นระเบียบจะมีการแตกหัก หรือหลุดเป็นแผ่นเดี่ยว ซึ่งมีขนาดเล็กเหมาะกับการใช้งานและสามารถเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในกระบวนการขัดผิวได้เป็นอย่างดี และที่สำคัญเป็นผลิตภัณฑ์ในการดูแลความงามที่มีความอ่อนโยนต่อผิวเนื่องจากเป็นวัตถุดิบจากธรรมชาติ มีความปลอดภัยสูง อีกทั้งกระบวนการผลิตเป็นกรีนโปรดักส์ มีการออกแบบกระบวนการผลิตที่เป็นมิตรกับสิ่งแวดล้อม ประหยัดพลังงาน มีการใช้ทุกส่วนของวัตถุดิบในกระบวนการผลิตโดยไม่เกิดของเสียหลังจากสิ้นสุดกระบวนการผลิตและหลังจากใช้งานผลิตภัณฑ์

The Link Between Esg And Firm Performance In Healthcare Industry: The Moderating Role Of Firm Age And People Awareness, Thongpattra Nanna

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper examines the link between ESG and firm performance in healthcare industry moderated by firm age and advertising expenses from 2011 to 2020. Firm performance is measured by Tobin’s Q, ROA, ROE and asset turnover. This study finds the evidence that environmental pillar is the most important metric to improve firm value in healthcare equipment & supplies and advertisement helps social and governance pillars to add more value. Biotechnology looks alike, but firm age can moderate environment pillar to increase the value. Moreover, social pillar is the most influential to add firm value for healthcare provider & services and …

Feasibility Study Of Portable Spirometer Development, Chawanrat Trekarnjanavong

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The peak flow meter is suggested by WHO and GINA for daily use by asthma patients in order to monitor symptoms and manage exacerbations. Even though the peak flow meter is compact, affordable, and portable, it only provides PEFR information. In comparison, the spirometer delivers more thorough lung information. However, it is expensive and difficult to carry, especially the conventional spirometer used in hospitals. The patient must visit the hospital to use it. This research aims to study the functionalities requires for developing the portable spirometer, targeted user and acceptable price in Thai market. Users place a high value on …

Process Mining Analytics For Industry 4.0 With Graph Signal Processing, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, Phivos Mylonas, Spyros Sioutas

All Works

Process mining is the art and science of (semi)automatically generating business processes from a large number of logs coming from potentially heterogeneous systems. With the recent advent of Industry 4.0 analog enterprise environments such as floor shops and long supply chains are bound to full digitization. In this context interest in process mining has been invigorated. Multilayer graphs constitute a broad class of combinatorial objects for representing, among others, business processes in a natural and intuitive way. Specifically the concepts of state and transition, central to the majority of existing approaches, are inherent in these graphs and coupled with both …

Contributing Factors In Aircraft Accidents Triggering Fatalities, Prakayphet Chalayonnawin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Air transport has always been considered the safest way to travel. It has contributed numerous economic and social benefits, for instance, connecting multimodal modes of transportation, increasing employment, driving global and local economic activities, reducing travel time and generating trade, tourism, and services, connecting people and countries, and supporting humanitarian activities in a remote rural area. Historical records on the fatality ratio suggested that air transportation has the highest likelihood of accidents (occurrences with fatalities) when compared to all other transportation modes, including highway, railroad, and water. Then, when an accident occurs, it largely affects various stakeholders. This study aims …

นวัตปะการังเพื่อการพัฒนาและการฟื้นฟูระบบนิเวศแนวปะการัง, วรุต ศรีสุวรรณ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัจจุบันปัญหาปะการังเสื่อมโทรมไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นแค่ในประเทศไทย แต่เป็นปัญหาที่ทวีความรุนแรง และกระจายออกเป็นวงกว้างทั่วโลก ถ้าปล่อยให้สถานการณ์นี้เกิดขึ้นต่อไปโดยไม่ทำการแก้ไข ปะการังจะหมดไปจากท้องทะเลในระยะเวลาอันใกล้ ที่ผ่านมาหลายหน่วยงาน ได้พยายามแก้ไขฟื้นฟูแนวปะการังด้วยวิธีต่างๆ หนึ่งในวิธีที่มีการทำอย่างต่อเนื่อง คือ การนำวัสดุที่เลิกใช้ ได้แก่ มอเตอร์ไซต์ รถถัง ยางรถยนต์ ท่อพีวีซี หรือ แท่งปูนสี่เหลี่ยม ไปวางไว้เป็นปะการังเทียม กลายเป็นมลภาวะทางสายตา และอาจมีสารพิษต่อสิ่งแวดล้อมได้ จะเห็นได้ว่าการออกแบบ และวัสดุแบบเดิม จำเป็นต้องใช้นวัตกรรมเพื่อเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพ และทัศนภาพที่ดียิ่งขึ้น จากปัญหาดังกล่าว ผู้วิจัยได้เลือกใช้เทคโนโลยีเครื่องพิมพ์ซีเมนต์แบบ 3 มิติ เพื่อทำให้การขึ้นรูปปะการังเทียมรูปแบบใหม่ที่ถูกพัฒนาขึ้นนั้น ออกมาเสมือน กลมกลืนกับแนวปะการังจริงมากที่สุด และยังมีการปรับรูปร่างให้เข้ากันได้กับชนิด และแนวปะการังบริเวณใกล้เคียง ด้วยวัสดุที่ไม่เป็นพิษต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม ช่วยให้สัตว์ยอมรับ และสามารถเข้าไปอยู่อาศัยได้โดยไม่รู้สึกว่าเป็นสิ่งแปลกปลอม ผลจากการศึกษา และการรวบรวมข้อมูลงานวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพผ่านกระบวนการพัฒนาผลิตภัณฑ์ใหม่ (New Product Development: NPD) ร่วมกับกระบวนการออกแบบของชีวจำลอง (Biomimicry Design Process) ของงานวิจัยนี้ ทำให้เกิดนวัตกรรมเพื่อเปลี่ยนแนวคิดของการอนุรักษ์ท้องทะเลของโลกให้เป็นไปอย่างสมดุล กลมกลืน และยั่งยืน ภายใต้ชื่อ "นวัตปะการัง" ที่เกิดขึ้นด้วยการรวบรวมการออกแบบที่โดดเด่นดังต่อไปนี้ (1) พื้นผิวได้รับการพ่นเคลือบผิวนอกด้วยสารประกอบไดแคลเซียมฟอสเฟส (Di-calcium Phosphate) ซึ่งเป็นองค์ประกอบหลักของอาหารตัวอ่อนปะการัง และถูกออกแบบมาให้มีพื้นผิวขรุขระ เพื่อให้เหมาะสมกับการลงเกาะของปะการังชนิดต่างๆ (2) มีช่องสำหรับปลูกปะการังจริง เพื่อเพิ่มอัตราการขยายพันธุ์ให้เร็วขึ้น (3) ผ่านการทดสอบภายใต้ระบบ Hydrodynamic Testing System ที่ SEAFDEC เพื่อดูการไหลเวียนที่เหมาะสมของกระแสน้ำในการแก้ปัญหาการจม และทรุดตัวลงในพื้นตะกอน (4) ลดแรงต้านกระแสน้ำ เพื่อป้องกันการถูกพัดพา (5) เกิดกระแสน้ำวนขนาดเล็ก เพื่อเป็นการเพิ่มเวลา และอัตราการลงเกาะของตัวอ่อนปะการัง (6) ถูกตกแต่งให้มีโครงสร้าง 3 มิติ ทำให้เกิดพื้นที่แสงและเงา ช่วยให้สัตว์เข้าไปหลบภัยได้ เป็นการเพิ่มความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพ (7) ถูกออกแบบให้ถอดประกอบ และปรับแต่งโครงสร้างได้ตามความต้องการ เพื่อให้สอดคล้องกับการใช้งานตามวัตถุประสงค์ในแต่ละพื้นที่ และด้วยขนาดชิ้นส่วนประกอบที่มีขนาดเล็กเล็ก มีน้ำหนักเบา ทำให้สามารถยกเคลื่อนย้ายได้ง่าย ส่งผลให้ค่าใช้จ่ายในการขนส่งทั้งทางบกและทางน้ำ รวมทั้งค่าติดตั้งต่ำกว่าปะการังเทียมรูปแบบเดิม และ (8) ถูกออกแบบมาเพื่อใช้เป็นสถานีทดแทนปะการังธรรมชาติ (Smart Station) …

Using Deep Learning-Based Framework For Child Speech Emotion Recognition, Gerald N. Onwujekwe

Theses and Dissertations

Biological languages of the body through which human emotion can be detected abound including heart rate, facial expressions, movement of the eyelids and dilation of the eyes, body postures, skin conductance, and even the speech we make. Speech emotion recognition research started some three decades ago, and the popular Interspeech Emotion Challenge has helped to propagate this research area. However, most speech recognition research is focused on adults and there is very little research on child speech. This dissertation is a description of the development and evaluation of a child speech emotion recognition framework. The higher-level components of the framework …

Why Do People Donate? Motivation Of Major Donors In Higher Education, Karin Hsuan Chao-Bushoven

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Higher education has relied on private philanthropy since the establishment of the first universities in the U.S. This reliance has increased over the decades as a result of rising costs and decreased government investment. As such, it has become more critical to better understand what factors motivate philanthropists to increase their support of higher education; including direct support for teaching and research and increasing financial support for those students otherwise not able to pursue secondary education. However, much of the existing data focuses only on point-of-philanthropic-act, and neglects to examine motivational factors of long-term donors that have progressively increased their …

Getting Connected: Exploring The Role Of Sustainability Labels In Tourism Marketing Communications, Elvira Kizilova

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

While sustainability has become an important brand differentiator in many industries, current research suggests that tourism businesses rarely use sustainability labels in their communications, e.g., on their websites or other types of advertisements.

This dissertation examines the role of sustainability labels in increasing consumer preferences for sustainable travel destinations. Drawing on social exchange theory and anthropomorphism framework, we propose that sustainability labels increase consumer visit intentions, willingness to recommend a destination to someone else, and willingness to pay price premium for the sustainable offer. These effects are mediated by perception of goal congruence and connectedness with a destination. We further …

Text Mining To Identify The Origin Of Chronic Wasting Disease, G. Webb

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Chronic wasting  disease (CWD)  is  a 100  percent  fatal,  prion  disease of  deer  that  has  the potential  to decimate  the  deer  population and  jump to  the  human  population.   A  simple  Google  search on  the  “origin of  chronic wasting  disease” yielded  a total  of  56  relevant  articles.   Of  these,  75  percent  report  that  the origin  is  unknown,  19.6  percent  report  that  the  disease  may  have  originated  in  a  Fort  Collins,  Colorado, government  research facility, and 5.4 percent  report  other  possible  origins.  Government  sources  reported the  Fort  Collins  theory  4.3 percent  of  the  time  while  non-governmental  sources,  such  as news articles, reported …

Optimism At Work: Developing And Validating Scales To Measure Workplace Optimism, Sara Frost

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

A growing body of research has shown the benefits of optimism on health, socioeconomic status, and at work. This two-phase mixed-method study revised and validated an instrument to measure an employee’s personal experience with optimism in their workplace. This study also developed two additional scales to measure the degree to which individuals engage in optimistic leadership skills, and an organization’s readiness to cultivate optimism. In Phase 1, 697 responses from an online survey were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Regression analysis indicated that an employee’s personal experience of factors associated with optimism at work influenced their perception of …

Situational Judgment Tests: From Low-Fidelity Simulations To Alternative Measures Of Personality And The Person-Situation Interplay, Filip Lievens, Philipp Schäpers, Christoph N. Herde

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In employment and education settings, Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) have made strong inroads. So far, however, they are still underutilized in personality research. The objective of this chapter is to outline how SJTs might be adapted to measure personality traits, shed light onto the person-situation interplay, and stimulate research on it. We start by discussing the traditional simulation-based view on SJTs, including information on their development and research results. Next, we show how more recent versions have started to assess people’s knowledge of relevant behavior related to personality traits. Finally, we specify various strategies as to how SJTs might be …

Marketing Agility: The Concept, Antecedents, And A Research Agenda, Kartik Kalaignanam, Kapil R. Tuli, Tarun Kushwaha, Leonard Lee, David T Gal

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Changes in the way customers shop, accompanied by an explosion of customer touchpoints and fast-changing competitive and technological dynamics, have led to an increased emphasis on agile marketing. The objective of this article is to conceptualize and investigate the emerging concept of marketing agility. The authors synthesize the literature from marketing and allied disciplines and insights from in-depth interviews with 22 senior managers. Marketing agility is defined as the extent to which an entity rapidly iterates between making sense of the market and executing marketing decisions to adapt to the market. It is conceptualized as occurring across different organizational levels …

Beyond Profit, Emilie Aguirre

Faculty Scholarship

Etsy was a crown jewel of socially responsible businesses. It prioritized female entrepreneurship, its employees, and environmental stewardship. It was widely admired as a company pursuing social goals alongside profit goals. But after scaling up through an IPO, Etsy fell apart both socially and financially. Similar stories proliferate in the world of socially conscious business. What happened? Standard accounts point to greedy investors, capitalism, and short-termism as the culprits.

But this Paper identifies a more fundamental problem: business law is not designed to facilitate scale-ups for companies that articulate objectives beyond profit. It lacks a durable commitment mechanism for these …

A Flair To Remember: Innovative Use Of Technology During Covid-19 Focus On Weddings, Carla Rosas, Danielle Lynch, Mj Adekanmbi, Simioluwa Opayemi

Case Studies

Student blog series from MSc in Event Management students at TU Dublin.

In this blog post Carla Rosas, Danielle Lynch, MJ Adekanmbi and Simioluwa Opayemi interview event planner Gabriella Olukoya from luxury events company A Flair to Remember. Gabriella gives vital insight on the current state of the wedding industry and also on how to ‘flip the script’ and use the ‘negatives’ and make them positives to elevate an events company. As a current ‘Regional Finalist’ for Wedding Planner of the Year, Gabby is a prime example of ‘Creating Success’ during COVID-19 by adding and implementing technology into their events …

Customer Value Creation For The Emerging Market Middle Class: Perspectives From Case Studies In India, Rifat Sharmelly, Anton Klarin

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This paper examines the customer value creation framework and discusses the design of the key elements for product development in emerging markets. A scientometric/bibliometric scoping literature review identifies a clear gap in the current research in studying prerequisites for customer value creation in emerging market contexts. Observing experiences of Daikin and Renault in the context of India, the purpose of this paper is to identify value creation strategic choices following which comprehensive customer value offerings in products and services can be successfully created by firms across the four facets of the framework in emerging markets. Value creation strategies include having …

The Cognitive Development Of Food Taste Perception In A Food Tourism Destination: A Gastrophysics Approach, Sangkyun (Sean) Kim, Eerang Park, Yi Fu, Fan Jiang

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

This study aims to explore the nature and processes involved in the cognitive development of food tourist's taste perception and identify cognitive factors influencing their food taste experience in the context of a food tourism destination. Adopting a gastrophysics approach, this exploratory qualitative research analyses food taste perceptions of Chinese domestic tourists during their visit to the Hangzhou Cuisine Museum and its associated restaurants. The findings suggest that prior knowledge formation as a manifestation of cognitive signs relating to Hangzhou cuisine and interpretive cognitive information acquired at the museum exhibition, greatly affect the tourists' local food taste experiences: these comprise …

Sustainability And Waste Imports In China: Pollution Haven Or Resources Hunting, Bowen Li, Antonio Alleyne, Zhaoyong Zhang, Yifei Mu

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Motivations behind a country’s importation of waste are categorized into the pollution haven hypothesis (PHH) and the resource hunting hypothesis (RHH). The importation of wastes can lead to environmental sustainability concerns, requiring governments to intervene when the market fails to reduce the negative externalities by strengthening and implementing environmental regulations. Motivated by China’s position within a rapidly growing but environmentally damaging sector of trade, this paper has three goals: (1) to classify the primary hypothesis that governs China’s flow of traded wastes; (2) to verify the heterogeneous impact of the pollution …

Modernizing U.S. Tax Code Section 280e: How An Outdated “War On Drugs” Tax Law Is Failing The United States Legal Cannabis Industry And What Congress Can Do To Fix It, David Butter

FIU Law Review

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The Missing Link Between Medical Science Knowledge And Public Awareness: Implications For Tourism And Hospitality Recovery After Covid-19, Jun Wen, Haifeng Hou, Metin Kozak, Fang Meng, Chung-En Yu, Wei Wang

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Purpose: As the world grapples with the pervasive effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a notable disconnect has emerged in the public's understanding of scientific and medical research. Particularly, the travel industry has become unquestionably vulnerable amid the COVID-19 outbreak; this pandemic has interrupted the industry's operations with devastating economic consequences. This paper aims to highlight the importance of deconstructing barriers between medical science and public awareness related to COVID-19, taking tourism as a case in point. It also discusses the role of interdisciplinary research in facilitating the tourism and hospitality industry's recovery and alleviating tourists' uncertainties in the wake of …

Twitter Content Analysis Of The Australian Bushfires Disaster 2019-2020: Futures Implications, Gregory Willson, Violetta Wilk, Ruth Sibson, Ashlee Morgan

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the themes and nature of sentiment of Twitter content that discussed the Australian bushfire disaster 2019–2020 and its associated wildlife devastation, with considerations for the future of Australia’s tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach: A large, qualitative data set consisting of all publicly available Twitter posts during the period of the Australian bushfires from December 2019 to March 2020 that mentioned the bushfires and wildlife are explored. Findings: The devastation of wildlife through the Australian bushfire disaster elicited emotionally charged Twitter content from both Australian and overseas users. Positive sentiment focused on offering support to areas impacted …