Pub Date : 2020-11-27DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20200604.12
Syed Zia Hussain Shah
Presently information technology is attractive center step the whole world into a global village with a global economy, which increasingly dependent on the innovative management and sharing of information technology. The objective of this study was to find out the stage of information technology utilization in the library services of the university libraries in Lahore. It is significant that to point out focus of this study was the central libraries of the universities in Lahore. To appreciate this objective, the researcher went through a multiple phase research process. In which the first phase, different sources of literature were reviewed to understand the different aspects of access and use of information technology in the university libraries and the instrument of questionnaire was used in the light of the reviewed literature. In the second phase, data were collected through the questionnaire. The population of this study was the university central libraries in Lahore that had been utilize information technology in library services. In the third phase, the data collected were analyzed by SPSS version 17.0.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-24DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20200604.11
T. Goitom
Accurate quantification of lost productivity on contractors due to disruption by the Client is one of the major headache in the field of claim analysis. Estimation of lost productivity is one of the contentious task under claim management and very challenging to attain accurate loss in productivity. There are a number of methods provided for estimation of damages caused by lost productivity, but among them Measured Miles method is known for its accuracy and preferred by courts and boards. Measured Mile method works by comparing actual productivities obtained during two different sessions at which the company was exercising its full capacity and those times where the progress of the work was impaired by the Employer. In order to show the procedure employed to conduct a Measured Miles approach to quantify a disruption and prolongation damages a case study a claim occurred at Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project is carried out. Finally, the study shows how much Measured Miles approach is helpful for equitable decision-making and helped the Employer to protect himself from unnecessary expense caused by biased decision.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-27DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190506.14
Yaqing Wang, Xuelei Yu
In the debate on the legal interests of the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information, legal interest is the starting point of judging illegality, so we take the specific legal interest protected by this crime as our first research content. In terms of research methods, our project comprehensively uses various legal research methods, such as article analysis method and document analysis method. Starting from article of law, it closely follows criminal justice cases and judicial practice, analyzes practical problems in combination with legal theory, and forms the research level of article of law - judicial practice - legal theory. The theory of the right to self-determination of citizens' information is the most admissive one because of the constitutional basis and realistic background. The right to self-determination of citizens' information is the right to control your personal information according to law and decide whether it is collected and used. But it will lead to the infinite expansion of the criminal law network, and it is difficult to rationalize the statutory punishment of the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information. In order to control the scope of the criminal law legal network, it is necessary to restrict the right to self-determination of citizen information with "identifiable information." The rationality of the statutory penalty for this crime lies in that this crime has the super-individual legal benefit (the information security and order of the society). To conclude, the crime of infringing on citizens' personal information should have both personal and supra personal legal interests.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-25DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190506.13
Shimellis Hailu Dessie, Haleluja Adane
The general objective of this research is to assess the effects of Face book on the making and unmaking of University students socio-political activities. To achieve the objective, both primary and secondary sources of data were collected and interpreted using mixed research approach. As far as primary sources of data were concerned, first hand information collected from 500 University students via questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions. Furthermore, the primary data were substantiated by secondary sources. Using the data the researchers reached upon the following conclusions; the general assessment of facebook usage among Ethiopian public University students is in perspectives. The effects of facebook usage on Ethiopian university students’ academic performances, is in perspective. Majority of the university students explain the positive contribution of facebook on students’ academic performance while some others tudents are explain as facebook usage affects their academic performances negatively. In similar manner, facebook usage has both positive and negative effects on University students’ social interactions. Facebook helps students to deliver message accurately at all time, contact with relatives and friends at distance with less cost and easily while it deteriorated social gathering and discussion, and promote individualism. However, in relation to facebook usage and political activism, the finding shows that majority of Ethiopian University students are passive in overtly participating in online political activism. Generally, it is possible to conclude that facebook has both positive and negative effects on Ethiopian university students’ socio-politics, which seek attention to create awareness among university students in order to exploit the fruits of facebook absolutely and reduce its negative impacts.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-19DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190506.11
Ion Dur
For an author like B. Fundoianu, who thought and wrote on the edge of two centuries, aesthetics was about to change its canon. Morality and metaphysics were already into a stalemate position, and the aesthetician Fundoianu was trying a private deconstruction of the poetic language in his essay A False Treatise on Aesthetics (1938). With the preface of Images and Books from France (1923), the chronicler was emphasizing the fact that creation is subordinated to the grid of differentiation, and not to that of similarity, while attachment for tradition does not mean imitation, but innovation. “The aesthetic man” comes alive, we believe, in the text headed Peter’s Denial (1918), where Fundoianu advocates the case of pure art. The issue that always imposes itself to aesthetic reflection is the crisis of reality generated by the lyrical creator’s autarky in relation to the existential texture and, even more, to the contradictory dialogue between Reason and Faith. The current essay also attempts to offer an assessment of the final Fundoianu, the philosophical testament pertaining to the text entitled Existential Monday and the Sunday of History (1945), a work where history and morality form a strange binomial.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190506.16
E. Friedberg
In recent years, the theme of actors and agency has made a notable reappearance in the neo-institutionalist literature, in relation in particular to what has been called institutional entrepreneurship and institutional entrepreneurs. Two recent books by M. Granovetter on the one hand, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam on the other, can be seen as significant examples of this “return of the actor” in American sociology. The troubling conceptual inconsistencies they contain, however, also document the incomplete integration of an action perspective into what basically remains a neo-institutionalist framework, giving epistemological priority to structure over action. This paper aims to highlight the most important of these inconsistencies and sets out to interpret them as a sign of how sociologists position themselves and their discipline in the wider field of social science, and in particular in relation to economics. It concludes by suggesting that in order to go beyond such methodological and conceptual confusion, we need to get away from a substantialist, decontextualized view of the actors’ identities and rationalities, and replace it with a relational conception of the actors’ identities and rationalities, in which their behavior would be considered to be attributes not of the actors, but of the local relational configurations and the stable patterns of transactions maintained by them.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-31DOI: 10.11648/j.ash.20190505.13
Muluken Asegidew Chekol
This paper explains the political discourse shifts made by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahemed’s April, 2, 2018 inaugural speech. P.M. Abiy`s inaugural speech is the text for this study analysis to extract the political and ideological discourse shifts observed in his speech. Mainly the analysis is done qualitatively through explaining a few excerpts of the inaugural speech. To substantiate the qualitative analysis, key word quantitative analysis is also applied. The analysis results show that Prime Minister Abiy made significant shifts of political discourse from his predecessors and Tigray People Liberation Front lead Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (TPLF/EPRDF). The discourse shifts are observed in representing Ethiopian history, defining identity, and interpretation of pluralism in Ethiopia. For instance, P.M. Abiy portrays Ethiopia as a country of citizens whose identity is inseparable where as TPLF/EPRDF portrays Ethiopia as a country of nation nationalities whose identity is the sum total of different identities; the P.M claims for “Ethiopia first” rhetoric where as TPLF/EPRDF claims for “my ethnic first” rhetoric; P.M. Abiy aspires for a country of ideas but, TPLF/EPRDF has worked for a country of identities.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-16DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190505.11
H. Jiaojiao, Wang Ping
In recent years, China’s population has a low fertility rate, an aging population and a continuous weakening of family support functions. The pension service industry has become a common requirement for maintaining the life quality of the elderly and relieving the care pressure of their family members. For a long time, home-based pensions, community-based pensions and institutional pensions have been regarded as three major modes of care for the elderly in China. However, the supply-side of pension services in China has the misunderstanding of emphasis institutional pensions and light home-based pensions, and it does not pay enough attention and utilization to the role of the community care service platform. In this regard, from the perspective of management research, we should change our thinking. Focus on the development of a comprehensive pension service system which based on community and service at home; focus on building a community home-based pension service platform; establish a unified evaluation system for care needs of the elderly; adjust the functional orientation of the elderly care service institutions; and reform the establishment of the four major elements of the medical and health service system for the elderly. The effective development of community home-based pensions for the elderly needs to play a role in three aspects: financial security, technical support, and manpower development.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-06DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190504.13
Sharon Campbell Phillips, Debasmita Halder
The popularity of social media has grown considerably over the past few years and has taken a foothold in society. This study examined the connection between extensive social media use and the way people view their bodies in relation to what is seen in the images and messages portrayed on social media. Emphasis is placed on social media and whether it has a negative impact on body image and if it leads to body dissatisfaction. A mixed method approach was taken to collect data on females residing in Tobago and how they perceive body image. Survey participation was both voluntary and anonymous. Participants were females above the age of 15. Additionally, focus groups were conducted among Tobago women ranging between ages 16- 56 to further supplement the statistical data collected. The study and the data collected examined how social media influenced the way that women view themselves. The data collected and the research took into consideration how the participants were affected by their exposure to the various social media platforms and their messages. While the information gathered shows there is a correlation between social media and negative body image, there is no evidence to prove that social media has a direct impact on one’s body image.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-13DOI: 10.11648/J.ASH.20190504.11
S. Hadis, Mulugeta Tesfaye, Shimellis Hailu Dessie
This article analyzes the Ethiopian environmental policy and practices since 1991. This paper employs a set of principles and frameworks that Weimer &Vining developed as grand principles of environmental policy and practices. The review is an attempt to analyze the international environmental engagements of Ethiopia vis-a-vis the domestic environmental policy practices. To properly address the issue, qualitative research approach and content analysis design are employed. The review consulted a multiple of secondary sources from different institutions and organizations. From the bulk of literature and policy documents, Ethiopia is an internationally visible country on environmental campaigns more than countries with better domestic achievements on the environmental protection. Unlike the international political leadership for green economy and environmental protection, the country’s domestic performances are not fully translated due to policy gaps, institutional dissonance and lack of political will and commitment. Hence, the environmental issues of Ethiopia serve the political agenda than the genuine environmental concern. The research implies the following areas of intervention. Namely, (1) the government needs to work on revising policy documents that correct environmental policy inconsistency. (2) It should also enhance the capacity, efficiency and institutional harmony of environmental protection agencies to realize the environmental goals of the country. (3) The government should give a political will and commitment to the domestic environmental issues like its international commitment and visibility.
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