Trust towards zakat institutions among muslims business owners

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

We document that trust in public institutions—and particularly trust in banks, business and government—has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew the most suffered the biggest loss ...

Towards Selecting Among Business Process Modeling Methodologies1

The problem of selecting the business process modeling methodology best suited for the business process modeling task at hand is often hampered by the conditions under which the selection is made. In this paper we sketch the foundations of a framework for selecting business process modeling methods. We base this framework on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. We therefore use a hierarchy of charac...

Fertility and Religiousness Among European Muslims

There seems to be a popular belief that Muslim fertility in Europe is much higher than that of non-Muslims. Part of this belief stems from the general impression of high fertility in some Muslim countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This notion is typically transferred to Muslims living in Europe with their increasing migration along with concerns about numbers and assimilability into ...

Monkeypox outbreak among pet owners.

Dogs' Social Referencing towards Owners and Strangers

Social referencing is a process whereby an individual uses the emotional information provided by an informant about a novel object/stimulus to guide his/her own future behaviour towards it. In this study adult dogs were tested in a social referencing paradigm involving a potentially scary object with either their owner or a stranger acting as the informant and delivering either a positive or ne...