Social Sciences and Humanities

Financing women's entrepreneurship remains a challenge. The aim of this research is to find rational factors that explain the exclusion of women owners of very small businesses or microenterprises. The research question is "Why do microfinance institutions exclude women entrepreneurs from financing?"The chosen analytical framework is trade-off theory to explain this exclusion. Our methodological approach is quantitative. The data used are secondary and extracted from the database of a microfinance institution in Gabon.

This paper signifies the need of having more research on engaging parts of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It summarizes a significant number of recent reviews on the design, engagements, and assessment strategies of select MOOCs. The study mainly focused select studies on Future Learn as it has more impact on students of higher education. The paper gives an overall idea of MOOCs, engagements in MOOCs in general, and a summary of various reviews on engagements, assessment, and instructional designs of MOOCs.

Les funérailles chez les Sénoufos de Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso et Ghana tout comme chez les autres peuples de Côte d’Ivoire donnent lieu à une animation particulière et à la valorisation d’un pan de leur riche patrimoine culturel. Le tourisme funéraire qui est un segment du tourisme culturel à travers le monde que drainent les obsèques et les différentes activités qui meublent les rites funéraires, la sollicitation des établissements de tourisme, la commercialisation des souvenirs contribue à n’en point douter au rayonnement du tourisme local à Korhogo.

Cet article porte sur la politiqueéconomique, performances économiques et carré magique de Nicolas Kaldor en République Démocratique du Congo. Il a analysé de manière critique les politiques économiques menées et les résultats escomptés durant la période allant de 1970 à 2016. Au terme des analysespar les approches analytique etéconométrique dans l’optique du carré magique de Kaldor, il se dégage que la croissance économique de la République Démocratique du Congo reste exogène au seuil de signification de 10% au sens de [Solow, (1956)].

Terminalia Nurses play a vital role in the healthcare system, providing care to patients across various settings. Understanding the demographic characteristics of nurses is crucial for effective workforce planning, education, and policy development. This study aims to describe the demographic characteristics of nurses working in Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, India. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire distributed to nurses working in various healthcare facilities in Dindigul district.

Terminaliaarjuna, commonly known as arjuna, belongs to the family of Combretaceae. Its bark decoction is being used in the Indian subcontinent for anginal pain, hypertension, congestive heart failure, and dyslipidemia, based on the observations of ancient physicians for centuries. The utility of arjuna in various cardiovascular diseases needs to be studied further.

Child sexual abuse and human trafficking stand as significant global phenomena, casting their impact across a wide spectrum of individuals, irrespective of their social, religious, ethnic, or educational backgrounds. This study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of legal protections available for human trafficking victims in both the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Background: With the changes in the education system all throughout the world brought by the pandemic, this study aims to identify the level of readiness of high school science teachers in teaching biology amidst the Covid19 Pandemic and determine how the science teachers could increase their preparedness in teaching during this critical times. Objectives: The objective of this research is to know the level of readiness of High School Teachers in Teaching Biology amidst the pandemic and suggest on how they could improve their preparedness during critical times.

Changes in the climate and its adverse implications for the welfare of humans and economies have sparked debates and advocacies for the reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. In Europe, a market for the training of greenhouse gas was established and remains the largest environmental market involving thousands of operators with obligations to minimize the emission of carbon dioxide from the planet earth.

This paper aims to explore how the consumer perception regarding the ethics of online retailers (CPEOR) influences the repurchase intention and electronic-word-of-mouth. This paper engages in a netnographic study, where we analyzed 1145 publicly made comments on Facebook. Findings show that a negative perception of the elements of CPEOR, engenders negative consequences related to trust, RPI and EWOM and vice versa.