Culture may be defined as ‘the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another’. Each human group shares its own social norms, consisting of common characteristics, such as a value system which is adopted by the majority of constituents....

Social Networking Sites (SNS) encourage users to post and share personal information as part of their online social interactions to build and maintain social relations amongst likeminded people. The uniqueness of these SNS is that it allows individuals to meet strangers, but also enable users to...

Oulu Innovation Alliance (OIA) is a example of triple-Helix consortium. It integrates top know-how from printed intelligence, wellbeing technology, cleantech and 3D internet and brings together research institutions, businesses and public sector organizations. OIA generates cutting-edge global...

Our contribution to the present conference, shall address in this topic : "The constitutional guarantee of civil procedural rights". The article discusses the history of constitutional guarantees of civil procedural rights in Albania, their theoretical and practical treatment from the viewpoint...

Inter vivos transfers in Malaysia have been always associated with the Islamic way for the solution of the disbursement of estates. From the economic point of view, the motivation for them has been the interest of the researchers. In the case of Malaysia, inter vivos is called hibah –...

Assessing student performance in higher education has never been easy. Pedagogy to engage students in learning and make them own their learning has become increasingly popular. The paradigm of teaching has switched from teacher-centered to student-centered. Likewise, students’ involvement in...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate how trait anxiety and impulsiveness affect university students’ academic procrastination. This study also investigated the relations among anxiety, impulsiveness, and academic procrastination. For the study, 437 university students in South...

For the cession to be in effect the following is required 1) the claim must belong to the assignor, 2) the assignor must have power to act with the claim, 3) the claim under assignment must be defined.That is why assigning a claim, the principle „nemo plus juris ad alium transferre potest,...

This study employs dynamic panel generalized method of moment (GMM) technique to empirically examine the role of institutions in explaining the causal relationship between macroeconomic fluctuations and financial instability for a sample of 44 emerging and developing countries over the 1996-...

This paper examines the impact of political economic sensitivities of the trade regime among politically asymmetric countries. Our concerns focus on the effects of firm’s lobbying activity in each country, not only tariff setting, but also on the trade regime's decision, especially considering...