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Factors Influencing the Learning Management System (LMS) Success Among Undergraduate Students in Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia
Authors: Fouad Salem Suha , Omer Salem Sharif
Published: July 2016

In the last few years, there has been an increase in the number of e-learning systems being added into the educational processes. One of them is the Learning management system (LMS), an educational program that is based on web technology. The programs in this system provide support to instructors to achieve their pedagogical goals, organize course contents that in turn support students’ learning process. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that have brought success to the learning management system. The study examines the relationship between students’ outcomes (Perceived Usefulness) and information quality, for online learning through system use and user satisfaction. The respondents chosen for this study are undergraduate students from Limkokwing University in Malaysia. The number of respondents selected as sample of this study is based on the number of students in each faculty. The quantitative data are obtained from a survey using questionnaires. The analysis of the available data indicated that all relationships from independent variables to mediating variables and from mediating variables to dependent variable are significant, the most influential path was information quality user satisfaction perceived usefulness.
Maladies of Development in India - Protest against Large Scale Dams: A Case of Hirakud Dam
Authors: Podh Kishor Kumar
Published: July 2016

Development for whom, who get the benefits etc. became principal agenda in the present development discourses. It not limited to the development practitioners, politicians but also among the intellectuals. Major developmental projects which required larger areas of land such as dams projects, unable to provide proper rehabilitation to the effected people. The case of Hirakud Dam stands as an example of malady development in India. Numbers of big dams were constructed in the country, but, even till date no successful case of rehabilitation and resettlement comes to front. The questions deserve the right to ask the government and development practitioners, decision makers of the country. Who get the benefit? For whom you made such projects? If the common people (at least the affected people) should enjoy the benefit from the development project. The paper tends to highlight development scenario of the country with reference to big dams, and tries to draw conclusion from the Hirakud Dam project in Odisha, retain the position of longest earthen dam of world. The milieu of successful, failure of resettlement causes of the rebellion against the dam. The affected people have no got their compensation till today. On the other hand government of Indian planned more numbers of hydro-projects (Dams), industrial set up. Can, new projects escape from the malady?
Factors Influencing Consumer Behavior Towards Online Shopping in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Jawa Hani A. , Chaichi Kamelia
Published: July 2016

This study intends to identify factors that may affect consumer behavior in Saudi Arabia while shopping online. Although Saudi Arabia has the largest and fastest growing ICT in the Middle East and the online shopping activities in Saudi are increasing rapidly, it is still lagging behind the global development. The four factors–website design quality, perceived trust, perceived convenience and advertisements & promotions were selected from the available literature. A survey was conducted and questionnaire that includes 25 questions was distributed randomly to a sample of 107 participants in Dammam city (in the Eastern Province of the kingdom). The collected data was analyzed by using SPSS software. The result indicates one hypothesis has been accepted. The findings of the study are analyzed and discussed further at the end of this paper.
Movement of Female's Rights in the World
Authors: Koch Christopher , Barzegarkouchaksaraei Saeid
Published: July 2016

This paper argues the latest needs articulating females women's rights as human rights is usually effective just by simply misrecognition with the geopolitical circumstance of human rights internationalism plus the nationalisms that are permanent because of it. Disagreeing it is just about the level of universalized buildings of ‘women’ to be a group plus the generalized invocations of oppression by simply ‘global feminism's’ ‘American’ professionals which this kind of discourses of rights become to be effective, this specific document argues which plan along with steps call for handling localised along with transnational specificities which developed gendered inequalities.
Domination of Conservative Traditionalists over the Development of Middle Eastern Countries
Authors: Ramazaniandarzi Ali Akbar , Javadikouchaksaraei Mehrzad
Published: July 2016

Given the special political, cultural, historical, and religious conditions in the Middle East, the conservative elites in these regions have enhanced their commitment to their traditions and have opposed any changes in their societies. The most important feature of this conservative traditionalism is that it does not tolerate uneven economic development. However, this feature is inapplicable to political and social development.
The Status of Married Women’s Nationality in the World
Authors: Marzban Ali
Published: July 2016

Within the eighteenth century a college known as "The Unity System of {Lovers} Nationality" mentioned the theory that women should find the nationality with their husbands after marriage. Additionally, the nationality of men should be enforced on women. However, in the 20th century, a movement identified as feminism surfaced which resulted in the forming of a school called known as "System of Nationality Independence". This college advocated the parting of marriage and nationality and assumed that women's nationality should not change following marriage. These legal schools experienced different manifestations in the positive laws and regulations of different countries and it is sometimes hard to classify them into an individual legal college. The legal systems of countries can be categorized into two  communities: legal systems advocating the imposition of husbands' nationality on wives; legal systems opposing the imposition of husbands' nationality on wives. This paper tries to comprise different systems of relationship between marriage and nationality.
PADRÃO DE ESPECIALIZAÇÃO DO COMÉRCIO INTERNACIONAL DE SÃO PAULO (1999-2014)
Authors: Silva Mygre Lopes da , Franck Alison Geovani Schwingel , Silva Rodrigo Abbade da , Coronel Daniel Arruda
Published: July 2016

Neste trabalho buscou-se analisar o padrão de especialização do comércio internacional do Estado de São Paulo, identificando-se os setores produtivos mais dinâmicos, no período entre 1999 e 2014. Nesse sentido, calcularam-se os indicadores de Vantagem Comparativa Revelada Simétrica (IVCRS), de Comércio Intraindústria (CII), de Concentração Setorial das Exportações (ICS) e Taxa de Cobertura das Importações (TC). Os resultados indicaram que o Estado paulista apresentou uma pauta de exportação diversificada. Com isso, é possível constatar que os setores especializados no comércio internacional são aqueles que apresentam diferenciação de produto, economias de escala e concorrência monopolística, embora se constate a existência de comércio interindústria em vários setores.

Palavras-chave: Exportações. Vantagem comparativa. São Paulo.
TÁTICAS DE VINCULAÇÃO COMO GERADOR DE LEALDADE: UM ESTUDO EM UM SHOPPING CENTER
Authors: Da Silva Anadia Oliveira , Abdalla Márcio Moutinho
Published: July 2016

O objetivo neste trabalho foi analisar a influência de um programa de fidelização de clientes sobre a lealdade, promovido por táticas vinculantes em marketing de relacionamento, pelas dimensões financeiras, estruturais e sociais, na criação de vínculos relacionais com clientes a partir do modelo teórico proposto por Liang e Wang (2008) e referendado por Lopes et al. (2012). O estudo foi conduzido em um shopping center brasileiro, localizado na cidade de Volta Redonda, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A análise foi realizada por meio de uma modelagem de equações estruturais, aplicada sobre uma amostra de 206 clientes premium. Como conclusão, verificou-se que as táticas vinculantes estruturais influenciam de forma significante na confiança, e, de forma semelhante, o estudo corroborou que há relação da confiança com o comprometimento e a lealdade. Os resultados apontaram para a relevância de táticas estruturais em um ambiente de shopping center e para a importância do envolvimento com a empresa para a construção da confiança e, por conseguinte, do comprometimento e lealdade.

Palavras-chave: Relacionamento. Vínculos. Confiança. Comprometimento. Lealdade.
MODELAGEM ESTATÍSTICA COM FOCO NA MOTIVAÇÃO DOS BANCOS QUE SECURITIZARAM NO BRASIL ENTRE 2005 E 2012
Authors: Ferabolli Cristina , Morais Igor Alexandre Clemente
Published: July 2016

Nesta pesquisa teve-se como objetivo analisar os principais fatores que levaram os bancos brasileiros a utilizarem instrumentos de securitização no período de 2005 a 2012. Avaliou-se, ainda, o cenário da crise financeira global de 2007 a 2008 e se esta modificou o padrão da securitização no mercado brasileiro. Os resultados obtidos para uma amostra de 643 observações indicam que a liquidez é o fator determinante na opção pela securitização, seguido pelo capital regulatório. Além disso, o tamanho do banco também apresenta relevância estatística, sinalizando possíveis ganhos de escala nas operações de securitização. Não foram encontradas evidências de utilização da securitização por transferência de risco de crédito e por performance, nem de mudanças no padrão da securitização, no Brasil, no período pré e pós-crise.

Palavras-chave: Securitização. Liquidez. Capital regulatório. Risco de crédito. 
GENDER INEQUALITY IN ACCOUNTING PROFESSION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE GLASS CEILING
Authors: Silva Júlio César , Dal Magro Cristian Baú , Da Silva Marcia Zanievicz
Published: July 2016

Among the studies developed on gender differences in occupations, the theoretical glass ceiling approach has been used internationally to explain the occurrence of barriers that hinder and even prevent the professional growth of women and generate wage inequalities between men and women in the performance of similar functions. Given the above, the study aims to identify gender differences in the accounting profession analyzed from the perspective of the glass ceiling. The research methodology is descriptive, documentary and the approach is quantitative. Data were extracted from the Annual Social Information (RAIS), base year 2013. The investigated population are employees who work in accounting in companies located in southern Brazil. The results indicate that the professions of accounting auditor and accountant are performed, most often by male professionals. It was found that men have higher pay and a predominance of men in the accounting department of larger companies. We conclude that glass ceiling is present in the accounting profession, creating an invisible barrier to women's access to positions of greater evidence of the accounting profession.

Keywords: Glass Ceiling. Gender. Accounting Professional. Inequality. 
Czy wygląd ma znaczenie? Kapitał seksualny a sukces rekrutacyjny w opiniach kobiet i mężczyzn
Authors: Paprzycka Emilia , Orlik Dominika
Published: July 2016

Problematyka podjęta w artykule dotyczy znaczenia wyglądu dla sukcesu podczas rekrutacji do pracy zawodowej. Tekst jest prezentacją wyników badań, zaprojektowanych na podstawie koncepcji kapitału seksualnego autorstwa Catherine Hakim. Zostały zrealizowane w 2015 r. przy użyciu strategii ilościowej z zastosowaniem metody sondażu i ankiety audytoryjnej na celowo dobranej próbie 108 młodych osób, rozpoczynających karierę zawodową. Poszukiwano odpowiedzi na pytania dotyczące wzorców atrakcyjności kobiety i mężczyzny oraz znaczenia kapitału seksualnego dla efektów rekrutacji. Odpowiedzi badanych analizowano z uwzględnieniem kategorii płci i doświadczeń na rynku pracy. Z badań wynika, że zarówno kobiety, jak i mężczyźni uważają, że kapitał seksualny ma znaczenie w procesie rekrutacji. Kobiety częściej niż mężczyźni wskazywały na wpływ wyglądu na efekty rekrutacji. Kobiety zatrudnione częściej niż niepracujące twierdziły, że atrakcyjny wygląd ma znaczenie dla uzyskania zatrudnienia.
Współczesny ideał męskiego ciała – wybrane aspekty problematyki
Authors: Arcimowicz Krzysztof
Published: July 2016

Celem artykułu jest przeanalizowanie źródeł i uwarunkowań współczesnego ideału męskiego ciała (sylwetki mezomorficznej) oraz wpływu, jaki może wywierać na zachowania i samoocenę mężczyzn. Analiza została przeprowadzona głównie w odwołaniu do koncepcji teoretycznych takich autorów, jak: Jean Baudrillard (koncepcja społeczeństwa konsumpcyjnego), Michel Foucault (koncepcja wiedzy/władzy), Raewyn Connell (teoria męskości hegemonicznej i koncepcja upłciowienia ciała), Erving Goffman (koncepcja hiperrytualizacji w przekazach medialnych). Podejmuję analizę teoretyczną ciała, ale artykuł zawiera także omówienie wyników różnych badań empirycznych, które wskazują, że rozpowszechniony w kulturze współczesnej kanon męskiego piękna może przyczyniać się do wzrostu liczby mężczyzn modyfikujących swoje ciała zgodnie z dominującym wzorcem. Formułuję tezę, że wizerunek ciała mezomorficznego jest pochodną społeczeństwa konsumpcyjnego, ale także przyczynia się do utrwalania istniejącej hierarchii płci.
Poziom, motywy utrzymywania oraz funkcje rezerw walutowych krajów rozwiniętych. Analiza ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Europejskiego Systemu Banków Centralnych
Authors: Bogołębska Joanna
Published: July 2016

Artykuł koncentruje się na analizie motywów posiadania, poziomu oraz sposobów wykorzystania rezerw walutowych w krajach rozwiniętych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem dualnej struktury rezerw w ramach Unii Gospodarczej i Walutowej (UGiW). Rezerwy walutowe krajów rozwiniętych wykazywały w ostatnich latach tendencję wzrostową. Jednakże w przypadku UGiW wzrost ten nie wynikał z intencjonalnych działań banku centralnego (jak w spektakularnych przykładach Japonii i Szwajcarii), lecz z pozytywnych efektów kursowych i stopy zwrotu.
Ryzyko rynkowe akcji spółek notowanych na giełdach w strefie euro
Authors: Feder-Sempach Ewa
Published: July 2016

Artykuł opisuje zagadnienie ryzyka rynkowego akcji spółek notowanych na giełdach w strefie euro. Głównym celem artykułu jest prezentacja badań pokazujących zmiany w procesie inwestowania po wprowadzeniu waluty euro oraz wskazanie poziomu ryzyka systematycznego, rynkowego, niepodlegającego dywersyfikacji dla głównych spółek notowanych na giełdach strefy euro w okresie 2010–2013 z wykorzystaniem narzędzi nowoczesnej teorii portfelowej.Przeprowadzone badanie polegało na podzieleniu akcji europejskich blue chipów z indeksu EURO STOXX 50, na agresywne i defensywne w oparciu o oszacowanie parametru beta na podstawie modelu jednoindeksowego Sharpe’a. Wyniki badania wskazały, że 12 analizowanych akcji to akcje spółek defensywnych, czyli uznawanych za bezpieczne, zaś akcje 10 spółek można uznać za agresywne, czyli wybierane przez inwestorów ze skłonnością do ryzyka.
Growth of India's Equity Derivatives Market: An analytical study (2000-2015)
Authors: Dhanaiah Gangineni , Prasad Dr. R. Sivaram
Published: July 2016

This paper explores the exponential growth of equity derivatives market in India. Equity F&O segment on the nation's stock exchanges recorded a turnover 15 times of the cash market in 2014-15.The total turnover in equity derivatives market rose by 59.7 % when compared to 2013-14. This paper traces the growth and present status of India's equity derivatives market. It further attempts to infer reasons for this phenomenal growth from extant literature and secondary data sources.
Contribution of the Nurses’ Health Study to the Epidemiology of Cataract, Age-Related Macular Degeneration, and Glaucoma
Authors: Kang Jae H. , Wu Juan , Cho Eunyoung , Ogata Soshiro , Jacques Paul , Taylor Allen , Chiu Chung-Jung , Wiggs Janey L. , Seddon Johanna M. , Hankinson Susan E. , Schaumberg Debra A. , Pasquale Louis R.
Published: July 2016

Objectives. To review the contribution of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) to understanding the genetic and lifestyle factors that influence the risk of cataract, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma.

Methods. We performed a narrative review of the publications of the NHS between 1976 and 2016.

Results. The NHS has helped to elucidate the roles of genetics, lifestyle factors (e.g., cigarette smoking associated with cataract extraction and age-related macular degeneration), medical conditions (e.g., diabetes associated with cataract extraction and glaucoma), and dietary factors (e.g., greater carotenoid intake and lower glycemic diet associated with lower risk of age-related macular degeneration) in the etiology of degree and progression of lens opacities, cataract extraction, age-related macular degeneration, primary open-angle glaucoma, and exfoliation glaucoma.

Conclusions. The findings from the NHS, combined with those of other studies, have provided compelling evidence to support public health recommendations for helping to prevent age-related eye diseases: abstinence from cigarette smoking, maintenance of healthy weight and diabetes prevention, and a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
The Impact of the Nurses’ Health Study on Population Health: Prevention, Translation, and Control
Authors: Colditz Graham A. , Philpott Sydney E. , Hankinson Susan E.
Published: July 2016

Objectives. To summarize the overall impact of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) over the past 40 years on the health of populations through its contributions on prevention, translation, and control.

Methods. We performed a narrative review of the findings of the NHS, NHS II, and NHS3 between 1976 and 2016.

Results. The NHS has generated significant findings about the associations between (1) smoking and type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, colorectal and pancreatic cancer, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, and eye diseases; (2) physical activity and cardiovascular diseases, breast cancer, psoriasis, and neurodegeneration; (3) obesity and cardiovascular diseases, numerous cancer sites, psoriasis, multiple sclerosis, kidney stones, and eye diseases; (4) oral contraceptives and cardiovascular disease, melanoma, and breast, colorectal, and ovarian cancer; (5) hormone therapy and cardiovascular diseases, breast and endometrial cancer, and neurodegeneration; (6) endogenous hormones and breast cancer; (7) dietary factors and type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, breast and pancreatic cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, neurodegeneration, multiple sclerosis, kidney stones, and eye diseases; and (8) sleep and shift work and chronic diseases.

Conclusions. The NHS findings have influenced public health policy and practice both locally and globally to improve women’s health.
Genomics, Telomere Length, Epigenetics, and Metabolomics in the Nurses’ Health Studies
Authors: Townsend Mary K. , Aschard Hugues , De Vivo Immaculata , Michels Karin B. , Kraft Peter
Published: July 2016

Objectives. To review the contribution of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and NHS II to genomics, epigenetics, and metabolomics research.

Methods. We performed a narrative review of the publications of the NHS and NHS II between 1990 and 2016 based on biospecimens, including blood and tumor tissue, collected from participants.

Results. The NHS has contributed to the discovery of genetic loci influencing more than 45 complex human phenotypes, including cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, reproductive characteristics, and anthropometric traits. The combination of genomewide genotype data with extensive exposure and lifestyle data has enabled the evaluation of gene–environment interactions. Furthermore, data suggest that longer telomere length increases risk of cancers not related to smoking, and that modifiable factors (e.g., diet) may have an impact on telomere length. “Omics” research in the NHS continues to expand, with epigenetics and metabolomics becoming greater areas of focus.

Conclusions. The combination of prospective biomarker data and broad exposure information has enabled the NHS to participate in a variety of “omics” research, contributing to understanding of the epidemiology and biology of multiple complex diseases.
Diet Assessment Methods in the Nurses' Health Studies and Contribution to Evidence-Based Nutritional Policies and Guidelines
Authors: Hu Frank B. , Satija Ambika , Rimm Eric B. , Spiegelman Donna , Sampson Laura , Rosner Bernard , Camargo Carlos A. , Stampfer Meir , Willett Walter C.
Published: July 2016

Objectives. To review the contribution of the Nurses’ Health Studies (NHSs) to diet assessment methods and evidence-based nutritional policies and guidelines.

Methods. We performed a narrative review of the publications of the NHS and NHS II between 1976 and 2016.

Results. Through periodic assessment of diet by validated dietary questionnaires over 40 years, the NHSs have identified dietary determinants of diseases such as breast and other cancers; obesity; type 2 diabetes; cardiovascular, respiratory, and eye diseases; and neurodegenerative and mental health disorders. Nutritional biomarkers were assessed using blood, urine, and toenail samples. Robust findings, from the NHSs, together with evidence from other large cohorts and randomized dietary intervention trials, have contributed to the evidence base for developing dietary guidelines and nutritional policies to reduce intakes of trans fat, saturated fat, sugar-sweetened beverages, red and processed meats, and refined carbohydrates while promoting higher intake of healthy fats and carbohydrates and overall healthful dietary patterns.

Conclusions. The long-term, periodically collected dietary data in the NHSs, with documented reliability and validity, have contributed extensively to our understanding of the dietary determinants of various diseases, informing dietary guidelines and shaping nutritional policy.
A modeling study of the influences of Yangtze River and local catchment on the development of floods in Poyang Lake, China
Authors: Li Xianghu , Yao Jing , Li Yunliang , Zhang Qi , Xu Chong-Yu
Published: July 2016

Poyang Lake, one of the most frequently flooded regions in China, connects with the Yangtze River and the five sub-tributaries in the local catchment. The lake's hydrological regime is complicated by a complex hydraulic connection and strong river–lake interaction, especially for the extreme hydrological regime. This study analyzes the relationships between the lake level changes and the flow regimes of Yangtze River and local catchment during the flood season and employs a physically based hydrodynamic model to quantify their relative contributions to the development of floods. The study found that the large catchment runoff and Yangtze River discharge were both significant contributors to flood development but that their contributions were unevenly distributed in time and space. The local catchment imposed more influence during the period of April–May and at the middle parts of the lake, and its influence decreased toward the north and south; in contrast, the most remarkable lake level changes were observed in July–August and at the northern lake for the Yangtze River cases, and these changes reduced from north to south. Moreover, Yangtze River imposed far stronger influences on the lake level changes than the catchment runoff and dominated the duration of floods to a great extent.
Flood prevention dams for arid regions at a micro-scale sub-catchment, case study: Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Authors: Abushandi Eyad
Published: July 2016

Unexpected flash flooding is one of the periodic hydrological problems affecting the city of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. The region has high potential for floods as it suffers high rainfall intensity in a short time and also has high urbanization rates and topographic complexity. Constructing flood prevention dams is one option to solve this problem. A cost-effective design requires a detailed feasibility study and analysis for the selection of suitable sites. The aim of this study was to develop a method for selecting a suitable site for flood protection dams in the Abu Saba'a district, the most affected part of the city of Tabuk during the flash flood in January 2013. Spatial analysis was applied using Landsat Thematic Mapper images and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission digital elevation model to select a site in the Abu Saba'a area. A simple model using ArcGIS was built including all suggested parameters. The results showed the best site for a dam was 2 km distance backfrom the area, where all parameter values matched. The results showed that the dynamic properties of land cover can affect site selection. It is therefore suggested that more field and hydrological data should be gathered for greater accuracy.
Editorial
Authors: Díaz Benito César Orlando
Published: July 2016

Computación de alto desempeño para Ciencias biológicas

En 2006, con el liderazgo académico, Colombia le apostó a nuevas oportunidades para su desarrollo en computación de alto desempeño. Junto con el Dr. Jorge Zuluaga de la Universidad de Antioquia y el ingeniero Álvaro Ospina de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín, presentamos la primera iniciativa en Colombia para formar una infraestructura de computación en malla entre varias universidades utilizando la Red Nacional de Tecnología Avanzada RENATA. Luego de socializar este trabajo entre varias instituciones de educación superior, se concretó una Fuerza de Trabajo para formar la iniciativa de Grid Nacional, Grid Colombia. Esta se basó en aquellas iniciativas que estaban en pleno surgimiento en diferentes países y su objetivo principal era formar una comunidad con los investigadores en el área de computación de alto desempeño.
Establecimiento in vitro de protocormos de Prosthechea sp. bajo diferentes concentraciones de ácido naftalenacético
Authors: Gil Clavijo Arlette Ivone , Contreras Pico Diego Fernando , Gutiérrez Rojas Luis Carlos
Published: July 2016

Prosthechea sp. es una orquídea silvestre apetecida por el color y forma de sus flores, que está desapareciendo paulatinamente en el municipio de Fusagasugá (Cundinamarca, Colombia) a causa de la deforestación y extracción por parte de la población presente en la zona rural. Se probó el efecto de cuatro concentraciones (0; 1,5; 3 y 4 mg/l-1) de ácido naftalenacético (ANA) sobre el desarrollo de protocormos de Prosthechea sp. El cultivo se llevó a cabo bajo condiciones in vitro durante 42 semanas, de manera asimbiótica. El medio de enraizamiento suplementado con 1,5 mg/l-1 de ANA tuvo un efecto nulo sobre la formación de raíces, sin embargo, se presentó proliferación de protocormos por gemación adventicia en un 80 %. Las concentraciones de 3 y 4 mg/l-1 de ANA obtuvieron desarrollos de plántulas en 70 y 65 % respectivamente, al presentar abundantes raíces gruesas y pelos radicales. Se observó la respuesta triple en los tratamientos con mayor concentración de ANA debido a la síntesis de etileno, afectando el geotropismo de la raíz. Esta investigación servirá como base para futuros proyectos de multiplicación y conservación, contribuyendo con la preservación de la flora silvestre y los recursos genéticos con gran potencial ecológico y económico como lo son las orquídeas.
El juego de rol: aportes de la educación universitaria a la cultura de la paz
Authors: Palomeque-Forero Liliam
Published: July 2016

El objetivo principal del presente trabajo fue analizar la aceptación de un juego de rol diseñado como estrategia de aula para discutir un tema sociocientífico en un curso universitario de química general. Los estudiantes participaron en un juego con cinco roles asignados aleatoriamente; durante el ejercicio, debieron asumir diferentes posiciones y puntos de vista y exponer sus ideas sobre el tema: “cultivos transgénicos”. La aceptación de la actividad se evaluó con una encuesta en línea que incluyó escogencia múltiple y preguntas abiertas. Los participantes acogieron positivamente la estrategia de aula y descubrieron por sí mismos habilidades personales necesarias para afrontar conversaciones en las que surgen diversas explicaciones, justificaciones y opiniones, que pueden resultar contrarias a las propias. Este tipo de ejercicios puede ser de gran utilidad como parte del proceso de formación en el ámbito universitario, a propósito de la actual necesidad y pertinencia de una cultura basada en el diálogo y la aceptación de la diversidad de pensamiento.
Editorial
Authors: Kalmanovitz Salomón
Published: July 2016

Es un privilegio contar con la participación del historiador John Komlos en este cuarto número de nuestra revista. Él nos presenta la grave problemática que enfrenta el capitalismo global, recurriendo a la categoría que desarrollara Joseph Schumpeter para describir los avances de la tecnología en el capitalismo: la creación destructiva. Así como el capitalismo iba destruyendo formas de producción y vida pretéritas, daba lugar a nuevos procesos y organizaciones de la sociedad y el trabajo. Mientras las grandes transformaciones de principios del siglo XX multiplicaron las fuerzas productivas y el empleo productivo, las nuevas tecnologías tienden a destruir más empleo del que crean, ahora afectando los servicios también y reduciendo el costo de las inversiones de capital. A esto se le suma la tendencia a la generación de un exceso de ahorro, reflejo de la concentración del ingreso en el decil de los más ricos y a la enorme rentabilidad de las empresas tecnológicas a las que les sobra el efectivo y no requieren del ahorro de los demás para ampliar sus operaciones. La consecuencia es un sostenido estancamiento económico cuyo primer paciente fue Japón en los años noventa, seguido por Europa y con Estados Unidos un poco mejor pero tampoco lejos de ellos. El dominio de la derecha en Europa y Estados Unidos ha reducido la tributación e impedido la aplicación del gasto público para compensar los faltantes de demanda agregada.
Has Schumpeterian Creative Destruction become more destructive?
Authors: Komlos John
Published: July 2016

Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social and economic cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on GDP is hardly acknowledged, with the notable exception of Witt (1996). Admittedly, during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions the magnitude of the destructive component of innovation was no doubt small compared to the net value added to employment or GDP.

However, we conjecture that recently the new technologies are often creating products which are close substitutes for the ones they replace whose value depreciates substantially in the process of destruction. Consequently, the contribution of recent innovations to GDP is likely upwardly biased. This note calls for further research in innovation economics in order to measure and decompose the effects of innovations into their creative and destructive portions in order to provide improved estimates of their contribution to GDP or to employment.
El problema del crecimiento económico en la Europa moderna: del eurocentrismo al asiacentrismo y policentrismo
Authors: Justiniano María Fernanda
Published: July 2016

La historiografía de los últimos treinta años ha modificado sustancialmente los conocimientos sobre la historia económica de los tiempos modernos. Los enfoques basados en la “excepcionalidad” del proceso histórico europeo, o el “milagro” económico, o “la vía única de la civilización occidental”, vienen siendo confrontados.

Este artículo pretende dar cuenta del estado actual de las principales discusiones, a partir de identificar las principales contribuciones de los historiadores económicos que revierten los grandes constructos historiográficos establecidos por la historia económica de los siglos XIX y XX sobre el crecimiento económico durante la Edad Moderna.
Review: Variants: The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, Vol. 10 (2013)
Authors: Selleri Andrea
Published: July 2016

A review of Variants 10 (2013).
Writers' Rooms: Theories of Contemporary Authorship in Portraits of Creative Spaces
Authors: Battershill Claire
Published: July 2016

This article analyzes two series of photographs and essays on writers’ rooms published in England and Canada in 2007 and 2008. The Guardian’s Writers Rooms series, with photographs by Eamon McCabe, ran in 2007. In the summer of 2008, The Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival began to post its own version of The Guardian column on its website by displaying, each week leading up to the Festival in September, a different writer’s “writing space” and an accompanying paragraph. I argue that these images of writers’ rooms, which suggest a cultural fascination with authors’ private compositional practices and materials, reveal a great deal about theoretical constructions of authorship implicit in contemporary literary culture. Far from possessing the museum quality of dead authors’ spaces, rooms that are still being used, incorporating new forms of writing technology, and having drafts of manuscripts scattered around them, can offer insight into such well-worn and ineffable areas of speculation as inspiration, singular authorial genius, and literary productivity.
Review: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism, Ed. Helen Southworth (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010)
Authors: Caldwell Caitlyn Tierney
Published: July 2016

A review of Helen Southworth (Editor), Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the Networks of Modernism. ix + 256 pp., notes, appendix, index. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. £75.
“As Fully Incomprehensible as the Northern Lights”: Literary Identities in The Adventures of an Author
Authors: Ladd Heather
Published: July 2016

This essay considers an anonymously-written and understudied novel, The Adventures of an Author (1767), as self-consciously reflecting the complexities and multiplicities of professional authorship in the mid-eighteenth century. Containing a vividly-realized fictive print society, this two-volume work revolves around the exploits of a writer-protagonist named Jack Atall who confusedly constructs his own literary autobiography. Investigating The Adventures of an Author as a comic negotiation of developing conceptions of authorship and the book trade, the novel is read as ironically underlining how discussions like Young’s Conjectures on Original Composition and Ralph’s Case of Authors fall short in defining and defending the professional author. It can be argued that Adventures represents the period’s conceptions of authorship as unstable, depicting the chaotic inclusivity of the Republic of Letters and the inability of authorial polemics to contain and control the operations of the literary marketplace.
Writer by Trade: James Ralph’s Claims to Authorship
Authors: Mari William Thomas
Published: July 2016

To the enterprising journalists of early eighteenth-century Great Britain, the refined status of “author” remained elusive. Journalism itself was a nascent occupation formed in the processes of cultural legitimatization, commercialization, and politicization of authorship. In London, James Ralph, an American expatriate and political writer, emerged as a spokesman for journalism. In his Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, a short treatise published in 1758, Ralph argued that “professional” authors included journalists and other non-patroned writers. They deserved respect as an occupational group, and a special role in society. Ralph equated and extended the privileged notions of authorship and the role of the author — essentially, respectability and some limited independence from political and financial pressures — to his fellow journalists. His Case is worth revisiting because it shows how literary culture was being challenged in his era, extended and subverted as it was by his fellow journalists and their more transitory creations.
Publishing at "the request of friends": Alexander Ross and James Beattie’s Authorial Networks in Eighteenth-Century Aberdeen
Authors: Knezevich Ruth
Published: July 2016

Authorship in eighteenth-century Aberdeen often functioned differently than in London and Edinburgh. The Aberdeen model of authorship relied heavily on an intricate network of booksellers, patrons, readers, and critics involved in preparing a text to be consumed by the reading public; yet the prevailing narrative of the author as rising to “inspired genius” disallows for this network. The authorial career of poet Alexander Ross and his friend/mentorship with philosopher James Beattie offers a useful case study of the Aberdeen model—especially when approached through a lens of book history to consider the material practices surrounding the production of a literary work. Both Ross’s career in particular and eighteenth-century Aberdeen offer ways to historicize the concept of the “inspired genius” emerging at the end of the eighteenth century. Therefore, addressing the authorial careers of Ross and Beattie opens up new avenues for discussion, both of these poets in particular and of discourses of authorial practices in general.
Review of David Abrahamson and Marcia R. Prior-Miller (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form (2015)
Authors: Koffeman Maaike
Published: July 2016

Review of David Abrahamson and Marcia R. Prior-Miller (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form (New York: Routledge, 2015). 650 pp. ISBN 978-1138854161.
Outward direct investment versus technology licensing: an SME perspective
Authors: Szalavetz Andrea
Published: July 2016

Based on the example of the evolution and internationalization of a Hungarian wastewater treatment company, this paper investigates various theoretical and strategic management issues. As for thetheoretical part, Hungary’s outward direct investment performance is analyzed departing from the thesis that Hungary’s present seemingly favorable OFDI performance is just a statistical artifact. It isonly organic development, based on local entrepreneurs’ capital export that can substantiate Hungary’s present OFDI position. The strategic management issues analyzed in the paper include the sequencing of internationalization; the pitfalls related to growth; modes of foreign market entry; and the choice between FDI-based internal exploitation of technological knowledge and external technology exploitation in the form of technology licensing.

JEL codes: F23, L24, L26, O16, O33, Q57
Növekvő állami szerepvállalás a világgazdaságban: szuverén vagyonalapok
Authors: Kovacs Eniko Agnes
Published: July 2016

A korábban passzív pénzügyi befektetőkként tevékenykedő szuverén vagyonalapok manapság a tőkepiacok egyre aktívabb résztvevői. E tanulmány átfogó képet kíván nyújtani ezekről a nemzetközi gazdasági rendszerben egyre jelentősebbé váló szereplőkről. Áttekinti kialakulásukat, céljaikat és a térnyerésükben szerepet játszó főbb tényezőket, végül pedig bemutatja befektetési tevékenységüket.

JEL kód: E58, F21, F30, G15
Az emberierőforrás-menedzselés magyarországi változásai
Authors: Karoliny Martonne , Farkas Ferenc , Poor Jozsef
Published: July 2016

A rendszerváltás óta Magyarországon a menedzsment más területeivel együtt az emberi erőforrások menedzselése is lényeges átalakuláson ment keresztül – és sok tekintetben ma is a folyamatos változásokterepe. A tanulmány, miközben az emberierőforrás-menedzsment mai magyar sajátosságait és annak változásait igyekszik megragadni, azok megítélése során összehasonlításra – az azonosságok és különbözőségek feltárására – törekszik két, a Cranet-felmérés által biztosított empirikus adatok segítségével. Ezek alapján bemutatjuk, hogy az emberi erőforrások menedzselésének magyar jellemzői és gyakorlata milyen területeken és milyen mértékben hasonlít a kutatási hálózatban résztvevő 32 országban, illetve ezenbelül a kelet-közép-európai régióba tartozó 6 országban azonosított sajátosságokhoz.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: J24, M12 és M54
A magyar cafetériarendszer sajátosságai az adójogi változások tükrében
Authors: Törö Emese
Published: July 2016

A tanulmány a választható béren kívüli juttatások rendszerével, funkcióival és azok magyar adóügyi szabályozásával foglalkozik. Elsőként a cafetéria alkalmazásának feltételeivel illetve annak előnyeivel foglalkozunk. Ezután a különbözőképpen csoportosított juttatások szablyozását, kiváltképp az adózással kapcsolatos változásokat elemezzük.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: J32, K34
Két régió klaszteralapítási kezdeményezéseinek összehasonlítása a 2008-as regionális klaszterpályázatokon keresztül
Authors: Pecze Mate
Published: July 2016

A magyar kormányzat elindította kezdeményezését a vállalkozói együttműködések új, klasztereken keresztüli támogatására, bár még nem biztos, hogy a gazdaság és a helyi szerelők felkészültek lennénekerre a módszerre. Csakúgy, mint más régiókban, Észak-Magyarországon és az Észak-Alföldön is új klaszterek indultak, hogy elnyerjék a támogatást. Az együttműködésük minősége, a benyújtott pályázatokszáma, valamint a nyertes projektek köre/aránya megmutatja, hogy a klaszterelmélet és a nyugati gyakorlat alkalmazása az itthoni környezetben mit eredményez, a magyar vállalatok tudnak-e, akarnak-eklaszterekben dolgoni. Ezen cikkben a régiók gazdasági szereplőinek a hajlandóságát/aktivitását vizsgálom a 2008-as régiós klaszterkiírásokban. Észak-Magyarország és Észak-Alföld hasonló, de nem teljesen egyező eredménnyel rendelkezik.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: R58, L2
„Egyszerre időtlen és égetően aktuális”
Authors: Bekker Zsuzsa
Published: July 2016

2010. december 3-án, 86 éves korában elhunyt Bródy András, a második világháború utáni magyar közgazdász-generáció egyik legkiemelkedőbb képviselője, talán legszínesebb egyénisége. Magas szintű elméleti kulturáltság, a korszerű elemzési eszközökben való jártasság jellemezte. Az inputoutput modellezés nemzetközileg elismert kutatója, aki Leontief munkatársaként is dolgozott. Több évtizedig foglalkozott a marxi teória matematikai megfogalmazásával. A termodinamika közgazdasági alkalmazásának kísérletével is úttörő kutatást végzett. Sziporkázó érvelése, várt és váratlan megnyilvánulásai szakmánk legendáriumának és anekdotakincsének értékes, sokat idézett és idézendő részeivé váltak. Szerencsénkre, Bródy András 1995 és 2005 között részt vett tanszékünk, a Corvinus Egyetem Elmélettörténet tanszékének oktató- és kutatómunkájában, tanárokat és diákokat egyaránt inspirálva jelenlétével. Annak tudatában, hogy szellemét elsősorban írásainak olvasása, a vele folytatott beszélgetések felidézése révén lehet rekonstruálni, összeállításunk három egymást kiegészítő mozzanatot tartalmaz. Rövid válogatást közlünk olyan cikkekből, melyeket kimondottan tanszékünk oktatási céljaira írt, felidézve tudósi érdeklődésének legfontosabb elemeit; részletek olvashatók abból az interjúból, melyet díszdoktorrá avatása alkalmából készítettünk a közgazdasági egyetemen; végül főbb műveinek bibliográfiáját adjuk közre.

JEL: A11, B23, B24, B32
Chile és a világgazdasági válság
Authors: Pöstényi Andrea
Published: July 2016

A 2007–2009-es világgazdasági válság egy öt esztendőn át tartó kivételes gazdasági fellendülésnek vetett véget Chile és Latin-Amerika többi országa számára. A jelenlegi válság szempontjából a fellendülés legnagyobb gazdasági haszna a térség országainak fundamentumaiban történt javulás, mely nagymértékben csökkentette ezen országok sebezhetőségét a külső gazdasági sokkokra. Ebből a feltételezésből kiindulva 2008 elején több közgazdász is osztotta azt a véleményt, miszerint „this time is different”, azaz ezúttal másképp alakul a kontinens sorsa a jelenlegi válságban, hiszen egészen addig a világméretű visszaesés alig érintette a régió gazdasági mutatóit. 2008 szeptembere után viszont nyilvánvalóvá vált, hogy a kontinens gazdasága továbbra is sebezhető, a válság több fertőzési csatornán keresztül szivárgott a reálgazdaságba, aminek köszönhetően a recesszió két legnagyobb áldozata Latin-Amerika és Közép- és Kelet-Európa lett, mind az egy főre eső GDP-ben mutatkozó visszaesés, mind pedig a gazdasági növekedés lassulása tekintetében. Chile viszont a strukturális reformjainak köszönhetően kisebb mértékű visszaesést tapasztalt, és a válság lecsengésével hamarabb tért vissza korábbi növekedésipályájára, mint a kontinens többi gazdasága.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: O54, H12, O20
A bizalom mint költségcsökkentő tényező
Authors: Hodosi Anett
Published: July 2016

Jelen tanulmányban az egyik legtöbbet kutatott informális intézmény, a bizalom direkt és indirekt költségcsökkentő hatását vizsgáljuk. A bizalom mikroszintű bevezetését makroszintű megközelítés követi,mely a bizalom tranzakciós költségeken keresztüli közvetlen és a jogrendszeren keresztül történő közvetett, tovagyűrűző költségcsökkentő hatására kíván rávilágítani. Utóbbi részeként 25 európai uniós ország empirikus vizsgálata során a bizalom és az adminisztratív teher okozta költségek – mint a jogrendszer által generált költségek – közötti összefüggéseket elemezzük. A közgazdasági irodalom igazolja egyrészt, hogy a bizalom csökkenti a tranzakciós költségeket, másrészt, hogy a jogrendszer hatékonysága hozzájárul a tranzakciós költségek csökkenéséhez. Feltevésünk szerint a bizalom növekedése javítja a jogrendszer hatékonyságát, és ezen keresztül is csökkenti a tranzakciós költségeket. Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: D02, E02
Concept of Innovative Fiscal Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Authors: Kovacs Oliver
Published: July 2016

This contribution addresses the question of what are the main constituents of an innovative fiscal policy in the context of sustainability. We apply the concept of sustaining and disruptive innovation to fiscal policy. On the one hand, innovative fiscal policy is able to be sustaining whereby public finance will incrementally improve without leaving its decisive structure. On the other hand, innovative fiscal policy should be disruptive as well in the context of long term sustainability, whereby the structure of public finances can be profoundly restructured as a reaction to future challenges. By using the Finnish recovery in the early 1990s, we can refine our argument about the use and necessity of the mixture of fiscal rules and independent institutions in favour of fiscal sustainability. We also shed light on the key sources of the expansionary consolidation that emerged in the aftermath of the fiscal adjustment in the early 1990s. We emphasise that innovative fiscal policy with a mixture of legislated fiscal rules and independent fiscal anchor is more likely to be associated with sustainability if the economy has weaker growth potential which does not provide enough social trust towards the consolidation efforts of the government.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification: E61, E62, Q01
Szűkösség- és bizonytalanságcsökkentés intézmények révén
Authors: Csorba László
Published: July 2016

Az intézmények nem egyformán képesek a szükösséget és a bizonytalanságot csökkenteni. Amennyiben csoportosításukat e nézőpontból hajtjuk végre, újszerű elemzési eszközt kapunk a múltbeli, meglévő, illetve jövőbeni intézmények tanulmányozásához. A folyamatosan megjelenő szűkösséget és bizonytalanságot csak az egyéni felelősség további növekedésével lehet kezelni. Mindez azonban a közösség szétesésének veszélyét is megnöveli. A magyar nyugdíjrendszer mintegy évszázados történektének áttekintésével bemutatásra kerül ezen osztályozási mód gyakorlati alkalmazhatósága.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kód: A11, B52, G18, G23