Predictors of Students` Desire to be an Entrepreneur: Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States

Entrepreneurship is an important element of national economic growth, and college business students represent an important feeder pool for a nation’s supply of entrepreneurs. The purpose of this study is to identify and contrast predictors of students’ desire to be entrepreneurs in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States. Three hundred and five undergraduate business students in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, and the United States completed the Aspiring Entrepreneurial Motives Questionnaire (Aziz, Friedman & Sayfullin, 2012). While the recognition motive was important for all students, predictors of their desire to be entrepreneurs differed across the three countries. In contrast to Kyrgyzstan and the United States, students’ in Georgia overall desire to be entrepreneurs was more complex as finance, recognition, freedom, marketing opportunities and economic conditions reached significance. National initiatives that recognize entrepreneurial accomplishments may therefore encourage more individuals to start and manage businesses. A more complex strategy may be required in Georgia, as the decision to be an entrepreneur appeared to be more multidimensional

Country data on AMR in Turkiye in the context of community-acquired respiratory tract infections: links between antibiotic susceptibility, local and international antibiotic prescribing guidelines, access to medicine and clinical outcome

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global public health. Selection of resistant bacteria is driven by inappropriate use of antibiotics, amongst other factors. COVID-19 may have exacerbated AMR due to unnecessary antibiotic prescribing. Country-level knowledge is needed to understand options for action

A controlled study for the characterization of PM2.5 emitted during grilling ground beef meat

Abstract Experiments were conducted in an on-campus house at Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus during January 2015. Low fat ground beef meat was grilled using an electric stove with no mechanical or natural ventilation. Five PM size fractions ranging from 3.3µm to less than 0.43µm were investigated in this study. The total particle emission rate and flux values were found to be 4.49×101mgmin-1 and 1.45×103mgmin-1m-2, respectively. Total OC emission rate and flux values were 2.3×101mgmin-1 and 7.33×102mgmin-1m-2, respectively, and total EC emission rate and flux values were determined to be 1.19mgmin-1 and 3.85×101mgmin-1m-2, respectively. Analyses of trace metal concentrations showed that Fe (0.429mgm-3), Ti (0.270mg.m-3), Sr (0.27mgm-3), Ba (0.24mgm-3) and Li (0.23mgm-3) were the five most abundant trace elements in the PM produced during grilling ground beef. Pb, Mn, and V concentrations were found to be greater than the World Health Organization (WHO) exposure limit