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Nuclear energy in Ghana There is only one nuclear reactor in Ghana, the Ghana Research Reactor, located in Accra. The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission has been investigating the use of nuclear power and is a member of the International Nuclear Library Network. The commission is working with the International Atomic Energ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31165657 |
Churn and burn refers to a tactic used by large anti-union businesses with high turnover in order to bust an already-existent union in a given workplace. "Churning" refers to the management practice of filtering new workers based on their support of unionism. In a large business with poorly paid, entry-level workers wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31167834 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States The economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States is challenging to measure, and politically contentious. The scarcity of reliable statistics leaves room for many methods of study, leading to diverse conclusions. One possibility is that foreign wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States Studies have shown that overall in the long run illegal immigration benefits the country in terms of its general production, but introducing many people in the labor market can lead to income distribution that can tend towards domestic workers and immigrant wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States The number peaked at 12.2 million in 2007, following a steady increase that began in 1990. An estimated 5.6 million unauthorized immigrants were from Mexico in 2015 and 2016, down from 6.4 million in 2009. Non-Mexicans numbered 5.7 million, indicating Mexicans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States Based on the Department of Homeland Security estimates in 2009, unauthorized immigrant population living in the United States decreased to 10.8 million in January 2009. On the whole, between 2000 and 2009, the unauthorized immigrant population grew by 27 percen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States A 2007 review of the academic literature by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that "over the past two decades, most efforts to estimate the fiscal impact of immigration in the United States have concluded that, in aggregate and over the long ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States The Social Security and Medicare contributions of illegal immigrants directly support older Americans, as illegal immigrants are not eligible to receive these services, although their children born in the United States are eligible for such benefits. Illegal im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States From tax years 1937 through 2003 the ESF had accumulated about 255 million mismatched wage reports, representing $520 billion in wages and about $75 billion in employment taxes paid into the over $1.5 trillion in the Social Security Trust funds. As of October 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States But economists generally believe that when averaged over the whole economy, the effect is a small net positive. Harvard's George Borjas says the average American's wealth is increased by less than 1 percent because of unauthorized immigration. Economists have d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States However, they can get Medicaid coverage for health emergencies if they are in a category of people otherwise eligible, such as children, pregnant women, families with dependent children, elderly or disabled individuals, and meet other requirements. The cost of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States Moreover, studies have also shown that not providing illegal immigrants with a decent healthcare might actually cost the country in the long-run rather than save expenses. In 2000, researchers compared the perinatal outcomes and costs of illegal women with and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States The effects on overall wage inequality (including natives and immigrants) are larger, reflecting the concentration of immigrants in the tails of the skill distribution and higher residual inequality among immigrants than natives. Even so, immigration accounts f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States Illegal immigrants are not eligible for most public services and live in fear of revealing themselves to government authorities. Households headed by illegal immigrants use less than half the amount of federal services that households headed by documented immig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States This average wage is consistent with the PEW estimate that 49% of illegal immigrants have not graduated from high school. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that people in this salary bracket (the second quintile) pay about 6.8% of their income in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States The report also counted "the cost of benefits paid to the children of those living in the U.S. illegally, even though many of those children by law are citizens." The methodology and conclusions of the 2013 Heritage Foundation study were sharply criticized as f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31186303 |
Jason Fairbourne is a United States business consultant and educator. He is the founder of the Fairbourne Consulting Group, and is a Peery Fellow at the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management. He is an advocate for microfranchising, defined as the systemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31205109 |
Metro 2 format Metro 2 is a data specification created by the Consumer Data Industry Association for credit reporting data furnishers (who are members of the credit bureau with a data furnishing service agreement) to report consumers' credit history information to major credit bureaus electronically and in a standardiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31216734 |
Pension regulation is a legal term encompassing, the set of laws, rules and authoritative standards governing the pension industry, and the procedures needed to enforce them. varies widely from one jurisdiction to another - notably due to the persistence of discrepancies in the degree of autonomy and breadth of authori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31239248 |
Logbook loan A logbook loan is a form of secured lending in the United Kingdom and is the most common modern example of a security bill of sale. Borrowers transfer ownership of their car, van or motorcycle to the logbook lender as security for a loan. While making repayments borrowers keep possession of their vehicle a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31244416 |
Logbook loan Auto Advance Logbook Loans, were one of the first to introduce the use of a Hire Purchase Agreement to provide secured loans in Scotland whilst protecting the rights of borrowers through the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Logbook loans and the Bills of Sale Acts have been subject to much criticism. In 2009, a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31244416 |
Price limit A price limit is an established amount in which a price may increase or decrease in any single trading day from the previous day's settlement price. In financial and commodity markets, prices are only permitted to rise or fall by a certain number of ticks (or by a certain percentage) per trading session. Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31253340 |
List of microcredit lending websites This is an incomplete list of microcredit lending social websites: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31257176 |
Palestine British Business Council The (PBBC) is a British private-sector body designed "to facilitate and promote investment opportunities in Palestine." It is composed of UK and Palestinian businesses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31282720 |
Legal Entity Identifier The (LEI) is unique global identifier of legal entities participating in financial transactions. These can be individuals, companies or government entities that participate in financial transaction. The identifier is used in reporting to financial regulators and all financial companies and funds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31314287 |
Legal Entity Identifier Accordingly, it was impossible to identify the transaction details of individual corporations, identify the counterpart of financial transactions, and calculate the total risk amount. This resulted in difficulties in estimating individual corporation's amount of risk exposure, analyzing risks ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31314287 |
Legal Entity Identifier Characters 5-18 are the unique alphanumeric string assigned to the organisation by the LOU. The final two characters are checksum digits. Even the LEI Code of an entity follows the technical ISO specification, the LEI Code by itself does not provide any valuable information, it is only used to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31314287 |
Legal Entity Identifier GLEIF is responsible for monitoring LEI data quality and integrity of the LEI system. It is also possible to register an LEI through LEI registration agents. LEI registration agents work closely with LOUs to facilitate the LEI registration process and generally offer faster LEI registration serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31314287 |
Forecast by analogy is a forecasting method that assumes that two different kinds of phenomena share the same model of behaviour. For example, one way to predict the sales of a new product is to choose an existing product which "looks like" the new product in terms of the expected demand pattern for sales of the produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31360441 |
Convergence (sustainability science) Convergence in sustainability sciences refers to mechanisms and pathways that lead towards sustainability with a specific focus on 'Equity within biological planetary limits'. These pathways and mechanisms explicitly advocate equity and recognise the need for redistribution of the E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31360712 |
Mean absolute scaled error In statistics, the mean absolute scaled error (MASE) is a measure of the accuracy of forecasts. It is the mean absolute error of the forecast values, divided by the mean absolute error of the in-sample one-step naive forecast. It was proposed in 2005 by statistician Rob J. Hyndman and Profess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31360933 |
Mean absolute scaled error n"), which uses the actual value from the prior period as the forecast: "F" = "Y" For a seasonal time series, the mean absolute scaled error is estimated in a manner similar to the method for non-seasonal time series: formula_8 The main difference with the method for non-seasonal time series,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31360933 |
Avoided burden is an approach used in life-cycle assessment (LCA), especially in the context of allocating environmental burden in the presence of recycling or reuse. When determining the overall environmental impact of a product, the product is given "credit" for the potential recycled material included. For instance,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31362947 |
Safety code (nuclear reactor) In the context of nuclear reactors, a safety code is a computer program used to analyze the safety of a reactor, or to simulate possible accident conditions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31372715 |
Tax rebate discounting is a process in Canada where a tax preparation firm purchases the right to the anticipated tax rebate in exchange for a percentage of the rebate amount. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) rules establish the maximum discounting fee at 15% of the first 300 C$ ($45) plus 5% of any remaining refund. No oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31407578 |
Knowledge assessment methodology The knowledge assessment methodology (KAM) is "an interactive benchmarking tool created by the World Bank's Knowledge for Development Program to help countries identify the challenges and opportunities they face in making the transition to the knowledge-based economy." KAM does so by pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31419238 |
Expectations hypothesis The expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates (whose graphical representation is known as the yield curve) is the proposition that the long-term rate is determined purely by current and future expected short-term rates, in such a way that the expected final value of wealth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31444267 |
Expectations hypothesis The expectation hypothesis states that the current price of an asset is equal to the sum of expected discounted future dividends conditional on the information known now. Mathematically if there are discrete dividend payments formula_2 at times formula_3 and with risk-free rate formula_4 then th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31444267 |
Expectations hypothesis A common reason given for the failure of the expectation hypothesis is that the risk premium is not constant as the expectation hypothesis requires, but is time-varying. However, research by Guidolin and Thornton (2008) suggest otherwise. It is postulated that the expectation hypothesis fails be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31444267 |
Natural gas in China Over the last five years, gas consumption, production, and imports in China have grown dramatically, with two-digit growth. Considering China's immense demand for energy, gas plays a relatively small role in its energy use, with only 5% of total energy in 2012. However, Chinese authorities see natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31451841 |
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation The (PPNF) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established "to teach the public and professionals about foods, lifestyle habits, healing modalities, and environmental practices that can help people attain vibrant health." Founded in 1952, it was first known as the Santa Barb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31452433 |
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation The second set of claims is aligned with the increasingly popular organic food movement, although major food growers and producers consistently affirm the taste and nutritional quality of their food as identical or better than organics. PPNF now houses over 10,000 books and publicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31452433 |
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation When the number of donated cats exceeded the supply of food available, Pottenger began ordering raw meat scraps from a local meat packing plant, including organs, meat, and bone; and fed a separate group of cats from this supply. Within months this separate group appeared in better ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31452433 |
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Regarding the book, Hasselgren in New York Academy of Dentistry's "Annals of dentistry" stated "[t]he focal infection theory, supported by many including Dr. Price, has been attacked, debated, accepted, criticized, agreed upon, etc. but it has not been covered up." Hasselgren noted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31452433 |
Geldkarte GeldKarte () is a stored-value card or electronic cash system used in Germany. It operates as an offline smart card for small payment at things like vending machines and to pay for public transport or parking tickets. The card is pre-paid and funds are loaded onto the card using ATMs or dedicated charging mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31459656 |
Debtocracy ( "Chreokratía") is a 2011 left-wing documentary film by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Chatzistefanou. The documentary examines the causes of the Greek debt crisis in 2010 and advocates for the default of "odious debt". The documentary has been distributed online under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license since 6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31466847 |
Debtocracy The documentary opens with the statements of Greek Prime Ministers, starting with the dictator Georgios Papadopoulos and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and ending with some of the most prominent figures in Greek politics since the metapolitefsi: Andreas Papandre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31466847 |
Debtocracy If the analysis proves all or part of the debt to be odious the people should not have to pay for it and therefore it should be erased, the film argues. The production team of have said that the producers are all those individuals that donated money in order to finance the project. Interviewees include: The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31466847 |
Debtocracy "Kathimerini"'s review also echoed that of "To Vima", saying that the examples of both Ecuador and Argentina are unfortunate as they bear no resemblance to Greece and come in full contrast with the documentary's line of argument. Other Greek media that have criticized the film include Skai TV. Professor of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31466847 |
Food regimes Food regime theory is a broadly Marxist approach to theorising food systems. It was developed in the late 1980s by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael. Food regime analysis is concerned with explaining, and therefore politicising, the strategic role of agriculture in the construction and development of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31487214 |
Food regimes A key problem with the theory is that it does not look at localized issues for individual countries, but rather tries to group all the world into a broad grouping. The seminal texts are as follows: Further, Philip McMichael's more recent article (2009), "A food regime genealogy", provides a comprehensive o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31487214 |
German Taxpayers Federation The () is an association established in 1949 by Karl Bräuer. Its main aims are the reduction of taxation and public spending, as well as the reduction of bureaucracy and public debt. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31506619 |
Dealer equity option A dealer equity option is any equity option listed on a qualified board of exchange, that is bought or granted by an options dealer (any person registered with an appropriate national securities exchange as a market maker or specialist in listed options). The dealer should be registered with the qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31512349 |
E-micro An is a futures contract traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Globex electronic trading platform, that represents an even smaller fraction of the value of the normal futures contracts than the corresponding E-mini. Currently, CME offers one stock market index contract, "S&P CNX Nifty (Nifty 50) Futur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31513537 |
List of world production This is a list of annual world production. (Bold number is a list of countries producing commodity) Total production is 1,868,700 tonnes in 2003. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525546 |
Barcelona Development Agenda The is a statement of development principles formulated as a response to the prevailing Washington Consensus development model. Resulting from the collaboration of economists from both developing and developed countries at the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona, Spain, the outlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525596 |
Barcelona Development Agenda Though no initiatives have been directly undertaken as a result of the Barcelona Development Agenda, the Center for International Relations and Development Studies (CIDOB, Centre d’Investigació de Relacions Internacionals i Desenvolupament) has been working to implement some of the BDA prin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525596 |
Matti Pohjola is a noted economist working on the economics of growth, productivity, technological change, and most notably information and communications technology. He is a professor at the Helsinki School of Economics and is the editor of the "Finnish Economic Journal". is the Deputy Director of the World Institute ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525874 |
Margrabe's formula In mathematical finance, is an option pricing formula applicable to an option to exchange one risky asset for another risky asset at maturity. It was derived by William Margrabe (PhD Chicago) in 1978. Margrabe's paper has been cited by over 2000 subsequent articles. Suppose "S(t)" and "S(t)" are the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31538509 |
Quantum finance is an interdisciplinary research field, applying theories and methods developed by quantum physicists and economists in order to solve problems in finance. It is a branch of econophysics. Finance theory is heavily based on financial instrument pricing such as stock option pricing. Many of the problems f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546299 |
Quantum finance Quantum computers have been shown to outperform classical computers when it comes to simulating quantum mechanics as well as for several other algorithms such as Shor's algorithm for factorization and Grover's algorithm for quantum search, making them an attractive area to research for solving computati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546299 |
Quantum finance Baaquie has published many papers on quantum finance and even written a book that brings many of them together. Core to Baaquie's research and others like Matacz are Feynman's path integrals. Baaquie applies path integrals to several exotic options and presents analytical results comparing his results t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546299 |
Quantum finance Chen published a paper in 2001, where he presents a quantum binomial options pricing model or simply abbreviated as the quantum binomial model. Metaphorically speaking, Chen's quantum binomial options pricing model (referred to hereafter as the quantum binomial model) is to existing quantum finance mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546299 |
Quantum finance Rebentrost showed in 2018 that an algorithm exists for quantum computers capable of pricing financial derivatives with a square root advantage over classical methods. This development marks a shift from using quantum mechanics to gain insight into computational finance, to using quantum systems- quantum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546299 |
Paradox of toil The paradox of toil is the economic hypothesis that total employment will shrink if everybody wants to work more when "the short-term nominal interest rate is zero and there are deflationary pressures and output contraction". When wages are pushed down by the simultaneous efforts of everyone in the labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31575432 |
Paradox of toil Paul Krugman and Eggertson have since proposed that the paradox of toil and the paradox of flexibility mean that wage and price flexibility do not facilitate recovery from recessions during a liquidity trap, but actually exacerbate them. The reasoning behind the paradox of toil, together with the parado... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31575432 |
Vladimir Bazarov Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович База́ров; 1874–1939) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, journalist, philosopher, and economist, born Vladimir Alexandrovich Rudnev. Bazarov is best remembered as a pioneer in the development of economic planning in the Soviet Union. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov In the fall of 1900, Bazarov was instrumental in establishing a political organization called the "Neutral Group of Social-Democrats in Berlin." This organization dedicated itself to helping heal the split between the Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad, publishers of "Rabochee Delo" (The Workers'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov " Also in this period Bazarov joined with his old Tula comrades Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov and Alexander Bogdanov in retranslating and publishing a new Russian-language edition of the three volumes of "Capital" by Karl Marx. This edition of the book gained recognition as the basic Russian translation and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov In 1911, Bazarov was arrested once again and was deported once more, this time a three-year sentence to Astrakhan. In November 1912, Bazarov joined with Bogdanov, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Gorky, and Lenin, writing for a new paper in St. Petersburg called "Pravda." During the years of World War I, Bazarov w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov Together with Groman, Bazarov was influential in developing the idea that a diminishing rate of growth was an earmark of economies such as that of the Soviet Union which were in the process of recovery. Although in retrospect the observation seems obvious, the "theory of the leveling-off curve" espouse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov " In the wake of weak agricultural marketing by the peasantry in 1927 and 1928, Soviet political leaders moved another direction, however, returning to the coercive requisitioning methods first used during the earlier period of War Communism before moving to a radical drive for complete collectivizatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov In 1931 the Menshevik Trial was held charging "Mensheviks" in the state planning apparatus with the "wrecking" of Soviet industry through the setting of artificially low planning targets. Although Bazarov was not in the dock among the public defendants in this 1931 Menshevik Trial, his associate Groman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Vladimir Bazarov " Although excluded from the public trial which besmirched him, Bazarov was tried in secret and sentenced to a term of prison for his alleged wrecking activities. A December 1931 letter from the USSR published in the Menshevik journal "Sotsialisticheskii vestnik" (Socialist Herald) reported that Bazaro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31580211 |
Counter-development is a strategy and world-view advocated by Helena Norberg-Hodge and the Indian organization Ladakh Ecological Development Group (LEDeG). In her book "", Helena Norberg-Hodge entails "traditional" ways of life employed by the people of Ladakh. A broad base of people need to adopt counter-development, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31587074 |
Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement, intrusive, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 |
Bodily integrity 19, the Supreme Court stated:“…the only right of the unborn child as the Constitution now stands which attracts the entitlement to protection and vindication is that enshrined by the amendments in Article 40.3.3 namely, the right to life or, in other words, the right to be born and, possibly, (and this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 |
Bodily integrity In general, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms defends personal liberty and the right not to be interfered with. However, in certain unique circumstances government may have the right to temporarily override the right to physical integrity in order to preserve the life of the person. Such acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 |
Bodily integrity Further the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also requires protection of physical and mental integrity. The Human Rights and Constitutional Rights project, funded by Columbia Law School, has defined four main areas of potential bodily integrity abuse by governments. These are: Righ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 |
Bodily integrity Methods of increasing children's sense of bodily autonomy include: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states the following: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 |
Gainful employment In broad language, gainful employment refers to an employment situation where the employee receives steady work and payment from the employer. In psychology, gainful employment is a positive psychology concept that explores the benefits of work and employment. Second only to personal relationships, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment However, data does not show that people who earn more money are more gainfully employed than those who earn less. 4. A purpose derived from providing a product or service - An individual may derive purpose in life from the work that he or she completes. Many individuals describe their work as a calli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment An environment that respects and appreciates diversity - Racial and ethnic diversity are increasing rapidly in today's workplace. In order to increase diversity, managers may utilize “diversity management” in which they use a variety of management techniques in order to augment the positive outcomes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment According to a study done by Clifton and Harter, the strengths-based approach to gainful employment results in three major steps 1) the identification of talents, 2) the integration of talents into the employee's image and workplace, and 3) tactual behavior change in which the employee begins to view... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment In a study assessing perceived quality of life in individuals with traumatic brain injury, findings indicated that the level of engagement in work activities was significantly related to perceived quality of life, suggesting that gainful employment leads to more favorable appraisals of quality of lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment Additionally, quality of life is in part defined by social utility, of which a large consideration is an individual's ability to make meaningful contributions to society through gainful employment. Job fit and work environment appear to be key components of gainful employment. In an analysis of over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment These findings provide additional support for studies that argue that gainful employment is based less on one's external work environment and more on one's perspective of employment as either a job (focus on financial rewards and necessity), a career (focus on advancement), or a calling (focus on enj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment The United States Social Security Administration uses a slightly differing definition of "Gainful Employment", when evaluating SSI and disability cases, referred to as "Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)". SGA is defined as being able to make more than a set indexed amount of lawful wages per month, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Gainful employment Opponents argue against the Gainful Employment Rule because it only applies to for-profit colleges, even though many graduates of non-profit and public colleges also fail to acquire gainful employment. While unemployment rates continue to be a significant problem in terms of elevated overall percenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31603136 |
Applied unified communications Applied Unified Communications is the application of unified communications (SMS, e-mail, VoIP, Letters, IVR) to solve business problems by helping enterprises to increase profitability and operational efficiencies using targeted and personalised communications with their customers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31619836 |
Economic recovery An economic recovery is the phase of the business cycle following a recession, during which an economy regains and exceeds peak employment and output levels prior to downturn. A recovery period is typically characterized by abnormally high levels of growth in real gross domestic product, employment, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31624317 |
Tax return A tax return is the completion of documentation that calculates an entity’s income earned with the amount of tax payable to the government, government organisations or to potential taxpayers. Specific tax forms are intended to be used by taxpayers, or private entities that are required to report information ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31645613 |
Edenderry Power Station is a large peat-fired power station near Edenderry, in the Republic of Ireland. The station is capable of generating up to of power, making it the second-largest peat-fired power station in the country. It has been owned by Bord na Móna since 2006 and is part of the Powergen section of the Peat ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31655508 |
Circular economy A circular economy (often referred to simply as "circularity") is an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. Circular systems employ reuse, sharing, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing and recycling to create a close-loop system, minimising the use of resource ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy However, it is argued by some that these assumptions are simplistic; that they disregard the complexity of existing systems and their potential trade-offs. For example, the social dimension of sustainability seems to be only marginally addressed in many publications on the circular economy. There are c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy It includes discussion of the role of money and finance as part of the wider debate, and some of its pioneers have called for a revamp of economic performance measurement tools.. points out how modularisation could become a cornerstone to enable circular economy and enhance the sustainability of energy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy Some of the relevant theoretical influences are cradle to cradle, laws of ecology (e.g., ), looped and performance economy (Walter R. Stahel), regenerative design, industrial ecology, biomimicry and blue economy. The circular economy was further modelled by British environmental economists David W. Pea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy The report was published in 1982 as the book "Jobs for Tomorrow: The Potential for Substituting Manpower for Energy". In 1982, Walter Stahel was awarded third prize in the Mitchell Prize competition on sustainable business models with a paper The Product-Life Factor. First prize went to the then US Sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy In line with this, a circular economy can contribute to meeting the COP 21 Paris Agreement. The emissions reduction commitments made by 195 countries at the COP 21 Paris Agreement, are not sufficient to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. To reach the 1.5 °C ambition it is estimated that additional emissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
Circular economy Credited with having coined the expression "Cradle to Cradle" (in contrast with "Cradle to Grave", illustrating our "Resource to Waste" way of functioning), in the late 1970s, Stahel worked on developing a "closed loop" approach to production processes, co-founding the Product-Life Institute in Geneva.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31666505 |
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