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An Overview Of Plastic Waste Recycling In The Urban Areas Of Java Island In Indonesia, Nurdiana Darus, Maya Tamimi, Silvi Tirawaty, Muchtazar Muchtazar, Dini Trisyanti, Rangga Akib, Dyota Condorini, Khair Ranggi Dec 2020

An Overview Of Plastic Waste Recycling In The Urban Areas Of Java Island In Indonesia, Nurdiana Darus, Maya Tamimi, Silvi Tirawaty, Muchtazar Muchtazar, Dini Trisyanti, Rangga Akib, Dyota Condorini, Khair Ranggi

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Plastic products have been an integral part of human lives. However, concerns over plastic pollution have been growing. Thus, alternative practices that allow more sustainable production and consumption pattern are urgently needed. Improving plastic recycling management is one of the solutions to prevent an increase in plastic pollution. This paper aims to uncover the potential of plastic recycling, to define factors that can leverage the expansion of the recycling process, and to evaluate possible measures that can realize such expansion, especially given the limited literature on these topics. Therefore, a four-month study, which involved two months of rigorous primary survey …

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The Impact Of “Code Stemi” Program Implementation On Door To Balloon Time And Major Adverse Cardiac Events Of Patients With St Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Prijander L B Funay, Ika Prasetya Wijaya, Eka Ginanjar, Hamzah Shatri Dec 2020

The Impact Of “Code Stemi” Program Implementation On Door To Balloon Time And Major Adverse Cardiac Events Of Patients With St Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Prijander L B Funay, Ika Prasetya Wijaya, Eka Ginanjar, Hamzah Shatri

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia

Introduction. Delay in the management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) patients is a cause of high mortality and the incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). Efforts that can be made in health facilities with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capability are achieving timely reperfusion of STEMI patients. Various strategies were carried out to achieve timely reperfusion including implementation the CODE STEMI program. This study aimed to determine the effect of the implementation of the CODE STEMI program on Door to Balloon Time (D2BT) and MACE of STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI. Methods. This was a retrospective cohort study …

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Predictive Value Of Other Comprehensive Income: Evidence From Asean, Puji Rahayu, Indra Wijaya Kusuma Dec 2020

Predictive Value Of Other Comprehensive Income: Evidence From Asean, Puji Rahayu, Indra Wijaya Kusuma

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This paper examines the predictive value of other comprehensive income and its disclosure in ASEAN. Unlike value relevance, the predictive value of other comprehensive income has not been extensively addressed in the literature. We conduct the first study examining the predictive value of other comprehensive income and its disclosure to prove that not only fair value as relevant information, but also other comprehensive income reflecting the changes of fair value. We use hand-collected data taken from the financial reports. This study employs a panel regression model to test the ability of other comprehensive income and its disclosure to predict firms’ …

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Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment And Stock Market Development In A Small Southern Africa Economy, Duduzile Ngobe, Kalu O. Emenike Dec 2020

Relationship Between Foreign Direct Investment And Stock Market Development In A Small Southern Africa Economy, Duduzile Ngobe, Kalu O. Emenike

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market development in a small southern African economy. Specifically, the paper analyses long-run, short-run and causal relationships between foreign direct investment and stock market development in Eswatini for the 1990 to 2018 periods. Results of preliminary analyses of the variable show existence of positive skewness, fat-tailed, non-normal distribution, and I(1) order of integration for the foreign direct investment and stock market return series. Estimates from the ARDL model indicate evidence of a positive and statistically insignificant long-run relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market development in the kingdom …

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Towards An Organizationally Sensible Hr Risk Assessment In Academic Libraries: A Case Of A University Library, Chaminda Chiran Jayasundara Dr. Dec 2020

Towards An Organizationally Sensible Hr Risk Assessment In Academic Libraries: A Case Of A University Library, Chaminda Chiran Jayasundara Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Employees can be a resource of sustained success and a competitive advantage in any orgnisation, reliant on skilled workforce. However, dearth of trained labour force to drive the manpower requirement of local industries has become a long lasting burden in some small counties. These countries do not have adequate professional advancement opportunities for librarians and support staff to become professionals or paraprofessionals due to lack of openings for specialist education in the field of librarianship. Thus, human resource risks in libraries of such countries are comparatively higher. It is therefore needed to identify and assess the severity and impact of …

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Bibliometric Analysis Of Chemistry Nobel Laureate George Pearson Smith, Abhay Maurya Dec 2020

Bibliometric Analysis Of Chemistry Nobel Laureate George Pearson Smith, Abhay Maurya

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The scientometric analysis of Nobel Laureate George P. Smith, who had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2018, reveals that the author has published 55 papers in various fields between 1971 and 2019. The subjects included 26 articles in Biomolecular Interactions, 17 papers in Genomics, 10 in Protein, and 2 in Evolutionary Biology. The forms of publications included 45 article papers, 1 book chapter, 2 editorials, 6 reviews, and 1 short survey. 17 of his publications were single-authored, 18 two authored, 9 three and four authored, and 1 five and six authored. The highest no papers were published …

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Are We Reversing The Trend In Waste Generation: Panel Data Analyses Of Municipal Waste Generation In Regard To The Socio-Economic Factors In European Countries, Predrag Korica, Andreja Cirman, Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn Dec 2020

Are We Reversing The Trend In Waste Generation: Panel Data Analyses Of Municipal Waste Generation In Regard To The Socio-Economic Factors In European Countries, Predrag Korica, Andreja Cirman, Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is a decline in the amounts of generated municipal waste that is influenced by the changes which cannot be attributed to the changes in the socio-economic variables and can therefore be ascribed to a changing behaviour and the effectiveness of the policies implemented with the aim of preventing generation of waste. The analyses in this paper cover the data of 30 European countries in the period 2002–2015. The method applied is the panel data analysis of the data on seven socio-economic variables by using both the fixed-effect and the random-effects …

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Surveying The Methodological And Analytical Foundations Of The New Institutional Economics: A Critical Comparison With Neoclassical And (Old) Institutional Economics, Giorgos Meramveliotakis Dec 2020

Surveying The Methodological And Analytical Foundations Of The New Institutional Economics: A Critical Comparison With Neoclassical And (Old) Institutional Economics, Giorgos Meramveliotakis

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this article is to review the methodological and analytical foundations of the New Institutional Economics by implying a critical comparison with the Neoclassical and (old) Institutional Economics. After a discussion of the fundamental definitions and concepts of the New Institutional Economics, I turn to the critical comparison with other schools of thought. It is shown that the New Institutional Economics does not break fundamentally from the neoclassical economics. To the contrary, it can be fairly argued that the New Institutional Economics is a research program which is developed within and around the dominant neoclassical paradigm. On the …

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The Status Quo Bias Of Students And Reframing As An Educational Intervention Towards Entrepreneurial Thinking And Change Adoption, Stojan Debarliev, Aleksandra Janeska-Iliev, Viktorija Ilieva Dec 2020

The Status Quo Bias Of Students And Reframing As An Educational Intervention Towards Entrepreneurial Thinking And Change Adoption, Stojan Debarliev, Aleksandra Janeska-Iliev, Viktorija Ilieva

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of this research study is to examine the status quo bias and reframing interventions among business students in an attempt to understand their role in the students’ entrepreneurial decision making, aiming eventually to find out whether we can affect students’ entrepreneurial thinking by using an educational intervention towards innovation and change adoption. Though these research topics have previously been examined separately and mostly in a non-entrepreneurial context, this research paper aims to integrate them into one laboratory experiment study in an educational context, considering business students at the university. The experimental study is conducted on a sample with …

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Revisiting The Cooperation Matrix For Classifying Cases Of Port Cooperation — Case Study: Northern Adriatic Ports, Kristijan Stamatović, Peter De Langen, Aleš Groznik Dec 2020

Revisiting The Cooperation Matrix For Classifying Cases Of Port Cooperation — Case Study: Northern Adriatic Ports, Kristijan Stamatović, Peter De Langen, Aleš Groznik

Economic and Business Review

The maritime industry has witnessed transformational changes due to the structural developments in the competitive landscape among maritime stakeholders. These trends lead to cooperation between ports, particularly those sharing common hinterland. This paper extends the existing frameworks for analysing cases of port cooperation among adjacent ports by exploring the relevance of the presence or absence of a national border, thus proposing an upgraded version of the matrix for classifying cases of port cooperation. We operationalize our theoretical findings with a case study of the North Adriatic (NAPA) ports. We conduct in-depth, semi-structured expert interviews with relevant port stakeholders in order …

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Usklajevanje Poklicnega In Zasebnega Življenja Podjetnikov V Sloveniji: Empirična Preverba, Renata Adlešič, Anja Svetina Nabergoj, Miha Cimperman Dec 2020

Usklajevanje Poklicnega In Zasebnega Življenja Podjetnikov V Sloveniji: Empirična Preverba, Renata Adlešič, Anja Svetina Nabergoj, Miha Cimperman

Economic and Business Review

Due to the nature of work-life balance, entrepreneurs cope greater challenges – the boundary between the two areas is heavily blurred in terms of time and responsibility. Understanding the mechanisms of balancing all entrepreneurial roles (at work and in the family) and the factors that influence the success of balancing is crucial for entrepreneurs and all those who think about the entrepreneurial path, as well as for those who form public policies to support and promote entrepreneurship. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of the variables identified in the theoretical verification on satisfaction with work-life …

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Pomen Notranje Komunikacije Za Učinkovitost Delavskega Soupravljanja, Valentina Franca, Ana Arzenšek Dec 2020

Pomen Notranje Komunikacije Za Učinkovitost Delavskega Soupravljanja, Valentina Franca, Ana Arzenšek

Economic and Business Review

The article focuses on worker representative cooperation in management bodies and works councils in selected Slovenian companies, their mutual communication and degree of management inclusion activity in such processes. Using a qualitative research approach and semi-structured interviews in 19 selected companies with CEO or board members, worker representatives in the supervisory boards and works council members, we identified stakeholder internal communication best practice and found that well-considered, comprehensive, timely and accurate internal communication in line with company culture is not only essential for ensuring sufficient information but also for maintaining and improving constructive relationships for the efficient implementation of worker …

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Kako Hierarhije Deležnikov Oblikujejo Strateške Cilje In Strategije Športnih Klubov?, Igor Ivašković Dec 2020

Kako Hierarhije Deležnikov Oblikujejo Strateške Cilje In Strategije Športnih Klubov?, Igor Ivašković

Economic and Business Review

The paper addresses the problem of identifying stakeholders’ hierarchies in sport clubs and, on the case of basketball clubs, reveals how they reflect on the hierarchies of goals and on actual strategic decisions of observed organizations. The study is based on data obtained in 73 basketball clubs from four countries of South-Eastern Europe. The results show that private sponsors are the most influential stakeholders in top-quality clubs that pursue top-sports achievements and financial results more than the goals aimed at meeting the needs of local communities. In contrast, the low-quality clubs, where the greatest influence have volunteers, the local community …

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Identifikacija Porabnikov Z Blagovno Znamko: Vloga Porabnikove Potrebe Po Edinstvenosti In Vloga Porabniških Stereotipov, Živa Kolbl, Selma Saračević Dec 2020

Identifikacija Porabnikov Z Blagovno Znamko: Vloga Porabnikove Potrebe Po Edinstvenosti In Vloga Porabniških Stereotipov, Živa Kolbl, Selma Saračević

Economic and Business Review

The relationship between consumers and brands is an important area of research in marketing. The realisation that consumers form interpersonal–like relationships with brands has changed the course of research in marketing, which has since also focused on the study of consumer–brand relationships. Based on consumers' need for uniqueness and the model of stereotypes from social psychology, our study examines how consumers' need for uniqueness and stereotypical beliefs about typical users of the brand influence their identification with the brand. The results of our study, which focuses on consumers' favourite brands, show that consumers' need for uniqueness and the brand buyer …

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Vpliv Izobrazbene Strukture Razvojnega Oddelka Na Uspešnost Organizacije, Fabijan Leskovec, Matej Černe Dec 2020

Vpliv Izobrazbene Strukture Razvojnega Oddelka Na Uspešnost Organizacije, Fabijan Leskovec, Matej Černe

Economic and Business Review

The aim of this paper is to examine how the educational structure of the research and development department (R&D) is linked to organizational performance. The main purpose of the paper is to help companies to set up a successful R&D, which will have a positive impact on organizational performance. Based on the theoretical background, we developed hypotheses revolving around the main idea that the educational diversity of R&D is positively associated with organizational performance. For empirical research, we collected data from 433 organizations from Slovenia, Austria, Italia and Croatia. We then analyzed the collected data in SPSS with a series …

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Posledice Socializma In Tranzicije V Sloveniji Za Premoženjsko Stanje Oseb V Starosti 50+, Jože Sambt, Tanja Istenič Dec 2020

Posledice Socializma In Tranzicije V Sloveniji Za Premoženjsko Stanje Oseb V Starosti 50+, Jože Sambt, Tanja Istenič

Economic and Business Review

During socialism, savings forms were limited, while in certain periods some forms were devalued by high (or hyper) inflation. This period was characterized by a reduced need for savings as pensioners, the sick, the unemployed, the disabled, etc. were provided for by the state. Based on survey data from SHARE, the article compares the specifics regarding the size and form of wealth in Slovenia. Among the 14 countries analyzed, Czech Republic and Estonia, as the other two post-socialist countries, are at the bottom of the country ranking by wealth expressed in the number of average net monthly wages, while Slovenia …

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Digitalizacija In Covid-19: Večja Uporaba Sistema Za Upravljanje Učenja Na Primeru Ekonomske Fakultete Univerze V Ljubljani, Tomaž Turk Dec 2020

Digitalizacija In Covid-19: Večja Uporaba Sistema Za Upravljanje Učenja Na Primeru Ekonomske Fakultete Univerze V Ljubljani, Tomaž Turk

Economic and Business Review

We analyzed Canvas LMS daily usage at School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, where our focus was on its increase due to COVID-19 lockdown. The use of the LMS by both students and teachers has increased in the past two academic years due to successful adoption, so we tried to differentiate the impact of successful adoption from the impact of measures against COVID-19. ARIMAX models show that the distinction between the two impacts is clear for the daily number of sessions and for the number of students who were active during the day. The number of individual courses …

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Slovenski Kulturno-Kreativni Delavec V Času Pandemije Covida-19, Eva Matjaž, Polona Černič, Lejla Perviz, Irena Ograjenšek Dec 2020

Slovenski Kulturno-Kreativni Delavec V Času Pandemije Covida-19, Eva Matjaž, Polona Černič, Lejla Perviz, Irena Ograjenšek

Economic and Business Review

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the position of the Slovenian cultural and creative worker was anything but promising. During the pandemic, it has been further deteriorating as showcased in this paper on the basis of a questionnaire survey. Poligon Creative Center in cooperation with the Center for Creativity under the auspices of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana was instrumental in the process of empirical research design. When developing our questionnaire survey, we aimed to find out how Slovenian workers in the cultural and creative sector (hereinafter CCS) cope with the changed working conditions due to the Covid-19 …

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Post-Revolutionary State Building Processes Democratization Or Divergent Paths?, Ingi Rashed Dec 2020

Post-Revolutionary State Building Processes Democratization Or Divergent Paths?, Ingi Rashed

Theses and Dissertations

As many scholars argue that revolutionary changes generally leads to autocratization, evidence from recent revolutionary changes in post USSR republics and Eastern Europe demonstrate that divergent regime types emerge thereafter. On the one hand, the case of Poland in the aftermath of the collapse of USSR demonstrates that the first few years after regime removal from power are crucial to the emerging new regime. Additionally, Poland proved that democratization can emerge if various institutional settings take place hand in hand with the existence of certain dynamics that shape decision making processes and society agency.On the other hand, the case of …

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Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Mental Health And Well-Being Of Communities: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Protocol, Anam Shahil Feroz, Naureen Akber Ali, Noshaba Akber Ali, Ridah Feroz, Salima Nazim Meghani, Sarah Saleem Dec 2020

Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Mental Health And Well-Being Of Communities: An Exploratory Qualitative Study Protocol, Anam Shahil Feroz, Naureen Akber Ali, Noshaba Akber Ali, Ridah Feroz, Salima Nazim Meghani, Sarah Saleem

Community Health Sciences

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly resulted in an increased level of anxiety and fear in communities in terms of disease management and infection spread. Due to fear and social stigma linked with COVID-19, many individuals in the community hide their disease and do not access healthcare facilities in a timely manner. In addition, with the widespread use of social media, rumours, myths and inaccurate information about the virus are spreading rapidly, leading to intensified irritability, fearfulness, insomnia, oppositional behaviours and somatic complaints. Considering the relevance of all these factors, we aim to explore the perceptions and attitudes of community …

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Indonesia’S Trade Diplomacy Through Fta: Analysis On Actors, Processes, And Goals Of Diplomacy, Pantri Muthriana Erza Killian Dec 2020

Indonesia’S Trade Diplomacy Through Fta: Analysis On Actors, Processes, And Goals Of Diplomacy, Pantri Muthriana Erza Killian

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

The purpose of this article is to examine the various FTAs that Indonesia has been involved in within the last 15 years by looking at the three core elements of trade diplomacy: actors, processes, and goals of FTAs. Based on these elements, this research finds that Indonesia’s FTA diplomacy tends to be dominated by foreign policy interests compared to economic ones, which can be observed through several elements. First, Indonesia’s FTA diplomacy is dominated by state actors and foreign policy players with little involvement from economic players and non-state actors. The numerous FTAs signed through ASEAN also reinforced this domination …

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The Role Of Global Civil Society At The Local Level In Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study Of Earth Hour’S Activities In Malang, Najamuddin Khairur Rijal Dec 2020

The Role Of Global Civil Society At The Local Level In Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study Of Earth Hour’S Activities In Malang, Najamuddin Khairur Rijal

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This study examines the role of global civil society at the local level in climate change mitigation. Climate change issue is one of the global issues that is responded at the local level, as the impact of the problem concerns the universal livelihood of the world’s population. This study focuses on Earth Hour’s activities in the Malang region as a part of a global civil society. This research uses global civil society and its role in environmental governance as the analytical framework. The data are collected through documentation studies and interviews. The results show that Earth Hour Malang’s activities have …

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The Quality Of Peace In Post-Conflict Situation: A Comparative Study Between Armed Conflicts In Aceh And Bangsamoro, Ikhwan Rahmatika Latif, Dyah Mutiarin, Achmad Nurmandi Dec 2020

The Quality Of Peace In Post-Conflict Situation: A Comparative Study Between Armed Conflicts In Aceh And Bangsamoro, Ikhwan Rahmatika Latif, Dyah Mutiarin, Achmad Nurmandi

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This article investigates the quality of peace in armed conflicts that occurred in the Southeast Asia region. The authors compared the cases of Aceh, where the armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement or GAM and the government of Republic Indonesia ended peacefully with the Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding, with the conflict in the southern Philippines, where a peace agreement, the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, was successfully achieved between the government of Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. This research employed document analysis to analyse the peace settlement documents of both parties and the derivative laws of the …

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Indonesia's Involvement In The Afghanistan Peacebuilding Process, Fabian Nur Farizan, Dudy Heryadi Dec 2020

Indonesia's Involvement In The Afghanistan Peacebuilding Process, Fabian Nur Farizan, Dudy Heryadi

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This article aims to understand and analyse Indonesia's involvement in ensuring peace, especially in peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. Indonesia’s commitment to improve its peace efforts in Afghanistan was expressed by President Joko Widodo during his visit to Kabul in 2018. This research used Lederach’s pyramid model of peacebuilding as the primary analysis tool. Lederach’s pyramid model identifies three approaches to peacebuilding, along with the main actors in the population affected by the conflict—namely top leadership, middle range leadership, and grass-root leadership. The results of the study show that Indonesia's involvement in Afghanistan in peace efforts has been carried out at …

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Turkish Islam-Nationalism Under Akp: A New Model For The Muslim World?, Fredy B. L. Tobing, Agung Nurwijoyo Dec 2020

Turkish Islam-Nationalism Under Akp: A New Model For The Muslim World?, Fredy B. L. Tobing, Agung Nurwijoyo

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

The Justice and Development Party’s (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi/AKP) activities in bridging Islam and nationalism marks a historic milestone in Turkey’s democracy. Throughout its two decades-long leadership, AKP, under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership, demonstrated that nationalism and Islam do not clash with Turkey’s stance on secularism. Such understanding provides AKP with a strategic leverage, both at the domestic and international level, especially within the Muslim world. Reflecting upon Rustow’s democratic transition model and Ibn Khaldun’s classic conceptualisation on ashabiyyah, this article attempts to comprehend how Turkish nationalism is formulated within its relations with Islam as AKP’s political roots. Aside from …

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The Rise Of Self-Interests: How Shifting Political Goals Changed The Effectiveness Of Dutch Official Development Aid To Bangladesh From 2005 Until 2016, Thomas L. Oomen Dec 2020

The Rise Of Self-Interests: How Shifting Political Goals Changed The Effectiveness Of Dutch Official Development Aid To Bangladesh From 2005 Until 2016, Thomas L. Oomen

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

Aid effectiveness has been situated in the central debate of development studies and, particularly, among foreign aid policy making community. As the Netherlands was one of the unique countries which focused extensively on the needs of its recipient, it is important to investigate the Netherlands’ recent practice of its development aid, particularly to Bangladesh and the associated goal ambiguity. This article attempts to answer the question, “to what extent does goal ambiguity in Dutch development aid affect the effectiveness of Dutch development aid given to Bangladesh?” This analysis is based on independent assessments of Dutch official development aid (ODA) to …

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Catalan Identity And Paradiplomacy Strategy In Catalonia’S Independence Movement, Windy Dermawan, Akim Akim Dec 2020

Catalan Identity And Paradiplomacy Strategy In Catalonia’S Independence Movement, Windy Dermawan, Akim Akim

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

This article seeks to analyse how Catalan identity, within the context of its conflict with the Spanish government, contributes to its foreign relations with the global public through paradiplomacy. This article uses qualitative research method with literature study. It finds that Catalonia, as one of Spain’s autonomous regions, have a distinct history, language, and culture from other Spanish regions. To protect their identity, there have been an emergence of movement for greater Catalan autonomy, even independence. This conflict reached climax on 1 October 2017 when the Catalan government initiated an independence referendum amongst Catalan people, with the majority voted for …

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The Moderation Of Frente Farabundo Martí Para La Liberación Nacional’S Economic Orientation In El Salvador, 2009-2019, Petrus Putut Pradhopo Wening Dec 2020

The Moderation Of Frente Farabundo Martí Para La Liberación Nacional’S Economic Orientation In El Salvador, 2009-2019, Petrus Putut Pradhopo Wening

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

Frente Farabundo Martí Para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) was a Marxist guerrilla group, known for its activities in the 1980s and 1990s to seize El Salvador’s government through war. Post-peace accords, FMLN transformed into an electoral political party and successfully won to lead the government of El Salvador in 2009-2019, but then they compromised their economic policies to suit neoliberalism. This article uses Gill and Law’s conceptualisation of the theory of direct and structural power of capital to explain the causes of FMLN’s neoliberalism-compromising economic policy adjustment in 2009-2019. This article finds that El Salvador’s social and political-economy historical dynamics, …

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Assessment Of Dental Undergraduate Students’ Skills In Local Anesthesia Administration: A Longitudinal Study, Km Siddiqi, Hs Qazi, K Ali, R Glanville Dec 2020

Assessment Of Dental Undergraduate Students’ Skills In Local Anesthesia Administration: A Longitudinal Study, Km Siddiqi, Hs Qazi, K Ali, R Glanville

Peninsula Dental School

Objectives: To investigate the quantitative impact of experience on competence in local anesthetic administration amongst final-year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) students. Methods: A Longitudinal cohort study design was employed. Purposive sampling was used to enrol final year BDS students and assess their competence longitudinally over a full academic year. The assessment criteria and scoring structure were reviewed during inspection of the institution by the regulator and the external examiner. Participants were assessed on four occasions, namely, after they had gained experience in performing 15, 40, 70 and 100 patient encounters involving local anesthetic administration. Results: A total of 177 …

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Surgical Approach For Kidney Transplantation Under Spinal Anesthesia, Atta Nawabi, Peter Sullivan, Martin De Ruyter, Amy Pichoff, Clay D. King, Perwaiz Nawabi Dec 2020

Surgical Approach For Kidney Transplantation Under Spinal Anesthesia, Atta Nawabi, Peter Sullivan, Martin De Ruyter, Amy Pichoff, Clay D. King, Perwaiz Nawabi

Student Publications

Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). It has been shown to improve quality of life as well as extending life of patients with ESRD as compared to renal replacement therapy (5-year survival rate of 68% after transplant vs 36% dialysis) (Hart A, Smith JM, Skeans MA. OPTN/SRTR 2015 annual data report: kidney. Am J Transplant 2017;17:21-116). Traditionally, patients undergo general endotracheal tube anesthesia for this surgery. During the COVID-19 pandemic, general anesthesia drugs and airway equipment were in short supply. Additionally, airway manipulation was avoided when possible due to concern for virus …

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