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Worcester Community Clean Energy Project: A Preliminary Assessment Of Project Aims And Potential, Gabe J. Epstein

Sustainability and Social Justice

E4TheFuture is orchestrating two pilot Community Clean Energy Projects (CCEP) in the state of Massachusetts. This paper is a preliminary analysis of the Worcester CCEP and is commissioned by E4TheFuture. The CCEP incorporates multiple types of renewable energies and a cooperative energy approach to provide clean energy access to any community member regardless of income level or homeowner status. The paper examines the CCEP’s mission statement and project estimates, using data provided by E4TheFuture and academic literature. The analysis seeks to determine the feasibility of the Worcester CCEP, its potential impact on underserved communities, and the potential for project replication.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior--A Study Of The Telecom Industry, Upasna Joshi Sethi Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

Organizational Citizenship behavior is a person’s voluntary commitment within an organization which is not part of the contractual tasks. Various studies suggested that engaging in OCB can enrich the work lives of employees. The Current Paper aimed to study five dimensions of Organizational Citizenship Behavior of employees in Telecom industry. For the study a sample size of 500 employees who are working in Telecom sector was selected using Snowball Sampling Technique in the areas of Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. The scale used for the purpose of measuring the responses of the employees for Organizational Citizenship Behavior is the one developed …

Cash Shortages And Black Money: A Look At India's 2016 Demonetization Effect, One Year Later, Amitabh S. Dutta Ph.D., Kishore G. Kulkarni Ph.D.

International Review of Business and Economics

The decision of demonetization announcement in November 2016, by the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi, was surprising to the general public and controversial to the economic thinkers. While the opponents of such a step have gone through actual calculation of the cost of demonetization in terms of potential GDP loss (2% as predicted by the former Prime Minister and Oxford Economist, Manmohan Singh) some supporters have pointed out the big benefits of this step. In recent days a talk of demonetization has become a “hot potato” that very few want to hold on to. Politically this has become …

Colossal Insurance Sector Of India, Anuradha Prasad More

International Review of Business and Economics

Insurance sector has its roots in the Indian economy since 1818 when the first insurance company Oriental Life insurance was established at Calcutta [now Kolkata]. Even the reference can be found in the form of marine adventure trade loans and carrier’s contracts. Industry started taking shape during the British reigning. Since then the insurance industry has undergone the various reforms/changes. Enactment of Insurance Act 1938, nationalization of Life insurance sector in the year 1956, General insurance Sector in the year 1972 and again with the recommendation of Malhotra Committee Report insurance sector reopened for private players in the year 1999. …

Idiosyncratic Risk And Returns: The Case For A More Efficient Class Of Estimators, Mohinder Parkash, Rajeev Singhal, Yun Ellen Zhu

International Review of Business and Economics

Volatility is a key input into many important financial decisions. Therefore, accurateforecast of volatility plays animportant role in making these decisions. Typically, volatility is forecast using realized volatility computed from closing stock prices. Employing expectation of volatilitiessuch calculated, several papers find that expected idiosyncratic risk is positively associated with contemporaneous returns. Yang and Zhang [2000] show that estimators belonging to the class of range-based estimators are more efficient than the estimators derived only from closing prices. Using the more efficient range-based volatility estimates, we find no evidence to support the hypothesis that idiosyncratic risk explains returns.

Taking Care Of Palliative Care, Jolene Baker, Kristina Larsen, Amanda Schumacher

Master of Social Work Student Policy Advocacy Briefs

Minnesota has done well with the amount of palliative care services provided across the state. However, rural communities in Minnesota have far less access to palliative care programs than those living in urban settings. This is in part due to the lack of availability of health care professionals in rural communities, and the lower reimbursement rates provided for palliative care programs in rural settings. Although the majority of large hospitals in Minnesota offer palliative care programs, most hospitals with fifty beds or less do not. Palliative care has been shown to improve the quality of life of individuals living with …

Participatory And Collaborative Evaluation Strategies To Support Data-Informed Decisions And Management, Christine Marie Bishop, Isaac Karikari, Betty Walton, Stephanie Moynihan

Faculty Publications

Surveys were completed by local stakeholders who had been recruited from local communities and regions by the Indiana System of Care Planning Team. Periodic collection of System of Care Implementation Survey (SOCIS) information identified strengths and ongoing challenges.

Scholars' Mine Statistics Report: January - December 2017, James Roger Weaver

Scholars’ Mine Statistics

Scholars' Mine Statistics Report for the period of January 2017 through December 2017.

Art, Music, And Poetry: Artistic Documentation During The Holocaust, Lauren Beauregard

SWOSU Journal of Undergraduate Research

According to Theodor Adorno, “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.”¹ Of course, poetry was written during the Holocaust as well as after. More accurately, Nina Apfelbaum argued that “reading the memoirs, diaries and works of fiction written by Holocaust survivors provides another dimension to an understanding of the Holocaust.”² During the Holocaust, Jewish artists used their abilities to create works as a way to both document their everyday lives as well as to reclaim humanity in the German concentration camps.

Lanthorn, Vol. 52, No. 47, March 1, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 52, July 10, 2017 - April 23, 2018

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Editor's Talk

Halal Insight

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คอลัมน์ : ห้องรับแขก

Halal Insight

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เมแทโบโลมิกส์ต่อต้านโรคอ้วน, วินัย ดะห์ลัน

Halal Insight

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Fatty Acid Profiles Test "แก๊สโครมาโทกราฟี่กับการสืบหาแหล่งที่มาของไขมัน" By Halal Forensic Laboratory

Halal Insight

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Halal ล้านนา

Halal Insight

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Hal-Q Corner

Halal Insight

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Halal Cosmetic Ep.3

Halal Insight

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Halal ปักษ์ใต้

Halal Insight

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How To Eat To Be Healtly

Halal Insight

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Puerto Ricans In The United States: 2010–2016, Nashia Roman

CUNY Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies

The Puerto Rican population in the United States continues to grow in the 21st century. Between 2010 and 2016, the Puerto Rican population in the U.S. grew by nearly 18 percent, increasing from about 4.6 million to almost 5.5 million. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2016, Puerto Ricans accounted for 1.7 percent of the total U.S population and 9.5 percent of the nation’s Latino population. The rate of growth of stateside Puerto Ricans (17.9%) was more than three times the rate of the U.S. population as a whole (4.7%). Stateside Puer-to Ricans also had a higher rate of …

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letter - March 2018, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Himmelfarb Library Liaison Letters

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Slimming The Streets: Best Practices For Designing Road Diet Evaluations, Hilary Nixon, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Cameron Simons

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

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What's Up Newsletter, March 2018

What's Up Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Milwaukee, WI

What's Up Newsletter Finding Aid

The Triple Bind Of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment And Policies To Improve Wellbeing, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Laurie C. Maldonado

Open-Access Books by Faculty

Editors: Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado

Authors are listed in order of appearance in text. Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book presents evidence from over 40 countries that shows how single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.

This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, …

Review Of Dare To Serve: How To Drive Superior Results By Serving Others, Lloyd Jacott

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

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Understanding Hiv/Aids In The African Context, Eileen Stillwaggon, Larry Sawers

Economics Faculty Publications

This book of readings is intended for courses in Global Health. The editors asked Prof. Stillwaggon to contribute a chapter summarizing her years of work on the spread of HIV/AIDS in populations among whom bacterial, fungal, parasitic, and viral diseases are extremely common, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has demonstrated that differences in behavior cannot explain differences in HIV rates between world regions.

Deaf Southern Star, March 2018

Deaf Southern Star

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in New Zealand

Deaf Southern Star Finding Aid

Department Of Evangelization Of Deaf Ministry, March 2018

Department of Evangelization of Deaf Ministry

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Baltimore, MD

Department of Evangelization of Deaf Ministry Finding Aid

Cpaf Updates Vol. 19 No. 2, Emely D. Dicolen, Stella Concepcion R. Britanico, Samantha Geraldine G. De Los Santos, Ephraim C. Quiñones, Karen S. Janiya, Francis John F. Faderogao, Rueth T. Cabral, Francisca O. Tan

CPAf Updates

In this issue:

• UPLB-CPAf forms academic partnership with Yeungnam University-Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul, 1
• Two decades and counting: Celebrating 20 years of governance and development studies, 2
• Outstanding Personnel for CY 2017, 3
• NEDA Dir.-Gen. Pernia to CPAf: Expand its mark in transdisciplinary governance and development, 4
• CPAf, SGRA hold sustainable shared growth seminar on community currencies, 5
• CPAf Choir and Friends launched, 6
• CHED OIC De Vera talks about higher education in a federal Philippines, 7
• Till Death or “Divorce” Do Us Part?, 8
• CPAf admin staff share tips on computer hardware and network troubleshooting, …

Ua12/9 Wku Counseling & Testing Center, Vol. 5, Issue 2, Wku Counseling & Testing Center

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by and about WKU Counseling & Testing Center.