Poverty Assessment in the Philippines and Indonesia: A Methodological Comparison

Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment of poverty measurement in the Philippines and Indonesia by examining methodologies used and the disparity in their respective poverty statistics. A more comparable poverty estimates in these countries are provided.poverty alleviation, poverty gap, poverty incidence, poverty, prawn production

Poverty Assessment in the Philippines and Indonesia: A Methodological Comparison

Existing official poverty statistics cannot be directly utilized for cross-country comparison. This paper illustrates why. It presents an assessment of poverty measurement in the Philippines and Indonesia by examining methodologies used and the disparity in their respective poverty statistics. A more comparable poverty estimates in these countries are provided.poverty alleviation, poverty gap, poverty incidence, poverty, prawn production

Refurbishment of Exterior Wooden Panels of Simpson Strong Tie Building

This paper outlines the refurbishment of the exterior wood panels located on the Simpson Strong Tie Building on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus. This project focuses on the two large 50 square foot wooden panels that act as an exterior skin for the Simpson Strong Tie Building. This project is an individual project that was broken up into 4 phases. This paper will cover all 4 phases of the refurbishment process. These phases include the removal, sanding, staining and reapplication of wood panels onto the Simpson Strong Tie Building. Furthermore, this paper will go in depth about the building permit process and the struggles experienced communicating with the owner and architect during the preconstruction phase. Many struggles had to be overcome during the refurbishment process such as managing a project on an active campus, as well the refurbishment process itself. There were many unforeseen conditions that were experienced during the construction phase due to inadequate project details from the architect, OMNI Design Group. The purpose of this project is to give back to the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Construction Management Department by refurbishing the weathered and aesthetically unappealing exterior wooden panels on the Simpson Strong Tie Building

Critical Thinking in the Information Technology Program: A Deciding Factor for Employment

“[C]ritical thinking [as analysis and evaluation] is an active skill-building process, not a subject for passive academic study.” Thus, it cannot be mastered through the technical content of a major alone. This suggests that there is a crucial gap between a purely vocationally focused approach to teaching and the higher-cognitive skills (i.e., learning through connecting ideas together) necessary for students “to compete successfully in securing employment or progressing in their chosen field.” Business leaders and educators around the globe realize that critical thinking is in short supply across the board, and managers and employees must be able to think critically for both personal and organizational success. Accordingly, rather than just focusing on teaching any single technical outcome, the Information Technology Major strives to graduate versatile, broadly skilled individuals prepared to tackle a wide range of problems in a rapidly changing world of intensifying complexity. Since many of Franklin’s graduates are completing their degrees in order to advance their careers, it is reasonable to look at correlations between individual criteria and the summative “Employability” outcome of our Capstone Project. A statistical analysis of the data shows that the correlation between critical thinking and employability is significantly the strongest. While select technical skills are important, the largest single contributor to employability is not the technical content of the major, but rather the ability of students to think, reason, and communicate critically about the technical content.https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2014/1027/thumbnail.jp

VIE Project: Cultural values and socioeconomic factors as determinants of entrepreneurial intentions

This paper describes a research project currently being developed by the authors. It aims to analyse the role played by psychosocial, cultural and socioeconomic factors in shaping the entrepreneurial intention. Survey methods will be used on a population of potential entrepreneurs (having not yet performed actual entrepreneurial behaviours). In this sense, undergraduate students and individuals contacting business support centres will be considered as part of the sample. We expect to get a clearer understanding of the psychosocial elements, socioeconomic factors and cultural values affecting the venture-creation decision. The results would be important to policy makers (showing them what to encourage), to practitioners (what to do better), and to researchers (what to clarify)

An experimental analysis od the stability and the dynamics of asixymmetric liquid bridges between unequal disks

In this paper experimental results related to both stability an the dynamic of a asiximmetric liquid bridge between unequal disk are presented. Experiments have been performed by using a drop tower facility and the response of the liquid bridge to a sudden change of the acceleration level acting on it has bee obtained

Influence of Dust in Solar Cells Used for Measuring Solar Radiation

Permiso obtenido por la institución para subir este documentoThe photovoltaic cells (PV) are commonly used as global radiation measurement device, even though when it has been proved that there are significant differences with respect to using pyranometers. The dirt deposited on the surface of the PV is one of the most influential factors in the measurement of the solar radiation. In this work we have made experimental measurements with four identical cells, two cleans and two dirties with different soil density (0.2 g/m2, 0.4 g/m2, 0.8 g/m2, 1.2 g/m2 and 1.5 g/m2) and different size particles (< 125 μm) comparing the results and obtaining a correlation between the density of the dust and the difference between the measured irradiance for clean and dirty cells for each particle size

Choked flow in water/CO2 solutions on air-independent propulsion systems

We develop a simplified model of choked flow in pipes for CO2-water solutions as an important step in the modelling of a whole hydraulic system with the intention of eliminating the carbon dioxide generated in air-independent submarine propulsion. The model is based on an approximate fitting of the homogeneous isentropic solution upstream of a valve (or any other area restriction), for given fluid conditions at the entrance. The relative maximum choking back-pressure is computed as a function of area restriction ratio. Although the procedure is generic for gas solutions, numeric values for the non-dimensional parameters in the analysis are developed only for choking in the case of carbon dioxide solutions up to the pure-water limit