Social Sciences and Humanities

This research paper critically examines the Street Vendors Act, its implementation, and the income generation for street vendors in urban settings. Street vending is an integral part of the informal economy, contributing to livelihoods and urban dynamics. However, street vendors often face numerous challenges, including harassment, lack of legal recognition, and limited access to basic amenities.

Purpose: This paper aims to identify the impact of social media on employee performance at the Hydrological Services Department (HSD) of Ghana. Understanding how employees use social media, how social media use leads to building a structural, relational and cognitive capability and how social media can be managed to ensure office productivity influenced this study. Design/methodology/approach: The grounded theory approach was used to conduct a systematic review of social media research.

This is a review of "Phenomenology and Cultural Difference in High Modernism" - an interdisciplinary study which casts a new light on the epistemology and discourses brought to bear upon the literature of modernism. Issues of modernist genre, aesthetics, history of ideas, characteristic tropes, cross disciplinary paradigms, etc.) are examined in the nexus of modernist culture. This has been the fourth book published by Dr. Maria Ana Tupan, affiliated with the Doctoral School of Alba Iulia University, Romania, as Director of Research.

The problem of extreme poverty is one of the most crucial issues affected in every country. This research aims to analyze the distribution model of social assistance funds for beneficiary households among those affected by extreme poverty in Indramayu. As well as the implication of accuracies in updating data for effectiveness in distributing the social protection funds. Currently, the data used for this study are primary data with classification in lowland and coastal zones.

The article examines the necessity of investigating cross-cultural communication in Indonesia and its potential to facilitate comprehension of cultural heterogeneity, foster appreciation for diverse cultures, enhance cross-cultural communication, and cultivate efficacious communication tactics. The anticipated outcome of the article is to enhance comprehension of the obstacles and prospects associated with cross-cultural communication in Indonesia.

India is a country with unique populations in the world. There are many cultures and many religions; live in harmony. The unity in their diversity is appealing. Human rights abuses have not improved despite the differences between the country and human rights abroad. Generally, all people had to respect everyone. But, in the name of religion, caste, color, names etc. violations of human rights are continued. In fact, the state is a social construction and human rights are the legal outputs.

Introduction: The increase in abdominal fat is associated with cardiovascular, metabolic and neoplastic diseases and has an aesthetic interest especially in young women. Ultracavitation, which is a physical agent that applies the mechanical effects of ultrasound on adipocytes, is an option for its approach. Objective: To determine the effect of ultracavitation in the reduction abdominal adiposity in women aged 30 to 40 years.

Distraction Osteogenesis (DO) represents a biologic process of new bone formation between the surfaces of bone segments that are gradually separated by incremental traction, and is also termed as callotasis, and osteodistraction. It is an advanced surgical procedure of regenerating new bone and associated soft tissues along with biological tissue adaptation and modification without the need of any grafting procedures.

Purpose: The outbreak of COVID-19 severely impacted economic activities across the globe. Since then, business have been struggling to adjust to the changing circumstances and meet the challenges due to changes in the workplace. This paper presents an overview of new work arrangements, such as working from home or with a virtual team, and new challenges for employees, such as social isolation, stress, and unemployment. Methods: 646 documents published between 2020 and 2023 were analyzed for this paper.

This paper aims to study customers' intentional behavior using the E-tourism service by applying the TAM model. There were 176 valid questionnaires put into the analysis system of SPSS. The result indicates that two factors are not significantly affected by intentional behavior toward E-tourism services, including perceived ease and cost. The four remaining factors have impacted intention behavior toward E-tourism services: perceived usefulness, risk awareness, Subjective norm, and Perceived behavioral control.