The aim of the study is to establish the financing determinants of water and sanitation PPP infrastructure projects in Zimbabwe. In order to achieve the objective, the Tobit regression framework is applied given that the dependent variable, the dollar value of investments in water and sanitation PPP...
Whilst desire to eat was the variable that contributed most to this prediction, a possible limitation is that this measure is based on evaluation of a single bite of the food in question, which may only imperfectly anticipate food reward experienced across the whole meal. Notwithstanding this ...
The paper also considers how experiments have been operationalised, and particularly the problem of the dependent variable in such research (that is, what beneficial outputs can be measured in an experiment). It concludes with a consideration of what we might come to know through future ...
processes, a new definition of co-creation of new knowledge for health interventions is proposed. The analysis revealed the need to address the conceptual ambiguity of the definition of “co-creation of new knowledge”. The proposed new definition may help to resolve the current definitional issues...
An SES variable, household income (negatively) predicted interaction with the police. 4.2. Concordance with the Literature The link between personality measures and anti-social, risky or criminal behaviour is well established. As noted above, impulsivity in childhood and/or adolescence—defined in a ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook AcronymDefinition ERCSEmergency Rocket Communications System ERCSEmergency Response Cleanup Services ERCSEmissions Reduction Currency System(Maia Maia Project; Australia) ...
Data-driven innovations (DDI) have significantly impacted firms’ operations thanks to the massive exploitation of huge data. However, to leverage big
Numerous studies have demonstrated that low, unstable, or contingent self-esteem negatively affects youth development and is linked to adolescent psychopathology. However, most previous studies have applied variable-oriented approaches, and less is known about the natural combination of self-esteem facets...
Authentic learning has been operationalised in the higher education context (e.g. Herrington & Herrington, 2006) but its application has not been well researched in the MOOC context at this point. An important research avenue is to identify and understand the strategies instructors use to make ...
The findings in this study support the writings of Harris (1940), Cattell (1965), and O’Conner and Paunonen (2007) that personality is an important predictor of academic achievement in post-secondary education. Intelligence, when entered as the first variable in the regression equation, account...