108 research outputs found

    What are the effects of Globalization on Economic Growth and Inequality?: An empirical global study

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    The recent event of increased interconnectedness between countries in the last two decades has heightened the interests of scholars around the world, to discuss its impacts towards two important indicators, economic growth and inequality. Although the general agreed consensus suggests that globalization activities are beneficial to those that engage, it is often weighted against its negative impacts upon inequality between and in-within countries. Despite this, this research forms its purpose through identifying that the extensive literature focuses primarily on income measures as the only proxy for inequality. Furthermore, there is a lack of taking into account social factors that contribute to the significance of inequality. This research therefore branches an innovative approach to form and empirically test accurate proxies as possible, given a set range of available macro data by the World Bank, for social inequalities as measurement variables in conjunction with Globalization and Economic Growth. The aim is to bridge and connect the stories between the three components. In addition, the proxies for social inequalities define for which those (the population) at the lowest echelons of the status quo struggle to access adequate facilities for, technology, general health, employment (with emphasis to female employment) and health of new-borns. The research design uses panel vector-autoregression, Error-Correction, Granger Causality and Impulse Response modelling to capture findings for 35 low-middle- and low-income countries during the period 2000-2016. The findings show that Globalization and Economic Growth positively affects social inequality in developing countries, and in particular to, a country’s access to electricity (with emphasis to technologies for cooking, the internet and mobile cellular usage) and general health. In contrast, to the remaining indices, there were no effects found for Globalization and Economic Growths’ contribution to access to employment (with emphasis to female employment) and health of new-borns. In addition, Globalization was found to positively affect Economic Growth. The findings provide dedicated support for Globalization and provide policymakers with recommendations for improvement in the areas to which no effects were found (in 2 of 4 social inequality indexes). The main limitation to the research surrounds data availability. With technology forever evolving and improving, in the future, more accurate statistics can better provide the econometric models with predicting power

    Full Text PDF of The JBBA, 11th Issue, May 2023

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    Full Text PDF of The JBBA, 11th Issue, May 202

    A Comparative Study Based on Provincial Performance

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    This thesis attempts to transfer the spotlight upon the political issue about democratization in China to something else that has not been spared enough attention yet. Here it refers to the transformation of governance mode. The rather rapid industrialization and urbanization in the process of modernization in China does not aggravate the swelling of bureaucratic system to the extent that largely increases financial burden, internal disorder, and inefficiency. The maintenance of a stable and controllable government on both national and local level benefits from the transformation of governance mode from command mode to network mode

    Designing and Implementing a Blockchain-based Platform for the Exchange of Peerto-Peer Energy Trading and Modelling Vehicle-to-Grid(V2G) Residential Community

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    The expansion of renewable energy on the national grid has been a struggle throughout the past decade. Rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) and electric vehicle to Grid (V2G) can function as either load or distributed energy sources. Consequently, presumers can join in a Transactive energy network featuring peer-to-peer (P2P) exchange of excess electricity to enhance the grid load balancing and harmonic filtering performance. The key challenge is keeping track of these transactions and compensating supposing parties. The distributed and unchangeable characteristics of blockchain technology could be utilised to accelerate the ongoing transition to more decentralised and digital energy systems and alleviate some of the challenges the energy sector is now facing. This report presents an experimental design and implementation of a Peer-to-peer blockchain network to exchange electricity energy among participants based on the Ethereum open-source application called Solar Chain App. This demonstration project simulates the P2P Network of the electricity distribution network. A project consists of a primary network and user nodes (user nodes have homeowners and EVs). Homeowners with solar and electric vehicles Participants, assets, and transactions required to establish the blockchain-based network for tracking Buyer and seller output exchanges are described, and the smart contract, use cases, and implementation. The main purpose is to design a p2p platform that maximize renewable energy Usage and minimize the daily cost of household electricity consumption

    5th International Open and Distance Learning Conference Proceedings Book = 5. Uluslararası Açık ve Uzaktan Öğrenme Konferansı Bildiri Kitabı

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    In celebration of our 40th anniversary in open and distance learning, we are happy and proud to organize the 5th International Open & Distance Learning Conference- IODL 2022, which was held at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Türkiye on 28-30 September 2022. After the conferences in 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2019, IODL 2022 is the 5th IODL event hosted by Anadolu University Open Education System (OES)

    Modern Socio-Technical Perspectives on Privacy

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    This open access book provides researchers and professionals with a foundational understanding of online privacy as well as insight into the socio-technical privacy issues that are most pertinent to modern information systems, covering several modern topics (e.g., privacy in social media, IoT) and underexplored areas (e.g., privacy accessibility, privacy for vulnerable populations, cross-cultural privacy). The book is structured in four parts, which follow after an introduction to privacy on both a technical and social level: Privacy Theory and Methods covers a range of theoretical lenses through which one can view the concept of privacy. The chapters in this part relate to modern privacy phenomena, thus emphasizing its relevance to our digital, networked lives. Next, Domains covers a number of areas in which privacy concerns and implications are particularly salient, including among others social media, healthcare, smart cities, wearable IT, and trackers. The Audiences section then highlights audiences that have traditionally been ignored when creating privacy-preserving experiences: people from other (non-Western) cultures, people with accessibility needs, adolescents, and people who are underrepresented in terms of their race, class, gender or sexual identity, religion or some combination. Finally, the chapters in Moving Forward outline approaches to privacy that move beyond one-size-fits-all solutions, explore ethical considerations, and describe the regulatory landscape that governs privacy through laws and policies. Perhaps even more so than the other chapters in this book, these chapters are forward-looking by using current personalized, ethical and legal approaches as a starting point for re-conceptualizations of privacy to serve the modern technological landscape. The book’s primary goal is to inform IT students, researchers, and professionals about both the fundamentals of online privacy and the issues that are most pertinent to modern information systems. Lecturers or teacherscan assign (parts of) the book for a “professional issues” course. IT professionals may select chapters covering domains and audiences relevant to their field of work, as well as the Moving Forward chapters that cover ethical and legal aspects. Academicswho are interested in studying privacy or privacy-related topics will find a broad introduction in both technical and social aspects

    ECLAP 2012 Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment

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    It has been a long history of Information Technology innovations within the Cultural Heritage areas. The Performing arts has also been enforced with a number of new innovations which unveil a range of synergies and possibilities. Most of the technologies and innovations produced for digital libraries, media entertainment and education can be exploited in the field of performing arts, with adaptation and repurposing. Performing arts offer many interesting challenges and opportunities for research and innovations and exploitation of cutting edge research results from interdisciplinary areas. For these reasons, the ECLAP 2012 can be regarded as a continuation of past conferences such as AXMEDIS and WEDELMUSIC (both pressed by IEEE and FUP). ECLAP is an European Commission project to create a social network and media access service for performing arts institutions in Europe, to create the e-library of performing arts, exploiting innovative solutions coming from the ICT

    The Digital Scholar

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    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. While industries such as music, newspapers, film and publishing have seen radical changes in their business models and practices as a direct result of new technologies, higher education has so far resisted the wholesale changes we have seen elsewhere. However, a gradual and fundamental shift in the practice of academics is taking place. Every aspect of scholarly practice is seeing changes effected by the adoption and possibilities of new technologies. This book will explore these changes, their implications for higher education, the possibilities for new forms of scholarly practice and what lessons can be drawn from other sectors

    Urban Ecosystem Services

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    The school of thought surrounding the urban ecosystem has increasingly become in vogue among researchers worldwide. Since half of the world’s population lives in cities, urban ecosystem services have become essential to human health and wellbeing. Rapid urban growth has forced sustainable urban developers to rethink important steps by updating and, to some degree, recreating the human–ecosystem service linkage. Assessing, as well as estimating the losses of ecosystem services can denote the essential effects of urbanization and increasingly indicate where cities fall short. This book contains 13 thoroughly refereed contributions published within the Special Issue “Urban Ecosystem Services”. The book addresses topics such as nature-based solutions, green space planning, green infrastructure, rain gardens, climate change, and more. The contributions highlight new findings for landscape architects, urban planners, and policymakers. Important future cities research is considered by looking at the system connectivity between the social and ecological sphere—via varying forms of urban planning, management, and governance. The book is supported by methods and models that utilize an urban sustainability and ecosystem service-centric focus by adding knowledge-base and real-world solutions into the urbanization phenomenon
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