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ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

This presentation is an attempt to discuss entrepreneurship education in Nigeria. Without recourse to subterfuge, an entrepreneurship – based educational system should continue to be topical in our national discussion up until Nigeria educational policy makers ensure that Nigeria education is entrepreneurially driven. A mono-reliant economy such as we have in Nigeria is like a dance staged on the cliff-edge. Few years of a steep decline in oil prices, Nigeria macroeconomics has been afflicted, infected and affected on all fronts. One of the worst hit is unemployment. The 2014 immigration recruitment exercise, the 2015 Cross-River Forest Police recruitment exercise and the 2016 npower recruitments are instances that indicate that there is no illumination at the end of the tunnel. A way out, as espoused in this paper, will be to revisit the Nigerian educational system. Since a society is as good as its educational content, the sub-sector has to be mainstreamed with an entrepreneurial bent, such that its products will be prepared to combine the virtues of knowledge, attitude and hands-on-skills to maximize the diverse natural resources of the country. Key Terms: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Nigeria Education
Credible Effects: The Impact of Disclosure of Material Connections Within Online Product Reviews

Online product reviews are an influential source of information for consumers. With pressures to have readily available reviews, businesses must determine the best strategy for obtaining them. In 2009, for the first time in 29 years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) updated endorsement guidelines to address concerns over possible deception within online reviews. Since that time, the FTC has issued four additional statements underlining its concerns and providing additional examples of how to comply. In 2017, the first action of enforcement was made against individuals failing to adhere to these guidelines. In light of the FTC’s guidelines and pressures to have reviews, businesses must ask which type of affiliated reviewers, if any, are the most influential. As to reviewer credibility, the literature offers contradictory predictions. Through three experiments with a total of 1,077 consumers, the authors examine effects of reviewer affiliation. The findings affirm the spirit of the FTC’s updated guidelines. However, affiliation comes at a cost. Depending on the competitive context, the cost may be worth the benefits.
Korea’s cultural industry clusters 20 years on: evolving policy and practice

ABSTRACT Since 2000 South Korea has implemented discontinuous local cultural and creative industry (CCI) cluster and development policies, especially in non-capital regions. The number of CCIs has increased, but to different extents in different regions, and labour productivity has improved. Disparities between the capital and non-capital regions have, however, increased notwithstanding the goal of balanced regional development. Challenges therefore remain. In future, more attention should be paid to cultural genre and local cultural specificity and to research and development and innovation capacity with a new policy scheme based on a quadruple helix approach.
Le travail rémunéré à temps plein des mères : malédiction ou bénédiction ? le cas singulier de la Suisse comparé à la Belgique, la France, l’Allemagne et la Suède

Les travaux sur le conflit travail-famille montrent que les difficultes de conciliation sont plus frequentes aux âges de la parentalite et chez les femmes, et qu'elles sont associees negativement a la sante. Les desavantages de la conciliation des roles professionnel et familial pour les meres, souvent pointes du doigt, doivent toutefois etre mis en perspective avec les gains economiques et de sante habituellement lies a une insertion professionnelle durable des femmes. Dans cette etude, nous comparons la Suisse –un pays largement depourvu de dispositif soutenant la conciliation travail-famille- avec des pays de niveau socioeconomique comparable -la Belgique, la France, l'Allemagne et la Suede-, dotes d'une diversite de politiques de conciliation. Grâce aux donnees de l'Enquete sur les Familles et les Generations 2013 pour la Suisse et des Enquetes Genre et Generations pour les autres pays, nous montrons qu'en Suisse les parents d'enfants de moins de 13 ans a deux temps pleins ("dual earners") declarent plus de difficultes a concilier le travail et la famille, ont une moins bonne sante auto-declaree et eprouvent plus de difficultes financieres que les couples ou seul l’homme travaille a plein temps. A l'inverse, dans les autres pays, les "dual earners" ont des indicateurs de conflit travail-famille, de sante et de bien-etre economique meilleurs que les autres couples. Ces resultats soulignent que les dispositifs de conciliation travailfamille (quelle qu'en soit la nature) permettent d'abord aux meres qui ont plus de ressources de s'investir substantiellement dans la sphere professionnelle, un mecanisme de selection qui au final compense largement –sur l'ensemble des meres qui travaillent a temps plein- les desavantages lies aux conflits travail-famille.
Divergent effects of international regulatory institutions. Regulating global banks and shadow banking after the global financial crisis of 2007–2009

Abstract The rules structuring the global economy frequently emerge from informal international regulatory institutions. A set of approaches in International Relations and International Political Economy conceptualize these institutions as negotiation arenas and deem powerful actors to determine rule creation. Others stress the change-inhibiting effects of densely institutionalized environments. Yet variation in policy outcomes of post-crisis financial regulatory reforms cannot be fully explained by either. I argue that conceptualizing institutional asset specificity helps explain international policy processes and outcomes. The institutional assets of regulatory institutions, their rules, prescriptions, and procedures of decision-making, offer divergent transaction cost reducing effects. Specific asset institutions possess narrow institutional scopes and stringently defined mandates. They reduce transaction costs by offering tested approaches and established regulatory instruments, while proving unadaptable to policy issues falling outside their scope. General asset institutions avoid constraints of specialization and can adapt to various purposes. The lower asset specificity in turn increases the ambiguity over regulatory instruments and the commensurate costs of standard development. I assess the argument by analyzing four post-crisis reform initiatives on regulating global banks and shadow banking.
Dissecting skewness under affine jump-diffusions

Abstract This paper derives the theoretical skewness in a five-factor affine jump-diffusion model with stochastic variance and jump intensity, and jumps in prices and variances. Numerical analysis shows that all of the uncertainties in this model affect skewness. The information regarding jumps in prices is mainly reflected in the short-term skewness. The skewness for other maturities carries the information that is highly correlated with variance. Furthermore, the theoretical VIX and skewness under a simplified five-factor model are used to fit the market risk-neutral volatility and skewness sequentially. The fitting performances are better than traditional double-jump models.
Regional partnerships: at a glance

Vocational education and training (VET) has a key role in facilitating regional economic development. One way that VET can do this is by forming partnerships with other organisations, such as other training providers, business/industry, schools and local government. This brief publication gives an overview of recent research exploring how partnerships can address regional needs.
Do Indigenous health workers improve chronic care for high risk adults in remote communities

Prevalence of diabetes and complex chronic conditions is greater, and complications higher for Indigenous people living in remote communities than the general Australian population. Outcomes can be improved greatly with appropriate primary care which includes local Indigenous health workers (IHWs) as key members of the team. IHWs provide language and cultural brokerage between non-Indigenous staff and clients that supports effective self-management. We undertook a trial of a model of diabetes care where IHWs received training and ongoing support for clinical diabetes and chronic disease management in 12 remote communities. We devised a mixed methods evaluation of clinical outcomes, care processes and implementation fidelity. The trial was modestly successful in in1proving clinical outcomes and reducing complications requiring hospital care. However implementation of the model of care was compromised by major health service restructure and a lack of systems in some services to appropriately accommodate the IHWs as key care coordinators. We conclude that the trial showed that IHWs contributed to improved outcomes in these settings despite these barriers, and that services and other health team members would benefit from a better understanding of the unique cultural and professional role of these workers if the best outcomes are to be achieved.
Return to sender: a behavioural approach to reducing food waste in schools

ABSTRACT Waste is an inherent part of the global food system, with significant environmental, social and economic impacts. Rather than simply managing its disposal, addressing the food waste challenge in Australia requires engagement with consumers to encourage behaviours that reduce wastage. This exploratory case study utilised a behavioural approach to identify and prioritise food waste reduction behaviours in Western Australian schools and then analysed these behaviours from the perspective of key target audiences. This enabled appropriate interventions to be proposed for testing. It offers a targeted approach to tackle food waste in schools and the wider community.
A GMM estimator asymptotically more efficient than OLS and WLS in the presence of heteroskedasticity of unknown form

ABSTRACT We propose a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator, where our specific moment conditions, where our specific moment conditions ensure that the GMM estimator is asymptotically at least as efficient as ordinary least squares (OLS) and whatever competing weighted least squares (WLS) we wish to consider. With a popular exponential model of heteroskedasticity, our new GMM estimator performs significantly better than OLS or WLS. In an empirical application to a financial wealth equation, we show that the efficiency gains can be nontrivial with real data.
Crook!: The impact of perceived corruption on non-electoral forms of political behaviour

Anti-corruption claims have been at the core of many mass mobilizations worldwide. However, the nexus between corruption and collective action is often overlooked. Bridging social movement and corruption studies, this article contends that believing in extensive corruption has a positive impact on non-electoral forms of participation. But this effect is uneven across the population and contingent upon the individual’s political interest and education. Using survey data from 34 countries, the analysis confirms that people prefer non-electoral mobilization when institutions are seemingly captured by vested interests. Moreover, perceiving endemic corruption is likely to breed indignation among lesser-educated and less politically interested citizens, who are keener to embrace anti-elitist arguments and ultimately engage in extra-institutional behaviour. These findings help refine theories of societal accountability, which generally assume that politically sophisticated citizens are the driving force in the fight against corruption.
and ESC CRT R&D and European Affairs Work Shop on Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine implies a tailored approach to patients thatoffers more effective therapy for each individual, reduces risks andavoids unnecessary treatments or diagnostic interventions. Treat-ment of patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has markedlyimproved through the evaluation of new therapy concepts in large,controlledtrialsthatprovideevidence-basedguidance.Whilethisap-proach has, e.g. reduced morbidity and mortality in acute coronaryartery disease and extended signiﬁcantly life expectancy in chronicischaemic heart disease and heart failure, there remains a high, andincreasing, burden of CVD. Conditions such as atrial ﬁbrillation,acute heart failure, or sudden cardiac death still cause unacceptablemorbidity and mortality in the population. Furthermore, patientswhosurviveacutecardiaceventsoftenrequirelong-term treatmentfor chronic conditions. The development and implementation ofa more personalized management offer potential to signiﬁcantlyimprove outcome.Controlled trials by nature apply the same approach and therapyto patients with the same disease entity, even if with differentdisease stages and manifestations. Yet clinical cardiological practiceaims to take into account differences between individual patientsinto therapeutic decisions. Initial concepts of personalized medicinefocused heavily on genetic markers, particularly in oncology, butequally in CVD where genomics was the ﬁrst marker which wasconsidered.
A Bayesian DSGE Model Comparison of the Taylor Rule and Nominal GDP Targeting

This paper performs a comparison of the Taylor Rule and Nominal GDP Targeting by estimating a DSGE model with Bayesian techniques. The first part builds a New Keynesian DSGE model with investment adjustment costs, prices and real wages rigidities, a government sector, and imperfect competition, alongside various shocks. The second part estimates and contrasts the models using Bayesian methods on Euro Area data. The results show that the data strongly prefer the Nominal GDP Targeting Rule over the Taylor Rule. We conduct numerous robustness checks to guarantee the solidity of our results. We also provide impulse response functions evaluation of the two Monetary Policy Rules.
Bottom-up factors of attention during the tourist experience: an empirical study

ABSTRACT Tourism, by definition, involves travel outside one's usual environment. This means that a tourist's attention cannot rely only on previously experienced known symbols and markers and instead derives meaning from paying attention to their surroundings. In this context, management of a visitor's attention processes is a key issue in the design of memorable tourist experiences and business success. Psychological research highlights two types of attention processes: bottom-up and top-down. This research is the first to identify factors influencing bottom-up attention during on-site experience and to examine the moderating impact of top-down factors of attention. The empirical research used questionnaires obtained from tourists participating in two animal-based experiences at a theme park. The results show that of the bottom-up factors analyzed, only two influenced attention, Rarity and Environment stimulation. Concerning the moderating influence of top-down factors, the research found that Interpersonal interaction and Task performance/Goal achievement affect the way external factors impact on attention, and that the intensity of this relation varies according to the relevance of this moderation.
Non-arithmetic uniformization of metric spaces attached to unitary Shimura varieties

We develop a new method of constructing non-arithmetic lattices in the projective orthogonal group $\text{PO}(n,1)$ for every integer $n$ larger than one. The technique is to consider anti-holomorphic involutions on a complex arithmetic ball quotient, glue their fixed loci along geodesic subspaces, and show that the resulting metric space carries canonically the structure of a complete real hyperbolic orbifold. The volume of various of these non-arithmetic orbifolds can be explicitly calculated.
Ethnomedicinal Herbs Used in Oral Health and Hygiene in Coastal Dakshina Kannada

Objectives: The present study was conducted to document the ethnomedicinal practices followed for oral health and diseases by people of Dakshina Kannada (DK) district, and to suggest that the traditional knowledge should be integrated with modern dental care practices to formulate their sustainable utilization. Methods: An ethnomedicinal survey was conducted using specific questionnaire subsequent to personal interview to collect information from traditional healers, local inhabitants, ayurvedic practitioners and botanists on the use of medicinal plants in oral care practices. Results: This study identified 32 species belonging to 29 genera and 20 families, commonly used by the people of DK region to maintain oral health and hygiene and as remedy for dental diseases. Conclusion: Valuable ethnomedicinal practices are fast disappearing from rural population. New generation is ignorant of this traditional knowledge. So measures should be taken to document them and to increase the awareness among youngsters. This study will also be useful for the pharmacologists to isolate the active principles of these plants and incorporate it into the modern healthcare practices for easier and cheaper oral health treatments.
PERCEPCIJA VAŽNOSTI IZVORNOSTI (TRADICIJE) KOD TURISTA I LOKALNOG STANOVNIŠTVA U DUBROVAČKOM PRIMORJU

The smooth flow of products and services on the tourism market is one of the results of the globalization process that has contributed to an increase in the importance of authentic (traditional) products and services as key elements of differentiation and competitiveness. The aim of the paper is to prove the existence of mismatch between the desire of tourists to learn about culture, history, enogastronomy and lifestyle of the local population by consuming authentic (traditional) products and services and their share in tourist offer. With this aim, a survey of tourist and local population perceptions was conducted by means of a questionnaire on a sample of 100 tourists and 100 inhabitants of the Dubrovnik littoral in high season from June to October. Confirmatory factor analysis and nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test were used in the data analysis. Research results point to the discrepancy between the desire of tourists to consume authentic (traditional) products and services and their share in tourist offer. Greater share of authenticity in tourism products and services of Dubrovnik littoral would result in better market recognition, easier differentiation from competition and sustainable tourism development.
Input Trade Liberalisation, Institution and Markup: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO

This paper investigates the effects of input trade liberalisation on firm markups and assesses how institutional environment affects such impacts by using Chinese firm&#8208;level data. To identify the causal effects, we exploit the quasi&#8208;natural experiment of China's WTO accession in 2001 and perform difference&#8208;in&#8208;differences estimation. The results show that input tariff liberalisation leads to a substantial increase in firm markups, and institutional environment significantly strengthens such an impact. We further uncover the underlying mechanisms through which input tariff liberalisation boosts firm markups, and show that both price and cost channels work for the input tariff cut effect on firm markups, of which the latter is much more important. In addition, we also demonstrate that input tariff cut significantly fosters aggregate markup growth, and the reallocation effect is found to be an important channel through which input tariff liberalisation boosts aggregate markup growth.
Relação entre Indicadores de Desempenho de Gestão das Universidades Federais e os Rankings Índice Geral de Cursos e Ranking Universitário Folha

Esta pesquisa analisa a relacao entre os indicadores de gestao propostos pelo Tribunal de Contas da Uniao (TCU) para as Instituicoes Federais de Ensino Superior (IFES) com os rankings Indice Geral de Cursos (IGC) e o Ranking Universitario da Folha (RUF) no periodo entre 2013 a 2017. Os indicadores propostos pelo TCU retratam o desempenho da gestao, o IGC representa a qualidade dos cursos de ensino superior enquanto que o RUF utilizado no estudo classifica e compara a qualidade das universidades brasileiras. Para a analise foram selecionadas cinquenta e duas IFES. O modelo de analise proposto relacionou estes tres grupos de indicadores por meio das tecnicas estatisticas descritivas e analise de regressao com dados em painel. Entre os principais resultados encontrados destaca-se que os indicadores de gestao: custo aluno, o grau de envolvimento com a pos-graduacao e a quantidade de alunos assistidos por professor, sao variaveis explicativas tanto do RUF quanto do IGC.
MANAGERS’ INFLUENCE ON COMPANY CAPABILITIES

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study aims to verify the moderating role of managers’ characteristics, age, and tenure (time in the sector, position, company), in the relation between the realized absorptive capacity (RACAP) and the architectural marketing capabilities (CAM). Originality/value: The present study considers the human element as a factor that affects the relations between the capacities of the company. It contributes theoretically to help understand what can impact the formulation and implementation of marketing strategies and theoretically strengthen the role of the human element. As a practical contribution, it has been shown that it is not enough to seek external knowledge, it is necessary that it is transformed and then used effectively in the design and implementation of marketing strategies. Design/method/approach: Quantitative research, with transverse temporal data collection. This study empirically tested the hypotheses based on a sample of 343 marketing managers from Brazilian manufacturing industries. Data were collected through a survey. Data were processed by means of modeling of structural equations in AMOS software. Findings: The characteristics of managers (age and tenure) moderate the relationship between a part of RACAP (knowledge transformation) and CAM (architectural marketing capability). More experienced managers should be valued because it has been proven that in this sector, they make a difference when it comes to transforming knowledge and using it in their strategies.
The complexity of diversity in reality: Perceptions of urban diversity

Major cities are becoming increasingly diverse, and the different aspects of diversity interact in shaping individual lives and neighbourhoods. However, existing research mainly presents the urban population living with this diversity as one group with the same overall perception of diversity. The purpose of this article is to nuance the concept of diversity through analysing the differences in urban residents’ perceptions of neighbourhood diversity and the factors shaping these perceptions. The article is based on 50 qualitative interviews with residents of Bispebjerg, one of the most diverse neighbourhoods of Copenhagen, Denmark. The overall finding is that living with diversity is a diverse experience. The article identifies five ideal types of residents to demonstrate how perceptions of diversity are being shaped. They all express a positive perception of diversity on an abstract level but voice concerns regarding concrete aspects of diversity. The article identifies key factors shaping these concrete perceptions of diversity: insecurity towards ethnic diversity; social inequality; degree of socialisation to diversity; and physical and social detachment from diversity. The findings point to the importance of acknowledging differences between perceptions of diversity for different groups of residents and of addressing the different concerns of these groups.