The impact of spatial implementation conditions on the success of investment in the residential house in the municipality of Prevalje

This thesis deals with the impact of spatial implementation conditions on the effectiveness of investing in building a residential house in the Municipality of Prevalje. It looks at data on advertised and sold residential houses, and vacant building lots. Basic statistics are calculated. The costs of building a new residential house are compared with the estimated market value of the appraised residential house in order to establish the rationality of investing in building. To discuss the influence spatial implementation conditions have on the effectiveness of investing, we examined how different ratios between the lay-out of the building and the area of the building plot, and different factors of the use of land affect the costs of building a residential house. We have established that spatial implementation conditions have very little influence on the effectiveness of investing in building a residential house. In the Municipality of Prevalje, such investments would not be rational, seeing that the estimated market value of a residential house is much lower than the estimated costs of building a new residential house

Artificial neural network model of the relationship between Betula pollen and meteorological factors in Szczecin (Poland)

Birch pollen is one of the main causes of allergy during spring and early summer in northern and central Europe. The aim of this study was to create a forecast model that can accurately predict daily average concentrations of Betula sp. pollen grains in the atmosphere of Szczecin, Poland. In order to achieve this, a novel data analysis technique—artificial neural networks (ANN)—was used. Sampling was carried out using a volumetric spore trap of the Hirst design in Szczecin during 2003–2009. Spearman’s rank correlation analysis revealed that humidity had a strong negative correlation with Betula pollen concentrations. Significant positive correlations were observed for maximum temperature, average temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation. The ANN resulted in multilayer perceptrons 366 8: 2928-7-1:1, time series prediction was of quite high accuracy (SD Ratio between 0.3 and 0.5, R > 0.85). Direct comparison of the observed and calculated values confirmed good performance of the model and its ability to recreate most of the variation

Investment and Project Economics: Contemporary Lessons for Nigeria’s Transformation

Ideally, projects constitute the nexus of strategic national transformation and sustainable development. Taking up the contemporary challenge to sensitize and synergize instructional, industrial and governmental functionaries along this line are leading global faculties such as the Academy of Project Management (APM), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Business Analyst (BA) Times, amongst others. This work is designed to succinctly dissect the Nigerian context with a view to conceptually bringing to the fore, those standardized project analytical ideals that are imperative for actualizing the much-sought-after dream of Nigeria’s transformation and national drive to global reckoning. It is recommended that the critical economies of time, money and other precious resources be well appropriated through effective deterministic and stochastic scheduling with justifying anticipated non-discounted and discounted project financial outcomes as underscored in this work.Key Words: Project analysis, Project economics, Project managemen

Lifeglows Through the Anthropocene: Development of the Radical Imagination and Response-Ability Within Superhero Comics

Scholars such as Amitav Ghosh, Timothy Clark, and Timothy Morton emphasize the importance of and challenge within the task of representing the power, scope, and scale of climate change in art and literature. These interrogations often emphasize the failures of extant works to animate their viewers towards action in a time of environmental crisis, but struggle to find any work that meets their expectations. This ‘game-over’ attitude, I argue, is the direct result of the cruel optimism present in the current scholarship’s attachment to ‘traditional’ forms of art and literature. By interrogating the conclusions Ghosh reaches about the novel’s function as a regulatory imaginative framework, I argue that the novel cannot represent the Anthropocene nor animate its readers to action because it produces an unradical imagination, thus limiting readers’ ability to imagine futures outside the current hegemonic order. Instead, I propose to develop a form of critique that refuses the ‘game-over’ attitude. Invoking Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure and abolitionist theories, I argue that we must resist the urge to become stuck in the cruel optimism of the search for the ‘perfect’ Anthropocene novel. I argue this by moving the critical eye to sites of enchantment within the superhero comic. To further argue that the superhero comic is a site worth ecocritical focus, I develop a method of reading the superhero comic as a successor to the epic. By emphasizing its hypo- and hypertextuality, I trace how the superhero comic not only radically imagines new worldings and kinship formations between the human and non-human, but arrives there through a collaborative process. This process knots together artists, writers, editors, fans, critics, and history in the creation of comics. In doing so, this transforms practicing the radical imagination from an individual act into a discursive collective experience. If the task is, as Haraway proposes, to become entangled together, imperfectly, then I argue that superhero comics allow us to do so in the making and reading of them. I conclude with a study of the X-Men as a site of collective radical imagination on formal and textual levels

Impact of land tenure on the participation in factor income in agriculture of Slovenia

The purpose of the article is to present agricultural land tenure in Slovenia and its impact on the division of the factor income into the part intended for the production factor of land and the improvement by the introduction of the rent statistics. The land, together with the labour force and capital, contributes to the income generation and it is one of the production factors that participate in the income division. The analyses so far have been based on the FADN data but the Slovenian analysis is based on data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture (EAA), it uses different sources, and a different calculation approach. The calculation is based on the share of rented utilised agricultural area which amounts to about 30% of the total utilised area. Due to the availability of the data the rent value is calculated depending on the institutional sectors – for agricultural enterprises (the non-financial enterprise sector) and family farms (the household sector). In 2016 the average rent per ha of utilised agricultural area amounted to almost EUR 150 and the nominal value of rents paid in Slovenian agriculture to EUR 21 million. Slovenian share of rent in factor income for the period 2000–2016 is 3%, which is substantially lower than the European Union (EU-28) average of 8%. In 2016, the factor income per employee was around EUR 6,000; about 4% of this amount was contributed to the land in the form of rent value. The rest was contributed to the workforce and capital. The paper presents the results that could be helpful for the agricultural and land policy makers

Corporate Relationship Marketing in Developing Economies: Sustainability Tonic for Nigerian Banks

Banking is fundamentally characterized by systemic dynamism and industrialvolatility. Forward moving practitioners, therefore, are not relenting in theirresolve to be more sensitive, appreciative and proactive in the market place.This essentially challenges them to strategically leverage on contemporaryresearch outputs to blaze the trail in service innovation and overallcorporate profitability redefinition. This study critically showcases corporaterelationship marketing (CRM) as multi-auspicious and efficacious newsensation to drive Nigerian banks to topmost heights with utmostsustainability. This competition – friendly vantage pathway is conceptuallyprojected in this work as the relationship marketing – performance causality(REMPEC) diagnostic connect. Key Words: Bank profitability, Institutional sustainability, Nigerianeconomy, Relationship Marketin

Tax Incentives for Industry Synergy in Nigeria: A Pragmatic Proprietary System Advocacy

Tax incentives are quintessential fiscal provisions designed by core industry-driven governmental authorities to attract and empower investors in strategic sectors of the economy. In Nigeria, several booster reliefs are obtainable, but many industrialists show soft spot for investment tax credit (ITC) and re-investment allowance (RIA). This study, thus, examined the potency of these specifications in redefining corporate financial performance, particularly in terms of return on equity (ROE). Using financial (secondary) data obtained from a net sample of 58 firms quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); the correlation, regression and Z-test analytical results were vividly in the affirmative. Leveraging on the outcomes, therefore, a Tax Incentive – Corporate Profitability Impact Model (TICPIM) is conceptualized and presented herein, to accord meaningful impetus to a pragmatic proprietary system advocacy (PPSA), which is expedient for the Nigerian economy. It is expected that these tax appeals and ideals would conscientiously grow critical industries in nation to greater productive and competitive heights.Keywords: Industrial investment, Nigerian economy, Tax incentive